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Only by facing up to your own shortcomings can you develop your strengths and avoid your weaknesses.

The top brass of the French army, especially the brave and unscrupulous stupid generals represented by Bazin, could only give Prussia their heads for nothing with the idea of a glorious attack by the French army.

Still puzzled, Favre asked, "Can France win this war?" ”

Napoleon pursed his lips and said, "Of course not, Lord Favre, if you think about the number of their troops, even Napoleon's own expedition would not have been able to win with such a disparity in strength." Maybe you, as a politician, don't have much idea about the number of Prussian troops, right? ”

He held his chin and looked around at the others, reminding the relaxed parliamentarians present, "Let me explain to you that before the war, there were 368 active battalions and 198 reserve battalions in the Prussian regular army. Further on, there are 114 active battalions formed by the Reserve Army of the First Category and 93 reserve battalions formed by the Reserve Army of the Second Category. To this was added two Bavarian armies, one Saxony, one Baden Independent Field Division and one Württemberg Independent Field Division. The strength is probably around 70 to 80 battalions. So the total strength of the Prussian army after mobilization could reach 950,000 people. This figure was only a name on paper in the early days of the war. But if nothing happens, it is expected that by the middle of this month it will be all realized, which will be the entire regular strength of the Prussian camp. On the other hand, excluding the Charon Army that disarmed and surrendered, France now has only about 250,000 troops at full strength, which is no longer an egg hitting a stone, this is an egg hitting steel. ”

"My God......"

"That's the equivalent of one French soldier dealing with four Prussian soldiers......"

After listening to Napoleon's words, everyone looked at each other, could it be that Napoleon's cry was really ready to fight Prussia with eggs and stones, desperately resisting?

"So...... Are we still going to lose? Revolt is nothing but a more honorable stupidity? ”

Trochu was originally pessimistic about the future of France, believing that with Napoleon's military prowess, he could crush the massive invaders.

Napoleon's eyes were calm, and he never seemed to feel fear. Whether it's the imminent fall of France, or the mess of Parisian internal affairs.

He raised his eyebrows, looked around at the solemn-faced parliamentarians around him, and said, "There is only an enemy that France cannot defeat, and there is no enemy that can defeat us." I'm just saying that it is impossible for France to win the war, but I have said that Congress will lose this war? ”

The room had fallen silent, and the republicans had put aside their contradictions with Napoleon for the time being and listened to him continue.

"What I said next is the key to France's forced Prussia to withdraw its troops."

For the first time, Napoleon's expression became solemn.

"For France right now, the best offense is the defense. According to the previous decisive battle method of the large army, we only had the fate of being divided, surrounded and annihilated by an army several times that of France. But we could hold on to the fortified area to defend against the Prussian army, who could not capture the fortified city with infantry and artillery alone, so delaying time became a key point for us. ”

Napoleon's suggestion was the static defensive tactic used by France in World War I and World War II, France was a tactical and ideological army that needed a far-sighted high-level general to break the rules.

One of the reasons why Bismarck chose to besiege rather than attack in the first place was that the cost of capturing Paris was far greater than causing civil strife in Paris and eventually having to surrender.

In the memory of Napoleon's past life, from Stalingrad to Grozny, there was not a single fortress war that was not bloody.

Then the government of national defense, in the face of internal and external troubles, had to sign an agreement with Prussia. If they had dragged on for a year and a half, perhaps Alsace-Lorraine would not have fallen into German hands.

"What if the Prussian army chooses to besiege rather than attack?" They don't have to attack Paris at all, and they can even besiege us to death. Without weapons, rations and reinforcements, we could not have been in a permanent stalemate with them. ”

Napoleon stretched out his index finger and shook it.

"Then we chose to hoard a year's and a half's worth of food, and waste time with the Prussian army. First, Prussia mobilized nearly a million troops, and the transportation of supplies in the latter part of the war would be a nightmare. Of course, if we can hold on for more than half a year, it is possible to alleviate the crisis. Second, we need other countries to intervene and mediate, which requires you to fight your wits and courage in the political and diplomatic arena. ”

If you want to protect France, the focus is on defense rather than offense.

Originally, from the very beginning, the national defense government pinned its hopes for safeguarding national sovereignty and independence on the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, but on the intervention of the European powers and the peace talks with Prussia. Two days later, Favre met with the envoys of Russia, Britain, Austria-Hungary, and the United States in Paris, asking them to convey to the Prussian government the message of France's request for an armistice, and especially imploring the Tsar to agree to act as the initiator of the diplomatic mediation of a neutral state. On 12 September, Thiers was ordered to send envoys to England, Russia, Austria and Italy. It took a month and a half to travel back and forth to London, Vienna, Rome and Petersburg. However, they all withdrew from the world, happy to see France being taught a harsh lesson by Prussia, and did not want to offend Bismarck, who was in the limelight.

Now Napoleon was fighting Bismarck to the end and trying to get other countries to intervene.

Favre became more and more unable to understand what the man in front of him was thinking.

"Didn't you say before that the rest of the world would love to see France defeated and surrendered?"

Napoleon spread out his hands and said, "Yes, but you are not trying to plead with them to join the mediation of the Franco-Prussian War. It's about telling these people a bloody truth. ”

"The facts?"

The other MPs looked at each other.

"What facts?"

There was a shrewd glint in his blue, pale gray eyes, and he crossed his hands in front of his nose, the corners of his mouth hooked.

"Show them weakness."

"Tell these great powers, who will not see death, that France has fought hard in this war and can no longer maintain its position as a great power on the European continent. Prussia would rise to prominence in the Franco-Prussian War and take the place of the first continental power on the continent. Paris simply taught others a tragic lesson that after Wilhelm and Bismarck destroyed the foundations of France, their ambition was to be the new 'Napoleon of Europe', and after the rise of Prussia, there was no one to stop and balance them, and if the new Central European hegemon and the Russian Empire were allied, they would be able to swallow up the whole of Europe. ”

After listening to his account, the other councillors were confused, and only Blanqui showed a look of sudden realization.

Napoleon let go of stubbornness and pride earlier than the others, and at the same time recognized the fact that France was inferior. And he seized on this point and magnified the threat and strength of Prussia, and finally formed a "Prussian threat theory".

For the sake of the political balance of the European continent, other countries do not want France to lose too badly, and if they can intervene in mediation, the loss will be smaller than the war reparations.

Being able to bend and stretch is the only way to be a general.

And in the East, such people are called heroes.

"This guy ......"

Watching Napoleon's gushing conversation, Blanqui instead took a deep breath of cold air.

Fortunately, they are allies on the same front for the time being, rather than enemies fighting each other. Napoleon's strategic vision was better than that of any of the republicans, and far better than his own.

The Franco-Prussian War seemed to be a political arena tailored for him.

After the war, a rising political star will shine in Paris, and with his Napoleon-like appearance and height, the French people will subconsciously regard him as a savior.

Napoleon pointed to Favre and said, "The republicans are not important members of the cabinet, so when they visit other countries, they give them a report on the military strength of the Prussian army, and by the way, especially the British Empire, which pursues a policy of continental isolation." ”

After speaking, Napoleon held his cheek with his left hand, still with a breezy expression.

"The British chose to be isolated in the Franco-Prussian War, but they were even more reluctant to sit back and watch the rise of a continental hegemon. The Prussian army had pressed all its forces on France, and if we were able to drag on the war for a year and a half, the British would change their position of neutrality after taking into account the actual situation, and Berlin was now empty, and the Habsburgs, who had lost the war in 1866, should be ready to move. ”