In the following time, Zhang Chi gradually shifted the focus of the expeditionary force to Sicily. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

In fact, not only the expeditionary forces, but also the British, American, and French armies were moving their forces and forces to Sicily...... After all, Sicily is very close to Italy, and the area is large enough to be used as an advance base for the Allied forces to attack Italy, and at the same time, it can put enough pressure on Italy to force it to surrender, so troops, warships, warplanes, supplies, etc. are all transported to Sicily one after another.

None of this is what Zhang Chi cares about.

Zhang Chi was concerned about the other two corps of the Zoaf Corps that General Giro had promised.

These two armies were the Fifth and Sixth Armies...... Zhang Chi immediately transferred them to Sicily for training and reorganization.

From this point of view, General Giraud has still become smarter.

The first unit that General Giraud agreed to reform was the First Army of the Zoaf Corps, which was the earliest and best formed unit in the Zoaf Corps...... The First Army always had to be an example and a role model, and even many of the Algerian soldiers were nobles.

This is also one of the reasons why it is easier for Zhang Chi to select talents from them.

But now it is clear that General Giraud has made a mistake in this decision, and that he has made the best of his troops the fruits of reform, and that he has largely departed from the French command system...... Although it was still under the command of General Juan and was also considered a French army, General Giraud could not rest assured.

So the next two armies were the two armies that were formed the latest and at the same time the least of quality, that is, the fifth and sixth armies.

These two armies were even the result of the temporary expansion of General Zhu An after the surrender of the French army, and the vast majority of the members were peasants who were too poor to survive, and only joined the army as soldiers in order to make ends meet, and there were even hooligans and prisoners...... There was no way to do this, and the Algerians did not have much interest in working for the French colonizers, so they did not have much incentive not to join the army.

They are also the worst in armament, and some of the logistics units are not even equipped with rifles.

So the combat effectiveness of these two armies can be imagined, and they basically belonged to the type of "soy sauce" in the battle of attacking the Marais Line.

General Giraud was wishful thinking...... It was not a bad word to put these two barely combat-ready units in the hands of the Chinese army, and at the same time there was an explanation to the Algerians, but there was little loss to the Zoaf corps, which was under the direct control of the French army.

Kukyi was also very angry about this.

"Look!" "That's how the French are, I know them, they don't have the sincerity to make us independent at all, they just want to use us, that's why they don't feel at ease to hand over good troops to us!" ”

"It doesn't matter!" Zhang Chi said.

"Not important?" Ku Keyi was puzzled by Zhang Chi's words: "General, you don't know what kind of troops these two troops are, they can't fight at all...... To put it simply, they are no different from the Italians we met on the battlefield! ”

"Italy is not born timid and afraid of death!" Zhang Chi is still full of confidence.

"The general means ......"

"Italians are like this!" Zhang Chi explained: "That's because they don't have the motivation to fight bravely and the confidence to defeat the enemy, coupled with the lack of training and corruption in the army, so they naturally have no combat effectiveness!" Similarly, the Fifth and Sixth Armies were ...... In the hands of the French, they will not have the motivation to fight and the confidence to win, especially those French officers are bastards one by one. But it's different after the reforms, understand? ”

Ku Keyi couldn't help but nodded, because what Zhang Chi said was true, the combat effectiveness of the First Army of the Zoaf Corps had risen to a new level in a short period of time after the reform, and the Fifth Army and the Sixth Army were no exception. Especially at this time, these armies still belong to Algeria's own army in a sense, so the enthusiasm of the people to join the army is higher, and they will have a better source of troops to replenish.

In fact, no country or nation is superior or inferior, or which nation has a particularly high IQ and which nation has a particularly low IQ...... Of course, there are differences between ethnic groups.

What these countries or nations that seem to be very backward and incompetent now lack only a set of correct institutional guidance or a channel for upward mobility.

For example, in Germany, what Germany lacked most before the First World War was unity, and the various domestic forces did not hesitate to run counter to the development of the country for their own interests:

The navy faction regarded maritime interests as "a matter of life and death for Germany" and strongly advocated the development of the navy and made every effort to prepare for war against Britain. The army faction advocated all-out development of the army, focusing on attacking France. Financiers and businessmen wanted access to the Balkans, Turkey and the Near East, demanding that Russia be given priority. The Junker aristocracy of East Prussia demanded that the security of their property be given priority.

Each has its own way of doing things and does not give in to each other, and the result is: "Challenge each side, but neither side can win".

From the eyes of the world at the time, Germany was the most hopeless country in the world.

But who would have thought that this "most hopeless" country would burst out with such tremendous energy in the ensuing First and Second World Wars.

Similarly, under the Manchu Qing Dynasty's policy and system of "closing off the country", China was considered "hopeless" by the world and even many Chinese...... It's easy to give examples, such as self-destruction of the Great Wall, infighting in the face of foreign enemies, and the ease of slaughtering thousands of people with dozens of Japanese troops to occupy a city, and so on.

Therefore, many people have come to the conclusion that Chinese are not united, inferior to foreigners, etc., and the most popular are negative and ironic words such as "one Chinese is a dragon, three Chinese are a worm".

Is this really a national issue?

Facts have proved that this is not the case, it is just a lack of a correct strategic guidance, and modern China has rapidly risen to become a big and powerful country under the correct strategic guidance.

In the same way, modern India has always been the object of ridicule by netizens, because it still has many strange events that make people feel incredible.

This does not lead to the conclusion that the Indians are inferior, they have also not found the right direction of development, and if one day they realize this and put it into practice, it will soon become different.

China is fortunate in this regard, because it is back on the right track in modern times.