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Once again, the bombardment rang out from Paris, and the shells whistling by were more dense than ever, and the Prussian army seemed to be about to vent all its anger on the land of Paris until the last of the resistance was burned to the ground.

The headquarters of the Palace of Brène was in a state of the utmost urgency, and all the reservists were thrown into this defensive battle, and they constantly sent soldiers to the front-line trenches, and the fortresses along the banks of the Seine were lined up, and the Prussian army tried to surprise Paris by attacking from three directions.

Mobilized from the Second and Third Armies, Bismarck was able to carry out his plan of encirclement, which he aimed to take France by surprise by attacking from three places at once.

"The southeastern defense line of Paris has increased by more than a thousand people, and they are ordered to give back information from the front line once every half an hour, and they must hold the line no matter what, and cannot retreat. After the soldiers are exhausted, the command will send troops up again, in short, the people are in the defense line, and the people are gone, and the defense line must also be there! Half a step back, it will be difficult for us to recapture it again! ”

Even the stubborn ones of the General Staff, having seen the power of the trenches, changed their insistence on Napoleon.

Listening to the distant sound of cannons, Louflo fell silent. Now the Prussian offensive is all-round, it is difficult for them to break through the encirclement of the other side with the current military strength, all hope falls on Army Group South, and even Bismarck does not know that France has gathered hundreds of thousands of troops at this time and rushed to Paris.

Leflow held the map in both hands, and drew dense lines of routes, all of which were the routes of the Prussian army's attack on the French. He bit his lip and said, "Wait, just wait a few more days, and when Army Group South arrives, the situation in Paris will be reversed, and we will not let them break through the defenses." ”

The whole of Paris was in an atmosphere of fear and uncertainty. The streets were full of soldiers hurrying to the front, and they had even seen the purgatory-like wilderness, full of burning ashes.

The pedestrians on the road looked frightened and walked briskly towards their homes, when the Provisional Government imposed the strictest martial law, and the streets were full of patrols of the French National Gendarmerie, responsible for the security of Paris during wartime.

The setting sun paints the sky blood-red.

Napoleon stood on the roof of the church, and from here he could clearly see in the distance, the Prussian artillery fire was vented on the wilderness of the countryside, and the bricks, earth, and stones were thrown high into the sky, and then fell and smashed to the ground. In this way, Bismarck proclaimed the wrath of the Prussian army, fearing the power of the trenches, and now the Prussian army would sweep the battle line with artillery fire before attacking, and did not dare to start the offensive until the French army was too pressed to raise its head.

Napoleon liked the feeling of "you see I'm not happy and I can't push Paris", and the artillery fire that fell outside the trenches did little damage to the French army, and even if the Krupp steel guns plowed the ground into the defensive line, the French army suffered few losses.

Napoleon was waiting, waiting for Prussia to attack, and at the same time for reinforcements to arrive.

Bismarck could never have imagined that he would be able to organize an army of nearly 150,000 in a short period of time and throw it into Paris to relieve the siege.

The wind in the dome of the church was so strong that it blew up the corners of his clothes, and Napoleon looked coldly into the distance, and said word by word, "France has only victory and death, and there is no retreat and surrender." ”

The battle was more terrible than Prussia could have imagined, and they finally knew why the defense of Paris was fought so hard, because the Prussian army was completely helpless against that line of defense. As long as the artillery bombardment did not fall into the trenches, the blow to the French army was almost zero. The crooked trenches weakened the artillery fire, and even after the Prussian artillery stopped, the red figure that loomed in the smoke did not decrease by one.

In order to consolidate this line of defense, the French used almost all their machine guns to fight against the uncovered Prussian army, and the first attacking soldiers of the Twelfth Army fell in batches, no less tragic than the siege of the fortress of Metz.

"How is that possible!"

Albert, who had never seen Napoleon's line, changed his arrogant expression to shock.

"How did they manage to stop the advance of the Prussian army in that trench?"

"With the same number of people, the attacking side suffers, and the French army can easily break up our troops through a line of trenches, barbed wire, and machine guns, which is why Prime Minister Bismarck sent troops from the Second and Third Armies to Paris, which is a meat grinder-style war. The way to win is not by stratagem, but by piling heads up. ”

"That's the brutality of war, it's about the number of people on both sides."

"After this battle, the situation of the war will be turned upside down. With trenches, barbed wire, and machine guns, the defending side will be in an absolute advantageous position, while the attacking side will often have to pay heavy casualties and still be victorious. With the gap between the two sides not far away, firepower is everything. What's more, they also have bastions, fortress cannons, and the other side has built this place into a huge fortress. Unless we can attack from the sky, the advance of the ground forces will be a nightmare, even with artillery fire. ”

The scene of flesh and blood flying is far less visually shocking than being harvested by a machine gun.

He taught this junior a vivid lesson, in some cases the stratagem and the trick are ineffective, and the two gamblers who bet on the red eye, the competition is the foundation and luck.

Even so, Bidenfeldt hopes to find the weakest breakthrough in the impregnable Parisian defence, even at the most painful cost. The outcome, which he had already considered before implementing this plan, was to use the number of people to overthrow the entire defense line from the outside to the inside.

"Isn't there any other way?"

Behind him, Albert asked, "Tactics like surprise attacks?" ”

"Nope."

Bidianfeldt said categorically, "This is the price we have to pay for taking Paris, we are taking such a big risk to organize this battle of Paris, not to send the lives of hundreds of thousands of Prussian troops to death." ”

He turned his head, not the slightest mercy for his plan to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of people.

"It's about winning a Pyrrhus-style victory."