"Accept it! Marshal, this is the proof of your contribution to France!"
Jero Bonaparte first approached Saint Arno and, with passion, placed the marshal’s dal on Saint Arno.
Seeing this, Saint Arno quickly saluted Jero Bonaparte, who returned the salute to Saint Arno.
Afterward, Jero Bonaparte handed the gilded marshal’s staff from the tray to Saint Arno.
Saint Arno took a step forward, solemnly received the staff with both hands, and then stepped back to his original position.
"Long live Marshal Saint Arno! Long live the Empire!"
The troops below cheered for Saint Arno’s promotion to marshal. Although their cheers were rely following orders from their superiors, it also indicated that the army did not oppose Saint Arno becoming a marshal.
"I will not fail your expectations and trust in ! I believe that under your leadership, France can once again thrive!" Saint Arno said to Jero Bonaparte with conviction.
Having said this, Saint Arno once again saluted the monarch before him.
"I also believe it! With your help, France can beco even stronger!" Jero Bonaparte replied with a smile still on his face.
Commander Renio’s coronation similarly concluded amidst cheers and salutes.
After the marshal ceremony ended, a grand parade began.
Nearly 60,000 soldiers, under the direction of their respective unit commanders, began accepting Jero Bonaparte’s review in an orderly manner.
Riding on horseback, Jero Bonaparte, Saint Arno, Renio, and the Bonaparte and Orthodox faction generals following them reviewed each unit in turn, occasionally stopping to inquire about the commander’s na and the unit’s designation.
Jero Bonaparte’s image, after his tireless ’cultivation,’ could finally utter, "In Paris, the army recognizes no one but ."
After the parade concluded, Jero Bonaparte routinely spent hundreds of thousands of francs out of his own pocket to improve the als of the soldiers participating in the parade.
In the eyes of so in the army, Jero Bonaparte was already equivalent to garlic sausage and black bread.
Of course, this is just the view of so veterans who have served for a few years.
Many of this year’s newly enlisted recruits looked at the Emperor’s nephew with admiration; in their eyes, Jero Bonaparte was already equivalent to that Emperor, and he would lead France to revival.
As long as France could successfully revive, they could gain power like during the Great Revolution.
And the reason they equate revival with gaining power is mostly influenced by their fathers.
Those fathers, living through the Napoleon era, experienced hardships and also went through tis of warmth and joy. As they aged, the once ’harsh’ mories were selectively erased by them.
In their stories, war beca a man’s romance, and past glories turned warm, as they passionately recounted their experiences to the next generation, including but not limited to playing with German won.
The cases of Jourdan, Ney, and others rising to prominence, as well as the stories from the old generation’s Napoleon era, instilled unrealistic fantasies in the second generation of French soldiers, who were eager to recreate past glories.
Whoever could lead them back to glory, they would follow his orders.
It can be said that from the mont Jero Bonaparte launched the coup, the entire France had already been swept away by the patriotic flag, concealed under nationalism’s bayonet.
Everyone was a promoter of militaristic bayonets.
The parade ended with cheers of "Long live the Empire, long live Bonaparte."
Marshal Renio, newly awarded the marshal title, returned once more to Strasbourg, brimming with vigor as if rejuvenated.
Now that the marshal title is in hand, could the nobility rank be far behind?
Marshal Renio believed that as long as he completed the task of reforming the Strasbourg military station, he would certainly earn the reward he deserved.
Chief of Staff Marshal Saint Arno also accelerated the process of forming the General Staff.
June 1, 1852.
The General Staff began restructuring under the joint deliberation of Marshal Saint Arno and Jero Bonaparte, transforming the three small groups within the forr Secretariat responsible for Germany, the Near East, and the Italian region into four departnts.
The first departnt was responsible for Ossman, Greece, Russia, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark.
The second departnt was responsible for: Germany (especially Prussia), Austria, Switzerland, Italy!
The Third Office: Responsible for France proper, Britain, Belgium, Holland, Spain, Portugal
The Fourth Office is responsible for Asia and Arica.
Among them, in addition to Asia and Arica, the Fourth Office also undertakes the functions of organization, mobilization, training, and deploynt.
mbers assigned from logistics to subordinate troops must undergo training through the office.
In addition to the aforentioned four offices, the Military Science and Technology Office under the General Staff is also an important departnt. To establish this departnt, Jero Bonaparte ordered the newly appointed Minister of War, Kuzen Montebon, to assign the army’s best historians, surveyors, statisticians, and topographers to the Military Science and Technology Office so that they could map more precise charts.
Those who had previously gone to the Ministry of Railways for organizational coordination were similarly incorporated into the (new) Railway Departnt.
As field surveying is of utmost importance, Saint Arnaud specially appointed a "Field Surveying Director" to the position.
Jero Bonaparte and Saint Arnaud spent a total of about three weeks constructing the frawork of the newly established General Staff.
Under such a frawork, military administration and military command are completely in a state of mutual separation without interference.
Kuzen Montebon had no right to interfere with military marching orders, and Saint Arnaud also had no right to decide on military personnel appointnts and dismissals.
The newly ford General Staff consisted of more than 155 people from its inception.
At the sa ti, a new issue also appeared before Jero Bonaparte and Saint Arnaud.
When Jero Bonaparte demanded that each division, brigade, and regint should have a corresponding staff departnt, Chief of Staff Saint Arnaud awkwardly explained to Jero Bonaparte: The French army changes its garrison every two or three years, and except for specific regions like Seine Province and Strasbourg, the configurations at corps, division, and brigade levels are mostly temporary formations.
Many brigade commanders and division commanders, as well as division commanders and corps commanders, only et for the first ti during war.
The four levels of staff departnts ford in peaceti—corps, division, brigade, regint—are unsure who to follow, nor how to find their own units.
This has beco a persistent problem.
After Jero Bonaparte and Saint Arnaud pondered for a long ti on the sofa, Jero Bonaparte, with arms folded, asked, "Can we station troops permanently in one area, at most along the railroad lines? In this way, the army can mobilize and reach faster!"
"But, but! However..." Saint Arnaud hesitated in response.
"However what? What difficulties?" Jero Bonaparte asked again.
"If the army often stays in one area, it is likely to beco regionally based troops, which is not conducive to our mobilization!" Saint Arnaud feared that the army might rge with local forces, thus giving rise to ard opposition against Paris.
"What about military zones? If the French army is divided into five military zones: east, west, south, north, and central, each led by a general or marshal, the troops can move within their jurisdiction! Every year’s recruits should be assembled, then unified and assigned to different units!" Jero Bonaparte said to Saint Arnaud.
Dividing military zones and allowing exchanges within a certain range can reduce problems with forming complete corps and division-level commands due to constant relocations.
Each military zone only needs to delineate a corps-level staff departnt representing the military zone, and then the corps-level staff departnt specifies division-level and brigade-level command offices below. As long as troop redeploynts do not exceed the military zone, corps, brigade, and regint staff departnts can easily find their own respective troops.
If it was the Prussian army, there would be no need for such a thod to guard against the army.
Compared to the revolution-prone Paris, soldiers of the Kingdom of Prussia are simply the best in the world, enduring hardships and willingly accepting flogging.
French soldiers, on the other hand, frequently shout democracy without truly understanding its aning, but they know this slogan can result in less beating from their superior officers.
Ultimately, it is about the problem of building a national army versus building an ethnic army.
"We can only use this thod!" Saint Arnaud nodded and said to Jero Bonaparte.
At present, there are no better thods, and they can only choose the relatively reliable option.
June 29, 1852.
The French Minister of War, Kuzen Montebon, issued the first directive.
Starting from July 1, France is officially divided into five major military zones: northeast, south, north, and central.
The manager of each military zone is either a marshal or a ritorious general, and the military zone establishes a legion-level staff departnt to help the marshal/general set strategic goals, complete strategic planning, and train the army.
Below each military zone should be division and (brigade) regint-level staff departnts. All departnts rotate garrisons within the military zone, and once war breaks out, the division and (brigade) regint staff departnts form the core to reorganize the army.
From the Ministry of War’s directive, it can be seen that the army is completely centered around the staff departnt, and the staff departnt is also centered around the General Staff.
This arrangent inevitably leads to complaints that the staff departnt has seized command authority, but such complaints are insignificant to the determined reforming Chief of Staff and Emperor.
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