The battle of Cherbourg determined the future direction of the French United ZF, General Cassie's plan to divide troops and lure the enemy was actually not intended to be explained to anyone from the beginning, and as soon as a fight broke out, everyone was overwhelmed by the chaotic orders issued by the command, and the soldiers were reorganized and assembled to attack everywhere, and the officers and soldiers at the bottom doubted whether this old guy's brain was normal, and the division of troops was a taboo for soldiers, not to mention that they were all so far apart, once the connection between them was cut off by the defenders in the defense area, then they could only fight alone blindfolded, but Cassie's next layout suddenly slapped these people in the face;

The 1st Division of the Expeditionary Force captured Cherbourg in less than a day, one was a surprise attack, the troops were well prepared, and the Combine Army was very interested in this group of recruits who were jokingly called by the right: the beggars. The seven thousand defenders in the city were instantly "annihilated" half, and the navy was also captured, so that the defenders of Cherbourg were not possessed, and they fled in the direction of the capital in a hurry.

The above is the news of the results obtained by the intelligence line of the expeditionary force on the 20th, and as for whether it is true or not, only the commanders of the front line know it in their hearts.

The 50,000 defenders on the peninsula mobilized more than 30,000 people after receiving the news, and under the leadership of their commander, they were gearing up to recover Cherbourg, but Cassie was separated at this time, a 100,000-man landing from the bay of Saint-Malo and taking the town of Rennes, and a 170,000-strong landing from Brest with huge casualties, sweeping the defense of Brittany and occupying the fortress in an instant, and the expeditionary force lost about 4,300 people.

General Cassie then ordered the army to begin to encircle, the first division only left the Trikas brigade to defend the city, and its main force of 18,000 men also followed to the south to encircle, and the French combined army that broke away from the defense of Brest was sandwiched in the field in the middle of the city occupied by the two expeditionary forces, and before they could decide which side to retreat, the two sides suddenly sent troops to a large encirclement, forcing this army to withdraw to the south side of the peninsula, and finally fled to the sea, forced to surrender to Cassie, so far, The six-day battle of Cherbourg came to an end with the recovery of the Brittany Peninsula, and the French coalition forces that hurried over to support also lost their best fighters, and could no longer organize strong forces to encircle and suppress Cherbourg and the peninsula, so they had to retreat to the rear defense line, and the line of Cherbourg and the Brittany Peninsula was all in the hands of the French left, and the angry right then issued an order to mobilize forces to storm Cherbourg and the peninsula.

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A week later, on December 30th

Pan Yilong has been nesting in a small bungalow by the sea for the past few days and has been forced to learn local French with a group of guys, he is so anxious that he scratches his ears and cheeks, looks at the dense words on the alphabet, spells "Bonjour" with difficulty, and then shows Bob next to him with satisfaction...

"What's that? What did you write here? ”

"Hello!" Pan Yilong patted the paper, "You can't even see this?" ”

"Is this Hello? When I just didn't spell the word? It's hello! Hello,! ”

"You're tm! You have to do it with me, do you? Pan Yilong dropped his pen and said, "I was a top student when I was in school, why didn't I learn everything?" Tell me what it is? ”

"Alas, a little bit, copy! You two can copy a few sentences from a book and don't talk! Nock said, took out a Fashion Girl Weekly magazine from his crotch, and quickly put it under the paper while the instructor was not paying attention to it, Pan Yilong shook off Bob's hooked hand on the side, and pumped his lower body with a backhand, "Get out!" Don't bother me, be careful I smoke you! ”

"Huh? What are you doing there? The instructor was a big man with three thick feet, and he glared back at Pan Yilong and them, and the two of them immediately remained silent, lying on the desk and pretending.

"Yo, it's all here!" While talking, the commander of E Company, who had never shown up, walked in and smiled from ear to ear, and the instructor asked him what was wrong, and he said: "The brigade headquarters issued an order, in order to prevent retaliation by the air raids of the combined forces, now all the headquarters have all moved their positions, Cherbourg has a huge underground air defense facility, and the lieutenant colonel has just given an order for you to move with your things."

"Lieutenant Colonel?" Jason looked at Bob, who gave him another punch with a twitch, and at the same time asked, "Now?" Are we all going? ”

"The former regiment commander has been promoted, and after a battle, he was promoted to a level, and I am also going to take over the position of battalion commander of the E battalion, hey, I will be one of your top bosses in the future haha... Clean up, don't be stunned. ”

"! Why not us? Bob glanced at Nock behind him, Nock closed his book, and said leisurely: "Because we attacked in advance and disrupted the deployment, the General Headquarters ordered that this battle should not be rewarded as a punishment, do you understand?"

"Gan!" "Gan!" The two of them uttered foul language at the same time, and then began to pack up their things and follow the group away.

It took a lot of time to pacify Cherbourg, General Trikas looked at the map, and exhaled with relief, and the adjutant on the side reminded him: "General, the nobles and officials in the city have now arrived, according to your orders, those who should be dismissed are dismissed, and those who should be transferred are basically unable to make any big waves now."

"How's my command post going now?"

The adjutant was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly replied: "It's all in place, but there are some subways to other cities underground that you need to deal with, such as the two largest tunnels, which are directly connected to Paris, and our current troops are not enough to support the ability to take trains from the tunnels to other cities, not to mention, maybe they think the same way, we need to make preparations for defending the subway in advance, Paris has frequent troop movements, beware of tricks."

"General!" At this time, an officer stumbled over, pointing out breathlessly, and Trakas couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong?"

"Our soldiers... Fight with the captives! ”

"Beat him!" A group of people surrounded seven or eight soldiers, they fell to the ground and scuffled together, without any regard for their identities, the four soldiers of the expeditionary force and the three right-wing soldiers who were covered in bruises were inextricably linked, and the people around them were still applauding...

"It's the regimental headquarters that follows the transfer, and there is nothing to do with our battalion, if you want me to say, let's find a small western-style building of 128 square meters to live in first..."Bob and Pan Yilong walked towards the city with their own things, and when they passed by here, they heard fierce cursing and fighting, and the two of them stopped and looked there, Pan Yilong suddenly saw that there were acquaintances of the two of them in this team: Tom and Indian soldier Mino, the two of them threw things away, rolled up their sleeves and rushed up...

"! Stop it! A figure appeared from the crowd, a pair of feet flew up and pounced on one of them, kicking him a few meters away, Pan Yilong landed on the ground and made a carp to beat him up, got up and grabbed the two guys who were inextricably beaten, and slapped him twice, the two looked at him with a confused face, Pan Yilong shouted at them: "Stop fighting!" What about playing NM here? If you continue to fight and be seen by the gendarmes, you will have to kill a few of you! Looking for death, this place is so close to the brigade headquarters, don't fight here, go out and fight outside the city, isn't it capable? One person and one knife to see who will be the first! ”

"Woo~" The white-hat gendarmes in the army ran over, followed by the brigade commander Traikas, everyone did not expect this to alarm the general, and the onlookers who watched the play immediately dispersed, leaving only these few people who were fighting in groups and Pan Yilong, who came to fight, as soon as Trikas met, he stared at them one by one with a cold face and imposing attitude, and then the new commander of the 105th regiment hurriedly ran over, and after Trikas whispered a few words to him, the lieutenant colonel immediately said to them: "Get me down!"

Trakas met with local dignitaries and admired the 40-year-old general for the expeditionary force's strict observance of the laws of war and not against civilians, and his words were full of compliments.

"I heard that the general attacked the city of Cherbourg this time, and it only took less than a brigade of troops to drive away these jackals, tigers and leopards, is that so?" The new mayor had a smile on his face, and Trikas shook his head, "It's a brigade, I personally led the attack, and I was ordered to hunt down the lackeys of the United Empire, and I was also surprised that the war could go so smoothly, maybe the defenders here didn't have a sense of crisis before the war, or maybe their commander didn't act... Anyway, I was relieved that it didn't hurt you. ”

"I wonder what your army's next move will be?" A wealthy businessman couldn't help but interject, Trakas smiled, "There is no plan for the time being, we are waiting to join the army on the peninsula, it is too risky to go deep alone, not to mention that we are less than 10,000 people, and defending the city is already the limit, at this time I have to wait for the opportunity to attack." ”

"General, I have a sentence that is not worth talking about." The mayor's small eyes revealed a businessman's shrewdness, but Trikas didn't notice this, just nodded, and listened to the mayor say: "Recently, the security in the city is not very ideal, you have just taken over the city defense, it is a turbulent period, you may not be able to supervise many places, I just heard that several soldiers of your department beat three rightist prisoners..."

"Although you punished them, but the citizens are worried that your soldiers have been stationed here for a long time, it will bring some unnecessary trouble, as far as I know, in the 90s of the last century, the soldiers of the military bases of country M stationed around the world caused great harm to the local people, and the current coalition army is the same, Cherbourg has been providing the garrison here for two years... A variety of services. ”

The mayor paused, seeing that Trikas didn't seem to show a tired expression, so he continued: "I was just an assistant to the mayor at the time, and I couldn't say a lot of things, and even if I said it, no one heard it, so today I want to take this opportunity to make a suggestion, whether it can effectively restrain the crime and the behavior of the soldiers in the city, at least let the people know that the leftist army is serious and pro-people, not to exploit us, if the general is in trouble, we can fund, Establish a patrol team that is only under the jurisdiction of the people's ZF, the general does not need to contribute at all, as long as it is convenient, and it is necessary to ensure the stable operation of the city during the war is the top priority at the moment, I hope the general will not hesitate. ”

Traikas fell silent, he looked at these people, most of them came for this matter, and some of them asked for advice on whether the city should resume the normal work and life of citizens in the past few days, Trakas didn't understand this, just nodded vigorously, and finally said to them: "I will find a way to implement this, please wait for a while and I will inform you, as for the supervision of soldiers, I think it is better to have the existing regulations and control law (2019 war law), and leave it to the non-military organization and supervision, I'm really not at ease, in this way, I will organize a special gendarme in charge of the security of the city these days, and I will also select people from your local soldiers and police, who do not participate in combat and mobilization in peacetime, and are responsible for supervising the security of various areas of the city and supervising the soldiers, but the jurisdiction is in my hands, I'm really sorry, this is also to prevent the infiltration of right-wing agents, and the plan was originally drawn up, I hope you can understand. ”

Everyone glanced at each other, and then smiled: "The general still has a way, since this is the case, then we have finished what we should say, and we will leave without disturbing you, goodbye."

"Take care of yourself, everyone!" Trakas watched the group leave, glanced back at the staff officer behind him, beckoned him to come over, and said to him, "Where is the main force of our first division now?"

"It should be on the way to Le Mans now." He thought for a while, "It is estimated that we will soon meet with the main force of the peninsula, according to General Cassie's plan, it is intended to solve the cities in the south first, the big towns in the north have too many mechanized corps, there are many people, we occupy Cherbourg is only one of the northernmost warning points, we must be ready to guard against the counterattack of the next rightist army, it is estimated that it will take a long time for General Cassie's troops to move north, so Le Mans must be pulled out, and we will at least have to wait... A month to get out of this rotten land. ”

"Another month before you leave?" Tricas sighed helplessly, "Le Mans is the closest to Paris, and it also guards the transportation network in the south, that is to say, if they succeed in occupying the Le Mans area, then we should also leave for Rouen, and the day when the army will march east into Paris is not far off, but now we have to guard against the Rouen Panzer Division in the northeast and the chaos in the city, alas..."

"May God bless France... No, I'm not French... It's to keep us safe, General, what to do next? Is it really necessary to form an intra-military gendarmerie? ”

"You go find someone to supervise this!" Trikas said in a deep voice: "Alone under the brigade headquarters to set up a direct unit, I want not only to be responsible for maintaining order and urban stability and quelling the rebellion, but also to be able to infiltrate the enemy and carry out sabotage activities in the future, and hand it over to a special person to take care of... This is not just about fighting terrorism, it is beyond the competence of the gendarmerie... It's not an exaggeration to call them special forces! ”

"However, the United ZF does not allow any country to keep special forces in its military..."The chief of staff reminded, and Trikas also thought about it seriously for a while, and then said to him with a smile: "Then how about changing the name and calling them the reconnaissance battalion directly under the brigade headquarters?"

(Note: The functions of the Western reconnaissance units are different from those of the Eastern Scouts, and most of the reconnaissance battalions refer to those military units that ban the police and the National Guard during the war, and are responsible for the security of a single area. )

Outside the door, the rich businessmen and tycoons who had just come out did not leave, but gathered together and looked at each other with ugly faces, you look at me, I look at you, and finally someone couldn't help but take the lead and said:

"Sure enough, this group of soldiers are all wearing a pair of pants, regardless of the right or left, listen to what this guy just said, he directly rejected our proposal to invest in the formation of a civilian patrol team, and this does not require them to pay for it, why should he hesitate if he is a rough man?"

"Rough man?" A chubby middle-aged man glared at him dissatisfied, "He doesn't look like a rough man, this guy has his own plans, we calculate him, he is also calculating us, we use the people to persecute him, he turned around and directly set up a special team to monitor us to contend with, the praying mantis catches the cicada and the yellow finch is behind, who is the praying mantis and who is the finch, isn't it clear at a glance now?" ”

"Don't ramble here!" The new mayor said expressionlessly: "In this case, you will each go home and find a way to prevent the birth of this new gendarmerie, if you can't stop it, you will be ready to be seized by them, this general is not easy to fool, and how many assets are clean for the people present?" If it's dirty, you have to wipe it yourself, no one will wipe it for you. ”

...

The lieutenant colonel who just took over the post of commander of the 105th regiment is called Mills, he is an extremely conceited guy, he is the son of a rich man in country M, he acts and speaks quite domineering and arrogant, and I don't know who he has to do with the army. He stood in front of the door and discussed the next step with the former regimental seat who was about to leave to serve as deputy chief of staff at the brigade headquarters, when an officer who had rushed from the brigade headquarters came to them, glanced at the colonel who was about to leave, and then said to the newly appointed lieutenant colonel: "The brigade headquarters wants your regiment to transfer a company of troops to the central bunker to receive direct reorganization."

"Immediate reorganization?" The lieutenant colonel looked at him, and the former regiment commander couldn't help but say on the side: "I'll go over and inquire about the news, you can be busy with your affairs here."

It is said that Pan Yilong was being locked up in a temporary cell in the bunker with the group of fighting guys at this time, through the iron fence door, he heard the footsteps from the frequent movement of the guards outside, and began to lean against the wall dizzily with hunger, and the sound of pulling the door bolt suddenly came, and everyone was immediately happy, stood up and looked at the visitor, and then was stunned.

"Jason Watson, right?" The brigade commander Trakas glanced at Pan Yilong, who was closest to the door, and he smiled stiffly, so Trakas did not look at him again, but turned to the soldiers who had beaten the prisoners, asked for their names one by one, and then said:

"I don't want to hear about the beating of prisoners of war again, so it was an accident, and you all remember it for me!"

Tracaston paused, looked at these soldiers, and said leisurely: "In view of the fact that you have led a team to attack the center of Cherbourg before, and fought head-on with the right-wing armored forces for several hours without retreating from the harbor defense area, it is enough to prove that you are a group of excellent fighters, so this time I plan to rearrange a team for you, you are no longer a member of a certain detachment in the headquarters, you will become a reconnaissance unit directly under the jurisdiction of the 1st Division and 1st Brigade in the future, and the status is equivalent to the artillery battalion and paratrooper battalion directly under it, and now there is a shortage of manpower, Some of the soldiers will be selected from among the locals, carefully screened, and will be their own people in the future, and in the meantime, I do not want to hear again about your discrimination or beating of prisoners, if their relatives who live in this city see your virtue today, who will trust us in the future... Who stopped today's brawl? ”

The soldiers turned their targets to Pan Yilong, who was still standing by the door and looked at the brigade commander with a confused expression, and Traikath was stunned, "Speaking of which, this is the second time I've heard your name mentioned these days, Jason Watson!" You Chinese people shouldn't be here! ”

"I... I'm Chinese..."He stammered back, "I'm just trying to stop this trouble, if things are allowed to go ahead, something else will happen..."

"But this brings us a lot of trouble!"

"We've solved it, although it doesn't match the plan, but there is no stubble!" Pan Yilong defended: "The moment we entered the city to fight the enemy, we were destined to deal with all kinds of emergencies, we may die a lot, or we may survive by luck, and when all this is successfully over, we come back to our senses and find that this battle has been over."

"Oh, that's what you think." Trikas nodded, "Since most of the people with military merits in this battle have already been promoted, they have already claimed their respective positions, and they have searched and searched, and found that there is no suitable leader, so they can't let me lead the team in person, right?" ”

Everyone's eyes were on Pan Yilong and Brigadier General Trakas, Pan Yilong frowned, without saying a word, Trikas shook his head lightly, and said to him: "You were a sergeant before, and from today you will no longer be a sergeant, you will take responsibility for the security of the city, ensure that there will not be a civil strife in Cherbourg before the combined army attacks the city, you will shoulder the burden of the reconnaissance battalion, protect our city and people, as well as our supplies, it is important to win the hearts and minds of the people, but if you can't protect them well, Then there is no point in us fighting this war, Captain, do you understand? ”