Chapter 145, Special Tactical Training Camp (3)
The next day, Lucien and Javier spent another whole day in Paris. However, the day was far from being as smooth as the first day, and many people did not find it.
"Don't be in a hurry, Monsieur Bonaparte. The rest of these guys are a group that is relatively difficult to find, but in two days at most, we can find all these people. After another swoop, Javier said to Lucien, who was a little disappointed.
"I know that when I got this list, I planned to find these people in about a month. Yesterday with your help, it went too smoothly, but it raised my expectations. In fact, today's efficiency is very high compared to my original expectations. At this, Lucien paused, and then added, "I was brought out of Corsica by my brother a few years ago to study in Paris. I've been in Paris for a few years now, and although I can't compare to the old Parisians, I always feel like I know Paris. In the past two days, I have followed you through the alleys of Paris, and I have realized that I don't know anything about Paris. ”
"Even if you've lived in Paris all your life, no one can say they know Paris?" Javier also sighed.
"Monsieur Javier," added Lucien, "we will be ready to leave Paris the day after tomorrow." ”
"So fast?" Javier was taken aback.
"yes, the sooner we go back, the sooner we can get to work." "As for the rest," said Lucien, "we can leave one or two people in Paris, first, to continue recruiting, and secondly, to find out about the situation in Paris." ”
"Monsieur Lucien, our men don't get any high-level news in Paris." Javier said.
This is also a normal thing, Javier's gang used to be just small policemen, and the upper echelons were too far away from them.
"You don't need to think about things at the top, we have other channels in this regard. We don't lack this, what we lack is an understanding of the bottom. Lucien said, "What's the matter, a little reluctant to leave Paris?" ”
Javier sighed: "It's a little reluctant, after all, I've been working here for half my life." Almost all the streets of Paris, all the alleys, have left my footprints. ”
"My friend, we're just leaving temporarily." Lucien said, "We will definitely come back to Paris!" ”
Two days later, after another visit to Fouché, Lucien left Paris with twenty or so men who would become the first teachers of what would become the special tactical training camp.
Fouché had actually noticed Lucien's actions a long time ago. To be honest, Lucien's series of actions have a taste of being different from him, so Fouché is quite cold to Lucien's visit. However, he also knows that not putting all his eggs in one basket is an inevitable choice for a mature organization. Moreover, although Lucien was a pure descendant of Joseph, Fouché was confident that he could overwhelm him by his own ability.
By these days, Napoleon had already found an estate near Toulon that was used as a training base for the "Special Tactical Training Camp".
The manor was dominated by hills and woodlands, and was originally used as a hunting place for a local nobleman. After the Toulon rebellion, the nobleman and his son fled with the British, and everything they could not take with them was confiscated. Of course, the fields that are suitable for planting will not be barren, and the farmers have planted them. And such hunting estates, which were remote and had no other output except for various birds and beasts, were abandoned. Now it is just right to use it for the "special tactical training camp".
There is a place, but there are no students yet. At this time, the Poles were fighting a regular war with the Russian army near Warsaw. Of course, their situation is already far from optimistic. Their military commander, Kosciuszko, was seriously wounded in the previous battle. Although they relied on a sudden uprising and the smuggling of various gadgets from the past, they won quite a few victories at one point.
Moreover, out of bargaining with Russia and ensuring that the Russians would not directly eat the remaining interests of Poland before they transferred enough troops over, the Prussians and Austria not only did not step up their attacks on the Polish rebels, but even relaxed the blockade of the areas controlled by the rebels, so that now Joseph's weapons sold to Poland have hardly been checked in the Prussian-controlled areas.
Today, however, there is a general agreement between the Russians and the Austrians and the Prussians on how to divide the spoils. So the good days of the Poles have also come to an end. With the agreement of the three parties, the smuggling route in Prussia was cut off almost immediately, and the Poles began to be attacked from three directions. Although they are still resisting, their defeat is already a matter of time. Vibitsky had already begun to contact Joseph about training underground resistors.
So although there are no students yet, the people in the training camp are still very busy. They had to prepare the various courses before the Poles arrived.
According to Lucien's conception, these courses should mainly include such a few things.
The first is reconnaissance and counter-detection. Without training in this area, it would be very difficult to work underground. And Joseph himself, in his busy schedule, took time out of his busy schedule to make a lot of suggestions on the setting of these courses, many of which were rejected because they were unrealistic. However, some of his suggestions also aroused exclamations among the instructors, such as "There is still such an operation" and "It seems that it is really possible". So much so that Javier even said: "If Mr. Joseph Bonaparte had become a policeman, he would have become a legend in the police world." Of course, it has also been said that what Javier was actually trying to say was: "If Monsieur Joseph Bonaparte had been a criminal, we would not have been able to live happily." ”
In this regard, Joseph didn't think it was a big deal, after all, we were also people who watched hundreds of episodes of elementary school detective books.
The second is the use of various weapons, as well as related combat techniques. The skills of underground combat are completely different from ordinary battles, and it has unique requirements, one is to be secretive, and to be fast, which naturally requires a lot of unique skills. In order to verify the feasibility of some of the legendary techniques, some guys even frantically proposed to ask some death row prisoners to come and test it.
Such a mad idea could not have been carried out in Josephus's research institute, which was set up for the purpose of promoting the revolution of all Europe and for the emancipation of all European peoples. So this proposal was immediately vetoed by Joseph, who had a sense of justice. However, Joseph had also studied the "Doctrine of Take-and-Take" anyway, and he also understood the principle that "when he saw opium, he did not fall into the latrine in public, so as to see that it was completely revolutionary, and only sent it to the pharmacy for the purpose of healing".
So Joseph first called in an experienced military doctor to judge the possible effects of these legendary techniques from a scientific point of view. Some of the obviously unscientific techniques were first denied, while some of the methods to be tested by experiments were retained in the appendix of the textbook, and after explaining in detail the implementation of these techniques, it was added in one large word that the effect of this technique had not been verified, and that if the students had gained practical experience in practice, they hoped to get their feedback.
It took another two months to write these tutorials, and by the time the work was completed, Joseph's side had already produced prototypes of various targeted weapons. The instructors were particularly appreciative of these insidious weapons, and although they were still very crude in the eyes of later generations, in the eyes of these instructors, they were already very good, even revolutionary.
"Those Poles, with these things, will definitely give their opponents a headache." Javier commented.
It was also during this time that Fouché was perhaps irritated by Lucien's actions, and Fouché sent a document requesting Joseph to grant him a special fee for bribing certain officials to push them to agree to deflect domestic grievances by invading Italy.
Lucien was very dissatisfied with this request. He said to Joseph: "We went to Italy, so to speak, and saved their lives!" Now, Foucher has offered to pay us to pay them and bribe them so that they will allow us to save them—where in the world is that true? ”
Joseph listened, smiled and turned his head to Napoleon: "Napoleon, my brother. What do you think about this? ”
Napoleon was now crooked in his chair, resting his feet in leather boots unsightly on the table—a sign of his relaxation, which, he thought, was more conducive to his thinking.
"Ah, what do I think? I felt that Fouché would give him as much as he needed. Napoleon said, "Fouché is not a man of money, and we do have a need to pay bribes." ”
"Why?" Lucien was visibly unconvinced.
"Lucien," Napoleon, taking his foot off the table and lifting his body off the back of his chair, "you fool! Do you really think they need us to go into Italy to save them? We went into Italy and saved them? They wouldn't think so! First of all, these guys simply don't feel that their rule can really last long, and they themselves don't believe in that, understand, my stupid brother? ”
"So what?" Lucien's voice lowered.
"How? Use your little brain and think about what you are going to do if you are in their position now, and you decide that the fall of the government is inevitable – the ship is settled? ”
Lucien was silent.
"They will try to make as much money as they can, get enough money, and then move the money to a safe place, for example, hide it in the New World, and if the situation is not right, they will immediately run to the New World and become rich." Napoleon said this as he turned his head to look at Joseph and smiled.
"But if we go into Italy, we can extend the life of their government and give them more time to get money – isn't that great?" Lucien was still not convinced.
Napoleon was about to speak again, but Joseph spoke first: "Lucien, you will make such a judgment because you know our situation and know that we will definitely win. But they don't know! Considering the supply situation of Napoleon's corps during this time, one would think that the combat effectiveness of this army has been greatly weakened. So take the initiative to attack, and the odds of winning are not high. And in the event of a major military defeat, the government may immediately be unable to sustain itself. So our actions, in their view, do not necessarily prolong the life of the government, but are likely to shorten its lifespan, which will affect their plans to make money. So, they feel that we have to make them make such a decision, it's not impossible, but we have to add money. ”
Napoleon leaned back and put his foot back up. Naturally, that means, "I don't have anything to add." ”
"Well," said Joseph, "then I suggest that we pass Fouché's request, well, who is in favor and who is against?" ”
Foucher's efficiency is high. After the money was in place, within half a month, Napoleon received an order from the government, which allowed him to take the initiative to attack the Italian region and burn the flames of war into the enemy's controlled areas.
Napoleon, as soon as he received the order, gathered the officers and showed them the order from the government, and the officers said that the army was poorly equipped and poorly trained, and that it was too difficult to go to Italy over the steep Alps.
Napoleon, on the other hand, said that it is the duty of a soldier to obey orders, and since the situation of the revolution is so difficult, although the government's orders are difficult, we must overcome the difficulties and strive to achieve our goals.
"In addition, everyone knows that the shortage of military pay is not a day or two. Fortunately, we are close to the port, and we can still get some money from smuggling activities that break through the blockade. With this, we were able to barely feed the fighters. But lately, as some of the technology has gradually been lost to our enemies, they have begun to steal business with us, and our smuggling business has begun to be difficult to do. If this continues, it may become a problem to eat in the future. Now the only way to solve the problem is to go to Italy and defeat our enemies. As for the issue of equipment, recently, at the request of the Americans, the arsenal produced a batch of new weapons. I have informed Joseph to suspend the shipment and divert the equipment. Hehe...... The Americans have requirements for the quality of weapons. I don't know how much better the quality of these exported weapons than the things the government purchased for us, but the price is not much different, and even cheaper than many things......"