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Strictly speaking, the Foreign Legion does not have a staff department, not to mention that Qin Zhiyuan's Sixth Regiment is only a regiment under the Foreign Legion, let alone its own staff department.

But as the protagonist, Qin Zhiyuan is obviously special.

Qin Zhiyuan's Sixth Regiment was a special product from the moment it was born, so Qin Zhiyuan did not position the troops at the regimental level at all, even if it was not appropriate to express it as a division, Qin Zhiyuan was building according to the standards of a regiment.

A corps of which must have infantry, artillery, and cavalry, which is about to be eliminated by history. Qin Zhiyuan's Sixth Regiment now had infantry and artillery, but no cavalry, and Qin Zhiyuan was ready to set up an armored corps at the right time to replace the cavalry.

The tanks of the French are still in the laboratory, and Qin Zhiyuan wants to establish an armored corps It takes a long time, and in the process of waiting, Qin Zhiyuan wants to enrich other institutions first, such as the General Staff.

The General Staff originated from the Quartermaster General's Department in Sweden, which was the original prototype of the General Staff. At that time, the main responsibilities of the Quartermaster General Department were to undertake the tasks of engineering service, the selection of marching roads and camps, and the construction of positions. Later, the Quartermaster General's Department added the tasks of issuing orders, giving directions to marching troops, drafting reports and documents for generals, and planning and leading the reserve forces.

By the beginning of the 20th century, the General Staff had become the dominant body of the country's military forces, and each country had a similar body, which played a role in the national military system even more than that of the military commander.

What Qin Zhiyuan wanted to establish was a staff department that could undertake the above tasks.

It is not easy to set up a staff department, and for Qin Zhiyuan, the biggest difficulty lies in the lack of officers with actual combat experience.

According to the information provided by Lu Zhengxiang, the foreign minister of the Beiyang government, the Beiyang government will send a group of military officers to France. The significance of this group of officers may be to observe the world war for a long time, and it is more likely that they will join the Sixth Regiment to overhead Qin Zhiyuan.

Qin Zhiyuan didn't care what their mission was, he had already arranged a position for this group of officers, which was the newly established General Staff. And this staff will be headed by Foch's son Pierre.

Pierre's qualifications may not be able to suppress those upcoming soldiers of the Republic of China, but with the identity of Foch's son, it is enough to suppress those native buns from the Far East.

Of course, in Qin Zhiyuan's eyes, even if Pierre is Foch's son, he is an out-and-out bun. Even Foch himself, Qin Zhiyuan has enough capital to look down on him psychologically.

Qin Zhiyuan has nearly a hundred years of experience more than everyone in this era, and it is a nearly hundred years of knowledge explosion and rapid social development. In the next 100 years, human society has advanced more than the previous 5,000 years combined.

The people of this era, including the most elite group, also had feudal superstitions. For example, the incoming British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, who is best at cranioscopy. What is "cranioscopy"? To put it simply, it is to determine the luck and personality of a person based on the shape of the person's head.

This kind of view is also found in the East, such as "the back of the head is born against the bones".

Qin Zhiyuan can be sure that his head is round, as for whether there is a backbone, I'm sorry, Qin Zhiyuan can't see the back of his head!

Entering October, the world war entered a stalemate.

The Battle of the Somme was completely halted by the offensive of the British and French armies due to continuous rainy weather. At Verdun, the Germans were weak in attack, and the French were planning a counteroffensive, but preparations for the counteroffensive were not yet ready.

Outside of France, the Romanians joined the Entente in August, which looked like an Entente victory because the Entente had an additional 500,000 troops on paper. The Romanians soon proved to be as much of a burden within the Entente as Austria-Hungary was to Germany.

The Greek army also went to war, but they were even more unbearable than the Romanians, and even one legion, without firing a shot, all surrendered to Mackensen, and they were to take the train to the island of Silesia, where there was a makeshift barracks, where they would survive the war safely.

The Italians launched the 7th and 8th battles of Isonzo, which did nothing but add a few casualties.

The Tsar sent his Royal Guard to attack the Kovelli area, and the Royal Guard launched 17 successive attacks, each of which ended with the massacre of the Russians, and by the time the attack was halted, the most elite Russian troops suffered 55,000 casualties.

The Germans seemed to be winning on the battlefield, but in reality the domestic contradictions were irreconcilable, the price of food in Berlin had risen sixfold compared to before the war, the Germans had only three pounds of potatoes and one egg a week on the table, and the people became more and more dependent on a vegetable called "kale".

In Austria, during the harsh winters, a family is only allowed to have a stove in one room. In Vienna, people used dogs to pull carts, and later the dogs were eaten up, but no dog lovers stood up to protest......

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Just when the whole of Europe was in mourning and heading for collapse, Qin Zhiyuan's strength in his hands was growing steadily.

The day after meeting Luis Reynaud, a team of 4,000 Chinese workers set out from Amiens to Boulogne-Billancourt, where Renault was located. These people will join Renault and have three months to prove whether they can industrialize production.

At the same time, a convoy was sent to Kapi with enough weapons to carry enough to equip 3,000 men, including 120 Lewis light machine guns and 30 75mm guns.

This is the weapon that Qin Zhiyuan purchased from Louis Renault, and the payment for the goods was offset by the salary of the Chinese laborers. Qin Zhiyuan and Louis Renault have agreed that the salary of the Chinese workers will be paid by Renault to Qin Zhiyuan, and then Qin Zhiyuan will pay the Chinese workers. One more hand, although there will not be one more shengding, can enhance Qin Zhiyuan's prestige among Chinese workers.

Pierre submitted an application for transfer, which was quickly approved, and he went to Kapi with Qin Zhiyuan, whose work had come to an end, to serve as the operational staff officer of the Sixth Regiment.

"Qin, I've helped you so much, what benefit do you give me?" In the car, Pierre insisted on harassing Qin Zhiyuan.

"You're a colonel, isn't it enough for me to equip you with a bus?" In order to buy Pierre, Qin Zhiyuan bought a Renault car at his own expense and allocated it to Pierre for his use.

To do this, Pierre hired a chauffeur, plus his attendants, to sit in another car with Gao Hongshi.

That's right, even when Pierre went to the front, he brought his servants with him, just like a former British Admiralty, who not only brought servants and miscellaneous servants with him when he went to the front, but his luggage was piled up like a hill.

Fortunately, Pierre did not have these problems, at least Pierre had very little luggage, only two large suitcases, which was the reason why Julie repeatedly streamlined it. By the way, Julie, due to work reasons, could not go to Kapi and continued to stay at Renault to coordinate tank research work.

From Amiens to Kapi, it is only a few dozen kilometers away, and if the road is clear, it can be reached in an hour. The problem now is that it is not smooth, the road is full of craters, almost all the trees are broken at the waist, and many villages along the road have been destroyed by the war, and it is a mess, as one French pilot put it, "the earth is like a toad skin spread out".