Chapter 1008 Geneva Treaty

The King of France fled, not only escaped, but also took away most of the defense forces in Paris, leaving only less than 4,000 French soldiers to guard Paris, this is still because the King of France hopes to let Paris block the Ming army for some time, to buy him more time to escape, otherwise the King of France may not even have 5,000 French soldiers left. Heavenly Sounds『.『 ⒉

As soon as the news leaked out, the French people in the Château de Paris were even more frightened, and the whole of Paris was in chaos.

Almost all of them are desperate to escape Paris.

Not only the ordinary French people, but even the five thousand remaining French soldiers are also on the run, no one is a fool, and no one is willing to die in vain, the king has fled from Paris, and the fool knows that it is impossible for five thousand soldiers to hold Paris, and continuing to stay in Paris can only be sent to death in vain.

It can be said that before the Ming army began to attack Paris, Paris collapsed without a fight.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! "The Ming army didn't even have to collapse the city wall, just a few cannons aimed at the gate of the castle in Paris, and it exploded at once.

"Attack!" A large number of Ming soldiers rushed into Paris with rifles or machine guns.

Without encountering the slightest resistance, the Ming army rushed into the city of Paris without incident.

After attacking the city of Paris, the Ming army began to penetrate into Paris in multiple ways, preparing to completely occupy Paris.

Because of the escape of the King of France, the Ming army completed the occupation of Paris almost without bloodshed.

After the capture of Paris, the Ming army did not stop attacking, and continued to pursue in the direction of the escape of the King of France, as if he would not give up until the King of France was caught.

"I don't know how long the King of France will last." In the city of Paris, Yan Yingyuan said to himself.

After defeating the 200,000 French army in Versailles and capturing Paris, France had almost lost the strength to resist, and as the commander-in-chief, Yan Yingyuan stayed in Paris and did not follow the army to hunt down the king of France.

It doesn't have to be to capture or kill the King of France. The Ming Dynasty has captured Paris, the capital of France, to achieve the purpose of punishing France and promoting the prestige of the Ming Dynasty.

The pursuit of the King of France was an army of 16,000 Ming, commanded by Feng Houdun.

After the king of France escaped from Paris, he fled south for two whole days, and finally fled to Auxerre, which was two hundred kilometers away from Paris, and the king of France was so tired that he was about to lie down.

However, the king of France had only rested for less than a day, and the Ming army had reached a place just over twenty kilometers away from Auxerre.

"Damn the Ming army, how can you chase so fast!" The King of France was so angry that he had to flee south.

Less than a day after the King of France fled Paris, the Ming army also invaded Auxerre and captured it.

At the same time, the Ming army continued to move south, pursuing the King of France.

After another six days, the King of France fled to Lyon, an important town in southwestern France.

In the process of escaping, the king of France also continued to gather the rest of the French army, and when he fled to Lyon, counting the 25,000 French soldiers who fled from Paris with him, there were more than 50,000 French soldiers gathered in the area of Lyon.

And because some soldiers had to be stationed in every city, the pursuing Ming army also dropped to 8,000 men.

After hearing this, the king of France was ambitious to fight the Ming army again, relying on the superior strength of more than 50,000 people, to defeat the 8,000 Ming army that pursued to Lyon.

The second major battle after the Ming army invaded France broke out in Lyon.

Although the number of French troops in Lyon was seven times that of the Ming army, this crowd tactic, in the face of the advanced weapons of the Ming army, also had no chance of winning, and in just half an hour, the Ming army attacked Lyon, and defeated more than 50,000 French troops in the city of Lyon.

The French army, like Versailles, was undoubtedly defeated by the Ming army, with more than 10,000 French troops killed, another 10,000 French captured prisoners, and the remaining French troops scattered and fled.

Although the King of France still managed to escape from Lyon, he was defeated again and again, which completely knocked the confidence of the King of France to the bottom, and the King of France was extremely desperate and no longer had the will to continue to fight against the Ming army.

After escaping to Geneva, the King of France finally couldn't hold it anymore, and surrendered to the Ming army in despair, sending envoys to negotiate peace with the Ming army, as long as the Ming army could withdraw from France, the King of France was willing to pay any price.

Yan Yingyuan was very happy to learn the news that the King of France took the initiative to negotiate peace, which represented a complete victory in the war between the Ming Dynasty and France, defeated the France that repeatedly provoked the Ming Dynasty, and greatly publicized the sacred and inviolable majesty of the Ming Dynasty.

In the thirtieth year of the Ming Dynasty, on July 3, the Ming Dynasty signed the Geneva Treaty with France.

There was only one article in the treaty, France compensated the Ming for the military expenses of 80 million silver coins, apologized to the Ming Dynasty, and admitted France's mistakes.

In view of France's national strength, it was impossible to pay it all at once, so the Ming Dynasty allowed France to pay the reparations in fifteen years, but after counting the interest, the original 80 million silver coins became 100 million silver coins.

The value of a silver coin is about equivalent to the value of one or two silver coins in the Ming Dynasty, that is, one hundred silver dollars in the Ming Dynasty now, and 100 million silver coins are equivalent to 10 billion silver dollars in the Ming Dynasty.

100 million silver coins, even if France once had a large number of colonies in the world and still has many colonies in Africa, but so many silver coins can still make France unable to recover its current national strength in 20 years.

The King of France did not want to sign such a treaty that would almost completely knock France out of its status as a European power, but he did not want the Ming army to continue to pursue him and continue to occupy Paris, the core of France, so even if the price was great, he could only agree.

After the signing of the treaty by the King of France, the Ming army began to slowly retreat from France.

Before withdrawing from France, the Ming army also took away a large number of treasures, cultural relics, etc., collected by the former French king, as well as all the gold and silver in the French Treasury Bank, about more than 10 million silver coins.

On July 10, the thirtieth year of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming army evacuated France from Dunkirk.

The Ming army is finally gone, leaving behind a devastated Kingdom of France.

The signing of the Geneva Treaty suddenly knocked France down to the status of a major European power, making France almost a second-rate country in Europe.

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