The Third Reich in Desperation

"Major General Berente? Why, are you interested in him?" Gan Molin, who returned to the office, happened to hear Churchill inquiring about Berente.

Finding that the protagonist he was looking for today had arrived, Churchill immediately stepped forward to greet him: "Commander Gan Malin, you are finally here. I have something very important to discuss with you now."

"It's about the occupation of Norway." Gan Malin waved his hand impatiently, walked around Churchill, and returned to the seat behind his desk: "Didn't we send people to communicate a few days ago, you Why are you talking about it again?"

Sure enough, the French are mostly arrogant.A sensible person like the major general Berente just now is just an exception after all.

Gan Molin is too conceited. He has a huge force in his hands, and he doesn't even look down on any foreign troops.In addition, the British Army has always been the object of ridicule by European countries. Naturally, the French general who leads the European First Army will not look up to him.

If you look down on the British Expeditionary Force, you naturally don't have much respect for ministerial-level British envoys like Churchill.

"Also, you'd better keep your contact with that Major General Berente." Gan Molin said to Churchill in a bad tone.

Obviously, the reason why he didn't respect Churchill just now is necessarily related to Churchill's mention of Berente.After thinking about it for a while, Churchill understood that the other party was probably venting his anger on himself because of this.This is somewhat similar to how he angered Berente because of his unhappiness with Chamberlain at the beginning.

After a while of awkward silence, Gan Molin finally chose to speak: "Forget it, it's because you don't understand. The major general Belante who met you just now is actually not a very popular soldier."

Churchill did not answer, but his eyes met Gan Malin's, indicating that he was listening carefully.

"In April 1917, it was the last World War. At that time, the German Hindenburg and Ludendorff defeated our main force, and the morale of the army plummeted. Tens of thousands of people fled like a tide. What's more, They actually took advantage of the crisis and provoked a rebellion."

Churchill didn't understand why Gan Malin was involved in the story of the First World War, but he knew that since the other party mentioned it, he would definitely tell the reason later.

Sure enough, Gan Molin quickly talked about the key part: "That was the darkest moment that the French army experienced in the First World War. The objective reason for this result was that it was still a Berente, a low-level staff officer, led a bunch of officers from the next family to launch a rebellion!"

Berente launched a rebellion? !Churchill could hardly believe his ears.If this is the case, it is unbelievable that this major general is still in the French army and ranks as a general!

"No need to guess." Gan Molin seemed to see through Churchill's psychological activities, waved his hand and said: "After Petain comforted him, he brought the rebel troops back to the French army sequence, and participated in the Verdun later The battle will redeem the merits. In addition, Pétent is very optimistic about his military ability, so he recruited Berente into his subordinates and rushed to work as a staff officer again, which saved Berente's future."

Swallowing, Churchill glanced at Gan Molin's eyes calmly.

From the words just now, Churchill not only learned about Berente's past, but also discovered some unusual "French internal secrets".

Gan Molin's address to Marshal Petain just now obviously avoided the word "Marshal" on purpose.Combined with Gan Molin's current rank of general, it is not difficult to infer that this person is somewhat jealous of Petain.And Gan Molin finally called the respected Marshal Pétain "this guy", which is simply an obvious derogation.From this point of view, his jealousy towards Petain seems to have an element of hatred in it.In the words of later generations, this is envy, jealousy and hatred.

Thinking about it this way, it is not difficult to guess why Gan Molin hates Major General Berente who has redeemed his merits and made military exploits so much.Among them, more or less are inseparable from the close relationship between Berente and Pétain.

However, Gan Molin did not guess Churchill's psychological activities this time, and just said to himself: "I tell you this, it is a kind of compensation for my rude behavior just now. I heard you mention the traitorous Bertrand Major General, I couldn't help being angry, so my attitude was a little too much. Please forgive me."

"It's okay, I understand." Churchill replied to Gan Malin with a smile on his face, but he had repeatedly scolded this sanctimonious villain in his heart.

Holding on to the mistakes Berente made by accident when he was young, he turned a blind eye to his contributions over the years. Still, he continued to suppress this excellent major general who left a good impression on Churchill, and he didn't wait to see it.

On the other hand, Churchill noticed that when Gan Maling called Berente, who had a lower rank than him, he clearly added the major general suffix.In other words, he does not have the habit of not addressing others by their military ranks.This further confirms his jealousy of deliberately not calling Pétain the title of Marshal.

Such a hypocrite turned out to be the commander-in-chief of the French Army, the British Empire Expeditionary Force, and the Belgian Army!Churchill was very worried about the future cooperation among the three countries.

In fact, the gap between Gan Molin and Peidan is far more than the gap in military rank.All of this, no matter how much Gan Molin tried to hide and avoid it, he couldn't erase it.

In terms of background, Petain, who joined the army as a civilian, had a much lower starting point than Gan Molin.If it weren't for the arrival of the First World War, Petain would have retired as a colonel at most, becoming an ordinary old man among the many retired soldiers.

But with the outbreak of the war, Petain was promoted to brigade commander, brigadier general, and general star because of his outstanding leadership of the troops.

In the subsequent Battle of the Marne, Petain was promoted to major general again from his command, and served as the commander of the Sixth Division.A month later, Petain took over as commander of the No.30 Army as a matter of course.

During the Alsace offensive, he led the headquarters to break through the German defenses like iron walls.This campaign directly sent him to the position of commander of the Second Army!

Later, there was a good story about Petain stabilizing the Verdun front externally and quickly suppressing the Berente rebellion internally, which created a turning point in the First World War, and at the same time made him the "savior of France". France No.1 will take the throne and become famous all over the world!

Kamaling's military career pales in comparison.

Contrary to Pétain's legendary record, Gan Malin's life in the army was really lackluster.

He doesn't have a wonderful story like other famous generals, and he seems quite well-behaved as a teacher and lacks courage.

His luck was that he participated in the tactical formulation of the French army in the Battle of the Marne.At that time, although Joffre had already determined the French army's combat thinking, Gan Molin seized the opportunity to give full play to his only three advantages in formulating the details: meticulous, thorough, and precise.

Speaking of which, thanks to the blessings of Petain and other generals, he won a miracle in the Marne River.

But because of this credit, as a staff officer, he was promoted two ranks in a row until he was appointed as a division commander.

In the battles since then, Gan Molin's behavior was unsurprisingly ordinary, no different from any ordinary general.

But his excellent "staff" level has already left an impression on the top French army. In 1925, when an armed rebellion broke out in French Syria, Gan Malin, a "meticulous general", was appointed as the commander of the French army stationed in Syria and concurrently as the Syrian special commissioner.During this period, he used iron and blood methods without technical content to suppress the uprising brutally and brutally.

Three years later, because there was no war in Syria, Ganmaling was transferred back to the French army headquarters again.But this is because his identity has changed to the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Army, Lieutenant General Gan Maling!

Gan Molin used his personal experience to prove one thing - it is important to leave a good impression on the colleagues around him!

If it was someone else, even if it was Petain back then, it might not be so fast to be promoted after making such two not-so-huge contributions.

But Gan Malin did it!Relying on the perfect image he left for everyone, he was promoted again in 3 three years later and became the Chief of Staff of the French Army.Two years later, in 1933, he served as the chairman of the French Supreme Military Council and concurrently as the commander of the army.

With good luck and superficial skills, others may not be able to complete the journey for decades or even a lifetime. Gan Molin only took 7 years to reach the end!

But the more superficial people are, the more afraid they are to meet people with real materials.When encountering Marshal Petain, or even an excellent general like Berente, Gan Molin would relentlessly suppress them with all his strength.Because with these people, his generals only need a simple comparison to immediately discover his incompetence!

Text Chapter 244 Good Mood

On the German side, the streaking is over, and the generals should sit down and sum up the gains and losses since the Polish campaign.

Throughout the Polish campaign, the German army can be said to have beaten Poland.

Because of strategy, tactics, weapons, personnel, coordination and other aspects, Germany is in an advantageous position, so this war seems to be one-sided from the beginning to the end.

But after the glorious country, many minor problems were also exposed.

So after the streaking farce ended, the entire army and air force leaders got together to discuss the next road, how should we go?

However, the meeting entered an uncontrollable state from the very beginning.

The Army scolded the Air Force for not being timely in ground support, and even if it was in time, they would close their eyes and throw bombs, and they threw them on their own heads several times.

The Air Force said that the Army's attack guidance was inherently problematic, and it was me who guided the plane to blow up and blamed me?

As for the interior of the army, there was even more quarrel.

The infantry division in the Wehrmacht wants to draw more assault guns from the armored division.After all, they found that this thing is very useful for supporting infantry attacks, and because of production capacity problems, there are not many armored divisions, so of course they can't let go.

As for the SS, they almost sent representatives to go to the Soviet army to ask for the captured equipment in Poland. Who can compete with these hooligans? !

There are disputes over budgets, establishments, weapons, and troop reorganization.Many high-ranking generals would quarrel after reorganizing some capable troops, and whoever served them would quarrel, as if venting the anger accumulated during the streaking before.

So after the army first unanimously bit the air force outside, they immediately bit each other in their nests.

However, at least they knew that the members of the SS were dogs, just like the head of state, and they would not let go when they bit people.In addition, the SS did not shed less blood during the entire Polish campaign. Apart from liking to grab the trophies of friendly troops, it was also considered obedient. In addition, the overall establishment of the SS was not large compared to the size of the Wehrmacht, so it was selectively selected by the army generals. ignored.

Raider, who escaped the streaking incident by squatting at the naval base, was drinking tea while watching a play at the base in the north.The Polish campaign had little to do with the navy, and he had of course just happened to escape the celebration parade.