Expedition to Europe

It was not until three days later that Qin Zhiyuan completed the reorganization work.

In other words, he only completed the preliminary organization. If he wanted to form combat effectiveness, it would take some time.

This time would not be too long. The soldiers who originally belonged to the Second Brigade had no resistance to joining the First Division. They even threw themselves into the arms of the First Division with enthusiasm and longing.

In this process, Qin Zhiyuan played a key role in the treatment of the wounded soldiers of the Second Brigade.

In just two days of fighting, there were more than a thousand soldiers with physical disabilities in the Second Brigade. In theory, these soldiers had lost their value. According to the customs of domestic warlords, they should be driven out of the army and left to fend for themselves.

Cruel? But this is the fact.

This problem was not satisfactorily resolved in another time and space until the founding of New China. The disabled soldiers imposed a heavy burden on both society and family. It is for this reason that when many wounded soldiers of the Second Brigade woke up from coma and found that one of their arms or legs had been amputated, many wounded soldiers were desperate and chose to use extreme methods to end the possible pain of themselves and their families in the future.

If the soldier dies in battle, his family will receive a considerable amount of pension. If the soldier is disabled, the pension is not that much, and the disabled soldier will cause a heavy burden to his family after returning home.

This is the reason why the Second Brigade has changed from more than 4,000 casualties to 5,000 casualties.

But Qin Zhiyuan does not think that the wounded are useless. Qin Zhiyuan needs a lot of people. As long as they are not fools, they can make a living under Qin Zhiyuan. Not only will they not burden their families, they will also receive a monthly salary of at least one dollar a day.

Qin Zhiyuan was impressed by Thomson, the sheriff of Kapi. Thomson is a disabled soldier who has been demobilized. Thomson suffered a serious leg injury in the war, which made it a little inconvenient for him to move, and he also broke one hand, but Thomson was absolutely competent for the position of sheriff. When the tragedy happened to Mary's family, Thomson dared to follow Qin Zhiyuan to find Nivelle to ask for an explanation, which in itself was a manifestation of responsibility at work.

In Corsica under Qin Zhiyuan's rule, there are a large number of positions that need manpower, and these jobs do not necessarily need to be completed by normal people. For example, the port pilot, the tax registrar, the duty personnel of various units, and even the patrol police in the city, these positions can be done by these disabled soldiers.

The reason why disabled soldiers committed suicide is that they have despaired of life. At this time, if Qin Zhiyuan can help them, they will definitely follow Qin Zhiyuan wholeheartedly and will affect everyone around them. Not to mention the distant past, after Qin Zhiyuan announced this regulation, all soldiers, including the Second Brigade and the First Brigade, have a strong sense of belonging to the First Division, and this sense of belonging is first reflected in morale.

Morale is something that cannot be seen or touched, but it does exist. The Second Brigade has just been hit hard, and joining the First Division is almost a reconstruction. The blow to morale can be imagined. But when Qin Zhiyuan announced that he would retain all disabled soldiers who were willing to stay, the surviving soldiers almost immediately started training and devoted themselves to it.

The soldiers were not afraid of death. Since they had joined the army, they were ready to sacrifice. What the soldiers feared was that their death was worthless, and that they would be abandoned by the army, society, and even their families before they died.

Qin Zhiyuan's approach completely solved the soldiers' worries. Live meaningfully, die valuable, and even if you are neither dead nor alive, you can receive a salary that exceeds 99% of the people in the country. What else is there to be dissatisfied with!

Qin Zhiyuan transferred the Second Brigade back to Paris, which did not attract Nivelle's attention because Nivelle was already busy with his own affairs.

Two consecutive days of attack did not achieve Nivelle's pre-war promise. According to Nivelle's promise, Nivelle should stop the attack and change the direction of attack.

But Nivelle did not intend to stop. Although there was no progress at the end of the battle in the past two days, the progress at the beginning of the battle was also considered by Nivelle to be the result of his tactics. He only needed to make another effort to drive the Germans out of Chemin de Dame.

Nivelle is now close to madness. He does not listen to anyone's opinions. He cannot calm down and carefully analyze the problems that have arisen in the battles of the past two days. The attack occupies his entire mind. Even when Prime Minister Paul Painlevi personally rushed to the front to stop Nivelle from continuing to attack, Nivelle ignored it.

He really ignored it. Paul Painlevi did not even get the opportunity to meet Nivelle. Before Paul Painlevi rushed to his headquarters, Nivelle went to the military camp on the front to inspect, which was a big pigeon for the French Prime Minister.

Nivelle, the French commander-in-chief, was appointed by the Prime Minister himself. Although he was not appointed during Paul Painlevi's tenure, Nivelle had to obey the orders of the French Prime Minister. Nivelle dared to be so bold and reckless, relying on the support of Lloyd George, but it was too absurd for a French commander-in-chief to rely on the support of the British Prime Minister.

Paul Painleville knew that Nivelle would not stop the attack, even if he could not see Nivelle, so he sent a telegram to the Minister of War, Lyautey, ordering Lyautey to stop supplying supplies to Nivelle's troops.

If you don't have ammunition supplies for a hot weapon unit, you will see how you fight.

This move really hit Nivelle's sore spot. Nivelle did not have time to inspect the troops, and returned to Paris that night to meet Paul Painleville who had already returned to Paris.

It's not that easy. Paul Painlevi is also a prime minister with a temper. If you don't meet someone when they look for you, you will be in trouble if you go to them.

Paul Painlevi didn't give Nivelle a chance to meet him. It was not until the next day that Paul Painlevi gave Nivelle ten minutes at breakfast time.

Paul Painlevi's breakfast time was seven o'clock. According to the practice of the previous two days, the French army had already started the attack at this time.

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The ten-minute meeting had no effect. Nivelle refused to give up. He must launch another attack. It only took forty-eight hours for Nivelle to drive the Germans out of Chemin de Dame.

Paul Painlevi didn't want to give Nivelle another chance. Nivelle had said the same thing once.

Nivelle returned to his headquarters angrily that day. It is said that he had a tantrum at the headquarters. From Paul Painlevi to Alfred Michel, the commander of the front line, Nivelle scolded everyone.

But despite the scolding, Nivelle had to stop the attack, not only because of the lack of ammunition, but also because the morale of the frontline soldiers had dropped to a dangerous level.

On April 21, the African soldiers in the Foreign Legion finally broke out. They refused to accept the mission and shot the white officers sent by Mangin to supervise the Foreign Legion, shouting the slogan to end the war.

"Peace! End the war! Let those who are responsible for the war die!" Those blacks made their voices clear.