Chapter 227: Quelling the Turmoil
From the next day, Foch went to the front-line troops to inspect and reassure the troops.
At this time, the French soldiers, after the initial madness of the mutiny, were already in a state of panic.
Many soldiers, including French soldiers, killed their own commanders with their own hands during the mutiny, and some even went beyond the barracks to loot villages near their garrisons, killing local residents and magistrates, and committing atrocities against women.
The mutiny of the Foreign Legion was not stopped in the first place, and eventually led to similar tragedies that affected almost half of the French army.
In the midst of these mutinous troops, a large number of soldiers began to flee, and they and those who were mobilizing were crowded around Paris, and the situation was already at a very dangerous level, and at the slightest shout from the heights of the army, France would collapse immediately.
But in the midst of the crisis, some officers managed to keep their troops in order, and the generals, led by Alfred Michel, did everything they could to maintain the front so that the Germans would not have a chance.
The Germans had their own problems, and in April, the shortage of goods in Germany became even more severe, and the flour ration for everyone was further reduced, and almost all the workers began to go on strike, demanding higher wages and better food.
Germany is still an imperial country, but there are already political parties in the country, and unlike Britain and France, German political parties do not have a say in policymaking, but they are working hard to get a voice. In March, the parliament set up a special committee to study the issue of constitutional reform in Germany. In April, German socialists responded to the call of the Russian Bolsheviks for peace without annexation and reparations.
If it had not been annexed, Germany would have been forced to surrender Alsace and Lorraine, which it had already occupied, as well as the Scorching region of Belgium. This has exceeded the bottom line of Hindenburg and Ludendorff, and has attracted strong opposition from the military.
The opposition between the generals, led by Hindenburg and Ludendorff, and Chancellor Batemann Holweg was irreconcilable. Because the chancellor was in favor of peace talks, Batemann Holwig was already a radical in the guise of a bureaucrat in the eyes of Hindenburg and Ludendorff, and Hindenburg and Ludendorff had to get rid of Batemann Holweg.
And because of Kaiser Wilhelm II's trust in Batemann, Kaiser Wilhelm II was also despised by conservatives led by Hindenburg and Ludendorff, and gradually became a marginal figure that no one paid attention to.
For a combination of complex reasons, the Germans did not launch an attack in time, otherwise the Germans would have directly captured Paris.
After Qin Zhiyuan accompanied Nivelle to take over the Guards Regiment, he rushed to Feron Tadnoy.
Even if Qin Zhiyuan was to fight for Foch, he would also arrange the defense of the First Division. The vanguard of the 1st Division had already arrived at the forward line of the French army, ready to take over the local defense.
Feron Tadnoy, the intended defense area of the 1st Division, and the place where the Afrika Korps of the Foreign Legion was stationed, was the starting point of this mutiny.
Perhaps knowing that it would not be spared, the 4th Regiment turned its guns and blocked the road to Feron Tadenoy, in the vain hope of forcing the French military headquarters to compromise and let them return to Morocco in such an extreme way.
If it was for Foch or Petain, I might have talked to them, but it was the First Division of the Foreign Legion, and it was the most ruthless Greeve who led the team, and the requirements of the Fourth Regiment were destined to be a flash in the pan.
For the sake of the same Foreign Legion, Griff still sent a Frenchman over to ask the Fourth Regiment to remove the barricades, but he did not expect that the Frenchman with the white flag had just approached the 100-meter range of the barricades set up by the Fourth Regiment when he was shot down.
Well, this saves you the effort of grinding your tongue.
Griff immediately ordered the armored forces to attack.
When they set out from Paris, Greif's troops and Liu Zizheng's troops were supplied with 20 tanks, and Chen Kangjian's tank regiment had also been expanded to 180 tanks, which was the sweetness that Leothai asked Qin Zhiyuan to send troops, and Qin Zhiyuan smiled without hesitation.
What do Africans say, if the French are representatives of freedom and casualness, then Africans don't know what discipline is at all, the African troops in the Foreign Legion, let alone tanks, they don't even have a single artillery, they are standard infantry, the kind of infantry that only knows how to rush forward with a rifle.
Such people, if you ask them to charge, they may be able to complete it with a fierce force. But if you ask them to complete complex tasks, it is estimated that they will not understand the content of the task in more than ten words.
So when the tanks of the 1st Brigade began to attack, the soldiers of the 4th Regiment were dumbfounded, and they no longer had the ferocity they had just shot the French, but only filied a few symbolic shots and dispersed.
But where can they go, this is Africa, where people of color are as conspicuous as beacons in ports, especially blacks, who may close their eyes and shut their mouths in the dark as a good disguise, but in broad daylight there is nothing to hide.
So the original camp became the best choice, and this was the place that the soldiers of the Fourth Regiment were most familiar with.
Soon, the camp was besieged and flooded.
In all fairness, the camp of the 4th Regiment is not bad, and there are houses and school yards and everything. Just don't compare, if you compare the camp in front of you with the camp of the chasers, the difference can be seen immediately.
In the camp of the chasers, there are not only houses and school fields, but also many ancillary facilities, such as churches, activity rooms, reading rooms, etc., and the facilities are complete, all of which have been simply renovated to meet the basic needs of the soldiers. The camp was much worse, there were no outfits, and many of the houses where the soldiers lived were only tents, and perhaps because of the loose nature of the soldiers of the Fourth Regiment, the sanitary conditions around the camp were really poor, there was manure everywhere, and the wooden fence around the camp was damaged, and it seemed that it had been in a state of anarchy since the day of the mutiny.
There were also several crosses in front of the camp gates, and several bodies with their heads cut off hung on them, which may have been deliberately hung by the soldiers of the Fourth Regiment in order to establish their prestige or to show their intransigence, but now it seems that they have become ironclad evidence of the atrocities of the soldiers of the Fourth Regiment.
When the camp was besieged, the soldiers of the 4th Regiment finally felt the fear, and they also tried to communicate with Cliff's men and sent a white woman out.
The white woman who hid in the camp was self-evident.
(To be continued.) )