Expedition to Europe

The Germans are indeed disciplined. If they say they surrender, they really surrender. They will never surrender and then rebel again.

In Chinese, it means: keep your word.

Just after Ludwig von Schröder handed over the command knife symbolizing command power to Chen Kangjian, thousands of Germans, under the guidance of the armored infantry, handed over their weapons in an orderly manner and returned to the barracks to wait for further processing.

There was no resistance, no fistfighting, no glaring and tense, just like a normal handover when going to and from get off work. The Germans calmly accepted the result.

Perhaps the war has been going on for too long and people are tired. Whether it is the Germans or the French, they all want to end the war.

Although the war will not end with the surrender of thousands of Germans, for these Germans, their war has ended.

As the victorious armored regiment, their war is still going on.

Almost as soon as all the Germans were locked up in the camp, the armored regiment ushered in the next wave of Germans.

This time, the 20th Infantry Division came from Reims to reinforce. They belong to the 14th Reserve Corps of the 17th Army.

Generally speaking, a division has about 17,000 people. If these people march in a line, the team can extend about two kilometers.

The 20th Infantry Division came in a hurry. Their vanguard was a cavalry unit of about 500 people, which may be the only cavalry unit in this infantry division.

When the cavalry on horseback met the second-generation "cavalry" driving tanks, the generational disadvantage of weapons was obvious.

On the plain facing Reims on the side of Tadenois, hundreds of cavalrymen hesitated as they looked at the nearly 100 tanks waiting in front of them.

They couldn't escape. Crown Prince William was waiting for their rescue more than ten kilometers away. They couldn't escape, and they didn't dare to escape. But attacking didn't seem likely either, because they were cavalry units. In order to quickly move in, they were not equipped with artillery. The only weapons they could use were the lances on their backs and the sabers on their waists, and they lacked the means to deal with tanks.

When the first tank appeared on the battlefield of the Somme, it marked the decline of traditional cavalry. But there will always be some people who don't believe in evil and insist on using traditional cavalry and reject tanks. For example, Haig, the commander of the British Expeditionary Force, is a general who insists on traditional cavalry.

There are still many such people, so much so that in another time and space, more than 20 years later in the Second World War, some countries still had to or stubbornly insisted on forming cavalry units. In September 1939, German war correspondents reported that Polish cavalry used broadswords and spears to fight against German tanks. This "myth" that could never happen with their buttocks was generally accepted by both sides. The Germans saw pride and achievement in it, and the Poles saw bravery and loyalty in it. As for those who spread rumors, God knows what they saw.

As long as you are not a fool, you will not use cavalry to attack armored forces. The German cavalry commander is obviously not stupid. He led the cavalry to the flank of the armored position and gave the right to attack to the infantry that arrived continuously.

"Thick skin and long blood strips" is only one of the advantages of armored forces, and mobile assault is the core advantage of armored forces.

So Chen Kangjian ordered the tank troops to launch an assault without waiting for the Germans to deploy the artillery they carried.

In the exercise in the Errani area, the artillery under Liu Zizheng created the myth of deploying artillery positions in two minutes, and the German artillery obviously could not meet this standard. This does not mean that the artillery under Liu Zizheng is more professional than the German artillery, but that the Germans do not have enough time. Just choosing the artillery position is not something that can be completed in two minutes.

What's more, the tanks commanded by Chen Kangjian were still fighting while walking, which made the situation look more urgent, so that the artillery was in a hurry. Before they set up the hoe, the tanks of the armored forces had already rushed to the front of the artillery.

How to fight this?

There is no way to fight!

The generational advantage of weapons is so obvious that traditional infantry units are vulnerable to armored units and have no ability to resist. The cavalry units simply did not find an opportunity to attack and could only leave reluctantly.

Well, traditional cavalry still has an advantage over armored units. Their war horses run faster. This was only temporary. Soon, the traditional cavalry could not even maintain this advantage. Even now, if running long distances, war horses still cannot outrun tanks. It was just that Chen Kangjian's troops were tasked with blocking the Tadnois Pass, not annihilating these cavalry, which allowed them to escape.

There were more than 10,000 more prisoners in the prisoner-of-war camp, and the three regimental camps were packed.

The Germans' organizational discipline was once again powerful. They spontaneously maintained order in the prisoner-of-war camp according to their previous military ranks. There was no chaos, no ties, everything was normal, and even the medical soldiers continued to rescue the wounded soldiers who were injured in the previous battle.

There was almost no hatred and disgust in the eyes of the Germans looking at these guards, and there was only a calmness mixed with a hint of curiosity. When the soldiers in charge of guarding helped the German medical soldiers find some medicine, there was a hint of gratitude in their eyes.

Because the Germans ran out of resources, they only had a small amount of medicine in their troops, and even the bandages were made of paper. Medicine could only be used in small quantities when officers were injured. Ordinary soldiers, even if they were seriously injured, were already isolated from medicine and could only rely on their own recovery ability to slowly survive.

France had relatively smooth sea routes, so there was no shortage of material resources, and medicine was more abundant.

France lacks human resources, so Chinese people are valued. Therefore, Pershing, who has done nothing serious since arriving in Paris and only knows how to ask for things every day, has become a big shot.

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Qin Zhiyuan is now a favorite of French Army Minister Lyautey and French Commander-in-Chief Foch. Logistics butler Bruno Garcia is Qin Zhiyuan's buddy and partner. Qin Zhiyuan's troops are supplied with all kinds of supplies beyond the norm. Not only are there as many medicines as needed, but also other materials such as food, alcoholic beverages, tobacco and other materials are also available.

So when a soldier in charge of guarding tried to hand a piece of chocolate issued by the military to a prisoner who looked only 17 or 18 years old and was obviously a little malnourished, the Germans were more grateful.

This kind of occasion is most suitable for reputation, so after asking for instructions, a truck of various foods were sent directly, from chocolate to tobacco, to various canned goods, except for alcoholic beverages.

There was a reason for not sending alcohol. Who knows if these Germans are good at drinking? If someone gets drunk and goes crazy at this special time and place, he might make an irreparable mistake. At that time, what was originally a good thing to improve reputation will become a tragedy that ruins one's character.

The nutritious chocolate was immediately sent to the wounded camp. Even though the prisoners carrying boxes looked malnourished, no one took a piece to eat first.

The soldiers in charge of guarding the prisoners became loaders and unloaders. This is their old job and they are very good at it.

Although the soldiers felt it was normal, their action won the standard military salutes of hundreds of officers including Ludwig von Schroeder.

Well, the soldiers in charge of guarding the prisoner-of-war camp were just ordinary people. When they paid tribute to the neatly arranged officers, they were a little at a loss.

These salutes were undoubtedly sincere.