Chapter 105: He's a Demon
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To be merciful to one's enemies is to be cruel to oneself.
This was his most merciful response to Bismarck, and not to be given the title of the Red Demon of the Caucasus as he had done in the Caucasus in his previous life, when all the religious rebels in Chechnya were sent to the gas chambers once and for all.
There has never been justice in revolution or war, especially in the face of the law of the jungle. Robespierre's reign of terror brutally guillotined thousands of nobles, deprived the royalists of their roots in an armed coup, suppressed Bourbon's power in Paris, and ensured that the French Republic was in an advantageous position in the struggle for nearly half a century.
Napoleon wanted to completely destroy all the idea of peace, either Prussia was expelled from Paris by the French army, or they killed all the resistance until an empire became a German province.
From the beginning of Napoleon's First Empire, feuds and blood hatreds have been imprinted in the hearts of both peoples and lingered.
After the arrival of reinforcements from the Second Army, the Prussian top brass began to prepare for a storm, and under the cover of artillery fire, the Prussian infantry advanced in the direction of the trenches of the Paris Line, where both sides invested large numbers of troops and the entire front changed hands repeatedly.
The chief of the Twelfth Army, Albert of the Saxophone Kingdom, was responsible for launching an attack on the line of Paris under the cover of artillery fire. The troops deployed from Metz Fortress will be the forerunner and will fire the first shot of the final battle.
Surrounded by charred forests, witnessing the brutality of the last battle, the artillery fire almost baptized in this place, and there were uneven craters along the way, showing the dead silence after the artillery fire.
There were no living creatures on the ground other than the advancing troops.
The Twelfth Army was known for its bravery in the encirclement and annihilation of Bazin's legions, and they were not afraid even in the face of the legendary French defenders of the Imperial Shield.
Albert, the commander of the Twelfth Army, looked around and even arrogantly said, "This will be Napoleon's 'Waterloo', and he will lose in Paris!" ”
The soldiers who had really seen the French defense line were in a heavy mood and their feet were like lead.
The crows on the battlefield surrounded the sky and hissed violently, interrupted by the returning sentry. The other party ran to Albert with a frightened look on his face and said, "Report to the general, ahead...... The corpses of the Prussian army appeared in front ......"
"Corpses?"
Albert frowned dissatisfiedly, it was normal for corpses to appear in the battle area, and the large number of corpses that had fallen in the Metz Fortress did not necessarily cause them to be so panicked.
"What the hell happened to the corpse?"
The soldier's eyes were full of fear, and he said tremblingly, "All the corpses have been stuck in the stake!" ”
Albert had a sense of foreboding in his heart, and hurriedly urged his troops to advance quickly and speed up the march.
When Albert felt the front line, he was speechless by the sight before him, and everywhere were the corpses of Prussian soldiers stuck in stakes, a considerable part of which had begun to decompose, and their expressions before they died were painful and hideous, and their heads were looking up at the sky.
The crow's sharp beak pecks at their eyeballs, then flapps its wings and flies into the sky.
The battlefield was silent, only the seeping cries of crows foraging for food, even the soldiers who had experienced the siege of the Metz fortress couldn't help but cover their mouths after seeing this scene, it was too cruel and terrible.
Albert was a little stunned, the last time he saw such a scene was when British colonial rule was expanding and enacting a system of bounty on the scalps of Native Americans in the name of Her Majesty the Queen of England. And six years ago, with the encouragement of then-US President Abraham Lincoln, the Americans led to a climax of the massacre of Native Americans under his Homestead Act, which turned Indian villages into dead cities strewn with corpses overnight.
He had seen the executioner who was reciting the Gettysburg Address preaching freedom, equality, and civility while brutally slaughtering the indigenous people. It also allowed Albert to continue his preaching of human rights and freedoms with a cold attitude until Lincoln's death in the opera house in 1865.
And now, the same demon sits at the royal palace in Paris.
The Europeans, who profess themselves civilized, righteous and free, would never have thought that a barbaric massacre would appear on their battlefield, and Crown Prince Albert, who had never seen such a brutal treatment of the Prussian army, held the reins tightly, and said in a trembling voice, "Go back and report the situation here to Prime Minister Bismarck immediately, and let the artillery bombard their line fiercely." Until a gap is broken! Fast! ”
After saying that, he turned his head and glanced at the battlefield lined with wooden stakes, the howl of the crow was terrifying, and he said in fear, "I am not afraid of any enemy, except demons. ”
Soon Bismarck's base camp received reports from Albert's front, in which the herald claimed that the French army had brutally abused the Prussian soldiers and had dried them on wooden stakes in retaliation for Bismarck's threat of slaughtering all the people of Paris. In this way, Bismarck was in a dilemma.
"The 'Napoleon' in Paris is also a ruthless character, Prussia threatened to slaughter the city, and he used this means to retaliate."
The other side has already seen his way, if the Prussian army takes the same means of retaliation, then the French army will fight to the death, even if the First Army takes Paris, it will only take a dead city at a huge cost, because he must first pass through the corpses of hundreds of thousands of French soldiers before he can plant the Prussian Black Eagle flag on the dome of the Tuileries Palace.
The high cost made Bismarck jealous of this big gamble.
He did not report the situation to Kaiser Wilhelm, but secretly withheld the herald's report.
It seems that the other side is ready for a decisive battle, and has cut off the idea of surrendering the French soldiers. Very well, this impostor Napoleon was more courageous and ruthless than his nephew III. It was also surrounded by more than 100,000 Prussian troops, one chose to surrender, and the other chose to fight to the death, leaving Prussia with only a scorched earth. ”
The top brass of the two armies, who were equally iron-blooded, began to engage in the final battle.
Bismarck was ready to first crush the will of Napoleon's army with artillery fire as revenge for the killing of Prussian prisoners.
"Mobilize all the artillery forces and bombard the French lines fiercely, and this time I will really break their will to resist."
"Also, concentrate all your forces to take the French trenches, at any cost!"
Bismarck shook his head and sighed, he had a hunch that if Prussia lost the battle for Paris, the whole of Europe would most likely face a monster armed to the teeth.
"The savior of France?"
"I'm afraid it's a demon that destroys the order of the European continent."