Expedition to Europe

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After Pierre came back from Amiens, he brought a piece of news that was neither good nor bad.

Regarding the establishment of the Sixth Regiment of the Foreign Legion, Foch agreed in principle that the Sixth Regiment should be expanded into the First Brigade of the Foreign Legion, which would be under the jurisdiction of the Sixth and Seventh Regiments and the First Artillery Regiment.

Then there is only one problem left. The Sixth Regiment must have a record that matches it in order to stop the gossip.

Before the Sixth Regiment joined the Foreign Legion, there were five regiments in the Foreign Legion, of which the Second, Third, and Fourth Regiments were all composed of Algerians. According to their qualifications and numbers, it was more than enough to form a brigade. The French military commanders of these three regiments had also made reports, wanting to establish a brigade-level unit for joint command. After detailed research, the French military did not agree to this proposal.

Now that the Sixth Regiment is going to establish the First Brigade, it must first use its military achievements to stop the criticism within the Foreign Legion. Although Qin Zhiyuan has never reported to the Foreign Legion headquarters in Algeria, the Sixth Regiment is, after all, a part of the Foreign Legion.

The Sixth Regiment can have certain privileges, but it cannot jump out of the framework of the Foreign Legion.

When the Sixth Regiment has unmatched combat effectiveness, expansion will become a matter of course. At that time, even the Foreign Legion headquarters can only let it go.

Therefore, what Qin Zhiyuan needs now is military merit.

The private actions of Hu Tingfeng and others have found a breakthrough for Qin Zhiyuan to break the current deadlock. As long as Qin Zhiyuan can lead his troops to break through the German positions in the Somme River area, then Qin Zhiyuan will have indisputable military merit. After all, this is something that the more than 1 million British and French coalition forces have not done.

In the current Somme River area, the total strength of the warring parties has exceeded 2 million people. The British and French coalition forces have concentrated 86 divisions, and the Germans have concentrated 67 divisions. The five thousand men in Qin Zhiyuan's hands can only play a very limited role.

It is because of this limitation that Qin Zhiyuan has more room.

When Qin Zhiyuan only has five thousand men, Qin Zhiyuan can break through the German defense line. If Qin Zhiyuan has fifty thousand men, what can he do?

This is a question that everyone will think about.

If the troops want to attack, they must communicate with the French commander in advance so that they can cooperate more effectively. Qin Zhiyuan gave this task to Pierre to carry out. He himself focused on the preparations for the attack.

When it comes to preparations, the logistics support controlled by Qin Zhisheng cannot be avoided. But when it comes to logistics support, it is linked to Chen Kangjian.

Qin Zhiyuan still remembers that the first French sentence Chen Kangjian wanted to learn was "How much is it a night". I don't know if Huang Fugui taught this sentence, anyway, Qin Zhiyuan didn't teach it.

Chen Kangjian is quite persistent. This guy is self-taught. While Ge Lifu, Liu Zizheng and others were busy with training all day, Chen Kangjian had quietly solved his personal problems.

As mentioned above, although France at that time was not as extreme as the Germans, ordering all men aged 16 to 60 to join the reserve, it also recruited a large number of strong men to join the army and send them to the front.

As a result, many French families were left with only orphans and widows. The living conditions of these orphans and widows were not optimistic. It was better for those whose men were still alive, as they had their salaries mailed to their families every month. The living conditions of those families with disabled soldiers or men who had died in the war were a bit miserable.

At that time, France also began to implement a rationing system for supplies. If you want enough daily necessities, you have to spend a long time queuing up every day to buy them, but using time to queue up will squeeze your working time, so this is a dilemma.

This is much better than the Germans, who couldn't buy anything even if they wanted to.

This situation gave some people an opportunity.

Chen Kangjian is a big and strong man. Such people hate to take care of housework the most. For Chen Kangjian, washing clothes is the most troublesome thing.

The French had foreseen this, so they set up a laundry room in Kapi, where Chen Kangjian would send his clothes and bedding to be washed. Kapi's laundry room was located in the town, some distance away from the Sixth Regiment's camp.

One day, on his way to the laundry room, Chen Kangjian saw a young French woman washing clothes in a house on the side of the road.

This French woman had a plump figure, big breasts and a big buttocks, which was very much to Chen Kangjian's taste.

So Chen Kangjian walked into the house with the clothes to be washed in one hand and two boxes of military canned food in the other.

Three hours later, Chen Kangjian returned to the camp, feeling relaxed physically and mentally.

The French were not shy about the physiological needs of the soldiers. There was a brothel set up by the French next to Kapi's military camp, with people of all races in it to meet the needs of different people.

Qin Zhiyuan strictly prohibited prostitution. Qin Zhiyuan stipulated that if anyone in the Sixth Regiment dared to go in and out of the brothel, he would be expelled from the army immediately if he was found once.

Qin Zhiyuan had a reason for doing this. According to relevant data, about 20% to 30% of civilians and soldiers in France at that time suffered from syphilis. If Qin Zhiyuan did not severely stop such incidents, it is conceivable that once someone contracted syphilis, then in this era when penicillin had not yet been invented, there would be basically no cure.

Penicillin...

We will talk about this issue later.

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But the army is composed of a group of young people who are full of blood and vigor. They have their own physiological needs. This is human nature and cannot be eliminated. Therefore, if you want to solve physiological problems, you need to find another way.

Chen Kangjian's approach made a good start. Soon, many Chinese soldiers got used to entering and leaving the homes of local French civilians. The reason is self-evident.

After all, Kapi is just a small town. There are not many residents in the town, but there are many soldiers around the town. There are more wolves than meat. Finally one day, Chen Kangjian met two French soldiers on his way to his lover's house. So, a fight suddenly broke out.

Chen Kangjian is a legitimate descendant of the northern leg. He fights like a dead tree and rotten wood. The two Frenchmen were kicked out of the yard before they even started.

This is French territory. The French cannot be bullied on French soil, so the two Frenchmen went back and called a squad.

After a squad came, they still didn't get what they wanted. They were beaten and went back to call for help. This time, a platoon came.

Chen Kangjian also sent people back to the camp to call for reinforcements early. As a result, when this platoon of French soldiers arrived, they were waiting for a squad of martial arts masters.

When the French came for the fourth time, a major led a company with live ammunition.

Things got to this point, it was not something Chen Kangjian could handle, so Qin Zhiyuan got the report.

When Qin Zhiyuan arrived at the scene.

The French had surrounded Chen Kangjian's lover's house tightly. The French not only carried light weapons, but also pulled four heavy machine guns in trucks. The black muzzles of the guns pointed directly at the closed door. As long as an order was given, the 8x50mm Lebel bullets could tear the whole house apart.

"Listen, everyone inside. You are surrounded. Come out and kneel down and surrender immediately. Otherwise, you will be destroyed. You only have five minutes left..."

The loudspeaker on the truck kept playing the ultimatum, but it was a pity that it was not very effective. With the French level of Chen Kangjian and others, they might not understand this aria-like persuasion to surrender.

Qin Zhiyuan was helpless. It was just a simple jealousy. Why was there such a big battle?