The recommendation ticket did not rise, and the mood was low.

The artillery fire was dazzling, blocking the view. The sky was filled with the sound of cannonballs whizzing by. The artillery fire tore the sky apart, and then it fell one after another, as pitch black as when a rainstorm came, and the shells shot a blue-gray light in all directions. From one end to the other, from the city to the countryside. They all shook, sank, melted, and the infinite expanse of space shook with the explosion.

The soldiers carrying the ammunition hurriedly walked through the narrow corridors of the fortress with their boxes in their hands, and the counterattack on the Prussians had begun, and each fortress gun had been adjusted to the maximum to the maximum of its limit. Thinking of bombing and striking at the forward positions of Prussia. Although the range of the bronze field guns was not as good as that of the Prussian artillery, the fortress guns were enough to crush the Prussian offensive to the maximum.

A loud roar was heard tearing at people's eardrums, and the decisive battle of the Franco-Prussian War had finally begun, and if Napoleon had kept Bismarck's advance, the situation in Paris would have changed dramatically.

The Prussian advantage will also cease to exist.

The corridor connecting the fortresses and the fortresses is where busy soldiers carry shells to the fortress guns. A rare figure appeared on the fortress of Paris, and wherever he passed, the soldiers unconsciously stopped their steps and watched his figure pass by them.

The face was resolute and calm, as if the crisis at the front did not affect his emotions. The soldier's restless heart calmed down a little, and he watched his back leave.

And every time he walked out, there would be a whispered discussion among the soldiers.

"Who's that guy just walked by?"

There is always someone who goes out of his way to answer the recruit's questions.

"It's General Napoleon."

At this time, he seemed to have become the last spiritual pillar of the French army, and when the defeat of Sedan and the power of the capitulation faction were in the dust, Napoleon stood up alone and told everyone that France would never surrender.

The artillery fire fell on the open space outside the fortress, and the recruits were so frightened by the sudden artillery fire that they hid in the corner, covering their mouths with pale faces.

Napoleon took the ammunition box in his hand and said in a deep voice, "Stand up, young man, now is not the time to be afraid. ”

The young soldier looked up and saw a resolute and calm face, the long narrow eyelids illuminated by artillery fire, revealing a calm gaze.

It seems that he will never be afraid of the scene of artillery fire.

"No matter how strong Prussia is, we will hold out until the last moment, and we will never let France fall!"

His voice drowned out the roar of artillery fire and reached the minds of everyone in the vicinity, who Napoleon wanted to let know that the French top brass had no intention of surrendering and that they would continue to fight the Prussian army.

Napoleon braved the rain of bullets and bullets to patrol the fortress, constantly boosting morale, and under his encouragement, the soldiers' will to resist was gradually ignited.

The French fortress artillery broke out into an even more fierce resistance than before, as if they wanted to return the hatred of Prussia to the other side.

Destruction, commotion, magnificent burning scenes, flickering kerosene lamps illuminating the tents, the roar of artillery fire, and the clamor of gunfire, new flames sprang up on the banks of the Seine, spreading in all directions. More tongues of fire erupted from the dark riverside in the distance.

Bismarck frowned, even though he announced that he would bombard Paris with artillery and then try to seize nearby towns, but it would not do much. The French army resisted more than he could have imagined. The Prussian army fired a single shell, almost more than ten of them counterattacked from the direction of the fortress of Paris, and was still preparing to shoot at the offensive line of the Prussian army, and Napoleon accurately predicted the Prussian offensive line through the feedback of the intelligence reconnaissance team.

Originally, Bismarck thought that he could use this trick to suppress the French army, but he did not expect that the French artillery was not only suppressed to death, but launched an even more heart-wrenching massacre of the Prussian army.

An impassable river of fire encircled Paris, and even Bismarck could do nothing. Geeben proposed that the Prussian army be allowed to rest in place, and that Crown Prince Frederick quickly transfer the forces of the Second Army to Paris.

"Now our task has changed, from occupying France to conquering their political center and forcing the French to surrender, so we need more artillery and infantry to break up the stubborn resistance of the French, otherwise we will not be able to take Paris. Abandoning the offensive in the Saint-Quentin direction, the north-west of France now makes no sense to us. Paris is the center and key to this war. ”

"It is no longer possible to fully occupy the northern lands of France and force the French army to surrender. Then the most important thing is for us to break through Paris, which is the political center. ”

Commander Geben tried to convince Bismarck to abandon the idea of a full-scale occupation of northern France. Because as Prussia occupied more and more territory of France, the more they went down, the more scattered forces they had, and what made them feel even more troubled was that the French did not give up resistance because of the fall, and the soldiers who were not captured became partisans, constantly harassing Prussia's supply lines, and the local French residents did not welcome these invaders in the slightest, and a considerable part of Prussia's energy fell into a war of law and order.

Prussia's initial strategy was to focus on occupation, but when they took over the major cities of France, they realized that this was the beginning of a nightmare.

Unlike the revolutionaries before him, Napoleon made full use of the strength of the French to fight at home. and their hatred of the Prussian invasion, which encouraged the citizens to revolt against the invaders.

Bidenfeldt echoed Geben's argument, telling Prussia, "We should now shift our strategic objectives to an offensive one." Rather, it was to capture Paris and negotiate terms with the Provisional Government in order to coerce them into signing a treaty. Although the situation is still in our favor, the army is slowly starting to be restrained. ”

"Prime Minister Bismarck......

Geben wanted to persuade him further, but Bismarck suddenly interrupted him.

"You tell me to calm down first, and I'll give you an answer."

Bismarck had lost all the ambition he had approached Paris the other day, and he even felt that the Prussian army was sinking deeper into the quagmire of war, and that it had never been able to achieve its political goals as it struggled to deal with the enemy from all sides.

"Who is Napoleon?"

Bismarck muttered to himself, and no one could give an answer.

This name has become his heart disease, for this reason, Bismarck also specially invited the special prisoner of war back from the rear base camp, not to let him witness the coronation of Kaiser Wilhelm in Versailles, but to hope to get favorable information through his mouth.

Bismarck wanted to know who Paris's opponent was.

Richelieu? Napoleon?

A vague figure became a lingering nightmare in his heart.

At this time, a carriage escorted by the Prussian army was approaching the Prussian army base camp in Paris, and it was not so much heavily protected as it was strictly guarded.

A troop of more than 100 people, just to escort the special status prisoners of war on the car.

The handcuffed man in the car waited anxiously for the judgment of fate, and he had the same doubts in his heart, and the closer he got to Paris, the stronger his curiosity became.

Why did Bismarck send him back?