"Sir, our harvest this time is not bad!"

The document in Marianne's hand is the loss and harvest table of the "Thunder International" in this war, if you compare it, the loss table is not a few pages at all, and the harvest is a thick stack.

In the counterattack that day alone, three divisions of German soldiers were surrounded by rapid armoured clusters. With the exception of weapons and equipment, all the prisoners were handed over to the French side.

It was the intention of the French command to use these considerable numbers of German prisoners to build a three-hundred-kilometre line of defense, consisting entirely of a fast front, from Nancy to Verdun. Although this cost the French a lot of money, it was at least less than the losses suffered by resisting the German attack.

In addition, this had the advantage that the French could draw as many forces as possible from behind the line of defense in order to launch an offensive in the direction of the Somme, which the French had been preparing. So, for the Verdun-Nancy direction, the quietness is exactly what Xia Fei has always wanted.

"Heavy artillery, planes, guns, ammunition, what else did we get?"

"Reputation, my sir, I think the next time there is any fighting, the French command will definitely remember us!"

Tang Yunyang sighed, as if he was not so satisfied with these things. After all, the entire Thunder International also paid nearly 800 casualties because of this operation. Although they only accounted for one-fifth of the actual number of mercenaries in Thunder International, Tang Yunyang already felt that it was enough.

"Alas, we have suffered so many casualties, and we have gained such a small gain, it is really ...... I think we need to expand our troops, otherwise we will soon be finished if this continues! ”

"Humph!"

Marianne snorted, of course she didn't say the "insatiable" in her stomach, but she knew that the guy in front of him was a little too greedy.

"Well, this, this ......, we will use all these equipment ourselves, and we will sell all of them!"

Marianne took the list of weapons that Tang Yunyang had ticked and glanced at it, and the marks on it proved that she was not wrong at all about Tang Yunyang's definition.

Indeed, Tang Yunyang's performance was a little greedy.

In this battle alone, he obtained almost four full divisions of German equipment, except for the pistols and artillery and special equipment such as flamethrowers that he left behind, the rest of the sabers and stirrups will be the equipment of the warlords in the country who do not look at each other very well.

This time the "Thunder International" left enough artillery to form two heavy artillery regiments, because among the three German divisions, there was itself a considerable number of 105-mm divisional artillery. It is a pity that when they were faced with planes flying in the sky that day, they had no air power and preset positions to protect them, and they did not play any role in the Nancy raid at all.

Worried about the huge casualties, they asked the French government for permission to expand the armed forces of Thunder International to a single division, and assured the French government with all the company's assets that these people would not cause an undue burden on the French government after the war.

This matter, with the support of Xia Fei, who was becoming more and more politically powerful thanks to the Voice de France radio station, easily passed the French parliament.

Soon after, Guo Chaodong led the 2,000 children selected by the American "Chinese Association" to come to France on the airships that had been built one after another, and joined the mercenaries of "Thunder International".

The troops of the Thunder International in Nancy swelled up like balloons, and now the battalions had become regimental formations, and a considerable number of veterans had begun to receive officer education. A large number of young people among the Chinese workers were attracted by the "odd flowers" that were much higher than the workers, and it turned out that the mercenaries of "Thunder International" had a good harvest in the previous battle.

But this incident also caused the dissatisfaction of the company's production department, and the departure of these hard-earned skilled workers meant that their training had to start again. Moreover, if this continues during the war, sooner or later the company's efficiency and competitiveness will decline due to the shortage of Chinese workers.

Therefore, more Chinese workers are needed, and these need to recruit more Chinese workers from Li Zhicheng in China.

With calm restored to the front, German attention seemed to have shifted again to the Eastern Front.

There they fought against the Russians in the Battle of Lake Naroch in order to relieve the pressure on Verdun in France, and broke through the German lines. Germany was forced to divert considerable resources to the east, and the western front was temporarily calmed.

As more airships were built by 100,000 Chinese laborers working day and night, the first batch of airships flew directly to Shanxi.

A batch of German standard light weapons were transported to Shanxi by spaceship to equip the Jin Sui army, although there were almost no submachine guns that Yan Xishan had seen and felt rare, but this batch of 12,000 rifles and a large number of Mark's machine guns and other equipment weapons was enough for him to equip another German armorer.

As the overseer of Shanxi, Yan Xishan's shrewdness is reflected in the reckoning. For when he paid for this batch of weapons, he used part of the gold and a considerable number of Chinese laborers.

Recruiting a group of Chinese workers is not worth a lot of money to him, and it is not difficult to even directly send troops to pull him 2~30,000 strong men. And the advantage that can be seen is that if these 2~30,000 people come back after completing the 5-year contract, then the level of his Shanxi's industrial production will naturally increase by several steps, and then his own military factory will be able to run it, saving him from having to rely on others for weapons.

When talking to Li Zhicheng, who came to deliver the goods, Yan Xishan talked about another thing.

"Mr. Li, I see that you have always flown around in airplanes, dare your company also make this thing?"

"Lord Overseer, this is natural. We Mike. Prince. The Merlin Military-Industrial Group not only produces German light weapons but also some aircraft, and if you are interested, we can supply them to you. Is it just the price of the plane......"

Speaking of this, Li Zhicheng deliberately paused his words.

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"My lord, you know that the West is fighting fiercely now, and the French are reluctant to sell our planes to others, so in order to open up the joints, what is the price......?"

As Yan Xishan, who had studied military affairs in Japan, he still had some experience in warfare, and after watching the flight, what immediately came to his mind was that this thing could see the actions of the enemy army, and it could also correct the impact point of the shell, and this thing was indeed a good thing.

"It doesn't matter, we have people in Shanxi, as long as your company still needs workers, then the price will not be a problem, it will not be a problem......

Seeing that Yan Xishan seemed to be extremely interested in the plane, Li Zhicheng added another sentence.

"Your Excellency, your vision is indeed far-sighted, but this pilot is only trained to do it, and the price of training is several times more expensive than the plane itself......