Chapter 351
With the willingness and motivation to fight, the morale of the French camp suddenly changed.
This is actually easy to understand. It is almost the difference between active and passive... When you are forced to study or work, you will move when others urge you to move, and you will be distracted from time to time. If you don’t do your job well, you will feel extremely disgusted.
If you are proactive in studying and working, that is, you are willing to be interested in studying and working, you will not only do it well, but also feel happy or even feel tired.
Before this, the soldiers of the French battalion were forced to join the army. In order to maintain the family's business and the lives of their families, they had to do so. Of course, they would not have much combat effectiveness in this situation. Everyone would think more or less about how to survive a battle to save their lives, or even surrender to the British army.
As for the safety of their family members and their family business, they can indeed threaten them, but at the critical moment of life and death, not many people will care about this. For example, Charles, who is on the verge of collapse in the tunnel, and the two deserters... They are going crazy even if they can't even take care of themselves, so how can they consider other things?
This can be said to be a challenge to human nature, or an extreme test of their ability to bear it.
The less motivation or intention, the easier it is to be eliminated in this kind of test. For example, if Charles has a very firm position, he wants to stand on Germany and win and go home to triumphantly and get praise from his family, then he will not collapse.
His problem is that he is very conflicted in his heart. He is constantly struggling between Germany and the Allies, but he is helpless about the status quo and was finally crushed... In fact, Qin Chuan believes that most of the French soldiers at that time were in this situation.
Now, when they knew that Germany would win and "fight France" but let them go, they finally let go of all the contradictions and all the burdens, and entered a state of proactiveness.
"We have two goals!" Qin Chuan pointed to the map and said: "One is Gafsa Airport, where there are supplies transported by British people. The other is a bus station, which has been converted into a logistics supply base by them. All supplies transported by transport ships to Tripoli and then transferred to Gafsa by cars are concentrated here!"
"Then we're going to act separately!" said Boduan.
"Yes, you are in charge of the bus station. Are there any problems?" Qin Chuan asked.
"No problem, sir!" Boduane answered confidently.
After pausing, Boduane added: "Thank you, sir!"
"Why thank me?" Qin Chuan was a little surprised.
"For everything!" Boduan replied: "You trained us to take us to the battlefield and guide us to grow and have the skills to survive, which prevents us from waiting to die when facing the enemy... We should have known that they will not let us go!"
"Yes, they even regarded the Vichy government as traitors!"
"I heard that they are going to execute Betan!"
"Of course, they have their share in assassination of Darlang!"
...
Qin Chuan felt a little ashamed when he heard this. Although the liquidation of the Vichy government by "Fighting France" was real, and Betton was indeed sentenced to death (later changed to life imprisonment), but...
"Also for this mission!" Boduan continued: "I know that the mission at the bus station is easier to complete and easier to escape. Lieutenant, you always leave yourself the more difficult and dangerous things!"
Boduane is right about this.
On the surface, the bus station has more supplies and heavier tasks, but this is not the case.
Because the bus station has more supplies, the traffic is complicated, the French army can easily mix and perform tasks, and even after completing the task, they can easily escape with the crowds during the riots.
But the airport... is a strong defense area, and the only troops stationed there are the US troops, so it is more dangerous no matter from which perspective it is considered.
"No, I'm not considering you!" Qin Chuan said: "I just want to meet the Americans and see what they have!"
The French soldiers couldn't help laughing.
"And!" Qin Chuan continued: "There are still some who have to go to the airport with me!"
"I'll go!"
"And me!"
"I want to meet Americans too!"
...
Qin Chuan nodded, and this is what an army should look like.
The next day in the tunnel, Qin Chuan assigned the detailed tasks and verbally practiced in the tunnel... The so-called verbal drill is a way of drilling in which the command personnel can't conduct real drills due to restrictions on conditions, and instead, the commanders will issue instructions at a certain point.
Its effect is obviously not as good as actual practice, but it is worse than being in a mess.
But this is not a big problem.
The reason is that in principle the French battalion has not completed the training at this time, so the commander of them is still the "instructor", that is, the platoon leader of each platoon is based on the German organization, and the company commander of each company is a German soldier. However, each platoon and company have selected soldiers with outstanding organizational and command capabilities as assistants and are also accurate commanders, so there is not much difficulty in command.
Qin Chuan divided the troops into two groups... The French battalion had a total of four companies, each of which was about 150 people.
So the two companies were led by Boduane, who cooperated with the baker to be responsible for the infiltration and sneak attack on the bus station, and the other two companies were led by Qin Chuan, and were responsible for the airport together with Werner.
Then, Qin Chuan asked someone to pull out boxes of British equipment from the warehouse, including military uniforms... These were prepared before the tunnel was blocked. Of course, the French soldiers had no idea what was contained in the box.
Boduan asked Qin Chuan: "Lieutenant, we have planned to do this for a long time, right?"
"Of course!" Qin Chuan replied: "It's just that Colonel Slain always thought that doing this would not work, because they didn't believe you could complete this task, so they wanted to cancel it for a while. What do you think?"
"No!" Boduan replied: "We will prove Colonel Slain is wrong!"
"Yes!" said another French soldier: "We will not miss this opportunity. The people who 'fight France', including the British, will know that we are not easy to mess with either!"
"Very good!" Qin Chuan nodded and explained: "Remember, after putting on this military uniform, you will be the troops of 'Fighting France'!"
"Yes, sir!" Boduan replied.
"Good luck!"
"Good luck!"
...
The French soldiers blessed each other, and some even handed the letters written to the soldiers who stayed in the tunnel, saying, "If I can't come back, hand the letter to my family and tell them that I'll do my best!"
Chapter completed!