Expedition to Europe

On the night when the Sixth Regiment changed camps, the number of Chinese who came to join the Sixth Regiment reached its peak.

As of 8 pm that day, the total number of the Sixth Regiment reached more than 800 people. Not only were the four combat companies and an artillery company full, there was also a super-staffed transportation company and an ambulance company with 29 field doctors. After the ambulance company was established, The ratio of doctors to soldiers in the Sixth Regiment is second to none among the Allied forces.

Fisher personally visited Qin Zhiyuan that night, and then exchanged the rights to use 12 field doctors with a nurse. This nurse was Misha. Fisher also promised to help the Sixth Regiment establish a team of nurses of no less than 20 people within a week to care for the Sixth Regiment's own wounded soldiers.

What is special is the reconnaissance company of Hu Tingfeng and Jin Taihe. They were authorized by Qin Zhiyuan to carefully select among the 800 people in the regiment, and in the end only less than 20 people were selected. The origins of these 20 people can be said to be diverse. They include martial arts masters with family backgrounds, intellectual youths who have gone to school, and even old government officials who have worked as slaves, actors who have been in opera houses, and streetwalkers. craftsmen, and sneaky thieves.

Qin Zhiyuan did not care about the previous background of the Chinese soldiers. As long as he was willing to join the Sixth Regiment and was willing to press the emblem of the Foreign Legion with his hand and swear an oath, Qin Zhiyuan would give him a bright and honorable future and a chance to start a new life. .

Just because of this, many people shed tears when they put on their military uniforms, not knowing what kind of stories they had and what twists and turns they had.

In the evening, Zhang Tianshou reported that the fourth batch of Chinese workers who arrived in Kapi totaled 650 people. Nearly 500 of them had already joined the Foreign Legion, leaving only more than a hundred people headed by Qin Haoge who had not yet joined.

Qin Zhiyuan knew what Qin Haoge meant, he was waiting for a price. Qin Zhiyuan didn't want to go to Qin Haoge. If it was just for recruitment, there was no need for Qin Zhiyuan to go to Qin Haoge.

Qin Zhiyuan has ordered Huang Fugui to select men and set up a recruitment office at the Port of Marseille where the Chinese laborers landed. As soon as the ship transporting the Chinese laborers docked, the people of the Sixth Regiment would start to contact the Chinese laborers, and then try to turn the Chinese laborers into the Sixth Regiment soldiers.

It won't take long for the Sixth Regiment to be full. At that time, it will not be so easy to join the Sixth Regiment. Qin Zhiyuan will set the recruitment standards and start to move closer to the route of elite soldiers.

From the beginning, Qin Zhiyuan had no intention of organizing all 140,000 workers into an army. Qin Zhiyuan needed people who were ambitious and pursuing. People who hang around all day and are satisfied with a daily salary of five francs do not meet Qin Zhiyuan's requirements.

The French offer a daily salary of 12 francs to the Foreign Legion. Forgetting food, clothing, housing and transportation, the Chinese soldiers can get a daily salary of about 10 francs a day. If they are injured or killed in battle, they will also receive generous pensions. The Chinese soldiers who died in the battles in these days can each receive a pension of more than 7,000 francs. The calculation standard for the pension is based on the salary of the Chinese soldiers. The calculation standard is two years' salary. Qin Zhiyuan didn't want to be greedy for this money. It was the life-earning money of Chinese soldiers. If he was greedy for this money, he would be struck by lightning.

Starting from the next day, the Sixth Regiment officially began training. The training subjects came from the "Infantry Drill Code" written by Qin Zhiyuan overnight. This drill code is the "PLA Training Outline" from another time and space copied by Qin Zhiyuan. According to this drill code, if the troops are trained, although it is not said that they will train a PLA, it should not be much different from the PLA.

The "Infantry Drill Code" contains many rare terms that company commanders have never heard of, such as formation training, physical training, internal affairs, and ideological education.

Even a serious Allied officer may not be able to fully understand these things, let alone this group of workers who have just put on military uniforms.

In order to explain this infantry drill code so that the officers and soldiers of the Sixth Regiment could understand its requirements, Qin Zhiyuan spent a week personally conducting training during the day and running a small stove to train officers at night. Of course, at Qin Zhiyuan's request, the French also sent training officers to train the machine gunners and artillerymen of the Sixth Regiment to operate machine guns and artillery.

Finally, by the time Qin Zhiyuan left Cappi for Amiens, it was already September 16th.

The reason why Fu Xun and Michelet waited so long to summon Qin Zhiyuan was because the French wanted to count the amount of gold and Qin Zhiyuan's achievements, so that they could better evaluate Qin Zhiyuan's role, and then Give corresponding rewards.

"Qin, it's unbelievable. Your troops killed 8,700 Germans. Among them, your people killed about 3,000. Considering that you only have more than 400 people, this is really a brilliant victory." Amiens North At the Army Group Headquarters, Foch looked at Qin Zhiyuan who was standing at the table with a smile and was full of praise.

Foch is 66 years old this year. His appearance is very distinctive and impressive. Foch's eyebrows were very high, making his eye sockets appear sunken. His eyebrows were very close to his eyes, and the tail of his eyebrows drooped close to the corners of his eyes, making him look very wise. Foch had a tall, straight nose and a shaggy beard, which made him look wise, deep, wild and unruly, and very charming.

"Thank you very much for your compliment, general. This is mostly due to the support of the artillery and the cooperation of the French soldiers." Faced with Foch's praise, Qin Zhiyuan was neither arrogant nor humble.

"You are a very good person, Qin. You have the modesty of an Oriental and the confidence of a Westerner. You are a person with a very unique personality." At this time, Orientals, including the Japanese who have already boasted of being a great power, could not hide their inferiority complex in their bones when facing Westerners. From this point of view, Qin Zhiyuan really deserves Foch's praise.

Hearing Foch's praise, Qin Zhiyuan did not speak, but waited for Foch's next words.

"It took so long to recall you to Amiens because we need to determine your record in order to determine the level of medals you can get. The result is very unexpected." Foch looked at Qin Zhiyuan with a smile, trying to see a clue from Qin Zhiyuan's expression, and then analyze Qin Zhiyuan's character.

As an agent, it is not too easy to deal with an interview of this level. When Qin Zhiyuan heard the medal, his eyes immediately surged with enthusiasm, and then his throat moved unconsciously, and his body leaned forward slightly, interpreting a young man who longed for honor vividly.

"Your initial contribution was to clear the German troops inside the tunnel, and in the clearing operation, you killed three German generals. At that time, the medal level set for you was knight. Then you returned to Capi, where you saved a large number of wounded and won the respect of everyone. This is the medal for you as an officer. Then you found the vault on the front line, and held the position, and handed over the vault intact to the French government. During this period, your troops killed nearly ten times the enemy. This is the reward for you. There are differences. Some people think that you should be given a commander's medal, and some people think that you should be given a senior officer's medal, but I think you are fully worthy of a Grand Cross Knight's Medal. For this reason, Mr. President even broke the convention and awarded you a medal on this inappropriate day." After Foch finished speaking, he picked up a wooden box from the table, walked around the table, and walked to Qin Zhiyuan.

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Michelet, who had been standing next to Qin Zhiyuan, stepped forward, took the wooden box from Foch, and then stood aside with it in his hand.

Foch opened the wooden box, put a ribbon on Qin Zhiyuan's right shoulder, hung a gold-plated Grand Cross medal on Qin Zhiyuan's left chest, and hung a gold Legion of Honor medal on the ribbon above Qin Zhiyuan's left leg.

"I think you understand what I mean." Foch looked at Qin Zhiyuan with excitement, and his artistic conception was profound.

"Yes, I understand that at this special moment, France needs heroes." Qin Zhiyuan responded in a deep voice.

Yes, at this special moment, not only France, but the whole world needs heroes.