The day after the German army started attacking, Lin Youde still had nothing to do, but in order to prevent his two wives from worrying about it, he moved the place where he and Sera played chess to the command room. Originally, Lin Youde brought few staff officers, but because he had to deal with
There are really too few things to do, and these few staff officers are in a state of leisure similar to Lin Youde at this time.
In Lin Youde's expedition team, the busiest people are probably the mechanics on the warship, and then the privates responsible for wiping the deck.
At about nine o'clock in the morning, the German army began to prepare artillery fire again. Although the French army invested an army to launch a local counterattack last night, it did not seem to be enough for the Germans to change their attack timetable.
However, the effect of yesterday's counterattack was quite obvious. At this time, the sound of artillery that Lin Youde heard came from far away, and no German artillery shells disturbed the city of Paris.
At about half past nine, Josephine entered the map room.
"What's wrong?" Lin Youde glanced at his wife and noticed the rare bored expression on her face, so he asked. After asking, he looked down at the chessboard again.
Josephine sighed: "Ba and I changed shifts, and then we found that there was nothing to do. I no longer wanted to check the troops' preparations for war. Going too much would overstrain the soldiers' nerves."
Lin Youde smiled.
"How about visiting relatives? The Joffre family should have some distant relatives in Paris. Those local families in Paris who are closely related to the Joffre family are also excellent targets."
"No," Josephine shook her head, "Although I'm not on duty, I must stay where I can quickly get back to the ship to prepare for liftoff."
"That's it." Lin Youde temporarily turned his attention away from the chessboard and looked at his wife, "In that case, let's..."
"I'll join Sera later." As expected of an old couple who have been together for more than ten years, Josephine instantly realized that Lin Youde wanted to say "Then let's have sex" and immediately interrupted Lin Youde's words loudly.
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Lin Youde blinked, and then said: "Okay, but Sera and I rarely win, so if we play with you..."
"It's okay." Sierra said. The little girl glanced at Josephine, then lowered her head to look at the chessboard. She frowned slightly, looking distressed - her situation was not good at this time.
At this time, the phone in the war room rang - the Xiafei family's old house did not have such advanced things. It was temporarily installed after Lin Youde moved in.
Josephine reached out and picked up the phone: "Hello, this is Josephine. Well, okay, I got it. Let her in."
"What's wrong?" Lin Youde asked.**
Josephine put down the phone and turned to her husband, with a slightly subtle expression on her face: "Foch is here. It's strange. Why is she not staying at the French headquarters at this time and coming here?"
"Maybe it's because the yearning for me is too strong to suppress, so..." Lin Youde was glared at by Josephine before he finished speaking, so he shut up obediently. Josephine was usually completely indifferent to Lin Youde's obsessive jokes.
He didn't care. He often played along with Lin Youde's words. It was not once or twice that they joked with other girls like this - for example, they often teased Isabella and Xun like this - but it seemed that Foch was a special case.
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Just as he was talking, the door of the map room opened. Before Lin Youde saw Foch outside the door, a voice came from the corridor: "I heard that you refused to move to Bordeaux with Zheng Fu?"
At the same time as he finished speaking, Foch walked in, as if he was inspecting her kitchen.
"Yeah," Lin Youde glanced at Foch's plump chest. "What's wrong? Is there anything wrong with my decision?"
Foch did not answer immediately. Instead, he turned his head and scanned the room, and then said: "Why? You can't play any role if you stay here, right? You don't have many troops to begin with, and Shen Ji's
The command can be left to—"
Foch glanced at Josephine and raised his chest even higher before continuing: "Leave it to the commander of Shen Ji, right? You can't get involved at all. Or, this is actually one of the cunning ways of the Easterners.
, is it a deliberate gesture to win over the French people?”
"Of course making a gesture is one of the purposes of staying." Lin Youde admitted frankly, and then he also looked at Josephine. "However, for me personally, I cannot leave my wives alone on the front line.
, but he is hiding in the safe rear. Miss Foch, you must know the cruelty of this war better than anyone else, right?"
Foch's face turned red immediately.
"Uh...well, I..." She glanced at Sierra uneasily. Seeing that the little girl had no intention of speaking, the embarrassment on her face eased a little. She coughed a few times, and then made the same move that almost became her
The iconic gesture of holding his chest with his hands, "That's right. I didn't expect you to be quite chivalrous!"
Lin Youde stared at Foch's breasts, and the thought that had visited his mind many times in the past few days popped up again: Remember, this guy is unmarried, is this guy really trying to seduce me to rub her breasts...
At this time Josephine's voice came to Lin Youde's ears.
"Of course, he is my proud husband." I don't know if it was Lin Youde's misunderstanding, but I felt that Josephine emphasized the word "husband" very strongly.
Lin Youde glanced at his wife and almost laughed.
Josephine also crossed her hands and held her chest in the same manner, completely in tit-for-tat stance with Foch.
Could it be that these two have been enemies from before?
"Well," Lin Youde decided to change the topic first, "Let's not talk about me for the moment. I am alone after all, so I can be anywhere. But Miss Foch, is it okay for you to leave the French headquarters when the German attack is imminent?
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Lin Youde's words made Foch look dejected.
"Actually... I have been sidelined since a few days ago." She said, "Galliaini is responsible for the city defense of Paris. The old man has a higher reputation than me, and Caillot's government is not satisfied with my previous performance.
Therefore, Lanrezac, who disobeyed orders and moved north, was promoted to deputy commander-in-chief of the French army. The other generals also acquiesced in this practice of evading my power. Although I still have the final say, but..."
Foch shook his head and gave Lin Youde a helpless smile. In Lin Youde's impression, the commander-in-chief had always been very strong, so the strong contrast when he suddenly saw her weak side made him involuntarily feel pity for Foch.
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But at this moment Josephine suddenly spoke: "So you ran away from the headquarters? You even planned to give the final decision-making power to Lanrezac and others, right?"
"How is that possible!" Foch seemed to be retorting as usual, but Lin Youde could tell that her confidence was seriously lacking.
Lin Youde sighed, and said to Foch before his wife spoke again: "Even if you are relieved of the command, as the commander-in-chief, you should still have a lot of other things to do?"
"Of course," Foch's answer was somewhat beyond Lin Youde's expectation, "I'm ready to take off for combat at any time..."
"No, no," Lin Youde shook his head repeatedly, interrupting Foch, "That's what you should do as a goddess. Besides you, other goddess girls can do it too. What I'm saying is that only as a Dharma
What you can do, Commander-in-Chief of the Army."
"for example?"
"How about going to the front lines to inspect and boost morale?"
Foch was stunned. Obviously she had never thought about this. In fact, not only Foch, but also Josephine would probably not have thought of such a thing if she had not married Lin Youde. In Europe, goddesses are noble beings. After the war started
It is not uncommon to lead everyone to charge like a Valkyrie, but when there is no war, you can't even think about going to inspect the lower-level soldiers. When the goddess wants to go to the lower-level troops, she usually goes to review and be reviewed.
The troops must at least withdraw from the front line and rest for two full days, clean up, and then find a spacious square or something to form an orderly formation.
It is simply impossible for a goddess to go into the trenches to comfort the dirty front-line troops, especially for a senior goddess like Foch who can serve as commander-in-chief.
No wonder Foch was so surprised.
"You mean, you want me to review the troops?"
Lin Youde shook his head again like a rattle: "No, no, no, I want you to go deep into the front line to express condolences to the troops."
"This... this is not in line with tradition..." Foch was still hesitating.
"But it can effectively boost morale." Lin Youde stood up and approached Foch, "Didn't His Majesty Napoleon also like to go to the front line to boost morale before the war?"
"But……"
"What's more," Lin Youde didn't give Foch a chance to speak at all, "Miss Foch, you are so beautiful. If you can appear in the frontline trenches, the soldiers will be crazy with joy. You know, for many
For people, it is impossible for them to come into close contact with a high-level goddess like you in their lifetime. Many people fight bloody battles just to have a high-level goddess personally bring medals to them during the medal ceremony! And most of these people will.
If they die in the next few weeks, don't you think you should grant their wishes a little bit?"
Foch looked at Lin Youde and held it in for a long time before he could muster the final resistance: "However, many of my generals are stubborn nobles, and they will not agree with my approach..."
"So I can go inspect the troops and you just accompany me."
Foch took a step back slightly and carefully looked at Lin Youde's face again.
"I always feel...you have some conspiracy...and, what reason do you want to use to inspect the French troops?"
"Learn the French army's advanced infantry defense concept." Lin Youde replied without hesitation.
Foch had a speechless expression on his face. She looked at Josephine, who responded to her with an expression that said, "I'm used to him being so careless."
Then Foch sighed.
"Okay, then I will listen to you and go inspect the front line to boost the morale of the soldiers."
"That's it!" Lin Youde turned to his staff and said, "Contact the French headquarters and tell me that I want to go to the front line to take a look."
After the staff officer took the order and left, Lin Youde looked back at Foch and found that she had a slight smile on her face and her mood was obviously much better than when she just arrived.
"I hope your suggestions will be effective, Your Excellency, Secretary of the Navy."
"It's definitely effective." Lin Youde replied confidently...)