C2639 Classical Military Art (2/2)
It had to be said that the French Emperor's plan was quite bold, as the core of his plan was to rely on his own professional army system.
France and Prussia had completely different military systems. France had a professional soldier system, and the romantic French viewed it as a classical military art!
The history of the war in Europe began in the era of the ancient Greece and the Ancient Rome, because only then would there be records of it!
Throughout the long history of European wars, emphasis had always been placed on the professionalism of the soldiers. Starting from the ancient Greece and the Macedonian pike soldiers, to the Ancient Rome's heavy soldier army, all of them emphasized the discipline of the military formations!
Even in the Middle Ages, the rise of the Knights pushed the professional soldier system to the limits. At that time, the mainstream of thought in Europe had always thought, 'Only trained veterans and famous generals of hundreds of wars were able to afford this place!' The common people will always be a bunch of farmers with pitchforks.
This line of thought was deeply rooted! Until the era where muskets were common, there had been no changes. When humans entered the era of musket, lined up to shoot, this method of fighting would test the quality of the soldiers.
Without training, farmers cannot form tenacious linear shooting positions!
People had to watch their comrades next to them die miserably, and in the next second it would be your turn. The two sides would compete with each other to increase or decrease the number of people, to see who could last longer!
That kind of war played with survival! When Napoleon swept through Europe back then, he relied on the group of tenacious professional soldier he trained!
It was a pity that a large part of those soldiers had died in the blizzard outside Moscow. If the veterans hadn't been used up, then perhaps there wouldn't have been any problems in the future!
Napoleon was his uncle's iron fan, and the entire France was also his iron fan. Who would dare to oppose the military system left behind by the War God back then? Who dared to say anything bad?
So now France is still a professional army, how did the Invalides of Paris appear? Only veterans were eligible to enjoy the benefits of the Courtyard, and only honorary soldiers who had fought in the war could be buried here.
The system of the professional soldier had brought about countless victories in France, but at the moment, Prussia was using a completely different military system.
In the words of the German military genius Clausewitz, the author of the war controversy, this military system is entirely a nationalist military theory, and he is more fanatical and more effective!
He once said, 'War is only an expanded struggle to make the enemy submit to you!' Since the nature of war and gang fighting was the same, then in the end, it was still the side with more people that had the advantage!
Using nationalistic feelings to mobilize the masses and turn all the men in the nation into soldiers, this gave them an inexhaustible supply of troops!
These reserve soldiers who had gone through military training were much worse off compared to the veteran soldiers who had served in France for an average of more than seven years!
However, the human sea tactic could completely bridge this gap. Perhaps veterans could create a classic example of a weak opponent winning a strong battle, but a weak opponent winning a strong opponent also had a limit!
Man-sea tactics required a huge gap of two times, three times, or even ten times the enemy's strength, and this gap was not something that could be completely filled with quality!
At this moment, the classical military art and the modern nationalist military dictatorship had finally clashed. The world shocking war between France and France was just that dazzling!