Chapter 49 The Crown Prince’s strategic vision

The huge fountain reflects a pleasant light under the sun.

Before Joseph could speak, Andre couldn't help but asked: "Your Highness, I really want to know, how did you make the Prussians retreat?"

In the past few days, the scene of the Prussian army suddenly retreating when he was determined to die that day often appeared in his mind.

DuBois was about to blame him for violating etiquette, but when he heard the words "order the Prussians to retreat", he was surprised and said: "Is it really His Highness's plan in the Netherlands?"

He has no connection with the Tatsuwu family. Although he has heard that the incident in Holland is related to the crown prince, this is the first time he has heard confirmed news today.

Andre nodded and looked at the Crown Prince expectantly.

Joseph smiled and said: "It is too detailed to disclose. Basically, Wilhelmina was handed over to the Southern Netherlands police and asked to send her back to Prussia. Then the Patriot Party took the Prince of Orange back to Amsterdam. William II Naturally, the world has no excuse to continue to interfere in the Netherlands."

His simple words contained a huge amount of information - how to find Wilhelmina, how to get her to the Southern Netherlands, and finally how to get her back to Prussia. She just happened to be stuck on the battlefield at a time when she had not yet let her go. William II suspected France...

Andre and Dubois looked at each other and saw the surprise and admiration in each other's eyes. The Crown Prince's method was really wonderful! It was just a matter of confidentiality, and they felt very itchy, but they couldn't ask more questions.

Then the two men began to talk about the bloody and fierce fighting on the Dutch battlefield, especially on the last day, when the Prussian army attacked extremely fiercely, and more than 40 of the 300 French volunteers suffered casualties.

When Andre said this, he sighed solemnly: "The Prussian army has strict military discipline and a high level of training. If they had continued to fight at that time, I guess the Dutch would never have lasted until nightfall."

Dubois nodded: "Right now, Alexander is studying the Prussian army's military system, training and other information. According to him..."

He glanced at Joseph and said carefully: "The Prussian army's combat capability is one-third greater than that of the French army."

Joseph knew that what he said was not an exaggeration. Prussia was once known as the first army in Europe. The military training system of the Junker aristocracy was very complete and extremely strict. Coupled with the German perseverance and obedience, although it has declined now, its combat capabilities have declined. Still not to be underestimated.

He solemnly said: "France's military system is too aging and should have been comprehensively reformed long ago."

Historically, the old French army suffered many heavy losses on the battlefield. It was not until the emergence of the Emperor that the situation was stabilized. Under the auspices of the Emperor, the army completed military reforms and eventually became a powerful European army.

Dubois immediately agreed: "That's true. Alexander and I have talked about this many times. We should learn from Prussia in an all-round way in order to cope with various challenges in the future!"

"Learn from Prussia?" Joseph looked at him, but shook his head slightly, "What we have to do is to surpass the Prussian army, not blindly learn from them."

Andre and Dubois looked at each other again, "Then how does His Highness think the army should be reformed?"

Joseph had thought about this before, and immediately said: "The biggest problem of the French army is that the army is fragmented. There is no unified command, no unified training, and the equipment and the quality of the soldiers are very different. When encountering a big battle, The assembled army looks huge, but in fact there are very few fighting groups..."

Since he talked about military reform, he followed this topic and talked about abolishing local legions, unified management of the national army, increasing the number and training of non-commissioned officers, and developing new tactics.

André and Dubois' eyes widened as they heard this. The Crown Prince was only thirteen years old, but he had such strategic foresight. After studying in the military academy for several years, he only knew how to repeat his predecessors. The experience is as if I don’t have a brain...