Chapter 1337: Changes in Europe
The impact of the siege of Paris by 150,000 German troops not only did not frighten the people in Paris, but made the members who accepted the leadership of the Paris Commune angry, and the city of Paris almost became a sea of soldiers, and the number of soldiers who ran to the city to resist increased every day, from the original 50,000 people's revolutionary army to 100,000, 150,000, 200,000, and finally directly became 400,000, and almost half of the people of Paris joined the army.
Moreover, these 400,000 soldiers are all equipped with rifles. All 280,000 rifles originally stored during the Second French Empire in six weapons warehouses in and outside Paris were taken out and distributed. If it weren't for the fact that there were not enough guns, there might have been more than 400,000 people in the city of Paris. But even so, several arsenals in Paris are producing weapons day and night, and they are constantly searching for guns and ammunition in the homes of residents inside and outside the city, and every day thousands of soldiers of the People's Revolutionary Army equipped with guns are added.
The People's Revolutionary Army was different from the armies of other countries, from the new generation of child laborers at the age of 12 and 13, to the veterans of the 50s and 60s who had witnessed the glory of the First French Empire, and many young and strong women.
The whole city of Paris has become a sea of madness, the people are frantically shouting slogans, working overtime to inspect the city defenses, processing and manufacturing ordnance and weapons, and the streets and alleys of the city are full of pickets with red armbands on their arms to sweep the factory owners, bankers, provisional government officials, and other bourgeoisie and the aristocratic ladies of the Second French Empire.
With the attack of the German Imperial army outside Paris, many capitalists and nobles in the city began to connect in tandem and prepare to escape from the city, but with the order of Blanqui, the executive vice president of the Paris Commune, the three anti-exploitation and treason and anti-private possession began.
With the tens of thousands of "capitalists" and aristocrats and other exploiting classes were raided, captured and even paraded in public, tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of francs of wealth were constantly searched and seized, handed over to the French People's Commune Bank, which was based on the original French largest financial institution, the Bank of France, and all the domestic and foreign banks and other financial institutions in the city of Paris were reorganized, the scale was fully twice as large as the original French Bank of France during the Napoleon III period, and now preserves a wealth of 11.5 billion francs.
However, as staggering as this wealth was, the cost of the French People's Commune was equally staggering, with the millions of people in Paris fed every day, and the training and shooting practice of 300,000 newly recruited soldiers of the People's Revolutionary Army.
Outside the city, the 150,000 troops of the German Empire, attacking from the north and east, encountered desperate resistance from the People's Revolutionary Army of Paris, and the fighting was extremely fierce.
At the beginning, the army of the German Empire was superior, and hundreds of cannons kept bombarding the walls of Paris, and even many of the walls of Paris could not withstand the bombardment of the Prussian army and the artillery of the Provisional Government army in succession, and finally collapsed. However, the German Imperial army found that they could not capture the city of Paris at all, and more and more enemy troops gathered inside the walls and gates of Paris, and the artillery on the towers of Paris gradually opened fire more and more accurately. Even at the collapsed walls, thousands of German infantry tried to rush into the breaches in the city, but were shot and killed. The French army in the city rushed out of the gap, and at the same time, the gates of Paris were opened, tens of thousands of soldiers in the city rushed out, and on the side, the same nearly 100,000 French troops stormed over, although the French army suffered from the fierce blows of the artillery of the German Imperial Army, and suffered countless casualties, but they were desperate and crazy.
The German army of 150,000 was completely defeated by the crazy French army attacking from three directions, although the French army suffered more than 100,000 casualties, but there were still soldiers rushing out of the city in spite of their bodies, shouting the slogan of Long live the Commune, while charging fearlessly like chicken blood, the whole French army was like a rainbow, and at this moment the artillery of the German army was running out of shells. In fact, it was not that the ammunition of the German army was insufficient, but that the consumption was too great, the artillery had been firing almost non-stop, and even the chamber of the cannon was so hot that it could not continue to shoot at all, and the shells were almost exhausted, so that the numerical superiority of the French army was reflected at once, and the crazy French army had no command and tactics at all, and relied on human lives to fill it, and actually seized the victory on the battlefield in one fell swoop.
The German army was completely defeated after more than 30,000 German soldiers were killed, about 40,000 German Imperial troops were captured, and the remaining 70,000 or so German troops who invaded Paris fled in panic and with light equipment.
In one fell swoop, the French army captured more than 400 cannons and all the grain, grass and baggage of the German army, and also captured 100,000 rifles, so that the number of the People's Revolutionary Army in Paris increased by 100,000 in a few days and directly reached 500,000 people, you know, the entire Paris has a total of 20 districts, the total population is only 2 million, and the number of troops accounts for about a quarter. Because of the Franco-Prussian War, many young men have actually been killed or captured on the front line, and many of the soldiers who have newly joined the revolutionary army are not male young men, including nearly 100,000 women and elderly people defending the city, almost to the point that all the people are soldiers.
The more than 100,000 French troops pursued until Verdun, and only after recovering Verdun, which was captured by the German army, did they stop and confront the more than 100,000 German Imperial troops who had gathered.
At the same time, other industrial cities with a large number of workers in France, such as Lyon, Marseille, Caen, Nantes, Toulouse, Bordeaux, Strasbourg and other cities with a population of more than 200,000, have broken out violent workers' uprisings. Even some opportunistic officers saw the situation and joined the ranks of the rebels, and for a time the whole of France was in turmoil, and the situation in France was already dominated by the workers, after all, the workers in the cities of France occupied the majority, and France, with a population of tens of millions of cities, had been completely dominated by the workers of the uprising.
The French rebellion also affected the Kingdom of Spain, which borders France, and the fledgling German Empire.
Spain was overthrown by Queen Isabella II's debauchery and political chaos, which led to the vacancy of the throne, and it was the question of the succession to the throne that created a pretext for war between Prussia and France. At this time, Isabella II, who had always relied on France and fled to the south of France, also completely lost her support due to the defeat of the French Emperor Napoleon III and was captured, and the workers' rebels also set off revolutionary actions in the city where she lived. The regency led by Francisco Serrano was ready to compromise with her, on the condition that Isabella II would give all the members of the regency knighthoods and sponsor millions of pesetas, but accidentally the news leaked out, and suddenly, the angry Spanish people rebelled under the leadership of a gang of republicans, overthrew the regency and the royal family, and established the Spanish People's Commune Republic.
Under the influence of the Paris Commune in France, the newly established German Empire in Munich, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Cologne, Stuttgart, Hanover, Königsberg and other places appeared one after another. As a result, the German army was deficient.
The Russian army loyal to Moscow, with the cooperation of the British fleet, defeated the German army entrenched in St. Petersburg and successfully regained the former capital of St. Petersburg.