"To tell you the truth, the President said that we in France have successfully developed a 15-ton tank, which uses the most advanced automatic ammunition feeding technology at present, and can provide continuous and fierce artillery support for the infantry, and its performance is very good. Fighting ground armored warfare on a fair footing, our tank may not be an opponent of a tank of your class, but fortunately, our potential adversary is not yours. ”

Schumann's intention is easier to understand, France spent three years, invested a lot of manpower and material resources to develop the AMX-13 light tank, and regardless of the actual battlefield results, at least its performance on paper is very good, the production of this domestic tank is conducive to improving the prestige of the French government and the self-confidence of the people, for this layer of political factors, even if the light tanks provided by Germany are good, the French team will insist on choosing their own products.

As the contact deepened, Lynn became more and more aware of the psychology of the French, and he realized that German military products were unlikely to be purchased in large quantities for the French team, and the ME323 was perhaps a very special exception. Since the idea of exchanging military trade for the vast resources that France had acquired from its colonies was difficult to see, it would be useful to change the point of entry. In any case, the defeat of France in the Indochinese countries (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos) was inevitable, and until the United States intervened directly, Germany could have achieved the goal in its own interests through military cooperation with France - the reconstruction of the invisible army and military expansion!

"Your Excellency the Prime Minister may have misunderstood what you mean, that there is no-for-tat competition between Germany's 15-ton class and France's 15-ton class, and the significance of their emergence lies in the fact that both of our countries are pursuing a rapid mobile combat model that goes beyond the traditional one." Lynn said calmly, "There is reason to believe that France's new tanks will play an important role in specific battlefields, and there is also reason to believe that Germany's theory of armored airborne battalions will once again lead the trend of military development." ”

Schumann thought for a moment: "I'm more or less in line with your train of thought, what you mean by that is...... Large transport aircraft and 15-ton tanks are at the heart of the technology for building a rapidly mobile combat force, and France is on the way, as is Germany. Now that we have a common starting point, we can write on many more fronts. ”

Lynn smiled and nodded: "Although our research directions are not completely consistent, at the actual combat level, our designs can still form a certain complementarity." As you just mentioned, the French 15-ton tank is characterized by heavy support fire, while our 15-ton tank values the versatility and balance of performance, and the armor combat is excellent. We work together to produce and share a large transport aircraft to produce tanks with their own characteristics. When necessary, they should cooperate with each other in order to bring into play the due strength of the new-type mobile units. ”

Schumann smiled slightly: "This is a good suggestion, we should work together to promote it." ”

France has more abundant resources and equipment, and Germany has ideal technicians and labor. Close cooperation between the two is ideal, and if the two sides are secondary, the speed of development of both sides will inevitably be affected. Lynn's side was particularly painful, and early in the morning, Chancellor Stocker specifically mentioned in his conversation that at present, the national treasury cannot come up with money to support the development and production of armaments, and if you want to do it, you must find a way to raise funds yourself. Fortunately, this is still a turbulent era, and in the Indochina Peninsula, the battle between the French colonial army and the local rebels has been fought intermittently for more than three years from the end of 1946 to the present. Between 1947 and 1949, France joined the Allied camp in the war against the Soviet Union. Millions of French troops rushed to the battlefield in Eastern Europe, and the garrison on the Indochinese Peninsula was only maintained at about 50,000, while the Vietnamese rebel army based in North Vietnam expanded to more than 100,000 people, and once captured the port cities of Thanh Hoa, Hue, Quy Nhon, and Tuy Hoa, controlling nearly 60 percent of Vietnam's land, and compressing the forces of the French troops and the South Vietnamese puppet government to the southeast and southern coastal areas. After the signing of the armistice between the Allies and the Soviet Union, the French team was reorganized. Some of the troops that had suffered heavy losses on the battlefield were dismantled, and because of the strong military strength of the Soviet Union, the total strength of the French troops remained at more than one million, and more than 1.5 million American and British troops were stationed in the eastern and northern parts of the country, and the defensive situation was not really alleviated until the establishment of the government of the GDR and the complete withdrawal of the Soviet Union from Germany, and the French government had the energy to invest in the Indochinese Peninsula. At the end of 1949, tens of thousands of French troops left for the colonies of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, and the Indochinese Peninsula was clouded. The beginning of the new year. In order to regain control of Vietnam's large and medium-sized cities and communication arteries, the French army and the Vietnamese puppet government army launched a new offensive, with 150,000 French troops alone, including the French 11th Airborne Brigade, which had recently arrived on the Indochinese front. …,

The initial formation of the French Airborne Forces dates back to the mid-30s, when the French military attaché in the former Soviet Union was invited to participate in a large-scale Soviet exercise near Moscow, during which Soviet paratroopers appeared for the first time in front of the world. Its superb technical and tactical level and powerful long-range assault capability left a very deep impression on the French military attaché. A few months later, a delegation of forensic studies traveled to the former Soviet Union to study and examine the formation and application of its paratrooper units. In addition to communicating with the command organs of the Soviet paratroopers and visiting the troops, the members of the French delegation also inspected a course drill for the paratroopers at Moscow's Tushino airport. At the end of the mission, the delegation drafted a study and proposed to the legal authorities the formation of a specialized French paratrooper unit. On November 6, 1935, a professional paratrooper school affiliated with the French Air Force and using the training model of the former Soviet paratroopers was established in Avignon, France. In order to establish a paratrooper airborne unit as soon as possible, the French Air Force has successively formed two paratrooper groups, named 601 and 602 paratrooper groups, each of which consists of one paratrooper company and one squadron of transport aircraft. On January 18, 1937, the selected paratrooper began formal training. World War II broke out shortly after the formation of the French paratrooper group. After a full-scale German offensive on the Western Front, the 601st Parachute Group of the French Air Force received an order to prepare for an airborne operation on the Dutch island of Valcheren. However, due to the shortage of transport aircraft at that time and the lack of confidence of the French highest military authorities in the airborne operation, the airborne operation was canceled at the last moment. In May ~ June 1940, because the Maginot Line collapsed without a fight before the German armored blitzkrieg, the situation of the war was developing in the direction of unfavorable to the allies, and no one cared about the two newly formed paratrooper groups, and the two paratrooper companies were also put into the battlefield as ordinary infantry units. On July 27, 1940, after the defeat of France, two companies of paratroopers fighting in North Africa also ceased fighting and were immediately dismissed. At this point, the initial efforts of the French Air Force to form airborne troops were short-lived, and soon came to an end. In the middle and late stages of World War II, France, with the support of the United States and Britain allies, once again formed airborne troops, which were mainly divided into two groups: one was large-scale, formed with the training and equipment support of the US military; One was smaller, mainly trained in British-style airborne assault. The larger unit, named the 1st Light Parachute Regiment, was formed in North Africa and modeled after the training model of the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division. A few months later, the regiment was transferred to the French 1st Army and took part in the bloody battle against the Germans in the Alsace Mountains during the Allied counteroffensive on the Western European continent. The smaller airborne forces, known as the Free French Airborne Forces, carried out many airborne tactical operations in France, the Netherlands, and other places with the Allied counter-offensive on the European continent. In this series of combat operations, the French airborne troops played a role in the heavy task of airborne behind enemy lines to assist the attack of the main frontal forces. After the war, the two airborne forces were merged and reorganized into the armed forces of the 4th French Republic.

After three years of war, the French Airborne Forces experienced the most brutal tempering of war, and the surviving elites gathered in the 11th Airborne Brigade, and the five paratrooper battalions under the jurisdiction of the brigade also became the most elite units in the French team. After the horn of the attack was sounded, the 3,000 elite airborne soldiers were ready to fight, and they were already familiar with the combat performance of the US and British transport planes and gliders, and they had full confidence to add to the victory weight with a large-scale airborne operation that stunned the "natives."

The opportunity to demonstrate the might of the airborne assault soon came, and as the French forces marched by land and sea quickly captured Da Nang, Hue, and Quang Tri, the Vietnamese rebels were divided, and the troops fighting in the south were gradually reduced to the southern part of Gia Lai-Kon Tum province, and the northern base forces were expelled to the front line of Quang Binh province north of Hue. On the one hand, the French army gathered superior forces to encircle and suppress the rebel army in Gia Lai-Kon Tum province under the instigation of the South Vietnamese puppet army, and on the other hand, it deployed troops in Hue with the intention of carrying out annihilation operations against the rebel forces assembled in Quang Binh. On February 26, 1950, the Battle of Quang Binh began, the clear sky was filled with the roar of machinery, more than 200 transport planes and gliders carried the officers and soldiers of the French 11th Airborne Brigade to the Song River area north of the same sea, and the 3rd Infantry Regiment of the French Foreign Legion also launched a landing operation at the port of the lower Song River, intending to use the natural danger of the river to build a blocking line, and together with the French troops attacking north, tens of thousands of North Vietnamese rebels were surrounded and annihilated.

Flying over Vietnam, the French airborne troops in the cabin did not have to worry about the intensive anti-aircraft fire on the European battlefield, the only thing that could make the plane tremble was the air currents in the air. In a half-worn C-47 with English signs, Bierre. Second Lieutenant Legliss and his 17 paratroopers waited with calm expressions. For them, the North Vietnamese guerrillas, who wield old-fashioned rifles and even cold weapons, had no more than a knack for playing wild in the jungle, and as long as they built a defensive line in their path, these skinny guys would rush up in droves to die.

Time passed quietly, only the monotonous roar of engines was still in my ears, and the ground was green through the window, while many parts of Europe were still covered with snow at this time, and the very different climate made people feel strange. When the skydive was ready to be lit up, the paratroopers finally had a little nervousness on their faces, and they got up one after another, opened the ring for opening the parachute and hung it on the metal wire on the right hand side of the cabin, while others checked the equipment they carried with them with them with confidence, praying that they were still at hand when they landed. A moment later, the parachute lights came on, and the two paratroopers close to the hatch opened the cabin door together, and the cold air mixed with the salty smell poured in, and the people were instantly extremely conscious.