C2586 A weak nation has no diplomacy! (1/2)

A weak nation has no diplomacy! This statement from the Bavaria proved that the strength of the States was not inferior to that of Prussia. In the Middle Ages, this place was once the economic center of the Germany.

It was a pity that the people of Bavaria did not make it in time for the first time. Although they were slightly more advanced than the other States s, compared to the rapidly developing Prussia, they were already far behind.

Comprehensive national power can't fool people, how many railways, trains, Steel plant, coal mines, machinery processing plants do you have... These were all actual data. More importantly, the ultimate embodiment of these comprehensive national power was the violent groups … The army!

How many troops a country could raise was the ultimate manifestation of their strength. It was impossible to fool people with their numbers and whether they were elites or not. The most important thing in a so-called powerful country was the number of soldiers.

Of course, everything depended on the actual data. Statistics that existed on the paper like Great Qing was not accurate!

Furthermore, those hooligans who had no national consciousness and only knew how to pay for their time as soldiers could not be counted. One had to calculate the number of soldiers like Prussia, who could fight a tough battle to the death.

The historical statistics of how many Prussians mobilized in the Franco-Prussian War were different. After the war was over, Prussia announced to the public that they had invested a total of 550,000 troops.

This was the number of people directly participating in the war, excluding the reserve troops and the support troops behind them. Some scholars had once calculated that the total mobilization force of Prussia at that time had already reached more than 1 million troops.

And since Prussia had a national policy for all soldiers and all young men of appropriate age were required to participate in military training, in theory, Prussia had as many men as they had.

This was the reason why Prussia had risen to prominence. The strength of the country had to be displayed with a fist in the end!

Prussia's strength had been proven by several wars. If not for the arrival of Prussian reinforcements at Waterloo, the anti-French alliance would still be a failure.

Not to mention the Pudan War and the Poo War, after a series of victories, the reputation of the Prussian army was established. Although at this moment Europe recognized the French Army as the number one country in the world, this argument was already beginning to be shaken by Prussia.

Without comparison, there would be no harm. It was because of the strong data from Prussia that showed the weakness of the Germany and other States.

Back then, when they were at the Poo War s, Bavaria had invested a total of forty thousand soldiers, but in the end, they were beaten up so badly that their teeth fell all over the ground.

Although it had been several years since the last war, the Bavaria's upper echelons knew very clearly that the elite troops that they could afford to send into the great battle were only around a hundred thousand.

There was a gap that was five times bigger than the Prussian s and it was almost impossible to cross, so why was Ludwig II always willing to invest only forty thousand troops?

It was because his family was too small and he could easily gather troops, that he was reluctant to use them, and because he did not think much of Prussia's chances of winning against the French, he had the insulting numbers of 40,000.

This disparity in strength was not only clear to the higher-ups. In fact, the ordinary soldiers and citizens of Bavaria were very clear too, that just from today's conflict, the Bavaria's Military Department was completely powerless against the overbearing might of the Prussian.

Not only did the garrison not fire a single shot, they did not even close the door!

When the three thousand riders charged into Nuremberg, there were more than a hundred thousand of them, but not a single one of them was fired!

Eight thousand Prussian elites had sealed off the forest at the scene of the crime, but the Bavaria didn't even dare to protest!

And today, when Bismark's guards began to take over the train station, these Bavaria's imperial guards could only retreat step by step, not daring to go against these madmen from the north!

Ludwig II watched the imperial guards retreat step by step, through the window, and watched Prussian Legion's sniper control of the buildings to a higher point … His face was burning.