The Governor's Palace of East Africa, the high-spirited Governor Friedrich: "You are all the best graduates of the Austrian Army University, and some of you have even broken school records in your professional achievements.

But this is not enough, good generals are fought on the battlefield. The Empire is peace-loving, and there are not so many wars for you to practice in battle.

Now is an opportunity for you to feel the cruelty of war in advance. It's just that there are some dangers, and participation is entirely voluntary.

If you're scared, you can opt out now. ”

To be here is already telling. If you were afraid, you wouldn't have participated in the first place.

Seeming to be satisfied with everyone's performance, Governor Friedrich softened his tone: "Very well, since you have chosen to participate in this operation, then when you go out of this door, you are no longer active Austrian soldiers."

Any accidents that occurred during the training had nothing to do with the Austrian government. Only those who come back alive can be reinstated.

As your predecessors, I would like to warn you here: first learn how to survive on the battlefield, and then think about making achievements.

Keeping yourself safe on the battlefield is also a must-have ability for a good commander.

It is not easy for the empire to train you, you are not used as death squads, and bravery and recklessness have never been the same concept.

Now I'll start the roll call. ”

"Oskar von Hutier."

A young officer stepped forward and replied, "Here!" ”

Governor Friedrich: "Lieutenant Colonel Hubtier, you are the commander of this operation, and I hope you will be able to bring back all these boys in good condition." ”

"Yes!" Oskar von Huttier replied

Governor Friedrich nodded: "Your mission this time is to use the Mach enemy rebels to cause chaos to the French. ”

Looking at the bewildered crowd, Friedrich smiled: "Don't be surprised, even with the support of us and the British, the rebels will not be able to defeat the French.

The disparity in strength between the two sides was huge, and the war was determined from the very beginning. You were sent there for experience, not for you to be sent to death.

You don't need to be under pressure in this war, any tactics can be used, and it doesn't matter to us whether you win or lose. What kind of record you play depends on your own ability.

Of course, the premise is that you can fool the natives and make them listen to you.

I don't have a problem with anyone who has the ability to pull up a rebel army and the French on their own.

Your success on the battlefield will determine how much material aid you can get to increase your voice in the rebels.

In the early stage, each of you only had one infantry regiment of equipment, and it was up to you to decide whether to give it or not, and when to give it to the rebels. ”

The training of high-level officers is completely different from that of grass-roots officers, and grass-roots officers only need to carry out orders and dare to fight.

High-level officers are different, and they need to learn more content, such as organizational and management capabilities, tactical command capabilities, and battlefield adaptability......

Not only is there a lot of learning, but also accompanied by the most brutal competition, there are assessments at each stage, and only the best talents can get the next stage of training.

The generals trained at such a high cost are naturally not used to charge into battle. How to save your life on the battlefield has also become a compulsory course.

The war between the Sudanese rebels and the French was a test of battle. No matter how powerful the soldiers on paper are, they can't compare to the real knives and guns on the battlefield.

Directly with the French, the Austrian military obviously had high hopes for these people, otherwise it would have been enough to send officers with rich combat experience.

With that, Friedrich continued with the roll call.

"Erich von Falkingham, Poteaorek, Stthausenburg......"

A number of famous figures in later generations have appeared here.

After decades of Franz's operation, the scope of recruitment of the Austrian army has long been not limited to Austria.

All citizens of the HRE Empire were eligible to join the army, including the North German region.

Especially after the Russo-Prussian War, under financial pressure, the Berlin government abandoned the original militarist path. The army has reduced its establishment, and its investment in military academies has naturally become smaller.

In fact, the prescient Junker aristocracy began to step on two boats a long time ago. The older generation served in the Prussian army, and the younger generation studied in Austria.

Now that Prussia is in decline, these military students do not need to go back, there is no place at all, and serving in the Austrian army has become the best option.

For Franz, who was interested in the unification of the German region, these officers from North Germany were naturally not a problem, anyway, they were all big waves.

The high-spirited Friedrich, who was born in 1856, was not much older than these people.

It's just that I was lucky to catch up with the Near East War, and I brushed the Ottoman copy all the way, and then stood out.

Of course, the role of reincarnation is essentially greater. As the son of Archduke Carl Ferdinand of Austria, he was born with a golden key.

If you don't have the ability, you can mix well, let alone the ability. Originally, I just wanted to go to the Near East War to gild, but I didn't expect to refine real gold.

It is not easy for the royal family to produce a capable person, and such an existence naturally has to be cultivated well. Friedrich, who was supposed to enjoy the banquet wine, was kicked from Vienna to East Africa by Franz.

Young people are always unwilling to be lonely, and Friedrich is not a fool of the dead, but also ambitious.

After living in drunken Vienna for so many years, the original plane was able to command armies into battle, let alone now.

Under Franz's butterfly effect, Vienna was clearly more than a step stronger than its contemporaries.

When you meet an emperor who doesn't like the glamour, the bureaucrats and nobles below will naturally be affected.

The impact of a change in social climate on the next generation is the strongest. The aristocracy born after the Revolution was generally stronger than the previous generation.

As the governor of the colony, Friedrich's authority was still very large, as long as the government did not explicitly prohibit it, he could do it.

Causing trouble to the French is naturally not in the scope of prohibition. As long as you don't get caught with the evidence, it's fine.

Friedrich, who had just taken office and was eager to make a contribution, directly planned the operation.

To this end, he visited the Austrian governors in Africa and scavenged them for a pile of junk.

Without the involvement of the Vienna government, Friedrich had limited resources at his disposal, and these goods were used as bargaining chips to interfere in the Mach uprising.

Naturally, there is no need to increase investment, but it is not a fool, as long as you see the results, it will be easy to get the government to pay for it.

"Franco-Austrian friendship" is less reliable than "Anglo-Austrian friendship". If you open the history books, you will know that the history of Europe in the last few hundred years is a history of the struggle for hegemony between the Habsburgs and the French.

Now there are also the French who are hindering the unification of the German region, and the vast majority of Austrians consider France to be the greatest enemy, and there is no one.

Pit the French, Friedrich did not have the slightest pressure. The failure to send active military personnel to participate is considered to be a face-saving gesture to the Paris government.

Just a few students who had just graduated from military school, even if they were discovered by the French, Friedrich could hold on.

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