Vienna, Royal Gardens.

Franz noticed Friedrich's eyes glancing at Adjani from time to time, and Franz glanced back at Adjani helplessly.

Adjani understood what Franz meant, and could see Friedrich's thoughts, put away her fan, lifted her skirt and gracefully saluted Archduke Friedrich.

"It is my pleasure to meet you, Honorable Archduke Friedrich. I am Archduke Franz's chamberlain, Adjane de Duboit. ”

"Are there any more ladyesses? Is this the kind of operation? Friedrich blurted out.

In fact, the number of female attendants is indeed very small, and even most of Empress Teresa's attendants are men.

Friedrich, on the other hand, disliked the verbosity of his attendants, and kept him at home, almost never letting him go out with him.

Knowing that he could still do this, he asked his father to arrange a female attendant for him, at least in the navy there would be someone to talk to him.

Friedrich was suddenly stunned by the idea that popped into his head, obviously he was not like this, but Franz's governess and squire were really.

Why is my tutor an old mother? And the squire officer is a bald man who holds a pipe all day long? Friedrich again lamented the injustice of fate.

"Friedrich, I have a suggestion that you should consider forming a Marine Corps." Franz was not ready to continue the previous topic with Friedrich on such an issue.

"Marines? Our Austrian Empire has a ready-made army, wouldn't it be nice to ship it directly? And the formation of the Marine Corps requires additional appropriations, and now the War Department is stuck with the budget to death. ”

"This is actually related to the idea of warfare, the navy is not necessarily good at land warfare, and the army is not necessarily good at naval warfare. But once the troops need to conduct amphibious landing operations, this is one of the biggest weaknesses.

At its simplest, you don't know at all if these Army soldiers get seasick or if they can swim and row. Do you expect the battleship to anchor at the opponent's dock during the assault on the harbor dock? Do you think that the other side's shore defense artillery is all decoration? ”

In fact, the marines of this period are more appropriately called marine infantry. Only Britain, France, and the United States have professional marines, and the other countries do the same as Friedrich said, just load the army and ship it over.

But future amphibious operations will become more and more important and more brutal, and continuing to do what was done hundreds of years ago is tantamount to giving it for nothing.

If the Navy does not have a direct landing force, then it is easy to be controlled by others.

The tasks of the Marine Corps are not only to seize the beach and land, but also to be responsible for reconnaissance, clearing obstacles, blasting, infiltrating, and assassinating, all of which are unrealistic for the Army to do.

You think, on a night when you can't see your fingers, a group of soldiers quietly rows the boat a few hundred meters to the shore, and then a flock of landlubbers jumps into the waves, slowly advancing with the waves, and lands under a pitch-black reef.

A group of enemy patrols happened to pass by, and just when everyone was holding their breath, suddenly the soldiers vomited with only a "wow", and the mission failed

Therefore, it is very important to build a professional Marine Corps.

Friedrich is not stupid, in fact, he himself is very supportive of the formation of the Marine Corps, after all, the Marine Corps also belongs to the Navy, which can be more convenient for him to arrange tactics.

It's just that for the sake of money and face, he hasn't put it forward.

This time Franz came up with the idea, Friedrich was very happy, he felt that he had finally found a like-minded friend, and although Franz's support did not provide practical help, it was enough for him.

"Franz, do you have any thoughts on the Marines?" Friedrich asked.

"I guess your Marines shouldn't be limited to the level of infantry at sea. I suggest you pick the best from the hunters and train them. These people can be responsible for reconnaissance, sabotage, infiltration, landing, anti-landing tasks. ”

"Hunters? You mean the mountain people? They can't, not to mention whether they can adapt to the environment at sea.

Those people are very poorly organized, and they are very strong in individual soldiers, and there are often legends that a hunter can kill the opponent's entire reconnaissance team with just one hunting knife. But if they get together, they can scatter and flee in all directions, often with the surrounding troops collapsing. ”

Friedrich shook his head frantically, as if he could not trust the soldiers from the mountains.

At the bottom of the chain of contempt throughout the Austrian Empire were not Jews, but Gypsies, Croats, and Tyroleans, many of whom were of German descent but often not considered adults because of their Swiss accents.

Franz asked, seeing that Friedrich seemed to be confident.

"Do you have anyone in mind?"

"Of course, I think the Venetian sailors are very good, they are either fighting every day, or on the way to fight, and the most important thing is that they are sailors themselves, as long as they train a little more for land warfare."

"Italians? Forget it, I'm afraid they'll surrender as soon as the battle starts. ”

Although Franz knew that this was a stereotype and knew how fierce the Venetian sailors were, he did not feel unhappy anyway.

The Italians gave Franz the impression that they were not well suited to war, and although they were good at gang fighting, such as the mafia, they seemed to lack courage when it came to bayonets on the battlefield.

When it comes to Italian Franz, you can only think of pasta, macaroni, Milanese, Jingluo ecstasy, and the beautiful legends of Sicily, in short, they have nothing to do with weapons and war.

"How can it be, Italians regard honor as more important than life."

I suggest that you feed them well before they go into battle, otherwise there may be some unexpected situations, and I suggest that you still recruit some soldiers from other areas. After all, the Venetians and Lombards don't seem to be so loyal. ”

"I understand what you say, but the poor in Venice are generally not anti-Austrian, because under Austrian rule the poor are better off than in the past. The real anti-Austrian were the wealthy and Venetian aristocrats, who always felt that they were not being treated fairly and wanted to expand their influence within the empire.

And I have heard that your father has suggested to the Emperor that the traitors who beat the Austrian officers be severely punished, and it is a good example, and I salute your father on my behalf. Those self-righteous traitors should have been punished long ago, but both Marshal Radetzky and General Richie were shy about punishing the Italian aristocracy. ”

"I was wrong, I haven't been to Northern Italy, I've only heard about it, but I still wouldn't recommend you to use just the Venetian.

As for those traitors, they deserved it, how could the royal family let the soldiers loyal to the empire suffer unjustly? ”

In fact, the Austrian Empire's policy of compromise towards Italy originated during the time of Franz II, who always considered himself an Italian and on more than one occasion demanded that the Austrian Imperial Government treat Italians "fairly".

After the death of Franz II, the support of the Italian region became the focus of contention between the Count of Korolav and the Prince of Metternich, so that the whole of Austria repeatedly accommodated the Italian region.

(End of chapter)