Expedition to Europe

That night, the Thunder Bluff main castle conference room.

The First Brigade is going to return to the French mainland, and the meeting currently being held is to discuss this issue.

The current number of soldiers in the First Brigade has exceeded 10,000. The four regiments of Chen Kangjian, Ge Lifu, Liu Zizheng, and Zhang Tianshou have each exceeded 2,000. Zheng Dali's artillery has also exceeded 3,000, equipped with 36 120-gun mm caliber artillery and 12 150 mm caliber heavy guns.

After evaluation, Qin Zhiyuan made the difficult decision to eliminate the artillery equipped by the "Miss 75" unit, which was either a large-caliber heavy artillery or a mortar equipped for leveling. The proportion of mortars, heavy machine guns, and light machine guns in the First Brigade is second to none among all the Allied forces. Each 120-man company has an exclusive machine gun platoon. This machine gun platoon is equipped with three 80mm caliber mortars and four MG08 heavy machine guns. The light machine gun equipment has reached the squad level. Each squad has It is equipped with an MG08/15 light machine gun or a Lewis light machine gun with the same caliber of 7.92 mm.

These two types of light machine guns have different advantages and disadvantages. The Lewis type is lighter and easier to carry; the MG08/15 type has good sustained firepower, but is slightly heavier, but it is still within the endurance range of soldiers.

This is the infantry organization of the First Brigade. If you include the navy and the soldiers who are being trained in the Trident training camp, the strength of the First Brigade is close to 20,000. Even compared with the larger French division, it is still an infantry division; compared with the smaller British division, it is far beyond.

Even if the First Brigade were to return to France to join the war, troops would still be stationed in Corsica. Everyone knew this.

"Let's make a deal first. If I don't stay, I will go to Kapi and beat up those German guys." Chen Kangjian was determined.

"You said you wouldn't stay, so you won't stay?" Liu Zizheng rolled his eyes.

"Hey, let's listen to Mr. Qin. Whoever Mr. Qin asks will be kept." Zhang Tianshou is the most junior, and he has always been a good person.

"..." Greif was always silent.

Zheng Dali was cheerful and silent. As the only artillery unit, he must go to the French mainland.

Antonio, the commander of the destroyer fleet and the captain of the "Yangtze River" who was present, looked confused. He did not speak Chinese and had no idea what everyone was choking on.

The director of the field hospital, Director Mao Shiba, did not attend the meeting. He has been squatting in Sandy's laboratory recently, trying to get some celestial energy and smell the "dynamite award".

Logistics chief Qin Zhisheng is here. His current position is logistics. Once Qin Zhiyuan leads his troops back to France, Qin Zhisheng will be the king of Corsica.

"When we go back this time, we probably won't join the war right away, but we must be ready for battle. Within a week, the British and French coalition forces will launch an attack on the front lines of Arras and Sherman-de-Dam. This attack is very large-scale. It's just France has mobilized 53 divisions with more than 1.2 million troops. Our General Qin's newly formed troops are also in the French army's battle order, and it is said that they are relatively advanced." Qin Zhiyuan reported the battle situation.

"Fuck you!" Chen Kangjian yelled.

"Letting a group of civilians who have not been strictly trained go to war is murder!" Liu Zizheng complained.

"That General Qin's head is filled with water!" Zheng Dali confirmed.

"..." This ellipsis belongs to Grief, although this is not accurate because he did not even say "ellipsis".

"F·u·c·k!" Antonio didn't understand everything, but he understood the Chinese curse that Chen Kangjian used. It's always good to follow along.

When some people learn a language, the first thing they learn is vocabulary related to swearing.

"Anyway, since being a soldier requires a sense of dedication, so do we. In order to cope with the coming battle, we will return to the three regiments of the army, as well as the artillery regiment and the field hospital. You can discuss who will go and who will stay." Qin Zhiyuan is not a dictator and gives full play to the subjective initiative of everyone present: "Old Chen, how many tankers do you have now?"

Old Renault prepared 120 tanks for Qin Zhiyuan, which was enough for Qin Zhiyuan to form a tank regiment. Qin Zhiyuan planned to change Chen Kangjian's first regiment into the first armored regiment, and at the same time, the second, third, and fourth regiments were progressively upgraded to the new armored regiment. The first, second and third regiments.

Qin Zhiyuan forced himself not to think about the compatriots who were about to jump into the pit of fire. Qin Zhiyuan was not a saint and could not save everyone, especially when there were still constraints. Being able to stand alone and take good care of the soldiers of the first brigade is already the limit of Qin Zhiyuan's ability. Time will eventually prove who is right and who is wrong, and the one who is stubborn will definitely be abandoned by everyone.

"More than two hundred, the number of gunners is more than this. If we have more tanks, this number will increase." Chen Kangjian is confident.

With more than 20 tanks, more than 200 tank crews were trained in three months. This result cannot be said to be very good, but it is acceptable.

"Okay, don't bring tanks when your troops go back. There is a new batch in Paris waiting for you to take over." Qin Zhiyuan was basically satisfied.

"Great!" Chen Kangjian was overjoyed.

The old Renault was able to produce so many tanks, thanks to the French generals' lack of attention to the tank force. Even people like Foch were not optimistic about the future of tanks in the war, which shows the seriousness of the French military's conservative sentiment.

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This is convenient for Qin Zhiyuan. According to old Renault, the tank factory can now produce nearly 200 tanks per month, and this is the result of not fully working. The French army has an inaccurate positioning of tanks. They believe that the turret is not powerful enough when the artillery is installed, and the machine gun has no attack capability against the bunker, so it is an auxiliary equipment. This led to a very funny consequence. Just this month, when Nivelle equipped the troops of his old subordinate General Alfred Michel with tanks, he was rejected by Alfred.

Alfred commanded all of Nivelle's mobile forces. He would rather get more cavalry than let his soldiers get into a narrow and hot iron box.

Well, Qin Zhiyuan has to thank Alfred.

Thanks to Alfred's conservatism, otherwise Qin Zhiyuan would not have gotten this batch of tanks so smoothly.

"Well, Lao Zhang, you stay and guard Thunder City and Trident City while doing a good job of training new recruits. As long as you can train 2,000 people, you can take your troops to the French mainland to participate in the war." Qin Zhiyuan was decisive.

With Chen Kangjian here, you can make any building crooked. Just as Qin Zhiyuan was talking, Chen Kangjian and Liu Zizheng showed signs of playing finger-guessing games to decide who would stay. This cannot be left unchecked, and Qin Zhiyuan decisively killed this sign.

"Okay, Mr. Qin." Zhang Tianshou nodded in agreement, with some disappointment in his eyes.

"Now this is our foundation, you have to be more careful, focusing on guarding Lei Ting City, especially the research institute and the school district, there must be no chaos, I will leave all the tanks to you, you go ahead and kill those who should be killed, bury those who should be buried, and don't be soft-hearted." Qin Zhiyuan was worried.

Compared with Chen Kangjian's bravery, Liu Zizheng's steadiness, and Ge Lifu's viciousness, Zhang Tianshou's characteristics are not outstanding. This does not affect Zhang Tianshou's position in Qin Zhiyuan's heart. Mediocrity also represents balance, which is a characteristic in itself.