The first update, the book was randomly exempted, only such a little VIP chapter, so heartache, I feel that I have offended the starting point.

The international community believes that Bismarck's use of infallibility to directly attack the pope and Catholicism is not conducive to the unification of the new empire and will create divisions.

But Bismarck underestimated the power of the Church, and he probably thought he was more infallible and infallible than the Pope. So he can't tolerate having two infallible people in Europe.

Napoleon's comment on him was, "Bismarck was a clever man, but this time he was really doing something stupid." ”

As it turned out, the surveillance of teachers and the persecution of priests by the authorities turned the hearts of Catholics in Germany towards Rome. In the general election, these people voted unanimously for the Centre Party and Windhorst. At this time, Bismarck did not want to turn back, and he intensified his order to Falck to arrest the archbishops of Cologne and Posen. In addition to all the bishops of the two dioceses, the priests of 1,300 dioceses were abolished.

After temporarily suppressing the noise of domestic disparity, Germany began a frenzied counterattack against France.

The legion responsible for the approach to Alsace was led by Prince Frederick himself, although it only existed as a coercive army, but because of the Franco-Prussian War, there was a unanimous belief in France that Bismarck would definitely try to provoke war again, and the original public opinion was one-sided, only Napoleon confidently believed that Bismarck would not make such a stupid move.

The cost of provoking a crisis because of a cultural struggle was too high, and his declaration of war on the papacy was tantamount to offending other Catholic countries, including France.

According to the original historical calculation, this Franco-German war crisis will soon be blocked by two empires, one is the empire on which the sun never sets, and the other is the Russian empire of Eastern Europe, which has an undying heart.

The Alsace region was filled with the smell of war, and even everyone else felt the ambition of the Germans on the other side. The Germanic people of Alsace were calling on everyone to be armed against the German invasion.

The people of Alsace identify more with their French identity than with their German identity.

Paris's hesitant attitude made the locals feel very unhappy. They believed that weak Paris had retreated, and that Alsace was left to defend itself.

When the German legions approached the border, the local Catholic Church took the lead in organizing and arming a group of people on the border line to voluntarily counterattack the approaching German army, these Catholics called themselves the Crusaders, and crusaded against the German heretics led by Bismarck.

Armed Catholics in full gear, together with the local police, began to take charge of the defense of the pass area, and the shadow of the armed militia could be seen everywhere, and they looked at the garrison on the opposite side with fierce looks. And shook the Winchester shotgun in his hand.

However, while the Catholic Church was busy arming, another force moved quickly. On the surface, they are no different from the French police force, and the people of Alsace are not curious about the multiplication of police, but when the mothballed warehouses are opened, they are no longer police officers.

They began to be armed with artillery and machine guns, and quickly replaced the Crusader militia as the mainstay of resistance to the imminent German invasion.

They were the Alsatian Legions, specially created by Napoleon, specifically against every move of the Germans.

Bismarck, who wanted to threaten France with war, had to pass them first.

The sudden change made the whole Alsace region boil, they thought that Paris had not moved for a long time and had officially given up on this group of people, but they did not expect that the sudden turn of events would surprise everyone.

The German legions broke through from the Rhine-Palatinate and Baden-Württemberg and approached the border, which, according to Bismarck's previous vision, was merely a façade to force the French to make concessions in the cultural struggle. And not really intended for a full-scale war.

His account to Prince Frederick was that even if skirmishes did break out in the border area, it was the French who were the first to provoke the dispute, and the German army was forced to defend itself.

However, when Prince Frederick arrived at the German border, he found that all this was not what he had envisioned. According to intelligence feedback from the reconnaissance force, France has always stationed secret troops here, and usually assumed the identity of Alsatian police, until the crisis broke out, revealing their true identity.

"What did you say?"

"Alsace has almost a legion of police troops deployed?"

"What? The police in the Alsace region deployed artillery and machine guns? ”

Prince Frederick was shocked by the information returned, and in addition to being shocked, he also realized that he had been deceived, and Germany was not facing the unprepared France, but the French army, which had been planning for a long time, except that they were disguised as the police stationed in the Alsace Free Zone, and they were constantly vigilant that the Germans would take military action against them.

Prince Frederick looked at the information and said thoughtfully, "No wonder these people handed over the Alsace region so readily when the Paris contract was signed, it turned out that they had already had a backhand!" I knew these bastards couldn't be trusted, and they should have been wiped out during the Franco-Prussian War! Immediately, report to Berlin and tell them that things have changed on the Alsace border! ”

Prince Frederick had wanted the heralds to return to Germany, but after thinking about it, he dismissed the idea.

Originally, Bismarck just wanted to give the irascible Prince Frederick a chance to make amends for his mistake of disobeying orders during the confrontation at the Metz fortress. But he did not expect that Prince Frederick, who had always been known for his adventurous opportunism, would only want to make up for his mistakes through war.

"Wait, don't go yet. Bring this news down! ”

He was worried that he would not have a chance to provoke a conflict on the border, and now that the French had already deployed their troops, they would have an excuse to attack openly.

"The French have violated the terms of the Paris Treaty, and we can attack. It is not that we deliberately provoke the dispute, but that Paris is deliberately deceiving Berlin. ”

As a soldier, Prince Frederick did not consider Bismarck's overall plan at all, and if the son of the previous prime minister Radowitz was only the first assist of his pig teammates, then Prince Frederick's misjudgment of France's breach of the treaty was a fatal blow to Bismarck's political diplomacy.

He swore that "the German army could have slashed first and then provoked a war to liberate the Germanic Alsace!" ”

"For Germany!"