Chapter 49: Heroes
On the night of the 6th Regiment's change of camp, the number of Chinese who rushed to join the 6th Regiment reached its peak.
By 8 p.m. that day, the total number of the Sixth Regiment had reached more than 800 men, not only the four combat companies and one artillery company were fully manned, but also an overstaffed transport company and an ambulance company with 29 field doctors.
Fisher personally came to Qin Zhiyuan that night, and then exchanged a nurse for the use of 12 field doctors, and this nurse was Misha. Fisher also promised to help the 6th Regiment set up a team of no less than 20 nurses within a week to care for the 6th Regiment's own wounded soldiers.
What is more special is the reconnaissance company of Hu Tingfeng and Jin Taihe, the two of them were authorized by Qin Zhiyuan to carefully select among the 800 people in the whole regiment, and in the end only less than 20 people were selected. The origins of these 20 people can be described as varied, including martial arts masters with family roots, intellectual young people who have gone to school, and even old officials who have worked in the past, actors who have mixed in the pear orchard, craftsmen who walk the streets and alleys, and thieves who steal chickens and dogs.
As long as he is willing to join the Sixth Regiment and swear by the emblem of the Foreign Legion with his hand, Qin Zhiyuan will give Xu a bright future and a chance to be a new person.
Because of this, many people wept when they put on their military uniforms, and they don't know what kind of story they have and what twists and turns they have.
In the evening, according to Zhang Tianshou's report, the fourth batch of Chinese workers who arrived in Kapi had a total of 650 people, of which nearly 500 had joined the Foreign Legion, and only more than 100 people led by Qin Haoge had not yet joined.
Qin Zhiyuan knew what Qin Haoge meant, he was waiting for the price to sell. Qin Zhiyuan didn't want to go to Qin Haoge, if it was just for conscription, Qin Zhiyuan didn't need to go to Qin Haoge.
Qin Zhiyuan had already ordered Huang Fugui to select men and go to the port of Marseille where the Chinese workers went ashore to set up a recruiting office, as soon as the ship transporting the Chinese workers docked, the people of the Sixth Regiment would begin to contact the Chinese workers, and then try to turn the Chinese workers into soldiers of the Sixth Regiment.
It won't take too long for the Sixth Regiment to be full, and if you want to join the Sixth Regiment at that time, it won't be so easy, Qin Zhiyuan will set the conscription standards and start to move closer to the route of elite soldiers.
From the very beginning, Qin Zhiyuan did not plan to organize all 140,000 laborers into an army, what Qin Zhiyuan needed, ambitious and pursued. People who mess around all day and are satisfied with a daily wage of five francs do not meet Qin Zhiyuan's requirements.
The French paid 12 francs a day for the Foreign Legion, and the Chinese soldiers were paid about 10 francs a day if they were wounded or killed in battle. The Chinese soldiers who died in the fighting in these days were each given a pension of more than 7,000 francs, which was calculated according to the salary of the Chinese soldiers, and the calculation standard was two years' salary. Qin Zhiyuan doesn't want to be greedy for this money, this is the money of Chinese soldiers, and if he is greedy for this, he will be thundered by the sky.
Starting from the second day, the Sixth Regiment officially began training, and the training subjects came from the "Infantry Drill Manual" compiled by Qin Zhiyuan overnight. This drill code is the "PLA Training Syllabus" in another time and space copied by Qin Zhiyuan, and the training of troops according to this drill code is not much worse than that of PLA, although it is not said to practice a PLA.
There are many rare terms in the "Infantry Drill Code" that company commanders have never heard of, such as formation and queue training, such as physical training, such as internal affairs, and such as ideological education.
Even a serious Allied officer may not be able to understand these things thoroughly, let alone these new uniformed laborers.
In order to explain this infantry drill book and let the officers and men of the Sixth Regiment understand the requirements of the drill code, Qin Zhiyuan spent a week personally presiding over the training during the day and opening a small stove to train officers at night. Of course, at Qin Zhiyuan's request, the French also sent training officers to train machine gun shooters and artillerymen of the 6th Regiment to operate machine guns and artillery.
In the end, by the time Qin Zhiyuan left Kapi for Amiens, it was already September 16th.
The reason why Fuxun and Michelet waited so long to summon Qin Zhiyuan was because the French had to count the amount of gold and calculate Qin Zhiyuan's battle scores, so that they could better evaluate Qin Zhiyuan's role and then give corresponding rewards.
"Qin, it's unbelievable, your troops killed 8,700 Germans, of which, your men probably killed about 3,000, considering that you only have more than 400 people, this is really a brilliant victory." At the headquarters of the Northern Army Group in Amiens, Foch looked at Qin Zhiyuan standing at the table with a smile and was full of praise.
Foch is 66 years old this year, and his appearance is very characteristic and impressive. Foch's eyebrow bones are high, so his eye sockets are deep, his eyebrows are close to his eyes, and the tail of his eyebrows is drooping close to the corners of his eyes, making him look very wise. Foch has a tall and straight nose, coupled with a disheveled beard, the whole person looks wise, deep, wild and uninhibited, and very charismatic.
"Thank you very much for your compliments, General, thanks in large part to the support of the artillery, and the cooperation of the French soldiers." In the face of Foch's praise, Qin Zhiyuan was neither arrogant nor humble.
"You are a very good person, Qin, you have the modesty of an Easterner, and the self-confidence of a Westerner, you are a very individual person." At this time, the Orientals, including the Japanese, who already boasted of being a great power, could hardly hide their inferiority complex in the face of Westerners. From this point of view, Qin Zhiyuan really deserves Foch's praise.
Hearing Foch's praise, Qin Zhiyuan did not speak, but waited for Foch's next words.
"It took so long to recall you to Amiens because you had to be sure of your record and the level of medals you could get, and the result was surprising." Foch looked at Qin Zhiyuan with a smile, wanting to see a hint from Qin Zhiyuan's expression, and then analyze Qin Zhiyuan's character.
As an agent, it's not easy to cope with an interview at this level. When Qin Zhiyuan heard the medal, his eyes immediately surged with a wave of fanaticism, and then his throat squirmed unconsciously, and his body leaned forward slightly, vividly interpreting a young man who longed for honor.
"Your first credit was for clearing the German army inside the tunnel, and in the clean-up operation, you killed three German generals, and the rank of knight was given to you at that time. Then you return to Kapi, where you saved a large number of wounded and earned the respect of everyone, which is the medal given to you as an officer. Then you found the vault at the front, and held your position, and handed over the vault to the French government in its entirety, and in the meantime your troops killed nearly ten times as many enemies, and there was a disagreement on your reward, and some thought that you should be given the Order of the Commander, and some thought that you should be given the Order of Senior Officer, but I think that you are fully worthy of a Grand Cross. For this, Mr. President, he even broke with the norm and awarded you a medal on this not very suitable day. After Fuch finished speaking, he picked up a wooden box from the table, walked around the table, and walked to Qin Zhiyuan's side.
Mishelai, who had been standing beside Qin Zhiyuan, stepped forward, took the wooden box from Foch's hand, and then stood aside in his hand.
Foch opened the wooden box, hung a ribbon on Qin Zhiyuan's right shoulder, hung a gold-plated Grand Cross on Qin Zhiyuan's left chest, and hung a gold Legion of Honor medal on the ribbon above Qin Zhiyuan's left leg.
"I guess, you know what I mean." Foch looked at Qin Zhiyuan, who was full of excitement, and his artistic conception was far-reaching.
"Yes, I understand that at this particular moment, France needs heroes." Qin Zhiyuan replied in a deep voice.
Yes, at this particular moment, heroes are needed not only in France, but all over the world.