Expedition to Europe

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Strictly speaking, the Foreign Legion does not have a staff, not to mention that Qin Zhiyuan's Sixth Regiment is just a regiment under the Foreign Legion, and it should not have its own staff.

But as the protagonist, Qin Zhiyuan is obviously special.

Qin Zhiyuan's Sixth Regiment has been a special product from the moment it was born. Therefore, Qin Zhiyuan has not positioned the troops at the regiment level at all. Even if it is expressed as a division, Qin Zhiyuan is based on a regiment. standards in construction.

A legion must consist of infantry, artillery, and cavalry, which will soon be eliminated by history. Qin Zhiyuan's sixth regiment now has infantry and artillery, but no cavalry. Qin Zhiyuan plans to set up an armored force at the appropriate time to replace the cavalry.

The French tanks are still in the laboratory. It will take a long time for Qin Zhiyuan to establish an armored force. During this waiting process, Qin Zhiyuan wants to first enrich other institutions, such as the general staff.

The General Staff Department originated from the Swedish Munitions Directorate, which was the original prototype of the General Staff Department. At that time, the main responsibilities of the Munitions Directorate were to be responsible for engineer service, selecting marching routes and campsites, and building positions. Later, the Munitions Directorate added tasks such as delivering orders, guiding marching troops, drafting reports and documents for generals, and planning and leading reserve forces.

By the beginning of the 20th century, the General Staff had become the leading organization of the country's military power. All countries had similar organizations, and their role in the national military system even exceeded that of the military commander.

What Qin Zhiyuan wants to establish is a staff department that can undertake the above tasks.

It is not easy to set up a staff department. For Qin Zhiyuan, the biggest difficulty is the lack of officers with actual combat experience.

According to information provided by Lu Zhengxiang, the Beiyang Government’s Foreign Affairs Minister, the Beiyang Government will send a group of military officers to France. The purpose of this group of officers may be to observe and gain insights into the world war at a close distance. The greater possibility is that they will join the Sixth Regiment to distract Qin Zhiyuan.

Qin Zhiyuan no matter what their mission is, he has already arranged positions for these officers, which is the newly established staff department. This staff will be headed by Foch's son Pierre.

Pierre's qualifications may not be able to suppress the upcoming soldiers of the Republic of China, but coupled with the identity of Foch's son, it is enough to suppress those bumpkin from the Far East.

Of course, in Qin Zhiyuan's eyes, even if Pierre is Foch's son, he is still an out-and-out bumpkin. Even Foch himself, Qin Zhiyuan has enough capital to look down on him psychologically.

Qin Zhiyuan has nearly a hundred years more experience than anyone else in this era, and it has been nearly a hundred years since the explosion of knowledge and the rapid development of society. In the next hundred years, human society progressed more than in the previous five thousand years combined.

People in this era, including the most elite group of people, also have feudal superstitions. For example, the incoming British Prime Minister David Lloyd George is best at cranial observation. What is "skull observation"? Simply put, it is to determine a person's luck and personality based on his head shape.

This kind of view is also found in the East, such as "the back of the head is rebellious."

Qin Zhiyuan can be sure that his head is round. As for whether it is reversed or not, I'm sorry, Qin Zhiyuan can't see the back of his head!

Entering October, the world war entered a stalemate.

Due to continuous rainy weather in the Battle of the Somme, the attacks of the British and French armies had completely stopped. At Verdun, the German attack was weak and the French were planning a counterattack, but the preparations for the counterattack were not yet complete.

Outside of France, the Romanians joined the Entente in August, which looked like a victory for the Entente because they had an extra 500,000 men on paper. The Romanians soon proved that they were as much a liability to the Allies as Austria-Hungary was to Germany.

The Greek army also took to the battlefield, but they were even worse than the Romanians. One legion even surrendered to Mackensen without firing a single shot. They will take a train to Silesia, where there is a temporary military camp. , where they will spend this war safely.

The Italians launched the Seventh and Eighth Battles of Isonzo, which contributed nothing except adding some casualties.

The Tsar sent his Royal Guard to attack the Kovel area. The Royal Guard launched 17 consecutive attacks, each of which ended with the massacre of Russians. By the time the attack was forced to stop, Russia's most elite troops had suffered 5.5 casualties. Thousands of people.

The Germans seemed to be victorious on the battlefield, but in fact the domestic conflicts were irreconcilable. Food prices in Berlin had increased six times compared to before the war. The Germans only had three pounds of potatoes and one egg on their tables every week. We are becoming more and more dependent on a vegetable called "kale".

In Austria, during the harsh winters, a family is only allowed to have a stove in one room. In Vienna, people used dogs to pull carts, and later the dogs were all eaten, but no dog lovers stood up to protest...

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Just when the whole of Europe was in mourning and heading toward collapse, the strength in Qin Zhiyuan's hands was steadily growing.

The day after meeting Louis Renault, a team of 4,000 Chinese workers set off from Amiens to Boulogne-Billancourt, where the Renault company is located. These people will join Renault and have three months to prove whether they can carry out industrial production.

At the same time, a convoy was sent to Capi, carrying enough weapons to equip 3,000 people, including 120 Lewis light machine guns and 30 75mm artillery.

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These are the weapons Qin Zhiyuan bought from Louis Renault, and the payment is offset by the wages of Chinese workers. Qin Zhiyuan and Louis Renault have already agreed that the wages of Chinese workers will be paid to Qin Zhiyuan by Renault, and then distributed to Chinese workers by Qin Zhiyuan. Although one more hand will not add a centime, it can enhance Qin Zhiyuan's prestige among Chinese workers.

Pierre submitted a transfer application, which was soon approved. He and Qin Zhiyuan, who had finished his work, went to Capi together to serve as the combat staff of the Sixth Regiment.

"Qin, I have helped you so much, what benefits do you give me?" In the car, Pierre insisted on harassing Qin Zhiyuan.

"You are a colonel, I have already provided you with a bus, isn't that enough?" In order to bribe Pierre, Qin Zhiyuan bought a Renault car at his own expense and assigned it to Pierre for his use.

For this purpose, Pierre hired a driver, and together with his attendants, he sat in another car with Gao Hongshi.

You read it right, even when Pierre went to the front line, he brought his servants with him, just like a former British Admiral who not only brought servants and errand boys with him when he went to the front line, but also had his luggage piled up like a small mountain.

Fortunately, Pierre did not have these problems, at least Pierre had very little luggage, only two large boxes, which was the reason why Julie kept streamlining. By the way, Julie could not go to Cappi due to work reasons, and continued to stay at Renault to coordinate tank research.

From Amiens to Cappi, it is only a few dozen kilometers away. If the road is clear, it will take an hour to get there. The problem now is that the road is not smooth. There are bomb craters everywhere on the road. Almost all the trees are broken in half. Many villages on the roadside have been destroyed by war and are in a mess. As a French pilot said, "The earth is like a spread-out toad skin."