"Victory will surely belong to the great President Benito Juárez!"

"The weak French are vulnerable!"

"Mexico may have become one of the world's top powers!"

"It's time to make those ridiculous debts waste paper!"

"General Inácio Zaragoza punched the French in the ass!"

"Mexico City that never falls, the real Constantinople!"

For five days, the French offensive was frustrated in front of barbed wire and trenches.

After the failure of the last great charge, the French wisely held back.

On the streets of Mexico City, dancing Mexicans celebrate with crowns.

In a series of resistance battles in Puebla, the Mexican government forces miraculously defeated the invincible French.

And it was an extremely good battle loss ratio and such a victory at a negligible cost.

President Juárez learned the news in the confessional of the church and excitedly praised the Lord and Mary in arias.

The outcome of this war was surprising, but not so surprising.

In fact, for the first time in history, the Mexican government army, led by General Inácio Zaragoza, defeated the French army for the first time, temporarily repelling the advance of the French army towards the capital.

However, Zaragoza was not satisfied with temporarily repulsing the French, and a week after the victory, they launched an attack on the French army in Oriszaba, preparing to drive the main French army back to the coastline in one fell swoop, only to fall into the trap of the French army, and the whole army was surrounded and finally surrendered.

What really surprised Zhu Fugui was that this victory was originally only a small victory, and the number of France's advance troops was not large, although the defeat was limited.

And now it has turned into a complete fiasco.

First, because the Mexicans, as mercenaries of the Lone Star Republic, fought and played football with the Ming Royal Army in the San Diego round for two years.

Although I don't know the essence, I have already learned the surface of the Ming Dynasty's tactics.

Later, Mexico, like the Confederate government, gradually became the supply base of raw materials and agricultural products for the Ming Dynasty, exchanging coffee and cocoa for many high-quality and inexpensive Ming industrial products.

Barbed wire is one of the most popular items.

If barbed wire trench warfare is also a trend of thought, Mexico is already green, and the whole of Europe is still yellow.

Napoleon III was now slumped in his makeshift palace with a bewildered expression.

In front of him was General François Archile Bazin, with a tear-stained face.

General Bazin was a mercenary and was known for his bravery and courage during his decades-long military career.

In fact, in the future, his greatest fame came from being the last French front-line general to raise his hands in the Franco-Prussian War.

Even if he does not have this most shining halo now, General Bazin is still one of the brightest generals in the French Empire.

But now, his face is full of tears, and he doesn't have the appearance of a soldier.

"Your Majesty, it's so miserable, Your Majesty!"

Bazin painfully depicts the battle scene, "Those vast nets of wire are like Satan's cages, in which our lads wail and struggle, waiting in vain for the Mexicans' bullets to harvest their lives." ”

"A change must be made, Your Majesty!"

Worthy of being a marshal in the future, Bazin did not say anything stupid about increasing the number of people and overwhelming the enemy, but suggested changing the traditional way of fighting, "Your Majesty, do you remember the letter from Count Castane?" ”

"Casane?"

Napoleon III rubbed his eyebrows, and a memory that had not been taken seriously came to mind.

It was an official letter he received on the eve of his decision to invade Mexico with an armed force, after he had briefed the various dignitaries and clarified the strategic division of labor.

This letter came from the Far East, written by Count Casane, who had lost the whole of Japan and had it not been for the Governor of Saigon, Count Casane, who had now rushed back to his territory to grow potatoes.

In his letter, the incompetent fellow suggested that the expeditionary force of the Reich should pay attention to the training of sappers, especially the use of barbed wire and trenches, and also to learn the ways of skirmishing of the Easterners.

Such a statement was criticized by Napoleon III as a stupid coward at the time.

Count Netta was not the only French officer who had been evacuated from Japan, and although he was the highest-ranking man, there were many French military advisers who had been evacuated from Fukushima along with the shogunate.

In their letters and memoirs, there is no mention of such things as barbed wire and trenches at all.

They generally mentioned, and were impressed, the Gatling guns and Han cavalry tanks mounted by the Ming army.

So during this time, the French military industry secretly developed a multi-barreled platoon gun that was comparable to the Gatling.

But now it seems that the Count of Castanet is the one who really knows how to fight!

I am afraid that the responsibility for the defeat of the Japanese war is not on Count Casane, but on the group of rubbish who dragged him back.

No wonder the Governor of Saigon said that Count Castanet was an ascetic man of great wisdom who had gained great prestige among the natives in a unique way, and was even worshipped as a god by the Indians.

He also recommended that the Imperial Government appoint the Count of Castane as his successor after his retirement.

Take a long sigh of relief.

Finally understood, everything understood, it turned out to be like this!

Napoleon III tapped the table with the joints of his fingers.

Fortunately, this time it was for Bazin to try the clouds and rain for the first time, if he personally led the troops, wouldn't he want to ruin his reputation and encounter his own Waterloo?

But God bless France.

Since the emperor has seen this shameless barbed wire warfare method in advance, then things will be easy to do.

Napoleon III, though far from his uncle in his talent for war, was a good hand at economics.

Otherwise, it would not have been in his hands, and France would have completely transformed from a predominantly agrarian semi-industrial country into a usurious imperialist country.

and renovated the squalid Paris, and even made France and the French people so rich that they could redeem themselves in the future.

Victory that cannot be won with war can be bought with money!

Napoleon III whispered to one of his henchmen: "No matter how much money you have, go and buy me the general Inácio Zaragoza, we need such a person for the sword of God......"

The silver bullet offensive is an old imperialist tradition.

This is especially effective against enemies who lack faith and organization.

In later generations, during the wars of the US military in Afghanistan and Iraq, it is no exaggeration to say that almost every officer in Afghanistan and Iraq received a fairly objective sum of dollars according to his official position.

The role of these dollars is in no way weaker than equivalent missiles, and even more powerful.

And the Mexican army is undoubtedly a force full of holes.