Despite this, in the following days, several cases of plague occurred in the Pu army, and even one case of plague occurred in the regular military camp of the Pu army.
For this reason, the commander of the infantry regiment to which the Prussian soldier was punished by Blüchel's twenty horsewhip. Fortunately, this situation was only found in the regular army. If there were many, Blüchel would not
I can guarantee that I will go crazy.
However, Blüchel did not dare to conceal the plague in the army. He sent envoys to Brandenburg to report the changes in the army. Because Blüchel's troops were busy dealing with the plague,
So the offensive against Krakow was paused during this period.
The Austrians did not feel anything wrong with this. In their opinion, it may be that the Prussian army suspended its attack on Krakow due to the increased casualties of the siege some time ago.
Just when Blüchel was having a headache due to the plague, a Prussian military staff member quietly walked to Blüchel. When he was sure that no one could hear the conversation between the two, the staff member quietly was
Blücher said in his ear;
"Your Excellency General, I actually think the plague is not too bad news for us!"
Hearing the staff officer's words, Blücher was a little puzzled, and then the staff officer continued:
"Since there can be plague outside the city, I think there should be plague in Krakow. You know, the city walls can block the attack of our army, but they will definitely not be able to stop the invasion of those mice. I remember the military in Brandenburg
In the college, a professor once told a case, which was a city that was conquered by infectious diseases such as plague!”
The counselor's words rang in Blücher's ears like a demon's singing, and even this sentence made Blücher shudder involuntarily.
Sometimes war is indeed a competition between human nature. In history, water, fire, and disease may become important factors affecting war in war, and the examples of using diseases to kill all the enemies are common in history. But after all,
The technique is really cruel, and it is very likely that one might even affect oneself if it is difficult to do so.
Seeing Blüchel hesitating, the staff member gritted his teeth and said:
"His Excellency General, when I was teaching at Brandenburg Military Academy, our teacher told us that everything we did in the war was to win the war, and the winner never bears a bad reputation, so in the war
As long as you can defeat the enemy, all means can be used. If the war is defeated by the temporary kindness of a woman, then who can remember the tears flowing by the loser!”
Blüchel stared at the staff officer in front of him, as if he had known him for the first time.
You should know that there are more than 100,000 people in Krakow. Among these people, except for 20,000 Austrians, the others are Poles. I am afraid that the devil will hesitate for more than 100,000 lives. Now my own
The staff officer said this without blinking. Could it be that this staff officer is even more devil than the devil?
Before Blüchel could make up his mind, he saw the adviser saying:
"God General, there is life in the city of Krakow, but aren't our Prussian children? Behind each of our army is a happy Prussian family. Is it because of the Austrians and Poles only for the Austrians and Poles
The happiness of the tens of thousands of Prussians here and the families behind them will be ignored! The situation in front of us is already very clear. If our army does not pay a lot of money, conquering Krakow may become empty talk.
Even if our army suffered heavy casualties, Krakow may not be conquered. You should know this more clearly than I do!"
Blüchel was shocked, it was true that the fact was just as this staff officer said. As the Austrian governor of Krakow used food as bait, the Poles changed their previous weakness and were more desperate than the other.
Under the circumstances, Blücher felt a little shaken about the success rate of conquering Krakow.
He closed his eyes and thought for a long time. Suddenly, Blücher asked:
"Then what good will you do?"
"God of General, you see, although the Austrians guarded the city very strictly, the people of the city's resistance organizations can come to our army every once in a while, which shows that these people have their own secret channels in the Austrian army.
Yes, it is obviously unrealistic for our army to use a catapult to bring hundreds of millions to the city of Krakow. After all, it is difficult to guarantee what will happen when the Austrians see our army projecting items with bacteria. Therefore, I suggest
When another messenger arrives in Krakow, we can support a batch of food to them with the order of the resistance organization in the city. This batch of food must be infected with the source of the plague. In this way, according to the outbreak of the plague, the plague will be out of shape.
If that's the case, maybe we'll get good news in just over a week!"
The advice of this adviser obviously had some careful consideration. Blüchel had learned from the news of the lack of food in the city of Krakow, and the envoy had asked the Prussian army for food.
Aid. However, at that time, Blüchelle refused the envoy's request without excess food, considering that his command had a large number of horses and prisoners of war in addition to more than 30,000 soldiers.
Obviously, since the envoy was able to enter and exit Krakow while the Austrians were defending the city very strictly, and even wanted to ask the Prussian army for a batch of food, it is certain that this person or the organization behind him had to enter and exit Krakow city.
and obviously this channel is not suitable for large-scale military operations.
But transporting some food should be feasible.
"May I have your name?"
Blüchel asked the staff around him that in his opinion, the staff who could make such suggestions was not a simple person at all. Perhaps such a person had the potential to become an excellent politician and military strategist, because only the destruction was immoral.
Talents of human nature can stand out in these two professions.
Don't say that politicians are devoted to the welfare of the people, this kind of words is purely fart. Anyone who can achieve something politically is either heartless or cruel or ruthless. Otherwise, he would never be able to reach the ten thousand people.
The throne above.
The same is true for military strategists. A qualified military strategist also regards human life as grass. Haven’t you seen Bai Qi massacre 400,000 Zhao army prisoners in Changping without blinking, and all the famous war generals in history have basically all
Have done something like massacre.
"Report to the General, the following name is Stoner. He graduated from Brandenburg Military Academy!"
Facing Blücher's extremely stern face, Stoner seemed to have no feeling at all, and still gave a very standard military salute under Blücher's stare.
Seeing Stoner's performance, Blücher nodded.
Sometimes the responsibility of the staff is to give advice to the main general. As long as it is beneficial to the battle situation, even if it is a detrimental strategy. The staff has the right to suggest to the main general, which has been written into the Prussian military discipline.
This means whether to mention it is Stoner's business, and whether to adopt it is Blücher's business. Even if Blücher does not adopt Stoner's advice, it will not do anything to him, because this is S
Tonna's duties!
At this point, influenced by William, the Brandenburg Military Academy can be said to be ahead of the entire Europe. At the Brandenburg Military Academy, there has never been any unspeakable war examples, and even those who are despised by the mainstream Europeans are considered extinct
The war techniques of human nature will also be mentioned in the classroom of Brandenburg Military Academy.
What William wanted was an iron-blooded general rather than a philanthropist, which was very clear when Brandenburg Military Academy was founded.
After Stoner left, Blüchel looked at the desk in front of her and was stunned.
Stoner's suggestion was very feasible, and even the success rate of action exceeded 80%. Logically speaking, Blüchel should have adopted Stoner's suggestion without hesitation, but Blüchel knew that he could not
So decisive.
Tens of thousands of lives are not a small number. You should know that the population of Prussia is only more than 10 million, which means that once Blüchel makes up his mind, he will destroy nearly one percent of the population of Prussia.
It seems that one percent, this proportion seems to be small and can't smile anymore, but you should know that in the later years, a county town in China had a population of only more than 100,000, and even some counties in marginal areas, the population of the county was less than 10.
Tens of thousands.
If you fight head-on on the battlefield, then Blüchel doesn't have to worry about it, because in Blüchel's opinion, since he has been on the battlefield, he will be a soldier regardless of gender, old or weak. And there is never any kindness among the soldiers.
.
But now, these people are all huddled in the city of Krakow. They are just civilians. Do you really need to commit the murder of more than 100,000 people for a city?
Blüchel asked himself that he could not do it, but just when Blüchel decided to give up this suggestion, he saw a hurry running in from outside the military tent.
"Your Excellency General, please report it urgently!!!"
A very dense letter painted in flames arrived in front of Blüchel. When he heard the two words urgently reported, Blüchel opened the letter without hesitation.
The letter comes from Silesia, and the letter is signed by Ferdinand Jr.
In the letter, Ferdinand Jr. told Blüchel that although the battle situation in Silesia has improved a lot to a certain extent, the Austrians' 20,000 reinforcements have accelerated their pace toward Silesia, according to Ferdinand Jr.
The budget may take less than half a month before this Austrian army with 20,000 people will be able to join the battlefield.
At present, there are still nearly 30,000 Austrian troops opposite the Austrian army in Silesia. Once 20,000 Austrian reinforcements resist the battlefield, the Pu army with a force of only more than 30,000 will have to turn to the defensive situation, and may even be even allowed to be defeated by the Austrian army.
The danger of defeat. Therefore, Ferdinand Jr. asked Blücher to resolve the war in the Polish region as soon as possible to support Silesia, otherwise normal wars would be greatly affected.
After seeing the letter, Blüchel buried his head deeply in his arms, and his hands kept scratching his scalp, as if this would relieve his pain a little.
On the entire front, the situation in the Polish theater was undoubtedly the best. Blüchel did not need to face tens of thousands of Austrian reinforcements. Even with William's plan, the entire region was before the Prussian army attacked the Austrian Polish region.
It's already messy.
Therefore, the Military Affairs Department had high hopes for Blüchel.
If there is no breakthrough point in Prussia on the entire front, then the first choice is undoubtedly the Polish theater. In addition to Blüchel's three main combat divisions, he also has Prussian intelligence agencies in the Polish region.
The help of a large amount of forces lurking. Even if Blüchel cannot win, he has no other way to go except to be sentenced to military law.
It was under such circumstances that Blüchel carried the hope of the entire Prussian Kingdom, from King William to soldiers under Blüchel. Everyone believed that Blüchel's troops should be in Austria Poland.
Victory is achieved because in this region, the conditions for victory in Prussia have already been laid.
what to do!
Blücher's brain was very chaotic, his reason told him that he should use openly to attack Krakow, but his heart told him that he wanted to win or be one step closer in the Prussian army, then Stone
Na's advice is undoubtedly the best way.
Just when it was dark, Blücher's guard walked into the military tent, holding a plate in his hand, filled with food. You must know that Blücher has not eaten for most of the day because of his closeness.
Wei had to walk in with a plate.
But when the guard saw Blüchel's face, he was shocked. He saw that Blüchel, who had always maintained his demeanor in the past, seemed to have completely become two people. His eyes were red and ashen.
Everything on his cheeks and clothes that were torn a little messy made the general look very scary.
After the guard put the dining plate on Blücher's desk, he walked out. After the guard left, Blücher also stood up from the stool that had been half-squatted.
Arrive at the desk.
A piece of beef on the table is very eye-catching. Because Blüchel used to like to eat steak with five cents, the plate brought in by the Guard was filled with a steak with five cents of steak.
There was bloodshot. But when I saw this steak, Blücher seemed to have seen something unbearable.
Those bloodshots obviously reminded Blücher of something bad. Think about the people who may die from the plague, which is not really like this steak. Bloodshots and even blood flow...
............
Blüchel kicked over the desk, and when he heard the loud noise, several guards guarding outside the tent rushed into the tent, but before they could speak, he heard Blüchel.
call out
"Get out of here!"
.............
It was not until the next day that Blüchel returned to normal. Although the coach's performance the day before made the entire Prussian army feel a little panicked, the next day the generals saw that the one that was no different from the past.
When General Blüchel was in General Blücher, everyone was relieved of the original heart, and yesterday's incident was naturally ignored by everyone.
After arranging orders to continue to investigate and clean up camp sanitation in the next few days, Blüchel disbanded the officers, and then Blüchel quietly invited Tennestin over.
As soon as Tennistan entered the military tent, Blücher lowered his voice and asked:
"His Excellency Tennistan, do you know a way that can quickly infect plague!"
Although Tennestine was a little confused about the purpose of Blücher's question, he immediately replied:
"God General. The fastest way to infect plague is undoubtedly to let people eat food with plague bacteria into their stomachs, and the second is to spread it through indirect contact by mosquitoes!"
Blücher thoughtfully and continued:
"So do you have anything that carries plague bacteria there?"
These words shocked Tennistan, and he asked:
"Your Excellency General asks what this is for?"
"Tell me directly if there is one!"
"This...this...this...some!"
Under Blücher's stare, Tennistan finally had to tell the truth, and just after he finished speaking, he only heard Blücher breathe a sigh of relief.
"Tenestin, I will give you a very important task next. You only need to know that this task is related to the success or failure of the Kingdom of Prussia. I will not be able to talk to you about the rest of the details, but I only have one requirement for you.
That is to do your best to cooperate with my staff officer Stoner!"
"Your Excellency General..."
"Don't ask too much, knowing too much will not help you, go ahead!"
Then, Tennestan, who walked out of the military tent, was taken aside by Stoner, and finally Stoner also obtained a batch of items containing plague bacteria from Tennestan, as well as items and blood of the soldiers infected with the plague.
Especially the corpses of the rats that had just been killed were directly intercepted by Stoner, and then the fully armed Stoner brought the corpses of the gendarmerie and the things they got from Tennistan.
Go to a military tent on the corner of the military camp.
There was a lot of food placed in the military tent, which Blücher prepared to aid the Polish resistance organization in Krakow.
Since the Polish resistance organizations were subjectively unwilling to cooperate with the Prussian offensive, Blüchel did not mind asking them to cooperate objectively, and this batch of food was the biggest medium.
Sure enough, two days later, the messenger in Krakow happily took away the food from several carriages. Standing there, watching the Polish messenger's back as he walked away, a strange feeling surged in Blüchel's heart.