法国两个集团军11天内光跟进德军就挂了(阵亡)1万人,福煦表示不能进一步流血
福煦:德军被完全击溃了,我怎么不知道[doge][doge][doge]Foch’s armistice document, the Rhinelands and bridgeheads on the eastbank were handed over to the French and Allied armies without the needto fire another shot, drop another bomb or fire another gas shell. In theeleven days of the November fighting, when First and Fourth Armieswere only following a retreating enemy, there were 5,000 deaths in theFrench Army as a whole, not counting wounded casualties. GivenMangin&39;s character, it is unlikely that his Tenth Army would havesuffered fewer casualties in fighting for Metz and Longuyon. Foch alwaysinsisted post-war that his principal reason for agreeing to grant an armis-tice was to avoid further bloodshed. Moreover, apart from the ‘useless-ness [inutilité]’ of killing men for nothing, Foch said soon after the war, apursuit of the Germans‘en pleine débâcle’would have provoked in theFrench Army ‘une pagaie fâcheuse et préjudiciable’.5 The armisticeterms were harsh, and they obtained for France both a guarantee that Germany could not re-start operations and a foothold on German terri-tory, as a pledge for the payment of reparations.










