Chapter 49 The Crown Prince’s Strategic Vision

The huge fountain reflected pleasant colors under the sun.

Before Joseph spoke, Andre could not help asking: "Your Highness, I really want to know how you made the Prussians retreat?"

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

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

He did not have any relationship with the Davout family. Although he heard that the Dutch incident was related to the Crown Prince, it was the first time he heard the confirmed news today.

Andre nodded and looked at the Crown Prince expectantly.

Joseph smiled and said, "It's inconvenient to reveal too much detail. Basically, hand Wilhelmina over to the police in the Southern Netherlands and ask them to send her back to Prussia, and then let the Patriot Party take the Prince of Orange back to Amsterdam. Naturally, William II will have no excuse to continue interfering in the Netherlands."

His simple words contain a lot of information - how to find Wilhelmina, how to get her to the Southern Netherlands, and how to get her back to Prussia in the end. It just happened to be stuck at the time on the battlefield, and William II had not yet 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 brilliant! It was just a matter of confidentiality. They were itching in their hearts, but they didn't ask too much.

Then the two began to talk about the bloody and fierce battle on the Dutch battlefield, especially on the last day, when the Prussian army's offensive was extremely fierce, and more than 40 of the 300 French volunteers were killed or wounded.

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, I estimate that the Dutch would never have lasted until dark."

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

He glanced at Joseph and said carefully: "The combat capability of the Prussian army is one-third higher 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 nobles was very complete and extremely strict. Coupled with the German perseverance and obedience, although it has declined now, its combat capability should not be underestimated.

He said solemnly: "The French military system is too old and should have been comprehensively reformed long ago."

Historically, the old French army suffered many heavy losses on the battlefield until the emergence of Emperor Napoleon to stabilize the situation. Under the auspices of Emperor Napoleon, the military reform was completed and it eventually became a European army.

Dubois immediately agreed: "Indeed, Alexander and I have talked about this many times. We should learn from Prussia in all aspects to cope with various challenges in the future!"

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

Andre and Dubois looked at each other again, "Then how do you 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 quality of the soldiers are very different. When encountering a major battle, the assembled army seems huge, but in fact there are very few corps that can fight..."

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

Andre and Dubois' eyes widened as they listened. The crown prince was only thirteen years old, but he had such strategic foresight. After several years of military training, he only knew how to repeat the experience of his predecessors, as if he had no brains...