Africans' hatred of Europeans has a long history, starting with the Crusades a thousand years ago, and further deepened with the expansion of European colonialism five hundred years ago.
Europe's colonization of Africa objectively caused Africa's yearning for and subconscious obedience to Europe.
Therefore, after the start of the World War, Britain, France and other countries organized colonial troops to go to Europe to shed blood and sacrifice for the mother country and protect the mother country's colonial rule over their own countries.
It sounds ironic, doesn't it? Africans shed blood and sacrificed for Britain and France, but the purpose was to allow the British and French to continue to bully them.
Perhaps the average IQ of Africans is lower, but it is not so low as to be subhuman. They can feel the malice of the British and French towards them, especially after joining Manking's command.
Mangin, like Nivele, did not take the lives of soldiers seriously, not just for Africans or Asians, but for everyone, even the French.
Before the war, the Afrika Korps of the Foreign Legion had more than 20,000 soldiers and auxiliary personnel. These people had been replenished as they died, and the scale was maintained at this size, neither expanding nor decreasing.
After Mangin began to command the Afrika Korps, the situation changed fundamentally. Too many people died and it was impossible to make up for it. Even though there were only more than a thousand Afrika Korps left, Mangin still wanted to keep these more than a thousand people.
The attack finally triggered a strong backlash from the Foreign Legion.
On April 21, soldiers of the Moroccan Fourth Infantry Regiment launched a mutiny. They shot the white regiment leader and the white officers who came to supervise the battle, and looted a village near Sosunwa. All the men in the village were killed, and the women
He was raped and then killed.
Manking could not tolerate such evil happening to his troops, so he sent troops to quell the rebellion.
But what surprised Mangin was that the troops who received the order also refused to carry out the mission. Fortunately, they were composed of French troops. They just refused to accept the mission, and no evil incident like the Fourth Infantry Regiment happened.
When things got to this point, Manking did not dare to use force to suppress the situation because he was not sure those troops would carry out his orders.
But panic has begun to spread uncontrollably, rumors spread wantonly in the dark, and various versions have begun to appear, from high-level officials trying to betray the country to the British army's front in Arras having collapsed. Even if it is just for breakfast.
Every piece of bread will anger the French soldiers who are already on the verge of collapse.
At this time, this mutiny, which was similar to a rebellion, had evolved from an individual act to a group act. The mutiny group had also spread from the Afrika Korps to the entire Sherman Dedham front. Evil incidents had occurred in almost all the troops on the front line, but only
Within two days, hundreds of officers were shot dead by soldiers each day. The troops who did not mutiny closed their camps tightly. They did not even dare to contact the headquarters, but sent telegrams directly to the War Department.
The foundation of trust among the troops has been destroyed, and everyone is in a state of panic.
This also marked that Niweiler had lost control of the troops.
On April 25, rumors finally spread back to Paris from the front line. In the rumors, more than 20 French divisions were wiped out, and all remaining troops were maimed. The casualties of the French army reached one million. This
For France, with a total population of only about 40 million, this is simply a sign of national ruin.
One million people, all grown men, that's an entire generation.
President Raymond Poincaré immediately ordered a halt to the offensive and summoned Nivelle back to Paris to face questioning by the Estates-General.
Nivelle responded in a disgraceful way. Nivelle dismissed Mangin from his position as commander of the Sixth Army, once again using Mangin as a scapegoat for the defeat, and at the same time shifted the responsibility to Alfred Michel, blaming
It was precisely because of Alfred Michel's poor command that the battle failed.
Faced with the accusation, the angry Alfred Michel made a devastating response in a contemptuous tone: As your chief of staff, I have never stopped warning you. Not only did you not take my opinions into account, but now you actually put it on me.
Responsibility for failure, do you know what your behavior is called? It's called cowardice
Alfred Michel considered Nivelle's attack hopeless from the beginning, and openly expressed his dissatisfaction with Nivelle by refusing to carry out his orders.
It seems that refusing to carry out orders is a tradition of the French army, not just the Foreign Legion.
The situation has deteriorated to this point, and Nivelle has been ruined. When Nivelle's troops fell into chaos, Nivelle did not think of a solution. Instead, he was busy looking for excuses to shirk responsibility, and allowed the troops to fall into chaos.
More interference. Even Nivelle's supporter Lloyd George began to dislike Nivelle. It is estimated that when Lloyd George showed Nivelle's face, he did not find the bone in the back of Nivelle's head.
Not good at studying
On April 27, Raymond Poincaré asked Nivelle to resign, but Nivelle made another shocking move. Nivelle not only refused to resign, refused to carry out the French president's order, but also tried desperately to shirk responsibility.
This time, even Paul Panlev and old Renault became the targets of Nivelle's accusations. Even Haig, who was far away in Arras, became an obstacle for Nivelle to successfully complete the task. The reason was that Haig did not communicate with Nivelle.
Staying consistent spreads out the forces available to Nivelle.
Nivele has gone crazy
On the 28th, Raymond Poincaré appointed Foch as the new Commander-in-Chief of the French Army and Pétain as the new Chief of Staff of the French Army.
Judging from Raymond Poincaré's series of appointments that bypassed Paul Panrovi, Raymond Poincaré has also lost patience with Paul Panrovi, and he is about to reach the end of his career as prime minister.
Perhaps because of Qin Zhiyuan's intervention, I don't know where the problem occurred. The personnel changes in the French army were completely different from those in another time and space.
In another time and space, the French Prime Minister at this time was Alexandre Ribot, who had been in office for less than a week, Paul Panlewe was the Minister of War, Lyautey had resigned and returned to Morocco, and the French Commander-in-Chief should have been Pétain.
But at this time and space, the French Prime Minister has been replaced by Paul Panlewe, and it seems that he is about to step down again. Lyautey is still struggling in the position of Minister of War, waiting for Clemenceau and Foch to come to power to provide him with support. Foch is
He became the commander-in-chief of the French army, and Pétain became the chief of the French army's general staff.
Qin Zhiyuan didn't have time to think about all this, he was now on his way to the Nivel Headquarters.
Qin Zhiyuan and Foch went together to ensure that the situation was under control. If unexpected factors occurred, Qin Zhiyuan would provide military support to Foch.
Qin Zhiyuan's troops were already on their way to Susongwa. The Germans there seemed to have discovered the chaos of the French army and showed signs of mobilization.
