C2876 Year old lieutenant (2/2)
His words were like a thunderclap that caused the surrounding people to be dumbstruck. The officer behind McMahon even took out his command blade. Who's talking nonsense, do you dare to frame the Marshal? ”
To dare to openly question the marshal, even saying that the marshal was abandoning the empire and emperor to support the Republic, if this hat was confirmed, it would be a heinous crime!
A group of the Marshal's direct line officers wanted to arrest that audacious person and shoot him. However, when they were looking for him, a very young officer walked out from among the soldiers.
McMahon was stupefied when he saw it, it was not because he recognized the soldier, but because the soldier was too young, and looked to be around twenty years old.
But this young man was actually a first lieutenant!
According to the customs of the French army, a first lieutenant could become a first platoon officer or vice company officer, but he was still too young!
”Young man? How old are you this year? ” Not only was McMahon shocked at his young age, he was even more surprised at how fearless this child was.
”Eighteen!” The young man proudly stuck out his chest and said.
”AHH!” The crowd clamored. ”So young?” It's fake, right? Impossible … Eighteen-year-old lieutenant? ”
The youth looked as if he had been humiliated. His face immediately flushed red. ”Are you questioning me?” I am a student of the Polytechnic Academy of Paris, my major is in engineering! ”
”I have been specially recruited, and am currently serving in the Wansenaar Cannon Regiment! Mace, Salon still have lechery … There are artillery positions built under my supervision! ”
Oh! All the soldiers including the Marshal realised what was going on, as McMahon raised his hand to stop his underlings from acting rashly.
”So he's a future national engineer! ”Sure enough, you were recruited through special recruitment. I admire your patriotism!”
”With a group of youngsters like you in the motherland, there will be hope!”
”The question you just asked is very sensitive, but for university students like you, asking such a question is not a surprise!”
”After all, you all live in Paris, a place with complicated thoughts. As long as you come into contact with a lot of new thoughts, you will naturally have questions …”
The Paris Polytechnic School is actually the 21st century Paris Polytechnic University!
This school was born in the time of the French Revolution. At the beginning, it was an engineering science academy, but later Napoleon upgraded it to a military academy.
The most famous standard of this school was the two crossed cannon statues that Napoleon had gifted him.
The cannon represented the military, while the X represented an unknown number in mathematics. The intention behind this was self-evident!
It was worth mentioning that this academy was the ancestor of all the science and technology universities in the future. It was this academy that had established this model of education.
In the future, all the universities of certain science and technology would be the Paris Polytechnic University.
In 1870, the France's Ministry of Defence had further improved its management of the school. A general in active service had become the school's manager, and all the students had been granted military ranks from the moment they entered the school.
In school, they all had the name of 'student officer'. Once they were recruited, they would be granted a corresponding military rank. This was the origin of the 18-year-old first lieutenant.