"Long time no see! Commander Raglan!" Jérôme Bonaparte looked at Marshal Raglan with a smile, "Maybe I should call you Marshal Raglan!"
"Your Majesty, you can call me whatever you want!" Marshal Raglan stood up straight and said to Jérôme Bonaparte in a neither humble nor condescending manner.
"Let's call Marshal Raglan!" Jérôme Bonaparte stretched out his hand to invite Raglan to sit down: "Marshal Raglan, please sit down!"
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Marshal Raglan saluted Jérôme Bonaparte and sat on his left side.
Later, Jerome Bonaparte also invited Sardinian War Minister Marshal La Maramore and Ottoman Omar Pasha to sit on the other side.
After everyone was seated, Jerome Bonaparte asked Marshal Raglan bluntly: "Marshal Raglan, I guess the purpose of your visit this time is not just to visit me!"
Marshal Raglan was surprised by Jerome Bonaparte's outspokenness.
However, since His Majesty the Emperor has said so, Raglan does not want to follow the detours of those ministers in the British Cabinet.
Marshal Raglan nodded slightly and told Jerome Bonaparte that the purpose of his visit was not only to bring greetings and blessings from the British army to Jerome Bonaparte, but also to tactfully ask Jerome on behalf of the British army.
.When did Bonaparte leave the Crimean Peninsula?
"The purpose of my trip is not only to award honors to the heroes of the Crimean Peninsula, but also to give spiritual encouragement to the soldiers on the front line!" Jerome Bonaparte said: "So, in a short period of time,
I will not leave Crimea!"
"Then I wish your Majesty a pleasant journey in Crimea!" Marshal Raglan said to Jerome Bonaparte, with a hint of complaint in his words.
Later, after Jerome Bonaparte chatted with Marshal Raglan, Marshal La Maramore, and Omar Pasha for a long time, Marshal Raglan and others asked Jerome Bonaparte
Say goodbye.
Looking at Marshal Raglan's leaving back, Jérôme Bonaparte showed a sneer on his face, and he muttered in a low voice: "It seems that some people don't want me to stay here!"
As soon as Marshal Raglan returned to the British camp after leaving the French Expeditionary Force camp, he was surrounded by the Duke of Cambridge and others. They asked Marshal Raglan when Emperor Jerome Bonaparte would leave the Crimean Peninsula.
"Emperor Jerome told me that he will not leave here in a short time!" Marshal Raglan said helplessly to the military commanders present.
As soon as this statement came out, the military commander immediately realized the seriousness of the situation.
Due to the excellent performance of the French army in Alma and Sevastopol, the entire coalition force has gradually transformed from the original dual-headed command to the current single-level command with the French army as the center.
The advantage of this is to reduce the internal friction between the army and the army, and can make the loose coalition forces become a whole.
However, the disadvantage is that the influence of the British army in the coalition forces is getting smaller and smaller. Before the start of the Sevastopol War, Omar Pasha of the Ottoman Empire was more inclined to obey the command of Marshal Raglan. The Sevastopol War
After it was over, Omar's position was in favor of the French army.
If Commander Raglan had not been promoted to marshal, and Pellissier had not yet been promoted to marshal, I am afraid that the Kingdom of Britain could only command its own troops now.
Now that Emperor Jérôme Bonaparte, the supreme commander of France, has arrived in Sevastopol, the entire British army has to face the question of whether they should obey the orders of the French army.
Because judging from the rank and power of the coalition forces, Jérôme Bonaparte has obviously far surpassed Commander Raglan.
Unless Commander Raglan invites Queen Victoria to the Crimean Peninsula, then the entire coalition forces must obey his command unconditionally.
If Jérôme Bonaparte can lead them to victory like Emperor Napoleon did, then that's all!
The key is that Jerome Bonaparte could not produce a convincing record at all, just like the Duke of Cambridge at the time. Therefore, the British army had reason to doubt Jerome Bonaparte's military level.
This also caused disagreements within Britain: If the supreme command of the French army was really changed from Pélissier to Jérôme Bonaparte, then whether they should obey the orders of the Allied Forces Command.
At this time, Marshal Raglan went to the French headquarters to ask Jérôme Bonaparte whether he would stay in the Crimean Peninsula for a long time.
"How about we report this news to London! London will negotiate with France, and then His Majesty Jérôme Bonaparte may be able to leave!" One of the officers put forward his own idea.
"I'm afraid London can't persuade him!" Another officer poured cold water on him: "Don't you understand what France is like now? The entire empire revolves around the French Emperor. The current French Emperor He wants to imitate his uncle! How can those who stayed in Paris be persuaded?"
"Then do we still want to follow the advice of the French Command now?"
"My opinion is listenable, but it will be implemented according to the situation! We are the troops of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, not the troops of His Majesty Emperor Jerome Bonaparte!"
…
The British officers gathered around Marshal Raglan and shouted, and gradually an impatient look appeared on Marshal Raglan's face.
"Quiet!" Marshal Raglan raised his voice and shouted to everyone present.
All the officers stopped speaking and turned their attention to Marshal Raglan again.
"Are you discussing or quarreling like this?" Marshal Raglan scolded loudly, and then said to the Duke of Cambridge: "What do you think?"
"Your Excellency, Marshal, I think what a colleague just said is right!" The Duke of Cambridge puffed up his chest and said eloquently: "We can follow the advice of the French Imperial Army, but the premise is that this advice is beneficial to our army! If France If the empire is really prepared to let us die, we can act according to our own will!
After all, the French army and the British army are only united, not France annexing Britain! Everyone present still maintains control over the army!"
"This is indeed a way!" Marshal Raglan nodded.
To be honest, he also doesn't want to have a stalemate with the French Empire. Now the entire Crimean Peninsula relies on the French army for high-intensity output.
If the relationship with France really breaks down, it will only benefit the Russian Empire.
But Commander Raglan was also afraid of Jerome Bonaparte, the kind of king who had no clues and liked to show off his abilities.
Youdao means that one general is incompetent and the three armies are exhausted.
A dishonest and fun-loving monarch is simply an epic disaster for the army.
Forget it, let’s observe it for a while!
Marshal Raglan thought to himself.
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After Jerome Bonaparte settled in Sevastopol, two telegrams came to Sevastopol.
One of them was from Queen Augusta and the other was from Princess Mathilde.
Let’s talk about Queen Augusta’s telegram first. In the telegram, she expressed her understanding of Jerome Bonaparte’s trip to the Crimea Peninsula and hoped that Jerome Bonaparte could protect himself as much as possible.
For the safety of your life, if there is any need, send a telegram to Paris immediately, and Augusta will immediately order Paris to prepare.
At the end of the letter, Augusta told Jerome Bonaparte that his life not only belonged to himself, but also to all France.
She would tell the child after he/she was born that his/her father was fighting for all of France.
The tone of Princess Mathilde's telegram was obviously not as good as that of Queen Augusta. In the telegram, Mathilde called Jérôme Bonaparte's trip to the Crimean Peninsula "unfair".
Responsible and childish.
Of course, at the end of the letter, Princess Mathilde could not forget to tell Jerome Bonaparte to pay attention to safety. She did not want her nephew/niece, who was about to be born, to have no father.
After reading through the two telegrams, Jérôme Bonaparte called for the French army reporter "Le Bonaparte" and showed him the telegram from Queen Augusta.
"Mr. Reporter, I think you should pay more attention to the people around you! Military news is not just about how many enemies the army has defeated and how many victories it has won! The little things can make people feel more empathetic!" Jérôme
.Bonaparte made a suggestion to the reporters accompanying the army.
It was suggested that he write an article focusing on the attitude of military wives towards war.
Of course, the article focuses on the positive image of military wives during the war.
The reporter who accompanied the army, who was prompted by Jérôme Bonaparte, immediately understood what Jérôme Bonaparte meant. After leaving the headquarters, he quickly went to the military camp to find several French officers, and asked to know about their wives' opinions.
their attitude in participating in the war.
The officers cooperated very well and took out the letter written by their wives. After reading the letter, the army reporter wrote an article called "Wives Married to the Army" overnight.
The article uses the wives of several military officers he selected as typical cases to promote the justice of the French army in fighting the Russian Imperial Army in the Crimean Peninsula.
At the same time, at the end of the article, the reporter who accompanied the army also pointed out that Queen Augusta also wrote a letter for His Majesty the Emperor.
As soon as this article came out, it immediately became a hot topic. Many Paris residents shed tears after reading this article.
There are also many people who are very interested in the contents of the telegram written by Empress Augusta to His Majesty the Emperor.
Therefore, on the third day after the article was published, Jerome Bonaparte ordered the telegram written by Augusta to be exposed.
Through telegrams, the people of Paris saw a well-informed and courteous queen whose love for France did not belong to any real French person.
A large number of Paris residents began to spontaneously send blessings to Queen Augusta, and the reputations of Queen Augusta and Jérôme Bonaparte increased by one degree out of thin air.