"Your Majesty the Emperor, the Pope was plundered by the Ming army." Intelligence Officer Jean. Renaud hurried over and reported to Napoleon, who was talking to Leclerc.

"The Pope has been captured?" Napoleon narrowed his eyes.

This news is too shocking!

Although the pope only has a small piece of land in Europe, the monarchs of European countries dare not underestimate the influence of the pope.

Although it is no longer the Middle Ages, the influence of the pope on the state power of Europe is limited.

But in the minds of the majority of Europeans, the Pope is still the embodiment of God in this world.

All Europeans are religious, the only difference is that the sects are different.

Da Ming actually dared to risk the world's condemnation and arrest the Pope and take him away, which is too bold.

Napoleon did not speak, and the people around him did not dare to speak.

Leclerc sat in his chair, not knowing what to say for a moment.

Originally, this time Napoleon called him back from the front to discuss with him how to deal with the magnetic tactics of the Ming army.

But now ......!

"When?" Michelle. Marshal Ney asked.

"Three days ago, the Holy See blocked the news, and it took a long time for us to get the news back."

"Damn it!" Marshal Soult scolded.

A group of French generals and officers, all in silence, smoked.

"It's been three days, and it's estimated that everyone will be able to get to Crete." Leclerc sighed.

"The Ming people caught the Pope at this time, which means that they no longer have any fear.

They are sure, even if they anger the whole of Europe. We can't do anything with them! Marshal Mantebello sighed helplessly.

"Why are you sighing like this, do you mean that we want to give up Europe to the Ming people.

In the future, will we all be slaves of the country and slaves of the Ming people?

Look at the Indians, look at the Egyptians, look at the Tunisians, what kind of life they are all living.

Men were mining in the mines, and women were reduced to prostitutes.

Their children spend their days on the ground grabbing food with chickens, and their elderly people are starving to death at home.

Are you willing to live like this?

Which of you wants to go mining, which of you is going to send your wife and daughter to a brothel? ”

Hot-tempered Michelle. Marshal Ney roared like a dragon.

No one spoke, everyone knew about Marshal Ney's temper.

That's a big deal, he's clamoring for a duel with you, so what's going on?

The scene fell silent again, Napoleon did not speak, and no one else dared to speak.

The current situation is very unfavorable for France.

On the battlefield, France has basically lost its offensive capability.

There was no way to do it, France wanted to attack, and it could only be done at night.

During the day, the offensive could only be carried out without artillery fire.

In the face of reinforced concrete fortifications, it is unthinkable to do without artillery cover.

No matter how many people there are, it will only increase the number of casualties.

Night attack, although there was no harassment from the Ming Air Force.

But ......, the Ming army won't fight you.

The French army advanced desperately, but they couldn't catch up with the wheels of Daming's car.

The French army attacked in great strides, and the Ming army retreated in great strides.

Relying on cars, tractors, and tanks, the Ming army could retreat fifty kilometers overnight.

The French army was tired and tired in one night, and they were able to march fifty kilometers.

It can be regarded as seeing the Ming army, and before the cannon is unloaded from the carriage, it is dawn!

Under the bright sun, the damn Ming plane is here again.

As a result, the Ming artillery and planes bombed indiscriminately. No matter how elite the troops are, they will be reduced to ashes in the artillery fire.

It can be said that without the support of new tactics, the French army has lost its offensive capability.

But it seems that the Ming army had no intention of continuing the attack, they only resumed their retreating positions during the day and retreated at night.

Even if the French army did not counterattack at night, the Ming army would have retreated on time.

The French army once thought of a way, and that was to install large mines on the roads.

Or other explosives, which were used to blow up Ming army vehicles.

At the beginning, there were some successes.

Soon, however, the Ming army got a tank that specialized in clearing mines.

This tank has a huge metal shovel in front of it, which drives in close to the ground.

As long as there are mines, they will be detonated by this shovel.

When encountering a minefield, Da Ming will also use a rocket to shoot a rubber tube filled with explosives.

When the rubber tube falls to the ground, it will cause a continuous explosion.

At one time, it is possible to open a safe passage of tens of meters in a dense minefield.

The French army sadly found that in the face of the Ming army, which was reacting faster and faster, even mines were useless.

The passivity on the battlefield filled the French army with a sense of defeat.

In addition, in the air, Ming fighters constantly bombed and dropped bombs and strafed.

In the face of the Ming fighters flying in formation, it was difficult for the French anti-aircraft artillery on the ground to make a big difference.

A small number of anti-aircraft guns did not work, and the concentration of a large number of anti-aircraft guns could only provoke more Ming aircraft.

Moreover, there seems to be a growing trend of Ming military aircraft.

Now the Ming planes no longer bomb when they see valuable targets, but bomb them when they see them.

Even if there are only two communications soldiers on the ground galloping on horseback, they will attract strafing from the planes.

There were even planes that flew to the rear of the French army.

The narrow-gauge railroad that had been painstakingly built would be blown up as long as it was discovered by the Ming army.

There were several relatively exposed sections of the road, and the Ming army came to bomb them during the day.

After the bombing, the French army would rush to repair it every evening.

After repairing, the supplies were rushed overnight.

After dawn, the Ming army will come and continue the bombing.

Instead, several ambushes were organized!

However, the tactics of the Ming army's planes became more and more shrewd, and they were more than a dozen planes as soon as they were dispatched.

Often, only one or two planes dropped bombs or strafed them, and the rest of the planes circled high altitude.

That is, even in an ambush, only one or two planes can be killed.

The rest of the planes will frantically attack the ground.

And soon, planes from other parts of the Ming army will come to retaliate.

No amount of anti-aircraft artillery could withstand the bombing of Ming planes.

If you are within forty kilometers of the battle line, you will also be covered by rocket artillery.

The French army found that the improvement of the tactics of the Ming air force was related to a large aircraft.

This kind of aircraft is much larger than the average Ming army fighter, and it does not participate in the attack, but hovers in the sky all the time, patrolling the ground like an eagle.

The slightest hint of wind and grass on the ground can't escape their eyes.

Fortunately, there do not seem to be many large aircraft in the Ming army.

However, according to the practice of the Ming army, as long as one weapon is easy to use, this kind of weapon will become more and more numerous.

Until the end, there are too many to count.

Napoleon walked out of the hall, and the military council was over.

The marshals returned to their villas, and the long-term life at the front had exhausted them.

Those beautiful Ukrainian maids can soothe their tense nerves and relieve their stress.

Napoleon soon summoned Leclerc, and after a series of battles, he felt more and more intense.

The generals who used to follow him are old, and their thinking has become out of touch with modern warfare.

Even their thinking does not correspond to the requirements of modern warfare.

Napoleon preferred generals like Leclerc because they were young enough, but also driven and self-motivated enough.

Unlike those old guys, the last progress is almost worn out.

In the small living room of the villa, Napoleon sat on the sofa and smoked a cigarette.

Leclerc walked in and saluted His Majesty the Emperor.

"Leclerc, what do you think the situation is going to be like now?" Napoleon gestured to the couch beside him and motioned for Leclerc to sit down.

Leclerc looked at Napoleon with a smile on his face, and at Mula, who had a grim face.

"Your Majesty the Emperor! I think...... Things can spiral out of control.

The Ming army in front of us is no longer something that we can deal with with with our current weapons.

And I found that the Ming army did not seem to care about occupying a strategic point now, as it used to.

Rather, they are more interested in consuming our human resources!

In other words, the Ming army cared more about how many of us were killed, and did not care about the land. ”

"The land is all Russian, Ukrainian land, so they won't care." Mulla smoked a cigarette and said sullenly.

When Miela spoke, Leclerc did not dare to speak again.

"Go on!" Napoleon motioned to Leclerc to continue.

"I think that the war has reached this point, and our hope of winning the war is very slim.

The Ming army plundered the Pope, and there must have been some conspiracy and purpose in this.

We only have to think about the direction in which the pope can influence Europe, and we know what the purpose of the Ming army is.

However, this is not too important, the important thing is that we currently have superior forces, but we do not have the ability to grasp the strategic initiative.

What's even worse is that ......, the Ming army has gradually digested Corsica.

It is also gradually building a base in Corsica, and then intends to land on the coastline of the southwest of France.

Although we repelled several small attacks, we had to maintain a regular force of up to 370,000 men and a militia of more than 600,000 men along the Mediterranean coastline.

All of this adds up to almost a million people.

That is, we no longer have the ability to concentrate force on one point. ”

When Leclerc said this, he glanced at Napoleon with a weak heart.

After all, if you say something discouraged at this time, the consequences are difficult to predict.

"Say whatever you think in your heart." Napoleon continued to encourage Leclerc.

"There is information that the Germans are already negotiating with the Ming in Athens.

I don't think the Germans are hypocritical.

They really want to keep this channel, and ......, it's likely that they will use it in the near future.

As I said just now, the kidnapping of the Pope means that the Ming does not mind, or even care, about the religious forces that anger Europe.

That is, they despise us.

They were fully sure to beat us! ”

After a pause, seeing that both Napoleon and Mula were listening attentively, Leclerc could only bite the bullet and continue:

"Now it's hard to win the war.

I advise Your Majesty the Emperor to renounce this war as well. ”

"Give up the war?" Mula looked at Leclerc viciously.

"We are no longer able to fight, young and middle-aged laborers have gone to war, and domestic prices have skyrocketed.

Our people are starving! ”

"What will happen to His Majesty the Emperor if we surrender?" Mula yelled loudly.

"Mula!" Napoleon drank the furious Lion-like Mula.

Now that it has come to this point, Leclerc has also let it go.

"Your Majesty the Emperor, if you continue to fight, it will be the destruction of the French nation.

If we find a way to end the war, you can take your soldiers to the Americas.

Go and build our new territory!

Your Majesty the Emperor, if you lose the war, you will lose France. But France can live!

If you continue to fight, France will be gone, and you will not be spared.

I, Leclerc, swear here, if you are willing to conquer the Americas, I am willing to follow you, follow you, and serve you for the rest of my life! ”

Leclerc fell to one knee with his hands on his knees and hung his head!

"Mula! Relax, we're talking about the future of France. Napoleon waved his hand at Meula.

Then, he walked up to Leclerc and pulled him up.

"Leclerc has a point, if we persist any longer, the French nation will be destroyed.

Ashi's mustache has already grasped the opportunity.

I think we need to re-understand this war.

The gap in weapons was too large, and it was enough to make up for the inferiority of the Ming army.

Miura, you have been away from the front line for a long time.

I don't know, our soldiers need to use their flesh and blood to fight against the tanks of the Ming Dynasty.

Many times, our soldiers were left with explosives packs to attack these steel monsters.

The tactics of the Ming army were very powerful, and our losses were large.

Even many times, despite the great sacrifices we made, we were not able to blow up the enemy's tanks.

The soldiers on the front line are tired of this kind of battle, which will only lose and not win.

Leclerc's advice was good for us to go to the Americas. Maybe there, we can find a way for those of us to live. ”

Mula sat down on the sofa helplessly, looking very lost.

"Don't do that, we're just defeated.

At least, we didn't lose France.

Now let's talk to Leclerc about how our colonies in South America are doing. ”

Leclerc's eyes widened, he did not realize that even in times of war, France would send troops to the Americas.

"Five years ago, our people were already in the South American Amazon estuary.

There, the Portuguese had already established medium-sized cities.

About 200,000 people are no problem!

We defeated the Portuguese army there, and over the course of several years, we continued to defeat the Portuguese army.

Today, we control large swathes of South America.

Because of the influence of the Amazon, these lands are fertile and have abundant freshwater resources.

Since three years ago, we have been planning to migrate to South America. Today, 100,000 people have successfully migrated.

If we persist for another year, we will increase our efforts to resettle 500,000 people within a year. ”