Chapter 149: Ambition in 1917
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Just when the news against Qin Zhiyuan himself and Catholicism was overwhelming.
An accident happened suddenly.
After the 1st Brigade was moved to Paris, the soldiers lived in Renault's factory because the camp had not yet been built. This was agreed by the old Renault, and it was not a big deal originally, but since Marcus entered the Renault factory to be in charge of tank research and development, contradictions gradually grew.
Marcus is a person from Nivelle, and he naturally hates Qin Zhiyuan, and even hates the First Brigade.
When Marcus first found out that the men of the 1st Brigade were living in the factory, he asked the elder Renault to drive the 1st Brigade out of the factory. The reason is simple, the Renault factory, as a factory that supplies weapons and equipment to the French army, is not suitable for too many idle people, etc., therefore, it is not appropriate for the 1st Brigade to live in the Renault factory.
Renault Sr. refused Marcas' request.
Don't look at the old Renault's lack of temper in front of Qin Zhiyuan, that's because Qin Zhiyuan can provide almost unlimited human resources for the old Renault, and the old Renault can get benefits from Qin Zhiyuan. When facing Marcas, the old Renault suddenly restored the authority of the head of the Renault family, a top French giant, and the old Renault really didn't pay attention to the colonel Macas.
Not to mention that Marcus's weight is insufficient, Marcus's reason is also untenable. Almost half of the workers in the Renault factory are now Chinese, and if the secret was to be leaked, it would have been leaked a long time ago, so can it wait until now?
Marcas knew that he didn't have enough weight in front of the old Renault and didn't dare to be too presumptuous with the old Renault, so he instructed his men to start finding fault and prepare to use the excuse to drive the soldiers of the 1st Brigade out of the Renault factory.
The Chinese of the First Brigade are no longer the Chinese who were only willing to make promises when they first arrived in France. When faced with the French, the Chinese dared to stand up and dare to confront them head-on.
So, during Christmas, because the two soldiers of the cooking squad of the 1st Brigade returned too late from a shopping trip, they were stopped by Marcas's men when they entered the factory, and asked for the commander of the 1st Brigade to come forward as a guarantee. The two soldiers will be released.
There is a precedent for this kind of thing, Chen Kangjian, who lives in the factory, did not talk nonsense, and led the guards to go over three times and divide five by two to put people down on the ground, and then picked up the two soldiers, and took over the defense of the Renault factory by the way.
It doesn't matter if you fight, it doesn't matter if you rob people, but taking over the defense of the Renault factory is a big stab.
Renault is a military powerhouse, no matter what the circumstances. It should not be allowed for a foreign force to take over the military defense, even if it is within the French battle sequence.
So Lucas reported the case and took the complaint directly to Niveler. Nivelle already understood that Qin Zhiyuan was not easy to mess with and did not want to deal with Qin Zhiyuan, so he submitted the case directly to President Raymond Poincaré.
Poincaré has been annoyed lately.
In another three or four months, when the spring flowers were in full bloom, Britain and France were ready to launch a spring offensive. According to Raymond Poincaré and Lloyd Georges, Britain and France need to give it their all. In one battle, he ended the Second German Reich in one fell swoop and won the war.
The truth is always harder than expected.
As soon as the spring offensive was decided, serious differences arose between Britain and France when the plan was being formulated.
In mid-1916, there were two major battles on the Western Front, one of which was the Battle of Verdun, which was dominated by the French. One was the Battle of the Somme, which was dominated by the British. Both battles were huge and protracted, and the British and French paid great sacrifices for them, but they achieved little success. And thus raised a series of follow-up questions, and the dominance of the spring offensive was one.
Back in November last year. When the offensive on both sides basically stopped, the main Allied powers, Britain, France, and Russia, reached a consensus that they would launch a simultaneous offensive in May 1917, and that the Italians would cross the Alps to join the war.
At that time, Nivelle was the hero of the Battle of Verdun, and Nivelle proposed the plan of the Sherman Daedham attack, but unfortunately Nivelle was not the decision-maker, and his plan did not attract attention.
From November to December, the focus of the dispute was on the direction of the attack of the British troops. The British commander-in-chief, Haig, wanted to launch an attack in Flanders, with the goal of capturing the Belgian seaport, which was amazingly obstinate to the British. The commander-in-chief of the French army at the time, Chauffeur, asked the British to move south, close to or just in the Somme region. Xia Fei relied on the superiority of the French army, so that his opinion won again.
Just in December, the situation changed dramatically.
Lloyd George became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and Robert Niveller replaced Chauffeur as Commander-in-Chief of the French Army.
The sudden loss of the battle plan, which had been finalized before December, was the greatest mockery of the work of the British and the French over the past two months.
So, just before Christmas, Nivelle and Haig met again.
Nivile brought up the matter again and demanded an all-out attack on Shermandham. Haig was stubborn and demanded an offensive from Flanders.
Britain and France are once again in a state of bargaining, leaving Raymond Poincaré at a loss.
At this point, as if it weren't enough, the Italian commander-in-chief, Luigi Cardona, suggested that Italy should now attack to destroy the remaining Austro-Hungarian forces and force Vienna out of the war. This plan won the approval of the new British Prime Minister, Lloyd George, but it aroused opposition from the Chief of the British General Staff, General Robertson, and the displeasure of Haig and Niveller.
Raymond Poincaré had to coordinate the offensive of the British and French armies, to appease Prime Minister Briand, and to suppress the domestic opposition and try to maintain an increasingly difficult situation.
On Christmas Day, Raymond Poincaré received another report from Nivelle that the 1st Brigade of the Foreign Legion had seized the Renault factory.
To tell the truth, Raymond Poincaré now has the urge to leave the seal and throw this mess to whoever he loves, as long as it's not Raymond himself. To do this, Raymond spent an entire morning sandbags in his office.
While venting, Raymond Poincaré imagined the sandbag in front of him as Kaiser Wilhelm II, the recently deceased Franz Joseph I, Ludendorff and Falkingham, and even Lloyd George and Haig.
After all, this kind of thing can only be thought of, after Raymond Poencaré has vented, he still has to deal with government affairs calmly, and the top priority is to solve the problem of the Renault factory.
After calling Louis Renault, Raymond Poincaré determined the safety of the Renault factory and then ordered Qin Zhiyuan to "enter the palace for an audience".
After Qin Zhiyuan received the call, he immediately drove to the Elysee Palace.
Raymond is now at the Elysee Palace, and tonight, Raymond will preside over a celebration at the Elysee Palace and entertain a group of bigwigs.
Ps. chasing more children's shoes, are there any free appreciation tickets and starting coins~ The countdown to the 515 red envelope list is over, I'll pull a ticket, ask for an increase and appreciation vote, and finally rush a handful! (To be continued.) )