Chapter 225: Blocking the Eye
Africans' hatred of Europeans has a long history, beginning with the Crusades a thousand years ago and deepening 500 years ago when European colonialism expanded.
Europe's colonization of Africa has objectively also caused Africa's yearning for Europe and its subconscious obedience.
Therefore, after the start of the world war, Britain, France and other countries organized colonial troops to go to Europe to shed blood and sacrifice for the suzerain, and protect the colonial rule of the suzerain.
It sounds ironic, isn't it that the purpose of the Africans who shed blood and sacrificed for the British and French was to make the British and French continue to bully themselves.
Perhaps the average Africans have a lower IQ, but not to the point of being non-human, and they can sense the ill will of the British and French, especially after joining Manking.
Manguin, like Nivelle, did not take the lives of their soldiers seriously, not only to Africans or Asians, but to all people, even the French.
Before the war, the Afrika Korps in the Foreign Legion had more than 20,000 soldiers and auxiliaries, who had been dead and made up for the dead, and they had maintained this size, neither expanding nor decreasing.
After Mangin began to command the Afrika Korps, the situation changed radically, and there were too many people to die, and finally they could not make up for it. Even if there were only more than 1,000 people left in the Afrika Korps, Mangin still wanted these more than 1,000 people to attack, which finally triggered a strong backlash from the Foreign Legion.
On 21 April, soldiers of the 4th Moroccan Infantry Regiment mutinied, shooting dead the commander of the white regiment and the white officers who had come to supervise the battle, and sacking a village near Susunwa. All the men in the village were killed, and the women were raped and killed.
Manjing could not tolerate such a vicious incident in his own troops, so he sent troops to quell the rebellion.
To Mantin's surprise, however, the troops who received the order also refused to carry out the mission, but fortunately, the French troops only refused to accept the mission, and there was no vicious incident like the 4th Infantry Regiment.
It had come to this point that Mangin did not dare to use force to suppress him again, because he was not sure that the troops would carry out his orders.
But panic has begun to spread irrepressibly, rumours are spreading in the darkness, and all sorts of versions are beginning to appear, from the top is trying to betray the country, to the collapse of the British front in Arras. Even for the missing piece of bread for breakfast, it would infuriate the French soldiers, who were already on the verge of collapse.
By this time, the mutiny, which was akin to an insurgency, had risen from individual acts to group acts, and the mutiny groups had spread from the Afrika Korps to the entire Shermandadam front. Vicious incidents occurred in almost all the troops on the front, and in just two days, hundreds of officers were shot dead by soldiers every day, and the troops that did not mutiny closed their barracks gates, and they did not even dare to contact the headquarters, but sent telegrams directly to the War Department.
The foundation of trust between the forces has been undermined, and everyone is in a state of panic.
It also marked that Nivel had lost control of the troops.
On 25 April, rumors finally reached Paris from the front, in which more than 20 French divisions had been wiped out, the remaining troops had been crippled, and the French army had suffered millions of casualties. This is a sign of national ruin for France, which has a total population of only about 40 million.
A million people, and all of them adult men, that's literally a whole generation.
President Raymond Poincaré immediately ordered a halt to the offensive and summoned Nivelle back to Paris to be questioned by the Estates-General.
Nivelle responded in disgraceful by removing Manking from his post as commander of the Sixth Army, again scapegoating Mangin for the defeat and blaming Alfred Michel for the failure of the battle, blaming Alfred Michel for his poor command that led to the defeat of the campaign.
In the face of the accusation, the angry Alfred Michel responded with contempt: "As your chief of staff, I have never stopped warning you, not only did you not take my opinion into account, but now you actually let me take responsibility for failure, do you know what your behavior is called? It's called cowardice! ”
From the outset, Alfred Michel considered Nivelle's offensive to be hopeless and openly expressed his displeasure with Nivelle by refusing to carry out orders.
It seems that the refusal to carry out orders is a tradition of the French army, and not only unique to the Foreign Legion.
The situation had festered to the point where Nivile had fallen into disarray, and when Nivire's troops were thrown into disarray, Nivile was busy finding excuses to shirk responsibility and let his troops fall into chaos without intervening. Even Niveller's supporter Lloyd George began to look at Nivelle unpleasantly, and it is estimated that when Lloyd George showed Niveller, he did not find the backbone on the back of Niveller's head.
I'm not good at learning!
On April 27, Raymond Poincaré demanded the resignation of Nivelle, but Nivelle made another surprising move, not only refusing to resign, refusing to carry out the orders of the French president, but also desperately trying to shirk responsibility. This time, even Paul Pan Lewe and Renault Sr. became the targets of Niveller's accusations, and even Haig, who was far away in Arras, became an obstacle to Niveler's successful completion of the mission, on the grounds that Haig did not align with Niveler and dispersed the forces that Niveller could use.
Nivile has gone mad!
On the 28th, Raymond Poencaré appointed Foch as the new commander-in-chief of the French army and Petain as the new chief of the French army's general staff.
Judging from the series of appointments bypassing Paul Pongale, Raymond Poincaré has also lost patience with Paul Pongale, and he is going to do it as prime minister.
Maybe it's because of Qin Zhiyuan's intervention, I don't know if there is a problem there, the personnel changes of the French army are completely different from another time and space.
In another time and space, the French prime minister at this time was Alexandre Ribault, who had been in office for less than a week, Paul Panlewe was the minister of war, and Leoté had resigned and returned to Morocco, and the commander-in-chief of the French army was supposed to be Petain.
But on this junior, the French prime minister has been replaced by Paul Panleville, and it looks like he's about to step down. Leotey was still struggling in the position of Secretary of War, waiting for Clemenceau and Foch to come to power and provide him with assistance. Foch became commander-in-chief of the French army, and Petain became chief of the French army's general staff.
Qin Zhiyuan didn't have time to think about all this, he was now on his way to the Nivile headquarters.
Qin Zhiyuan and Foch went together to ensure that the situation was under control, and if there was an unexpected factor, Qin Zhiyuan would provide military support to Foch.
And Qin Zhiyuan's troops were already on their way to Susongwa, where the Germans seemed to have discovered the confusion of the French army and showed signs of mobilization.
Qin Zhiyuan wants to block the eye-catching.
(To be continued.) )