Chapter 43: "The Gods"
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Berdohan did not let all the French civilians of Saint-Conrey accompany him to his death, but asked some soldiers to escort the old, weak, sick and disabled women and children to evacuate, and the remaining part reported to the French front command the situation of the battle. Trapped on this "island".
Nearly four o'clock in the morning, the sound of an explosion would wake up the sleeping soldiers.
Berdoan opened his eyes abruptly and rushed out of the room, just as a fire was rising in the stable, and the ferocious flames ignited the straw, and the fire began to spread.
The soldiers quickly calmed down after a short panic, because of the night attack, the Krupp artillery fire did not all pour into the town, but there was no complete fortification support, and they still couldn't raise their heads in the catharsis of the artillery fire.
Looking at the town lit by firelight, the commissar of Berdoon had already realized one thing, their victory during the day was only a fluke brought about by advanced tactics, and the superiority of the Chasebo rifle was not enough to offset the difference in strength.
In 1868, the Minister of Defense published a report in the official French mouthpiece, Moniteur, declaring that 20,000 soldiers armed with this destructive weapon could fire 280,000 rounds per minute, and if the hit rate was at the level of the training ground, it could defeat 56,000 enemies. With this magical weapon, a few minutes can decide the winner and 20 salvos can end a campaign. Under the new rifle strike, the enemy will be panicked and will either flee or be eliminated. The cannons are all looking outdated......
And it's not just the official propaganda that is encouraging, even the French political and military elites do believe that the Chasebo rifle has changed the military balance between France and France. Just two months ago, in an interview with British reporters, French Foreign Minister Gramont confidently declared, "Now the situation is beyond my control, everything will be decided by Chasebo." ”
It's a pity that it was not the enemy's cannon that was outdated, but the French's own Napoleonic gun of the M1857 type. In the Franco-Prussian War, the Prussian Krupp steel cannons smashed the French cannons and rifles to pieces, and even if the Chasebo rifle had an overwhelming advantage in battle, it could not make up for the inferiority of the bronze cannon in the war.
All leaned behind the bunkers, they held their breath, and occasionally someone raised their heads, and in the moonlight they could see the faintly advancing Prussian soldiers. They waited for the advancing Prussian infantry to come into range of bullets. They have forgotten what fear is, only a firm faith, a heroic spirit that will never retreat, and a determination to die with this land.
The Prussian army did not learn the lesson of the day, and still used the formation of line infantry to approach the stubbornly resisting town.
In the eyes of the commander of the First Bavarian Army, it would be the greatest shame to let this group of French soldiers escape.
The soldiers who were lying in ambush behind the brick wall suddenly shouted and stood up, and in the brief panic of the attacking Prussian troops, pulled the trigger on the attacking enemy. The hand-cranked Gatling placed on the high ground uninterrupted jets of fire mercilessly harvested the lives of those soldiers in the gun platoon.
There were no idle people in the whole town, and even the French youth, who did not want to flee, took up the firearms of hunting and joined the war, and for them, as long as they could hold out until the moment of dawn, reinforcements would come to relieve the siege, and they could go home. It is precisely because of this thought that these people will fight desperately.
It's just that these people don't know that the so-called dawn rescue is just a white lie made up by the political commissar in order to stabilize the morale of the army, and even if it reaches the headquarters smoothly, it will take a day before reinforcements rush over to support.
It was not a mistake on the part of the French top brass, but an under-formed army formed in a hurry, not even equipped with artillery that should have been.
"Be careful."
The Krupp artillery did not stop with the Prussian attack, but instead vented its artillery fire on the town, and the Bavarian army suffered too much humiliation, and this time it had to be repaid in full.
The young soldier covered the bloody face of his comrade with his hat, and then raised his gun and continued to shoot, after being accustomed to seeing the corpses of his comrades and numbing to death, man will become a real killing machine, it is obvious that this group of young people who have just experienced the baptism of war are becoming a qualified soldier.
The near-suicidal Prussian offensive finally broke through, and after a loud bang that shook everyone, the first line of defense of the French army was finally torn open, and the attacking Prussian soldiers poured into the town like a tidal wave, trying to extinguish the last resistance of the French soldiers.
They dropped the Chasebo rifles, picked up the Spencer rifles, and slaughtered the Prussian army, who were unfamiliar with the terrain, at close range.
The man who had run out of bullets drew his bayonet and engaged in a white-knuckle fight.
In order to smash the opponent's skull, rifle butts, bayonets, and even masonry were used. The sharp bayonet cut the stomach of the Prussian army, and the blood was left on the ground. The enemy's bullet entered the young soldier's chest and slowly fell, his bayonet clutched tightly before he died, his five fingers digging deep into the dirt.
The outnumbered French defenders were on the verge of annihilation before they could even evacuate, and when the Prussian army plunged a bayonet into the stomach of the last French soldier, the soldier held on tightly, pulled the grenade that hung on his body, and closed his eyes.
"Long live France!"
After a mighty shout, he threw himself into the crowd of Prussian troops.
Then a dazzling fire stung the soldier's eyes.
At that moment, a grenade from nowhere was thrown in front of the first attacking Prussian soldiers, and then exploded in an instant, sending the attacking soldiers of the first row to God.
In the flickering of the firelight, they saw the figure in front of them, their pupils suddenly contracted, and they subconsciously took a step back in panic.
An indelible monster in memory.
It is rumored that during the First French Empire, Napoleon had the oldest cavalry regiment, which was the proudest unit of the imperial monarch, and was known for his fierce fighting style. As the empire fell apart, the loyal Guards Grenadier Regiment following His Majesty the Emperor disappeared into the long history of France with the dissolution of the Hundred Days.
No one has mentioned it since.
After nearly sixty years of silence, the disappeared grenadiers returned to the land with glory, and the fear that the anti-French alliance had once felt returned to the Prussian army.
In the darkness, tall and strong figures appeared in various dark corners, and after the first line of defense was broken, they combined with hand-cranked Gatling guns to form the last fire cover of this infantry regiment.
The figure of this group of condescending giants could not help but make the attacking Prussian soldiers feel cowardly and frightened.
Their names.
It's called the gods.