It is not at all surprising that this war will break out, the Europeans are just surprised why they have waited until now.

The result of this war was very surprising, everyone realized that France could win or lose, but no one expected that France would lose so badly and so quickly. In a month and a half, France lost 700,000 troops, of which 400,000 were taken prisoner, and Prime Minister Napoleon, who personally led the troops, surrendered.

If France is so weak, why would the French go to war?

Because the French feel that they are not bad, and perhaps they are not bad either. In recent years, French Prime Minister Napoleon has strengthened the armament construction of the French army, and the French army has served for a longer period of time, most of the officers and soldiers are professional soldiers, they have been in the army for more than 20 years, and they have accumulated more military experience and skills than any European army.

Napoleon also equipped his army with rear-loading guns, and they were better than Prussian weapons, using metal cartridge shells, which solved the problem of air tightness, and in the case of rear-loading, not only was the speed greatly improved, but the power was not lost to the front-loading rifles, and Prussia was still using the paper shell bullet pistol they were proud of.

Napoleon also built the General Staff.

After these reforms, Napoleon analyzed the comparison of the national strength of France and Prussia, and he believed that even if Prussia and Poland were combined, France would have 36 million people in manpower, and Prussia and Poland together would only have 30 million people, which would not be comparable to France. Population means strength, and under the same system of compulsory military service, France had twice as many conscripted soldiers as Prussia. Financially, France also had more than Prussia and Poland combined,

Diplomatically, the historical Napoleon III was considered to have made the fatal mistake of not co-opting Austria and Russia, but was confident that Austria would definitely enter the war. In fact, this kind of self-confidence is reasonable, because France has consulted Austria many times in recent years, and Austria has repeatedly stated that it is on the side of France, but it is impossible for Bismarck not to make small moves before the war, and the mistake made by France is that it has always thought that Austria is an ally with France on the issue of Prussia, so it did not confirm it before declaring war on Prussia. As a result, after the outbreak of the war, Austria remained neutral.

Because the ruling Prime Minister Napoleon judged that France had certain advantages in terms of troops, finances, and diplomacy, but this advantage was gradually declining with the union of Prussia and Poland, and it was impossible for France to accept the emergence of a United Kingdom with a population similar to its own in Central Europe, so Prussia and Poland united, and France would inevitably go to war, which was a matter of no choice.

As for Napoleon's optimism or not, the impact on the outcome is not really important. Because the performance of the French army is really unbelievable.

Prime Minister Napoleon's personality is evaluated as a love of military adventure, he was a revolutionary who joined the Italian Charcoal Party in his youth, and the revolutionaries of this era have a characteristic, that is, they dare to take risks, even if there is only a 1% chance of winning, they dare to put 100% of the chips.

The same was true of Napoleon, who, after the start of the war, quickly mobilized his army and confidently led it himself, allowing it to move quickly out of France, with the aim of defeating Prussia before the Polish army could support Prussia.

But he thought too highly of the speed of the French army. The strikers had already entered Prussia, it is possible that the rearguard corps had not yet been drafted, and the letters requesting enlistment had not yet been delivered to the reservists. The artillery that has already begun to exchange fire at the front may still be on the other side of France, or the artillery is here, the shells are not there, the shells are here, the artillery is not there again.

Countless people in later generations analyzed and studied why the French army was so chaotic, compared with Prussia, it was simply useless, and it was completely to serve as a foil for Moltke.

Some people are too layman because Krupp's steel cannon is powerful, just like the Grace Sect thinks that Prussia won the war against Austria by relying on a needle gun.

The fact is that the Polish army was already deployed on the east bank of the Rhine when the French army had just entered the territory of the Kingdom of Baden, an ally of Prussia, and the French rearguard was still dragging on Metz. While the French army was still waiting for soldiers and equipment, the Polish army was fully equipped and entered the battle.

This was true of the Polish army, not to mention the more elite Prussian army. As a result, when the French advance advanced to Mainz on the Rhine, it was surrounded here. Reinforcements were held back at Worms, and the defenders were dragged to Strasbourg.

On the face of it, the two countries invested about the same number of troops in battle, with 400,000 troops in Prussia, 300,000 in Poland, and 700,000 troops in France. But Bismarck was still fighting under the banner of the German Confederation this time, and in the previous few years, he had fiercely stirred up the German national sentiment, and Bavaria, Baden, and Württemberg in South Germany were all on the side of Prussia this time, and the German nation believed that France was interfering in the inheritance of the Prussian monarch for no reason, and they thought that this was the bullying of small countries by big countries. And they could not accept that the Hohenzollerns could not ascend to the Prussian throne.

However, the main force was still the Prussian army of the United Kingdom of Poland, and the armies of the other states were not bad in quality and weapons, but it was difficult to cooperate in such a large battle, and they were indeed not needed to participate in the battle, because the Prussian army was enough to defeat the French army. In the first two rises, the Put-Polish coalition army gathered 500,000 people in the border area, and the French advance was only 200,000 at this time.

The French army had advanced in three parts, but the first line was eaten up in a week, and only half of the remnants broke through. The second line was very frightened and chose to retreat quickly, but it was too late. In terms of the speed of movement, they lost a game, and Moltke used the railway to move 100,000 Prussian troops to the rear of the French army. The second line of 200,000 French troops was surrounded again, and it was the Poppo army that attacked the French army, with a strength of 460,000, which also took a week to annihilate the French army. Only half of the remnants of the French army escaped.

In two weeks, the French army lost 200,000 troops, and the main force was expelled from the German region, so it is logical that they should admit defeat and accept peace talks. However, Prime Minister Napoleon ordered the continued mobilization of new troops, and the French reserve army had not yet been mobilized, and the French army could exceed 1.3 million troops.

Napoleon decided that he was short of troops, and he decided to retreat to Saalburg. But at this time, the French were surprised to find that in France, the Prussians used the French railways to mobilize the army faster than the French army. As a result, Napoleon's army was not able to withdraw completely, and was divided into two parts, Saarburg and Strasbourg, and Napoleon himself was very unfortunate and was surrounded in Strasbourg with 100,000 soldiers.

After a day and a half of shelling, Prime Minister Napoleon chose to surrender. That's why it is believed that Prussia won over the Krupp cannon, because, as in history, Napoleon chose to surrender after being shelled. In fact, before World War I, artillery was not a lethal weapon, and many fewer people died from artillery than from rifles. And in this war, the rifles of the French army were obviously better than the Prussian Polish army, and the French army, which had a very high proportion of veterans and officers, had a stronger offensive spirit than the Prussian Polish army, but the French army just lost, and lost very badly.

There was only one reason for the loss, and the loss was in organizational ability, and the chaotic and loose management of the French army still had an advantage when dealing with the tribal forces in North Africa.

But in North Africa, however, they fought a law and order war in which there were rarely more than 1,000 men, rather than a large army of men. There is a serious lack of experience in the operation of large corps. Napoleon also built the staff headquarters, but it was a mere formality, and the professional staff officers could not suppress the veteran ruffians at all.

There has always been an anti-intellectual tendency in the French army, which felt that it was useless to read books and to play tricks. Prime Minister Napoleon tried to encourage military men to learn, but was met with widespread opposition. French Marshal MacMahon repeatedly declared that if he found the name of any officer on the cover of a book, he would immediately remove that officer from the list of promotions.

This kind of atmosphere can be said to be very different from that of the Prussian army, when the officers enthusiastically published military papers, and Moltke even wrote them. How could the staff officers, who were nerds, be respected in such a French army, and how could anyone obey the battle plan they had prepared.

While the French army was still following the way of Napoleon I, first gathering large corps and then slowly marching forward, Moltke's army could be divided into regiments, and Moltke even studied the French railway network and worked out a plan on how to use French transportation facilities. His army, scattered and converging at the planned decisive battle, sounded dangerous, and many military strategists repeatedly commented that Prussia was bound to lose, including the Enke, but each time Prussia won, the Prussian army under Moltke's command had such an efficient organizational ability.

As a result, the French always found that there were always more enemy troops in front of them, and that they were always faster than them.

In this way, after World War III, Prime Minister Napoleon was captured, and his capture, as the real power in France, caused a huge sensation in France.

The French emperor Napoleon the Younger was a figure who did not care much about politics, and the previous politics were entrusted to his uncle, who was now captured, he was left without a master, and the opposition came to power.

The French government wisely sued for peace, but the terms between the two sides were not negotiated, and the Popol army, with the support of the British, marched to Paris.

The French sought help from China, and the emperor immediately convened a cabinet meeting to discuss the issue. and to ask the parliament for authority, and if necessary, the emperor could give orders directly to the army if he did not have time to obtain the consent of the parliament.

The parliament is bogged down.

This is the result of Zhou Lang's guess, and he wants to get the parliament to rip off and disguise China as a politically weak country.

Because Zhou Lang felt that he did not have the conditions for a world war at this time, and he planned to use this incident to exercise the parliament's ability to respond to emergencies.

Adjust the speed of China's political response, prepare for a world war, and in the next world war, we must solve all the problems of squeezing.

Let China establish its hegemony through a war, and let the world completely enter a period of peace under China's rule.