On the fourth day of the conquest of Elbekul, Qin Zhiyuan received a telegram summoned by Foch.

After receiving the telegram, Qin Zhiyuan and Pierre traveled to Amiens to listen to Foch's teachings.

Road conditions from Kapi to Amiens have not improved at all, with craters and muddy roads, slow-moving convoys, and exhausted crowds.

It's winter, and the temperature has dropped a lot in recent days, and the sky is faintly snowflakes, which adds a bit of gloom.

In the direction of Kapi, most of them were newly formed troops, and here there were mostly British. The British were constantly expanding the size of their expeditionary force, and almost every week, one or more new divisions were sailing from the British mainland to France. Most of the people who went in the direction of Amiens were the wounded or civilians. Armania was not their destination, and they had to continue south until Paris or Orleans to find a temporary refuge.

Since the beginning of winter, all fronts have been at a stalemate. The offensive launched by Qin Zhiyuan was a rare victory on the Western Front in the past month. It is precisely because of this that Qin Zhiyuan is so eye-catching.

The day after Qin Zhiyuan captured Elbekur, Petain agreed with Nivelle to launch an attack on German positions on the east bank of the Merz River. Drawing on Qin Zhiyuan's experience, Nivelle played a trick by mobilizing 650 heavy artillery pieces to bombard the fortress of Duvomont, and after firing 15,000 tons of shells, the French stopped the bombardment. The Germans thought the French would attack, but the French did not, and several thousand soldiers cheered together according to the pre-arrangement. Feeling mocked, the Germans bombarded the French positions with artillery that had been camouflaged. In the counterfire, 68 of the 158 German heavy artillery crews were destroyed, and the rest were inaccurate due to overuse.

With their razor-sharp artillery, the French recaptured all of the east bank of the Merz River in a single day, and Nivelle became France's new hero overnight.

With his flexible use of artillery, Qin Zhiyuan captured Elbekul and won the opportunity to upgrade the 6th Regiment to the 1st Brigade. Nivelle also became a hero of France by virtue of his flexible use of artillery and captured the east bank of the Merz River.

This is the difference between a godson and a pro-son.

On the way to Amiens, Pierre and Qin Zhiyuan were talking about Nivelle.

"Nivile isn't a hero at all, he's supposed to be a butcher! It is because of the stupidity of Nivelle and Falkingham that Verdun becomes a meat grinder. Pierre lamented the 150,000 French soldiers who died at Verdun.

Because of Pierre's accompaniment, Mischa and Gao Hongshi did not follow Qin Zhiyuan, and there were only Qin Zhiyuan, Pierre and the driver Gary Buel in the car.

"It doesn't matter if he's a hero or a butcher, he's a victor, that's the key." Qin Zhiyuan broke the sky.

The Germans also suffered no small losses at Verdun, about 140,000 killed. Compared with the Anglo-French forces, which were constantly reinforcing the Germans, the Germans suffered even more losses. For this reason, Falkingham was relegated to Romania, and Ludendorff took office. After Ludendorff took office, the defensive arrangements on the Western Front were adjusted, and the position on the east bank of the Merz River was not so much captured by Niveler as it was abandoned by Ludendorff on his own initiative.

As the war dragged on for two years, and Germany's manpower was running dry, Ludendorff was trying to use a more flexible way of fighting to avoid fighting for his life with the British and French forces. The Germans could not afford to fight, they did not have a huge colony with almost unlimited human resources.

The Germans started the war because of the British and French colonies, and now, the Germans are also because these colonies are on the verge of defeat.

"Qin, I just found out that you are an egoist." Pierre's expression was serious.

"It doesn't matter what I am, you know that now we just need to fight side by side. History books have always been written by the victors, and if the victors of the war were French, the French could portray Wilhelm (the German Kaiser) as a madman. And if the Germans win, George (British Prime Minister) and Raymond (French President) will turn into clowns. Qin Zhiyuan flipped through the documents in his hand and replied casually.

Kaiser Wilhelm II, who was born with a breech birth, suffered from Elb's palsy, which led to atrophy of his left arm. Because of his physical defects, Wilhelm II's personality became ambitious and impulsive and reckless.

Qin Zhiyuan did not have the slightest good impression of Wilhelm II, and the first wave of the "Yellow Disaster Theory" in the West was initiated by Kaiser Wilhelm II. On June 19, 1900, the German minister Klinder was killed in the Qing Empire, and Wilhelm II was determined to take revenge on China, so he sent an expeditionary force of more than 20,000 people to China. Before the departure of this unit, William gave a speech to them, encouraging the German troops involved in the battle to follow the Huns' example in dealing with the Qing Empire.

"Oh......" Hearing Qin Zhiyuan's words, Pierre responded meaningfully: "It turns out that your country's 5,000-year history came from like this!" ”

The greatness of Chinese civilization lies in the fact that the written records have never been interrupted, and all historical facts are well documented, so it is very confident to say "since ancient times". Compared with China, Europeans are much worse in this regard, needless to say, even in the Middle Ages, Europe is a confused book, and they themselves do not know the history of their own country.

"You may not understand what I said, in our country, all the dynasties before the Qing Empire had a position called 'Historian', and this official position was born specifically to record history." Qin Zhiyuan didn't mind doing popular science, and closed the document and said.

"How to record? According to the meaning of the winners? Pierre's tone was a little mocking.

"It depends on who the winner is. About 2,000 years ago, there was a country called Qi in that land in the Far East, and the emperor of this country was a minister before, and he later murdered the emperor and then sat in the position of emperor, and the historians at that time recorded this incident truthfully. The emperor did not want to leave a bad name, so he killed the historian. The historian's younger brother continued to record the truth, and then the historian's younger brother was also killed. Qin Zhiyuan is talking about "Cui Zhu killed Zhuang Gong".

"It's hateful, and then?" Pierre expressed his admiration for the integrity of the historian.

"Righteous people are never intimidated! The other younger brother of the historian continued to record truthfully, and the emperor finally conceded defeat. Just after the emperor conceded defeat, a friend of the historian hurried in. The emperor asked him what he was doing here. The historian's friend said, 'I'm afraid that no one will dare to record it truthfully, I am here to beg for death.' After Qin Zhiyuan finished speaking, he looked at Pierre meaningfully and smiled.

"This ...... It's admirable. Pierre was fascinated.

"Yes, admirable, indeed. In this story, the victors are not the emperors, but the historians who are not afraid of death, and they are the victors. "Qin Zhiyuan is very proud, this is the ancestor of the Chinese nation, Qin Zhiyuan has reason to be proud.

The historian system was still observed in the Ming Dynasty, so there will be absurd deeds of the Ming Dynasty emperors handed down, although there are exaggerated and slandered by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but they are also recorded by the Ming Dynasty historians.

Unfortunately, in the Qing Dynasty, the most shameless scene in Chinese history appeared, when the Manchu rulers destroyed and tampered with various history books on a large scale, and the attitude of the Chinese to write history honestly also disappeared.

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