Chapter 985 - Chapter 52: 37 Years

Louis Bonaparte initially believed that he could isolate the North German Confederation from the southern German states and exploit the dissatisfaction existing in the regions recently annexed by Prussia. By doing so, the French Army could control the lines of communication between the north and the south, forcing Prussia to hastily deploy all its existing troops toward the Rhine River, regardless of their level of combat readiness. In this way, the entire mobilization process of the Prussians would be disrupted, and the invading French Army could secure victory, breaking the Prussian forces that would arrive successively from various places.