Late at night, in the study of the Prime Minister's official residence, more than a dozen snow-white candles were lit on the two silver candlesticks on the desk, and the hot candles flowed down their tears, and the flickering candlelight illuminated the snow in front of the Prime Minister, while the corner of the room was orange and dim. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

On the table were all kinds of top-secret information between Prussia and France, and British spies collected a lot of armaments from both sides, and at this moment the limelight of preparing for war was getting stronger and stronger.

After the rude rebuke of the Prussian king by the French, the situation in the Franco-Prussian situation, which had been somewhat relaxed, suddenly took a sharp turn for the worse, and Bismarck changed his previous discussion and quickly became a man in the iron mask.

He shouted to prepare for war for the glory of the king, signed one conscription order after another, the Krupp Armament Engineering received orders for dozens of cannons, and all production lines were mobilized.

The permanent elite regiments have begun to distribute equipment for pre-war acclimatization, and reservists from the states have begun to assemble in the barracks, and everywhere there is the sound of bugles and the roar of soldier training.

The fully reorganized Prussian corps began to advance southward, and although it did not come into contact with the Franco-Prussian border area, the smell of gunpowder was already very strong in preparation for war.

Prussia's national railway network began to run overloaded, with coal, steel, timber ...... All kinds of war supplies began to be distributed, and soldiers of one regiment after another began to use the railway network to assemble throughout the country.

In every Prussian city, interestless war debts were being issued, and the people were silently throwing the last of their piggy banks into the crucible of war.

Years of education have made all Prussians understand a truth, only iron and blood can save Germany, the happiness of the people must be built on the basis of a strong country, and only when the country is strong can it break out of the cage created by Britain and go to the whole world to grab meat to eat.

This is already a truth that every Prussian child understands, and there is not the slightest anti-war sentiment in the whole country, and everyone is holding back their energy.

"Victory over France and snatching away the overseas colonies of the French...... To unite Germany, we will snatch wealth from the whole world!"

Benjamin, who had fallen into a fantasy, shuddered, and the sound of the slogans in his mind frightened him very much, and there was no doubt that Bismarck was indeed a difficult opponent.

Pushing away Prussia's intelligence and looking at France, the situation is a bit less optimistic, and the efficiency of the arrogant French in preparing for war is completely inferior to that of Prussia.

At present, Prussia has assembled more than 200,000 combatable regiments, but the French side ostensibly said that it had mobilized 300,000 troops, but the data sent back by the spies showed that only half of these 300,000 people had actually completed combat preparations.

That's right, war is not a game of war games, and the two sides are not playing mathematical addition and subtraction.

Let's look at the preparations on the Prussian side, where the regiments were made up of veterans, each of whom had undergone a medical examination, ammunition for three days' battle was distributed, and field rations were distributed to everyone.

The transformation of the army from a garrison state to a state of combat readiness requires high-intensity warm-up training, and dozens of consecutive pre-war mobilizations will stimulate the morale of soldiers.

Even the military's top-secret battle plan has been sent to all units of the battalion and regiment!

Only through such an organization and through this series of processes must ensure that this army can be put into war in the next second, and this is called real combat readiness.

And the French side has had a good time over the years, the country has not experienced a war for a long time, the whole state apparatus is rusty, and all the bureaucrats have an uncanny romantic optimism, as if war is not going to happen.

Those soldiers who had been pampered in the barracks for several years lazily drove to the northern assembly areas, and many of them did not have time to change their rifles, and twenty or thirty rounds of ammunition were not enough for an hour of high-intensity fighting.

Many troops have not yet received new uniforms, first-aid kits, and other materials halfway through the process, and the whole process of preparing for war seems lazy.

At this moment, there are only 150,000 troops that France can directly pull into the battlefield for high-intensity battles, only 150,000!

Benjamin rubbed his temples in pain, "It can't be like this, I want a bloody battle of both sides, not a one-sided crushing of the Prussian side!"

"France, as the second place under the empire on which the sun never sets, should let Prussia beat it, and only in this way can the distance between the second place and our first place be widened......"

"France can't be stronger anymore, this war must make them break their bones and shed some blood!"

"But I will never allow Prussia to win too easily...... This crazy nation, the whole country is like a machine, strict and ruthless! If they retain their military strength and easily defeat France, they will certainly pose a great threat to Britain in the future!"

"Damn Xiao Letian, do you have to make a difference? I finally made the strength of the two sides basically balanced, and it was not easy to create such a lose-lose situation, do you have to destroy this balance?"

Benjamin looked at the dancing candle flame as if he saw Xiao Letian's stinky face: "God will punish you! If you throw out such news, it will definitely damage the image of the French Emperor, you will make the number of people who support Prussia in the whole of Europe soar, and you will make the anti-war sentiment in France soar!"

"Damn, once that atmosphere of hatred and hatred is created, Prussia will compete for a lot of diplomatic aid, and it will be easier to recruit angry young people to join the army at home, and their military resources will increase by at least thirty percent!"

"What kind of goblin are you?...... Xiao Letian, what kind of goblin are you changing, why are you so difficult!"

This is a real mature politician, obviously to drain the blood of France, but in the process can not let France be too weak, the third to challenge the position of the second, then both sides have to be crippled, so that the sun never sets the empire can benefit from it.

Benjamin saw through Xiao Letian's true intentions behind this article at a glance.

"Xiao Letian! You want to add points to Prussia and subtract points from the hearts of the people! Not only that, but you threw out this news in advance, and you are also creating an excuse for your army to participate in the war, right?"

"With the Baila tragedy at the bottom, in the future, you and Prussia will form an alliance, and your army will set foot on French soil, even if there is a reason, at least it will be famous!"

"You are cunning and treacherous, but I will not let your calculations succeed, and I will not let any English newspapers report your news from this day forward, you boy, wait!"

"I won't let you get complacent! Do you want to fish in troubled waters?