Expedition to Europe

Starting from the next day, Foch went to inspect the front-line troops to calm the morale of the troops.

At this time, the French soldiers, after the initial madness of the mutiny, had fallen into panic.

Many soldiers, including French soldiers, killed their own officers during the mutiny. Some even went beyond the military camp, looted villages near the camp, killed local residents and police officers, and committed atrocities against women.

The mutiny of the Foreign Legion was not stopped at the first time, which eventually led to similar tragedies being repeated, affecting almost half of the French army.

Among these mutinous troops, a large number of soldiers began to flee. They and the mobilizing troops were crowded around Paris. The situation was already at a very dangerous level. As long as someone stood up and shouted at this time, France would immediately collapse. .

However, during the crisis, some officers still worked hard to maintain the normalcy of the troops. The generals headed by Alfred Michel did their best to maintain the front so that the Germans would not have a chance.

The Germans themselves also had problems. After entering April, the material shortage in Germany became more serious. Everyone's flour ration was further reduced. Almost all workers went on strike, demanding higher wages and better food.

Although Germany is still an imperial system, it already has political parties in the country. Unlike Britain and France, German political parties have no say in formulating policies, but they are working hard to gain a say. In March, parliament established a special committee to study the issue of German constitutional reform. In April, German socialists responded to the Russian Bolsheviks' call for peace without annexation and reparations.

If there was no annexation, then Germany would be forced to hand over Alsace and Lorraine, which it had already occupied, and at the same time the Sunny region of Belgium. This went beyond Hindenburg and Ludendorff's bottom line and aroused strong opposition from the military.

The opposition between the generals headed by Hindenburg and Ludendorff and Prime Minister Bertmann Hollweg was also irreconcilable. Because the Prime Minister was in favor of peace talks, in the eyes of Hindenburg and Ludendorff, Bethmann Hollweg was already a radical in the guise of a bureaucracy. Hindenburg and Ludendorff had to eliminate Bertmann. Mann Hollweg.

Because of Kaiser Wilhelm II's trust in Bateman, Kaiser Wilhelm II was also despised by conservatives led by Hindenburg and Ludendorff, and gradually became a marginalized figure that no one paid attention to.

Due to the intertwining of complex reasons, the German army did not launch an attack in time, otherwise the Germans could directly capture Paris.

After Qin Zhiyuan accompanied Nivele to take over the Guards Regiment, he rushed to Fairantadnoy.

Even if Qin Zhiyuan plays the front line for Foch, he still has to arrange the defense of the first division. The leading troops of the 1st Division have rushed to the French forward line and are preparing to take over the local defense.

Ferenta de Noy was the planned defense area of ​​the First Division and the place where the African Legion of the Foreign Legion was stationed. It was the starting point of the mutiny.

Perhaps knowing that they would not survive, the Fourth Regiment turned their guns and blocked the road to Ferenta de Noir, hoping to use this extreme method to force the French military to compromise and let them return to Morocco.

If Foch or Pétain had come over instead, they might have had a chat with them, but the one coming over was the 1st Division, which was also part of the Foreign Legion, and was led by the most ruthless Griff. The demands of the 4th Regiment were destined to be Flowers in the mirror and moon in the water.

For the sake of belonging to the Foreign Legion, Greif still sent a Frenchman to ask the Fourth Regiment to remove the roadblocks. Unexpectedly, the Frenchman holding a white flag had just approached the 100-meter range of the roadblocks set up by the Fourth Regiment. Shot down by someone.

Very good, this saves you the effort of talking nonsense.

Greif immediately ordered the armored troops to attack.

When setting off from Paris, both Greif's troops and Liu Zizheng's troops had received supplies of 20 tanks. Chen Kangjian's tank regiment had also been expanded to 180 tanks. This was a sweetener for Lyautey's request for Qin Zhiyuan to send troops. Qin Zhiyuan accepted without hesitation.

What do Africans say? If the French are representatives of freedom and looseness, then Africans don't know what discipline is at all. The African troops in the Foreign Legion, let alone tanks, don't even have a cannon, they are just standard infantry. The kind of infantry that only knows how to "aow" and rush forward when fighting with a rifle in hand.

If you ask such people to charge into battle, they may be able to accomplish it with their fierceness. But if you ask them to complete a complex task, they may not be able to understand the task content that exceeds ten words.

So when the tanks of the first brigade began to attack, the soldiers of the fourth regiment were dumbfounded. They no longer had the ferocity they had when they shot the Frenchmen just now. They just fired a few symbolic shots, and then... Dispersed.

But where can the dispersion go? This is Africa, and people of color are as conspicuous as lighthouses in the port, especially black people. They may close their eyes and mouth in the dark as a good disguise, but In broad daylight there is literally nothing to hide from.

So the original camp became the best choice. It was the place that the soldiers of the fourth regiment were most familiar with.

Soon, the camp was surrounded by water.

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To be fair, the camp of the Fourth Regiment was pretty good, with everything needed including houses, schools and grounds. Just don't compare. If you compare the camp in front of you with that of the Chasseurs, the difference will be immediately apparent.

The hunting cavalry camp not only has houses and training grounds, but also many ancillary facilities, such as churches, activity rooms, reading rooms, etc., and the facilities are complete and simply decorated to meet the basic needs of the soldiers. This camp is much worse. There are no ancillary facilities, and many of the houses where the soldiers live are just tents. Perhaps because the soldiers of the Fourth Regiment are casual by nature, the sanitation around the camp is really poor, and there is feces everywhere. The wooden fences around the camp are also damaged. It seems that since the day of the mutiny, this place has been in a state of anarchy.

There are also several crosses in front of the camp, and several bodies with their heads chopped off are hung on them. This may be that the soldiers of the Fourth Regiment deliberately hung them up to establish their authority or to show their uncompromising attitude, but now it seems to have become ironclad evidence of the atrocities of the soldiers of the Fourth Regiment.

When the camp was surrounded by the Fourth Regiment, the soldiers of the Fourth Regiment finally felt fear. They also tried to communicate with Griff's people and sent a white woman out.

The role of the white woman hidden in the camp is self-evident.