Since there was no other choice, General Zhu An had to agree to Zhang Chi's training plan.

However, it can be seen that General Zhu An was still a little disappointed with this. To be precise, this is because General Zhu An had too high expectations for the Zoafu Corps. He hoped that they could liberate France and especially gain international status for France. However, due to practical reasons, they could only reduce the level of the army, so they would inevitably feel a little disappointed.

Later, General Zhu An discovered that his loss was completely unnecessary, because the Zoafu army was somewhat similar to the Japanese army to some extent, such as their strong endurance and good adaptability, and they also dared to fight and kill... These may be related to the harsh living environment in the desert area, and the hardship and fatigue on the battlefield were nothing to them, because they had suffered a lot of such hardship and fatigue.

The Chinese consultant who served as an advisor in the Zoafu Corps had reacted to Zhang Chi. They often saw the wounded soldiers of the Zoafu Corps dealing with their own wounds during battles, and some of them were even broken. They bandaged the pain with clothes or rags they could find around them.

What Chinese consultants even more unimaginable is that they seem to take all this lightly.

This is actually understandable. It should be said that the Chinese soldiers at this time are similar. People who grow up in a difficult environment will not be as cowardly and timid as those who live in luxury... This can also be said that people who live in luxury cherish their lives more: there is still a great life waiting for them to enjoy, and of course they are reluctant to die.

With these foundations, the rest of the work is easy to handle. The next training is nothing more than just going over and over again to cultivate their sense of cooperation and obedience. The subjects of marksmanship are just going down the situation... The French army had training, and this was not something that could be refined overnight. Especially if you want to become a sharpshooter, you have to have a mathematical foundation to calculate the offset, which is very difficult for Algerian soldiers who have basically never attended school.

More importantly, Zhang Chi believes that this is not very important to the Zoafu army: the Zoafu army only has infantry and artillery, so if you want to play a greater role in the battlefield, you can only choose night battle like the Japanese army... Night battle can weaken the enemy's advantages in tanks, fighter jets, etc. as much as possible, especially in this era when most fighter jets and tanks do not have night battle capabilities.

Since it is a night battle, the target is either invisible, and it is likely to be right in front of you if you see it... Such a battle has little to do with marksmanship, but more of it is firepower, luck and reaction speed.

But there is one thing that Zhang Chi will never let go, that is the infantry and artillery coordination of the Zoafu Corps.

As mentioned earlier, under the guidance of the strategic idea of ​​"absolute defense", the French army may not have good equipment, but they have many artillery and their performance is quite good... For example, the m1929 155 and howitzer have a range of 17 kilometers, while similar artillery in Germany and the United States have only about 15 kilometers, and there are other such as the m1927 and m1932. Anyone cannons have amazing data.

This seems normal. As for "absolute defense", defense requires artillery. Just like in World War I, fighting is almost synonymous with artillery battles, and artillery bombardment every day.

The range of artillery is very important for artillery battles... because this means that our artillery has the advantage of "I can hit you but you can't hit me", so France basically did two things after World War I, one was to dig trenches, that is, the Maginot line of defense, and the other was to produce cannons.

If there is a third thing, it is to combine the cannon and the Maginot line of defense.

This is definitely an advantage for the Zoafu Corps, especially if you want to fight night battles, artillery and artillery battles are indispensable.

In this regard, Zhang Chi's approach is to cultivate artillery talents of the Zoafu Corps, with the focus on artillery observers...artillery observers are equivalent to artillery eyes, and whether they are qualified directly determines the effectiveness of the bombing.

The French army's previous practice was very simple, and they directly used French soldiers as artillery observers.

This seems to be feasible, and there are no communication problems, because the officers of the artillery unit are also French, and Algerian soldiers are only responsible for firing shells according to orders.

But there are still many problems.

"To be honest, we don't believe in the French!" Cookie said to Zhang Chi.

Cookie is an Algerian, and his identity in the French army was a staff officer of the Third Army of the Zoafu Corps... In order to firmly grasp the military power, the French army was the French, and the Algerians only served as deputy positions to facilitate the transmission of orders.

Cookie gestured and said, "Look, our soldiers are charging towards the position in front, and our artillery behind... The artillery didn't know where the shells would hit us, and they were told by the French, and then we fired according to their orders, but what if these shells hit us our own heads?"

Zhang Chi couldn't help but nod.

This was not a fabrication of Cook, but something like this happened when he attacked the Mares defense line... On a high ground 11 kilometers away from the coastline, Algerian soldiers rushed to the high ground to fight fiercely with the Germans. When the Algerian soldiers were at a disadvantage and were about to retreat, the sound of artillery fired the Germans and Algerians who were fighting on the high ground to the bloody flaws.

Later, I heard from the French that the artillery observers made a mistake in the data, and those artillery observers were not even punished but were commended instead.

Anyone who understands it knows that the French are doing this intentionally. The French officials do not care about the lives of the Algerians. If they can kill Algerian soldiers and also kill Germans, they will not hesitate.

From this aspect, it can also be seen that the French officials are short-sighted: they only care about immediate interests, but do not consider longer-term interests... They do not know that the "crisis of trust" that emerges within the army is much more terrifying than the Germans.

Not to mention anything else, although the Algerian soldiers were forced to cooperate with the French army due to the situation, they did not dare to charge because they were worried that such a thing would happen again.

"What if I let you have your own artillery?" Zhang Chi said.

Cook couldn't help but be stunned, and then smiled half-worry and half-happy: "This is impossible, the French will not agree!"
Chapter completed!