Montauban was even more excessive this time, instigating Empress Eugenie herself to persuade Napoleon III to attack the Prussians. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Montauban seems to have eaten Napoleon III's fear of guilt, and that's why he threw such a killing.

This time, Napoleon III finally couldn't take it anymore.

It would have been if the offensive had brought military and political benefits to the French Empire, and the facts of several battles had shown that a blind French counteroffensive would have no point other than to multiply the number of casualties.

And now, in the name of going to the front to comfort the officers and soldiers and visiting her son Louis, Empress Eugenie ran to him and began to urge him to attack!

While Napoleon III was annoyed with himself, General Wimpfen, who had assisted him in military affairs, walked in with a telegram in his hand.

Seeing the excitement and excitement written on General Wimpfen's face, Napoleon III knew that something might have arrived.

"Any good news? Checkmate? Napoleon III asked.

"Yes! Your Majesty! Good news! General Wimpfen presented the telegram to the Emperor, and his voice trembled with excitement, "Our navy has wiped out the entire naval power of the Prussians!" The port of Kiel has been captured! The Army has landed! Heading in the direction of Berlin! ”

"Great!" Napoleon III immediately took the telegram and read it carefully.

Seeing that the genius plan he had drawn up had once again succeeded (under the "guidance" of Hayashi, of course), Napoleon III saw tears oozing from the corners of his eyes.

From the beginning of the war to the present, France has finally had a time worthy of her glorious victory!

"It's wonderful, Your Majesty." Empress Eugenie's voice sounded at the door, "The Prussians will be alarmed when they know this news, and it is a good opportunity for us to attack." ”

Hearing Empress Eugenie's words, the smile on the emperor's face froze.

"No, no, dear, we're not ready to attack yet." Napoleon III endured the unhappiness in his heart, shook his head, and said with a smile.

"Your Majesty, do you know? When I was in Paris, how the subjects longed for His Majesty to drive the invaders out of France......" Before Eugénie could finish speaking, Napoleon III interrupted her impatiently, "I know! I know! But blind attack will not work! How many times have I told you! ”

Eugenie's eyes widened, and she looked at the Emperor in surprise, as if she couldn't believe her eyes.

It was the first time in her mind that the emperor had spoken to her in such a blunt and rude manner.

"You always listen to the babble of that guy in Montauban! Don't you know he's taking advantage of you? This time the Emperor finally broke out, "If I had listened to him, then the French Empire would have ceased to exist now!" Do you know? See what you've gotten out of the attacks? Nothing but blood and tears! So, stop talking to me about all that stupid thing about going on the offensive blindly, okay? I've had enough! ”

It was the first time that Empress Eugenie had been reprimanded in such a way in front of outsiders, and for a moment tears welled up in her eyes, and she turned her head and walked out of the emperor's office without saying a word, carrying her skirt.

Seeing that the emperor was still angry, General Wen Pufen's heart was also worried.

On August 30, when the Prussian army stormed Sedan, Napoleon III became too ill to command, and Marshal McMahon commanded the French army, but Marshal McMahon was wounded in the thigh by a Prussian shell in the ensuing battle, and handed over the command of the Charon Corps to General Dukrot, the commander of the 1st Army. Ducrote, in response to the changing situation on the battlefield, ordered the French army to make a tentative offensive to the west. But no one expected that General Wimpfen, who had just arrived in Chalond from Paris two days earlier, had just taken over the post of commander of the 5th Army of the Chalon's Legion. On his departure from Paris, Wimpfen carried in his pocket a letter from the Paris War Office authorizing him to take over command of the Charon Army if necessary (this letter was sent by Montauban at the command of the War Office). Two days ago, he hadn't mentioned this to anyone, but now he suddenly showed Shang Fang's sword and announced that he was the commander of the legion. He was stationed in Oran, Algeria, North Africa, last week, and had no idea about the entire battlefield situation, so he revoked the order for the French army to attack westward, and instead ordered the whole army to resist on the spot and launch an attack on the Prussian army, which resulted in another huge casualty of the French army. The battle cost the French more than 6,000 lives, and Napoleon III was furious when he learned of it, and re-ordered the re-command to be re-ordered.

Today, the emperor is so angry with the empress, and to some extent it is also related to that battle.

Wimpfen was pondering how to say goodbye, but Napoleon III suddenly said: "Go and tell the people in the secretariat to come, General, I have to issue two orders." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." Wen Pufen immediately agreed.

Napoleon III then issued two orders, one of which was that Napoleon III ordered the removal of the Prime Minister, the Count of Montauban, from all his posts and his replacement by Thiers. Another order was to promote Colonel Lone to Rear Admiral who commanded the French navy in the capture of Kiel.

While Napoleon III was troubled by his restless Empress, the lonely man in the port of Kiel was troubled by the atrocities committed by his disobedient War Minions in Prussia.

A letter from a junior officer of the French Army to his wife is a good illustration of the situation of the French army entering Prussia:

"Praise Jesus Christ knowing His Blessed Mother! Dearest Jeanne, how are you? What a blessing it is for you to lie peacefully in the hot bed at home! But it's hard for me to fight here. We besieged a Prussian battery, and fought a great battle, and I killed the Prussians so badly that all their infantry and artillery fled in panic, and even the general himself was amazed at me, saying that I had won the battle, and awarded me a cross. Now the officers and non-commissioned officers respect me and don't slap me anymore. Then we went on and fought a second battle, I don't know what the name of the city was, and I killed a number of Prussian soldiers, and I captured the fourth flag, and I defeated a colonel of a tall heavy cavalry and took him prisoner. Our commander told me to write an application to stay when our team moved back home. Because in war, in addition to not being able to sleep well. It's very pleasant, you have to eat as much as you want, and in this country, there is alcohol everywhere. Because it's a very rich country. We also set fire to a village, not sparing even children and women, and I also participated in this operation. The church was burned to the ground. Because they were all Catholics, many were scorched. Now we are about to attack their king, and then the war should be over. However, you have to take care of our home and Frank, and if he is disobedient, let him taste my power when I get home, and I will let him know what kind of person I am, and God bless you. Your Charles Dobeck. ”

The officer's wife, who scolded him in two replies to him, wrote this:

"Dearest Charles, my husband, who married me at the altar, wants God to punish you! You're a bastard, heretic! You went with those scoundrels to kill the people who professed Catholics, don't you know that those scoundrels are Lutherans? And you, a Christian, are helping them! You just want to fight. You lazy bastard, you don't do anything now, you fight with people, eat and drink, and kill innocents. You also set fire to churches. I wish they would burn you with fire when you go to Hell. You are still proud, you can do it yourself, even the elderly and children. Remember, you goat, the words of the holy book to us Frenchmen. From the beginning of the world to the end of the world, the Most High God will never forgive those who are stupid and lazy. You have to take good control of yourself! You Turkish! Lest I break your head in the future, I will send you five dollars, and although my life is very difficult, and I do not know what will be done in the future, and the situation of my family is very bad. I hug you, dearest Charles. Your Jeanne. ”

The advice given in his wife's letter did not seem to have caught the officer's attention: "Every time they fought, they fled like frightened rabbits. "My team captured many captives, all teenagers, some of them children," he wrote to his wife. At night, the captives were kept in a room ready to be shot the next day. A few soldiers stood guard outside the gate, but what I didn't expect was that the soldiers went in in the middle of the night and stripped all the captives and humiliated them horribly, and I knew they were influenced by the hobbies of the Algerian Zuaf soldiers in our troops. You may not know, my dear, that Mrs. Zouah does not like women, who are seen by them as just tools to have children, and it is young Arab boys of Caucasian race who make them 'lovers'. There have been incidents in the past that have come to the point of mutiny because the commander refused to let them carry their 'lover' boy with them. This time they actually extended their claws to the white troops, and we all thought that the Algerian infantry had always been nothing more than a burden to us. When they arrived on the European mainland, they even took the European soldiers with them. They use this vice to corrupt us. In the camp of our troops, more than once we saw Prussian boys who had been looted, and they were all stripped of their clothes and subjected to terrible torture every day, and our commanders could not do anything about it......"

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