Make France Great Again Chapter 479

After Selim Pasha introduced himself, Marshal St. Arno and Commander Raglan immediately realized the reason why Selim served as the leader of the Ottoman Front: Mostly because the sultan of Constantinople was afraid of Omar Pasha surrendered on the spot, which is why his son was appointed to command the Ottoman support troops.

If St. Arno and Raglan guessed correctly, the commander actually appointed by the Ottoman Empire was not the stupid-looking young man in front of him, but Omar Pasha in the Silistra fortress.

Sure enough, Selim Pasha's next words proved their conjecture, and he said sincerely: "Commander Raglan, Marshal Saint Arno, I know that you both despise this unit, but this Our best sincerity. Ottoman troops are fighting the evil Russian Empire in Silistra, in Rouen, in the Caucasus. We don't have enough troops... and I'm not really the army Commander, my father is the commander-in-chief of this army. I hope to be able to join forces with you two seniors who are highly respected in the fight against the Russian Empire."

After Saint Arno and Raglan looked at each other, Marshal Saint Arno cleared his throat and asked, "Your name is Selim, right?"

"Yes! Your Excellency the Marshal!" Selim Pasha responded humbly to Saint Arno.

"Tell me, how many teams do you have now that can fight!" Marshal St. Arno asked Selim Pasha in earnest, "What I'm talking about is the troops that can fight the Russian army!"

After thinking for a few seconds, Selim Pasha responded, "Your Excellency Marshal, among the army I command, only 20,000 soldiers can barely fight against the Russian Empire, and 4,000 of them are cavalry!"

"20,000!" Saint Arnault muttered and nodded.

Although this army was a lot worse than the 80,000 he expected, a slightly capable army of 20,000 still failed to penetrate St. Arno's psychological expectations for the Ottoman Empire.

If it wasn't for Omar Pasha's desperate battle against the Russian Empire at the fortress of Silistra, thus restoring part of the image of the Ottoman Empire, the Ottoman Empire would have been dismembered by Britain and France in advance due to its incompetence.

It is precisely because of the Ottoman Empire's hard work in the Caucasus and the Silistra fortress that it has a united front value in the eyes of Jerome Bonaparte and Albert.

St. Arno's attitude towards the Ottoman Empire was also based on the premise that the Ottoman Empire itself still had troops capable of fighting.

"You now immediately separate the teams that are still capable of fighting from the defective ones!" Marshal Saint Arno gave Selim Pasha an order: "As for the remaining troops (Saint Arno) Pauses, frowns) See for yourself!"

"Yes!" Selim Pasha gave St. Arno a military salute.

"Hurry up!" Saint Arnault waved his hand, not forgetting to urge him.

After Selim Pasha left the camp, Marshal Saint Arno showed a wry smile and said to Commander Raglan: "I never thought that only 20,000 soldiers could fight with 300,000 troops! I really don't know. How did the troops of the Silistra fortress not be defeated by the Russian Imperial Army!"

Commander Raglan nodded sympathetically, and then asked Marshal Saint Arno if he should send an officer to the Ottoman army to investigate, to prevent Senim Pasha from fooling them with shoddy.

Marshal St. Arno, who also had little confidence in the Ottoman army, agreed with Commander Raglan, who dispatched his aide-de-camp, Captain Kingscote, to go to Ottoman with Brigadier-General Trosch, his aide-de-camp Imperial barracks do fieldwork.

In this way, affected by the "begging army" of the Ottoman Empire, the coalition forces had to postpone the original plan to leave on the 25th.

Time flies, and in a blink of an eye it has come to evening.

Under the darkness of the night, the Varna Plain was extraordinarily quiet. After a day of investigation, Captain Kingscote and Brigadier General Trosch came to the camp in St. Arnault.

"Commander Raglan, Marshal St. Arno, I swear these Turks are the most sophisticated liars..." Captain Kingscote, who entered the camp, could no longer hold back, and he immediately told Raglan and St. Arno. .Arnohui reports: "If they tell you there are 300,000 horses, just investigate and you'll find less than 20,000..."

The success of Captain Kingscote's report provoked Commander Raglan to point at Marshal Saint Arnault and laugh out loud, and the corner of Marshal Saint Arnault also showed a slight smile.

Captain Kingscote looked at Commander Raglan and Marshal St. Arno with a puzzled expression, he didn't understand what was so funny.

Later, Commander Raglan told Captain Kingscott that he had come to the same conclusion as Marshal St. Arnault had said in the camp in the morning.

"Brigadier General Trox, what do you think!" Marshal Saint Arnault looked at his adjutant.

As a brigadier general, Trosch obviously had different insights from Captain Kingscote. He did not repeat what Kingscote said, but conducted an in-depth analysis of the weapons, equipment and personnel of the Ottoman Empire, and concluded that Selim was The number of Pasha's men who can barely fight is probably only about 18,000-19,000 people, and the rest of the team are mostly recruited temporarily.

Gu He "Your Excellency Marshal, Your Excellency Commander, I hope that the commanders of the British and French armies can be evenly distributed to help the Ottoman Empire reorganize its army. Only in this way can the Ottoman Empire have the ability to fight against the Russian Empire initially. !" Brigadier General Trosch reported in a sonorous tone.

"This..." Marshal Saint Arno hesitated for a moment, then asked Commander Raglan, "What do you think?"

"Would you like to call Selim over and ask him for his opinion?" Commander Raglan said tentatively.

"That's fine!" Marshal Saint Arnault nodded and responded.

Immediately, St. Arno gave an order to the soldiers guarding outside the camp to invite Selim Pasha to enter the camp.

The soldiers who received the order hurried to the Ottoman barracks to invite Selim Pasha. After a while, after Selim Pasha arrived at the military camp, Marshal Saint Arno pointed out the problems of the Ottoman Empire sincerely, and hoped that Selim Pasha would allow the British and French commanders to enter the Ottoman army and transform the Ottomans. Imperial Army.

Facing the demands of Saint Arno and Raglan, Selim Pasha nodded in agreement without hesitation.

In this way, under the instruction of the British and French army grass-roots commanders, they went to the Ottoman Empire to help the Ottoman Empire rectify the army.

After wasting more than a week, the streamlining of the Ottoman army was finally completed on March 6.

After the simplification, the Ottoman army was compressed to 19,000 people on the basis of the original "300,000 people", of which 15,000 were infantry and 4,000 were cavalry. , each carrying 60 rounds of Mignet.

These are the light infantry plans tailored by the St. Arno Staff Department for the Selim troops, and the money needed to replace these equipment is also paid by the Ottoman High Gate government.

[PS: The high gate government's money is borrowed from French bankers by mortgaging the “property rights” of certain islands. From a certain point of view, this can also be regarded as a left-handed right-handed operation]

The Ottoman army after changing their equipment finally lost the feeling of a begging army when they met for the first time, and every Turkish soldier had a smile on his face.

Selim Pasha looked at the reborn army in front of him, and he was also full of confidence.

However, Selim Pasha didn't know that this bright-looking army was actually a one-off army like that of the Beiyang Army.

If it wasn't for Wallewski and Canning's pressure on the Ottoman High Gate, the High Gate government would not have gone to great lengths to pay to arm this force.

Each "new" Turkish army spends about two to three times as much as the previous "beggar army", and the existing finances of the Ottoman Empire are impossible to promote.

On the evening of March 4, when the last Ottoman army was reorganized, Marshal St. Arnault, commander of the French commander of the joint command, led General Raglan, commander of the British Expeditionary Force, and La Marmora, Minister of War of the Kingdom of Sardinia. , Selim, the acting commander of the Ottoman Empire, called into the military camp and gave them an order to go to the Silistra fortress to relieve the siege.

Selim Pasha, who received the order, showed a look of eagerness to try. He couldn't wait to go to the fortress of Silistra to fight against the Russian Empire~www.mtlnovel.com~Under the command and dispatch of Marshal Saint Arno , 20,000 soldiers from Sardinia and 19,000 soldiers from the Ottoman Empire were all dispatched, followed by 10,000 and 30,000 troops from Britain and France respectively.

The coalition troops had a total of 79,000 troops, and together with the 40,000-50,000 troops on the Silistra fortress, they were fully capable of repelling the Russian Imperial Army around Silistra.

However, because the army itself is too large and there is no railway in the Varna area, it is impossible to maintain the supply of the coalition forces by requisitioning on the spot. To maintain the logistical supply of such a large army, it is necessary to requisition Varna and its Animal power (eg mules and horses) in the surrounding area to transport supplies.

It will take a long time to requisition animal power. Until now, the total animal power possessed by the coalition forces is only 60% of the original plan. It is obviously impossible for large-scale troops to march in a hurry. Now they can only order the combat power. The powerful regiment immediately went to the Varna area, while speeding up the collection of animal power, and striving to arrive in Varna in batches within a week.

Under the order of St. Arnault, the French Empire's Juaff Regiment, Sardinia's Chasseur Regiment, and Britain's Scottish Musketeer Regiment and other rapid reaction forces went to the Silistra Stella area to support Silistra first. The fortress, the follow-up large troops followed closely with reinforcements.

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