Expedition to Europe

Africans have a long history of hatred for Europeans, which began with the Crusades thousands of years ago and deepened during the expansion of European colonialism five hundred years ago.

Europe's colonization of Africa has objectively caused Africa's yearning for Europe and subconscious obedience.

Therefore, after the start of the World War, Britain, France and other countries organized colonial troops to go to Europe to shed blood and sacrifice for their sovereign countries to protect their colonial rule over their own countries.

It sounds ironic, doesn't it? Africans shed blood and sacrificed for Britain and France, but the purpose was to allow the British and French to continue to bully themselves.

Perhaps the average IQ of Africans is lower, but not to the level of non-humans. They can feel the malice of the British and French towards themselves, especially after joining Mangin's army.

Mangin, like Nivelle, does not take the lives of soldiers seriously. This is not only for Africans or Asians, but for everyone, even the French.

Before the war, the African Legion in the Foreign Legion had more than 20,000 soldiers and auxiliary personnel. These people have been dying and supplementing, and they have maintained this scale, neither expanding nor reducing.

After Mangin began to command the African Corps, the situation changed fundamentally. Too many people died and finally could not make up for it. Even though there were only more than a thousand people left in the African Corps, Mangin still wanted these more than a thousand people to launch an attack, which finally triggered a strong backlash from the Foreign Legion.

On April 21, the soldiers of the 4th Moroccan Infantry Regiment launched a mutiny. They shot the white commander and the white officers who came to supervise the battle, and looted a village near Sussouwa. All the men in the village were killed, and the women were raped and killed.

Mangin could not tolerate such a vicious incident in his troops, so he sent troops to quell the rebellion.

But to Mangin's surprise, the troops who received the order also refused to perform the task. Fortunately, this was a French unit. They just refused to accept the task and did not have a vicious incident like the 4th Infantry Regiment.

At this point, Mangin did not dare to use force to suppress it because he was not sure whether those troops would execute his orders.

But panic had already begun to spread uncontrollably, and rumors were spreading in the dark. Various versions began to appear, from the top leaders trying to sell out the country to the British front in Arras having collapsed. Even for a piece of bread missing at breakfast, it would anger the French soldiers who were already on the verge of collapse.

At this time, this mutiny, which was close to rebellion, had risen from individual behavior to group behavior, and the mutinous group also spread from the African Corps to the entire Chemin de Dame front. Almost all the troops on the front line had vicious incidents. In just two days, hundreds of officers were shot by soldiers every day. The troops that did not mutiny closed their camps and did not even dare to contact the headquarters, but directly sent telegrams to the Army Department.

The foundation of trust between the troops had been destroyed, and everyone was in a state of panic.

This also indicated that Nivelle had lost control of the troops.

On April 25, rumors finally spread back to Paris from the front. In the rumors, more than 20 French divisions were wiped out, and the remaining troops were all crippled. The French casualties reached one million. For France, whose total population was only about 40 million, this was a sign of national destruction.

One million people, all of them adult men, this was a whole generation.

President Raymond Poincaré immediately ordered a halt to the offensive and summoned Nivelle back to Paris to be questioned by the three-level parliament.

Nivelle responded in an ignominious way. Nivelle dismissed Mangin as the commander of the Sixth Army, once again making Mangin the scapegoat for the failure of the battle, and also put the blame on Alfred Michel, accusing Alfred Michel of failing to command the battle.

Faced with the accusation, the angry Alfred Michel responded with a devastating tone of contempt: "As your chief of staff, I have never stopped warning you. Not only did you not consider my opinion, but now you are making me take the responsibility for the failure. Do you know what your behavior is called? It's called cowardice!"

Alfred Michel believed from the beginning that Nivelle's offensive was hopeless, and publicly expressed his dissatisfaction with Nivelle by refusing to follow orders.

It seems that refusing to execute orders is a tradition of the French army, not just the Foreign Legion.

The situation has deteriorated to this point, and Nivelle has been disgraced. When Nivelle's troops fell into chaos, Nivelle did not try to solve the problem, but was busy looking for excuses to shirk responsibility and let the troops fall into chaos without intervening. Even Lloyd George, Nivelle's supporter, began to dislike Nivelle. It is estimated that when Lloyd George read Nivelle's fortune, he did not find the rebellious bone behind Nivelle's head.

The learning is not good!

On April 27, Raymond Poincaré asked Nivelle to resign, but Nivelle made another surprising move. Nivelle not only refused to resign and refused to execute the orders of the French President, but also desperately shirked responsibility. This time, even Paul Painlevi and old Renault became the targets of Nivelle's accusations, and even Haig, who was far away in Arras, became an obstacle to Nivelle's successful completion of the task, because Haig did not keep in line with Nivelle and dispersed the troops that Nivelle could use.

Nivelle has gone mad!

On the 28th, Raymond Poincaré appointed Foch as the new French Army Commander-in-Chief and Pétain as the new French Army Chief of Staff.

Judging from Raymond Poincaré's series of appointments that bypassed Paul Painleve, Raymond Poincaré had lost patience with Paul Painleve, and his role as Prime Minister was coming to an end.

This work was compiled and uploaded by Liujiu Book Bar~~

Perhaps because of Qin Zhiyuan's intervention, I don't know where the problem occurred, the personnel changes in the French Army are completely different from those in another time and space.

In another time and space, the French Prime Minister at this time was Alexandre Ribot, who had been in office for less than a week, Paul Painleve was the Minister of War, Lyautey had resigned and returned to Morocco, and the new French Army Commander-in-Chief should be Pétain.

But in this time and space, the French Prime Minister has been replaced by Paul Painleve, and it seems that he is about to step down. Lyautey is still working hard as the Minister of the Army, waiting for Clemenceau and Foch to come to power and provide him with assistance. Foch became the commander-in-chief of the French army, and Pétain became the chief of staff of the French army.

Qin Zhiyuan had no time to think about all this, as he was on his way to Nivelle's headquarters.

Qin Zhiyuan went with Foch to ensure that the situation was under control. If any unexpected factors occurred, Qin Zhiyuan would provide military support for Foch.

Qin Zhiyuan's troops were already on their way to Susongwa, where the Germans seemed to have discovered the chaos of the French army and showed signs of mobilization.

Qin Zhiyuan was going to block the enemy's eyes.