Napoleon III had gone crazy. When he roared unreasonably, Crown Prince Eugene discovered that his father was three years older and had a lot of white hair on his temples.
The Emperor was not fat to begin with, but a thin man of short stature. However, during this period of state affairs, his cheeks were sunken.
The queen and the prince saw that the emperor was trembling like a malaria patient, and his face was sallow, like a dead corpse!
"Stop talking, I know better than you what the empire is like, I know much better than you! But there is no way, there is no way out with the arrow on the string!"
"Our top spy in Bavaria sent intelligence. We were all deceived by Bismarck. Prussia had actually been ready for war for a long time. What they were waiting for was for us to declare war!"
"Do you know how many troops Prussia can mobilize to the front line in a day now? Thirty thousand! A full thirty thousand!"
"And what about us? If we are tired of vomiting blood, we can only pay 10,000 yuan. Now time is running out!"
"Bismarck deceived me so miserably! He has kept the total number of 200,000 troops at the border unchanged, as if he has no ambitions for us, but who would have thought that he would actually hide all the troops in the rear!"
"Who would have thought that their mobilization ability would be so powerful!"
"Two hundred thousand versus two hundred thousand, France will definitely win! Because our soldiers are all professional soldiers and have received far more training than Prussia!"
"I'm not afraid of two hundred thousand fighting against two hundred and fifty thousand! Our soldiers are of higher quality, our rifles are more elite, and our heavy machine guns are far better equipped than our opponents!"
"But how can I use 200,000 people to fight 300,000? To fight 350,000 or 400,000? At this rate, the Prussian army will reach 300,000 in three days, and at that time we can only gather two One hundred and thirty thousand!"
"In ten days, Prussia will be able to assemble an army of 400,000 to 500,000 people! But we can only assemble 300,000 troops! How can I fight with this?"
"The longer this battle drags on, the more dangerous we will be! The only way is to take the initiative and take advantage of the fact that the gap in numbers is not big now, so that we can take the lead in breaking through the German border!"
The French Emperor swept away the scattered documents on the table, unfolded a map and said impassionedly, "Germany is not monolithic. Although their four southern states have been aroused by their national sentiments at the moment, they are still dissatisfied with Prussia!"
"The only way for us to succeed is to take the initiative! Penetrate the Prussian defenses and burn the flames of war to their land!"
"Bavaria, Württemberg, Hesse, Baden...these swaying countries will become the arena for our army to perform. Their farms will be burned, their factories will be demolished, and all armies will be defeated!"
"The terror of death will immediately dispel their newly condensed national spirit, and they will immediately fall into fear, and even resent Prussia's wanton actions!"
"As long as these four countries completely mess up the people's hearts, Prussia will not be scary! We will send fleets to harass the mouth of the Elbe River and the Baltic Sea, and try to contain as many Prussian troops as possible to reduce the pressure on the southern battlefield!"
"When our army attacks Jena, the opposite side will be the undefended Great Plains of Prussia! As long as we can capture Jena, then the violent victory in history will be repeated!"
"Child, this is the only way. We can only fight quickly! Otherwise, are we going to watch the Prussians gather an army of half a million people? By then, this battle will be unwinnable!"
I have to say that the King's plan is quite bold. The core of his combat plan is his own professional military system!
The military systems used by France and Prussia are completely different. France has a professional military system. The romantic French regard it as a classical military art!
The history of war in Europe begins with the times of ancient Greece and Rome, because only then were there written records!
In the long history of European conquests, the professionalism of soldiers has always been emphasized. Starting from the pikemen of ancient Greece and Macedonia, to the heavy armored legions of ancient Rome, all of them emphasized the discipline of the military formation!
Even in the Middle Ages, the rise of the knight class pushed the professional military system to the extreme. At that time, the mainstream of European thought circles always believed that 'the army can only be filled by well-trained veterans and famous generals! 'The common people will always be a bunch of farmers with pitchforks.
This idea is deeply ingrained! This did not change until the era when muskets were popularized. When humans entered the era of muskets, the combat method of queuing up to shoot would test the quality of soldiers.
Farmers without training cannot form a tenacious linear shooting position!
Queuing to be shot is very cruel. People have to watch their comrades around them die miserably, and it will be your turn in the next second. Both sides compete with mathematical addition and subtraction to see who can reduce the number of people slowly and who can maintain their morale longer. a little!
That kind of war is all about survival! When Napoleon I swept across Europe, he relied on a group of tenacious professional soldiers he trained!
It's a pity that a large part of those soldiers died in the cold storm and snow outside Moscow. If those veterans were not consumed, maybe there would be no Waterloo!
Napoleon III was a big fan of his uncle, and France as a whole was also a big fan of Napoleon I. Who dared to oppose the military system left by the God of War? Who dares to say anything bad?
So France is still dominated by professional legions. How did Les Invalides appear in Paris? It is a concrete manifestation of this idea that only veterans are eligible to enjoy the benefits of the Invalides, and only honorary soldiers who have fought in the war can be buried here after their death.
The professional military system has brought France the glory of countless victories, but Prussia is now using a completely different military system, that is, all-military service!
In the words of the German military genius Clausewitz, the author of The Theory of War, this military system is completely a nationalist military theory. He is more fanatical and more effective!
He once said, 'War is just an expanded fight, the purpose is to make the enemy surrender to oneself! 'Since the essence of war and gang fights are the same, in the final analysis, the party with more people has the advantage!
Using nationalist sentiments to mobilize the people extensively and transform all the men of the entire nation into soldiers, this will create an inexhaustible source of soldiers in the war!
Compared with the French veteran regiments whose average service time exceeds seven years, the quality of these military-trained reservists is indeed much lower!
But the human sea tactic can completely make up for this gap. Maybe veterans can create a classic example of the weak defeating the strong, but there is a limit to the weak defeating the strong!
The human sea tactic requires a huge gap of two, three or even ten times that of the enemy, and this gap cannot be fully compensated by quality!
Classical military art and modern nationalist military dictatorship finally collided at this moment. The shocking Franco-Prussian War was so dazzling!
