On March 10, 1938, General Andrew finally got his wish and entered the city of Troyes on the Seine, which is now only 160 kilometers from Paris.

The objective of the whole spring offensive was to fill in the huge salient between the main forces of the revolutionary army in Lyon and the northern-controlled area of Nancy's revolutionary army, and now the north-south flank of Guò for nearly a month was basically accomplished, and the revolutionary front starting from the southern shore of the Bay of Biscay crossed the whole of France diagonally and reached the border of Luxembourg, and there was no overly abrupt depression in the whole front.

Unfortunately, Andrew had intended to encircle and annihilate the Third Army Corps near Langele, but due to the slow pace of the advance, the Third Army escaped before the encirclement was completed and retreated in the direction of Reims.

Nevertheless, it was an encouraging victory, as the Northern Army of the Revolutionary Army no longer had to worry about being cut off from the main forces, and the Revolutionary Government no longer had to worry that the Government Army would use this salient to launch a new offensive from Langele to the Swiss border, thus cutting off the land communication between the Revolutionary Government and Germany.

Although some of the ships of the French Navy's Mediterranean Fleet rebelled, most of them chose to flee to the ports of French Algeria.

These ships threatened the sea route from the Free City of Rie to bypass the Italian peninsula, and the revolutionary government could not have expected the sea route to deliver the large quantities of supplies needed.

Because of this, Andrew's face was half happy and half sad when he entered the city.

On the one hand, he was happy about his first brilliant victory after becoming the commander-in-chief of the Central Army of the Revolutionary Army, but on the other hand, he was worried about the failure to annihilate the living forces of the government army. The escape of the Third Army will greatly relieve the pressure on the government forces, so that the government forces can draw more troops on Andrew's way to Paris.

However, this latter worry was gradually diluted by the citizens who appeared on the side of the road from time to time waving and cheering at Andrew's jeep.

At this time, Andrew noticed that the damage to the city was very severe, and the shelling during the siege of the city destroyed a large number of buildings, and probably many civilians were killed in vain. Andrew thought it was a little strange that there were soldiers cheering for his own army in such a situation, was it simply because the banner of the revolutionary army had a fig leaf representing pan-humanism?

Just then, he saw a little girl sitting helplessly on the side of the road, her clothes and face dirty, and the light fabric evidently not able to withstand the still strong cold wind. The little girl curled up and let her hair dance wildly in the wind.

"Stop." Andrew said to the driver.

The car stopped immediately, Andrew got out of the car, walked towards the little girl, took two steps on a whim, turned back to the road, picked an unknown white flower from the small flower bed in the middle of the street, and then returned to the little girl.

He squatted down, looked at the little girl, showed a kind smile on his face, and asked softly, "Little sister, why are you sitting here?" ”

"My mom and dad are in the house."

"Which house is it?" Andrewen's voice is still so soft and kind.

The little girl pointed to the half-collapsed house behind her.

Andrew looked up at the house and found traces of fire on the outside, apparently it had been engulfed in flames, and the little girl's parents were probably gone.

"Have you been waiting here?"

The little girl nodded.

Andrew asked again: "No one gave you clothes and food?" ”

"An uncle dressed like you came and gave me bread, but I couldn't ask for it."

The little girl's answer softened Andrew's expression, as if she didn't know that her parents had left this world forever.

Andrew said to the little girl in a gentle voice: "It was your parents who asked me to come to you, they have something to do and have gone to a distant place for a while, so they asked me to take care of you." ”

"They're dead, aren't they?" The little girl asked suddenly.

Andrew was a little caught off guard and was stunned for a moment before nodding slightly.

The little girl tightened her arms and hugged the doll and began to cry, tears washing the stains on her face and creating vertical bars on her little face.

Andrew reached out and pulled the little girl into his arms, gently stroking her back.

After a while, the little girl stopped crying, and only then did Andrew gently let go of her shoulder, close the distance a little, and smile at the little girl again.

"Although your parents are dead, I will take care of you, and you will be my daughter from today onwards." With that, he handed the little girl the white flower that had been holding in his hand for a long time, "In the name of the revolution, I will take care of you as if you were my own daughter." ”

The little girl stared at Andrew for a long time before reaching out her hand, which was trembling slightly from the cold, and took the flowers from Andrew's hand.

Almost at the same moment, tiny snowflakes fell from the sky, and the half-ruined streets were filled with light and agile white spirits.

At this time, the photographer who had been following Andrew pressed the shutter.

The accompanying text reporter was enthusiastically conceiving the story and polishing what Andrew had just said, and he had decided that the name of the photo would be "In the Name of the Revolution".

At this time, Andrew was in a different mood.

As he took off his coat and draped it over the little girl's shoulders, he laughed inwardly at himself: It was Andrew, who gave the order for the indiscriminate shelling of Troyes in the name of the revolution, and also in the name of the revolution, which was written at the beginning of the first line of the edict to the artillery units. It is a great irony that he Andrew, who killed the girl's parents in the name of the revolution and is now adopting the poor girl in the name of the revolution.

However, Andrew did not express these thoughts, he just took the girl's hand, turned to the photographer so that the photographer could take more and better pictures, and after the photographer nodded, he took the little girl and walked to the convoy that had been parked on the side of the road.

**

On the morning of March 13, 1938, Lin Youde was at breakfast when he saw the photo with the title "In the Name of the Revolution".

He couldn't help but smack his lips.

"From a propaganda point of view, this is a pretty good picture." Lin Youde threw the newspaper to the fox who made her coffee instead of Sissi, who was already due to give birth, "But as long as you think about it, you should know that it was also the commander of the revolutionary army who gave the order for indiscriminate shelling, and the murderer adopted the victim's daughter or something......"

Lin Youde shook his head.

"You say so, in fact, if you encounter a similar situation, you will also find an excuse to adopt this cute little girl, right?" The fox laughed and teased.

Lin Youde shrugged his shoulders: "That's right, I will also adopt." Regardless of whether or not people will suspect that it is a joke, I will adopt it. ”

"Because what are you, uh, what do you mean?"

"Lolicon?"

"Yes, that's it! I'd love to check out the book called Lolita. ”

"Lolita" was published in 1955, and the fox only heard Lin Youde talk about it - besides, it is not known whether the book Lolita will be born in this time and space. According to Lin Youde's previous investigation of this time and space cultural field, it was found that the famous artists are still famous artists, but there are considerable differences between the works and the previous time and space, for example, Stendhal still wrote "Red and Black", but "The Traveler's Notes" disappeared, and during the period when he was supposed to write the Traveler's Notes, Stendhal fell madly in love with a Miss Shenji, and did not hesitate to change his critical realist writing style and created a series of fantasy-style love poems.

For another example, Hemingway still wrote "The Bells of the Battlefield" but the background ran to Turkey.

The fox continued to tug at Lin Youde for a while, and suddenly asked, "What do you think of the revolutionary army's latest military victory?" ”

"Basically worthless." Lin Youde replied bluntly, "That General Andrew may be a smart man, but he has not been able to break free from the shackles of the experience accumulated by the French army in the last war. His plan of attack essentially continued the idea of organizing a campaign in the French army in the last major war. ”

No matter in which time and space the First World War, when the war enters the stage of trench warfare, when the Entente side studies the offensive plan, it will often focus on where to attack in order to "fill the front", or where there is a damn salient embedded in the Entente from the direction of the German front, the Entente will tend to attack where to launch an attack - because after the attack is successful, this salient can be erased and the battle line can be "flattened", thereby reducing the total length of the front, so that this section of the front can be filled with fewer troops, The vacated troops can be used in other ways.

For example, to launch another offensive organized to draw the battle line.

Unfortunately, many times the Entente could not even achieve the simple goal of leveling the front, and in World War I, Germany was not defeated by the Entente at all, but dragged down by the Entente, no matter what time and space, when the United States entered the war, most Germans had been eating cabbage for a year, and they had not seen what meat looked like for a long time.

"Of course," Lin continued, "if the government forces near Langler are left alone, they will continue to threaten the lifeline of the revolutionary government, and the government will definitely be on its laurels, so I understand the situation of General Andrew." But I would say that this offensive was too conservative and did nothing to help us in our goal of winning the war. ”

"Sounds like you think it would be a big difference if you were in command?" The fox gave Lin Youde a new cup of coffee, and asked with interest.

"Of course, if I were to take command, I would have my troops penetrate into the depths of the government forces, ignoring the well-fortified fortresses. After all, at this time, the front line did not actually form a solid front like it had in the last war, and even if the government army dug trenches, it was impossible for them to become as impregnable as they were in the last war. ”

During World War I, the trenches on the Western Front were truly fortifications, the depth of the trenches allowed people to stand and walk without their heads exposed, and most of the trenches had hidden burrows dug deep into the soil, and the Germans even used reinforced concrete to make the hiaternary holes and the walls of the trenches. At that time, the entire front of the Western Front was fortified - except for the westernmost Flanders fields. The soil in the Flanders fields was so soft that the trenches turned into puddles at the slightest sign of rain, so they had to dig shallow trenches, which led both the British and the Germans to make several attempts to open the door to victory in the field, only to turn it into a meat grinder comparable to Verdun.

Lin Youde took a sip of coffee and continued to elaborate his thoughts: "It is foreseeable that some of the interspersed troops will be hit by Zhan Ji, but more interspersed troops will successfully penetrate behind enemy lines. In order to increase the number of successful troops as much as possible, I will launch a diversionary attack with the power of Senhime in the front. After the interspersed troops have scattered the enemy's command and supply system, our main forces will break through the enemy's weak points, detour to the enemy's rear, and force the enemy to leave the established position and move. ”

"And then it's about finding opportunities to destroy the enemy in motion, right?"

"Yes, that's it." Lin Youde smiled at the fox, "Of course, this is just a theory, if I want to make a battle plan that can be executed, I bet that the final product is very different from what I just said." However, the revolutionary army is not under my command, and I have written my military ideas in a pamphlet and sent it to General Andrew, and I have nothing else to do. ”

Lin Youde finished drinking coffee and said to the fox: "Before starting today's work, I want to go to the annex to see Sissi." ”