Still lying in a hospital bed, Petain burst out with unparalleled energy as he tried to organize supplies to the front, and Verdun had only one road to the rear, passing through a mountain town called Baledik, where Petain had established a supply point.

The road in Baledique fell into disrepair, and after the Battle of Verdun, Petain sent people to urgently repair the road, but it was still only accessible to two large trucks side by side.

After the outbreak of Verdun, the French army had only 700 trucks, and then Petain requisitioned all the trucks in France, even the trucks of the Southern African Expeditionary Force were borrowed, and at the peak, Verdun had 3,900 trucks, and Petain used these trucks to send 190,000 troops and 25,000 tons of supplies to the front.

In order to keep the road open, Petain sent 15,000 people to take care of the maintenance of the road, and the broken down trucks were pushed off the road and thrown into the ravines, and every 19 seconds during the rush hour, a truck arrived through Baledik, which was also known as the "sacred road" after the war.

Trucks loaded with supplies and soldiers arrived at the front and returned to Baledik with the wounded, many of whom were not injured, suffering from a disease called "shell shock" and unable to continue the fight and had to be sent to the rear to recuperate.

"Shell shock" is a disease similar to war syndrome, in which the patient is characterized by drowsiness, irrepressible tremors, semi-paralysis, and loss of consciousness, hearing, and speech.

Not only did a large number of French soldiers suffer from the disease of "shell shock", but many people in the British Expeditionary Force and German units were also infected, 3 to 4 percent of the soldiers in the British Expeditionary Force fell ill, and the proportion of officers was even higher, reaching 10 percent, and 12,000 soldiers in the German army had related symptoms in the first year of the outbreak of the world war.

Doctors from southern Africa immediately conducted research on the disease of "shell shock", and they were surprised to find that the disease of "shell shock" has nothing to do with the explosion of artillery shells, nor does it have anything to do with nerves, but is similar to trench warfare, because of the mental disorder that occurs in human beings under battlefield conditions for a long time, and it is very absurd to use the word "shell shock" to represent this disease.

In response to these conditions, doctors in southern Africa proposed a new treatment plan, believing that soldiers should be withdrawn to the rear in stages to rest, and psychological intervention for soldiers using hypnosis or talk may be more effective.

Unfortunately, the advice of doctors in southern Africa has not been given the attention it deserves.

At this time, British and French doctors all believed that the disease of "shell shock" was a mental illness, and even believed that many officers and soldiers were not sick at all, but deliberately pretended to be sick, and electric shock was their most commonly used therapy.

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Why is the magnetic explosion infantry an exclusive unit of Russia, it should be France's.

At this time, soldiers were divided into four categories: healthy soldiers, sick soldiers, wounded soldiers, and cowards who escaped war.

For most career officers, the mentally stressed, deranged soldiers were cowards, and they ordered them to return to the army within a certain time limit, and if they did not return to the front within the allotted time, they would be punished as deserters.

As a result, the number of "deserters" increased, and by the time of the Battle of Verdun, 24,000 officers and soldiers of the British Expeditionary Force alone were suffering from the so-called "shell shock", and the situation became more and more serious, and British and French doctors had to start paying attention to the conclusions of doctors in southern Africa.

At a time when a large number of mentally deranged officers and soldiers were being treated as deserters, doctors from southern Africa tried to treat the mentally deranged officers and soldiers, and the young and gentle nurses played a great role, their smiles were the best remedy for mental disorders, and many soldiers regained their senses after a short rest in the hospital and returned to the front line, showing fearless heroism and better performance than before.

Under difficult and difficult conditions, Petain worked hard to organize the French troops to reorganize the defensive line.

Unlike Haig, Petain would not waste the precious lives of soldiers at will, and was willing to share weal and woe with soldiers, winning the trust of officers and soldiers at the front.

In the most difficult times, Petain ordered his troops not to launch a counteroffensive against the strong German lines, and once the Germans broke through the French positions, Petain allowed the French troops to retreat appropriately and then reorganize the defensive line, an order known as the "panic line" system.

In order to ensure that there were enough troops on the front line, Petain implemented a rotation tactic on the front line, three-quarters of the 125 divisions of the French army in the front line had fought in Verdun, the rotation system ensured that there were energetic soldiers on the front line, and the veterans also had the hope of returning home, they began to face death calmly, and they were more courageous when fighting, and the German offensive was gradually contained.

While the French army was gradually returning to normal, the chaos in the British army continued.

The arrival of the new Chief of the General Staff did not change the atmosphere of saber-rattling within the British army.

Paul Coker did not leave France after his dismissal, he was still the chief of staff of the Southern African Expeditionary Force, the three artillery divisions of the Southern African Expeditionary Force in France, and all the doctors and nurses in Southern Africa were only under the command of Paul Cocker, and did not obey the orders of the British Expeditionary Force Command.

The reason for the field hospital is very good, like the vast majority of officers and soldiers, the doctors and nurses of the field hospital have been working in France for more than a year and a half, and there is no essential difference between their work intensity and the front-line officers and soldiers, but because the intensity is greater day and night, many doctors and nurses are tired in batches, and since the outbreak of the world war, sixty-five doctors and nurses have died in the line of duty, and the Minister of Health of Southern Africa, Derek Gibson, made it clear after Paul Coker's dismissal, Doctors and nurses in southern Africa, as well as commanders of the Southern African Expeditionary Force, had been treated unfairly in France, and the Entente leadership had to guarantee the rights of the southern African military and not hurt the feelings of the southern Africans.

Southern African doctors and nurses in France are all military, both they and they are military.

In order to appease the officers and men of the Southern African Expedition, Prime Minister Asquith and Minister of War Kitchener rushed to France, and Asquith delivered an impassioned speech in the hospital, highly praising the contributions made by the officers and men of southern Africa to defeating the evil alliance group, and promising to protect the interests of the southern African soldiers.

Kitchener was inspecting the front-line troops, and the Southern African Expeditionary Force was the focus, Kitchener had heart-to-heart talks with the officers and soldiers, listened to the voices of the front-line officers and soldiers, and encouraged the officers and soldiers to fight bravely, at the headquarters of the British Expeditionary Force, Kitchener and Haig had a long talk behind closed doors, and no one knew what Kitchener and Haig talked about, but someone heard Kitchener shouting: If you dare to do anything wrong, I will definitely send you to a court-martial.

By this time, the British Expeditionary Force's offensive at Mons had been forced to stop, and in just one week, the British Expeditionary Force suffered 110,000 casualties and 28,000 killed.

Otherwise, why did the field hospital stop receiving the wounded, because it was the surge in the number of wounded that the field hospital was unable to treat them, so it had to stop receiving them.

Just after the New Year, 1,500 newly enrolled doctors and nurses arrived in southern Africa, and they were evenly distributed to the six field hospitals established by the Southern African Expeditionary Force in Europe, three of which were in France, two in the Mediterranean, and one in British proper.

At the same time, doctors and nurses who had been working in Europe for a year and a half were on rotational leave, most of whom chose to return to southern Africa to be with their families, while others refused to rest and continued to work in field hospitals.

At the same time that the Western Front was in a scuffle, there was also an undercurrent surging in the peninsula of Asia Minor.

As a meritorious unit of the 2nd Cavalry Division, the company led by Hank was transferred to deal with the attack on the patrol, and the company of Hank was a battalion of the 402nd Division of the Sultanate of Najd, and the commander was Major Marjory.

Major Marjorie is Chinese.

After the surrender of the Ottoman Empire, the expeditionary force captured nearly 300,000 military horses, and Hank and Marjorie's troops finally had war horses, but the troops were still infantry, which was called "dragoons" in this era, and was also about to retire from the stage of history.

In January, the Asia Minor Peninsula was still icy and snowy, and last winter it snowed in the Anatolian Plateau, and now the ice and snow have not yet dissolved, Ankara is located in the north-central part of the Asia Minor Peninsula, Hank and Marjory first arrived in Constantinople by transport ship, and then advanced from Constantinople to Ankara, which will be faster.

In order to ensure that the troops could reach Ankara as quickly as possible, Hank's troops made some climbing plows in Constantinople, which were also called sleds in Europe, which could move quickly on the snow with a horse, and could also transport weapons and various supplies, which made the officers and soldiers from the Sultanate of Najd very curious.

The Sultanate of Najd has no snow all year round, and many soldiers who are so old have never seen snow, so naturally they have never seen a sleigh.

"Hurry up, we are going to get to Ankara in two days and teach the unruly Ottomans a lesson, dragoons, charge!" Hank likes the title "Dragoon" very much, and compared to "Dragoon", the previous "Muscat Pirate Regiment" simply doesn't know what it is, and he doesn't know the name taken by the uneducated guy.

"Rush! The riches of the Ottomans are waiting for us, their women are waiting for us to conquer, and they are yours—" Marjorie's words were clearly more seductive than Hank's.