C3032 The World of strategist (2/2)

Ever since the Prussian army had reached the Orleans and Paris had been surrounded, the limit of Prussia's military might had been found.

All of the reserve troops in the had already been mobilized. Currently, the General Staff could only squeeze out the reserves of the various States soldiers time and time again.

Adding in the rest of the support troops, the Germany had already mobilized 1.3 million people. In the nineteenth century, this was already an unimaginable number.

At that time, the fighting force of the four nations of the Crimean War only mobilized 1.2 million people, but in the blink of an eye, the war between France and Prussia mobilized 1.3 million people.

With such a large army size, the pressure placed on the logistics was unimaginable. Currently, all the reserves in Prussia had been depleted.

The supplies that they had prepared for the war had all been swept clean half a month ago. Right now, all the supplies that were produced by the military factories of Germany were sent to the frontlines without even needing to go into the warehouses.

The Chinese had also provided a large amount of supplies for the war, including first aid kits, Soldier rations s, bayonets, shovels, and more.

Every two or three days, there would be a cargo ship from the east, and these supplies would leave the ship and travel to France.

The Germany had been squeezed dry by Prussia, all the governments were complaining incessantly. If not for the glory of victory that boosted the morale of the people, the people's financial resources would have been squeezed dry and the protest wave would have started long ago.

What was even more frightening was that Prussia did not have any money left, the last coin in the treasury had been squeezed clean, and the funds raised from the City of London and the stock markets had already been exchanged for all kinds of imported arms.

At the moment, no country other than the Chinese was willing to pay Prussia on credit, which made it impossible for them to purchase arms from other European countries.

With all the money spent and supplies exhausted, there was not enough ammunition in Paris and the Orleans at this stage of the battle.

The reason why the Orleans had been taken advantage of by Gan Bida was closely related to the fact that the troops of the Prince Karl were severely lacking artillery shells!

The battle had dragged on for too long. Not only were supplies unable to supply, more importantly, there were simply no supplies left.

When the news of Mace's surrender came out, the fire in Lao Maoqi's heart almost burned out and she fainted. Only the upper echelons like himself knew just how big the impact that releasing the three hundred thousand army from Mace City's side would have on the entire battle situation.

Once the Mace City was taken down and 300,000 people joined Prince Karl's squad, the entire French Southern Regiment would be able to suppress them and the pressure on Paris would be reduced by a lot.

And the reason for all of this was because of the leader's clever plan, which was to activate the royalist party!

Lao Maoqi lit up his pipe and blew two smoke rings, then looked at Bismark with respect and said: ”Today, I finally understand why most of the people who changed history were civil servants!”

”So it turns out that in this world, wisdom is always above martial arts! A clever man's plan might be able to save tens of thousands of lives of soldiers and change the critical situation! ”

”A nation needs such a strategy. Everyone, you are the ones who should reverse the national destiny!”

Lao Maoqi had a very high status in Prussia, especially in the military. Bismark was a little flattered by this comrade's sincere praises.

He coughed and quickly changed the subject, ”How is the printing of our flyers?” Tomorrow, I will break away from Qi Bolin and pass on this news! ”