I Am the Crown Prince in France

Chapter 356 Going deep behind enemy lines

Napoleon was startled when he heard this. He had seen the "circuit and insertion" tactic in the officer textbook of the Paris Police Academy, but he only had a rough understanding of it and had no idea how to use it.

He looked at the regiment leader again: "However, if you ignore the Hannova Army and once they merge with the Prussians, it will be difficult for General Leo to resist them."

Colonel Dumont nodded slightly: "Actually, I had the same question as you at the last staff meeting."

He immediately smiled: "But you have to think about it, whether it is the Hanovers or the Prussians, the reason why their armies can set foot in the Southern Netherlands lies in the rebellion of the Dutch.

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"If Antolfo is captured by us, the Dutch rebel parliament will die with it. So even if the Prussians defeat General Leo, what can they do? Directly occupy the Southern Netherlands, I'm afraid the Netherlands Neither the British nor the British will agree."

Napoleon suddenly realized: "So, Karl II must rescue Antolfo."

"Yes. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said that as long as we march faster than the Hannovians and threaten Antolfo before they reach Liège, then the Austrian army will not be in any danger."

"However," Napoleon pondered, "it does not seem like a wise decision for us to go deep into the Southern Netherlands and fight the enemy in the rebels' home base. Karl II could even cut off our supply lines and wait for us to surrender."

Colonel Dumont shook his riding crop: "Who said there was going to be a decisive battle in Antolfo?

"Your understanding of the 'detour and insertion' tactic is still not deep enough."

He paused as he spoke, feeling a little ashamed. In fact, he himself had not done much research on this tactic. It was just that he attended the staff meeting and listened to the Crown Prince's explanation, so that he could give Napoleon instructions according to the script.

"Well, um, 'detour' and 'intersperse' are actually two tactics. The goal is to control the battlefield situation and put the enemy in a disadvantageous situation.

"After mobilizing Karl II to return north, our army will..."

He suddenly paused. The military deployment behind it was the highest level of confidentiality, and it seemed that Major Buwanaba's level was not yet accessible.

"You will know soon. After all, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is definitely a tactical genius."

When it comes to commanding military operations, Joseph, who only attended the military academy for a year and a half, may not be as good as any school-level officer in the Guards Corps, but he has hundreds of years of advanced tactical theories in his mind and has a large number of actual combat cases. refer to.

Many tactical theories are like this. It is actually very simple to put it bluntly. If you just apply one to the battle situation at hand, you can suppress opponents who do not understand this kind of tactics.

For example, on the current European battlefield, generals focus on how to optimally deploy their formations frontally and from which angle to attack, and rarely think about large-scale roundabout tactics.

Even a genius like Frederick the Great, at most, could only move within a war zone level, and he was already able to overwhelm his contemporary opponents.

But what Joseph brought was the theory of the "King of Detours" in the East in later generations, which was enough for Karl II to drink a pot.

Of course, even if they were facing the Hanover Army head-on, Joseph believed that the Guards Corps still had a greater chance of winning.

Although the Guards Corps could devote less than 14,000 troops to fight Karl II - two regiments were left to Leo in case he was penetrated by Blücher, then Joseph had to be busy Rush back to fight in the defense of Luxembourg. There are also soldiers from the Mullan Army staying in Luxembourg to maintain law and order. After deducting the casualties from previous battles, these soldiers are the only ones left - but based on the training, morale and equipment level of the Guards Corps, it is impossible to deal with 24,000 The combined forces of Han and Dutch still have a greater chance of winning.

However, a head-on fight with an enemy with superior strength is likely to cause the Guards Corps to suffer relatively large casualties, which is something Joseph is unwilling to accept.

There are also many favorable conditions for making circuitous crossings in the Southern Netherlands.

For example, in the French-speaking area of ​​the southern Netherlands, the French army was even more popular than the Brabant rebels and could easily obtain logistical supplies.

In addition, Austria's rule over the Southern Netherlands for decades also laid a deep foundation. There are Austrian officials everywhere. Even if they are ousted, they can still provide intelligence, materials and other support to Joseph.

The most critical thing is that the Southern Netherlands has too many things that must be saved for Prussia and Hanover, which gives Joseph a lot of tactical leverage.

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North of Brussels.

In the Southern Netherlands Parliament, the liberal member of Parliament under Van de Noort pointed at Onke, who was sitting in the front row, with a red face: "Now the Hanoverian army is rushing to Liege. We should cooperate with them and defeat them in one fell swoop. Austrians! And you put the army in hiding!

"This is our fight as Southern Netherlands people, our fight for freedom and democracy. You are ruining the future of Southern Netherlands!"

Onk was unmoved at all, and the members of his group responded skillfully: "Freedom and the people must be alive first. Our troops are very tired after fierce battles. At the right time, they will invest again "Fighting."

The core conservative MPs at the meeting had been informed by Onck that he had reached a secret agreement with the French - as long as the Southern Netherlands did not intervene in the war between France and Prussia and other countries, after the war was over, France would support the independence of the Southern Netherlands as long as it took the southern province of Nemunas.

Onck never thought that the weak Southern Netherlands could challenge Austria alone. The only question left was whether to side with Prussia or France.

As far as he knew, Prussia and Britain agreed with the Netherlands' annexation of the Southern Netherlands.

In comparison, France's appetite for Nemunas was much smaller. Moreover, a considerable number of conservative MPs came from the French-speaking area and were more willing to cooperate with France.

After learning about the agreement between Onck and France, some conservative MPs even wanted to mobilize the forces in the southern region to assist France in driving out the Prussians.

Just as the liberal MPs were preparing to refute, they saw an officer forcefully push away the guards on both sides of the gate and rush into the venue like a frightened buffalo.

Van der Nott frowned. The military has been getting more and more outrageous recently.

He was about to make trouble when he heard the officer shouting in fear: "The main force of the French army has passed through the east of Brussels and is less than 10 miles away from Antolf!"

10 miles is about 16 kilometers, and it will take a day and a half to reach the destination under normal circumstances.

The entire Southern Netherlands Parliament Hall suddenly fell into silence. After seven or eight seconds, Van der Nott suddenly shouted: "Quick! Ask for help from His Excellency Charles II! His army should not have gone far..."