Chapter 796 Military Cap
After three days of organization, the Chinese advisory group was assigned to the Zoafu Corps.
The distribution this time was very thorough. The entire chief officer at the company level of the Zoafu Corps was assigned military advisers, which made the Chinese team penetrate almost every corner of the Zoafu Corps.
Zhang Chi was still a little surprised because not long ago, General Giro wanted to drive out the American forces, but now he seems to have accepted it fully.
Zhang Chi thought, this might be because General Giro realized that he could only cooperate with the United States.
What Zhang Chi didn't know was that General Giro actually had another intention to do this: the Zoaf regiment was not actually controlled by General Giro, and the one who really had command over it was General Giro. General Giro's move was actually to use the Chinese advisory group to weaken General Giro's military power, so as to achieve a balance between the two and make himself profit as much as possible.
But General Giro was wrong at this point.
General Giro thought that this approach would arouse General Zhu An's opposition, and then because of a conflict of interest, General Zhu An would be in the same position as Zhang Chi... If we analyze it from the perspective of interests, it would be true, because doing so may eventually overthrow General Zhu An's command and become a bare commander.
However, sometimes not everyone looks at the problem from the perspective of rights and interests.
General Juan is one of them... General Juan is a pragmatist, or his vision is longer than General Giro, and he knows very well that no matter what happens, the Zoaf Corps will eventually leave France.
This is not only because the French government has promised the Algerians that they will make them independent after the war is won... If Algeria is independent, then the Zoaf Corps, as Algerian troops, will of course be out of France's control.
Moreover, because General Juan had long commanded or could also be said to be controlling the Zoaf Corps, he knew very well that the national significance and independence of Algerian soldiers had become increasingly strong. Even if France did not have an "independence agreement" with Algeria, France would not be able to maintain its status as a colonist in the future.
Therefore, as the actual commander of the Zoafu Corps, General Juan positioned the Zoafu Corps as: it was not a unit of his own, and it would be difficult to use them to help him liberate France.
From this positioning, General Zhu An naturally doesn't care whether he has military power or military power. What he wants is that this army can fight, win battles, and drive the Germans out of France.
The entry of Chinese consultants can obviously help him achieve this goal.
So General Zhu An assigned Chinese consultants without saying a word, and ordered officers at all levels to cooperate with the work of Chinese consultants and learn from Chinese consultants... However, this was not implemented very well, mainly because the legal officials always looked at Chinese consultants with a sense of superiority and with a provocative look.
"Major General!" General Zhu An enthusiastically welcomed Zhang Chi into his command center and said straight to the point: "Tell me, I will listen to you how we should start training!"
Zhang Chi couldn't help but smile and said, "General, you're too anxious. Our consultants are afraid that they have not allocated them yet!"
General Zhu An laughed and said, "Major General, don't blame me for being impatient. On the one hand, this is because my motherland is still under the control of the Germans, and on the other hand, I can't wait to see the scene of Zoaf taking advantage of his previous shame on the battlefield!"
Zhang Chi couldn't help but nodded. It should be said that these two points are the hopes of the vast majority of French people... The "Magino" defense line and the shame of defeat and surrendering in more than a month were too heavy for the arrogant French.
"First of all, I want to make a suggestion."
"Please say it!"
"Redesign the uniform of the Zoafu Corps!" Zhang Chi said: "Especially the military cap!"
Zhang Chi had long wanted to say this, and I don’t know who designed it. The uniforms of the Zoafu Corps were exaggerated. To be precise, the uniforms of the French colonial army were exaggerated. They used bright colors to make military caps. The Zoafu Corps’ military caps were even bright red, and the target could be seen from a distance and it was still the head.
The pants are Turkish, with a long crotch standing, almost no legs to distinguish, and there are 32 folds from the waist, making it very inconvenient to marching and fighting, especially when doing tactical actions.
This is also one of the reasons why the Zoaf Corps suffered heavy losses when attacking the Mares line, and this uniform made them easily targeted and shot by the Germans.
"Uh!" General Zhu An replied awkwardly: "It's true, we need a batch of new military uniforms!"
Later, Zhang Chi learned that the reason why the French colonial army's military caps used these bright colors was just for easy discernment: bright red represents Algeria, bright yellow represents Morocco, and sky blue represents Tunisia.
Indeed, if you do this, you can see at a glance: you only need to look at the soldier's military cap to know where he is from. But the enemy can also find the target at a glance... In the background of the desert's yellowish yellow color, these colors are very easy to be distinguished.
As for the loose and inconvenient pants, it is taken into account the customs of the Arabs... They are used to wearing these pants, and in the hot desert climate, these loose pants help dissipate heat.
These were originally military common sense. It can even be said that people realized the importance of camouflage colors and uniforms during the war, so Zhang Chi sometimes couldn't understand why the French army had such a "regression".
After thinking about it, I thought it was not surprising.
The reason is still in France's strategic thinking of "complete defense".
For the French army, war was nothing more than hiding in trenches and shooting guns and firing artillery, just like hiding in the "Magino Line of Defense"... So, is it really important to see what the military cap is? Do you really need to consider what the uniform is?
But now it needs to be considered, because it turns out that what the Zoafu Corps has to do is not to hide in fortifications as imagined, but to charge towards the enemy's defense with bayonets.
From this we can see how terrifying the mistakes in strategic thinking are. There is a saying that says, "Strategic mistakes cannot be compensated with tactical victory." This is the mistake made by the French army.
What Zhang Chi needs to do is train this army that grew up under wrong strategic thinking.
Chapter completed!