596. 第一次世界大战：马恩河奇迹（第三部分）

战线从巴黎郊区一直延伸到东边的大要塞凡尔登。

It goes from the suburbs of Paris all the way east to the great eastern fortress of Verdun.

而向他们推进的是百万德军，实际上不到一百万。

And advancing towards them are a million Germans, just under a million really.

德军非常自信。

They're very confident, the Germans.

他们以为自己会赢，但他们又累又饿，衣衫褴褛，疲惫不堪。

They think they're going to win, but they are sore and hungry and ragged and very tired.

上一集我们讲了蒙斯战役。

We did the Battle of Mons in the last episode.

我们引用了一个叫沃尔特·布鲁姆的家伙的话，他描述了自己的部队。

We quoted a bloke called Walter Bluhm, and he describes his own troops.

他说，我们看起来没刮胡子，没洗澡，像史前野人，满身尘土，溅满血迹，被火药烟熏黑，被荆棘和铁丝网撕得破破烂烂。

He says, we looked unshaved, unwashed like prehistoric savages, covered with dust and spattered with blood, blackened with powder smoke, and torn threadbare by thorns and barbed wire.

所以尽管德军给人的印象是战无不胜、不屈不挠之类的，但他们已经达到了忍耐的极限。

So although there is this image of the Germans as sort of invincible and indomitable and whatnot, they are at the absolute limit of their endurance.

他们穿着这些衣服，实际上，我们在后面的故事里还会一再看到这种情况。

They're they're wearing this this we'll see this again and again in this story actually.

他们大体上还是穿着出发时的那身衣服，而且好几个星期都没洗过了。

They're wearing the same clothes by and large that they set out in, and they haven't washed for weeks.

所以他们的状态确实非常糟糕。

So they really are, you know, in a terrible state.

所以一股刺鼻的气味弥漫在巴黎上空。

So a pungent pungent smell descending on Paris.

确实如此。

It's exactly.

就在那一天，也就是9月4日，冯·克卢克将军向德国最高统帅部发了一封电报。

So that very day, actually, September 4, general von Kluig sent a signal to German supreme command.

他说，我们已经到了极限。

And he said, we're at the limit.

我的士兵们真的撑不下去了。

My men cannot really go on.

他们筋疲力尽了，我们需要增援。

They're exhausted and we need reinforcements.

而在他指挥部里，你知道，当他享用完漫长的午餐时，霞飞将军心里想，时机到了。

And at his headquarters, you know, as he's polishing off his long lunch, general Joffe thinks to himself, this is the moment.

那天晚上，也就是9月4日，他发布了第六号总命令，他说，既然德国第一集团军已经转向内侧来消灭我们，我们就要集中所有兵力对付这支军队。

And that evening, the September 4, he issues general order number six, and he says, now that the German first army has turned inwards to finish us off, we'll concentrate all our forces against this army.

我们要在他们最意想不到的时候出击。

We'll strike when they're least expecting it.

我们要在德国第一和第二集团军之间打进一个楔子，就在他们的西翼，然后把他们从我们的神圣领土上赶出去。

We will thrust a wedge between the German first and second armies, so that's on their sort of western flank, and we will drive them from our sacred soil.

太棒了。

Great stuff.

但实际上，要让这计划奏效，他想在德军两个集团军之间插入的楔子将是英国远征军。

But he actually for this to work, the wedge that he wants to drive between the two German armies is going to be the British Expeditionary Force.

对。

Right.

我们自己的同胞。

Our own dear countrymen.

是因为他们恰好被部署在那个位置吗？

Is that because they're positioned that that where they happen to have ended up?

我的意思是，这跟我们的战斗精神没关系。

I mean, it's not a kind of our fighting spirit.

不是。

No.

不是。

No.

不是。

No.

他并不是说只有英国人才有能力完成这个任务。

He's not saying the only people who can do this are the British.

他实际上是在看地图，然后说，嗯，英国人正好在合适的位置，所以只能由他们来做了。

He's actually looking at his map and saying, well, the British are the people in the right place, so they're gonna have to do it.

我只是在想，这里面是不是也有政治因素。

I just wondered if perhaps there was a kind of political dimension to it as well.

我不知道。

I don't know.

我觉得不是。

I don't think so.

我想

I think

他们只是刚好在合适的位置做合适的工作。

it's just that they're in the right place to do the right job.

也许吧，我的意思是，我知道一战期间有个麻烦，就是那里有很多人真的了解每个人的背包之类的细节。

Maybe I mean, I know this the trouble during the First World War is there are a lot of people there who literally know, like, the details of everybody's pack and stuff.

所以他们几乎肯定会涌向其他地方，

So they're almost certainly gonna be flooding the rest of

应对局势。

the situation.

用我们的法医

With our forensic

账户。

account.

法医。

Forensic.

对。

Yeah.

就像那个家伙，写了篇四万字的文章，讲人们去灰烬核心用的弓什么的。

It's like that bloke who wrote, like, a 40,000 word essay about the bows that people use to Ashencore or something.

还记得你打灰烬核心的时候吗？

Remember that when you did the Ashencore?

记得。

Yes.

我记得。

I do.

总之，我不想提那些旧事了，汤姆。

Anyway, I don't wanna I don't wanna open old wounds, Tom.

所以九月五号，我们就是从这儿开始的。

So the September 5, we began with this.

这就是我们开始的那个场景。

This is the scene we began with.

这是关键时刻。

This is the crucial moment.

我得说，这绝对是个超级夸张的戏剧性场景。

And I have to say, it is an absolutely unbelievably melodramatic scene.

就像我们之前说的，Jean Fu特别喜欢开车。

Jean Fu, as we said before, loves a loves a drive.

他披上大披风，开了100英里到那个城堡。

He puts on his massive cape, and he drives a 100 miles to the chateau Well,

他不是开车去的，多米尼克。

he doesn't drive, Dominic.

不。

No.

当然

Of

当然，他不开车。

course, he doesn't drive.

他是一级方程式冠军。

Formula one winning.

对。

Yeah.

是的。

Yes.

没错。

That's right.

应该说，他是被送到沃克斯勒佩尼勒城堡的。

He is driven, I should say, to the Chateau Of Vaux Le Penile.

所以那就是约翰·弗伦奇爵士住的地方。

So that's where sir John French is staying.

他一开始就对约翰爵士说，你的决定现在关系到欧洲的命运。

And he begins by telling sir John, he says, on your decision now rests the fate of Europe.

然后他按照你描述的那样阐述了他的计划，战场的横扫，那些复杂的机械装置，德国人盲目地走向悬崖，所有这些。

And then he sets out his plan as you described, the sweep of the battlefield, all these intricate bits of machinery, the Germans blundering on towards the precipice, all this.

然后他转向约翰·弗伦奇爵士，他的声音因激动而颤抖。

And then he turns to sir John French, and his voice is throbbing with passion.

他平时几乎不说话，所以这真是一个非常了不起的时刻。

He barely ever speaks, so this is a really remarkable moment.

他说，所有法国人的生命，法国的土地，欧洲的未来，都取决于你是否加入这场战斗。

And he says, the lives of all French people, the soil of France, the future of Europe depends on you joining this battle.

我无法相信英国军队会在这个紧要关头拒绝尽自己的一份力。

I cannot believe the British army will refuse to do its share in this supreme crisis.

然后他直视着约翰爵士的眼睛，说，陆军元帅什么的。

Then he looks at sir John in the eyes, and he says, field marshal or whatever.

是法国在求你。

It's France who is begging you.

英格兰的荣誉岌岌可危，他边说边捶桌子。

The honor of England is at stake, and he's been thumping the table while he's doing that.

然后是一阵长时间的沉默，大家都看着约翰·弗伦奇爵士，他那张红脸比以往更红了，眼泪顺着脸颊流下来。

And then there's this long silence, and everybody looks at sir John French with his great red face, bright redder than ever, and there are tears trickling down his cheeks.

他试着用法语说点什么，但说不出来，结结巴巴的，最后他转向一个军官说，该死。

And he tries to say something in French, but he can't he stumbles on his words, and eventually, he just turns to one of his officers and he says, damn it.

我说不清楚。

I can't explain.

告诉他，凡是人能做的，我们的人都会做到。

Tell him that all that men can do, our fellows will do.

军官用法语对霞飞说，元帅说，是的。

And the officer says in French to Joff, the field marshal says, yes.

于是霞飞驱车回到他的指挥部，他的下级军官们正在那里等着。

So Joff drives back to his headquarters where his junior officers are waiting.

现在他知道，他们中的一些人对此非常怀疑。

Now he knows that some of them are very skeptical about this.

他们担心自己的部队已经撤退了太久。

They worry that their men have been retreating for so long.

他们太累了，或者士气太低落。

They're too tired or they're too demoralized.

但霞飞把他们召集起来，说：机不可失，时不再来。

But Joffre gathers them, and he says, it's now or never.

要么胜利，要么死亡。

It's victory or death.

先生们，我们将在马恩河上战斗。

Gentlemen, we shall fight on the Marne.

那天晚上，他向他的百万大军下达了最后的命令。

And And that night, he gives the final order to his million men.

不能再前进的部队，必须不惜一切代价守住已夺取的阵地。

Troops who can no longer advance must keep the ground that has been won at any cost.

他们必须战死原地，绝不后退。

They must die where they stand rather than give way.

同一天在巴黎，他的老上司加利埃尼将军，虽然病重，仍在和下属们谈话。

Now that same day in Paris, his old boss, general Gallieni, dying, has been talking to his subordinates.

其中一个人问加利埃尼：如果战线后退，如果我们被击溃了，怎么办？

And one of these guys says to Gallieni, well, what happens if it goes back and what happens if we're overwhelmed?

我们应该退到哪里？

Where where should be the point that we retreat to?

加利埃尼回答说：哪里都不退。

And Gallieni says to him, nowhere.

我们战斗到死。

We fight to the death.

太棒了。

Great stuff.

所以，多米尼克，这真是让人激动，不是吗？

So, Dominic, this is I mean, this is thrilling, isn't it?

因为9月6日黎明时分，炮击开始了。

Because dawn on the September 6, the artillery barrage begins.

成千上万门大炮。

Thousands and thousands of guns.

我想这声音是前所未有的。

And I guess this is I mean, a noise like it has never been heard before.

这是历史上最伟大的人造风暴。

It's the greatest man made storm in history.

然后，对于法国军号爱好者来说，激动人心的时刻来了，号声响起，成千上万的法国人开始向前冲锋。

And then for fans of French military bugles, the exciting moment comes when they sound tens of thousands of Frenchmen begin to pour forward.

法国的勇气与工业实力相结合，马恩河战役开始了。

The French Helin combined with French industrial might and the battle of the Marne begins.

这种兴奋感太强烈了，我简直受不了。

And the excitement is so intense that I can't really cope with it.

我怀疑你也受不了，我看你在视频里的样子就知道了。

I doubt you can cope I I can see seeing you on the, on the video.

你肯定受不了。

You can't possibly cope with it.

所以我们先休息一下，喘口气，几分钟后回来。

So we are gonna take a break, have a breather, and we will be back in a few minutes.

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如果苏格兰女王玛丽在通信上稍微小心一点，她很可能就不会成为叛国警示故事的主角了。

Now had Mary Queen of Scots been just a little bit more careful with her correspondence, then she might well have avoided becoming a cautionary tale of treason.

于是她把加密信件塞进啤酒桶里。

So she slipped her ciphered letters into beer barrels.

如今方法变了，但被截获的风险当然始终存在。

Methods today have changed, but the risk of interception, of course, always remains.

你的信息比以往任何时候都更脆弱，尤其是在网上。

Your information is more vulnerable than ever and perhaps especially when it's online.

追踪器、广告商和应用程序一直在收集你的数据。

Trackers and advertisers and apps collecting your data all the time.

如果你用的是公共Wi-Fi，那么和你共享同一个网络的任何人都能监控你的活动。

And if you're using public Wi Fi, then your activity can be monitored by anyone who is sharing the network that you are on.

这时候Surfshark就派上用场了。

And this is where Surfshark comes in.

它是一款VPN，能加密你的网络连接，从而保护你的个人数据安全。

It's a VPN that encrypts your Internet connection, thereby keeps your personal data secure.

你还可以更改你的虚拟位置，这样无论你在哪里，都能访问你喜欢的网站和流媒体服务。

So you can also change your digital location, giving you access to your favorite sites and streaming services wherever you are.

所以，保护你的数据，随时随地安全浏览，不需要密码，不需要信使，当然也不需要啤酒桶。

So protect your data, browse securely from anywhere, no cipher, no courier, certainly no beer barrel required.

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Go to surfshark.com/trih, or you can use the code t r I h at the checkout to get four extra months of Surfshark VPN plus a thirty day money back guarantee.

你好，同志们。

Hola, camaradas.

我是多米尼克。

It's Dominic here.

抱歉打断一下节目，但我只是想让你知道，我们一直在考虑你经常给我们写信提到的事情。

Sorry to interrupt the episode, but I just thought you'd like to know that we've been thinking about something that you've been writing to us a lot.

自从我们开始《不安分的历史》以来，最常被要求的话题之一就是西班牙内战。

One of the most requested subjects ever since we started The Restless History, which is the Spanish civil war.

现在我可以独家告诉你，我们计划在明年，希望是2027年，某个时候做西班牙内战。

Now I can tell you exclusively that plans are afoot for us to do the Spanish civil war, at some point, hopefully, next year in 2027.

但作为一个小小的预告，在我们的姐妹节目《读书俱乐部》中，我和我的搭档主持人塔比刚刚发布了一集关于西班牙内战标志性小说的节目，那就是欧内斯特·海明威的《丧钟为谁而鸣》。

But as a little taster or teaser, on our sister show, The Book Club, my co presenter, Tabby, and I have just released an episode on perhaps the emblematic novel of the Spanish civil war, which is Ernest Hemingway's book, For Whom the Bell Tolls.

在这一集中，我们确实深入探讨了历史。

So in this episode, we do dig into the history.

我们讨论了法西斯主义与理想主义之间的冲突。

We talk about the clash between fascism and idealism.

我们讨论了冲突的根源，当然还有它如何吸引了众多外国知识分子、艺术家和作家。

We talk about the roots of the conflict, and, of course, the way in which it drew in so many foreign intellectuals and artists and writers.

当然，海明威也在其中。

Hemingway, of course, among them.

你们很多人都知道，海明威在战争期间就在西班牙。

And many of you will know that Hemingway was in Spain during the war.

他是驻马德里的记者，当时马德里正被佛朗哥的军队围困，他把那段经历写进了《丧钟为谁而鸣》，讲述了一个美国志愿者加入游击队对抗佛朗哥军队的故事。

He was a correspondent in Madrid, which was under siege by Franco's forces, and he draws on that experience in For Whom the Bell Tolls to tell the story of an American volunteer who's part of a guerrilla unit who are fighting Franco's troops.

所以，如果你在本集结尾继续收听，我们会有一段独家短片段，讨论西班牙内战的历史。

So if you keep listening at the end of this episode, we will have an exclusive short clip which discusses the history of the Spanish civil war.

大家好。

Hi, everybody.

我是多米尼克。

It is Dominic here.

我最近在忙一件特别令人兴奋的事，这是给“历史余韵”俱乐部会员的特别福利。

Now I have been working on something incredibly exciting, a special treat for the members of the Rest is History club.

接下来的几周，每周五，我们的常驻制作人塔比·赛雷特都会和我一起，讨论历史上不同的伟大著作，从J.R.R.托尔金的奇幻经典《霍比特人》，到布莱姆·斯托克的恐怖小说《德古拉》，再到玛格丽特·阿特伍德的反乌托邦寓言《使女的故事》。

Every Friday for the next few weeks, I will be joined by our regular Rest is History producer, Tabby Syrett, and we will be discussing a different great book from history, from JRR Tolkien's fantasy classic, The Hobbit, to Bram Stoker's horror novel, Dracula, to Margaret Atwood's dystopian fable, The Handmaid's Tale.

我们还会探索从阿尔贝·加缪到杜鲁门·卡波特等作家的生平，看看他们伟大作品背后的历史、他们所处的世界、社会文化背景，以及书中隐藏的秘密。

And we will be exploring the lives of authors from Albert Camus to Truman Capote, and we'll be looking at the history behind their great books, the worlds they inhabited, the social and cultural context, and the secrets that their books hold.

所以，如果你想听我和Tabby深入探讨这些伟大的书籍，你只需要访问restishistory.com，加入Rest is History俱乐部。

So if you want to hear Tabby and me delving into these great books, then all you have to do is to go to the restishistory.com to join the rest is history club.

每个星期五，你都会收到我们激动人心的书籍节目。

And you will get our thrilling books episodes every Friday.

你还会收到大家非常喜欢的Rest is History俱乐部的常规额外节目。

You'll get the regular bonus episodes of the rest is history club that everybody loves so much.

你还会获得所有其他惊人的福利。

You'll get all the other amazing benefits.

你可以提前观看节目。

You'll get early access to episodes.

你可以无广告收听，福利超棒。

You'll get ad free listening, unbelievable benefits.

所以，网址是therestishistory.com。

So that is therestishistory.com.

这个激动人心的新内容将于9月5日星期五开始。

This thrilling new content will be starting on Friday, September 5.

再见。

Bye bye.

你好。

Hello.

欢迎回到《历史余波》。

Welcome back to the rest is history.

多米尼克，马恩河战役已经打响了。

Dominic, the Battle of the Marne has begun.

这场战役有多激动人心？

Just how exciting is it?

汤姆，简直激动人心到难以置信。

Tom, it's unbelievably exciting.

那我们现在讲到哪儿了？

So where are we?

我们在巴黎。

We're in Paris.

现在是1914年7月9日的晚上。

We're on the night of the 09/07/1914.

马恩河战役已经激烈进行了两天。

So the Battle of the Marne has now been raging for two days.

但在他的指挥部，加利埃尼将军面临一个难题。

But at his headquarters, general Gallieni, he's got a dilemma.

前线已经全面开战，霞飞需要他能调动的每一个士兵。

On the front, you know, it it it's all kicked off, and Joffre needs every man that he can get.

他们征用了城里所有的火车和卡车来运送士兵到前线。

And they have commandeered every train and every truck in the city to get men to the front.

然而，铁路系统被运送伤员的火车、补给列车、难民列车等堵得水泄不通，整个系统几乎要崩溃了。

However, the railway network is so clogged with trains of wounded, with supply trains, with refugees and whatnot, that basically the whole system is close to breaking down.

陆军第七师已经在火车上待了24个小时。

The army's seventh division have been on trains for twenty four hours.

他们现在被困在一个叫庞坦的地方，那是巴黎北部的一个郊区。

They are now stuck in a place called Pontin, which is a suburb of Northern Paris.

现在，Goalhanger想把这些人送到前线去。

Now Goalhanger wants to get these men to the front.

你知道，汤姆，你可能在想前线离巴黎有多远。

You know, the front, Tom, you may be wondering how far the front is from Paris.

我也在想这个问题。

I'm wondering that.

有好几英里远。

It's it's miles away.

有好几英里。

It's it's some miles.

我就这么说吧。

I'll put it that way.

有一段距离。

It's some distance.

所以他们反正也走不过去。

It's so they can't walk anyway.

他们怎么去那儿？

How are they gonna get there?

有人提议用军用卡车，但基本上已经没剩几辆了。

There's talk of using army lorries, but there's basically none left.

然后加列尼总部有人，也许就是加列尼本人说，你们知道，这听起来可能有点疯狂。

And then somebody at Gallehani's headquarters, maybe Gallehani himself says, you know, I know this sounds mad.

他们觉得，但能不能用出租车把他们送到前线？

They feel they but could they not take taxes to the front?

巴黎平时有一万辆出租车，但现在只有三千辆在运营，因为很多司机都去参军了。

Now Paris normally has 10,000 taxes, and only 3,000 of them are operating basically because so many drivers have gone to join the army.

但三千辆出租车也不是小数目。

But 3,000 taxes is not nothing.

于是加列尼说，太好了。

And so Galeni says, great.

就这么办。

Let's do it.

于是，他的一名军官打电话给中央警察局，说，所有出租车，城里每一辆出租车都开到荣军院广场。

So one of his officers rings the central police station and says, on all taxes, every single tax in the city sent to the Esplanade Des Avolide.

就是那个大的，你知道，荣军院，那个大军事实体，拿破仑就葬在那里。

So this big, you know, the Avolide, the big military complex, where Napoleon is buried.

在巴黎的每条街上，警察都出去拦下这些出租车。

In every street in Paris, the the police go out and they flag down these taxis.

他们基本上把乘客赶下车，然后对司机说，去荣军院的军事学院。

They basically kick the passengers out, and they say to the drivers, go to the military college at Les Invalides.

现在，这些出租车大多数是雷诺出租车。

Now most of these taxes are Renault taxes.

所以我得说，我不是雷诺车的忠实粉丝，但就这样吧。

So I have to say, I'm not a massive fan of a Renault car, but there you go.

每辆车大约能坐五个人，而且时速不能超过25英里。

They've got about five room for about five people each, and they they can go no faster than 25 miles an hour.

但以当时的标准来看，这已经不错了。

But by the standards of the day, that's not bad.

比走路快，对吧？

It's quicker than walking, isn't it?

比走路快多了。

It's a lot quicker than walking.

考虑到他们得走多少英里。

Considering how many miles they've got to go.

确实。

Well, exactly.

我们不想，你知道，我们不想确切说出多少英里，因为我们不想再透露太多。

And we don't wanna really you know, we don't wanna pin down exactly how many miles because we don't wanna give everything away anymore.

相当远。

Quite a distance.

我觉得那是给订阅者的细节。

I think that that's a detail for our subscribers.

不是吗？

No?

但确实有一段距离。

But it is a distance.

我的意思是，我们只是

I mean, we're just

对。

Yeah.

所以大约10点，第一批出租车队出发了，大约250辆车。

So about 10:00, the first convoy of taxis heads out, about 250 cars.

他们由一位叫勒法斯中尉的警官带领，只有他知道他们要去哪里，因为这是秘密。

They're led by this officer called lieutenant Lefasse, and only he knows where they're going because it's a secret.

他对司机们说，好，你们排成单列。

And he says to the drivers, right, you stay in single file.

把车头灯关掉。

You turn your headlights off.

你们可以用那种卷轴式的尾灯，但车头灯不行。

You can use your sort of reel, your kind of taillights, but not your headlights.

说实话，这些司机们对此非常非常不满。

The the drivers, I I have to say, are very, very unhappy about this.

他们不高兴是因为丢了生意。

They're unhappy about losing their fares.

他们也不高兴摸黑开车，因为觉得这样肯定会撞到一起，事实上确实有很多车撞了。

They're also unhappy about driving with their lights off because they say, well, we're just gonna drive into each other, which indeed a lot of them do.

总之，经过一番折腾，迷路、瞎转悠，到了第二天凌晨四点，这些空出租车终于到了巴黎东北部一个叫达马塔的地方。

Anyway, after an awful lot of kinda getting lost and faffing around, by 04:00 in the next morning, these empty taxis reach a place called Damata, which is Northeast of Paris.

那里什么都没有。

There's nothing there.

也没有人接应他们。

There's nobody there to meet them.

于是司机们就下车，在阳光下闲逛，因为那天天气很好。

So the drivers just get out and lounge around in the sunshine because it's a sunny day.

一个有趣的细节是，很多骑自行车的人从他们身边经过，赶往前线，司机们都在大喊大叫，管他呢。

And a a nice detail past them goes loads of blokes on bicycles heading to the front, and the drivers all shout, whatever.

看到那些动物标本朝你喊叫，一定很鼓舞人心吧。

That must have been inspiring to see taxidermy shouting as you.

嗯，他就那样躺在路边，手里拿着瓶酒，吃着奶酪什么的。

Well, as he's lying there with, like, a bottle of wine on the on the verge of the road or something, eating his cheese.

总之，他们最后被指引到了一个铁路侧线，靠近一个叫拉巴里耶尔的村庄，在那里找到了他们的人。

Anyway, they're eventually redirected to a railway siding near a village called La Barriere, and here they find their men.

那些是乘客。

They're passengers.

这些是第一百零三和第一百零四步兵旅的士兵。

And these are the men of the hundred and third and hundred and fourth infantry brigades.

当出租车出现时，士兵们简直不敢相信。

And the the soldiers, the men cannot believe it when the taxis turn up.

因为在1914年，只有有钱人才坐出租车。

Because in 1914, you only took a taxi if you were rich.

你知道，出租车是奢侈品。

You know, taxis are a luxury.

而且，当然，这些人大多数从来没坐过任何汽车。

And what is more, of course, most of these men have never been in a car of any kind.

所以这非常令人兴奋。

So it's very exciting.

他们坐进这些车里。

They get into these cars.

现在车队已经扩大到大约400辆车了。

There's now the convoy is swollen to about 400 vehicles.

这是第一批出租车。

This is the first installment of the taxes.

还有其他车辆，所以他们设法弄来了一些公交车。

And there's other vehicles too, so they've managed to rope in some buses.

他们还有一些豪华轿车，甚至还有几辆赛车。

They've got some limousines, and they've even got a couple of racing cars.

我的意思是，想象一下坐赛车去前线。

I mean, imagine going to the front of the racing car.

我很喜欢大奖赛对战争做出的贡献。

I love the contribution of of the Grand Prix to the war effort.

所以，那个载着霞飞将军的人，现在正把士兵们送到前线去。

So there's the guy who's driving Joffre around, and now they're driving soldiers up to the front.

这真是对法国体育的绝佳反映。

It's magnificent reflection on French sport.

还有自行车手。

And cyclists.

对吧？

Right?

是的。

Yeah.

他们也是。

Them as well.

自行车手万岁。

Viva la Seciste.

太棒了。

Great stuff.

士兵们已经在路上和火车上待了很久，所以他们都累坏了。

So the soldiers have been on the road, you know, on on the train for ages, so they're knackered.

大多数人试图在车里睡觉。

Most of them try to sleep in the cars.

实际上这很难，因为这段旅程非常不放松。

It's very difficult actually because it's an incredibly unrelaxing journey.

由于车灯都关了，这些车老是互相碰撞。

The the cars, because they got the headlights off, they keep bumping into each other.

他们老是爆胎。

They keep getting flat tires.

他们老是迷路和抛锚。

They keep getting lost and breaking down.

总之，汤姆，你问这有多长，我现在就告诉你具体细节。

Anyway, you asked how long it was, Tom, and actually, I'm gonna give you the detail now.

我不会让你加入这个历史俱乐部的其他部分。

I'm not gonna make you join the rest of this history club.

距离是30英里。

It's 30 miles.

我真的尽力了。

Really did my best.

他们走了30英里。

They've gone 30 miles.

所以当9月8日黎明破晓时，他们到达了一个叫Nontoy的村庄，你会很高兴听到这个，因为我知道你是这个组织的忠实粉丝，今天它就在巴黎迪士尼乐园附近。

So as dawn is breaking on the September 8, they reach this village called Nontoy, which you'll be pleased to hear because I know you're a big fan of this organization, is near Disneyland Paris today.

但那时候大概还没有。

But presumably not then.

他们应该有个游乐设施。

They should have a ride.

那会是个很棒的游乐设施，马恩河出租车之旅，对吧？

It'd be a brilliant ride, the Taxis of the Marne ride, wouldn't it?

第一次世界大战主题公园。

First World War theme park.

其实还真有这种主题公园，就是那个Peejoo Foo。

Actually, they have that theme park, Peejoo Foo.

你知道那个地方吧，可以去那儿玩，有凡尔登之类的景点。

You know that place where they you can go and do there's, like, Verdun and stuff.

对。

Yes.

还有角斗士什么的。

And gladiators and things.

是的。

Yeah.

就是那个。

That one.

那个公园好像是保皇党，法国保皇党那些人经营的。

It's run by it's run by, like, monarchists, French monarchists or something.

多米尼克，要是你认识迪士尼的人，能让他们做一个马恩河奇迹的游乐项目就好了。

Dominic, if only you knew someone at Disney and you could get them to do a Miracle of the Marne ride.

鲍勃，如果你在听，你知道该怎么做。

Bob, if you're listening, you know you know what to do.

知道怎么联系我们。

Where to call us.

没错。

Exactly.

对。

Right.

总之，他们基本上已经到达迪士尼乐园了。

Anyway, so basically they've reached Disneyland.

他们把士兵放下来，现在士兵们可以上前线保卫家园了。

They decant the soldiers and now the soldiers can take their place on the front line to defend their homeland.

我们之所以花这么多时间讲这个故事，是因为在法国，这后来成为一战中最伟大的传奇，象征着爱国团结，体现了法国人民把侵略者赶出神圣家园的决心，诸如此类。

And the reason we've spent so much time on this story is that this in France becomes probably the great legend of the first world war, a symbol of patriotic solidarity, you know, sign of the determination of the French people to drive the invaders from their sacred homeland, all of this kind of stuff.

这个故事在战后几年里流传开来，但真正火起来是在五十年代。

And the story kind of spread in the years after the war, but it really was turbocharged in the nineteen fifties.

有个叫让·杜托姆的作家写了本书叫《马恩河的出租车》，他说，我引用一下，这是二十世纪最伟大的事件，这说法可真够大的。

There's a writer called Jean Duttom who wrote a book called the taxis of the Marne, and he said, and I quote that this was the single greatest event of the twentieth century, which is a big claim.

比蒙斯的天使还伟大？

Greater than the Angels of Mons,

当然不是。

surely not.

汤姆，我觉得甚至比蒙斯的天使还伟大。

Even greater, I think, than the Angels of Mons, Tom.

我觉得有意思的是，他是在1956年写的，那时候法国刚被赶出越南。

And I think it's interesting because he wrote that in 1956, and the context of that was that France had just been kicked out of Vietnam.

他们在奠边府战役中输了。

They'd lost at Dien Bien Phu.

阿尔及利亚那边也刚闹起来。

Things had just kicked off in Algeria.

他们显然在二战后和1940年的屈辱之后仍然伤痕累累。

They're obviously still very bruised after the second world war and the humiliation of 1940.

人们渴望某种爱国慰藉，所以马恩河出租车的故事对他们变得极其重要。

And there were people were desperate for kind of patriotic consolation, so the story of the taxes of the Marne became incredibly important to them.

如果你去荣军院的军事博物馆，我相信西奥经常在那里，他们有一辆非常漂亮的老雷诺出租车，我差点用法语口音说那个词。

And if you go to the army museum at Les Invalides, I'm sure Theo is there all the time, they have a very handsome old Renault taxi with I almost said that in a French way.

那有点奇怪。

That was weird.

是的。

Yeah.

你确实说了。

You did.

是的。

Yeah.

对。

Yeah.

你越说越像麦克风了。

Getting more of a more of microphone as you go on.

没错。

Exactly.

现在克鲁索探长也来了，接下来的事大家都知道了。

Inspector Clouseau joins us now, and the rest is history.

这车是红色车身，黄色轮子，还有它的车牌号。

It's got a red body and yellow wheels, and it's registration.

你们都知道它的车牌号吗？

Did you all know it's registration?

当然，你们肯定知道。

Of course, you do.

是2862G7。

It's 2862G7.

这有什么特别的吗？

Is that significant?

不是。

No.

只是个有趣的事实。

It's just an interesting fact.

你居然知道这个。

You just knew that.

所以我觉得这是《不安分的历史》里我们说过的最无聊的事实。

So I think that's the single most boring fact we've ever had on The Restless History.

不是。

No.

不是。

No.

我跟你说最糟糕的事实。

I tell you the worst fact.

你想剪掉堂兄父亲的胡子这个事实。

The fact that you wanted to cut out general cousin's father's beard.

对，必须的。

Must yeah.

那现在这个比那个还无聊。

That now now this is even more boring than that.

不。

No.

不。

No.

不。

No.

不。

No.

但整个故事太不可思议了。

But the whole story is incredible.

对吧？

Right?

我在想，就像蒙斯天使一样，是否也有怀疑论者和质疑其真实性的人，以及它是否真的重要。

And I'm wondering if, as with the Angels of Mons, whether there have been skeptics and people who've doubted its veracity and whether it actually mattered at all.

哦，等等。

Oh, well, hold on.

没人怀疑它的真实性。

Nobody doubts its veracity.

这就是它和天使与鼹鼠的区别。

So this is the difference to the angels and moles.

它确实发生过。

It definitely happened.

这一点毫无疑问。

There's no question about that.

然而，它到底有没有产生影响呢？

However, did it make any difference at all?

对故事本身毫无影响。

None whatsoever to the story.

这完全无关紧要。

It's completely inconsequential.

所以基本上，出租车运送了大约四千人，而总共有百万人。

So, basically, the taxis transported about 4,000 men out of a million.

那种欢呼雀跃、好莱坞式激昂音乐、大家握手庆祝的场景，其实并不真实。

And the idea that it's this sort of hurrah hurrah, very Hollywood kind of rousing music, everybody shaking hands and saying, is not really right.

司机们全程都在抱怨。

The drivers spent the entire time complaining.

他们基本上一直在问：'这趟会付钱吗？'

They basically kept saying, are we gonna be paid for this?

我可不想白干。

I'm not doing this for free.

那计价器开着吗？

So are the meters on?

他们一直让计价器跑着。

The me they kept the meters running.

当然，他们让计价器一直开着。

Of course, they kept the meters running.

法国政府最终同意支付计价器上金额的四分之一。

And the French government eventually agreed that they would pay them a quarter of the amount on the meter.

他们拿到了130瑞士法郎，相当于两周的工资，这还不错。

They were paid a CHF130, which is the equivalent of a fortnight's wages, which is not bad.

这总比被枪毙好吧？

And it's better than being shot, isn't it?

确实好多了。

It is better.

脚上磨出可怕的水泡。

Getting horrible blisters.

关于第一次世界大战，大家都觉得它很无聊，都是关于军火、铁丝网和战壕。

And the thing about the First World War is everybody thinks of it as it's all about it's all very boring, it's about munitions and barbed wire and trenches.

实际上，一战绝对是神话、传说和爱国发明的沃土，诸如此类。

In reality, the First World War is an absolute kind of it's fertile territory for myths, for legends, for patriotic inventions, all of this stuff.

这就是我们将在关于蒙斯天使的加更内容中探讨的内容。

This is what we'll be exploring in our bonus on the angels of mons.

例如，超自然元素在人们对第一次世界大战的看法中扮演了重要角色，因为那是一个唯灵论盛行的时代。

The supernatural stuff plays a big part in the way people think about the first world war for example because it's the age of spiritualism.

好了，让我们回到现实世界吧。

Anyway, let's get back to planet Earth.

前线发生了什么？

What has been happening at the front?

你在上半场结束时描述了9月6日黎明时分风暴如何爆发。

You described at the end of the first half how the storm had broken at the beginning of the September 6.

成千上万的法国士兵和超过10万英国士兵，配备着3000门重炮，在这条从巴黎一直延伸到东部凡尔登的广阔战线上冲锋陷阵。

All of these hundreds and hundreds of thousands of Frenchmen and more than a 100,000 Britons armed with 3,000 heavy guns charging forward on this vast frontline that goes from Paris all the way to Verdun in the East.

实际上，最能体现那一天精神的人，在当今法国并不受尊敬，他就是未来的头号通敌者菲利普·贝当，他实际上是第一次世界大战中的一位巨星。

And, actually, the the person who probably incarnates the spirit of that day is a man who's not well regarded in France these days, who is a future top collaborator, Philippe Petain, who is a great star, actually, of the of the great war.

贝当在6日黎明时对他的士兵们说：好了。

Petain, at dawn on the sixth, told his men, he said, right.

我们要向这个村庄圣邦推进。

We're gonna advance on this village, Saint Bon.

他的士兵们，你知道，他们很疲惫。

And his men, you know, they're tired.

他们很焦虑。

They're anxious.

他们犹豫了。

They hesitated.

贝当下了马。

Petain got off his horse.

他走到前线，加入他的步兵，说：我会亲自带领你们。

He went up to the front line, joined his infantry, and he said, I will lead you personally.

他亲自带领他们向前线进发。

And he personally led them towards the front.

所以在其他情况下，这会是一个非常鼓舞人心的故事，法国每个人都会知道。

So in other circumstances, it would be a very inspiring story, and everybody in France would know about it.

但不幸的是，贝当在1940年让自己失望了。

But, unfortunately, Peyton rather let himself down in 1940.

所以他并没有像他可能的那样受到赞誉。

So he's not as celebrated as he might be.

在1914年，拿破仑式的热情。

In 1914, Napoleonic Alain.

对。

Yeah.

完全正确。

Totally.

这正是你想要的。

It's what you want.

但这够吗？

But is it enough?

你知道，边境战役的教训肯定是，爱国热情并不够，你还需要大量的工业实力，以及战斗精神。

You know, we've surely, the lesson of the battle for the frontiers is that patriotic Alain is not you know, you have to there's a lot of industrial might that is required alongside sort of fighting spirit.

大概就是说，你需要一个好的战略，还需要把握好时机。

Presumably, that you need you need good a good strategy and you need good timing.

确实如此。

You do indeed.

马恩河战役的问题在于，它规模太大了，实际上不算是一场单一的战斗。

Now the thing with the Battle of the Marne is it is so vast that it actually isn't really one battle.

它是好几场战斗同时进行。

It's several battles going on simultaneously.

有趣的是，前线某一部分的军官通常不知道其他地方发生了什么。

And the interesting thing is that officers in one part of the front generally have no idea what's going on elsewhere.

所以在某些地方，法军实际上打得非常好。

So in some places, the French actually do very well.

比如，如果你想象一下西侧，法国第五集团军把卡尔·冯·比洛的德国第二集团军打得落花流水。

So for example, on the if you imagine on the West side, the French fifth army absolutely batters Carl von Bulow's German second army.

与此同时，英军几乎没遇到什么抵抗，就推进到了德第二和第一集团军之间的关键缺口。

And at the same time, the British are advancing, actually almost unchallenged, into this crucial gap between this German second and first armies.

那是冯·比洛和冯·克卢克。

That's von Bulof and von Kluuk.

所以马克斯·黑斯廷斯的书里有一个精彩的细节。

So there's a brilliant detail in in Max Hastings' book.

他记录了莱昂内尔·丁尼生中尉，他不仅是诗人丁尼生的孙子，后来还成了英格兰板球队队长。

He he records lieutenant Lionel Tennyson, who was not only the grandson of the poet Tennyson, but also becomes England cricket captain.

他说，当法国人正激烈地与德国人作战时，我们经过吉米·罗斯柴尔德漂亮的房子，看到成群结队的野鸡到处乱跑，真想停下来抓几只。

And he says that while while the French are furiously fighting the Germans, we passed Jimmy Rothschild's beautiful house and saw masses of pheasants running about everywhere and long to be able to stop and get some.

然后还有一个细节，这是另一个人转述的，还是引用马克斯·黑斯廷斯的话。

And then another detail that, this is reported by some other guy, quoting Max Hastings again.

看到路上散落着武器和装备，埃格林顿——就是那个看到的人——既着迷又震惊，因为一辆被遗弃的德国车辆里竟然装满了女人的内衣。

Seeing the road littered with weapons and equipment, Eglinton, so this is the guy who sees it, was fascinated and rather shocked that one of the abandoned German vehicles proved to be laden with women's underwear.

哇。

Wow.

你看，我觉得英国人的态度才是对的。

See, I think the British have the right attitude.

他们打得很凶，但也不算太拼命。

They're doing a lot of fighting, but not too much.

你知道吗？

You know?

他们还在那儿闲逛，看看野鸡啊，内衣什么的。

They're also strolling around kind of inspecting pheasants and whatever and underwear.

但实际上，盟军也不是事事顺心，因为在东线，他们打得相当糟糕。

But actually, allies don't have things all their own way because in the East, they do quite badly.

德军在凡尔登的诺西恩附近差点就要突破防线了。

The Germans are quite close to breaking through at Nossien at Verdun.

而在中部，局势非常非常紧张。

And in the center, things are very, very tight.

在那里，指挥法军第九集团军的费迪南·福煦，正在对阵德军第三集团军。

So there, Ferdinand Foch, who is commanding the ninth army, the French, is taking on the German third army.

情况非常危险。

It's very dicey.

这时，福煦给霞飞发去了法国历史上最著名的电报之一。

It's when Foch sends Joffe one of the most famous messages in French history.

我的中央部队正在撤退。

My center is giving way.

我的右翼正在后撤。

My right is retreating.

形势，非常好。

Situation, excellent.

我准备进攻。

I'm gonna attack.

这种一边后退一边前进的情况，正是整个战役的缩影。

And that sort of, you know, the sort of combination of, like, you're going backwards and going forwards at the same time is the whole battle in microcosm.

因为9月8日早晨，德军对福煦的右翼发动了大规模刺刀冲锋，把他们逼退了大约八英里。

Because on the morning of the September 8, the Germans launched this massive bayonet charge against Foch's right, and they pushed them about eight miles back.

但德军实在太疲惫了，推进八英里后就停了下来。

But the Germans were so tired that after eight miles, it just stopped.

他们大多数人就坐下来，开始睡着了。

And most of them just sat down and starts went to sleep.

就像，他们停了一下，因为太累了，就直接睡着了。

Like, they were like they stopped for a second and they were so exhausted, they just fell asleep.

但福煦的部队，你可能以为他们会趁机占优势，可他们也同样精疲力竭。

But Fosch's men, who you would think would now seize the advantage, they are equally shattered.

而且这时候，天气也变了，这其实是故事里很关键的一点。

And also by now, the weather has changed, which is actually a crucial part of the story.

天气变了。

The weather changes.

开始下雨了。

It starts raining.

雾变得很大。

It becomes very foggy.

所以法国人其实完全不知道自己在哪儿。

So the French have no idea actually where they are.

真的是战争迷雾。

Literally, the fog of war.

战争迷雾。

The fog of war.

没错。

Exactly.

所以，马恩河战役的故事其实不是靠战场上的胜利，而是靠头脑。

So, really, the story of the Marne is not it's the victory is not won so much on the battlefield as in the head.

这基本上就是一场意志力的考验。

It's it's basically a test of nerve.

你知道吗，你觉得自己是不是要赢了？

You know, do you think you're winning or not?

还是你会退缩？

Or are gonna give way?

而德国人的问题在于他们的通讯非常糟糕。

And the problem for the Germans is their communications are terrible.

所以在西线，这两支非常重要的军队，冯·克卢克的第一集团军和冯·比洛的第二集团军，直到9月9日深夜之前，他们之间都没有直接的电报联系。

So on the western side, these two really important armies, von Kluks first army and von Bulov's second army, there's no direct cable link between the two until late on the September 9.

所以两位指挥官都不知道对方在哪里、在做什么，他们基本上是在各自为战。

So the two commanders have no idea where the other one is and what he's doing, and they're sort of fighting separate battles.

而最高指挥官赫尔穆特·冯·毛奇，你知道，以前是温泉常客，非常抑郁，还在想着转世轮回。

And the supreme commander, Helmut von Moltke, you know, formerly spar habitue, very depressed, thinking about reincarnation.

他在150英里外的卢森堡，实际上对前线情况一无所知，只能靠研究电报报告来了解，变得非常焦虑。

He's a 150 miles away in Luxembourg, and he has no idea really what's going on, sort of studying, you know, wire sort of wire reports and getting very anxious.

于是他派了一个非常重要的人物去西线，这个人是个不起眼的中校，名叫理查德·亨奇。

And he sends West a really, really important figure who's an obscure lieutenant colonel called Richard Hench.

战后，美国参谋长联席会议主席说，盟军应该建一个名人堂，给亨奇立个雕像，放在最显眼的位置，这听起来很奇怪，但我会解释为什么。

And after the war, the American chief of staff said that the allies should build a hall of fame and build a statue to Hench and give it pride of place, which seems very peculiar, but I'll explain exactly why that is.

亨奇是个非常聪明的人。

Hench is a very smart guy.

他是德国总参谋部的情报官，毛奇一直派他作为特使去联络各位将军。

He's an intelligence officer who works for the German general staff, and Moltke has been using him as an emissary to all his generals.

到了9月8号，也就是战斗开始两三天后，毛奇已经慌得不行了，他说，我要派亨奇去前线跟克鲁克和比洛谈谈。

And by the September 8, so a couple of days two or three days into the fighting, Moltke has got in a massive panic, and he says, I'm gonna send Hench to the front to talk to Kluuk and Bulov.

亨奇到了德国第二集团军司令部，发现比洛那家伙正垂头丧气，状态糟透了。

Hench goes to the headquarters of the German second army, and there he finds this bloke Bulov in a massive funk.

第二集团军确实陷入了大麻烦。

So the second army is in a real trouble.

比洛说，我的部队已经精疲力竭了。

So Bulov says, my my troops are exhausted.

联军随时可能从缺口突破。

The allies are in danger of breaking through the gaps.

比洛本人状态也很差。

Budoff himself is in a terrible state.

跟所有一线将领一样，他已经68岁了。

Like all first of all generals, he's he's got he's 68.

他有严重的甲状腺问题，还有严重的动脉硬化。

He's got massive thyroid problems, and he's got severe arteriosclerosis.

他有没有什么致命的病？

Is there any he doesn't have a kind of fatal illness?

我觉得没有。

I don't think so.

我觉得因为这种性质，你不到六十多岁是当不上那种最高指挥官的。

I think because the nature of it is you don't become a sort of supreme commander type person till you're in your late sixties.

到了那个年纪，人们的生活习惯都很不健康，我想大概是这样。

And at that point, people are quite they've had a very unhealthy lifestyle, I think, probably.

他们喝了很多好酒，这对他们没什么好处。

There's been drinking a lot of fine wines, and it hasn't done them any good.

八号晚上晚些时候，在他和亨奇谈话的时候，布洛夫开始收到更多前线的报告。

Late on the eighth, while he's talking to Hench, Bulov starts to get these more reports in the front.

盟军正在突破。

The allies are breaking through.

他对亨奇说，我的军队正在被烧成灰烬。

And he says to Hench, my army is being reduced to cinders.

我们正面临彻底的灾难。

We are facing total catastrophe.

亨奇对他说，你看。

And Hench says to him, well, look.

毛奇已经授权我告诉你，如果你想撤退，由你决定。

Moltke has given me authority to say to you, if you wanna retreat, it's your call.

这是德国军队中第一次有人真正谈论撤退。

And this is the first time that anybody in the German army has really talked about retreating.

所以这是一个标志性的时刻。

So this is a kind of landmark moment.

他们没有立刻做出决定，但一夜之间，气氛变得越来越悲观。

They don't make the decision straight away, but overnight, the mood gets bleaker and bleaker.

比洛三次崩溃大哭。

Three times, Bulow breaks down in floods of tears.

他说，你知道，我实在承受不了这个。

Says, you know, I can't can't cope with this.

比如，我压力太大了。

Like, I'm too stressed.

我们会输的。

We're gonna lose.

我的人都会死，诸如此类的话。

My men are all gonna die, all this kind of thing.

到了早上五点，他们从空中侦察得到报告，说法国人越来越近了。

And at 05:00 in the morning, they get reports from air reconnaissance that the French are coming ever closer.

所以到了早上九点，实际上九点零二分，我们喜欢这种精确的事实，亨奇对布洛夫说，好吧。

And so at 09:00 in the morning, at 09:02, in fact, we love a forensic fact, Hench says to Bulov, okay.

行。

Fine.

做决定吧。

Make the call.

撤退。

Retreat.

所以布洛夫的神经基本上已经崩溃了，他下令第二军撤退。

So Bulov, whose nerve is basically snapped now, issues the order for his second army to retreat.

现在亨奇继续他的前线驾车之旅，这是德国军事史上最灾难性的一次驾车。

So now Hench continues his driving tour of the front, the most disastrous drive in German military history.

他向西开了50英里，到达亚历山大·冯·克鲁克第一军的指挥部。

He drives 50 miles west to the headquarters of Alexander von Kluks first army.

这是一段糟糕的旅程。

It's a terrible journey.

道路上挤满了惊恐的难民。

The roads are clogged with terrified refugees.

到处都是精疲力尽和受伤的士兵。

There are exhausted and wounded soldiers everywhere.

还有大量的火炮。

There's loads of artillery.

还有伤员，你知道，有些人躺在沟里什么的。

There are wounded you know, there's kind of men lying in the in the ditches, whatnot.

这完全就是一片战区。

It's a complete war zone.

而且有好几次，他的车其实遭到了自己人的攻击，因为局势太混乱了，所有命令都失效了。

And at various points, his car actually comes under attack from his own side because it's so it's so confused, and every order is broken down.

他到达了第一集团军司令部。

He arrives at first army headquarters.

他到那儿的时候，第一集团军的军官们其实还挺自信的。

When he gets there, the first army officers are actually quite confident.

他们说，对，英军应该会来，但我们觉得我们能对付得了英军。

They say, yeah, the British should come in, but we reckon we can handle the British.

我们以前就对付过他们。

We've handled them before.

然后亨奇说，不行。

And hence says, no.

不行。

No.

不。

No.

第二军已经在撤退了，所以你们可能也得后撤。

The the second army is already retreating, so you probably need to fall back too.

第一军的军官们惊呆了。

And the first army officers are stunned.

他们一脸茫然，什么？

They're like, what?

我们觉得我们能赢。

We think we can win this.

他说，不。

And he says, no.

不。

No.

毛奇告诉我，我有权做这些决定。

Moltke has told me I've got authority to make these decisions.

你知道，你应该撤退。

You know, you should you should pull back.

所以等他回到卢森堡的时候，决定其实已经做出了。

So by the time he goes back to Luxembourg, the decision has actually been made.

那天晚些时候，法军推进到了第二集团军曾经驻扎的地方，一个叫蒙米拉伊的地方，他们到了那里都惊呆了，因为那里空无一人。

And later that day, the French advanced on where the second army had been, a place called Montmiray, and they're astounded when they get there because there's nothing there.

冯·比洛的第二集团军已经消失了。

Von Bulov's second army has vanished.

他们撤退时留下了满地垃圾，包括数量惊人的空酒瓶，这大概也说明了一些问题。

In their wake, they've left fields of strewn with rubbish, including an unbelievable quantity of empty wine bottles, which probably tells its own story.

德军在战斗的尾声阶段，你知道，过得挺滋润的。

The Germans have had a, you know, a final time in the in the back of the battle.

第二天，也就是十号，再往西边也是同样的情形。

The next day, the tenth, it's the same story further west.

马克斯·黑斯廷斯爵士引用了一位名叫保罗·朗蒂耶的炮兵的话，他经历了我们上次谈到的阿登地区韦尔通的大屠杀，幸存了下来。

Sir Max Hastings quotes a gunner called Paul Lanthier, who had survived the slaughter at Verton in the Ardennes that we talked about last time.

兰特耶尔的部队，他们醒来，发现情况真的很奇怪。

This boat, Lantheier's unit, they wake up, and they just find it's really weird.

鸟儿在歌唱。

The birds are singing.

阳光明媚。

The sun is shining.

没有枪声。

There's no guns.

一群法国步兵走过，这个部队的上校喊道，我们赢了，我们赢了。

And a load of French infantry march past, and the colonel of this unit marching past shouts, we've, you know, we've won.

德军全线撤退。

The Germans are retreating all across the line.

南蒂尔后来说，消息口口相传，让我们欣喜若狂。

Nantier said afterwards, the news as it passed from mouth to mouth shook us with joy.

胜利了。

Victory.