C2639 Classical Military Art

Napoleon III had already gone mad. Only when he shouted madly with no reason did Crown Prince Eugén realize that his father had already aged three years.

French Emperor was not fat in the first place, he was a tall and thin man.

When the Empress and the Crown Prince saw French Emperor trembling like a malaria patient, his face turned yellow like a corpse!

"Enough of that. I know more about the Empire than you do. I know much more about it than you do!" But there's no other way, there's no retreat left for those who are already on the bow! "

"Our top spy in the Bavaria sent us an intelligence report. We were all tricked by Bismark, but Prussia was already prepared for a war. They were waiting for us to declare war on our own accord!"

"Do you know how many troops Prussia can muster a day at the front? Thirty thousand! A total of thirty thousand! "

"And we? If you can send 10,000 blood, then that's the limit. Right now, time is already no longer waiting for you! "

"Bismark tricked me so much! He continued to maintain the border with a total of 200 thousand troops without any changes, as if he had no ambitions for us. However, who would have thought that he would hide his troops behind us! "

"Who would have thought that their mobility would be so high!"

"Two hundred thousand against two hundred thousand, my France will definitely win! Because our soldiers are all professional soldier, and they have received far more training than Prussia! "

"Two hundred thousand against two hundred and fifty thousand, I'm not afraid!" Our soldiers are of higher quality, our rifles are more sophisticated, and our heavy machine guns are equipped with much more than our opponents! "

"But how can I use two hundred thousand to go against three hundred thousand? Fighting three hundred and fifty thousand, four hundred thousand? "At our current speed, the Prussian army will reach three hundred thousand in three days. At that time, we could only gather two hundred and thirty thousand soldiers!"

"In ten days Prussia will have four hundred thousand to five hundred thousand men! And we can only gather three hundred thousand! How do you expect me to fight? "

"The longer this battle goes on, the more dangerous it will be for us!" The only way we can do it is to take the initiative, and use this time when the number of people is not too far away, to let us take the initiative and attack the borders of the Germany! "

French Emperor swept away all the scattered documents on the table, unfurled a map, and passionately said, "Germany is not an iron plate. Although their Four Southern States s have been stirred up by their national emotions, they are still not willing to accept Prussia!"

"The only way for us to succeed is to take the initiative! Penetrating the Prussian's defenses, burning the battle into their land! "

"Bavaria, Württemberg, Hesse, Baden … These wavering States s will become the training grounds of our great army. Their farms will be burned down, their factories demolished, and all our great army will be defeated! "

"The terror of death will immediately dispel the national spirit they have just formed, and they will immediately sink into fear. They will even resent Prussia for its wanton actions!"

"As long as these four States are completely thrown into disarray, Prussia will not be scary! We will send fleet to disturb the Elbe River's mouth and the Baltic Sea, and try our best to restrict the number of Prussian army s to reduce the pressure on the southern battlefield! "

"When our army reached Jena, it was the undefended plains of Prussia! As long as we can take Jena, the great victories of history will be repeated! "

"Child, this is the only way. We can only end this quickly! How could we watch the Prussian gather such a huge army of five hundred thousand? "When that happens, we won't be able to fight this war!"

It had to be said that the French Emperor's plan was quite bold, as the core of his plan was to rely on his own professional army system.

France and Prussia had completely different military systems. France had a professional soldier system, and the romantic French viewed it as a classical military art!

The history of the war in Europe began in the era of the ancient Greece and the Ancient Rome, because only then would there be records of it!

Throughout the long history of European wars, emphasis had always been placed on the professionalism of the soldiers. Starting from the ancient Greece and the Macedonian pike soldiers, to the Ancient Rome's heavy soldier army, all of them emphasized the discipline of the military formations!

Even in the Middle Ages, the rise of the Knights pushed the professional soldier system to the limits. At that time, the mainstream of thought in Europe had always thought, 'Only trained veterans and famous generals of hundreds of wars were able to afford this place!' The common people will always be a bunch of farmers with pitchforks.

This line of thought was deeply rooted! Until the era where muskets were common, there had been no changes. When humans entered the era of musket, lined up to shoot, this method of fighting would test the quality of the soldiers.

Without training, farmers cannot form tenacious linear shooting positions!

People had to watch their comrades next to them die miserably, and in the next second it would be your turn. The two sides would compete with each other to increase or decrease the number of people, to see who could last longer!

That kind of war played with survival! When Napoleon swept through Europe back then, he relied on the group of tenacious professional soldier he trained!

It was a pity that a large part of those soldiers had died in the blizzard outside Moscow. If the veterans hadn't been used up, then perhaps there wouldn't have been any problems in the future!

Napoleon was his uncle's iron fan, and the entire France was also his iron fan. Who would dare to oppose the military system left behind by the War God back then? Who dared to say anything bad?

So now France is still a professional army, how did the Invalides of Paris appear? Only veterans were eligible to enjoy the benefits of the Courtyard, and only honorary soldiers who had fought in the war could be buried here.

The system of the professional soldier had brought about countless victories in France, but at the moment, Prussia was using a completely different military system.

In the words of the German military genius Clausewitz, the author of the war controversy, this military system is entirely a nationalist military theory, and he is more fanatical and more effective!

He once said, 'War is only an expanded struggle to make the enemy submit to you!' Since the nature of war and gang fighting was the same, then in the end, it was still the side with more people that had the advantage!

Using nationalistic feelings to mobilize the masses and turn all the men in the nation into soldiers, this gave them an inexhaustible supply of troops!

These reserve soldiers who had gone through military training were much worse off compared to the veteran soldiers who had served in France for an average of more than seven years!

However, the human sea tactic could completely bridge this gap. Perhaps veterans could create a classic example of a weak opponent winning a strong battle, but a weak opponent winning a strong opponent also had a limit!

Man-sea tactics required a huge gap of two times, three times, or even ten times the enemy's strength, and this gap was not something that could be completely filled with quality!

At this moment, the classical military art and the modern nationalist military dictatorship had finally clashed. The world shocking war between France and France was just that dazzling!