Chapter 944 Five Routes

Belvie made the old scholars of the Saint-Cyr Military Academy speechless for a while, but he was a political worker after all, so this little problem was not difficult for him.

"I don't want to be the next Napoleon! I want to be the first Belvie! What Napoleon can do, I want to do! What Napoleon can't do, I also want to do!"

Due to Belvie's identity, the experts of the Saint-Cyr Military Academy really couldn't refute him, but they still reminded him.

"The border fortress that the Kingdom of Sardinia has built for generations is not so easy to break through.

We suggest that your army should go through Belgium and then Prussia, and then attack from north to south, so that the resistance is minimal."

"Or you can attack the enemy and save them."

Another expert suggested that Belvie was not interested in the step-by-step tactics.

"Attack the enemy and save them?"

Belvie immediately became interested. He was tired of the tactics of attacking Belgium first, then Prussia, and then attacking Austria from north to south.

And this tactic has a huge hidden danger, that is, the situation in France may not last too long.

In fact, the economic crisis and food crisis that plagued France have not been improved, and the protests of the people of Paris have never stopped.

After Cavaignac took office as the commander of the Paris garrison, he carried out several crackdowns, but the problem was not solved.

The Second Republic hopes to re-establish its image in the hearts of the people with a victory, but even the top leaders of the Second Republic are not sure whether this gamble will succeed.

"That's right! Attack the enemy and save it! Alsace-Lorraine, the German Confederation member state in France."

"Alsace-Lorraine?"

Bellevue asked with some doubts, because Marshal Grouchy was disgraced here before, and he was somewhat hesitant about starting a war here.

"Yes, General Bellevue.

The reason why the German Confederation intervened in Belgium was that Belgium was a part of the German Confederation. So, if Alsace-Lorraine, which was also a part of the German Confederation, was caught in the war, shouldn't they also save it?

If the German coalition really crossed the Rhine again to rescue Alsace-Lorraine, then we can do what the Austrians did and attack them halfway across the river."

Attacking halfway across the river is definitely a very ideal state, especially in this era, artillery has been raised to the height of the god of war.

When crossing the river, the artillery unit cannot be deployed, let alone organize an effective counterattack.

This is also the worst situation for infantry and cavalry. The infantry loses the protection of the formation, and the cavalry loses mobility.

However, commanders usually try their best to avoid this situation, but there are exceptions to everything, such as receiving a death order.

It is not difficult to create such a premise, such as letting soldiers do whatever they want on the land of Alsace-Lorraine.

The so-called German nationalists in the Frankfurt Parliament must come to the rescue, otherwise their claims and theories will all become a joke.

This is definitely a very vicious plan, and it is indeed necessary to rescue the enemy.

However, there are some things that they don't understand. The so-called vicious plans all have a price.

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Those who can understand can skip the following——

The French army has repeatedly ravaged the land of Alsace-Lorraine, and the local people have long been troubled.

Even those who originally felt a sense of belonging to France would find it difficult to love this country that does not love them at all.

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After the explanation——

Belvie appreciated this plan very much, but he seemed to have little interest in the specific plans for attacking Belgium proposed by the experts later.

After his personal absorption and summary, he finally formulated a set of five-way simultaneous victory strategies for the French army.

First of all, the first way is to retaliate against the Belgians. After all, you have to get up from where you fell, and you can't lose the face of France.

This is mainly to satisfy the emotions of the people and the vanity of the masters in the parliament. Bellvi is not really prepared to invest too much troops in this direction.

The second route was to Alsace-Lorraine. Bellevue was very self-aware and gave this seemingly greatest achievement to Marshal Lamosilier.

It was easy to say that it was easy to besiege a point and attack reinforcements, but the actual operation was not something that a civilian like him could do.

And according to the experts at the Saint-Cyr Military Academy, they would directly face the main force of the German Confederation in the Rhine battlefield (Alsace-Lorraine).

It was true that Bellevue wanted to create an unprecedented achievement, but he did not want to take the blame. The Rhine battlefield was obviously not suitable for him.

The third route was the Roches Pass, where this force would attack Switzerland. Their only goal was to grab territory. In the eyes of the Second French Republic, the Swiss region should be French land.

Previously, giving most of the land to the German Confederation countries was a manifestation of the incompetence of the Orleans Dynasty.

The so-called universal soldiery and bravery of the Swiss mountain people were not worth mentioning in the eyes of the French. After all, it was not the first time that they had quickly passed the Swiss copy.

At this time, Switzerland had been cut into countless small pieces by the German Confederation, so it was even less worth mentioning in the eyes of the French.

Bellevue even felt that even if he won a great victory in the Swiss mountains, he would only be awarded a consolation award for his hard work.

So Bellevue chose the fourth route, which was to head straight from the direction of the Kingdom of Sardinia to the rich northern Italian plains.

This is the road that Napoleon once walked, which has special significance for the French army, especially those so-called Napoleonists.

Of course, this can also directly hit the softest belly of the Austrian Empire. The rich northern Italy region is its most important source of finance and taxation.

As a French soldier, Bellevue could not be unaware of Napoleon's deeds. He looted the rich northern Italy to boost morale and build an army that was completely loyal to him and extremely powerful. He confiscated and auctioned the land of the nobles to take the opportunity to win over civilians and capitalists (merchants).

As for the so-called Kingdom of Sardinia and the old Marshal Radetzky, Bellevue did not take it seriously.

Before the war with the Austrian Empire, the Kingdom of Sardinia claimed to have an army of 100,000, but it was beaten to the capital in a week.

And Marshal Radetzky was completely out of Bellevue's eyes. Before that, the two French veterans Grouchy and Oudinot suffered disastrous defeats, which made him feel that Napoleon's era was over.

Those old antiques of the old times were completely unworthy of this great new era. Bellevue specially found a group of young people who agreed with his ideas from the Saint-Cyr Military Academy. He wanted to send Radetzky, the remnant of the old era, on his last journey and step on his corpse to the new era.

The fifth route was to send the French Grand Orient Fleet to cooperate with the British to blockade the Adriatic Sea.

The naval method was strongly opposed because the fleet needed to be repaired at this time, and many ships had reached a critical state. Acting with the British would expose the reality of the French navy's weakness.

However, there is another rumor that the sailors of the Grand Orient Fleet were afraid of the Austrian Navy.