Expedition to Europe

On the fourth day after conquering Elbecourt, Qin Zhiyuan received a telegram and was summoned by Foch.

After receiving the telegram, Qin Zhiyuan and Pierre went to Amiens together, ready to listen to Foch's teachings.

The road traffic conditions from Capy to Amiens have not improved at all, full of craters and muddy roads, slow-moving convoys, and exhausted people.

It is winter now, and the temperature has dropped a lot in recent days. Snowflakes are faintly floating in the sky, adding a bit of bleakness.

Most of those going to Capy are newly formed troops, and most of them are British. The British are constantly expanding the scale of the expeditionary force. Almost every week, one or more newly formed divisions will go from the British mainland to France. Most of those going to Amiens are wounded or civilians. Amiens is not their destination. They have to continue to go south until they reach Paris or Orleans to find a temporary shelter.

Since the beginning of winter, all fronts have been in a stalemate. The offensive launched by Qin Zhiyuan is a rare victory on the Western Front in the past month. That's why Qin Zhiyuan is so eye-catching.

The day after Qin Zhiyuan led his troops to capture Herbecourt, Pétain agreed with Nivelle to launch an attack on the German positions on the east bank of the Meuse River. Nivelle learned from Qin Zhiyuan's experience and played a trick. He mobilized 650 heavy artillery to bombard the Douvermont Fortress. After firing 15,000 tons of shells, the French stopped bombarding. The Germans thought the French would attack, but the French did not. Thousands of soldiers cheered together according to the pre-arrangement. The Germans felt mocked, so they used the artillery that had been disguised to bombard the French positions. In the exchange of fire, 68 of the 158 heavy artillery groups of the German army were destroyed, and the rest lost their accuracy due to excessive use.

With sharp artillery, the French recaptured all areas on the east bank of the Meuse River within one day, and Nivelle became a new hero of France overnight.

Qin Zhiyuan relied on the flexible use of artillery to capture Herbecourt and won the opportunity to upgrade the Sixth Regiment to the First Brigade. Nivelle also relied on the flexible use of artillery to capture the east bank of the Meuse River and became a hero of France.

This is the difference between a godson and a biological son.

On the way to Amiens, Pierre and Qin Zhiyuan were talking about Nivelle.

"Nivelle is not a hero at all, he should be a butcher! It is because of the stupidity of Nivelle and Falkenhayn that Verdun has become a meat grinder." Pierre complained for the 150,000 French soldiers who died in Verdun.

Because Pierre was accompanying them, Micha and Gao Hongshi did not follow Qin Zhiyuan. Only Qin Zhiyuan, Pierre and the driver Gabriel were in the car.

"Don't care if he is a hero or a butcher, he is a winner, this is the key." Qin Zhiyuan revealed the secret.

The Germans also suffered a lot of losses in Verdun, with about 140,000 people killed. Compared with the British and French coalition forces that continued to receive reinforcements, the Germans suffered even more serious losses. For this reason, Falkenhayn was demoted to Romania and Ludendorff took office. After Ludendorff took office, he adjusted the defense arrangement on the Western Front. It was not so much that Nivelle had captured the position on the east bank of the Meuse River, but rather that Ludendorff had given it up on his own initiative.

After two years of war, Germany's human resources had gradually dried up. Ludendorff was trying to use a more flexible way of fighting to avoid a life-and-death battle with the British and French coalition forces. The Germans couldn't afford it, as they didn't have a huge colony with almost unlimited human resources.

The Germans started the war because of the colonies of Britain and France, and now, the Germans are also failing because of these colonies.

"Qin, I just found out that you are an egoist." Pierre's expression was serious.

"Don't worry about what I am, you just need to understand that we are fighting side by side now. History books are always written by the victors. If the victor of the war is the French, the French can describe the psychopath William (German Emperor) as a lunatic. And if the Germans win, George (British Prime Minister) and Raymond (French President) will become clowns." Qin Zhiyuan answered casually while flipping through the documents in his hand.

Kaiser Wilhelm II was born with breech position, which caused him to suffer from Erb's palsy and atrophy of his left arm. Because of his physical defects, Wilhelm II's character became ambitious, impulsive and reckless.

Qin Zhiyuan had no good feelings towards Wilhelm II. The first wave of "Yellow Peril Theory" in the West was initiated by Kaiser Wilhelm II. On June 19, 1900, German Minister Clemens von Kettel was killed in the Qing Empire. Wilhelm II was determined to retaliate against China, so he sent an expeditionary force of more than 20,000 people to China. Before the troops left, Wilhelm gave them a speech, encouraging the German troops participating in the battle to treat the Qing Empire in the same way as the Huns.

"Oh..." Hearing Qin Zhiyuan's words, Pierre responded meaningfully: "So this is how your country's 5,000-year history came from!"

The greatness of Chinese civilization lies in the fact that written records have never been interrupted, and all historical facts are well documented, so it is very confident to say "since ancient times". Compared with China, Europeans are much worse in this regard. Needless to say, even in the Middle Ages, Europe was a mess, and they themselves could not figure out the history of their own country.

"You may not understand what I said. In our country, all dynasties before the Qing Empire had a position called "historian", which was created specifically to record history." Qin Zhiyuan did not mind doing popular science, and closed the file and said seriously.

"How to record? According to the winner's wishes?" Pierre's tone was somewhat mocking.

"It depends on who the winner is. About two thousand years ago, there was a country called Qi in the Far East. The emperor of this country was a minister before. He later murdered the emperor and took the throne. The historian at that time recorded the incident truthfully. The emperor didn't want to leave a bad reputation, so he killed the historian. The historian's brother continued to record truthfully, and then the historian's brother was also killed." Qin Zhiyuan was talking about the "Cui Zhu killed Zhuang Gong" incident.

"It's really hateful, and then what?" Pierre expressed his admiration for the integrity of the historian.

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"Honest people will never be intimidated! The historian's other brother continued to record truthfully, and the emperor finally admitted defeat. Just after the emperor admitted defeat, a friend of the historian hurried over. The emperor asked him what he was doing? The historian's friend said, 'I'm afraid no one dares to record truthfully, I'm here to die.'" Qin Zhiyuan finished speaking, looking at Pierre with a meaningful smile.

"This... is really admirable." Pierre was fascinated.

"Yes, it is really admirable. In this story, the winner is not the emperor, but those fearless historians. They are the winners." Qin Zhiyuan is very proud. This is the ancestor of the Chinese nation. Qin Zhiyuan has reason to be proud.

The historian system was still followed in the Ming Dynasty, so the absurd deeds of the Ming emperors were passed down. Although there were exaggerations and slanders by the Qing Dynasty, they were all recorded by Ming Dynasty historians.

It's a pity that in the Qing Dynasty, the most shameless scene in Chinese history appeared. The Qing rulers destroyed and tampered with various historical books on a large scale, and the Chinese attitude of writing history honestly disappeared.

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