Chapter Ninety-Five: He Retakes France!
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The Prussian base camp in Friel was busy with the battle on the front line all night, many soldiers had not closed their eyes for several days, red blood covered their eyes, the shooting and shelling of the fortress of Paris resounded through the night, and the long tug-of-war even numbed people with blood and death, and the endless battle continued.
Prussia carried out round after round of attacks, France kept changing troops to rest the defense, the artillery blasted defensive line was quickly filled, and the towns around Paris changed hands repeatedly under the sound of gunfire.
For Napoleon, this was the French version of Stalingrad.
After a week of intense torture, Bismarck finally collapsed unsupportively, wanted to rest for a few hours, and quickly fell asleep with the sound of night, artillery fire and snoring.
However, before he could sleep for long, he was woken up from his sleep by his adjutant, and in a daze, he just wanted to reprimand the other party, but he heard a sentence that lifted his spirits.
"The Fifth Cavalry Division has captured the high-ranking personnel of the Provisional Government of France, and now it has just reached the base camp, whether Prime Minister Bismarck wants to interrogate these people now, one of the MPs claimed to have top-secret information in his hands."
Bismarck, a high-ranking official of the Provisional Government, was shocked by the greatest good news that Prussia had received since the siege of Paris, and he certainly had to use this hard-won source of information to extract the secrets of Paris from his mouth to the greatest extent possible.
"Of course I want to see him, where is he now? I'll come over at once. β
"He's in the hall right now, and he's being received by Commander Bidianfeldt."
The adjutant used the word reception, which was enough to show that the other party's status was noble. Hearing this, Bismarck did not dare to slack off, quickly got dressed, changed his previous tired look, and hurriedly walked in the direction of the conference room. It was as if he was not going to face a traitor from France, but an honored guest.
As he was leaving, Bismarck suddenly thought of something, and said to his adjutant, "By the way, bring me Louis Bonaparte as well, and I want him to listen to the information from the officials who surrendered to him." β
Bismarck was in a happy mood, even the top of the Provisional Government chose to defect, it seems that the Third Reich was not as impregnable as imagined, and if a breakthrough could be found from them, the siege of Paris would be twice as effective with half the effort.
When he came to the hall, he saw an old man on crutches sitting on his seat with a bloodless face, motionless. Commander Bidenfeldt stood to the side helpless, and when he saw the prime minister appear, he hurriedly walked up and whispered, "Lord Chancellor, this old man is not willing to say a word, he says that he only cooperates with the supreme leader of Prussia, and no one else is qualified to dig a word out of his mouth." β
Seeing the appearance of Prime Minister Bismarck, Guerrome's face finally became pleasant, he stood up with his crutches, slowly walked in front of Bismarck, and said calmly, "Prime Minister Bismarck? β
Bismarck nodded lightly and said indifferently, "Exactly, I heard that you want to cooperate with us?" β
"I have secret information about the top of Paris, and you didn't work with the royalists before, and those idiots failed to leak their secrets, resulting in the loss of everything?"
The expression of the prime minister standing opposite him changed slightly, and Bidian FΓΌrth also glanced at his leader in embarrassment, and pushed it aside in a witty way.
"I'm the head of the Banque de France, didn't you help the royalists to restore and ask for 5 billion francs? Now I can make another deal with you, the Prussian army will storm Paris and overthrow the current Provisional Government, and we can make this deal for 1.3 billion francs. β
Guerrome knew one of Bismarck's important objectives in waging the war, and hoped that France would not be able to pay so that Germany could suppress France's revenge attempts with military occupation within a generation.
However, he ignored the name of "usury imperialism" in France, and private capital was abundant. At that time, in order to pay off the reparations as soon as possible, the French government issued three national bonds totaling 5 billion francs to the people, and millions of French people rushed to subscribe for them, with a total subscription of 45 billion francs, and everything was paid off in just three years, and Bismarck's wishful thinking failed.
After the overthrow of the Provisional Government, the Prussian army also took over Paris, and the whole country was under the control of the Prussian army, and the French defense force was also disintegrated.
"We need to take a long-term view of this question, but I would like to know who is the current military leader in Paris?"
Bismarck threw out the topic that interested him the most, and he wanted to know who was behind the scenes hidden in Paris.
However, the answer that the iron-blooded prime minister got was exactly the same as what he thought he had fooled before.
Guerome seemed to be reminded of the fear in his heart, and his originally calm eyes began to become flustered, he took a few deep breaths, tried to calm himself, and said one by one, "It's Napoleon, the real Napoleon Bonaparte." β
Louis Bonaparte was being escorted from the lounge to the chamber, and he did not understand why Bismarck had invited himself to the chamber in the middle of the night, but he had a hunch that what would happen next would be extraordinary.
The Prussian base camp did not let its guard down because of the late night, it was full of patrolling soldiers, and artillery fire occasionally lit up the distant sky, breaking the calm of the night.
However, when Louis walked into the tent, he was stunned by what he saw. GuΓ©rome, the former member of parliament of the Second Reich and the financial foundation of the Reich, was sitting diagonally opposite Bismarck, talking with a serious expression.
He could not believe that even the MPs had defected to the camp of Prussia.
"Councillor Guerome?"
Louis Bonaparte was very surprised to see the familiar face, and completely ignored Bismarck, who was beside him, and stepped forward and asked, "Why are you here?" What is happening in Paris now? β
However, Guerrome, who had just spoken to Bismarck, saw Louis and said with a sneer, "Paris? Today's Paris is no longer the Paris of the Second Empire! Like you, I am an exiled persecutor! β
Louis Bonaparte was slightly stunned and asked hesitantly, "What?" What's going on? β
"Don't you understand?"
Guerome's face turned pale, and he roared at the former emperor, "Louis, your uncle is back!" β
"He retook France!"