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Bismarck stared blankly at his distracted eyes as he felt his whole body stiffen, and his hands and feet suddenly became cold.

The French should have dragged a few flying guns over, and at this moment, with the piercing sound of "da-da-da", bullets flew like a rainstorm, and more Prussian soldiers were shot, and the screams rang out for a while.

By this moment, the battle had turned into a massacre, and the team had lost more than half of its dead and wounded without even firing a single shot, and the soldiers who had fled to them from the scattered wing had collapsed and were in disarray. Only a part of the peasant soldiers from Poland still obeyed the iron discipline of the Prussian army and still stood there, however. Even among their ranks, a certain vacillation and uneasiness could be perceived. In a few moments, they too would break free from the restraints of discipline, and the ground beneath their feet would be soaked in blood, soft and slippery, with the smell of blood and gunpowder mixed together. Due to the separation of the corpses, in some places the teams could not be connected. At the feet of the soldiers, who were still standing, the other half lay in pools of blood, groaning, struggling, dying, or dying in silence. The air was suffocating, and there was a lot of discussion and complaints among the team:

"They brought us here to die!"

"No one can get out alive!" Someone screamed in panic.

"Shut up! You Polish idiots! A Prussian officer shouted and cursed.

"Come to me, stand and see! Bastard! ”

"Stand still, bastard!"

Suddenly, another voice sounded: "Under your blessing......"

Someone immediately continued: "O Holy Mother, we ask you ......"

So on this smoke-filled position, a Polish choir sang the Ave Maria: "Please do not refuse our supplication...... and the wounded next to them also sang "Maria!" Maria! The sound of the gentleman came to accompany them.

Apparently it was the Virgin Mary who heard their pleading, for it was at this moment that an adjutant galloped forward on horseback and gave the order to attack: "Take up arms and charge!" Advance! Advance! Advance! ”

The erected bayonets were all flattened at once. The ranks immediately formed a long horizontal column and rushed towards the small hill, using bayonets to look for the enemy whose eyes had not yet been discovered. However, these Prussian peasant soldiers were now 300 meters from the foot of the mountain, and they had to brave the enemy's heavy fire to cross the area...... Will they all be destroyed? Will they retreat? They would rather die on the battlefield than take a step back, for the Prussian commanders knew well what tunes would make these Polish warriors fight their way to the enemy. In the roar of the cannons, in the clatter of the rifles, in the confusion of the ranks and the groans of the wounded, the loudest of all were the trumpets and war drums, which soared into the sky and played an ode that would boil every drop of blood in their hearts. "Forward!" The fighters were chanting, "As long as we're alive!" "They were agitated and their faces were full of light, they crossed the corpses of men and horses lying on the ground like a whirlwind, and they fell under the wreckage of the cannons, but they still cried out. Singing and moving forward. They had already rushed into the vineyards and disappeared into the vines, where only the song could be heard flying, and the occasional flash of bayonets could be seen. The fire on the mountain intensified, and in the valley the bugle sounded incessantly. The French guns were firing more and more sharply and fiercely.

Bismarck saw a white-knuckle battle taking place among the vineyards.

A Prussian soldier holds a rifle in both hands. Rush forward with the others. Wait for him to rush to the foot of the mountain. He had fallen at least ten times, his nose was broken, his whole body was covered in mud and nosebleeds, he was panting, his mouth wide open to breathe, but he still frantically moved forward. Run. His eyes widened so that he could spot the French soldiers among the vines. At last he saw three French soldiers under the flag, and he rushed towards them like madmen, and they also shouted to meet them, and two bayonets pierced him in the chest like two deadly needles, but he also stabbed them...... Immediately, a terrible groan rang out, and the two swarthy corpses fell to the ground and shook spasmodically.

At the same moment, more than a dozen French soldiers rushed to help the French who were carrying the flag. The Prussian warriors swooped down on them. They opened fire, and there was a flash of light, followed by a groan...... In this dense vineyard, fierce hand-to-hand combat is unfolding everywhere. The sound of knives and guns crashing. The snort in the nose and the rapid breathing of the fighter echoed each other. The Prussian warriors were furious like a raging wind, the smoke blinded their eyes, their bodies were bleeding, they looked more like beasts than men, they forgot everything around them......

The French counterattack was finally repulsed, and the Prussian army launched a general attack, at which time King Wilhelm, Bismarck, the new Chief of the General Staff Wadsey, the Military Minister Long, and all the princes of the German states, and the envoys of various countries watched the battle on the high ground. Among the guests watching the battle were Sheridan, a famous cavalry general of the Northern Army during the American Civil War. All of them were stunned by the sight of the French platoon battalion inflicting terrible casualties on the Prussian troops who were crushed into a charge.

In the face of the onslaught of the Prussian army, the French army desperately counterattacked, and the French cavalry launched 4 counter-charges in a row, but each time they were repulsed by the Prussian army and suffered heavy losses. In the last counterattack of the French army on this day, General Gallifet led the French cavalry to charge, and when he rushed to the Prussian front, he found that the soldiers around him had been killed, leaving him as a bare-bones commander, and a Prussian captain ordered to stop shooting, and all marched to see the heroic French general return to the French camp single-handedly.

The battle finally ended, and each of the warring sides once again left nearly 30,000 corpses on the land.

That night, when King Wilhelm summoned Bismarck, he discussed with him for the first time the possibility of "ending the war by means of peace talks." Bismarck, however, did not act as stubbornly as he had shown in the last war against Austria, but calmly listened to the king's ideas and gave his own advice.

And King Wilhelm did not know that in the opposite fortress, his opponent, the French Emperor Napoleon III, had the same idea as him.

Although Napoleon III was greeted with enthusiastic cheers from the soldiers when he dragged his sick body to inspect the front, he returned to the garrison with a heavy heart.

"Your Majesty, this is a letter from the Empress just sent......" The chief of the guard presented a letter.

Seeing the letter from the Empress again, a hint of anger flashed in Napoleon III's eyes. With a gloomy face, he took the letter and opened it to read it.

“…… My Excellency The Comte de Montauban and I both thought that it was time to expel the Prussians from France......"

“…… What France needs is an attack! It's a victory! Only victory can guarantee our son a secure throne! ”

Napoleon III had only read the first few sentences before throwing the letter on the table.

"I've had enough! It's time to warn her and her stupid 'Earl of Baliqiao'! ”

These days, the huge casualties caused by the counteroffensive have caused Napoleon III great mental anguish, and the nagging of the self-righteous Empress Eugenie has caused him to break down mentally.

As Emperor of the French Empire, didn't he know better than she what a counteroffensive and victory would bring to their son?

But now, blood and facts have proved that the French counteroffensive is unwise and costly, and now there is no better way than to hold on to Chalon, and use defensive operations to consume the strength of the Prussian army.

"Bring that box." Napoleon III, somewhat tired, sat down and said.

The chief of the guard quickly took the chest that Napoleon III had requested, what they privately called the "Chinese Magic Box." They had noticed that whenever the Emperor was frustrated these days, he would look to the mysterious documents contained in this beautiful box to find a solution to the problem.

Napoleon III took the box and opened it, took out some hand-drawn maps inside, and looked at it.

Looking at these maps, which had been verified by the battlefield, Napoleon III couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

It would have been nice to follow his advice from the beginning......

Just as Napoleon III was taking regret medicine there, a map that had not attracted much attention to him suddenly came into view.

Unlike the maps that depict the operational situation on the land battlefield, this map illustrates some of Hayashi's suggestions for possible military action by the French Navy.

Napoleon III, remembering that he had asked the Admiralty to discuss this proposal, asked the chief of the guard: "Does the Admiralty have a war report?" ”

"Not yet." The chief guard replied.

"Send a telegram to the Admiralty right away, and I want to know if they have acted on my advice." Napoleon III ordered, "If they take action, I want to know the progress and the result." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty."

After the chief of the guard left, Napoleon III picked up the map and looked at it, on which the names of Prussian ports and warships were carefully marked.

"'Friedrich Karl', Port of Yard, 'Arminius', Elbe Estuary, 'Königs-Wilhelm', 'Herta', 'Elisa Peter', 'Crown Prince', ...... Port of Kiel"

At this time, Napoleon III did not know that the French fleet, which was carried by this arrow, had already embarked on a journey. They have only one goal: to erase these names from the map and physically.

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