The so-called "famous generals" are not the kind of "one trick is eaten all over the world".

Only those who know how to formulate different countermeasures according to different battlefield forms and can always achieve tactical objectives no matter what, are qualified to be called "famous generals."

To put it simply, it's improvisation.

It may not sound difficult, but only when you actually implement it will know how many difficulties will await you.

The eyes are high, the heart is higher than the sky, and the fate is thinner than the paper, and the paper is finally shallow, and I have to bow down to it......

There are many similar statements.

Even if Hurtier is not a "famous general" now, he also has the potential to become a famous general.

Night battles have always been a big problem. Although there are many advantages, such as: the suddenness of the battle, the reduction of the enemy's weapon advantage, the side that is more familiar with the terrain, etc., but there are not many people who take the initiative to choose night battles, and if they want to fight at night, more often than not, it is a forced choice.

Huthir was also forced to be helpless.

The Foreign Legion had too many tanks, but the Germans did not have the weapons to compete with them, and the Hurtier had to do everything he could to reduce the advantage of the Foreign Legion in order to hold the position near Reims.

In order to give the night battle an advantage, Hurtier sent all the "Storm Forces" in his hands to infiltrate the positions of the Foreign Legion, which in turn induced a fierce battle between the "Storm Force" and the Foreign Legion scouts, although the scale was not as large as the frontal battlefield, but the intensity was more than that.

In order to regain the lost positions, the Germans were not afraid of death, and almost stepped on the bombing points of artillery shells to attack the positions of the Foreign Legion, wave after wave almost never stopped.

The Foreign Legion was defeated again.

The Germans used not only high-explosive shells, but also poison gas shells, and mustard gas.

Gas bombs have come a long way since they were first used in 1915 in the Second Battle of Ypres, starting with the earliest chlorine gas and rapidly evolving to mustard gas.

Mustard gas is an erosive poison, which invades the body through the skin or respiratory tract, directly damages tissue cells, and has erosive and stimulating effects on the skin and mucous membranes, which can lead to skin burns, redness, swelling, blisters, and ulcers; inflammation and necrosis of the mucous membranes of the respiratory tract, violent coughing and thick phlegm, and even obstruction of breathing; Conjunctivitis of the eye, which can lead to redness, swelling and even blindness, among other things.

Crucially, there are few specific drugs that can be used to treat mustard gas, and victims will suffer for the rest of their lives.

Although the mustard gas is called the "king of poison gas", there is still a way to defend against it, and the Foreign Legion does not suffer major casualties as a result, and the greater difficulty comes from flares.

Before the battle, Qin Zhiyuan prepared a batch of flares, but the number was not large enough to support the entire night battle, so after 4 hours of night fighting, Qin Zhiyuan ordered the troops to withdraw from the battlefield.

On this day's fighting, more than 3,000 of the Foreign Legion were wounded and more than 1,000 killed, and the French suffered even more casualties.

In contrast, the Germans suffered nearly 20,000 casualties.

The only good news for Hurtier was that he had once again driven out the Foreign Legion that had occupied the position, regaining confidence in the troops.

The 18th Army led by Huttier has suffered nearly 70,000 casualties so far, and Huttier was forced to replace 11 divisions with heavy casualties, two of which were directly canceled, which was almost the treatment of the entire army.

Despite the heavy casualties, Huttier was not reprimanded by the German General Staff. It was probably because Ludendorff read the battle report and found that there was no way to deal with Qin Zhiyuan if he replaced Hutil with himself, so he couldn't bear to be harsh.

Hurtier has done enough well.

Qin Zhiyuan, who had done better, was reprimanded by the War Department, and Leothai was simply crazy, and he could send three telegrams in just one morning to inquire about Qin Zhiyuan's progress at that time.

This made Qin Zhiyuan quite impatient, so Qin Zhiyuan rarely complained to Maxim.

"Urge, urge...... All day long know to urge! These old men in Paris are going crazy, and they don't want to think about it, if I can drive the Germans out of Reims in one fell swoop, will I deliberately delay it? I also want to go back to the castle in Paris and sleep in the castle, and the soldiers want to take a vacation, but if we can't gain superiority in numbers, what can we do to drive the Germans out of Reims? The Germans are not pigs......" Qin Zhiyuan was full of complaints, like a veteran who was about to reach a critical point.

In fact, Qin Zhiyuan's meaning is very simple, what he wants to say is: You can do it, you can do it!

"That's it, Master Qin, you're so right!" can be so shameless in slapping sycophants, that is, Chen Kangjian.

"My troops have suffered heavy casualties, and I need to be replenished." Liu Zizheng was also complaining that it was his troops who were in a defensive position last night, and it was really unacceptable for Liu Zizheng to lose thousands of troops in one night.

Most of the thousands of casualties of the Foreign Legion were Annamite who had little experience in dealing with poison gas bombs, and although the Chinese fought on the front line, they did not suffer many poison gas attacks because they might come into direct contact with the Germans.

Of course, this is not much and is only relative.

Another group of recruits in Corsica have completed their training and are on their way to be sent, Chen Kangjian, Liu Zizheng, Ge Lifu, and even Zheng Dali, although they don't say it, they are actually thinking about how much they can get.

How many soldiers there are in their hands is directly related to their right to speak and status within the system, and Liu Zizheng and them cannot argue.

Even if Liu Zizheng was so afraid that they didn't want to fight for face, their subordinates didn't agree, and the "yellow robe" is this reason.

Everyone wants their status to rise.

Maxim and Bastian were relatively speechless, they could understand Qin Zhiyuan's unhappiness, it was the same for anyone, there were always a few days of discomfort every month. In fact, in the eyes of Maxim and Bastian, Qin Zhiyuan has done well enough, and it is impossible for anyone to come over to fight like this.

At the beginning of the war, the 17th Army led by Qin Zhiyuan was less numerically than the 18th Army led by Hu Tier.

After only half a month of fighting, the manpower gap between the two warring sides has been forcibly reversed by Qin Zhiyuan.

Although Maxim and Bastian did not know the specific casualty figures of the Germans, it was certain that the casualties of the German Eighteenth Army were definitely much larger than those of the 17th Army led by Qin Zhiyuan.

Wu Yuanting and Ruan Juncai's eyes when they looked at Qin Zhiyuan were simply full of admiration, and there were not many generals who dared to complain so openly about the top bosses of the War Department, even within the French army.

There are really not many, the French army is currently "cracking down", and those who dare to complain openly have been sent to military courts held in secret.

The Japanese represented by Genjiro Akashi looked at Qin Zhiyuan with inquiring eyes, and "Erro" they no longer thought that Qin Zhiyuan was Chinese, and they regarded Qin Zhiyuan as a "famous general" of the Entente like Foch and Haig.

In fact, whether the "two boys" admit it or not, after this war, Qin Zhiyuan is a well-known general, and his reputation in some fields will even surpass Foch and Haig.

After all, at this time in Flanders, General Plummer of the British Second Army used Qin Zhiyuan's tactics to make inexplicable progress that excited the whole of Britain.

It's almost a sign that one's tactics have been studied and imitated.

Become a sign of "famous general".

Pierre and Micha looked at the grumbling Qin Zhiyuan and rolled their eyes, these two know Qin Zhiyuan best, what does Qin Zhiyuan want to do, the two of them can guess eight or nine.

Of course, Pierre and Mischa will not demolish Qin Zhiyuan, these two have already boarded Qin Zhiyuan's "thief ship", and they belong to the kind that has no turning back.

This temper was still useful, although it seemed unrelated, but Leotai no longer sent a telegram urging Qin Zhiyuan, but changed it to ask for warmth and sent a batch of moon cakes from the Republic of China.

This simply made Qin Zhiyuan cry and laugh, it is indeed August now, but it is only July in the Chinese lunar calendar, what kind of moon cakes to send, it is really the donkey's head is not the horse's mouth.

In fact, the French attach great importance to the folk customs of the Chinese, unlike the British, the French usually give a few days off on major Chinese festivals, and will also give out some benefits, these moon cakes are ready to be distributed to the Chinese after a month, considering that most of the Chinese are northerners, there are more five-kernel fillings.

There were also enough flares that were sent along with the mooncakes, as well as a large number of poison gas bombs.

Because Germany was always at a human disadvantage in the process of confrontation with the Allied countries, the Germans studied poison gas earlier in the war, and they also had a greater advantage over the Entente in terms of poison gas. For example, now, although Germany has used mustard gas on the battlefield, the poison gas bombs sent by Paris to Qin Zhiyuan are still chlorine gas.

Chlorine is chlorine, it's better than nothing.

In fact, mustard gas also has a fatal weakness, that is, the incubation period of mustard gas. If a person is poisoned, the incubation period can be as little as a few hours or as long as a day, and it will not immediately lose its combat effectiveness.

There are so many things that can happen in a few hours on a rapidly changing battlefield, and perhaps the entire battle is over, so mustard gas without mixing with Lewis gas can hardly be called the "king of poison gas".

In late August, the fighting resumed, and this time Qin Zhiyuan showed his determination to break the ship, ordering bomber units to enter the field on the first day of the bombing and bombing the railway line from Reims to Arlon, which was the main route for the Germans to get supplies.

In the face of the menacing Foreign Legion, Hu Tier did not carry it hard, and in accordance with the practice of "elastic defense", he withdrew the front-line troops to the rear position, preparing for a decisive battle with Qin Zhiyuan after dark.

Unbeknownst to him, because Qin Zhiyuan had obtained a large number of flares, his troops had lost their only advantage - familiarity with the terrain.

True, albeit on French soil, the Germans have been occupying it for three years, and they are indeed more familiar with the terrain.

That advantage alone was no longer enough to change the tide of the battle, and the end that awaited Hurtier would be tragic.

You can make an assertion now.

(To be continued.) )