"To be honest, Your Excellency the President said that our France has successfully developed a 15-ton tank, which uses the most advanced automatic ammunition supply technology at present, which can provide continuous and fierce artillery support for infantry, and has excellent performance. In fair conditions, when fighting ground armored warfare, our tanks are likely not the opponent of your tanks of the same level, but thankfully, our potential opponent is not you."

The intention of Schumann's words is easier to understand. France spent three years and invested a lot of manpower and material resources to develop the amx-13 light tank. Regardless of the effectiveness of the battlefield, at least its paper performance is very good. The production of this domestic tank will help improve the prestige of the French government and the confidence of the people. Due to this political factor, even if the light tank provided by Germany is good, the French team will insist on choosing its own products.

As he deepened his contact, Lynn had more and more knowledge of the French psychology. He realized that Germany's military products were unlikely to be purchased in large quantities by the French team, and me323 might be a very special exception. Since the idea of ​​using military trade to exchange for the large amount of resources France obtained from the colonies was difficult to see, it is better to change the entry point. Anyway, France's failure in the Indochina countries (Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos) was inevitable. Before the United States intervened directly, Germany could achieve goals that were in line with its own interests through military cooperation with France - invisible military reconstruction and military expansion!

"Your Excellency the Prime Minister may misunderstand what I mean. There is no tit-for-tat competition between Germany's 15-ton and France's 15-ton. Their significance is that both of us are pursuing a fast mobile combat model that transcends the tradition." Lynn said calmly, "There is reason to believe that France's new tanks will play an important role in a specific battlefield, and there are also reasons to believe that Germany's armored airborne battalion theory will once again lead the trend of military development."

Schumann thought for a while: "I've roughly followed your ideas. What you want to express is... Large transport aircraft and 15-ton tanks are the technical cores of forming fast mobile combat troops. France is going on this road, and Germany is the same. Since we have a common starting point, we can write in more aspects."

Lin Neng smiled and nodded: "Although our research direction is not completely consistent, our design can still form a certain complementary effect at the actual combat level. As you said just now, France's 15-ton tanks feature fierce support for artillery fire, while our 15-ton tanks attach importance to comprehensive and balanced performance, and their armored combat effectiveness is very good. We cooperate with each other and cooperate with each other when necessary to exert the strength of the new mobile troops."

Schumann then smiled slightly: "This is a good suggestion, we should work together to promote it."

France has relatively sufficient resources and equipment, and Germany has ideal technicians and labor force. Close cooperation between the two is an ideal choice. If we settle for the second best, the development speed of both sides will inevitably be affected. Lynn is particularly painful. Early in the morning, the Prime Minister of the Cabinet Stock also mentioned in his conversation that the current treasury cannot afford to support the research and development of arms, and if you want to do it, you must find a way to raise funds by yourself. Fortunately, this is still a turbulent era, in India

The battle between the French colonial army and the local rebels has been fought intermittently for more than three years from the end of 1946 to the present. From 1947 to 1949, France joined the Allied camp to fight against the Soviet Union. Millions of French teams rushed to the Eastern European battlefield, and the garrisons on the Indochina Peninsula were only about 50,000. The Vietnamese rebels with North Vietnam were expanded to tens of thousands, and once captured port cities such as Qinghua, Hue, Guiren, and Suihe, controlling Vietnam's near

Sixty percent of the land compressed the French team and the South Vietnamese puppet government into the southeast and southern coastal areas. After the allies and the Soviet Union signed an armistice agreement, the French team reorganized. Some troops that suffered heavy losses on the battlefield were dismissed. Due to the strong Soviet military force, the French team's total strength remained above one million. More than 1.5 million US and British troops were stationed in the eastern and northern parts of the country. The defense situation was until the establishment of the Democratic German government, and the Soviet Union was fully

The evacuation from Germany was truly alleviated, and the French government had the energy to invest in the Indochina Peninsula. At the end of 1949, tens of thousands of French teams went to Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia colonies, and the Indochina Peninsula were covered with clouds. At the beginning of the new year, in order to regain control of Vietnam's large and medium-sized cities and transportation trunks, the French army joined forces with the Vietnamese puppet government troops to launch a new round of offensives. The French team alone invested 150,000 people, including the 11th French Airborne Brigade, which had recently arrived at the Indochina Front.

The initial establishment of the French airborne troops can be traced back to the mid-1930s. At that time, French military officers stationed in the former Soviet Union were invited to participate in a large-scale exercise held by the Soviet army near Moscow. During the exercise, the Soviet paratroopers appeared in front of the world for the first time. Their superb technical and tactical skills and powerful long-range assault capabilities left a deep impression on the French military officers. A few months later, a French research delegation went to the former Soviet Union to study and examine the establishment and application of its paratroopers. In addition to communicating with the Soviet paratroopers command and visiting the troops, the French delegation also conducted a field inspection of the paratroopers' course drill at Tusino Airport in Moscow. After the inspection, the delegation drafted a research report and proposed to the French authorities to form a French major.

On November 6, 1935, a professional paratrooper school belonging to the French Air Force and adopting the training model of the former Soviet paratroopers was formed in Avinon, France. In order to establish paratrooper airborne troops as soon as possible, the French Air Force successively formed two paratrooper groups, named 601,602 paratrooper groups, each of which consists of a paratrooper company and a transport aircraft squadron. On January 18, 1937, the paratroopers who were drawn began formal training. Shortly after the French paratrooper groups were formed, World War II broke out. After Germany launched a full attack on the western front, the 601st paratrooper group of the French Air Force received an order to launch an airborne operation on Valcheron Island, the Netherlands. However, due to the shortage of transport aircraft at that time and the supreme military authorities of France

The airborne operation lacked confidence, and at the last moment, the airborne operation was cancelled. From May to June 1940, the Maginot Line collapsed without fighting before the German armored blitzkrieg, and the battle situation was developing in a direction that was not conducive to the allies. No one could pay attention to these two newly formed paratrooper groups, and the two paratrooper companies were also put into the battlefield as ordinary infantry units. On July 27, 1940, after France's defeat, two paratrooper companies that participated in the war in North Africa also stopped fighting and were immediately dismissed. At this point, the French Air Force's initial efforts to form an airborne force were short-lived and soon came to an end. In the later period, France, with the support of the United States and British Allies, formed an airborne force again, mainly divided into two groups: one with a large scale, training and installation of the US military.

It was formed with support; a smaller size and mainly received British airborne assault training. A larger force was named the 1st Light Parachute Regiment, formed in North Africa, mainly imitating the training model of the 82nd Airborne Division of the United States. A few months later, the regiment was transferred to the 1st French Army and participated in a bloody battle with the Germans in the Alsace Mountains when the allies counterattacked the Western European continent. The smaller airborne troops were called the Free French Airborne Force, and carried out many airborne tactical operations in France, the Netherlands and other places with the Allies that counterattacked the European continent. In this series of combat operations, the French airborne troops were responsible for airborne behind enemy lines to assist the attack of the frontal main force and played a role. After the war, the two airborne troops merged and reorganized to become the armed force of the 4th French Republic.

After three years of war, the French airborne troops experienced the most brutal tempering of the war. The surviving elites gathered in the 11th Airborne Brigade, and the five paratrooper battalions under the brigade also became the most elite troops in the French team. After the horn of the offensive was sounded, 3,000 airborne elite troops were ready to go. They were already familiar with the combat performance of US-British transport aircraft and gliders, and had sufficient confidence to add victory weight to a large-scale airborne combat that shocked the "indigenous people".

The opportunity to show the power of the airborne assault came soon. As the French team advancing land and sea quickly captured Da Nang, Hue, Guangzhi, and Vietnam's rebellious armed forces were divided. The troops fighting in the south were gradually compressed to the southern part of Jialai-Kunsong Province. The troops in the northern base areas were expelled to the front line of Guangping Province north of Hue. While gathering superior forces, the French army surrounded and suppressed the rebels in Jialai-Kunsong Province under the support of the South Vietnamese puppet army. While dispatching troops in Hue, they intended to assemble in Guangping.

The rebellion armed forces carried out annihilation operations. On February 26, 1950, the Guangping Battle began. The clear sky was filled with mechanical roars. More than 200 transport planes and gliders carried the officers and soldiers of the 11th Airborne Brigade of France to the Songhe area north of the Tonghai Sea. The 3rd Infantry Regiment, which belonged to the French Foreign Corps, also launched a landing operation at the port of the lower reaches of the Songhe River, intending to use the river natural danger to build a blocking line and join the French troops who were attacking north to encircle and annihilate tens of thousands of North Vietnamese rebels.

Flying over Vietnam, the French airborne soldiers in the cabin did not have to worry about the intensive anti-aircraft artillery fire on the European battlefield. The only thing that could make the plane tremble was the airflow in the air. In a half-old C-47 with English signs, Lieutenant Bier Leglis and his 17 paratroopers were waiting calmly. For them, the North Vietnamese guerrillas using old rifles and even cold weapons had the ability to act rampant in the jungle. As long as they built a line of defense on their necessary path, these thin guys would rush up to die in groups.

Time passed quietly, and there was still only the monotonous engine roar in my ears. Looking through the window, the ground was green, and many parts of Europe were covered with snow at this time. The completely different climate made people feel unfamiliar. When the parachuting preparations were on, a little nervous flashed across the faces of the paratroopers. They stood up one after another, opened the ring for opening the paratroopers and hung it on the metal wire on the right hand of the cabin. Some people were worried about checking the equipment they carried with them, praying that they were still at hand when they landed. After a while, the parachuting lights were on, and the two paratroopers near the cabin door worked together to open the cabin door, and the cool air mixed with the salty smell flowed in, and people were extremely awake in an instant.

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