After Lin Youde put down the phone, Josephine coughed.
"I'm really sorry for marrying a barbarian woman like me." Josephine put her hands on her hips and stared at Lin Youde with her head held high.
Some people were already snickering on the bridge. However, Lin Youde saw that his wife was not angry, so he responded in a joking tone: "You are different. You have been deeply influenced by Chinese culture and have got rid of ignorance."
Josephine sighed, then smiled at Lin Youde: "A quite shocking speech, but I'm afraid it will be extremely harsh in the ears of European politicians and the public."
"I'm afraid that's true now, but after they experience the horror of war, they will feel that what I said is right."
Lin Youde was quite unfazed by this. Judging from the European public opinion currently grasped by the European Bureau, European newspapers are going all out to promote the justice of the war and praise the war. No one is willing to focus on Lin Youde's article describing the war as
"A catastrophe" speech because the public didn't like to see it.
At this time in Europe, every newspaper received hundreds of poetry submissions every day - after all, Europe did not yet have radio and television, so the main body of entertainment products consumed by people were novels and poetry.
These poems are full of great ideals, great journeys and great battle deaths. The lines are all empty and over-exercised heroism. If these contents are not included in the submission, then the manuscript will never be paid.
Even famous poets were told that they must include the nobility of war in their works.
In the UK, Asquith Zheng Fu convened a "symposium" for the literary world - well, it's not actually called that, but Lin Youde used to call this gathering or salon something like this - zheng
Fu asked the big names in the literary world to "tell the people why there is a war and why they should enthusiastically embrace a glorious death." The British literary giants agreed to Zheng Fu's request without hesitation.
The performance of the Germans was not far behind. Thomas Mann, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in the last time and space, wrote in an article to the newspaper: "This is a purification movement, a liberation, and it gives us great hope.
.The soul of Germany is essentially opposed to the pacifist concept of civilization. Looking at the corruption and corruption of today’s European society, isn’t peace one of the chief culprits that led to the current situation?”
Such naked propaganda of war and whitewashing of killings confirmed Lin Youde's speech in a sense.
Lin Youde knew all this because Thomas Mann said the same thing in the last time and space, and Josephine also learned most of the content through the European Bureau's report.
"Europe is clearly sick. And we're going to treat it and collect some medical bills along the way."
"This is probably the most expensive medical bill in the world." Ba said.
Lin Youde shrugged.
**
When Gallianni walked into the living room, Fina Assiulette Pétain (...) stood up immediately on the sofa, while his father Philippe Pétain was half a beat slower.
"What?" Gallianni said jokingly, "After Caillot left, it was you and your son who begged me to be the commander of the Paris city defense?"
"Paris is in danger." Fina said before her father. "Foch always thinks about attacking. She wants to be a national hero like Joan of Arc. Honor has fascinated her eyes, making her unable to see the danger facing Paris.
.”
"But" the old general Gallianni looked at the young goddess with long silver hair, "even if you let me serve as the commander of the Paris city defense and organize the defense, there is no guarantee that the German army will not be able to capture Paris. Moreover, now we don't even know how much the Germans have invested in it.
I don’t know how many troops were deployed to outflank Paris. What if Foch was right? It was just a diversionary attack with a small number of troops. The purpose was to attract us to move our troops to the left wing. The real attack would be launched on the front or even on the right wing.
——If this is really the case, what are you going to do?"
"It's just because we don't know how many troops the Germans have invested that we need to find a reliable person to serve as the commander of the Paris city defense."
Gallianni blinked, and then turned his gaze to Philippe Pétain, who had been standing silent.
"In that case, isn't your father also a very suitable candidate? He is more expert than me in organizing position defense." Gallianni has always been known within the French army for being good at identifying talents. Before his retirement, he recommended many talents to the French army.
Holding important positions in the army has offset to a certain extent the negative impact of the French army's rigid officer selection system - in the last time and space, this system ended in the hands of the French commander-in-chief Joffre recommended by the old man Gariaini, but
In this time and space, Xia Fei went to warm Lin Youde's bed...
Back to the subject, after the old man finished speaking, Pétain, who had always been very calm, finally spoke: "I do have some confidence in organizing defense, but now all domestic resources have been mobilized by Foch to the front line. With my current influence in the military
We simply couldn’t get a cannon or a machine gun, and without these, there was no way to stop the German attack with concrete fortifications alone.”
Gallianni fell into thought.
Just like the last time and space, Pétain had a very unsatisfactory life because his military thinking was biased toward defensive counterattacks and he firmly opposed the offensive doctrine prevailing within the French army. In the last time and space, a veteran guy like him was actually just a colonel, and he was in
Before the war started, he was ready to retire. At the beginning of the war, he was promoted to the commander of the group army due to his excellent performance. In this time and space, because he gave birth to a daughter of a goddess, his situation improved, so he had to become a general, but he was still placed in the middle of nowhere.
In the sinecure position of real power, it is indeed difficult for him to extract resources from Foch to organize the defense of Paris.
Gallianni couldn't help but sigh.
"Fina, what's the situation on the left front?" Gallianni looked at the silver-haired girl. "You should have taken off to see the situation?"
Fina frowned slightly, hesitated and finally told the truth: "The French General Staff and the Knights Headquarters are worried that in the future we will have to use Shen Ji to prevent the German air battle fleet from invading the front line, so we are prohibited from leaving the station.
Air emergency range above."
The performance of Germany's flying battleships in conquering the battlefield suddenly made the commanders of the Allied Powers realize that the existence of these giant ships will add another factor to the confrontation between the aerial gods: these flying battleships can cause very effective damage to ground targets.
, as long as the German goddesses protect these battleships with all their strength and let the battleships support the ground, they can provide strong support to the German troops on the ground. In other words, the German goddesses do not need to wait to completely defeat the French goddesses.
It can effectively support ground troops in this way.
Therefore, the German goddesses only need to focus on air combat, but the French girls have to allocate their strength to attack these huge flying fortresses.
Since they had not actually tested the defensive capabilities of the flying battleships and had very little information at their hands, the French could only calculate the defensive capabilities of the flying battleships by referring to the defensive capabilities of the wind armor. The result even frightened Foch.
Therefore, in the view of the French military brass, the threat posed by the German flying battleships to France was greater than the roundabout operations being conducted by the German Army at this time.
"So" Gallianni said after listening to Fina's story. "Foch believed that the real intention of the Germans was to use the terrifying ability of the flying battleships to quickly break through the French defense, so he planned to attack first before the Germans attacked.
Completely destroy the German offensive capabilities? Humph, it’s the ‘war prevention’ thing again!”
After pondering for a while, Galini took a deep breath, and then said solemnly: "Okay, okay, I will serve as the commander of the Paris area garrison, and you, Philip, will be my deputy. I will get you a cannon."
, machine guns and enough concrete. There are also large numbers of reservists and militiamen that Foch doesn’t like. Your mission is to surround Paris into an iron barrel!"
**
Second Lieutenant Charles de Gaulle wrote to his newlywed wife Yvonne de Gaulle while on his horse in the light of the setting sun: "Commander Lanrezac believed that the German army's main attack direction was actually Belgium, and he disobeyed Ms. Foch's order.
, ordered the entire group army to leave the support position designated for us in the combat plan. Move towards Belgium, preparing to block the German offensive. I think Commander Lanrezac's judgment is probably correct. There is no doubt that we will be in Belgium
I have experienced brutal battles in the bush, swamps and lowlands. I don't know if I will ever see you again. Please don't mind if this letter handed to you has blood or other stains on it.
"At this moment, I deeply realize how much I love you and miss you..."
De Gaulle's wife Yvonne was a goddess. They met at the Saint-Cyr Military Academy and eventually became a couple. This love affair with a huge gap in status became a favorite among young officers.
And now, de Gaulle came to the front line as a second lieutenant officer. He was eager to prove himself with his illustrious military exploits and obtain the identity and status corresponding to his wife's ancestry. This eagerness made his heart break.
Pulsating with excitement, a steady stream of blood was pumped into the body that was exhausted from the forced march. Until just now, de Gaulle had given up his horse to a soldier with a fever to ride. Now the soldier's condition has made the doctor decide that he is not suitable.
Continuing to fight with the troops, he was left in a passing village. Only then did de Gaulle get his horse back.
So De Gaulle knew very well how tired the soldiers were, but it was said that the troops in front of them had exchanged fire with the Germans. The battle was very fierce, and his strong sense of responsibility and nationalist passion forced De Gaulle to ignore the fatigue of the soldiers.
The troops were urged to move forward.
At this time, the horse staggered under its crotch, causing the pencil in de Gaulle's hand to pierce the letter paper. De Gaulle just wanted to curse this damn horse that was unable to walk steadily, but the horse knelt forward, knocking de Gaulle straight away.
The person threw the pen together with him.
De Gaulle then realized that his horse had been shot.
The Germans shouted and rushed out of the woods beside the road in a dark mass.
"Don't panic!" De Gaulle struggled to get up and shouted to the panicked troops, "They only have rifles, they are probably second-line troops! Fight back with submachine guns! We have the superior firepower!"
Gunfire crackled, and the pastoral scenery that had just been quiet and beautiful suddenly turned into a cruel battlefield.dd