Expedition to Europe

The Sixth Division, also known as the Kumamoto Division.

This is a Japanese Type A division, with a standard four-unit system and a full strength of 28,500 people.

The Sixth Division is very famous in another time and space, not because of how strong their combat effectiveness is, but because their military discipline is really...

Well, there is no military discipline in the Sixth Division. It is just a group of beasts in human skin.

Lieutenant General Motojiro Akashi, the commander of the Sixth Division, is more like a politician than a general. He once funded the "gray animals" in Russia during the Russo-Japanese War to launch the 1905 Revolution, turning Russia upside down. He was called a person who "can be worth ten divisions."

But Motojiro Akashi probably never thought that he did use the instability in Russia to plant the seeds of riots, but once this seed took root and sprouted, the first to suffer damage were precisely the Japanese. It is really a matter of fate.

Motojiro Akashi is known as the "genius spy king". He once wrote a book called "Guide to Riots", which is regarded as the golden rule by radicals in some countries.

It seems to be destined that an agent from the early 21st century meets the spy king from the early 20th century. This is really wonderful.

Motojiro Akashi also felt wonderful, especially when he led his troops into the Fer-Antoine de Nova area, this feeling was even stronger.

As an agent, Motojiro Akashi was a leader of this era. He knew eight languages. During the Russo-Japanese War, he once traveled alone across the European continent to form alliances and look for unstable elements in Russia. He thought he was knowledgeable, but he never imagined that East Asians, especially Chinese, could achieve such success in Europe.

In fact, the role played by Motojiro Akashi during the Russo-Japanese War was not as great as the Japanese propaganda. It was only because the Japanese needed heroes that Motojiro Akashi turned out.

With such experience, although Akashi Motojiro had heard about Qin Zhiyuan's deeds on the way here, Akashi Motojiro believed that it was mostly for propaganda purposes, not the truth.

If the Chinese really had such a talented general, the Beiyang government would definitely not let him go to Europe. Akashi Motojiro thought that Japan would do this, so he compared it to the Beiyang government of the Chinese.

But this self-righteousness was shaken when he entered the Fer-en-Tad-Noy area.

As the commander of the Lieutenant General Division, Akashi Motojiro had one of the few cars in the Sixth Division as a means of transportation. This was of course provided by the French, and Akashi Motojiro gladly accepted it.

Not only cars, but like the Foreign Legion, all the weapons now equipped by the Sixth Division are made in France, from the M1916 rifle to the Hotchkiss heavy machine gun, all new guys.

It seems normal that Japan provides people and France provides guns. Akashi Motojiro also thinks it is normal, and he is very proud of his troops getting new weapons.

You know, Japan is also a country lacking resources. The long-term shortage of materials has caused the whole country to be frugal. The bullet boxes on the waists of Japanese soldiers have never been full of bullets. They are not as rich as the French, who can carry bullets everywhere. This simply made Akashi Motojiro red-eyed. For a moment, Akashi Motojiro wanted to empty the huge ammunition depot.

The Japanese soldiers who obtained sufficient supplies were full of pride. They wore brand-new, generally a little fat uniforms, carried brand-new rifles, tied full bullet boxes around their waists, sang "Kimi ga Yo" and went to Fer-Antoine with high spirits and great enthusiasm.

When entering the battle area, the 6th Division came to the armed checkpoints set up around the Fer-Antoine area.

As the division commander, in the rear, Akashi Motojiro's car must of course be at the front of the team, so it was the first to be intercepted by the checkpoint.

A blond French sergeant stopped the leading troops with a serious expression and asked them to wait on the spot. They would be released only after confirmation.

This was understandable, but when Akashi Motojiro in the car saw that the French sergeant saluted a Chinese second lieutenant, he felt bad.

It was raining at this time. The road was barely passable because it was paved with a layer of gravel after rest, but with more people walking, it was inevitable that there would be a lot of mud. The French sergeant ran in the mud in the rain and looked calm, and the Chinese second lieutenant sitting in the guard post was also calm.

This was not an exercise, but their normal order of superiors and subordinates.

Can the Chinese really command pure French people?

Is the rumored "Oriental Overlord from the Far East" true?

Akashi Motojiro was not sure, he planned to observe for a while before making a decision.

The normal marching speed is indeed very fast, but if you pay attention to everything and want to observe with an analytical eye, the speed will be slow.

Therefore, Akashi Motojiro's journey was particularly painful.

Not far ahead, Akashi Motojiro saw the legendary tank.

The word "tank" has become widely known due to its power in several wars, and Akashi Motojiro certainly knows about it as well.

Unlike Foch, Pétain and other conservative French generals, Akashi Motojiro was very interested in tanks. He believed that this was a new weapon that could change the situation of the war. It was only because the Japanese government had no intention of sending troops to Europe before that Akashi Motojiro had no chance to get close to tanks.

Now that he finally had the chance, Akashi Motojiro was very excited and immediately ordered the driver to stop the car to get off and take a closer look at the "tank", a weapon that would change the form of war.

Sure enough, it was just as Akashi Motojiro imagined, with a body made of steel, ferocious artillery, black machine guns, surging power, and reliable tracks...

Akashi Motojiro couldn't think of more adjectives, so he slapped the car twice to express his inner praise.

"What?" With the annoyance of being disturbed, a man stood up on the roof.

Please forgive me, Akashi Motojiro didn't know that the roof of the tank was called a "turret". He was in shock because the man standing up on the roof was Chinese.

One hundred percent Chinese. Although the tank driver spoke fluent French and wore a neat and handsome French uniform, Akashi Motojiro could still confirm at a glance that the person in front of him was Chinese, just as in general, Chinese people could tell at a glance that Akashi Motojiro was Japanese.

Unlike Westerners, in the eyes of Akashi Motojiro, Chinese faces are not exactly the same. Even if the angle of the eyes is slightly different, Akashi Motojiro can tell the difference.

This is the basic quality of an agent.

When he knew that the tank driver was Chinese, Akashi Motojiro felt even more shocked.

When the Sixth Division landed in Marseille and arrived in Paris to receive equipment, Akashi Motojiro had clearly stated that he wanted to obtain some heavy weapons, even if there were no world-famous tanks and self-propelled artillery, even if he was given a few Miss 75.

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As a "European expert", Akashi Motojiro knew very well that compared with the contemporary powers, the fighting will of Japanese soldiers might indeed be better, but in terms of weapons, Japan was not a little bit behind the European powers at that time. With the weapons currently equipped by the Japanese army, they could only scare the Beiyang government, which did not even have a few machine guns. If they really met Westerners, the Japanese would be completely defeated in terms of technology and would not have the slightest resistance.

During this long expedition, Akashi Motojiro did have the intention of stealing knowledge. If possible, Akashi Motojiro wanted to get some advanced European weapons back to Japan. Even if it was limited by national strength and could not be mass-produced, at least he had to understand how to make them and form a certain technical reserve.

The French did not equip the Sixth Division with heavy firepower, not even the "Miss 75". This was not because Leothe was on guard against the Japanese, but according to the French military regulations, the Foreign Legion was indeed not allowed to be equipped with heavy firepower.

Don't use Qin Zhiyuan as an analogy. Qin Zhiyuan is an "angel", "God of War Ares", and "the Eastern Overlord from the Far East", while the Sixth Division is nothing now.

Although he did not get heavy weapons, Akashi Motojiro did not care.

Akashi Motojiro believed that this was the internal regulation of the French army, and the French army would not give a leniency to a unit that had not made any achievements.

It was not until he saw this Chinese tanker standing up from the turret that Akashi Motojiro realized that those French "ghosts" in Paris were also saying one thing and doing another.

"Hey, what are you doing? We have left a path for you. If you don't leave, then we will leave first?" The Chinese tanker was still chattering.

What made Akashi Motojiro quite relieved was that from the badge on the Chinese tanker's chest, he was a captain. When he saw the lieutenant general logo on Akashi Motojiro's chest, the Chinese captain raised his hand and saluted. Although it was not standard, it also acknowledged the hierarchy between each other.

"Chinese?" Akashi Motojiro tried to ask in Chinese.

"Yes! You are not Chinese?" The tanker was even more surprised.

"We are the Sixth Division of the Imperial Japanese Army." Akashi Motojiro was arrogant.

"Fuck, it's really unlucky." The Chinese cursed and retracted into the turret and closed the top cover.

The tank turned 180 degrees on the spot, and the exhaust port on the buttocks "tut tut" spewed out a burst of black smoke, and suddenly started and rushed away.

"Asshole, is this how you treat your superiors?" Akashi Motojiro's chief of staff, Major General Koike Yasuyuki, commander of the 11th Brigade, cursed.

In response, the tank tracks threw mud all over the sky, and some of them even hit Akashi Motojiro's face.

"These assholes are really too much." Koike Yasuyuki cursed, took out a handkerchief and handed it over respectfully.

"Koike, pay attention to your attitude, don't treat them as ordinary Beiyang soldiers." Akashi Motojiro had a complicated expression. He felt a strong hostility from the Chinese captain just now.

Nonsense, of course there is hostility.

Almost all Chinese people know that Qin Zhiyuan's father died in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, which led to Qin Zhiyuan's mother following him. This is the hatred of killing his father and destroying his family.

The kind of hatred that cannot be reconciled!