St. Monnoult, a small town with a warm sunshine, the sun is shining, the birds are singing, and by the lake on the outskirts of the town, it is common to see maidens in long skirts strolling there with their partners—————— if it is not winter...

Although it used to be a beautiful scene, now St. Menoul has only a cold winter.

Naturally, the so-called singing of birds and flowers is unlikely to appear, as for those girls in long skirts......... In this kind of near-zero temperature, there may be some girls with abnormal brains who come out in skirts, but most of them will still wrap themselves tightly and hide in the room.

The lakes were also almost frozen by the cold climate, and the ground around the lakes that should have been covered with green has now turned yellow...

It can be said that the climate in front of us is almost no different from the situation in France today, it is so cold...

Thankfully, no matter how cold it is, the atmosphere here doesn't reach sub-freezing, which probably represents the slightest hint of life that the French have in the cold of winter.

Walking on the streets of the town, several soldiers were under the leadership of the officer, looking at this strange town with curious eyes. Almost every soldier of the expeditionary force was curious about this town, which had an exotic atmosphere and was likely to live here for a while.

This is not surprising, after all, these soldiers rarely left even their homeland, let alone France, thousands of miles away.

For them, everything here is a novelty. It's also worth pondering.

Of course, there are many who are just as curious as they are, such as the French people who are pointing at them through the windows...

Apparently. For the French in the house, these strange soldiers with yellow skin are just as curious. At the same time, because they knew that these soldiers were here to help them fight, while instructing, the eyes of these French people were also full of kindness.

If it were something else, perhaps these Wehrmacht soldiers would be annoyed. Even if the eyes of those French people are full of kindness, after all, no one wants to be pointed at like monkeys. However, at this moment, even if they were being pointed at, these soldiers did not get angry, but felt a little ......... Shy?

That's right. It's shyness, and of course, you can also call it shyness.

As for why this is happening, the reason is very simple. Because at this moment, the whole town is except for some old, weak, sick and disabled. The vast majority of the rest are women, especially after a group of French young people were recently dragged to the front, the ratio of men to women in this town has reached a very alarming level, and it can be said that there may not be one male in three people.

Even, if you get rid of the children and the elderly, there is not even a single young man in the whole town, there are only a lot of hormonal imbalanced women...

This is not the case that there are more men and fewer women than in later generations. It's the opposite.

This is also the fact that these IDF soldiers are being pointed at, but not angry. On the contrary, I feel a little shy for one reason.

Usually the person who is pointed at will naturally be annoyed, and if he can't get it, it may even cause a fight. However, if all the people who point the finger are women, they naturally have nothing to worry about...

In particular, these French women are very bold, and sometimes even run out of the house out of curiosity to get a closer look. Compared with them, these soldiers who are not afraid of death on the battlefield seem a little immature, and they are even more embarrassed in the face of the bold behavior of those French women, and all the soldiers have even made some ugliness for this.

There is no way, who calls China's folk customs conservative, and France is a famous romantic country in the world.

Having said that, when it comes into contact with those French women, these soldiers are not only shy, but also a little excited and expectant...

It's not surprising, after all, they're all young lads...

In the face of this never-before-seen opposite sex, there will always be some throbbing and even impulsiveness, especially when these French women are usually very plump in figure...

What's more, the military discipline of the Wehrmacht is very strict, but it is very lenient if it is not strict...

In the military regulations of the Wehrmacht, harassment of civilians is absolutely not allowed, and once discovered, strict trials will be conducted, and the consequences are unwilling for all Wehrmacht soldiers. Because even the lightest punishment is three days of confinement, and the heaviest ......... Shoot directly ...

Of course, this does not mean that the IDF is in a position of weakness in its contacts with ordinary people. It will not be a situation in which the latter generations would rather grieve the soldiers for the sake of the so-called 'military and civilian fish and water conditions' and take care of some scoundrels.

If such a thing happens, as long as the person concerned believes that the responsibility for the matter is not his/her own, the army will send a gendarmerie to jointly review it with the local judiciary. If it is finally found out that the result is really the fault of the soldiers, then it is natural to clean it up, and conversely, if the responsibility is on the other side, then it will definitely not wronged the soldiers.

On the other hand, China has always been a country prone to natural disasters, and every time something similar happens, the Wehrmacht has always been the main force in disaster relief operations, so although it has only been established for a long time, the reputation of the Wehrmacht in China is very high, and many soldiers cherish this reputation, so there are few conflicts between the people and the army.

Even a few of the old warlord-like figures were usually disposed of by the gendarmerie or the secret service. On the contrary, there are many more conflicts between the common people and the local government, especially with the gentry of the local council...

This is also one reason why the people are willing to help Yan Shao, not those parliamentarians...

After all, it is the parliamentarians who have a greater influence at the local level, not the government itself, who are really in conflict with them...

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Just as in the places where military discipline is severe, many of the places that are unreasonable in later generations are also owned by the Wehrmacht. As once said, the Wehrmacht itself is not opposed to soldiers going to places like the Qinglou Chu Pavilion. After all, they are all strong boys, and if they don't want them to pick up soap from each other in the barracks, the best way to do it is to let them have a way to vent.

This way of venting. It's definitely not enough to rely on your hands, you have to have something alive.

And if they have to endure it, they might get something...

Therefore, the attitude of the Wehrmacht towards this kind of thing is that it neither supports nor opposes, and if you don't go, then it is naturally better. You go, I have no objection. That's it.

As for the French side, although it is not clear if there are prostitutes here as well...

But if there is, the gang doesn't mind trying it out. After all, men like to play fresh...

And there are so many women in the town, I can't tell which one ......... They'll have a chance...

As for why there are so few women in the town, there are few men. There had been a few curious officers who had also asked. The answer is that almost all the men in the town were sent to the front, leaving only children and the elderly, and now almost all the production work in the town is taken care of by these women—————— and it is precisely for this reason that the status of women will be greatly improved after the First World War, which also proves that women can only have their own status if they are financially independent...

Just as the soldiers were a little shy passing by in the middle of the road. Inside the room, many residents of the town were also looking at them with curious eyes. For these people. These soldiers from the ancient Oriental countries are so mysterious, you must know that before the outbreak of World War I, the number of Chinese in Europe was very small, like this town, I am afraid that no Chinese has passed before this, let alone Chinese, I am afraid that even ordinary yellow people...

This is also a reason for their curiosity, after all, these people in front of them are really a little strange to them, as for those colonial troops from French Indochina, that is, Vietnam?

Although these were indeed French colonial troops, before the outbreak of World War I, no matter what they thought, the French would not have transferred these colonial troops to the French mainland, not to mention that Vietnam was so far away from the French mainland, and it was obviously much faster to transfer them from North Africa than from Vietnam...

Even now that the Great War has broken out, the French government has begun to send some colonial troops from French Indochina, and these troops are usually transported to some of the more important fronts, and small towns like St. Mnourd are completely out of turn...

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In order to ensure the authenticity of the training, and in order to improve the adaptability of the soldiers, Cai even tried to find the French, let them help get some live pigs or live cows, slaughter them and throw them into the training ground, so that some trenches in the training ground were filled with the stumps and blood of these domestic animals.

Especially after the blood flowed into the soil of the trench, the red mud and the bloody smell around it made some soldiers who had only recently turned from the reserve can't help but vomit, which is also so that they can get used to the smell of the battlefield as soon as possible, so that they will not lose their combat ability because of a disgusting picture.

Although this training method will definitely be a little insufficient compared to the real battlefield, Cai Ye obviously can't send them to the front line now, so he can only use this method for the time being.

Not far away, a few Frenchmen stood and watched, nodding their heads from time to time. In their opinion, this method of training is really good, especially the fact that the training ground is set up with the flesh and blood of domestic animals, so that the soldiers can be familiar with the battlefield situation, can be said to be very useful. They all came down from the battlefield, and it was clear that there were often soldiers who had a nervous breakdown because of their first encounter with some bloody scenes, or were temporarily incapacitated because of vomiting, and this method should still be more or less useful regardless of whether it was wasteful or not. However, although they agree, sometimes they will show disapproval.

After noticing the appearance of those Frenchmen, Cai Yi smiled slightly, and then smiled at Xiang Xinyuan next to him. "It seems that the French are a little unimpressed with our training methods and tactics..."

After listening to Cai Yi's words, Xiang Xinyuan pursed his lips with some disdain. "Those big noses know something, and one by one they stupidly hit the muzzle of the machine gun. What's the difference between looking for death and looking for death..."

Hearing Xiang Xinyuan's words, Cai Yi smiled and didn't say anything, but several officers next to him laughed.

At the time of the expeditionary force's arrival in St. Mnoult. There had been some exchanges between the expeditionary force and the liaison officers who had come from the French, and in the course of the exchanges, the French had some objections to the way the expeditionary force was trained. In their opinion, it is good to conduct operations by simulating the actual situation on the battlefield.

But for the others, they are a little disagreeing.

And the expeditionary force, for its part, also has a somewhat different view of the current tactics of the coalition forces on the Western Front.

Today, the tactics of the coalition forces on the Western Front are no longer the line tactics of 'lining up and shooting' in the past. But today's skirmish tactics are still a bit too dense on today's battlefields.

And after two years of war, the situation in Britain was somewhat better, but the French ......... A large number of young people were recruited from their homes. This can be seen in the small town of Saint-Menulde, and the result of this situation is that the French army has a large number of recruits, who can only be said to have undergone some training, as for the actual combat experience...

In this case. A skirmish line of a large number of recruits. When attacking the attack, you can only say that you can't stop charging, rush down when you rush down, retreat if you can't rush down, and nothing else.

The problem was that although the density of the skirmish line was much stronger than that of the line infantry, the casualties were still high under the crossfire of the machine guns, and they were all new recruits, and they did not cooperate with each other in the slightest, even if they could rush into the enemy's position. You may not be able to take it down...

It's not surprising, after all, if it's a hard bone. By the time you rush to the enemy position, your companions will probably be almost dead. There are some guys I don't know next to me, and I'm afraid that my mind will not be trying to communicate or cooperate with them, but simply attacking or retreating.

On the other hand, on the side of the Wehrmacht, since the Battle of Shandong, it has been found that not only is the line infantry of the early days not adapted to the battlefield, but even the existing skirmish lines are somewhat ......... At least if the opponent is armed with a large number of machine guns, a simple skirmish line can also cause a lot of casualties.

Moreover, even if they can rush to the enemy's position, their own casualties may be very large, and in this case, it is difficult for some soldiers who are not familiar with each other to exert their full combat ability without cooperation and tacit understanding...

So Cai Yi, Jiang Baili, and some other generals who had commanded the Shandong Campaign at that time began to come up with a variety of combat tactics to deal with some of the situations discovered in the Shandong Campaign, and selected two of them.

One is called 'assault group tactics' and the other is called 'group operations'.

The former can also be called 'infiltration tactics', the core of which is to use small combat units, using the gaps and joints of the opponent's defense, to infiltrate the opponent's defense system, strike at important targets, cut off lines of communication, cut off the relationship between defense deployments, and create conditions for frontal attacks.

The core idea is that if it is not necessary, it will never attack strong fortifications, and even if it does, it will only take measures such as bypassing, regard the enemy's artillery or headquarters as a priority target, and cut off the enemy's lines of communication and communications, etc., in short, try to disrupt the enemy's interior...

As for the troublesome fortifications, they were mainly left to the large troops that followed behind.

Of course, it is precisely because of this that the equipment of this 'assault group unit' will also be more special. Ordinary troops are usually armed with rifles, pistols, bayonets, etc., and the best thing is a shotgun.

And for this assault group troops, the mainstream rifle has become a secondary equipment. Not only can every soldier be equipped with a pistol, and there are far more shotguns than rifles, as well as mortars and light machine guns, which can be said to be powerful, even if they encounter a small group of enemy troops, they can easily defeat the enemy army.

However, this tactic is still being explored, so it has not been implemented, and only in the country, a few small units have been organized experimentally, as far as the current point of view, the results show that they are more significant, but the actual situation is not clear, after all, if it is inserted into the enemy's army, the danger is too great, and whether to use this tactic is also under consideration by the Ministry of Defense.

As for the other kind of 'group operation' tactic, each squad is divided into multiple groups, mainly in groups of 3 or 4 people, each group is led by the squad leader, deputy squad leader and a small group leader in the infantry squad, each group cooperates with each other when fighting, and when launching an offensive, it also fights with the group as the center, keeping a certain distance from friendly forces to prevent being hit by enemy machine guns...

Even if the flanks are fired upon by enemy troops, the casualties will be much smaller than in the usual skirmish tactics due to the large spacing between each group. Moreover, fighting in a small group mode, the cooperation between each other will obviously be very tacit, and after attacking the enemy's position, there will be no situation where each will do its own thing...

It was the latter tactic that was demonstrated by the Wehrmacht recruits on the training ground.

However, it was clear that the Frenchmen next to them were still more inclined to the skirmish tactics that were being used today, and were somewhat unimpressed by the Wehrmacht's group operations.

Cai Ye and the others didn't say anything about this, but it was absolutely impossible for them to continue to use the skirmish line tactics, after all, the casualties were too great...

So naturally, this tactic of 'group fighting' has become the standard tactic of the Wehrmacht, as for the 'infiltration tactic'......... Although the Ministry of Defense is cautious, if nothing else, it should become a standard tactic for the Wehrmacht...

These two tactics will also become a standard tactic of the Wehrmacht for some time, until they are replaced by more advanced tactics... (To be continued......)