"Free fire, fire!"

The front row knelt on one knee, and the back row stood straight in the Taiping Army platoon gun phalanx, aimed at the dense French mob and pulled the trigger, and the French mob attacking the main force of the Taiping Army front line was not faced with a few Hanyang-made rifles, but thousands of Hanyang-made!

The rain of bullets quickly brought down the French mob layer by layer, and it was a real massacre!

In less than half an hour, more than 20,000 French mobs were killed and wounded, and they couldn't even escape, because the Taiping army only opened fire when they got closer!

When the French mob tried to flee, they simply couldn't run past the bullets......

Of course, in the eyes of the French commander, the death of these French mobs is nothing, but it will deepen the hatred between the French civilians and the Taiping army!

This was exactly what the French government needed, and they had lost all their superiority in the face of the Taiping army, except for the population.

The elite main force of today's anti-Han alliance coalition is less than one percent of the entire regular army, and the quality of the so-called regular army is getting lower and lower......

One can imagine what a unit of this quality will be like when it encounters the Taiping Army, which has experienced a hundred battles and still has the advantage of weapons and morale, will be beaten!

The anti-Han alliance coalition in this era does not have the terrible spiritual bombs of later generations, let alone the magical morale booster of the 'political commissar', even if they are brainwashed by racial and nationalist ideas and buried by revenge, they will collapse as always under the huge casualties!

As a result, the anti-Han alliance almost fell into an infinite cycle of collapse, reorganization, collapse and reorganization of the army, with more and more people killed, but the casualties caused to the Taiping army did not increase proportionately!

The headquarters of the Taiping Army was terminated, and it did not affect the combat subordinates of the front-line soldiers as the French imagined, the division commander died and the regiment commander took over the command, and the morale of the Taiping soldiers was even more constant and permanent, which is the real terrible place of the Taiping Army!

As long as there are Taiping soldiers who are not killed, they will continue to fight!

Naturally, although the French mob was successful in the early stage, killing thousands of Taiping officers and soldiers, including many high-ranking officers, the flanking attack on the main force of the Taiping army on the front ended in a joking massacre situation, except for the corpses of tens of thousands of old and young women and children, not even the side of the main force of the Taiping army was touched......

As a result, the street fighting in Marseille continued, and the Taiping army, in order to retaliate and accelerate the intensity of the street fighting, ignited a city fire in the city of Marseille, and most of the buildings in this era were wooden, and the burning of the city was a terrible means of warfare.

Because after capturing the city by burning it, the occupying side will not get anything......

Of course, the Taipings didn't care about that.

As long as they can reduce their losses, they are willing to do anything!

Street fighting and fire in the city of Marseille continued for nearly a week, and the fire burned all the way to the port of Marseille under the continuous arson of the Taipings, where the defenders of Marseille were either killed or burned, and few French soldiers were captured......

Even so, those captured French soldiers were all tortured to death by angry Taiping soldiers to avenge their division commander!

Although the Battle of Marseille ended perfectly, it had extremely bad consequences, after the Taiping army occupied the southern French region, the massacre of the French mob was publicized by the anti-Han alliance countries as the Taiping army massacre of unarmed innocent civilians, and the Taiping army stood on the moral high ground to criticize the Taiping army's evil deeds.

However, the effect of this propaganda is not significant, because almost all white Europeans know that the murderous nature of the Han Chinese is ......

As a result of the propaganda of the Kingdom of France, a large number of French middle class and wealthy merchants increased their flight efforts, and the prices of tickets for merchant ships and transport ships to the island of Great Britain rose one after another, and the French civilians who could not afford to flee by boat poured into the Kingdom of Spain in large numbers, flocking to the ports of the Kingdom of Spain and fleeing to the colonies on cheaper ships.

The number of refugees in the Kingdom of France even exceeded the number of massacres committed by the Taipings......

In the immediate aftermath of the Battle of Marseille, the Taiping army realized the severity of the French will to resist, and even without the French mob, the guerrillas in the occupied area were repeatedly banned.

The Taiping Army did not carry out meaningless remedial measures, and simply carried out a three-light sweep of the towns and towns and even the big cities in France based on the previous experience of massacring Europe, and all the French were killed except for the young women who were used as vents for the Taiping soldiers, leaving only a few French who had contributed to the Taiping Army to serve the Taiping Army.

Without population support, the towns and villages were burned to the ground, and the French guerrillas had no choice but to live in the mountains and forests, or simply flee to other places and join the refugees who left France.

While intensifying the massacre of the French in the occupied areas, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom issued a stern warning to the French monarchy that if they continued to resist, the Taiping army would slaughter all of France!

It was not that Hong Tiancheng was ruthless, but that the resistance of France caused a lot of losses to the Taiping army, and the Taiping army, which had an overall advantage at the strategic and tactical level, killed and wounded thousands of troops just by occupying the southern region of the Kingdom of France!

Most of the Taiping officers and soldiers of the division were lost in this battle!

Of course, the Kingdom of France's response was naturally as tough as usual.

As a direct result of such a resolute posture between the two sides, the French began to flee in the north and southwest directions, and the French did not dare to continue to surrender to the Taiping army, nor did they dare to continue to resist the invasion of the Taiping army, so they had to flee.

The only use of the recalcitrant resistance of the Kingdom of France was to delay a great deal of time and allow the French in the rear to successfully flee from France......

The French royal family Louis XIV was naturally aware of the serious loss of population in the country, but he did not stop this situation, because he himself knew that France was powerless to resist the invasion of the Taiping army, and it was better to let more French people flee abroad and leave the seeds for the French nation to survive and multiply.

The stubborn spirit of resistance shown by the French impressed the other countries of the anti-Han alliance, and also plunged the Taiping army into the sea of real people's war!

Although there were many fugitives, there were also many French people who stayed behind to resist resolutely, and many French women and elderly people took up rudimentary weapons and joined the militia of the French army and set foot on the battlefield. ()

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