464 Take advantage of others and make up for one's shortcomings
The little old man Foch is actually quite interesting.
Because of Julie, Foch and Qin Zhiyuan had a very good relationship. According to Chinese tradition, Qin Zhiyuan regarded Foch as his father.
Foch's serious job is as the general military adviser to Lanfang. This job is actually very easy. If you remember it, you can take a look. If you don't remember it, it doesn't matter if you don't go.
Qin Zhiyuan just wanted Foch to have something to do so that he would not be idle all day long. In that case, Foch's health would soon suffer.
However, Foch was obviously not a person who only took money and did nothing. After arriving in Lanfang, he immediately asked Qin Zhiyuan for a plane and began to travel around Lanfang.
Well, it's not a tour, Foch was inspecting.
Not to mention, Foch's prestige in Lanfang's army is almost as good as that of Qin Zhiyuan. You must know that Foch is the real commander-in-chief of the Allied Powers. He was awarded the rank of marshal by France and Belgium. Such an achievement is not something ordinary people can achieve.
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It can be said that all the foreign legionnaires in Europe were under Foch, so Foch had countless fans in Lanfang.
Almost everywhere he went, Foch would be warmly welcomed by the soldiers, and Foch himself was no exception. No matter what irregularities he saw, he would point them out and criticize them without any politeness.
The officers and soldiers naturally obeyed. There was nothing they could do. What they said made sense.
It can be said that Foch has been a soldier for his whole life. He has been fighting in the army all his life. He is very familiar with all kinds of minor problems in the military camp, and he is clear about all the tricks.
When he was in France, Foch could see many things, but he could only look at them. Even if Foch wanted to correct them, he was powerless because the French army had traditions that had been passed down for hundreds of years. Those traditions
It is deeply rooted and cannot be shaken by Foch.
The current Lanfang army is a blank slate for Foch. Lanfang's army does not have any traditions. Foch has enough authority here, so Foch can shape Lanfang into what Foch wants to be perfect.
The look of an army.
Foch was a slightly conservative person. Although he did not have too high demands in life and was a bit slovenly, he had extremely high requirements for military appearance and placed great emphasis on the sense of hierarchy between superiors and subordinates.
At the same time, Foch believed that the army should have a noble demeanor, a strong and fearless style, and at the same time, it should have the compassion that the strong should have for the weak, and it should also have a fearless spirit of sacrificing others. Only with all the above characteristics can a military be qualified.
Foch's idea of a perfect army.
So this made the officers and soldiers who wanted to flatter Foch suffer.
Foch himself loved cleanliness. Well, all military camps must be cleaned every day. The soldiers' housekeeping must have high standards and strict requirements. Everything must be placed neatly and orderly. Even the handles of the cups must be in the same direction as the toothbrush.
The quilts should also be folded into neat tofu pieces and not piled loosely on the bed.
Although Foch himself was slovenly, he hated others being slovenly. Well, all soldiers in Lanfang are not allowed to grow beards. All soldiers must bathe every day, change their clothes every day, and there must not be any dirt on the collars and cuffs of their shirts.
Even if the weather is as hot as 37 degrees Celsius, there will still be a wind penalty.
Foch valued the hierarchy, so the hierarchy in Lanfang's army was very strict. It was not just a lie that senior officers would kill people. Lower-level officers and soldiers must obey orders absolutely when facing higher-ranking officers. If the officer gives an order, even if
Even though there is an abyss and a mine array ahead, we must move forward bravely.
Foch believed that the army should have compassion for the weak from the strong, so Lanfang's soldiers would participate in social public services as much as possible after training. Although they would not help people near the station sweep the yards and carry water, they must also respond to people's requirements.
If there is a response, if it is a reasonable request, then no refusal is allowed.
After doing this for half a year, the soldiers in Lanfang discovered that the image of soldiers had undergone earth-shaking changes compared to before.
How do you describe the former Lanfang army?
Although he is brave and good at fighting, he always feels that he is not grand enough and does not have the righteousness of a master of kings.
It's different now. Although the current Lanfang soldiers look a bit arrogant because their hat brim is lowered down and they raise their chin slightly when looking at others, they basically respond to the people's requests. This makes the people support the soldiers even more, and it also makes the people more supportive.
Military-civilian relations have become more harmonious.
In the past, people in Lanfang were keen to join the army because of the various benefits. But in the past six months, the focus of people's attention has gradually shifted from benefits to image. For the first time, being a soldier has become a relatively fashionable term in the Chinese world.
What a surprise.
At the same time, due to the improvement of military appearance and discipline, the current Lanfang army looks more orderly, more enviable, more powerful, and more solid.
At the same time, due to the harmonious military-civilian relations, the idea that Lanfang soldiers will take protecting their home and country as their own responsibility is gradually gaining widespread recognition, which is what Lanfang Military Department values most.
An army that has never had faith, even if its combat effectiveness is extremely high for a while, will not be able to maintain its combat effectiveness as time goes by.
Only with firm belief can the army have strong combat effectiveness.
Think about the pla in another time and space. Although they had crude weapons and were in a difficult situation, the pla never gave up on their ideals. They finally won the War of Resistance Against Japan and the War of Liberation, and they resisted the alliance and did not fall behind. This is
How powerful.
Qin Zhiyuan wants to build an army in this time and space that has the same beliefs as pla, so that Lanfang will always be invincible.
Of course, due to objective conditions, Qin Zhiyuan would not use doctrine to arm the army, but would use the concept of people's soldiers to strengthen the ideological and political education of Lanfang's army.
Yes, there is no doubt about this. Ideological and political education is not unique to Pla in another time and space, but is a method commonly practiced all over the world. Even the world’s hegemon, the United States, has never relaxed its ideological and political education.
In some aspects, it is even more stringent than the requirements of pla.
Qin Zhiyuan should also strengthen ideological education and arm Lanfang soldiers with the ideas of people's soldiers, so that they have firm beliefs and serve Lanfang wholeheartedly.
In fact, Lan Fang's soldiers were originally Lan Fang's soldiers. This is not a lie, but a fact.
Long before Lanfang was founded, the Foreign Legion at that time began to mobilize the families of the Foreign Legion to immigrate, first to Corsica, and then to the then Dutch East Indies.
Qin Zhiyuan originally wanted to create a peaceful evolution in the Dutch East Indies, but he did not expect that the Dutch would be so careless. In just a few months, the Dutch were driven out of the Netherlands by a group of farmers who had been trained by the Foreign Legion for several months.
Belonging to East India, Lan Fang was born in this chaos.
In Lanfang at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, in addition to the local Chinese and overseas Chinese in Lanfang, they were also the families of the Foreign Legion who immigrated from the Republic of China. Therefore, there is no doubt that the soldiers in Lanfang are truly people's soldiers.
Qin Zhiyuan wants to use the love between the soldiers and civilians of the people's soldiers to awaken the hearts of the soldiers to protect their homes and the country, so that Lanfang's soldiers can wholeheartedly defend the hard-won happy life of their relatives, so that Lanfang's army will explode.
Strong combat effectiveness.
I am afraid that even Foch himself did not expect that his various strict requirements would lead to this unexpected surprise.
While doing his best to improve the quality of Lanfang's soldiers, Foch did not relax Lanfang's officer echelon construction.
Foch himself has a huge reputation in France. He has been in the army for decades, and Foch's disciples are all over France. Some of them are doing well and currently occupy high positions in the French army; some are relatively frustrated and are at the end of their personal military careers.
Low tide.
Foch used his various connections throughout the French army to hire hundreds of professional officers from France to join Lanfang's army as military advisors.
These military advisers are widely present in the staff departments of various armies. They played an important role in the regularization process of Lanfang Army. It can be said that without these people, the regularization of Lanfang Army would not have been so smooth and would not have achieved the goal.
current effect.
While arranging professional officers from France to join the staff, Foch established the Army Academy and the Naval Academy in Sanfa City, Wanghai Prefecture, to cultivate Lanfang's own echelon of officers.
This move was strongly supported by Qin Zhiyuan, so with Qin Zhiyuan's intervention, the Army Academy was divided into the Infantry Academy and the Artillery Academy, and the Air Force Academy and the Armored Academy were added. Lanfang finally had his own school in the true sense.
of military academies.
In fact, Qin Zhiyuan had set up an officer school as early as the Corsica period, but that school was more like a short-term training class and could not really train officers with professional backgrounds. This has always been Qin Zhiyuan's biggest regret.
Well now, with the help of Foch, the military academy in Lanfang was established very smoothly, and it had a very high starting point from the beginning.
To be honest, although the Foreign Legion looks down upon the combat effectiveness of the French army, they have to admit that the French army has its own unique ideas in some aspects.
For example, artillery, the French army has the best artillery in the world.
Even before the outbreak of the World War, the French army attached great importance to the training of artillery. Foch, Lyote Pétain, and even Nivelle, who had faded out of the public eye, were all artillerymen.
At the beginning of the World War, the French army's artillery construction went into a misunderstanding. Small-caliber rapid-fire artillery became the main artillery of the French army, while large-caliber heavy artillery was not paid much attention to.
After all, the French had a solid foundation. When they found out that they had gone astray in actual wars, they promptly reflected and began to pay attention to heavy artillery.
By the end of the World War, in almost all battles on the Western Front, French troops had always appeared as artillery. Their heavy artillery played a huge role in the war, posing a threat to the Germans that far exceeded the threat posed by German artillery.
The threat posed by Allied forces.
Well, no matter how the French army declines, they always have their merits. Qin Zhiyuan just wants to take the strengths of others to make up for his own shortcomings.
