Chapter 806: The Young Generation

  Chapter 789 The Young Generation

Franz guessed correctly, behind the Mahdi insurrectionary army there are indeed Austrian domestic forces involved. It’s not like Frederich just wanted to make things happen and immediately hooked up with the rebels.

As it turned out, the gold masters were always the most popular. As a pioneer of the African independence movement, the Mahdi greeted the Austrian military dispatches with the grandest of ceremonies.

The two sides could be said to have had a good time, and the only regrettable thing was that the British also showed up here, much to the displeasure of Hutil and the others.

Fortunately, now that we were all on the same page, and were all out to make trouble for the French, there was no unpleasantness.

Once the welcome banquet was over, someone couldn’t help it, “Fuhrer, the Austrians are too perfunctory, aren’t they?”

There was no doubt that everyone was very dissatisfied with this Austrian military dispatch.

As the saying goes, “If you don’t have hair on your mouth, you can’t do anything right”. People really have no confidence in the military students who have just left school.

Mahdi waved his hand and smiled: “This is not important. As long as the Austrian’s assistance arrives, even if they send out a bunch of gorillas, we have to provide them.

Besides, don’t you guys think it’s best to be like this now? If they really send a bunch of old foxes over, I’m afraid we’ll have to worry about driving a tiger out the front door and a wolf in the back.”

Britain and Austria are different, in the African continent the British are weak, it’s okay to cause trouble for the French, wanting to take over the French colonies is simply impossible.

Austria was different, they were the dominant power on the African continent. If it is not in Africa several major colonial empires united, this continent are going to be Austria to the monopoly.

Against this background, it was natural for the Mahdi to be wary of the Austrian threat.

The insurgent army was not an ironclad group within itself, and everyone was only temporarily united because of a common enemy.

Once international forces intervened, internal pitfalls could easily be magnified, resulting in incalculable consequences.

He would rather Austria send in a bunch of losers who added to the chaos than face a bunch of old foxes.

A middle-aged man complained, “But look at the meaning of these Austrians. They are trying to meddle in the military command, can they do it with just these people?”

Mahdi shook his head, “No one can answer this question, but the army that the Austrians helped us train is really good.

If they want to command the army, then give them a chance and give them the troops we just collected to command.

Winning is of course the best, and losing won’t cause us much damage. If we really lose the battle, they won’t have the face to step in and command it later.”

Leading a bunch of unreliable juniors, Mahdi only felt tired of his heart. He had a strong suspicion that starting this uprising would lead to his untimely death.

It was too late to regret it now. If he withdrew at this time, not only the French, who wanted to make an example of him, would not let him go, even the British and Austrian investors could not spare him.

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Lieutenant Colonel Huttil: “The situation on the battlefield is very unfavorable for us, the French are already sharpening their knives, and the insurrectionist high command doesn’t have the slightest sense of crisis yet.

Every one of them is busy fighting for power, fearing that our arrival will upset the balance of power, not realizing that without our support, they can’t hold off the French at all.

Just now, I tried Mahdi in private, his attitude is very firm, want to get the command of the insurgent army is impossible.

Now that the British are also involved, with the chips we have in hand, we can at most get a motley army.

On the way here, we have all seen what the main force of the insurrectionary army is like. I am afraid that in the future we will have to command the rabble of the rabble.

I don’t think they’ll be able to carry out orders meticulously, and all that combat stuff we learned in school is basically useless here.”

The most important thing on the battlefield was execution, if the army’s execution was insufficient, even the best tactics would not be able to exert their power.

The core of determining an army’s execution lies in the quality of the grassroots officers. In this war, it was an impossible problem to solve.

It was already difficult to train this group of rabble into soldiers, and it was simply unrealistic to want to cultivate qualified grassroots officers.

The French would not give them time, and the counterattack by the French army was not far away.

Against the backdrop of Ying and O’s inability to get off the field themselves, the chances of the rebels winning were infinitely close to zero, and the effort only slightly improved the odds.

The best that could happen would be to inflict so many casualties on the French that the French government would feel that the war was more than worth it, and then pick a poor country to cut their teeth on.

Falkingham concurred, “Indeed, taking this rabble into a duel with the French, no wonder the tops didn’t think highly of us to begin with.

Unless God is in command, the insurgents have no chance of winning.

But this has little to do with us, our task now is to cause as much trouble for the French as possible, and ideally we should be able to take the battle to the Nile Delta.

The British should support us; they want the rebels to fight all the way to the Suez Canal in order to give them an excuse to meddle with the canal.”

Military ability was not necessarily the strongest of the few, but the political mind Falkingham was undoubtedly astute, and saw at a glance the true objective of the British.

Potiorek laughed, “The British want precisely what neither we nor the French want to give, so they are doomed to failure.

There is no way the rebels will hit the Suez Canal, but the French will go crazy at the slightest semblance of a sign.

The Paris government could well have thrown hundreds of thousands of troops over, and even if they had armed and trained all the young men and women, they could not have stopped them.

So by destroying the Nile Delta region, which the French have worked so hard on, we will have accomplished most of our mission.

If we can break through Cairo by any chance, a few of us will have a chance to become the future commanders in combat against France.”

Seeing the crowd casting strange gazes, Potiorek hastily waved his hand, “What are you looking at me for, it’s not just a joke, is it necessary to be like this?”

Streithausenberg answered firmly: “Of course it is!”

“If we can make it this far, I guess the French don’t need to mix. Maybe the country will even take advantage of the victory and just fuck over the French.

How about a challenge, Major Potiorek? I guarantee that if you do, you’ll be the youngest general in Austria.”

Austrian generals weren’t easy to become, one step at a time in times of peace, and in the smoothest of circumstances, it took twenty or thirty years to rise to the top.

It’s different with war service, that’s where you can be promoted in minutes. The rules have long been established, as long as your war service is tough enough, you can go all the way, age and seniority are not a problem.

Potiorek shook his head, “Is it okay to finish half of it?”

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(End of chapter)