"What? The exercise will start in half a month?" Brion looked at the order from the military headquarters in surprise: "What is the situation?"

It was already March 1788, and there were less than ten days left before the great regimental maneuver ordered by the military headquarters. Although Brion had already equipped the army with new weapons in large quantities, due to the production problems of the military factories and the huge demand in the Baden area, there were very few weapons and materials that could be distributed to the two places.

Until now, the tank unit Brion was equipped with only the 1st and 2nd brigades, and it had not yet begun to be officially popularized with other armies. Brion is also trying to produce the powerful Ferguson rifles, but each brigade can only get 5,000 Ferguson rifles at most. Although there are still ordinary people in the first division who have not popularized this rifle, their combat effectiveness is already very strong.

Looking at the armies in the country, there has never been an army that has been able to achieve such combat effectiveness. Because Brion is a master who only likes to eat alone, the secret recipe of his weapon is not even revealed within the Rhine Legion. However, even if other armies knew about it, there was no way to copy and imitate it, after all, in the past five months, Brion had spent about five million francs even counting the money for building a military factory to produce weapons.

And all this casually can make a nobleman completely bankrupt and live on the streets. But Brion is not so embarrassed, and the reason why he is not bankrupt now is because of Skynet, which he trusts the most.

Now the First Division already has a special channel to make money, except for the Ambrila Trading Company, which is the intimidation and extortion of Skynet personnel. Just like the United States and society, they can use their own concealment and the petty tricks of officials to casually make an official worse than dead. Anyway, officials will be corrupt every month, and the spies will scrape as much oil and water as they want. Of course, all of this is authorized and agreed by Brion, only one point, you can't reveal your identity, whatever you want. As long as there is no betrayal, Brion will turn a blind eye to the fact that you kill someone on the street during the day.

Needless to say, Brion himself said, the other officers all knew that if the army wanted to be strong in combat, it was necessary to practice with live ammunition. So Brion didn't care how much it cost, he casually took out hundreds of thousands of francs to buy ammunition and artillery. In this way, the 1st Division greatly surpassed the other armies not only in terms of weapons but also in the accuracy of the infantry.

Brion was not worried about his own firepower, so he spent the next half month focusing on the mobility of the army. Other special units, such as artillery, were given to Bernadotte for training, cavalry to Davout, and snipers to Ferguson. On the other hand, Brion, who was armed with bicycles, was concerned.

In order to greatly strengthen his carefully nurtured chariot army, he created a new set of tactics that broke the mold. For example, when driving a chariot, the army can go two or three times as fast as the enemy's walking speed, so that it can seize the advantageous terrain before the enemy. If you are fighting on the plains, you can use mobile tactics and retreat immediately after a surprise attack. After a while, another surprise attack, and this repeated attack with the sniper unit brought out by Ferguson, was enough to play the enemy into applause.

This terrifying speed tactic had been planned long before Brion produced the tank, and now it was just a matter of planning what was in his head.

After half a month of intense preparation in Briand, on March 20, 1888, the French ** regiment exercise officially began!

This time, the opponent against the Rhine Legion in the exercise was the combined combat team of the Northern Army and the Meuse Legion.

The Rhine Corps sent the first division and the second division to form the Southern Army, which numbered 60,000 men.

The Coalition Army sent the entire Northern Army under the command of General Jurtain and three divisions of the Meuse Army to form a Northern Army of 90,000 men.

In terms of numbers, the Northern Army outnumbered the Southern Army by 30,000 men, and the disadvantage of the Southern Army was very obvious, although even General Pisgru, who knew the Rhine Army well, felt that the situation was not good, but Brion and his cronies did not think so.

First, although the combat effectiveness of the second division is somewhat unsatisfactory, the first division is definitely the strongest unit in the entire French ** team, otherwise Brion would not have spent a lot of money to build this modern army.

Second, the First Division has a strong combat effectiveness that all French ** teams do not have, and with thousands of artillery pieces alone, a sniper team is enough to contain the operational capabilities of a large number of troops of the Northern Army. Coupled with the fact that the infantry of the 1st Division was armed with all Ferguson rifles, although some soldiers were not assigned to them, this was much better than the old smoothbore guns of the Northern Corps.

Thirdly, and most crucially, although General Jourdan is a battle-hardened veteran, there are also a number of extremely talented young men in Brion's think tank. For example, Bernadotte, Davout. Mcdonald. These people are all ministers of the humerus after Napoleon, and it is certainly much more advantageous than Jurdan, a lonely man.

However, in the eyes of everyone, the strength of the two armies was about the same, and General Jourdham, who had been beating the Austrians on the Rhine front, led an army of 90,000 to bully the Rhine army. However, just as Pishglu was about to protest, Brion spoke for him.

"What about 90,000 people, even if you come with 200,000 people, we will be able to defeat the enemy!"

This dissolute rhetoric immediately aroused the great anger of the Jurdang faction, who sharpened their knives and were always ready to teach this young relative a hard lesson on the battlefield, and even the general Jurdang replied: "It is necessary for me to let the young men of France understand the wisdom of the veteran!"

In short, the fierce military exercises have turned into a military war that is on the verge of breaking out. In order to imitate the real atmosphere of war, the French ** Ministry set up the battlefield on a vast plain dozens of miles away from Hambah, with the headquarters of the southern army located in the city of Lunneville and the headquarters of the northern army located in the city of Hambahar.

On the outskirts of Lunneville, the senior officers of the Rhine Army sat together, and at the top of the table was of course the regimental commander Pishgru.

The memories of this military exercise lasted for about an hour, and Pisglou looked at Brion beside him and sighed: "Tell me about you, why do you have to provoke the general of the Northern Army? This person is the most talented and learned general in the French world, and he has repelled the Austrian attacks several times. This time he has 90,000 troops in command, and I think the Rhine Legion only has 60,000 men, which is not enough to fight him. ”

Brion didn't care about this: "Don't worry, I hesitated to do it!"

"What can you do?" looked at the young man who didn't know the height of the sky, and couldn't help but be a little surprised.

"General Jurdang's best use in his life is the tactic of encirclement, that is, trapping the enemy in the form of an encirclement network to achieve the goal of total annihilation!" Brion calmly took a sip of water: "General Jurdang will definitely use his housekeeping skills to deal with us, why don't we simply abandon our headquarters and leave an empty city for these generals." ”

"What did you say?"