In May, France has begun to have a bit of a summer atmosphere, and the wind blows from the earth in gusts, and what you feel on people is an indescribable comfort. But in Lorraine, it feels bloody and unbearably disgusting.

The joy of victory is followed by the grief of the living for the dead. The commander of the French army, Pétain, was a wonderful man, and he knew how hard it was to win this battle. In terms of the combat effectiveness of the Germans alone, if it weren't for the Chinese general Bai Chongxi breaking the routine and suddenly playing a bad battle, it would not be impossible for you to annihilate nearly 400,000 German troops, but you would have to pay at least half a year and hundreds of thousands of losses to have this possibility, for example, in the Battle of Verdun last year, the coalition army suffered 6.7 million casualties and the German army suffered 500,000 casualties, and the war lasted from May to December. And now? In just two days, 360,000 German troops were wiped out. But the Chinese paid an equally painful price for this, with almost 100,000 casualties. And if it were not for himself, but for Fuxi, then Zuihou's result would probably be almost 200,000 of the captured Germans who completely annihilated the Chinese army and then successfully escaped. Although Fookie advocated aggressiveism, in fact, he was the least good at attacking, as demonstrated in the Battle of the Somme. Fortunately, Petain's combat determination was fast, the attack orders were very detailed and in place, and the Chinese were indeed stubborn enough. Otherwise, the consequences will be unimaginable......

The Chinese had already created the greatest miracle since the beginning of the war, so after Petain communicated with Colonel de Gaulle, who had also made great achievements (the line of fire was raised, the collar badge was not changed), he made the decision that all prisoners of war and spoils of war would go to the Chinese army, except for leaving two divisions of French troops to assist in guarding prisoners of war, the rest of the French army followed him to continue to attack Luxembourg, which was a tragedy for the Germans. If it were to be replaced by other French generals, such as Nivel, I am afraid that at this time he would not be busy taking the lives of the Germans while they were weak, but would be busy grabbing war merits and then earning a marshal rank for himself.

But despite this, Bai Chongxi only shook hands with Marshal Petain who admired him very much and didn't say anything, his bearing at this moment made Marshal Petain even more admired, this is the style of a famous general who is not in the world.

Marshal Petain naturally did not need to follow the French army to attack Luxembourg, and he accompanied Bai Chongxi and others with great interest to visit the battlefield that was being cleaned. On this battlefield that is 10 kilometers long and 3 kilometers wide, 200,000 young lives have been stopped forever, and they should have returned to their hometowns to get married and have children. But greedy politicians have sent them to the battlefield of fighting each other, burying their incomparably young lives and beautiful future lives......

Although more than a dozen hours had passed since the end of the battle, the air was still filled with questions of blood and death, and the hot weather made the corpses quickly stench and had to be buried as soon as possible. According to the tradition, the French army used their own weapons to force German prisoners of war to participate in the disposal of corpses, and these German prisoners seemed to know the rules very well, and they seriously disposed of these corpses. In the eyes of the Germans, surrender is surrender, prisoners of war are prisoners of war, and it is right to do what you have to do. And in World War I, the German prisoners of war were still a good profession, at least not as tragic as in World War II, when 100,000 people surrendered to the Soviet Red Army and lived to the end of the war. In fact, in countries where ** is emphasized, the mistreatment of prisoners of war is likely to be regarded as a scandal. And in countries that don't emphasize **, the torture of prisoners of war is not a matter at all. ** Disputes over sovereignty can arise, and we can only say that patriotism has been reduced to a fig leaf for political hooligans. The essence of a country that ignores even the basic rights of human beings is nothing more than a tool for small groups to steal profits, and there is no need for it to exist in today's modern civilization. Although German prisoners of war were in charge of the cleanup, the Chinese officers still participated in the collection of the corpses, because they were obliged to send the relics of every soldier back home. And they were worried that these German prisoners of war were not honest and stole the relics of Chinese soldiers, which was really their own life.

The group walked slowly along the battlefield, although the German prisoners of war worked hard, but there were so many corpses that even the well-informed French were extremely surprised, after all, before this battle, the record of European casualties was held by the British in the Battle of the Somme, and more than 60,000 were killed in the first day of fighting. And in general, even if there are millions of casualties in a battle, if it is spread over every day, it will not be much. So so many corpses deeply shocked the French army, these Chinese are so good at fighting and resistant, this point even Marshal Petain couldn't help but praise: "We have always underestimated the bravery of the Chinese soldiers, in fact, they are extremely brave." ”

In some of the fiercest parts of the fighting, the corpses of Chinese soldiers and German soldiers were even stacked on top of each other, and even the teeth of a young Chinese soldier covered with bullet holes were still tightly bitten on the arm of a tall German soldier who had been killed by a bayonet after his death, and the Chinese officers and German prisoners of war who were responsible for collecting the relics could not be torn apart. Chief of Staff Zhu Zhixin, who had been standing on the side and had not spoken, roared angrily: "Won't you use a knife to cut the bitten piece of meat of that damn German?" ”

At this time, Deputy Chief of Staff Jiang Baili, who was standing on the side, was surprised to find that a tear actually slipped from the corner of Commander Bai's eyes, this is big news, you must know that Bai Chongxi has always been known for being cold-blooded, he has never cared about the lives of soldiers and subordinates, what he pursues is just continuous victory, and this time he actually cried......

The further he went, the more desolate and sad the atmosphere became, and when he walked to the position where the 61st Regiment was blocking the German army, Bai Chongxi saw Zhang Zizhong with tears on his face, blaming the Shandong man for being robbed of his arm, and almost choked up with the blood-soaked white cloth wrapped around his forehead: "Commander Bai, our Sixth Division is almost all gone, and the 61st Regiment of Xue Yue in Guangdong is even more empty." ”

"Ahem, ahem, Zhang Zizhong, you fart, you die, you can't die anymore Xue Yue." Just less than five meters away from Zhang Zizhong, a person suddenly stood up from the pile of dead people, and after a closer look, wasn't it that Cantonese Xue Yue? Then three prostitutes stood up one after another, namely Zhao Yanbin, Ma Wenyuan, and Xia Liqiu. The four of them were exhausted from fighting yesterday, so they fell asleep on top of the dead people, but the division officers who came to inspect them all regarded them as dead people and directly reported that the 61st Regiment was completely destroyed, which made Zhang Zizhong sad to death.

This is a comic scene, which actually made Bai Chongxi very disillusioned and said to Jiang Baili and Zhu Zhixin: "Issued to Wuhan, ask the Military Commission of the National Government to award the title of the 61st Regiment of Verdun Heroes, these soldiers are the real heroes......"

The first hero team of the Youth Army was born......

In the Tianyuan Local Standing Committee Building, Wang Zhenyu's straightforwardness directly made Gu Weijun stunned, he has also worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the National Government for several weeks, and now the entire officialdom in Nanjing, as long as he wants to be promoted, who doesn't want to be appreciated by the great god of Wuhan? Happiness came too quickly, so that Gu Weijun was directly stupid on the spot.

Wang Zhenyu wanted such an effect, he let go of his hand and reminded: "Everyone sit, all sit, let's talk casually." ”

Then Wang Zhenyu asked Gu Weijun some personal information and work situation and began to get into the topic: "That's the case, Brother Shaochuan, Secretary General Ling Weng Tang is here, and I invite you by name because I lack diplomatic talents around me now." I need my own people in diplomacy, yes, my own people, you know? ”

When Gu Weijun heard the words "himself", he suddenly felt a warm feeling in his heart, and after he glanced at his father-in-law, he got up and said: "Thanks to Chairman Wang, Gu naturally has no reason to shirk, but I am afraid that I am only shallow in learning and will miss your important matter Chairman of the Committee." ”

Tang Shaoyi also hurriedly followed up and said modestly: "Shaochuan is indeed too young, and I am afraid that he will miss your major event, Chairman of the Committee, and it will not be beautiful." ”

Wang Zhenyu waved his hand and said: "What I want is Shaochuan's youth, Secretary General Tang, to put it mildly, I am one year younger than Brother Shaochuan." Therefore, age is not a problem, the key is to look at talent and heart. Actually, our country is said to have a lot of foreign affairs, but I don't even like you know weishenme? It's because they can't keep up with the times in my opinion. ”

Then Wang Zhenyu stood up and said: "The times are different, although our country has not been reunified, but in the past few years, especially in the last year or so, we have completed the unification of the economic construction of the twelve southern provinces are booming. The society has also stabilized a lot, and everyone's income has continued to increase. What is even more important is that our army has just won the battle between the armies of the great powers of France and Germany, which is the key to our national strength. But many of our diplomats have not kept up with this change, and now it is the Great Powers that have weakened a lot after the European War, and we have taken advantage of the war to expand our influence. But this is far from enough, I need to get more of what I want through this war, and it is obviously impossible for the present minister of the Peking government to France to do this, so Shaochuan, I intend to appoint you as the head of the diplomatic delegation of the Nationalist Government to Paris to discuss cooperation with the British and French governments, and to negotiate returns. Of course, I won't let you run there empty-handed, and our European expeditionary force can be expanded to 500,000 men. As for loans, weapons, industrial equipment, and everything that industrial jishu can fight for, I will get it back. In the future, if the Germans are defeated, I also hope to obtain German arms, military talents, and military industrial jishu talents, which is a huge and critical jihua, and the key is whether the current development momentum of our nation and country can continue. The members of your diplomatic delegation should draw up as soon as possible, and there will be people who know all kinds of things, and what you have to do is to achieve what they want......