Despite this, in the following days, several cases of plague appeared in the Prussian army, and even one case of plague occurred in the regular barracks of the Prussian army.
For this reason, the commander of the infantry regiment to which the Prussian soldier belonged was punished with twenty whips by Blucher, but fortunately only one case of this was found in the regular army, and if there were more, Blucher could not guarantee that he would not go mad.
But Blucher did not dare to hide the presence of the plague in the army, and he sent messengers all the way to Brandenburg to report on the changes in the army.
Because Blucher's troops were busy dealing with the plague, the offensive against Krakow was suspended for this time.
The Austrians did not feel anything wrong with this, and in their opinion it was possible that the Prussian army was resting internally because of the increase in casualties in the siege some time before, so they suspended the attack on Krakow.
Just when Blucher was having a headache because of the plague, a Prussian staff officer quietly walked to Blucher's side, and when he was sure that no one around could hear the conversation between the two, the staff officer whispered in Blucher's ear; "Your Excellency, General, I don't think the plague is too bad news for us!"
Hearing the words of this staff officer, Blucher was a little puzzled, and then this staff officer continued: "If the plague can appear outside the city, then I think there should be the plague inside Krakow, you know, the walls can hold back the attack of our army, but it certainly can't stop the attack of the rats, I remember in the Brandenburg Military Academy.
A professor once told a case of an enemy city that was conquered with infectious diseases such as the plague!
” The words of this staff officer rang in Blucher's ears like a demonic song, and even this sentence made Blucher shiver involuntarily.
War is sometimes a contest between human natures.
Historically, water, fire, and disease have all become important factors in warfare, and the use of disease to kill all enemies is also common in history.
But after all, the method is so cruel that it is very possible that even one of them will not be able to affect itself.
Seeing that Blucher was hesitating, the staff officer gritted his teeth and said: "Your Excellency, when I was in class at the Brandenburg Military Academy, our teacher told us that everything that was done in the war was aimed at achieving victory in the war.
And the victor will never be infamous, so in war, as long as you can defeat the enemy.
Then all means can be used, and if the war is lost because of the kindness of a woman for a while, then who can remember the tears of the loser!
” Blucher looked at the staff officer under his command in front of him in a daze, as if he had known him for the first time.
You must know that there are more than 100,000 people in Krakow.
All but 20,000 Austrians were Poles.
Hundreds of thousands of lives, I'm afraid the devil will hesitate, but now his staff officer said these words without blinking his eyes, could it be said that this staff officer is more devilish than the devil!
Without waiting for Blucher to make up his mind, he saw that the staff officer hated iron and could not become steel: "Your Excellency General, there is life in Krakow, but are we Prussian sons not life!
Behind every man in our army is a happy Prussian family, and should His Excellency the General abandon the tens of thousands of Prussians and the families behind them for the sake of the happiness of the Austrians and Poles!
Your Excellency, General.
The situation in front of us is already very clear, if our army does not pay a lot of money.
The capture of Krakow may become an empty phrase, and even if our troops suffer heavy casualties, Krakow will not necessarily be conquered, you should know this better than I know!
” Blucher's heart was shocked, and it was indeed as the staff officer had said.
With the Austrian governor of Krakow using grain as bait, the Poles changed their previous weakness, and one by one died, and in such a situation, Blucher felt a little shaken in his heart about the success rate of the capture of Krakow.
After thinking for a long time with his eyes closed, suddenly Blucher asked: "And what do you have to do?"
"Your Excellency, General, you see that although the Austrians are very well guarded in the city, the people of the resistance group in the city can come to our army every once in a while, which shows that these people have their own secret channels in the Austrian army, and it is obviously unrealistic for our army to use trebuchets to bring hundreds of millions to the city of Krakow, after all, it is difficult to guarantee what the Austrians will think of when they see our army projecting those items with germs.
Therefore I suggest that the next time a messenger arrives in Krakow, we can give them a quantity of food to help the resistance in the city, and this grain must be contaminated with the source of the plague, so that, according to the outbreak of the plague, it may take us more than a week to get good news!
” The words of this staff officer were evidently well thought out, and Blucher had already learned of the lack of food in Krakow from an envoy from the resistance in the city, who had also asked the Prussian army for food assistance.
However, Blucher refused the emissary's request when he refused to have any extra food, considering that he had a large number of horses and prisoners of war to feed in addition to the more than 30,000 soldiers under his command.
Obviously, since this emissary was able to enter and leave Krakow despite the Austrians' heavy defenses, and even hoped to obtain a shipment of food from the Prussian army, it is certain that this person or the organization behind him had a secret channel in and out of Krakow, and that this channel was obviously not suitable for the operation of a large army.
However, it should be feasible to ship some food.
"What's your name?"
Blucher asked the staff officer beside him, who in his opinion was not a simple person who could make such a suggestion, and perhaps such a person had the potential to become a good politician and military strategist, because only a person who has no humanity can stand out in these two professions.
Don't say anything about politicians who are bent on the welfare of the people, this kind of talk is pure fart.
Anyone who can achieve something politically is either wolf-hearted or ruthless, otherwise he would not have been able to ascend to the throne above those ten thousand.
And the same is true of military strategists.
A qualified military strategist also treats human life as a mustard, and you don't see Bai Qi slaughtering 400,000 Zhao army prisoners of war in Changping without blinking his eyes, and all the famous generals in history have basically done such a thing as slaughter.
"Your Excellency General, whose name is Stoner, graduated from the Brandenburg Military Academy!"
Stoner seemed to have no sense at all in the face of Blucher's stern and unusual face.
Under Blucher's forced gaze, he still performed a very standard military salute.
Seeing Stoner's performance, Blucher nodded.
Sometimes the duty of a staff officer is to advise the main general, as long as it is beneficial to the situation of the war.
Even if it was a bad strategy, the staff officer had the right to advise the commander-in-chief, which was written into the discipline of the Prussian army.
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This means that it is Stoner's business to mention or not to mention, and to adopt or not to adopt is Blucher's business.
Even if Blucher did not take Stoner's advice, he would not have done anything to him.
Because that's Stoner's duty!
At this point, under the influence of Wilhelm, the Brandenburg Military Academy can be said to be ahead of the whole of Europe.
At the Brandenburg Military Academy, there is never a precedent of war that cannot be said, and even those methods of warfare that are despised by the European mainstream as dehumanizing are mentioned in the classes of the Brandenburg Military Academy.
Wilhelm wanted iron-blooded warriors rather than philanthropists for women, and this was very clear from the very beginning of the Brandenburg Military Academy.
After Stoner left, Blucher looked at the desk in front of him in a daze.
Stoner's proposal was so feasible that the success rate of the action was more than eighty percent.
It stands to reason that Blucher should not hesitate to take Stoner's suggestion.
But Blucher knew she couldn't be so decisive.
Hundreds of thousands of lives are not a small amount, and the population of Prussia is more than 10 million.
This meant that once Blücher had made up his mind, he would destroy almost one percent of Prussia's population.
It seems that one percent, this proportion seems to be tiny, and you can no longer smile, but you must know that in later generations, a county in China only had a population of more than 100,000, and even some counties in the marginal areas, the population of the whole county was not more than 100,000.
If it is said that it is hard to fight on the battlefield, then Blucher does not need to be so entangled at all, because in Blucher's view, since he is on the battlefield, both men and women, old and weak, are warriors, and there is never mercy between soldiers.
But now, these people are all huddled in the city of Krakow, they are just civilians, do they really need to commit hundreds of thousands of murders for the sake of a city!
Blucher asked himself if he could do it, but just as Blucher decided to abandon the suggestion, he saw a hurried man rushing in from outside the tent.
"Your Excellency General, report !!
urgently" A very dense letter, painted with fire, arrived in front of Blucher, and when he heard the word urgent, Blucher did not hesitate to open the letter.
The letter came from Silesia, and it was signed by Ferdinand the Younger.
In the letter, Ferdinand the Younger told Blücher that although the situation in Silesia had improved to a certain extent, the Austrian reinforcements of 20,000 had already accelerated to Silesia, and according to Ferdinand the Younger's budget, it might take less than half a month for the Austrian army of 20,000 men to join the battlefield.
At present, there are still nearly 30,000 Austrian troops on the opposite side of the Austrian army in Silesia, and once the 20,000 Austrian reinforcements resist the battlefield, then the Prussian army, which is in the early 30,000s, has to go on the defensive, and may even be in danger of being defeated by the Austrian army.
Therefore, Ferdinand the Younger asked Blücher to settle the war in Poland as soon as possible and support Silesia, otherwise normal war would be greatly affected.
When he saw the letter, Blucher buried his head deep in his bosom, his hand scratching his scalp incessantly, as if this would ease his pain a little.
On the entire front, the situation in the Polish theater was undoubtedly the best, Blucher did not need to face tens of thousands of Austrian reinforcements, and even because of Wilhelm's planning, the whole area was already in chaos before the Prussian army attacked the Austrian Polish region.
And because of this.
The Military Ministry had high hopes for Blucher.
If there was a possible breakthrough point for Prussia on the entire front, the first choice was undoubtedly the Polish theater of operations.
In addition to Blucher's three main divisions, he was also aided in Poland by a large number of forces that had long been lurking in Prussian intelligence.
Even if Blucher could not achieve victory, then he had no other way but to be court-martialed.
It was under these circumstances that Blucher carried the hopes of the entire Kingdom of Prussia, from King Wilhelm to the soldiers under Blucher, who believed that Blucher's men should be victorious in Austrian Poland because it was in this area.
The conditions for Prussia's victory had long been foreshadowed.
What to do!
Blucher's mind was very confused, his intellect told him that he should attack Krakow in an open position, but his heart told him that he wanted to win or to be one step closer to the Prussian army.
Then Stoner's advice is undoubtedly the best way to go.
Just as it was getting dark, Blucher's guards entered the tent with a plate full of food in his hand.
You must know that Blucher has not eaten for most of the day.
Because his guards had to walk in with plates.
But when the guard saw Blucher's face, he was startled, and saw that Blucher, who had maintained his demeanor before, seemed to be completely two people at this moment and as usual.
The reddened eyes, the blue cheeks, and the somewhat messy ripped clothes all made the general look very intimidating.
After the guard placed the plate on Blücher's desk, he walked out, and when the guard left, Blücher staggered up from the half-crouched stool and walked to the edge of the desk.
The piece of beef on the table was very eye-catching, because Blucher used to like to eat medium-rare steak, so the guard brought in a plate with a medium-rare steak, and there was blood between the gaps on the steak.
But at the sight of the steak, Blucher seemed to see something unbearable.
The bloodshot reminded Blucher of something not so good.
Think about the people who might have died from the plague, isn't it really like this steak, with blood streaks and even blood flowing ........................
Blucher kicked over the desk.
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Hearing this loud noise, several of the guards guarding the door of the tent immediately rushed into the tent, but before they could speak, they heard Blucher shout "Get out of here!"
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It wasn't until the next day that Blucher returned to normal, although the coach's performance the day before made the entire Prussian army a little panicked, but when the generals saw the same general Blucher the next day, everyone's hearts were relaxed, and yesterday's events were naturally consciously ignored by everyone.
After arranging the order for the next few days to continue the investigation, supplemented by the cleaning of the camp, Blucher dismissed the officers, and then Blucher quietly invited Tenistan over.
As soon as Tenistan entered the tent, Blucher lowered his voice and asked: "Lord Tenistan, do you know of a way to quickly infect people with the plague!"
Although Tenistan was a little confused about the purpose of Blucher's question, he immediately replied because of his work ethic: "Your Excellency General, the fastest way to get infected with the plague is undoubtedly to let people eat food with plague germs in their stomachs, and the second is to spread it through indirect contact, which is taken by mosquitoes!"
Blucher paused thoughtfully, then continued: "And do you have anything with plague germs in there?"
Tenistan was taken aback by this, and he asked: "Your Excellency the General asks what this is for?"
"You just tell me if there is!"
"This........
This one.......
Some!
” Under Blucher's forced gaze, Tenistan finally had to tell the truth, and just after he finished speaking, only Blücher let out a sigh.
"Tenistan, I am going to give you a very important task next, you just need to know that this task is related to the success or failure of the Kingdom of Prussia, and I can't tell you more about the rest of the details, but I have only one request for you, and that is to do your best to cooperate with my counselor Stoner!"
"Your Excellency General..........."
"Don't ask too much, it's not good for you to know more, go down!"
Tenistan was then taken aside by Stoner, who eventually obtained a shipment of items containing plague germs, as well as the belongings and blood of soldiers infected with the plague.
In particular, the corpses of rats that had just been culled were intercepted by Stoner, and then Stoner, who was fully armed, led a group of men from the gendarmerie battalion to transport the corpses of rats and the things they had received from Tenistan to a military tent in the corner of the barracks.
The tent contained a large amount of food that Blucher had prepared to use to aid the Polish Resistance in Krakow.
Since the Polish Resistance was subjectively unwilling to cooperate with the Prussian offensive, Blucher did not mind letting them cooperate under objective circumstances, and this grain was the biggest medium.
Sure enough, two days later, the envoy in Krakow happily took away several wagons of food, and standing in place and watching the back of the Polish envoy in the distance, Blucher's heart swelled with an inexplicable feeling!