Chapter 16: France Needs Political Commissars!

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The recommendation votes smashed up the old irons, and they died on the list.

Napoleon spent half a day in the barracks, listing several suggestions for the urgent need for reform in the French army, and hoped that Trochu would follow through on his way.

Since he was not a member of the Provisional Cabinet and did not have the right to attend the meeting at the Palais Bourbon, Governor Trochu indicated that he would give the contents of his pamphlet to the General Staff for reference.

The next day, Trosch took Napoleon to the newly created General Staff of the Army, the Palais de Blennes, in the 7th arrondissement of central Paris, which was the temporary command post of the General Staff Department.

The two-story building was cramped and cramped enough to accommodate the temporary offices of the Army Department, while the Navy had to find another location.

At the door, there were soldiers holding documents in and out of the hall, their expressions solemn.

Napoleon had already seen that the war ahead was unfavorable at this time.

Trochu walked through the door of the conference room with mixed feelings.

The newly created French General Staff was in a state of quarrel over Napoleon's pamphlet. Lou Flo, who was also the Minister of War and Chief of the General Staff, did not give an inch in the face of the Governor of Trochu, and his face was red in the face of the dispute. Because he could not accept Napoleon's proposals for reforms, which he considered to be contrary to the glorious traditions of the French military.

Le Flo, who had heard the rumors in Paris, saw that the initiator had appeared, and before Napoleon could speak, he directly asked the other party, "What is a commissar?" Do you think that our French soldiers are not heroic enough? ”

The valiant French soldiers?

Napoleon sneered, if these fools were brave enough, the Verdun meat grinder and the miracle of the Marne during the First World War would not have been the bloody scene of the establishment of the Overseer and the rout of the Maxim machine guns. The number of French soldiers who fell under their own guns was not necessarily less than that of those who died at the hands of the Germans.

The scene of the Soviet army's charge in "Soldiers Coming to the City" is the best portrayal of the French army in World War I.

Napoleon explained, "But we need commissars to do ideological work on the soldiers, and to supervise and ensure that the morale does not collapse." The guy who plays the role of political commissar cannot be a man without pants and an uneducated middle and lower class of people. They must have strong political qualities and be able to stabilize the morale of the military even when the war is ineffective. ”

"But in this way, there is a conflict with our officer's position," said Loughlow. You are decentralizing the power of the officers. ”

Napoleon ignored the other party's vexatious troubles, but continued to explain to him, "I have said, General Le Flow, the main function of the political commissar is ideological work, and even in the worst case there will be no rout and defection, you know that although the front-line commanders and fighters of the French army are experienced and extremely high-quality, they will never lack the courage to take the initiative to attack even in any corner of the world in Europe, Asia, Africa and the United States. However, he is fanatical but not sustained in his will to fight, and lacks the resilience to face setbacks. It is impossible for you, as a general, not to understand these fatal flaws. ”

Le Flow was gagged by Napoleon's rhetorical questioning, and in fact these were fatal flaws of the French army, but they could not find a better way to make up for them.

Now Napoleon came up with a slightly compromised solution.

The establishment of an additional commissar on the basis of the junior officers for the ideological work of the soldiers, who now had at least two months to prepare, and to make the system of commissar quickly spread among the defenders of Paris and the Lucava regiment.

"If the French army is really as heroic as imagined, it should not surrender in the siege of Sedan and shoot the last bullet, instead of surrendering directly after a 12-day siege!"

Lou Flo was speechless, so he turned his eyes for help to the governor of Trochu, but the other man nodded and said undeniably, "Everything will be carried out according to the orders of His Excellency Napoleon." ”

"But ......"

"There's nothing to do."

There was silence in the command war room, and no one dared to offend the powerful governor of Paris.

In the end, General Loughlo, who couldn't bear it anymore, slammed his gloves on the table,

"What? You want to protest? ”

The French generals were accustomed to being free and loose, and Napoleon showed his majesty at the right time.

"General Le Flo I want you to understand one thing, you can be in the cabinet because I drew up the list of nominations, but the Provisional Government still has direct execution powers, such as directly appointing and dismissing senior French generals, you can enter the General Staff, but I can also let you get out."

Leflo couldn't sit still at all, and he threatened the other party fiercely, "You dare? What are you? ”

"Of course he can."

Trochu, who had always been silent, stood up again, made his position clear, and spoke for Napoleon, "General Levlow, please don't embarrass me, if you don't agree to the reform plan of the French army, then I will find someone who promises reform to take the post of general staff." ”

Lauflor was stunned by Trochu's temperament, and he did not expect that even the Doge of Paris would stand up for him on such a crucial issue.

Even Trochu obeyed him, and the other people present had doubts in their hearts, could he really be the emperor who came back from the dead?

If there really is a resurrection from the dead, then Hippocrates, the father of medicine, would probably be so angry that he crawled out of the coffin.

"Think carefully about whether to force the enemy back according to my method, or to wave the white flag to them and surrender honorably."

After Napoleon finished speaking, he turned and went out directly, needing to give the generals time to adjust to their new status, he walked out of the conference room of the General Staff, stood outside with his back against the handrail, and silently looked at the silent corridor.

He took a deep breath and tried to calm himself down.

He needed to be patient, and things had to come one step at a time.

The commissar simply threw stones to ask for directions, and the next step was to follow the example of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which was established to investigate dissident forces. When the war is over, the royalist factions in the army will know what a political purge is.

There is no icy Siberian wilderness in France, so this group of people is waiting to go fishing in the French Polynesia.

At this time, Doge Trochu also came out of the conference room, and he tried to comfort Napoleon, but he did not see any emotion in Napoleon's face.

"Your Majesty......"

Hearing the noise, Napoleon turned his head, found Trochu standing behind him, and said bluntly, "Governor Trochu, we need to use a speech to convey to the people of Paris the determination of the government of national defense and boost the morale of the people. ”

Speeches and political shows were the most commonly used means, Hitler's "Fight for German Freedom" agitated the entire Germanic nation, and Comrade Lenin's "Death does not belong to the working class" inspired the working class to fight for the overthrow of the feudal monarchy, which almost became the slogan of war.

The war speech Trochu expressed his understanding, but asked rhetorically with some puzzlement, "Why did you make such a hasty decision?" “

"Because after seeing the French bunch of wine bags and rice bags this time, I knew that time could not be delayed any longer."

Napoleon sighed, the top of the French army was already a bunch of stubborn and dead-headed. She had to shorten her planning time, and a lot of things had to be done at the same time, because there was only one month from Bismarck's offensive to the siege of Paris.

The Prussians wanted to capture Paris? Step over his corpse first.

And if the speech was sufficiently incendiary, his political prestige in Paris would surpass that of any cowardly coward of the republicans.

"Okay, I can arrange it, and the speech can be done by tomorrow afternoon at the latest."

Napoleon nodded, "Excuse me, in addition to the onlookers of Paris, I hope you will be able to arrange a neat army to listen to our mobilization speech on the Place de la Concorde." “

Trochu hesitated, then nodded and said, "No problem at all, Your Majesty Napoleon." ”

He didn't ask why he did it, but the Emperor of the First Empire never missed a crucial issue.

Napoleon smiled and looked ahead, and said something inexplicable.

"This is our 'Red Square 1941.'"

"This is our battle for Paris."

"Without a blizzard, we would have buried the corpses of the Prussian army under the banner of the Imperial Eagle."