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Both the French Rhine Army and the Prussian Second Army were tired of this endless meat grinder, and both sides kept depleting troops at the Metz fortress to fill this bottomless pit of war with their lives. They all pinned their hopes on the victory of the other side in the battle of Paris.

Not only the fortress of Metz, but the Prussian army also stopped the attack on St. Quentin, and transferred nearly half of the military strength of the Third Army to Paris to participate in the last battle, counting the military strength of the previous First Army, Paris at this time has gathered nearly 200,000 Prussian troops, as for the entire Paris to carry out a Blizzard Hill style siege, the Prussian army hopes to use the tactics of the sea of people and artillery superiority to completely crush the hope of resistance in Paris.

Bismarck even felt that he had provoked the girder of the Eighth War against France, and the opponent was Napoleon, who was haunted in Europe.

However, his opponent was not bad at all, the formed Southern Army was already worthy of Prussia's reinforcements to support Paris, and what was even more terrifying was that there were follow-up troops being formed, and after completion, there would be 600,000 new sources of troops to replenish the battlefield on the front line, and France had even overwhelmed itself in numbers.

Bismarck was still in the dark, completely unaware that in Luwaka a large imperial army was advancing. Judging from the formation alone, the French army at this time had swept away the decline of the Second Empire.

From the moment the Prussian army stopped the offensive, Napoleon knew that an even greater storm was coming, so he needed Army Group South to rush to Paris to relieve the siege, reorganize the army, and consolidate the defensive line.

At this time, Bismarck also sent a letter of surrender from Paris, in which he warned Napoleon for the last time that if he did not surrender, the first thing the Prussian army would do after entering Paris was to execute all those who resisted, and anyone who dared to stop the Prussian advance would be hanged on a fluke rack.

"This is the last warning from Prussia, the Prussian army has given you the opportunity to negotiate peace, this is the last time, if you are not willing to open the door and surrender, the next time you will talk to me as a vanquished, 'Your Excellency Napoleon'."

The scarlet font is like a blood-colored flower blooming on white paper.

The ruthlessness and toughness of the iron-blooded prime minister are vividly expressed on this piece of paper. After Trochu got this letter of surrender, he handed it over to Napoleon as soon as possible.

However, the other party was surprisingly calm.

"It's really too much, to threaten to slaughter the city, a group of Germanic barbarians."

Trochu clenched his fists in anger, if it weren't for France's disadvantage, he would definitely execute all the high-ranking generals of the opposing army on the spot.

"This surrender shows that the other side is not in a position to win, they have lost patience and are starting to become impatient."

Napoleon propped his hands on the table and said in a cold voice, "Bismarck has been blinded by revenge, because he does not want to see the situation of failure, so he uses all tactics, including psychological warfare, to force us to surrender without a fight, and perhaps he has other concerns in mind." ”

"It is impossible to get France to surrender, unless all the people of Paris are dead, and as long as there is one soldier left, we will shoot bullets at the Prussian army."

He tossed the letter aside.

The other party's little abacus was already in his calculations, Prussia and France were originally feuds, and the first thing Bismarck had to do after the defeat was to crown Wilhelm I as king at Versailles, a symbol of glory and sanctity for the French.

"By the way, the sending out of Bismarck's letter of surrender is enough to arouse the sympathy of the people of Paris, just as the Emesian telegram tomented the anti-Prussian sentiment of the French. The people of Paris could no longer flee and would die if they did not resist. ”

Napoleon stood up and walked to the velvet curtain, the weather was getting colder and colder, this year's winter in France came very early, and it began to snow after more than twenty days, I don't know if Bismarck, who was in a hurry to prepare, had considered the weather factor, or would repeat the mistakes of his time in Russia.

He said coldly, "Since Bismarck wants to give us such a gift, then Paris will not be polite either, do you know how the Grand Duke Vlad III of Romania treated the Ottoman group of Muslin captives?"

Trochu was stunned for a moment, nodded, and said hesitantly, "I know." ”

During the Battle of Wallachia, he pierced 20,000 Ottoman captives and stuck them all on the ground with wooden stakes, leaving Wallachia dead silent, save for the smell of blood and the screams of crows. The Ottomans were so frightened that even Mehmed II the Conqueror said, "I am not afraid of any enemy except demons."

Trochu was horrified by Napoleon's cruelty and whispered, "In this way, there will be no possibility of reconciliation between France and Prussia." ”

"Do you still have the idea of reconciliation with Germany?"

Napoleon sneered disdainfully, and his tone was full of sarcasm and ridicule.

"If it weren't for the English, who would have been eager to dismember all of France and send an army to occupy our land forever. This was originally a war to the death, and now they are not going to occupy, but to slaughter. If the enemy's butcher's knife hangs around our necks, why should the people of France negotiate peace with them? ”

Revolt.

This was Napoleon's first lesson to the lambs, who had to be more cruel than the Slavic grey cattle in order to come back from defeat in this battle.

Napoleon continued, "Since Bismarck dared to blackmail us, he also wanted to show the people of Paris that this was the French government's counterattack to Prussian arrogance. If he were to take revenge on our captives, the French army would henceforth prefer to die to the last man than surrender to Prussia. ”

To surrender is death, and not to surrender is death, and in that case, it is better to die in the name of tragedy and die with the French invaders.

Trochu knew that Paris had made up its mind to break the ship, Prussia would not retreat, and France would not surrender.

Since Bismarck threatened to massacre Paris after victory, he left the Prussian army without return.

"The order is to go down and put all the more than two hundred Prussian prisoners arrested on a stake, and if the Prussians take the same revenge on our captives, then they kill one, and we will pierce ten. If Bismarck wanted to attack, he first went around the corpses of his own people! ”

"Remember, don't let a prisoner go!"