The development of advanced rifles turned the once courageous and death-defying attitude into a joke, and the soldiers and armed civilians who followed King Louis XIV of France, although they had put life and death on the line, but in the end they did not get the expected results except for leaving behind unwilling corpses.

There is no tactics, no system, just with a bloody blood, under the direct fire of the 5-shot Hanyang-made rifle, it is just a meat target.

The men who followed King Louis XIV of France, did not even dodge, and fell one after another under the row of guns in such a senseless manner, and soon covered the charging streets.

After killing the hundreds of people, the Taiping soldiers used bayonets to mend the corpses on the ground, but they finally realized the difference when they discovered the ornate royal robes.

"Report sir, we seem to have killed an important member of the French royal family."

When the company commander received the report, he hurried to the corpse of King Louis XIV of France and instructed the soldiers around him: "Put his body alone and protect it, and screen it after the battle." ”

"Yes, sir!"

The capture of Versailles continued, and the resistance of the French people did not become stubborn because of the death of King Louis XIV of France in the neighborhood, and those who should flee still poured out of Versailles, and those who should have desperately remained in their houses, crying, screaming, and rifle fire were incessant, turning Versailles into a hell on earth dominated by blood and gunsmoke.

This is war!

The clatter of military boots resounded in the royal palace of Turin, and since Hong Tiancheng had made it his headquarters, the rulers of Savoy had moved to other residences.

However, the family of the Grand Duke of Savoy has no complaints about this, because they have already experienced the benefits of following the strong!

The Grand Duke of Savoy never dreamed that he would become the 'master' of the Italian peninsula in his lifetime!

Even if this master is in quotation marks, and there is a Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in charge of it, it is enough for the Archduke of Savoy to be glorious for a lifetime.

Due to the shortage of troops in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the occupation of the entire Italian peninsula was carried out by the soldiers of Savoy!

It can be said that the Grand Duke of Savoy at this time was already the de facto ruler of the Italian peninsula.

This is the role model set by Hong Tiancheng, Savoy, as the first country in the anti-Han alliance to take refuge in itself without reservation, won this honor, what will other anti-Han alliance countries think?

As for being a vassal of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Grand Duke of Savoy didn't feel unpleasant, anyway, the Duchy of Savoy was also looking at the face of the Lanxi Kingdom before, but now it's just a change of master.

Dangdang~

"Come in."

Xue Taishen pushed open the door of the room and looked at Hong Tiancheng, who was frowning and putting down the military report in his hand.

"Your Majesty, our battle plan has reached the set goal, Louis XIV and his capital palace have now been trampled under the feet of the Taiping soldiers, Paris and Versailles have been cleaned and can be occupied."

"This is the best news I've heard these days, I've been so caught up in the casualty reports that women are almost losing interest, how did the French civil resistance react after the fall of Paris and Versailles?

The last elite troops of France are gone, do they still have to resist?

Intend to follow their allegiance to Louis XIV to heaven and cry to God about our aggression? Hehe. ”

Hong Tiancheng said with a good smile.

"As His Majesty had predicted, the capital and the palace fell, King Louis XIV was killed, and the French people were greatly less motivated to resist, but there was not a single resistance group or guerrilla force that actually surrendered, and not even the group of nobles and capitalists and bankers who were greedy for life and afraid of death came to us, and they only hastened the pace of flight.

With the departure of these leading and powerful Frenchmen, there is naturally no reason for the French civilians below to continue to resist, but many French people do not have the ability and financial resources to leave their homeland, and they still retain their armed forces, but they are scattered into a sand, which is much easier to deal with than before. ”

"Who rules the rest of France now?"

"A relative of King Louis XIV of France, it seems that he is a prince, and those fiefdom lords with real power, in name, the power of the Kingdom of France has not fallen, although King Louis XIV of France is dead, his prestige is very high, and he still has many followers, and the group of nobles who are attached to the Kingdom of France do not want to give up their fiefs, although the master fled from France itself, but the fiefs have left a significant family to continue to manage and loot wealth.

Of course, the vast majority of them had lost hope in the war, and only barely resisted by the will of the people, and although the militia seemed to be numerous, the vast majority did not even have muskets, let alone the newly installed Minnie rifles of the French army.

According to intelligence, the last Mini rifles were shipped to the Kingdom of England to become the capital of the fleeing French aristocracy, and some were distributed to regular soldiers guarding the relatives of King Louis XIV of France to the Kingdom of France's overseas colonies.

After the death of King Louis XIV of France, the upper class of French society had begun to divide up the inheritance of the Kingdom of France, and the lower class of French civilians may still have the idea of defending their families and continuing the war, but not many of the upper class of French nobles thought that the war would be won.

It's just that they don't want to give up the rights in their hands, and they are afraid that they will be liquidated by us after the war, and no one is willing to surrender to the Taiping army. ”

"Well, I don't intend to accept their surrender either, first maintain our existing occupation zone, purge those guerrillas, use the previous methods, don't care about the casualties of the French, since the hatred has been settled, the only way to make the French have to submit through physical extermination."

"Your Majesty, aren't we going to sweep France next?"

"Don't worry, the Kingdom of Spain and the Kingdom of Portugal have sent secret envoys for peace talks a few days ago, France has fallen, and the remaining Kingdom of Spain and Portugal are obviously unwilling to become the next Kingdom of France, so our war on the European continent is almost over."

"But what if the kingdoms of Spain and Portugal are unwilling to accept our harsh terms of armistice?"

"Then keep fighting, a new army will arrive soon!"

Hong Tiancheng said confidently.

"Do we need to continue our offensive in the occupied areas of western and southwestern France?"

"Of course we have to attack, but I don't need to attack without counting casualties like before, just eat slowly, I don't want to lose too many troops."