Expedition to Europe

(Thanks to brother weasdsa for the monthly ticket encouragement, and to the brothers who gave a lot of rewards yesterday, thank you, you made Yutou feel warm.)

The first thing Qin Zhiyuan did after arriving on the island was to gather the Corsicans scattered in various corners of the island to Ajaccio, at least in the southern half. The northern half should be concentrated in Bastia.

Qin Zhiyuan knew that before he sent Hu Tingfeng to the island, there were extremists active on Corsica, but their methods were not as direct as Hu Tingfeng's, and now they use relatively mild methods to fight against the French government.

Since Qin Zhiyuan wants to take Corsica for himself, he cannot allow any unexpected factors to exist on the island, so it is necessary to carry out appropriate scorching and clearing the wild.

That's right, scorching and clearing the wild.

About two-thirds of the entire Corsica is mountainous, and there are peaks everywhere on the island. There are 20 peaks with an altitude of more than 2,000 meters, and the highest Mount Chinto is 2,700 meters above sea level. If those extremists hide in the mountains and play hide-and-seek with the First Brigade, it will be difficult for the First Brigade to find them and eliminate them.

The most effective means to deal with guerrillas is to clear the fields and build a strong defense.

Qin Zhiyuan has studied the history of the Party and has a good understanding of guerrilla warfare. He clearly knows that the weakness of guerrilla warfare is to rely on the masses. Without the masses as a support, guerrilla warfare cannot persist at all.

Then, find a way to gather the people on the island so that those extremists cannot get support from the local masses.

This is Qin Zhiyuan's original intention to implement the strategy of clearing the fields and building a strong defense.

And the four locals are the agents Qin Zhiyuan is looking for. They will execute Qin Zhiyuan's will and persuade the residents on the island to obey Qin Zhiyuan's management.

"You know, it's war time now, and all kinds of materials are tight. Paris can't come up with as much money as in previous years to subsidize the residents of Corsica. Therefore, only those who obey the government's management will get the government's help. As for those who don't obey the management, the French government has no need to give them preferential treatment." Qin Zhiyuan controls the funds in his hands, and how to distribute them is up to Qin Zhiyuan.

According to convention, this fund is distributed after Christmas. Now that this kind of thing has happened, Qin Zhiyuan will be responsible for the distribution.

"General, I think I understand what you mean. That is to say, if you move to Ajaccio, you will receive subsidies. If you don't move here, you won't get this money. Is that right?" Eric, who looks the oldest and the most neatly dressed among the four, answered.

"That's right. As a French citizen, you should make your own contribution to the French Republic when France needs it, instead of making assassinations, making explosions, and evading military service. That's not what a gentleman should do." Qin Zhiyuan has the moral high ground.

"Sir, it's not what a gentleman should do to raise a butcher's knife against civilians." The Corsicans are indeed very rebellious. Even in the First Brigade barracks, some people dare to express their opinions.

The person who spoke was Hubert. He had been very scared since he met Qin Zhiyuan. But although he was shrouded in great fear, Hubert still dared to accuse Qin Zhiyuan. Perhaps this is the courage in the bones of the Corsicans, the courage of Don Quixote.

"You are right! Before this, I never pointed my gun at civilians, but you may know what happened on the dock now. I would like to ask, are people who carry bombs and pistols and attack their own army with stones still considered civilians? If they are considered thugs, what should the army do when facing thugs? Sit back and wait for death? Back off? No! That is not a gentleman either, that is a coward!" Qin Zhiyuan said forcefully.

These words were not only said to Hubert and Eric, but also to Misha who was standing behind Qin Zhiyuan.

After the dock incident, Misha never gave Qin Zhiyuan a good face again, and was always cold. Although Misha was still performing his duties as a secretary, Qin Zhiyuan could feel that Misha's eyes were always on him, like a thorn in his back.

In the telegram sent by Duke to Poincaré, the incident was characterized as a thug attack on the army. Poincaré has not called back yet, but it does not prevent Qin Zhiyuan from re-characterizing the incident.

"I can only say that any act of shooting at women and children is dishonorable." Hubert did not directly answer Qin Zhiyuan's question, but only emphasized the sense of honor and duty that soldiers should have.

"Women and children? Once they pick up stones and throw them at the army, they are no longer women and children, but the same thugs. In modern society, the definition of the weak is no longer as clear as before. Even a woman or child can cause great harm to others when they hold a gun. I can't let that happen." Qin Zhiyuan is not going to correct it.

Sympathy for the weak is an excellent quality, but it also depends on the situation. In the Sino-Vietnamese War in another time and space, Chinese soldiers fully developed their gentlemanly manners at the beginning. They treated the Vietnamese people with the attitude of treating their own people, and everyone knew the result. Since then, how to enforce battlefield discipline has led to a large debate with extensive participation from all walks of life. For this kind of thing, Qin Zhiyuan just wants to say, send those who talk about humanitarianism to the battlefield.

"But they don't. They don't have guns. They only have stones and clods of earth in their hands. These are not lethal weapons and cannot cause fatal damage to your soldiers. Your soldiers are holding standard military weapons. They are extremely powerful and have incomparable lethality that stones cannot match." Hubert avoided the main point. He did not talk about whether the nature of the matter was bad or not, but only about the degree of threat.

This is like a "helping others case" in another time and space. The reason why that case caused huge controversy was not the tens of thousands of dollars, but the overall moral decline of the whole society that resulted from it. This is probably the result of all the parties involved. All unexpected.

"Then what you mean is that my soldiers should not fight back or retaliate. It doesn't matter if they let their unarmed women and children hit them a few times. They won't die anyway. Is this what you mean? Do you want to face Germany? Are we like this when we are human?" Qin Zhiyuan's anger was growing.

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"Of course not. You can do more and not be so cruel." Hubert spoke carelessly and even used words like "cruel."

"I'm afraid that when the time comes, you will have another set of excuses, because you are looking at the local army with colored eyes. No matter what we do, it is wrong in your eyes." Qin Zhiyuan doesn't want to make such a fuss again. Frame, it makes no sense.

This is like the government's treatment of nail-biting households in another time and space. If the government forcibly demolishes them, well, some people will say that this is the government's disrespect for human rights. If those nail-biting households are allowed to exist, then some people will say, look, this is a manifestation of privilege, and this household must have a backing.

For those who wear colored glasses, no matter what you do is wrong, even if you have to breathe in order to survive, it is wrong.

Because if you take one more breath, he will take one less breath.

And once such a person takes power, he will forbid everyone else to breathe for the sake of his own right to breathe.