Expedition to Europe

The final result was indeed humiliating for Akashi Genjiro.

The 11th Brigade has a total of nearly 7,000 soldiers, or no more than 1,000 soldiers have returned to the starting position. Except for those who died on the spot, the rest...

There is almost nothing left.

The Germans showed no mercy. Even though the Japanese had retreated, the Germans still plowed the front of the position several times with bullets, as if to vent their frustration at being bombarded just now.

Fortunately, Qin Zhiyuan used bombers to destroy some German artillery positions. The Germans did not use artillery just now. Otherwise, there would not even be a thousand people left.

So the Annan people under Wu Yuanting worked hard. It took him a long time before he sent someone to contact the Germans. After the Germans agreed, he sent 500 soldiers without any weapons to collect the corpses.

Although the situation is hostile, this behavior is still allowed. The Germans were afraid that the corpses in front of the positions would rot due to overheating, causing the plague. The French were even more afraid because this was French land.

So after the fight, both sides sent troops to collect the bodies, and this became an unwritten tacit understanding.

The job of "collecting corpses" is also one of the few tasks for the Annan people. The French army will definitely not do this kind of work, and neither will the Chinese troops. Even if the Chinese troops take the initiative to do it, the Annan people will not let the Chinese do it. Go and collect the corpses. How do you say that?

To be a younger brother, you have to act like a younger brother.

It was not until the corpses of these Japanese were recovered that others could feel how much the Germans hated these former students. The Germans hated these shameless people who were ungrateful and bullied their teachers and destroyed their ancestors. The Germans simply had no bodies recovered. The complete one is either missing an arm or a leg, which is really pitiful.

Akashi Genjiro didn't care to talk nonsense at this time, and hurried back to the camp to appease the troops. He probably also summoned the army generals to discuss what to do next.

The changes on the battlefield really caught Akashi Genjiro off guard. Less than 48 hours after the Japanese landed ashore, more than half of the two infantry brigades had been lost, and it was not a loss in the conventional sense, it was the kind of loss that was close to being wiped out. Damage, this is really unacceptable.

Qin Zhiyuan did not expect that the Japanese were beaten so badly. After the initial gloating over the misfortune, Qin Zhiyuan also began to feel worried.

As a military officer, Qin Zhiyuan must write a report when his troops suffer such heavy casualties, and how to write this report really leaves Qin Zhiyuan at his wits' end.

Shifting the responsibility to Genjiro Akashi and insisting on going his own way without listening to dissuasion?

This shows that Qin Zhiyuan has lost the ability to control the troops, which will definitely lose points in the impression of the big bosses.

Then put the blame on the low combat effectiveness of the Japanese troops?

It seems inappropriate, because letting the Japanese go to the battlefield despite knowing that the Japanese have low combat effectiveness is in itself a dereliction of duty on the part of the military chief.

It seems that no matter how you look at it, Qin Zhiyuan failed to fulfill his responsibility.

Fortunately, Maxim was always present. Qin Zhiyuan simply handed over the task of writing the report to Maxim. Since Maxim had been the chief of staff with Foch for half his life, everyone must be happy to be able to write this report.

Don’t the French practice formalism?

Go ahead and look at the statues that can be seen everywhere on the streets of Paris. This is the greatest form of formalism.

Even if he could successfully fool the Army Department, Qin Zhiyuan still had something to worry about.

After all, Qin Zhiyuan is currently in charge of the Fernanda de Noir area. No matter how many people die, Lyotey can accept it, provided that Qin Zhiyuan can obtain the results Lyotey wants on the battlefield; if the losses are heavy, Lyotey can still accept it. If there is no progress at all, then Liotai will definitely not make Qin Zhiyuan's life easy.

So the key to the problem refocused on how to drive the Germans out of the Reims area.

There is no need to rush this matter. If the weather does not clear up, Qin Zhiyuan will not take the initiative to attack.

If the weather does not clear up, it means that the tank troops cannot be dispatched. Qin Zhiyuan will not be like Akashi Genjiro, driving his soldiers to death like animals.

The biggest difference between Qin Zhiyuan and Foch is that Qin Zhiyuan pays more attention to humanized management, not only at the business level, but also at the military level. Otherwise, there would not be so many Chinese who would follow Qin Zhiyuan to become French nationality wholeheartedly.

While waiting for the weather to clear up, Qin Zhiyuan received several telegrams from Lyotai. The content was not to blame Qin Zhiyuan for "ignoring human life," but to urge Qin Zhiyuan to launch an attack.

It is said that Lyautey did not care about the casualties of the Japanese. As a representative of the colonial soldiers, Lyautey did not see much difference between the Japanese and the Moroccans.

They are just tools.

After dealing with each other for such a long time, Liotai understood Qin Zhiyuan's character. This time, he took the initiative to send a batch of tanks and self-propelled artillery before Qin Zhiyuan opened his mouth to bargain. The number was enough to make Chen Kangjian and Zheng Dali shake their minds. Akashi Genjiro almost died of jealousy.

A total of 200 tanks and 120 155mm self-propelled guns.

Meeting such an understanding superior, Qin Zhiyuan had nothing to say, so he promised Liotai to launch an attack as soon as the weather cleared up.

God was very kind to Lyotey. After only three days, before the tank crews and artillerymen were familiar with the new weapons, the weather cleared up and it was finally time to launch an attack.

In recent days, Akashi Motojiro has been much more honest. He no longer has the arrogance and restraint of his first arrival in the land, nor does he have the idea of ​​making a name for himself. He honestly commanded the soldiers of the Sixth Division to participate in flood control and disaster relief work.

Don't think that there was no flood control and disaster relief in the early 20th century. If it rained too much, the Seine River would burst its dam, not to mention those small rivers. During this period of time, Fer-en-Tad-Noire has become a swamp. If the road is not repaired, it will greatly delay the attack time.

The French still have a set of methods for repairing roads. With the support of a large amount of stones, they use large construction machinery to build roads, which is a world of difference compared to the previous efficiency.

The Japanese's task is not only flood control and disaster relief and road repair, but also to carry supplies, transfer the wounded, etc. As long as it is auxiliary work, they have to do it.

This made Akashi Motojiro and his team have a better understanding of this Chinese army, but as the understanding deepened, Akashi Motojiro was relieved.

This troop with Chinese faces, speaking fluent French, and doing technical military work is no longer just Chinese. Many of them have joined French nationality like their leader, and are now French.

That's right. If they were just Chinese, how could they have achieved such success?

If there is a possibility of leaving the ancient empire in the Far East, who would still be willing to retain the nationality of the Republic of China?

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Akashi Motojiro, who thinks he knows Chinese people very well, came to this conclusion.

For Qin Zhiyuan, what Akashi Motojiro thinks is not worth paying attention to. As the saying goes, the Japanese are not Qin Zhiyuan's enemies at this stage, but the Germans are.

In mid-August, the British had basically won the third Battle of Ypres, the Italians started the twelfth Battle of Isonzo, and Qin Zhiyuan also launched a new offensive in the Reims area.

This offensive, while hitting the Germans, also taught the Japanese a good lesson.

The Japanese, who relied on staying in East Asia to bully the Chinese to find a sense of existence, finally understood what modern warfare is.

At the beginning of the battle, there was still continuous bombardment, and they wanted to use up all the shells. But along with the bombardment, the tank troops advanced, and there were also a small number of accompanying infantry, basically one platoon for every two tanks.

Some of the tanks under Chen Kangjian's command completed the modification of communication equipment and joined the war in time. The biggest benefit of the application of new equipment is that tank commanders no longer have to risk sticking their heads out of the turret when talking, which greatly increases safety.

At the same time, the accompanying infantry no longer needs to knock the turret with an iron rod to communicate with the tank driver. They only need a "small" walkie-talkie to complete the call instantly.

This "small" walkie-talkie is about 80 kilograms. Usually two soldiers carry it, and one soldier can carry it on his back during wartime, but it is a bit laborious and needs to be replaced after a while.

This is already a revolutionary progress. From then on, battlefield communication has entered a new stage. For the first time, the front-line infantry and the rear artillery have completed seamless connection, and can directly command the rear infantry to attack the enemy positions. It can be said that it has epoch-making significance.

In this battle, Chen Kangjian used about 100 tanks. He would not do the bastard thing of "I will let you go because you have fewer people". As long as there is a battle, he would like to stake all the treasures in his hands.

100 tanks, plus a regiment of accompanying infantry, had an extremely outstanding deterrent effect on the Germans, so that when the tank troops stepped on the bombing point and rushed to the German position, they encountered almost no resistance.

Hu Tier was not stupid. When he saw Qin Zhiyuan took out his magic weapon, he immediately gave up his position.

Hu Tier was not a fool like Akashi Motojiro. He would never take the lives of German soldiers to fight against the iron lump.

It seemed that everything was normal. The Chinese troops attacked, and the Germans temporarily retreated to avoid their sharp edge and waited for an opportunity to counterattack. It was a standard "elastic defense" routine.

But after the Chinese troops occupied the German positions, the script began to become abnormal.

The Chinese stopped again and built defensive positions on the spot to prepare for the German counterattack.

For a whole day, the German counterattack did not come as expected. At night, the Germans with green eyes finally swarmed in.

Hutier was also making progress. In the process of fighting with Qin Zhiyuan, Hutier's infantry was bombed terribly by Qin Zhiyuan's artillery. The artillery positions were almost surrounded by the bomber troops. Hutier had to use the few remaining artillery carefully to avoid being targeted by the bomber troops again.

At this time, the aircraft could not fight all-weather. The weather factor was the biggest constraint. As long as it was at night, the bomber troops could not be dispatched.

Therefore, Hutier chose to counterattack at night to avoid the attack of Qin Zhiyuan's artillery and bombers.

It seems that Hutier has found a way to deal with Qin Zhiyuan.