Chapter 119： The prototype of the General Staff

Hundreds of thousands of people fighting?

Jerome Bonaparte's voice was not very loud, but all the officers present felt a hint of coolness and fear.

Since the emperor's abdication, France has not carried out a massacre of more than 100,000 people for nearly 30 years. During these 30 years, France has only committed to small-scale public security warfare and anti-guerrilla warfare. The enemy of the army, the army only needs to dispatch a few thousand to ten thousand troops to destroy them.

It can be said that the whole of France, and even the whole of Europe, is about to lose the ability of large corps to fight together, and the most typical example is the Austrian Empire.

During the period of 184849, the Habsburgs attacked Hungary three times. The Croatian governor Josipje Lacic, Prince Windischgritz, and the emperor did not defeat Hungary, which was composed of the National Guard, until the Russian Empire ceased to be special. Hungary only gave up resistance when Lansylvania invaded Hungary.

The army after the Napoleonic Wars had begun to degenerate in general.

Of course, the war is not about fighting more and stronger, and the endless security war is likely to bring the army out of the abyss of the same level.

Jerome Bonaparte clearly remembered that after the disintegration of Maoxiong, the Eagle Commander who had deployed weapons around the world was in command of Ermao's house. The Eagle Commander, who had rich experience in public security warfare, was surrounded by two tank divisions at the beginning. After that Even more losing.

At the end of the war, the Ermao government army, which was in an offensive state, was instead counterattacked by the split East Ermao.

It can be seen from this that it is easy to fall to the same level after playing a lot of security wars.

After a brief period of surprise, the expressions of all the officers present became excited.

In any case, an "auxiliary agency" capable of commanding hundreds of thousands of people must not be taken literally.

Lieutenant Colonel Leboeuf suddenly remembered that he had heard a certain military attache in the Algiers colony once said that the center of power in the Prussian army was not the War Department, and the General Staff, which was the auxiliary military institution. !

Thinking of this, the blood that should have been silent in Leboeuf's heart boiled again.

For every soldier who aspires to make achievements, it is undoubtedly a great honor to be able to command a war of more than 100,000 people.

History will leave them with an indelible mark, like the emperor and his marshals.

Leboeuf glanced at Jerome Bonaparte subconsciously. He was not sure that the emperor's nephew could achieve the same feats as his uncle, but he was willing to give it a try.

Watching the voices of the war conference hall getting louder and louder, Leboeuf, who is at the forefront of both power and age except for the president, cleared his throat and shouted, "Quiet!"

Everyone stopped rioting, and they all looked at Leboeuf.

Leboeuf's eyes signaled that Jerome Bonaparte could continue.

Jerome Bonaparte told all the officers present what he had told Minister Liuelli two months earlier.

The officers, who felt lucrative, said that the decree must be separated, and that it would be better for them to hold the power to issue orders to the army.

Jerome Bonaparte satisfied their imagination, and his fingers swept over all the officers present one by one: "You will be the witnesses of this separation of the decree, and you are also the participants! Do you understand?"

"Understood!" All the officers present could not wait to use all their strength to shout, at this time they could not restrain their excitement at all.

"Okay! Very energetic!" Jerome Bonaparte nodded with satisfaction. What he needed was a wolf that would bark and not hunt its prey, not a group of weak and weak lambs.

"Mr. President!" Trosch gestured to Jerome Bonaparte, who had a question to say: "What is our specific mission? I can't wait to get started!"

Bazin asked bluntly, he didn't want to waste his time in endless meetings.

After thinking for a moment, Jerome Bonaparte continued: "Good question! As the military secretariat, you shoulder the fate of the entire France, and your task is to make practical preparations for a possible war! "

As soon as this statement came out, everyone present was stunned for a while, they did not understand what Jerome Bonaparte meant.

Could it be that other countries are coming to invade France again?

After hesitating for a moment, Leboeuf raised his hand cautiously and asked, "Mr. President, is someone trying to invade us?"

"No, no, no!" explained Jerome Bonaparte, shaking his index finger. "No one of them came to invade us!"

All the officers present breathed a sigh of relief.

Although they like to invade other people's territory, they don't like to bring the front to the country. In that case, God knows what France will be ruined.

"What I mean is that in times of peace, we have to formulate some corresponding plans, predict the possible enemy and the location of the enemy, predict all kinds of complex possibilities, and reasonably distribute our forces!" Jerome Bonaparte Seriously said to the officers: "This is not an easy job, UU reading that's why I asked you to come over! We are not trying to invade a certain country, we are just to make ours have more turns. Space, when the enemy arrives, mobilize as soon as possible."

Many people present understood part of what Jerome Bonaparte meant, and their silent eyes revealed complex emotions.

"So your first task is to collect as much information as possible in the area your group is responsible for. I need to know their numbers, religious beliefs, and even all the enemy's military strength in those areas." Jerome Bonaparte Pointing at Leboeuf, he said, "Lieutenant Colonel Trosch!"

Trosch, who was still thinking about the meaning of the president's words, instantly reacted and got up and said, "Yes!"

"You will lead a team of people to survey all the terrain, humanities and even the deployment of troops in the German region in eastern France. I need detailed information and maps!" Jerome Bonaparte responded to Le Boeuf.

"Yes!" Trosch responded again.

"Lieutenant Colonel Bazin, you are in charge of the terrain and all the information on the Italian region in southern France. You can communicate with the Ministry of War in this regard!" Jerome Bonaparte gave the order again.

Trosch also readily accepted Jerome Bonaparte's orders.

"Lieutenant Colonel Leboeuf, you are in charge of the news of the Near East. I must know the strength of the troops we can mobilize once the war begins, and the supply problem that the Near East can carry. If you encounter any difficulties, you can report to the Find me soon!" said Jerome Bonaparte, pointing at Leboeuf.

"Yes!" Leboeuf responded again.

In Leboeuf's heart, he has vaguely felt the president's emphasis on the Near East. Perhaps the previous two regions were just smoke bombs released by the president.