The second one, there is one more

The sound of Krupp's artillery fire woke Paris from its sleep, while the Tuileries and Brinnes were brightly lit and busy. The light of the crystal lamps in the corridor reflected every pale and colorless face, holding one telegram after another from the front line, and walked towards the command war room.

Paris had begun to cool down in September, and Napoleon stood in front of a map with his overcoat marked with the camps of the Prussian army and the direction of attack, the sound of artillery fire at night became clearer than during the day, and the ground shook slightly.

Napoleon's brow was furrowed, and he was well aware that the Prussian army was approaching in the direction of the center of Paris. Although there was no cooperation of the Second Army, according to the historical offensive line, the First Army would choose the two armies under its command to encircle Paris from the left and right, encircle and bombard Paris in the form of catching turtles in urns, and adopt the method of encirclement to force the Provisional Government to compromise with them.

Bismarck, however, miscalculated, and that was that the man who commanded the defense of Paris was not a republican waste, but a war giant Napoleon. Prussia's experience in the era of platoon and its exploration of modern warfare was still an immature idea in Napoleon's eyes.

If it weren't for the fact that France did not have enough artillery and troops, the balance of victory in this war would not necessarily be tilted in the direction of Prussia.

'They had their first exploratory attack this afternoon. After the end of the artillery bombardment, Prussia made a tentative reconnaissance of all the towns around us. We want to find the weak points in our fortifications and cut into the city of Paris like butter. ”

"But the barbed wire, the trenches, and the machine guns helped the defenders quite a bit. With the help of the fortress artillery, the Prussian cavalry divisions were unable to provide effective support on the left and right, and we managed to stop their first attack. ”

Lovlo glanced at Napoleon and Trochu and went on cautiously, "I think that after the failure of the next Prussian attack we can take advantage of the victory and drive them out of the far suburbs of Paris." ”

However, Napoleon rejected the proposal proposed by the French General Staff.

"Continue to defend, without more than 50 percent of the chance, it is not allowed to rashly launch a counterattack against the Prussian army, and now the Prussian army has an absolute advantage, and attacking regardless of the occasion will only send our army to death. Order the army to hold on! Wait until the Lukawa Legion arrives to make further plans. ”

Napoleon corrected the erroneous view of Levlow's adventurous opportunism.

The leaders and generals of the French Army were obsessively advocating the offensive supremacy proposed by Foix, the core of which was that the offensive was the supreme principle of warfare and the only way to achieve victory, even if it was on the verge of defeat. The key to this principle is "will" and "thinking".

It was also for this reason that Plan 17 during World War I brought disaster to the French army, which was inferior to Germany in strength.

At that time, Petain dared to rebel against this trend alone. The thrust of Petain's idea was to launch a full-scale offensive only if the enemy's defenses had already been decisively weakened. In the later period, it all relied on the efforts of Petain, Xia Fei and others to turn the tide.

Just like France now, even if the front line holds the Prussian attack, it does not mean that they have the ability to fight back.

I can fight back, this is one of people's illusions, especially as a commander, I should be more cautious.

Seeing that Napoleon insisted on a conservative and prudent attitude, Le Flow could not continue to insist, so he nodded and said, "I will inform the army to strengthen the fortifications." ”

"Paris must hold out until the arrival of the Loire Army, which is a protracted tug-of-war."

Napoleon's gaze became gloomy, and he only hoped to get the help of the Loire Army as soon as possible.

If Army Group South had been fast enough, they might not have lost the battle.

The sky is nothing but fire and smoke, and beyond the trenches there is fear and death.

The harvest at the front continues.

It was carried out from early evening to evening.

The Prussian army met with strong resistance, which was the first strong resistance of the Prussian army after the Battle of Sedan, and they thought that the French army had lost the will to fight, but the strong resistance that broke out at this time stunned many Prussian soldiers.

The young soldier held the barrel of the gun tightly as if he were holding a life-saving straw in his hand. The roar of artillery continued, and many people leaped out of his side, spilling blood on the battlefield with a fierce burst of gunfire and screams.

He wiped his forehead from the cold sweat that ran down in fear, and his hands kept shaking. He tried to stabilize his mind, but extreme fear grabbed him, as if it was about to squeeze all the courage out of him!

Instead of using line infantry tactics, the Prussian army resorted to skirmishers, trying to break through barbed wire and trenches, as well as improvised pillboxes made of masonry and sandbags, with hand-cranked Gatling spraying tongues of fire at the soldiers.

Just as he sat down against the wall in despair, another charge began. The smoke of gunpowder accompanied by the smell of blood irritated his nostrils, and the soldiers around him rushed towards the French line one after another, and the soldiers couldn't bear it anymore, so they stood up and pressed the bullet and pulled the bolt of the gun with a "click", while cursing their cowardice, and rushed forward with the troops.

He slumped to his feet, staggered to his feet, raised his gun, and staggered a few steps.

The surrounding comrades-in-arms raised their guns to shoot, and he was in a daze for a long time, and suddenly as if he remembered something, he frantically began to shoot at the enemy. However, it didn't take long for them to begin to suffer from the demonic harvest, and Gatling's fire cover was used to the extreme, and without the cover of the grenadiers, the Prussian army's charge turned into a pointless death.

Although the Prussian army also had hand-cranked machine guns, they could never help the soldiers in the trenches, while the French machine guns could easily break up the Prussian army's charge.

Napoleon turned the Franco-Prussian War into a defensive battle of the First World War, in which the attackers had to pay a terrible price to occupy positions.

If Sedang is the heaven of victory, this is the devil's hell!

The second tentative attack was broken up, and the Prussian army left behind countless corpses, and when they finally rushed to the trenches, they saw French soldiers already loaded with bayonets.

They did not cower or retreat, but simply held bayonets and calmly waited for the arrival of the Prussian soldiers.

In the smoke of gunpowder, the attacking Prussians' eyes widened in fear.

They don't see cowardly armies.

Occasionally, artillery fire illuminates the darkness, revealing a face like a beast.

And neat slogans, which did not hesitate to stab the bayonets of the Prussian servicemen.

Behind them is Paris, and there is no way back!

For France!

Stick to it!