Subsequently, in the valley of Yeron, there was a great battle in which 8,000 cavalry of the Franco-Prussian and Franco-Prussian armies charged head-on. On the third day, the Prussian 3rd Army launched another onslaught against the French. The three-day battle was the fateful Battle of Fairville, and both sides were now facing their bases: the French were to flee for their lives to the west, while the Prussian were to push the French back to Metz Fortress in the east, and it was a desperate battle for the French army. The Prussian army lost 23,000 men and the French army lost 42,000 men, and the French army finally succeeded in breaking through at the cost of huge casualties.

On August 17, the Prussian army made persistent efforts to launch an all-out attack on the French army, and the whole army of both sides entered a fierce battle, with the Prussian army losing 40,000 people, the French army losing 23,000 people, and another 7,000 people captured. As a result, Bazin had to abandon his outlying positions and hold on to the fortress of Chalon. After this battle, Bazin's French Rhine Army was able to hold the fortress of Chalon, and the Prussian offensive was stopped. During the day's battle, Prussian kings Wilhelm, Bismarck, and Moltke were all spectators. Bismarck received news that his two sons had been killed, and he personally rode to the front to inquire about it, only to learn that it was a false alarm, and that his sons were only slightly wounded. The Prussian 1st Army was once disorganized due to heavy losses in the attack on Chalon, and Moltke personally led the Pomeranian Army to attack and easily stabilized the situation.

After the French army withdrew to Chalon, together with the original reserve corps here, they formed the French Charon Army. On 16 August, Napoleon III gathered his forces at Chalon. The total strength of the French Charlon's corps was twice as large as the Rhine corps at Metz, with a total of 260,000 men, but it was a mixed bag, and the command system was unclear, and there were many policies: the commander-in-chief of the French army was Marshal Bazin, and after days of fighting, McMahon had lost his heart, and he even advocated retreating to Paris, but Napoleon III did not have a master as before, but ordered to hold on. At this time, Empress Eugenie, who was in Paris, wrote to inform the emperor that if he fled back to Paris, a revolution would immediately break out in Paris, and that the "revolutionary masses" in France would finally have a say in grand strategy. On 22 August, the Emperor finally decided to remain in the army and command the battle.

The situation on the battlefield was already extremely unfavorable for France, but at this time there was a leak of the Prussian General Staff - the entire battle plan of the Prussian army appeared openly in the British and French newspapers, and the Prussian Chief of the General Staff, Moltke, insisted that the General Staff could not leak the secrets, but could not explain the fact that the battle plan appeared in the newspapers, so he resigned, and the Prussian Chancellor Bismarck and the Minister of War Long insisted on a thorough investigation of the matter, so everyone in the General Staff was in danger.

Due to the dysfunction of the General Staff, the Prussian army that entered the territory of France began to fall into confusion, and the battle against the French army began to lose one after another.

After the French retreated to the fortress of Chalon, they began to defend on all fronts. Because Charon was a strategic location that France had operated for many years, the fortress here was not only extremely strong, but also had plenty of food, grass and ammunition, and was easy to hold. Fearing that the French reinforcements were approaching Charlon, the Prussian army launched a strong attack on Charlon, trying to capture Charon before the French reinforcements arrived, but suffered heavy casualties under the blow of the French army's Lifei rifles.

In a strategically fortified place like Chalon, the Prussian army's original invincible artillery firepower was greatly reduced, while the French army's Lifei platoon gun, which was originally easily destroyed on the plain, exerted great power at this time, and in the face of the dense firepower of the platoon gun, the Prussian army that launched the charge suffered heavy casualties. Due to the huge casualties and the difficulty of replenishing the troops, the offensive of the Prussian army had to slow down, and the French army was in a state of confrontation on the front line of Chalon.

Seeing this, Lin Yiqing understood what was going on.

He knew that this leak of the Prussian General Staff, which changed the course and outcome of the Franco-Prussian War, must have something to do with Lin Yizhe!

The Prussian offensive was frustrated one after another, and suffered heavy losses under the blows of the Lifei platoon guns, while the French counterattack was also repulsed by the Prussian army, and the losses were great. It was when King Wilhelm summoned Bismarck that for the first time he discussed with him the possibility of "ending the war by means of peace talks". Bismarck, however, did not act as stubbornly as he had shown in his previous war against Austria, but calmly listened to the king's ideas and gave his own advice. Around the same time, the French Emperor Napoleon III had the same idea as King William.

Just when the two sides were at a standoff on land, the actions of the French Navy broke the situation.

In order to seize the status of a great power and restore the glory of the First Empire, the Second French Empire has been actively seeking to build a powerful navy to make up for the shortcomings of the land force, in order to compete with the British navy, the supremacy of the sea. In order to realize this ambition, the French Navy has built new warships, and today the French Navy is the second largest naval force in the world after the Royal Navy of the British Empire. Just after the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War, the Minister of the Navy sent a telegram ordering the French Navy to be ready for battle. Unlike the slow and unresponsive French Army, the French Navy showed great efficiency, and the French Navy completed its mobilization less than a month after the start of the war.

It was just disappointing that the French Navy, for quite some time after the outbreak of the war, was only busy escorting the convoy transporting troops from Algeria in North Africa to the mainland, since the French High Command did not develop a strategic plan for the war against Prussia at all. It was not until a telegram decree of Napoleon III that the role of nanny in the French Navy was changed.

On the orders of Napoleon III, the French navy was to attack several Prussian ports designated by the emperor and destroy the Prussian naval ships moored there. The Admiralty immediately began to act upon receiving the telegram and, at the request of the Emperor, appointed Gu Ba, who was only a lieutenant colonel at the time, as commander of the rapid detachment (in proportion to this position, Gu Ba was promoted to colonel).

Many people were surprised as to why the Emperor had made an unusual decision to promote the Emperor and appoint him to command the fleet to carry out the attack on the Prussian navy, but no one knew the Emperor's reasons for this appointment.

But Lin Yiqing knew that the appointment of Guba must have been facilitated by Lin Yizhe in some way, and Guba himself should also know this.

Otherwise, Lin Yizhe would not have said that he and Guba are friends of life and death!

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