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The patriotism of the French in history is still very touching. Using the standards of Western democracy, although France is not a dictatorship, it is by no means a democracy.This is a centralized democratic country. Anyway, the US imperialists never think that France is a democratic country.Such a country naturally cannot escape the fate of corruption, greed, and darkness.However, the French are still a very thoughtful group, so the impression left by the entire French society is that it is free and undisciplined.It is difficult for the people in power to respond to any proposals made by those in power, and even the people strongly oppose it through strikes and demonstrations from time to time.This point has not been resolved even in the 21st century. The French people are more realistic than the people in any democratic country. Aren’t you unwilling to change the political system?Okay, then you play your game and I play mine.

Therefore, despite the notoriety of the French government, the centripetal force of the French nation has always existed, because they have found a way and platform to resolve conflicts.

Before the outbreak of World War I, France was in chaos, and various social conflicts were constantly erupting.Before the war broke out, the French government even pessimistically estimated that the proportion of the entire France that might refuse to enlist in the army was about 15.00%.But when the war really broke out, an astonishing scene appeared. This ratio was less than one percent. What was even more funny was that more than 3000 deserters in peacetime actually applied to rejoin the army.The whole world can't help but exclaim that this is the most united moment for the French since the founding of the Republic in 1871.

But as the war progressed, especially after the high-level French army like Xia Fei who had a vegetarian meal with corpses frequently made stupid moves and sent 300 million French youths to the slaughter field.The French soldiers really couldn't bear it anymore. Although we are patriotic, patriotism should not be reduced to a fig leaf for political hooligans.

So on April 1917) in history, the French soldiers were finally angry because Nivelle forcibly launched the Verdun counterattack, and they chose to refuse to execute the order.Despite the urging and intimidation of the officers, these soldiers refused to leave the trench.Marshal Petain, the commander-in-chief of the French Army who was ordered to go to the front line to deal with the matter, even sighed: "If it weren't for the Germans on the other side, these children might choose to put down their weapons and go home."

The high-ranking political hooligans and the rich and powerful who control the lifeline of the country will never understand the hardships of these patriotic and enthusiastic French soldiers on the battlefield. No matter spring, summer, autumn and winter, no matter wind or rain, they are always in the muddy trenches, facing all kinds of hardships. Death's call.No benefits, no vacation, no one cares about their existence, their value is to kill or be killed by the enemy for the powerful.They are the cornerstone of officers' promotion and honor, they are regarded as numbers on the battle report, and they are ruthlessly driven to the battlefield to escape death.

The truth of war is often the cruelest, so Marshal Petain, who was dubbed a traitor by the world, chose to compromise without hesitation. He promised to give soldiers seven days of vacation every two months, allowing these hearts to be traumatized by war The children withdrew, took a breath, and took a while.Petain even advocated adjusting tactics so that the blood of the French would not continue to flow in vain. Unfortunately, this very humane suggestion was not accepted by British and French politicians.

In this time and space, the mutiny still happened, but not in Verdun.Due to the arrival of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, Nivell's counterattack plan was not approved.Not only that, the Allied Forces Command also moved the forces of Verdun to the west. Nivell only had the strength of one army group in his hands, with a total number of about 24 soldiers, and not all French soldiers, which included [-] soldiers. Soldiers in colonies such as North Africa, India, Australia, and New Zealand.It is obviously unrealistic to use such an army to attack the Germans. Nivel became so angry that he became pessimistic. He even told Marshal Petain who came to inspect that this force could not defend Verdun at all. "If the Germans attack Verdun again, this place will definitely fall."

It's a pity that Marshal Pétain hurried to the western sector before he could make a judgment, because the French army there mutinied, and the reason was because the coalition forces wanted them to die in front of the German elastic defense line.

In Verdun, despite the poor high-level relations between the two sides, at the soldier level, dozens of combat units played friendly football matches.The romantic French were surprised that the Chinese could play football, not very well, but at least they could.

Jiang Baili has no time to watch the boys play football now. He found Wang Zhenpeng, the director of the Armament Department of the First Division, who is also Wang Zhenyu's fifth younger brother, and gave him an important task. He sent a large amount of cement, steel bars, gas masks, food, water , and ammunition was sent into the hold point set by myself for the Sixth Division.

All the officers and soldiers of the Sixth Division were ordered to work overtime to build fortifications. This time the fortifications were different from the past, not temporary fortifications like trenches.According to the order of Jiang Baili, the deputy chief of the general staff, Zhang Zizhong's department was required to build permanent fortifications with the laborers.

Use steel bars and cement to pour the bunkers three meters below the ground level, and then the infantry will hide in these strong bunkers and wait for the Germans to die.This fortification was learned by Jiang Baili and the others from the Germans. I don't know what expression the Germans will have when they encounter such a fortification.

"The bunkers formed an angle of fire. Even if the Germans passed through the front bunkers, they would be easily knocked down by the firepower of the rear bunkers. Without trenches, these damn Germans don't even have a place to hide."

Zhang Zizhong nodded and said: "Chief of Staff Jiang, I feel that it is more dangerous for our Sixth Division to fight in more than 200 bunkers and two large fortresses. I want to know how long my mission will last? Because the German army You have also seen the firepower of the tank before. Once you are under siege and the supplies are used up, it will be a big trouble to replenish them. At that time, it will be no problem for us to let the Germans kill them all. What should we do if the supplies are cut off because of the siege?"

Jiang Baili looked at Zhang Zizhong, who was tall and strong, and nodded: "The plan I gave you is to last for fifteen days, and the current military reserve can only do this. If the German army pulls back from the front line, my advice to you is to surrender, which is not shameful, on the contrary, as long as you persevere to the end and complete the mission, I hope you can survive and spread the experience to other units of our army.”

"Surrender?" Zhang Zizhong could hardly close his mouth when he heard the word. He even thought that Chief of Staff Chiang had made a mistake.

Unexpectedly, Jiang Baili expressed in a positive tone: "Yes, it is surrender. Europeans are different from us. They generally don't kill prisoners. Second, you have tried your best, and there is no way to continue fighting. Choosing to surrender is still possible." Respected and treated preferentially. It should be time to defend our own homeland. In France, what we have to show is strength and what we have to fight for is honor. After doing our best, it is not worth sacrificing our precious life in vain. What is the specific Operate, you can figure it out yourself.”

There are not only defense work here, but also a lot of assault things.The troops involved in the assault were more troublesome, but less powerful.

According to Jiang Baili's opinion, a total of five divisions were invested in the entire defensive operation, while only four divisions with 10 people were invested in the assault operation.

Specifically: use Zhang Zizhong's Sixth Division and Tang Shengzhi's Seventh Division as the bait for the entire campaign, and throw it to the Germans to eat.Then He Yingqin's Second Division, Li Hongkui's Eighth Division, and Zhou Zhengming's Ninth Division surrounded these two hard bones to interfere with the German army in the form of positional warfare and mobile warfare, so that the Germans would not be able to chew easily.In the end, Liao Lei's first division, Xia Wei's third division, Li Pinxian's fourth division and Ye Kaixin's fifth division were the main forces to carry out strategic interspersed tasks, bypassing the gap between the German defense lines during the war and entering Luoyang. Lin area, this is also the result of Bai Chongxi and Jiang Baili's repeated deliberation.Because they found that the Alsace region itself is a German-speaking region, while the Lorraine region is a French-speaking region. This is different from the situation in "The Last Lesson". No one is exempt from vulgarity.

Different from the brigade under the domestic youth military division, the expeditionary force, which originally planned to set up a brigade under the division earlier than the youth army, finally insisted on the system of one division and four regiments under Bai Chongxi's insistence. The reason was to reduce the size of the expeditionary force headquarters. In terms of scale, Bai Chongxi does not want to turn the expeditionary army headquarters into a hodgepodge including artillery, engineering, and gendarmerie headquarters.

According to Jiang Baili, the key to whether the entire combat plan can be implemented in the end depends on the execution ability of the first-level officers of the regiment. , Xue Yue, Zheng Jiemin, Wang Tianpei, Sun Zhen, Wang Mingzhang, Wang Zanxu, Luo Zezhou, Wang Lingji, Pan Wenhua, Tang Shizun, Tian Songyao, Fan Shaozeng, Guo Xunqi, Wang Jialie, Long Yun, Lu Han and other 36 team leaders are not strictly professional. There are even suspicions of exceptional promotion. According to their seniority, these people are just battalion commanders in the country.Some of the generals transferred from the Sichuan Army were still demoted and appointed, but these Sichuanese were still reasonable and reasonable, knowing that this demotion was beneficial, and it represented recognition and acceptance.

Looking at these officers who had no experience in modern warfare, Jiang Baili, a military theorist who was also the first to command such a large-scale military operation, couldn't help but shiver. He was faintly afraid, whether these soldiers could complete their plan , will you dare to be beaten up by the German guy as soon as you come out?If that's the case, it's better to spend it in the trenches, because once hundreds of thousands of troops enter the state of mobile warfare, they will collapse, and the speed alone is very amazing.

Bai Chongxi finally dispelled Jiang Baili's last worry: "Brother Baili, don't think about defending the position like Britain and France. They have been defending for three years and they have lost more than the Germans. If we follow their old path, there will be no harm. future..."