.First Volume 1: The turbulent era Chapter 114: The frightening (the second update is given!)

Before leaving, Li Xinkai proposed to hold a banquet to see Fang Zida off and his party off. Fang Zida originally didn't like to attend such occasions, but in the days of Tianjin, the leaders of the China Merchants Group gave Fang Zida a good impression, especially the manager Li Xinkai. This middle-aged man who has stepped from the grassroots to his current position is not only smart and capable, but also has very good professional ethics, giving Fang Zida the feeling of a professional manager in his later generations. Because of Fang Zida's background as a businessman, he naturally narrowed his distance with them and happily accepted the invitation...

For convenience, the evening banquet was set up in Lishunde where Fang Zida collapsed. After the meeting, Fang Zida called Zhang Huchen and Jiang Zhiqing, and the three of them went downstairs.

As soon as he got out of the elevator, a man rushed over and almost ran into Fang Zida who was walking in the middle. Zhang Huchen was very clear-headed and quickly stopped in front of Fang Zida. With his left arm, he threw the man into a stumble.

"How did you walk? Are you blind?" Zhang Huchen, who had experienced the war, was no longer Zhang Biao, who was playing tricks on the sky bridge back then. He put his right hand on his waist, and his eyes were filled with murderous aura.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry..." The man didn't even dare to say anything, and quickly lowered his head to apologize, pressed his hat and walked around Fang Zida and the others into the elevator.

"Sir, are you okay?" Zhang Huchen turned around and asked Fang Zida after looking vigilantly as the elevator door closed.

"Haha, what can I do? Besides, I'm not made of tofu, I can't stand the touch. But you, Huchen! This is not a military camp, and Lishunde Hotel is a famous high-end place in Tianjin. That person probably has urgent matters, so there is no need to make a fuss."

Zhang Huchen responded, but he did not take Fang Zida's words in his heart. In his opinion, protecting Fang Zida is the most important thing, and he doesn't have to care about other things at all. Don't say that the man was a Chinese just now, even a white man would do this according to his Zhang Huchen's personality.

"Let's go, I haven't tasted famous buns for so many days." Fang Zida smiled. Tianjin Goubuli is famous. If he hadn't been busy these days, he might have gone to the old shop long ago. Now it's still early to the dinner party, Fang Zida had the idea of ​​going there first to have a good time...

When he went out and got into the car, three people and three rickshaws arrived at the old store soon. After a few dishes of buns came up, Fang Zida tasted them and was immediately amazed. The taste was simply praiseworthy. The waxy gnocchi that was a hundred years later was nothing compared to it. The things were better to be old! Fang Zida couldn't help but sigh, and several of them were eliminated in a few mouthfuls, which made him scream.

After eating the buns, they simply wandered around and took a walk back to the hotel. They didn't return to the hotel until almost four o'clock in the afternoon. Seeing that the time was almost over, Fang Zida didn't want to go upstairs, so he found a place to sit down with Zhang Huchen and Jiang Zhiqing on the side, took a newspaper and drank coffee.

The boss of Lishunde is a German, and most of the newspapers in the hotel are foreign newspapers, either in English or French, or even German newspapers, or they are a little later than in Europe. Jiang Zhiqing could only understand Japanese, and Zhang Huchen could barely recognize all Chinese, let alone those twisted and twisted foreign languages. Both of them were not interested in this, sitting on the side, one left and one right, Zhang Huchen was still vigilantly guarding, while Jiang Zhiqing closed his eyes slightly to rest.

The war in Europe has been almost two months. On August 3, Germany declared war on Belgium, and occupied the entire territory of Belgium in just 6 days. On August 21, Germany divided its troops into five groups to attack northern France, and the French army lost. On September 3, the German army was approaching Paris, the French government was forced to retreat to the area of ​​Bordeaux. On September 5, a war broke out between the German and British and French coalition forces on the front line of the Marne River near Paris, known as the Marne Battle. This battle lasted for a whole week, and both sides were exhausted, and neither of them took advantage of it.

Now, it was just shortly after the Battle of Marne that the two sides of the war formed a stalemate. Fang Zida's newspapers were in hand with news reports on the Battle of Marne. In these reports, he expressed great surprise at Germany's strong military strength and expressed concern about whether the British and French coalition forces could defend the defense line under the German second offensive.

After all, since the war started, the German army was unstoppable. If the British and French coalition forces had not tried hard to stop the German army in the Marne River, even Paris would have been defeated now. The balance of the war seemed to have tilted towards the Allies, especially in several German newspapers, there were even a smug cheer. A German reporter even wrote that this war might end within half a year, and the powerful Allies would inevitably use force to tear the Allies to pieces, and reproduce the scene of the Franco-Prussian War that year on French soil.

Seeing this, Fang Zida couldn't help but find it funny. Perhaps the German Emperor William thought so much now, and even regretted returning Qing* Island to China so easily. But Fang Zida knew very well that due to the emergence of machine guns, trenches and barbed wire, the traditional method of war was no longer adapted to the current new method of war. Although the German army was strong and achieved great results in a short period of time, it did not quickly take over the French capital Paris. Now, the war has gradually turned to positional warfare and attrition war, and neither side of the war has the absolute power to break through the opponent's defense line in one fell swoop. Next, except for a few large-scale battles, more will be consumed by you and me. By that time, the arrogant German Emperor may never laugh anymore.

It is also true that China's role in this war has not yet been shown. Before European countries have completely consumed it, they did not take the distant and poor China seriously for the time being. Just so happens, this also gives Fang Zida a buffer time. No matter how fast the domestic industry and commerce develop, it will take at least about a year to accumulate. By this time next year, European countries that have consumed a large amount of material and personnel by the war will have to turn their attention to China. By that time, China will truly usher in its takeoff.

Looking at the contents of the newspaper and thinking about his arrangements, Fang Zida couldn't help but chuckled.

"What's wrong?" Jiang Zhiqing opened his eyes and asked in confusion when he saw Fang Zida's smile on his lips.

"The Germans brag in the newspaper, saying that it would be possible to end the European war in three months."

"End the war..." Although Jiang Zhiqing could not understand German newspapers, he also reprinted the news about the European War in Chinese newspapers, and he has also paid attention to it.

"Zhiqing, what do you think?"

"What is the president?"

Fang Zida stretched out his hand and clicked the newspaper. Jiang Zhiqing also smiled and said, "Maybe, Germany is the most powerful army among the great powers. The current situation of war is very good for Germany. However, Britain and France are not vegetarians. Since Germany did not defeat Paris in one go, it is probably difficult to say what happened next. War is most afraid of stalemate. Once the stalemate is more than the army, but manpower and national strength. Compared with Germany, France's national strength is worse, but Britain is different. Although the British Empire is not large, it is enough to support their long-term war in colonies around the world. The title of the Empire of the Sun is not set. Besides, Britain has the world's number one navy. In my opinion, the final outcome of this war is difficult to predict."

Fang Zida secretly praised that although Jiang Zhiqing was not very capable of commanding wars, his strategic vision was still good. He expressed the essence of the European war in a few words. If a powerful Germany was not unexpected, it would be dragged down like this. As for the United States' final participation in the war, it was just to take advantage of the danger of others. The allies that were already in a desperate situation, no matter whether the Americans sent troops in the end, their final fate would not change.

"What else?" Fang Zida became interested and asked again after hearing Jiang Zhiqing's judgment.

"And it's......" Jiang Zhiqing said a little while, suddenly he saw his eyes tightening and looked into the distance in surprise.

"What's wrong?" Following Jiang Zhiqing's gaze, there were several guests coming in and out at the gate, and there seemed to be nothing unusual. Fang Zida said strangely.

Smiling awkwardly, Jiang Zhiqing said, "It's nothing. I just thought I saw an acquaintance. It must be because I was dazzled."

"Oh..." Fang Zida didn't care and continued to talk to Jiang Zhiqing about the European War. But just as they said a few more words, they suddenly heard a burst of rapid footsteps coming from the corridor. Looking up, they saw a man stumble and running, as if someone was chasing him.

Fang Zida had a good look and recognized the man at first sight as the man who almost hit him a few hours ago. He could not see his face clearly in his top hat. He ran and looked back and watched. He bumped into several people one after another, causing the person who was hit to scream and scolded.

"Bang!"

With a gunshot, stone foam in the center of the marble column suddenly splashed everywhere. After a brief period of stillness, there were screams and shouts of fear. Zhang Huchen was startled by the gunshots. His first reaction was to push Fang Zida back and pounce on him. When he judged that the gun was not fighting at them, Zhang Huchen turned over and pulled Fang Zida up and flashed behind the sofa. He copied his hands back and two gun cards lit up.

"Give me a gun!" Jiang Zhiqing's movements were not slow either, but he flashed to another sofa a little later than Zhang Huchen, and looked carefully. In a blink of an eye, he saw that Zhang Huchen was already in his hands with both guns, so he hurriedly shouted at him.

He ignored him, Zhang Huchen used his body to cover Fang Zida and poked his head slightly to observe the situation. In just a moment, the whole thing was already in chaos. The man I just saw was rushing towards the door in the crowd, and two men in black with guns had already rushed out on the other side of the corridor. If you guessed it right, the gun was one of them just now. Judging from their appearance, they seemed to be chasing the man.

Due to the chaos at the scene, although both sides were not far away, it was not easy to hit the man in the crowd. The man who was running for life was getting closer and closer to the gate by covering the crowd. Once he ran out of the hotel, he would be temporarily safe.

"Huchen, give me a gun!" Jiang Zhiqing was trembling nervously, and shouted again anxiously.

"Get out!" Zhang Huchen didn't even bird him, and continued to insist on the big movement. At this time, Fang Zida also took out a pistol with him at all times, his hands were covered in cold sweat. Seeing Jiang Zhiqing hiding aside and anxiously, he took out a spare small gun from his trouser legs, shouted softly at Jiang Zhiqing, who was two meters away from him, and raised his hand and threw it to him.

With a shot in his hand, Jiang Zhiqing felt relieved, at least not as nervous as before. He looked out from behind the sofa as Zhang Huchen. At this time, the man who was running for life had already opened the hotel gate and strode out.

He was born and died one after another. After leaving the hotel, the sky was wide open. Just when the man had already left the hotel halfway and was glad that he finally escaped, a situation that no one expected happened.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!…."

A short figure suddenly jumped out from somewhere, and without saying a word, he pulled his gun and shot at the man. Blood flowers splattered on the man's chest, and his body swayed in the air like an electric shock. When the gunshot stopped, he collapsed onto the ground like a ball that was pumped out of breath and died so much that he could not die anymore.
Chapter completed!