Li Xiao did not know that the Prussians at this time had no intention of launching an attack at all.

"Conspiracy, this is a conspiracy, a conspiracy through and through." Frederick's face turned pale, and he pounded his thick oak desk angrily.

The sturdy desk was pounded with a "bang" and "bang", which showed the extent of Frederick's rage.

"Damn, this old bastard Winter is a bastard, he was raised by a son of a bitch!"

The bald Moltke and Bismarck glanced at each other, the expressions on their faces rather helpless.

At yesterday's meeting of the Prussian Federal Assembly, Frederick struggled to retain the post of chancellor Bismarck.

But ......, Moltke lost his post as chief of the General Staff.

He was replaced by von Von from Bavaria. Count Richthofen.

As soon as Richthofen came to power, he drastically reorganized the General Staff.

A large number of Moltke's right-hand men were sent to the front, and most of the newly promoted were Bavarian officers.

Especially von Bock and von Bock. Guderian and the two were even promoted from the colonel to the major general at once.

And the two of them, respectively, served as commanders of the First Army Group and the Second Army Group.

You know, their predecessors were generals.

Their rank is even lower than that of many military commanders.

To make matters worse, Richthofen even promoted a man named Erwin. Rommel's officers.

and was directly promoted to colonel, and was ordered to become the commander of the main division.

Rommel, who? I've never heard of it!

It is said that he served in the mountain division and won the Iron Cross.

But there are many people in the army who have won the Iron Cross, and I have never heard of a sudden promotion from major to colonel.

This is the use of power for personal gain, the appointment of private individuals!

But the problem is that even the emperor can't stop what the Federal Council decides.

This was written into the Federal Code at the beginning of the Prussian Union.

At the beginning, it was also to pacify the forces of Prussia.

Originally, Frederick had absolute control over the Federal Assembly.

Unexpectedly, I don't know when, Winter dug his corner.

What bothered Frederick the most was that he didn't know that he had been dug into a corner.

Thinking of this, Frederick looked at Bismarck and Moltke dissatisfied.

The two of them, one in charge of the Prime Minister's Mansion and the other in charge of the General Staff, could it be said that they didn't receive the slightest rumor beforehand?

But after thinking about it, Frederick retracted his suspicions.

After all, the political lives of the two of them are tied to themselves.

If they fall, the two of them will definitely not have a good time.

"What now?

You can't watch those Bavarians do whatever they want in the General Staff! ”

Frederick lost his temper and got tired, and sat down in his chair.

"What can I do, that's all there is to it.

Fortunately, the Prime Minister's Mansion is still in our hands, and we may not be able to get it back. ”

Bismarck is a scheming man in the end, and although he has just experienced a huge political turmoil, he has long calmed down and thought about what to do next.

"Your Majesty!

I think it's already like this, so it's better to let them toss.

But ......"

"But what?" Frederick frowned, he didn't expect Bismarck to say that.

"But we're going to get it in the newspaper so that people know about it.

The biographies of these people and so on are published in the newspapers.

It can be written that ......, the new Chief of the General Staff, General Richthofen, is eclectic in the use of people. ”

"Bismarck, are you crazy?

Do we still want to sing praises for them? ”

Moltke heard Bismarck's words and immediately jumped to his feet.

"You sit down first and listen to what Bismarck has to say." Frederick knew Bismarck very well, and he was an old man.

He would never do such a boring thing as singing the praises of his political enemies!

"The reason why we did this is that it will also make people feel afterwards that it was arranged by Winter and his gang.

And it will not be doubted on us!

At the same time, it is excellent evidence that we are attacking them.

Next, we need to mobilize the army and start operations on the front line as soon as possible.

After all, with so many troops on the front line, the supplies and food consumed every day are a huge amount of money.

If it continues to be consumed like this, the finances will definitely not be able to stand it. Speaking of this, Bismarck glanced at Moltke disdainfully.

"Hmmm! To sustain a million hundreds of thousands of people in distant Russia, the financial expenditure is indeed enormous. ”

Frederick nodded, motioning for Bismarck to continue.

"There are already a lot of supplies piled up on the front line, and in any case let them launch a military offensive.

But......!

General Moltke, you are the former Chief of the General Staff.

Do you think that even if you launch a big battle, you can achieve victory? ”

Bismarck asked, looking at Moltke.

"In the front-line trenches, most of them are Russian soldiers.

These people are easy to deal with!

As long as there are enough supplies and troops, it will not be difficult to break through their front.

The difficulty is ......! ”

"There are Ming people!"

"That's right!

The Ming army is very difficult!

The planes in the sky have no secrets for our army, and if we are not careful, we will provoke the bombing of the planes.

Tanks on the ground are able to strike very effectively against the moving troops of our army.

The bazooka that the Ming man made out is very easy to use, and the anti-tank grenade.

However, it is very close to the tank.

Most people, not waiting for this distance, will be killed by machine guns.

Sometimes, even a company, or even a battalion, does not necessarily destroy a tank.

Because, the tanks of the Ming army are all group operations.

Moreover, it was often accompanied by a large number of infantry.

Those infantrymen also rode in iron chariots. They call that kind of car an armored car!

The difference with a tank is only whether there is a cannon or not!

Our machine guns, grenades, almost all infantry individual weapons, could not penetrate armored vehicles.

Relying on this advantage, the Ming army can cut our moving army into several sections.

And then......!

And then there was no then!

The siege of Vyazma is a typical example of warfare.

More than 100,000 people, but it only lasts three or five days. ”

"Good!

That is to say, now the Ming army will be defeated. A smile tugged at the corner of Bismarck's mouth.

"You mean ......!" Frederick's heart sank, although he was now fighting for military power.

But the soldiers on the front line were all ordinary Prussians. Some of them came from Bavaria, some from Hanover, and of course, many from Prussia.

Sacrifice them ......! Frederick couldn't bear it.

Moreover, if all the troops are sacrificed, even if the military power is in the hands of the hand, how will the war continue in the future?

"As they have attacked us, so we have attacked them.

After the defeat, we incited the population in the newspapers.

The responsibility for the defeat was all attributed to the General Staff.

And, His Majesty the Emperor is required to have supreme power.

Including the right to appoint the Chief of the General Staff and the Prime Minister!

To give your rights above the Federal Parliament.

In this way, even if Winter gets more federal parliamentarians to support them, it will be useless.

Because, their rights are hollowed out.

You are the master of the whole of Prussia.

The only master! ”

Bismarck's words made Frederick's eyes glow, and the worries he had just had just been swept away.

This is indeed a way to overthrow Winter!

Although the cost is huge, it can be ...... But it's very easy to succeed.

Bismarck's plan can be described as an impeccable and almost uncrackable scheme.

But Bismarck ignored one person, and that was Kong Tingxun, who changed his name to Hans.

As a high-achieving student who graduated from the Army Military Academy of the Ming Empire, he grew up in a high-ranking family since he was a child.

He is more sensitive to rights than others.

As a Ming man, he felt that imperial power was the highest right.

But when I arrived in Prussia, I found out that there was a federal parliament of the godsend.

There are a bunch of legislators with fat brains, and no matter what kind of proposal, these people have to pass it.

Even the bill proposed by the emperor had to be agreed to by these people.

Kong Tingxun made perfect use of this system, and he tried his best to help Duke Winter win over many councilors.

In fact, Emperor Frederick had been erected.

If it were not taken into account, the impeachment of Frederick would provoke a powerful backlash from Frederick, leading to the disintegration of Prussia, which had just been fused together for only a few decades.

Perhaps, with the defeat of Vyazma, even Frederick will have to impeach the lower field.

However, in terms of rectification, Kong Tingxun and Bismarck are strikingly consistent.

They all decided that the Federal Council was garbage, a cyst lying on the body of the Empire sucking blood, and that it must be removed.

"Uncle Winter, I think the war can be put off for a while, and we need to settle the federal parliament first."

Kong Tingxun sat across from Winter, already slightly drunk.

The Prussians were not good at this, they drank dry, and they didn't get any food or drink.

"Dissolve the Federal Parliament?

Hehe!

You want to be lightweight!

These people are hereditary nobles everywhere, and their power in all walks of life is huge.

It took so much effort to win them over and want to dissolve the parliament.

Easier said than done! Winter glanced at Kong Tingxun with contempt.

This Ming man who came from afar is a little clever, but his thinking is a little too unrealistic.

"Since it can't be disbanded, then replace these people." Kong Tingxun said with a smile.

"As I said, these people are very powerful." Duke Winter was very dissatisfied, if it weren't for Kong Tingxun's great achievements, he would have scolded him a long time ago.

"They are very powerful, but there is a force that is even greater than them."

"Bigger than them?" Duke Winter immediately became serious.

You must know that these hereditary nobles, whether in political or military circles, have huge power.

There are people who are more powerful than them, and they don't even know it.

This couldn't help but make him alert, and the slightly drunk feeling just now was gone.

"That's the people!

Citizens of Prussia! ”

"What can ordinary people do!" Duke Winter looked disdainful.

"The people are the cornerstone of a country, and the people of today are not a hundred years ago.

The call for an elected government is getting louder and louder, and in our federal law, members of the legislature are actually elected.

It's just ...... that the inertia of the previous feudal lords continued, so they proudly sat in the position of councilor.

Uncle Winter, the Prussian people of today, are not the same people as they were a hundred years ago.

They are starting to have their own ideas! ”

Kong Tingxun's words made Duke Winter ponder.

Indeed, the people of today are far less manageable than they were a hundred years ago.

In the past, only nobles could be educated, but now the children of some non-aristocratic wealthy families have also received a good education.

Since the industrialization of Prussia, many people have made a lot of money by opening factories.

These people, who hold a lot of wealth, also have the urge to demand power from the government.

The people in Kong Tingxun's mouth should be talking about these people.

"How do you want to get it, if you don't get it right, you'll get burned." The Duke of Winter was well aware of the power of the traditional aristocracy.

Because he himself is a traditional nobleman.

"It doesn't matter!

Let's just find a spokesperson and let him do this kind of thing.

Even if they set themselves on fire one day, the fire will naturally burn on their bodies.

It won't hurt us! ”

"Is this man reliable?" Duke Winter was immediately interested.

Since all the benefits belong to oneself, the consequences are all borne by others.

This kind of steady profit and no loss business is not done in vain.

"Very reliable!

I sent someone to find out about his past!

He is an Austrian born in Braunau, Austria.

I haven't been there, but I've heard it's a very small town. ”

"I've been there, and the scenery is pretty good." Duke Winter nodded.

"Uncle Winter is really well-informed!

The boy's name was Adolf, and his father was a civil servant at the customs.

His father wanted him to be a civil servant, but he wanted to be a painter.

At the age of seventeen, he enrolled at the Vienna Academy of Arts.

But the Vienna Academy of Arts rejected him twice in a row!

Later, his father and mother died one after another.

Coinciding with the Austro-Hungarian conscription, they ran to Munich to wander.

In the last war, he joined the army.

For his outstanding combat performance, he was promoted to corporal and was awarded the Iron Cross. ”

"It's not easy for an ordinary soldier to get the Iron Cross!"

"During the Battle of the Somme, he was wounded in the thigh by shrapnel from an artillery shell.

During the battle near the village of Wilwick, his eyes were temporarily blinded by chlorine gas. ”

"What a lucky guy!" Duke Winter became interested in this man.

The people who survive in that kind of corpse mountain and blood river are all lucky guys.

He likes people with a lot of luck!

A year earlier, he had been ordered to spy on a group called the Prussian Workers' Party.

The Prussian Workers' Party, which at that time consisted of only ninety-four members, denounced the idea of Bavaria secessing from Prussia and forming a South German republic with Austria.

This immediately caught the attention of the Prussian Workers' Party, and two days later he was invited to join the Prussian Workers' Party.

And became one of the seven commissioners! ”

"Ninety-four...... No, ninety-five! Duke Winter said contemptuously.

"That was the number a year ago, and now their number is 150,000. And that's just the numbers in Munich! ”

"What?" Duke Winter's eyes immediately narrowed.

He didn't expect that just under his nose, such a huge force would secretly breed.

And he, the Duke of Bavaria, actually knew nothing.