Chapter 50 I'll tell you a story first
Xiao Mei waited for the applause to subside, then walked to a spot parallel to me and stopped. Smiling, she said: "Everyone take a look at this outfit on Ren Yiyue's body. If it still looks good, I'll continue speaking; if not, forget it."
"Great, so cool!" The classmates exclaimed in unison, only Liu Jin Song's face looked very bad and his heart was particularly uncomfortable. He thought to himself: It seems that this kid didn't take my words that night to heart, it seems I need to refresh his memory, heh heh.
Xiao Mei received everyone's affirmation, and her eyes narrowed into crescent shapes. She then said: "Thank you for your praise, this set of clothes is tailored for athletes, and everyone knows that military training is an activity with a relatively large amount of exercise."
"How can you be sure?" Captain Ma asked, voicing everyone's concern.
Xiao Mei looked at me with a faint smile, I understood her intention, and on the spot, I did several consecutive flips, landed in a cross shape, and then jumped up again, stood up and spun around a few times. Xiao Mei was clapping and cheering on the side, everyone else was also applauding and shouting "good", but it's unclear whether they were praising me or my clothes.
"After watching this student's performance, I'm sure everyone understands." Captain Ma said with a smile, "This uniform is not only innovative in design, but also exquisite in workmanship. It's a great uniform; however, the material is too good and not suitable for military training. Otherwise, it would be eligible to participate in the evaluation of military uniforms."
After hearing Captain Ma's evaluation, everyone was also very regretful and kept discussing it.
Only I and Xiao Mei didn't say anything, Xiao Mei thought to herself: "I was never interested in participating in the military uniform selection, I just wanted to take this opportunity to give a piece of clothing to my little brother." I then spoke up: "What's there to regret? It's not like it's just because the material of this suit on me is expensive, we can use some inexpensive materials to make this design of clothes."
When I said that, everyone suddenly realized: Ah, yes, we can find a substitute. So the clothes designed by Little Plum were listed as a target for competition.
Coach Ma looked at me with his usual loud voice and said, "You're called Yi Yue, I've heard that you're very talented, but I don't know if your clothes design is also unique; looking at your unique hairstyle today, I'm sure the clothes you design won't disappoint everyone."
"That's natural!" I said confidently, then smiled slightly and walked back and forth a few steps. Everyone held their breath, stretched their necks, and widened their eyes, wondering what I was going to do next. After a while, I suddenly seemed to think of something and said: "Before I show you the clothes in my hand, I want to tell you all a wonderful story. Do you want to hear it?"
After finishing, everyone's expression was strange: he had been turning around for half a day just to tell a story. Although my classmates were very dissatisfied with this behavior of mine, 10-year-old classmates are still children, they like listening to stories, especially curious, so I don't worry about them disagreeing at all. Sure enough, someone soon urged me on, more and more people did.
I glanced at Officer Ma, he didn't show any objection, so I searched my brain for a story, made some changes and said loudly: "It seems like everyone is expecting this story from me, so I'll start now:"
A long, long time ago, there was a super empire called the Hero Empire. Its citizens were all brave and skilled in battle, extremely intelligent, and each person had grand ambitions. For many years, the national strength was very powerful, so it launched an aggressive war against the small neighboring country of the Southern Sky Empire.
At that time, the South African Empire was on the verge of collapse. Fortunately, there was a stubborn nation called "Boer" who were unwilling to let their homeland be trampled by foreign invaders and organized armed resistance. However, the Boers had fewer troops, while the British had many more, with a force ratio of about 1:20. The Boers suffered heavy losses in the early stages of the war.
The British army was self-complacent and arrogant, advancing recklessly. The Boers observed for a period of time and discovered that the British army had a major characteristic: they all wore red uniforms, which stood out particularly in the green background of the southern forests and tropical grasslands, making their movements extremely easy to expose. The Boers were inspired by this and immediately painted their own clothes and guns with grass-green color, so as to use the green background of the dense forest as cover. As a result, the Boers could easily spot the British army, while the British army found it difficult to discover the Boers.
In this way, the Boers often approached the British army undetected and suddenly launched an attack, catching the British off guard. The British wanted to fight but couldn't find a target. In this war, tens of thousands of British soldiers were killed or wounded, ending in a disastrous defeat.
"A warning to the next cart from the overturned one." The people of Hero Empire in Southern Heaven learned their lesson quickly, as most of the land was covered with green plants. Military uniforms were also green, serving as camouflage, making it difficult for enemies to detect them during battles, achieving the purpose of striking first and gaining the upper hand.
To better conceal the actions of troops in field combat conditions, the color of military uniforms was continuously improved to make it as close as possible to the natural background. As a result, the field combat uniforms of the heroic empire gradually became unified on a green tone. And combat uniforms with camouflage requirements no longer used a single green color, and the naval and air forces or marine corps and desert and snow troops did not have entirely green uniforms. The uniform colors of these troops were determined by the deployment area and combat area. For example, to adapt to different environments, various camouflage patterns such as "jungle" (mainly green, brown, and black), "desert" (mainly earthy yellow, light green, and white), navy in white and dark blue, with white representing sea waves and dark blue representing the deep ocean, air force in blue, etc.
On the other hand, a powerful country has colorful military uniforms that do not serve as camouflage but instead make the troops look neat and tidy, intimidating the enemy with their presence. This is a well-known function of military uniforms, which remains true to this day.
After decades of rest and recuperation, the Hero Empire became even more powerful, at which time their ambition was once again revealed: to contend for hegemony over the world, turning the world into a vassal state!
In the early battles, the British army used "blitzkrieg" tactics to sweep through, causing many countries in the alliance to resist Britain. However, the British army, dressed in green uniforms (mostly field troops), was like a ghostly apparition, and wherever they went, no one dared not to surrender, shattering the morale of the allied forces. But this good situation did not last long, as they overestimated their own strength and had too long a front line, ultimately falling into the trap set by other countries. Many fake surrendering empires launched surprise attacks from behind, turning the battlefield into an intense fight, with the British army trapped in encirclement and fighting bravely to break through, but ultimately dying on the battlefield. The allied forces took advantage of their momentum and did not spare anyone, wiping out this country completely.
Alas, such a great nation could not escape the fate of extinction, only because they were too arrogant. And in the second conquest process, the Hero Empire did not attack the Southern Heaven Empire to take revenge, but instead called the Boers a wise nation, should have rights equivalent to this nation, and there was no more friction between the two countries. Not long after the Hero Empire perished, the Southern Heaven Empire also vanished...
History is written by the victors, and for these two empires that once existed and flashed like a fleeting flower, they were ruthlessly erased, and many of their excellent achievements were not preserved or were plundered.
The conversation stopped here, and as I looked around, there were only people left to savor the aftertaste. My brother was no exception. Although he had discussed it with me before, he didn't know that I had actually turned a story into something vivid and magnificent.
