Chapter 666： military meeting

Just as Jerome Bonaparte was thinking about how to punish the Russian Empire after the war, a knock came to his ears.

He hurriedly re-locked the cipher book in the drawer, then folded the encrypted telegram and put it in his pocket, shouting to the door with a serious face, "Please come in!"

The door of the office slowly opened, and Jerome Patterson's figure appeared at the door, "Your Majesty, all division commanders have now arrived at the headquarters!"

Jerome Bonaparte nodded, got up and responded: "Okay! I see! Let's go!"

After Jerome Bonaparte and Jerome Patterson left the office, they went straight to the headquarters' operational meeting hall.

When Jerome Bonaparte pushed open the door of the combat conference room, he saw Conrobert, Bosquet, and Trosch in the combat conference room at a glance (because of the excellent performance of Inkerman Mountain, Jerome was defeated by Jerome . Bonaparte was promoted to the commander of the third division. The original division commander Perlisier completely resigned as the commander of the third division and concentrated on serving as the acting commander of the expeditionary force), Marshal Reign and Marshal Perisier. At this time, they are correct Sitting at the long conference table, they waited for the arrival of Jerome Bonaparte. After Jerome Bonaparte appeared in front of them, the four division commanders and an acting commander stood up at the same time, and invariably greeted them. Jerome Bonaparte salutes in honor.

Jerome Bonaparte also saluted them with a solemn expression, then walked to the main seat of the long desk step by step, pulled out the chair, and sat down.

The entire conference room atmosphere became even more depressed the moment Jerome Bonaparte sat down.

Everyone in the seat was silently waiting for Jerome Bonaparte to speak, while Jerome Bonaparte, who was the initiator of the meeting, was still organizing words in his mind at the moment.

After a while, Jerome Bonaparte, who organized the language, said to them in a heavy tone: "The purpose of calling you here today is to announce a matter of national mourning!

Marshal of the French Empire, commander of the expeditionary force, recipient of the highest order of the Legion of Glory, Marshal of Saint Arnault, Count of Sevastopol, fell into a coma at around 2 o'clock this afternoon. At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, Saint Arnaud Marshal Nuo passed away completely and returned to the embrace of God! "

As soon as these words came out, except for the three people who had already learned of the death of Marshal Saint Arno in advance, everyone present showed shock and sadness on their faces.

The saddest of them all was Trosch.

As the adjutant of Marshal Saint Arnault, he has always been favored by Marshal Saint Arnault since Marshal Saint Arnault served as Minister of War.

Even when Saint Arnault was recuperating in Constantinople, as an adjutant, he was still eating the money of Marshal Saint Arnault.

It is rude to say that a large part of the reason why Trosch was able to obtain his current position was because of Marshal Saint Arnault's legacy.

To know that the current Trosch is only 39 years old, take Bazin who is about the same age as him (in fact, Bazin is 4 years older than him), although the current Bazin has the same rank of major general as him , but Bazin's position is no more than the head of the Zhuav regiment.

And Trosch is now in charge of the most elite army in the whole of France. It can be said that the gap between the two is obvious to all.

Let's look at the people who belong to the same division as him. Most of them are in the 40-60 stage. Even the youngest Conrobel is now a 45-year-old "old man".

Trosch was arguably the youngest of all divisional generals.

If he hadn't been the adjutant of Marshal Saint Arno, then Trosch would not have been able to take down the commander of the third division.

Of course, if Marshal Saint Arnault was not seriously ill, Trosch would not be sitting in the command of the third division.

Trosch itself is a banner erected by Jerome Bonaparte, the purpose is to let other forces take a look. will be abandoned by His Majesty the Emperor.

However, whether Trosch can take over the banner of Marshal Saint Arnault and unite with Marshal Saint Arnault's henchmen depends on his own ability.

The topic was too far away. At this time, Trosch hadn't thought of this step, and now he only thought about whether he could send his old boss the last ride.

After all, one cannot forget one's roots.

"Your Majesty!" Trosch's voice was slightly choked.

"Trosch, you say it!" Jerome Bonaparte replied softly.

"Allow me to resign from your command of the division!" Trochu pleaded to Jerome Bonaparte.

As soon as these words were uttered, they were immediately and decisively rejected by Jerome Bonaparte: "No! I don't agree! Major General Trosch, this battlefield is not a workplace! I am the French army, not the British army, not you. If you want to quit, you can quit! If you really want to quit, then take off your military uniform for me!"

"Then I would like to ask for a period of vacation!" Major General Trosch said to Jerome Bonaparte in a second-best way.

"You need a few days off!" Jerome Bonaparte asked Trosch.

"About a week or so!" Major General Trosch replied to Jerome Bonaparte.

Jerome Bonaparte stretched out three fingers and said to Troche: "Three days, I only give you three days! After three days, you will return to the army on time, do you hear that?"

"Yes!" Brigadier General Trosch responded in a sonorous tone.

"Go! You can go to Constantinople now!" Jerome Bonaparte waved to Major General Trox.

Trosch then asked Jerome Bonaparte again if he had any other instructions for him?

Jerome Bonaparte told Troche to wait until he returned!

"Also!" Jerome Bonaparte said to Major General Trox: "Also send us a good farewell to Marshal Saint Arnault and tell him that we will definitely defeat Russia!"

After Trosch left, Jérôme Bonaparte once again gave an order to everyone present: the flag of the French Empire hung in Sevastopol should be lowered to half mast, and at the same time the French army should announce the death of Marshal Saint Arnault. information.

All said in unison that they would obey Jerome Bonaparte's orders.

Jerome Bonaparte, who had finished speaking of the sad story, told a happy thing: "There is another thing! According to reliable information, my St. Petersburg brother, Nicholas, has now suffered from the disease. Serious illness! It won't be long before he returns to the arms of God!"

After hearing Jerome Bonaparte's second news, everyone present immediately showed a happy smile on their faces.

The current Russian Empire must be dragged by Nicholas I to fight. It is like a compressed bullet. The harder Nicholas I worked in the early stage, the stronger the rebound in the later stage.

Once Nicholas I is absent, their army in Crimea will probably become even more depressed.

The Russian army that broke the southern front of the Crimean peninsula is just around the corner.

"Your Majesty, I think we should do something!" Conrobel put forward his own views.

"What do you want to do?" Jerome Bonaparte responded with interest.

Although now he has come up with a strategy, but he still wants to hear their views.

Conrobert told Jerome Bonaparte that he thought the army should send a group of people to Simferopol to spread the news that Nicholas I was seriously ill. subject to turmoil.

Then, taking advantage of the turmoil in the military, the troops from the small town of Yevpatoria quickly went to Perekop to cut off the only passage between Crimea and the interior with lightning speed.

At the same time, the main force of the coalition forces can attack Saki, Bakhchisaray and Simferopol respectively.

At that time, the Russian Imperial Army will inevitably choose to retreat to Perekop.

When they walked to Perekop, they would find that the gate of Perekop was closed to them, and the 200,000 troops of the Russian Empire would become a turtle in the urn of the coalition.

After destroying the elite troops on the southern front of Russia, are you still afraid that they will not surrender to France?

After listening to Conrobert's strategy, Jerome Bonaparte nodded with satisfaction, and at the same time expressed his thoughts to Conrobert and others.

Finally, Jerome Bonaparte gave another order to Pelissier, asking him to lead the staff of the expeditionary army to formulate a qualified plan and give it to him in the shortest possible time.

Then at the next coalition meeting, he will coordinate and arrange the characters of each unit, "If this plan is successful, we will be able to defeat the Russian Empire before the winter completely arrives, thus forcing them to return to the negotiating table!

If we fail, we may have to wait until next spring for a decisive battle with the Russian Empire.

You don't have much time left for us! "

"I see! Your Majesty!" Pelissier replied solemnly to Jerome Bonaparte.

"Okay! That's all I have to say! Do you have anything to add?" Jerome Bonaparte asked.

"Your Majesty When will the new bullets be delivered!" asked General Conrobel.

After thinking for a moment, Jerome Bonaparte told Conrobert that the transport ship loaded with 10 million Minet bombs had now docked at the port of Cyprus and was expected to arrive in Sevastopol in the next two days. !

"By the way, Your Majesty! Our division has some shortages of cans and cigarettes. Can the Quartermaster Office send some over!" Bosque continued to ask.

"The number of supplies that each unit receives each month is fixed. Your division can only wait for the next month." Jerome Bonaparte gave Bosquet an angry look, he knew that the second The reason why teachers consume so much is that they take cans to nearby villages every week for a wave of "pre-consumption".

Today cans and cigarettes have become the new currency of Crimea.