"Major General Bronte? What, are you interested in him? Returning to his office, Gambler happened to hear Churchill inquiring about Birent.

Finding that the protagonist he was looking for today was coming, Churchill immediately stepped forward and greeted him: "Commander Gammelin, you have finally arrived." I have something very important to discuss with you right now. ”

"Occupy Norway." Gammelin waved his hand impatiently, walked around Churchill, and returned to the chair behind his desk: "Didn't we send someone to communicate a few days ago, why did you talk about this again?" ”

Sure enough, the French are mostly arrogant. A person who understands like the Major General Birant just now is just an exception after all.

Gan Molin was too conceited, and he had the huge force at his disposal, let alone any foreign army. In addition, the British Army has always been the object of ridicule by European countries, and the French general, who leads the first army in Europe, naturally will not look down on it.

Looking down on the British Expeditionary Force, there is naturally not much reverence for a British envoy at the ministerial level like Churchill.

"Also, that Major General Bronte, you'd better make less contact." Gammelin said to Churchill in an unkind tone.

Obviously, the reason why he did not respect Churchill just now was necessarily related to Churchill's mention of Belonte. Churchill understood after a little thought that the other party was likely to be angry with himself because of this. This is very similar to his anger at Bellent at the beginning because of his unhappiness with Chamberlain.

After an awkward silence, Gan Molin finally chose to speak: "Forget it, it's also because you don't understand." The Major General Birent, who just met with you, was not actually a very popular soldier. ”

Churchill did not answer, but his eyes met that of Gamelin, indicating that he was listening.

"In April 1917, it was the last world war. At that time, the German Hindenburg and Ludendorff led the army to defeat our main force, and the morale of the army plummeted. Tens of thousands of people fled like a tidal wave, and even worse, they took advantage of the crisis to provoke a rebellion. ”

Churchill did not understand why Gammelin was involved in the story of the First World War, but he knew that since the other side mentioned it, he would definitely tell the reason later.

Sure enough, Gammelin was quick to get to the point: "It was the darkest hour that the French army had ever experienced in the First World War. And the objective reason for this consequence was that Berente, who was still a low-level staff officer at the time, launched a rebellion with a bunch of subordinate officers! ”

Belante launched a rebellion?! Churchill couldn't believe his ears. If so, it is unbelievable that this major general is still in the French army and ranks among the generals!

"Don't guess." As if seeing through Churchill's psychological activities, Ganmarin waved his hand and said: "Later, under the appeasement of Petain, he returned to the French army with the rebel troops, and participated in the later Battle of Verdun, and atoned for his merits." In addition, Petain was very optimistic about his military talents, and recruited Birente into his subordinates to rush back to staff work, which saved Birente's future. ”

Swallowing his saliva, Churchill quietly glanced at Ganmalin's eyes.

From what he just said, Churchill not only learned about Belonte's past, but also discovered some unusual "internal secrets of France".

The title of Marshal Petain just now by Gan Molin obviously deliberately avoided the word "marshal". Combined with the current rank of general of Gammelin, it is not difficult to speculate that this man was somewhat jealous of Pétain. And the last call by the respected Marshal Pétain as "this fellow" is simply a clear disparagement. From this point of view, his jealousy of Petain seems to have an element of hatred in it. In the words of later generations, this is envy, jealousy, and hatred.

Thinking about it this way, it is not difficult to speculate why Ganmarin is so disgusted with Major General Belant, who has redeemed his merits and made military exploits. This is more or less inseparable from the intimate relationship between Béronte and Petain.

However, this time he did not guess Churchill's mental activity, and only said to himself: "I tell you this, which is a kind of compensation for my rude behavior just now." When I heard you mention Major General Bertrand, who had been a traitor, I couldn't help but be annoyed, so my attitude was a little excessive. I beg your pardon. ”

"It's okay, I understand." Churchill replied to Gan Molin with a smile on his face, but in his heart he had repeatedly scolded this sanctimonious villain.

Holding on to the mistakes made by others in his youth, and turning a blind eye to his contributions over the years, even if Berente went to Poland alone to successfully buy two months of war preparation time for France, he still continued to suppress and did not want to see this excellent major general who made a good impression on Churchill.

On the other hand, Churchill noticed that when Ganmalin addressed Berente, who was a lower rank than him, he explicitly added the suffix of major general. In other words, he did not have the habit of not calling others their ranks. This also further confirms his jealousy that he deliberately did not call the title of Marshal Petain.

Such a hypocrite turned out to be the commander-in-chief of the French Army, the British Empire Expeditionary Force, and the Belgian Army! Churchill was very proud of the future cooperation between the three countries.

In fact, the gap between Gammelin and Pétain is far more than a gap in rank. All this, no matter how deliberately he tried to cover it up and avoid it, he couldn't erase it.

In terms of origin, Petain, who served in the army of the civilian class, did not know how much lower than Ganmalin in terms of starting point. If it weren't for the advent of the First World War, Petain would have retired as a colonel at most, becoming an ordinary old man among many retired soldiers.

However, with the outbreak of war, Pétain was promoted to brigade commander and brigadier general for his outstanding leadership of the troops.

In the subsequent Battle of the Marne, Pétain was promoted to major general again by his proper command and appointed commander of the 6th Division. A month later, Petain took over as commander of the 33rd Army.

During the Alsace offensive, he led his headquarters to break through the impregnable German defenses. In this battle, he was directly sent to the position of commander of the Second Army!

Later, there was a good story of Petain stabilizing the Verdun front line externally and quickly quelling the Bérente rebellion internally, and then creating a turning point in World War I, and at the same time making him the "savior of France", ranked as the first French general and became famous in the world!

In comparison, Gammelin's military career is nothing short of mentionable.

Contrary to Petain's legendary exploits, Gammelin's days in the army were lackluster.

He doesn't have a wonderful story like other famous generals, and he seems to be decent and not brave enough to be a teacher.

He was fortunate enough to be involved in the development of the tactics of the French army at the Battle of the Marne. At that time, although Xia Fei had already determined the operational thinking of the French army, in the formulation of the details, Gammelin seized the opportunity to play his only three advantages: meticulousness, thoroughness, and precision.

Speaking of which, he still relied on the blessing of Pétain and other generals to win a miracle on the Marne.

Because of this merit, as a staff officer, he was promoted two levels in a row until he was appointed as a division commander.

In the subsequent battles, it was not surprising that Ganmalin behaved ordinarily, no different from any ordinary general.

But his excellent level of "staff officers" already made an impression on the top of the French army. In 1925, an armed rebellion broke out in French Syria, and Gammelin, a "meticulous general", was appointed commander of the French forces in Syria and commissioner of the Syrian dictatorship. During this period, he used unskilled iron-blooded methods to suppress the uprising rudely and brutally.

After another three years, because there was no fighting in Syria, Gammelin was again transferred back to the French army headquarters. But this is his identity has changed to Deputy Chief of Staff of the Army, Lieutenant General Gan Molin!

Gan Molin proved one thing with his own personal experience - it is important to leave a good impression on his colleagues!

If someone else had changed, even if it was Petain at the beginning, he might not have been promoted so quickly after making such two not-so-huge contributions.

But Ganmalin did it! With the perfect image he left behind, he was promoted again three years later, in 1933, as Chief of the General Staff of the French Army. Two years later, in 1935, he became chairman of the French Supreme Military Council and commander of the army.

With good luck and superficial effort, others may not be able to complete the road that they may not be able to complete in decades or even a lifetime, and it only took 7 years for Ganmalin to reach the end!

But the more people who are good at superficial kung fu, the more afraid they are of meeting people with real materials. When encountering Marshal Petain, or even an excellent general like Blante, Ganmalin would ruthlessly suppress it with all his might. Because of the company of these people, his generals only need a simple comparison to immediately discover his incompetence!