Expedition to Europe

This old man Foch is actually quite interesting.

Because of Julie, Foch and Qin Zhiyuan have a very good relationship. According to Chinese tradition, Qin Zhiyuan treats Foch as his father.

Foch's official job is the chief military adviser of Lan Fang. This job is actually very easy. He can go and see it when he remembers it. It doesn't matter if he doesn't remember to go.

Qin Zhiyuan just wants Foch to have something to do so that he won't be idle all day. If that happens, Foch's health will soon have problems.

However, Foch is obviously not a person who only takes money and does nothing. After arriving in Lan Fang, he immediately asked Qin Zhiyuan for a plane and began to travel around Lan Fang...

Well, it's not a tour, Foch was inspecting.

Not to mention, Foch's prestige in the Lan Fang army is almost as good as Qin Zhiyuan. You have to know that Foch is the real commander-in-chief of the Allied Powers and was awarded the rank of marshal by France and Belgium. Such an achievement is not something that ordinary people can achieve.

It can be said that all the soldiers of the Foreign Legion in Europe were Foch's subordinates, so Foch had countless fans in Lanfang.

Almost every time he went to a place, Foch would be warmly welcomed by the soldiers. Foch himself was not shy. No matter what irregularities he saw, he would point them out and criticize them without any politeness.

The officers and soldiers naturally obeyed. There was no way. What he said made sense.

Foch could be said to have been a soldier all his life. He had been struggling in the army all his life. He was familiar with all kinds of small problems in the barracks, no matter what tricks were.

When he was in France before, Foch saw a lot of things, but he could only look at them. Even if Foch wanted to correct them, he was powerless, because the French army had a tradition that had been passed down for hundreds of years. Those traditions were deeply rooted and could not be shaken by Foch.

The current Lanfang Army is a blank sheet of paper for Foch. The Lanfang Army has no tradition. Foch has enough authority here, so Foch can shape Lanfang into the perfect army in Foch's mind at will.

Foch is a slightly conservative person. Although he does not have too high requirements in life and is a little unkempt, he has extremely high requirements for military appearance and emphasizes the sense of hierarchy between superiors and subordinates.

At the same time, Foch believes that the army should have a noble demeanor, a strong and fearless style, and at the same time, it should have the compassion that the strong should have for the weak, and should also have the fearless spirit of who else but me. Only with all the above characteristics can it be the perfect army in Foch's mind.

So this makes it difficult for those officers and soldiers who want to flatter Foch.

Foch himself loves cleanliness. Well, all military camps must be cleaned every day, soldiers' housekeeping must be of high standards and strict requirements, all things must be placed neatly and orderly, even the handle of the cup and the direction of the toothbrush must be neat and consistent, and the quilt must be folded into neat tofu blocks, and it is not allowed to be piled loosely on the bed.

Although Foch himself was unkempt, he hated others being unkempt. So, all Lan Fang soldiers were not allowed to grow beards, all soldiers had to take a bath every day, change clothes every day, and there must be no dirt on the collar and cuffs of their shirts. Even if the weather was as hot as 37 degrees Celsius, they had to fasten the discipline buttons.

Foch attached great importance to the hierarchy system, so the hierarchy system in Lan Fang’s army was strict. It was not just a saying that a higher-ranking officer could crush a person. Lower-ranking officers and soldiers must absolutely obey orders when facing higher-ranking officers. If the superior gave an order, they would move forward bravely even if there was an abyss and a minefield in front of them.

Foch believed that the army should have compassion for the weak, so Lan Fang’s soldiers would participate in social public services as much as possible after training. Although they would not help people near the station sweep the yard and fetch water, they must respond to people’s requests. If it was a reasonable request, they were not allowed to refuse.

After doing this for a whole six months, Lan Fang’s soldiers found that the image of soldiers had changed dramatically compared to before.

How to describe the Lan Fang army in the past...

Although they were brave and good at fighting, they always gave people a feeling of not being grand enough and lacking the majestic righteousness of a king's army.

It is different now. Although the current Lan Fang soldiers look a little arrogant because they have to slightly raise their chins when looking at people because their hat brims are pressed down, they basically respond to the requests of the people, which makes the people more supportive of the soldiers and makes the relationship between the army and the people more harmonious.

In the past, in Lan Fang, the people were keen to join the army because of various benefits, but in the past six months, the focus of the people has gradually shifted from benefits to image. For the first time in the Chinese world, being a soldier has become a more fashionable word. This is really a pleasant surprise.

At the same time, because of the improvement of military appearance and discipline, the current Lan Fang army looks more neat, more enviable, and makes people feel more powerful and more down-to-earth.

At the same time, because of the harmonious relationship between the army and the people, the idea that Lan Fang soldiers will take "defending the country" as their responsibility is gradually gaining universal recognition, which is what the Lan Fang military attaches the most importance to.

An army without faith, even if it has a burst of combat effectiveness for a while, will not be able to maintain its combat effectiveness as time goes by.

Only with firm beliefs can an army have strong combat effectiveness.

Think about the PLA in another time and space. Although their weapons are simple and their situation is difficult, the PLA never gave up their ideals and eventually won the Anti-Japanese War, the Liberation War, and fought against the United Nations without losing the upper hand. How powerful is this?

Qin Zhiyuan wanted to build an army with the same beliefs as the PLA in this time and space, so that Lan Fang would always be invincible.

Of course, due to objective conditions, Qin Zhiyuan would not use the "ism" thought to arm the troops, but would use the concept of "people's soldiers" to strengthen the ideological and political education of the Lan Fang army.

Yes, there is no doubt that ideological and political education is not unique to the PLA in another time and space, but a method that is widely practiced all over the world. Even the world hegemon, the United States, has never relaxed ideological and political education, and even in some aspects, it is stricter than the requirements of the PLA.

Qin Zhiyuan also wants to strengthen ideological education and arm Lan Fang soldiers with the idea of ​​"people's soldiers" so that they have firm beliefs and serve Lan Fang wholeheartedly.

In fact, Lan Fang's soldiers were originally Lan Fang's soldiers. This is not false, but a fact.

Long before Lan Fang was established, the then Foreign Legion began to mobilize the families of the Foreign Legion to immigrate, first to Corsica, and then to the then Dutch East Indies.

Qin Zhiyuan originally wanted to carry out a "peaceful evolution" in the Dutch East Indies, but he did not expect that the Dutch were so weak that they were driven out of the Dutch East Indies by a group of farmers who had been trained by the Foreign Legion for several months in just a few months. Lan Fang was born in this chaos.

At the beginning of the founding of Lan Fang, in addition to the local Chinese and overseas Chinese in Lan Fang, there were also the families of the Foreign Legion who immigrated from the Republic of China. Therefore, Lan Fang's soldiers were truly "people's soldiers", there is no doubt about this.

The original text is in Liu # 9 @Book/Bar!

Qin Zhiyuan wanted to use the close relationship between the army and the people of the "people's soldiers" to awaken the hearts of the soldiers to defend their country, so that the soldiers of Lan Fang could wholeheartedly defend the hard-earned happy life of their loved ones, so that Lan Fang's army would burst out with powerful combat effectiveness.

I am afraid that even Foch himself did not expect that his various strict requirements would lead to this unexpected surprise.

While doing his best to improve the quality of Lan Fang's soldiers, Foch did not relax the construction of Lan Fang's officer echelon.

Foch himself has a huge reputation in France. After decades of military service, Foch's students are all over France. Some of them are doing well and currently hold high positions in the French army; some are more frustrated and are at the low point of their personal military career.

Foch used his various connections throughout the French army to hire hundreds of professional officers from France to join the Lan Fang army as military advisers.

These military advisers are widely present in the staffs of various armies. They played an important role in the regularization process of the Lan Fang army. It can be said that without these people, the regularization of the Lan Fang army would not be so smooth and would not achieve the current effect.

While arranging professional officers from France to enter the staff, Foch established the Army Academy and the Naval Academy in Sanfa City, Wanghai Prefecture, to train Lan Fang's own officer echelon.

This move was strongly supported by Qin Zhiyuan, so under Qin Zhiyuan's intervention, the Army Academy was divided into the Infantry Academy and the Artillery Academy, and the Air Force Academy and the Armored Forces Academy were added. Lan Fang finally had its own military academy in the true sense.

In fact, as early as the Corsica period, Qin Zhiyuan had set up an officer school, but that school was more like a short-term training course and could not really train officers from professional schools. This has always been the biggest regret in Qin Zhiyuan's heart.

Now, with the help of Foch, Lan Fang's military academy was established very smoothly, and it had a fairly high starting point from the beginning.

To be honest, although the Foreign Legion looked down on the combat effectiveness of the French army, it had to be admitted that the French army had its own unique ideas in some aspects.

For example, the artillery, the French army has the best artillery in the world now.

As early as before the outbreak of the World War, the French army attached great importance to the training of artillery. Foch, Lyautey, Pétain, and even Nivelle, who has faded out of the public eye, all came from artillery.

At the beginning of the World War, the French army's artillery construction went into a misunderstanding. Small-caliber rapid-fire guns became the main artillery of the French army, and large-caliber heavy artillery was not taken seriously.

After all, the French have a solid foundation. When they found themselves in a misunderstanding in the actual war, they reflected in time and began to attach importance to heavy artillery.

At the end of the World War, in almost all the battles on the Western Front, the French troops always appeared in the image of artillery. Their heavy artillery played a huge role in the war, and the threat they posed to the Germans far exceeded the threat posed by the German artillery to the Allied forces.

Well, no matter how the French army declined, they always had their merits. Qin Zhiyuan wanted to learn from others' strengths and make up for his own weaknesses.