Regarding Deauge's complaints, Zhang Min chose to turn a blind eye. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info In fact, although there are many people in the French army who do not want to see the Tang Dynasty, but in the French government, they are basically kneeling and licking the public. Although Germany's current diplomacy has a certain degree of autonomy, it basically follows the diplomatic baton of the Tang Dynasty. France's current situation, which is not too bad, depends on the support of Datang and Germany. There are also many pro-Tang people in the French government, although they are not as good as what the Tang people say, but they are very concerned about the opinions of the Tang Dynasty.

The current French government is still in a state of instability, and the Jacobins, like the other face, have carried out a harsh and ruthless policy of terror politically and economically. A large number of political opponents who opposed the Jacobins were directly guillotined, including Madame Roland, the uncrowned queen of the famous Parisian social scene. Before she died, she said the truth: "Freedom, how many sins are done in your name!" ”

On the economic front, although the Jacobins won the support of a large number of peasants through land reform, their restrictive policies also aroused the discontent of the bourgeoisie. The religious field was even more radical, Catholicism was directly deposed, and busts of various Enlightenment and Revolutionary figures began to be worshiped as gods, including the portrait of Zhao Daling, the first president of the Tang Dynasty.

The mere use of physical means to destroy the opponents preserved the achievements of the Revolution from the beginning of the Revolution, and even more frightened the enemy, but Robespierre and others did not seem to know when to stop, and his butcher's knife was already wielded in fear.

But fortunately, the French army and politics are two worlds, politicians and soldiers are doing their own thing, and the French army knows very well that no matter who becomes the master of the government, they need to defeat the enemy.

Although Deauge was dissatisfied with the lack of support from the Tang Army, and he thought that he could extort a sum of arms from the Tang people, the Tang people did not send even a single bullet, but instead sent boxes of Victory brand cigarettes, canned luncheon meat, and Coca-Cola. However, in the eyes of many French officers and soldiers, these things sent by the Tang people are simply more powerful than guns or something.

A French general described the war of the Revolution decades later, "What sustained us was the belief in a liberal republic, well, and the choking Victory cigarettes and Coca-Cola." ”

Not to mention that there are many types of cigarettes that Datang was selected for military supply, and the victory brand is one of the cheapest. But the name is good, the omen is good, and there are different kinds of cigarette pieces for Victory brand cigarettes, and a major friendship activity between the French soldiers and the German soldiers at that time was to exchange cigarette pieces that they did not have with each other for collection. Half a century later, a good set of Shengli Revolution cigarette tablets is worth enough to buy a decent apartment in Los Angeles or Shanghai.

And Coca-Cola, which belongs to the Datang grain business giant, also completely opened up the situation in France and even Europe after this war. Datang Coca-Cola did not add addictive ****** to Coke (Coca-Cola added this thing during World War II), but the good taste of carbonated drinks is still a good thing to excite and delight the soldiers.

During this period, there was also a true incident that can be said to be a joke, a group of defeated French soldiers retreated in a hurry, and an adjutant said to the colonel, our munitions warehouse is still behind, and after hearing this, the French colonel and the soldiers exploded, killed back and recaptured the munitions warehouse, and then took out the iced Coca-Cola inside, and took a refreshing sip.

This joke was finally made into an advertisement by Coca-Cola, and the French were not ashamed but proud......

For the sake of cigarettes and Coca-Cola, the French army still launched a certain offensive against the Anglo-Dutch forces. The scale was not very large, but in fact the main role was to contain the enemy forces and put pressure on the British and Dutch.

The Anglo-Dutch forces dug a large line of trenches in the Dutch lowland plains, and the French made several attacks, none of which were particularly effective. Even the German commander Scharnhorst was amazed, thinking that the British had grown a lot, and this set of trench warfare style that had been handed down from the Tang Dynasty had been played well.

In the absence of armored forces and air strike capabilities, even with powerful artillery and sufficient automatic firepower, if you want to break through the well-defended trenches, you have to rely on human lives to fill them, and neither the French nor the Germans have this consciousness. Deauge knew that the Tang people had already ordered the biggest piece of cake after this war, and the French might also have it, but in order to solicit the help of the Tang Dynasty and Germany, the greatest benefit France could not get, and of course France did not have the energy to eat this cake, only the Tang people could eat it.

Under this negative attitude, Deauge was naturally unwilling to take advantage of the Tang people's anger.

Zhang Min also saw this situation clearly, so he transferred the regular troops of the Tang Army in Dunkirk, the Second Regiment of the Marine Corps.

The Datang Army has expanded to seven divisions and two independent brigades, and the size of the Marine Corps has naturally expanded to a certain extent, and the current Marine Corps has grown to two brigades of more than 9,000 troops. However, the combat units of the Marine Corps are still mainly regiments, and each regiment is stationed in a different area, so it is basically impossible for the Marine Corps to operate as a brigade unit. The Marine Corps' combat is basically based on landing operations, coastal defense, and special operations, which is still very different from the combat mode of the Army Corps.

The 2nd Marine Regiment is a mechanized amphibious unit, and its establishment is smaller than that of the army at the regimental level, with only a little more than 1,000 personnel. Two squads of twelve men formed a platoon with two amphibious combat vehicles. Three platoons formed a company, three companies formed a mechanized infantry combat vehicle battalion, and the 2nd Marine Regiment had a total of 3 mechanized infantry battalions and 1 armored battalion, with a total of 72 amphibious combat vehicles and 36 tanks. The mechanization of the 2nd Marine Regiment alone is enough to put many other countries into the 21st century to shame. In Europe at this time, it was like a golden finger.

When Deogre watched the infantry chariots and tanks in his barracks drive in, the sweat on his face flowed down. He had heard of the chariot troops of the Tang Army, but when he really saw it with his own eyes, he still had to be frightened by this terrible torrent of steel and his legs trembled. Deauge was convinced that neither the French nor the British had weapons that could easily penetrate these tin monsters, and that they could cross the trenches directly against the bullets of the Anglo-Dutch army. (To be continued.) )