"Mula, I'm afraid we won't last long." Napoleon holds a glass of whiskey in his hand.

The originally straight back is now a little rickety, which makes him look even shorter. The sideburns are also patchy with gray hair, and the wrinkles at the corners of the eyes are getting deeper.

Hoary!

If there is one word to describe Napoleon, it is old age.

Mula lowered his head and didn't speak, he would accept his fate if he lost to Daming. Because the military strength of the Ming Dynasty is indeed strong!

But he lost to the Germans, and he was not convinced.

The French and the Germans can be said to be a thousand-year-old grudge. Until ten years ago, they were fighting to the death.

I thought that this alliance with the Germans would dilute people's hatred of history.

But who would have thought that the Germans would come to such a hand at a critical moment.

I sold the French, and now I come to dig the ancestral graves of the French.

"South America is not ready, we need at least half a year. This is the shortest amount of time! Mula shook her head and sighed helplessly.

France has reached this point, and it has a lot to do with Mula. At the beginning, the Ming did not show any intention of killing Napoleon.

It was Mura, who, in order to gain the support of the Hebrew plutocracy, took the initiative to provoke the contradictions between France and the Ming Empire.

In the end, in the end, the Ming Empire, an ally, was parted ways.

Regret!

But regret is useless.

Mula knows that regret at this time has no effect on anything other than affecting her mood.

"Ask the Britons for help, maybe we can hold out a little longer.

I went to England and talked to British Prime Minister Winston. If necessary, I will go and ask the Empress. As long as Britain sends troops, we should be able to hold out for another year. Mula took a sip of her wine and said that it was almost the only way now.

"The British won't help us, they take care of themselves!

If my guess is correct, the Ming are actually already preparing to attack Gibraltar.

As long as Gibraltar is captured, there is no force in the Atlantic that can compete with the Ming navy.

Briton! They would be the first to surrender, and they would surrender as soon as the Ming Dynasty's huge battleships sailed to the mouth of the Thames.

At that time, we will still be unlucky. And it's the kind that never recovers! Napoleon took a sip of whiskey and sighed helplessly.

"Then we're ......!" Mula had no choice, he knew Napoleon was right. Once Gibraltar was lost, the first to surrender would certainly have been the British.

"We have no choice but to continue to resist. Most...... Resist for another three to four months at most.

Leclerc didn't get much to get in South America, but the good thing was that it was still a wilderness and the Portuguese were no match for us.

I think you took Josephine with you to South America. Take everything you can, gold, machinery, skilled workers, university professors...... Anyway, take the best of France with you.

Let the Germans come, and they can't get anything good. Napoleon's face was not bloody, and it was frighteningly white.

"That'...... Your Majesty, what about you? Miura's eyes widened, and she looked at Napoleon in bewilderment.

"I'll stay!

I am the Emperor of the French Empire, and they will not rest if they don't catch me. I'll just stay here and wait to be caught.

It doesn't matter if you want to be killed, if you want to be locked up, if you want to be exiled.

Anyway, I'll stay in France and be at their disposal. Well, it can buy you a little time.

If the Ming occupy Gibraltar, it will be difficult for our ships to go to sea.

We're running out of time! Napoleon's words were pathetic and desolate, with a deep bitterness in them.

"Your Majesty the Emperor! How can you stay here, if you want to stay, I will stay. Mula was shocked to hear this, Napoleon meant to support Gu.

"If you stay, do you mean that the Germans or the Ming people won't look for me?

They're going to do everything they can to find me, if they do find South America. We're finished, and France doesn't even have one last place to stay.

It's better for me to stay and carry everything for the Empire.

Go ahead, Miura, I know you can do it. Take care of Josephine and take care of my children.

Maybe the Ming people won't kill me, they just want to imprison me. Napoleon drank the whiskey in his glass and sat down on the couch with a blank look in his eyes.

"No, Your Majesty the Emperor, this will not work. You go with me! Mula kicked the stool down in a frenzy.

"Don't be stupid, Mula, this is the matter. Organize it and leave in a week.

It must be done in secret, and people who go to South America have their hearts set on us in France.

The future of France depends on you! ”

"Your Majesty the Emperor!"

At the time of Napoleon, the French army was fighting fiercely with the German army in Metz.

As an important town in Lorraine, Metz has been a battleground for soldiers since ancient times. In the land of four wars, there must be many fortresses.

How could there be few fortifications in the border areas, especially those where Germany and France were in a confrontation. Metz is one such fortress city!

These fortifications were not built by Napoleon, but were built on top of each other from the Middle Ages.

Here you can see both the castle made of megaliths and the fortresses of the era of smoothbore guns.

You can also see a semi-buried turret from the industrial age.

The Moselle flows silently over the land, dividing the city of Metz in two. The Moselle has become a natural moat for Metz.

Relying on this natural danger, the French defenders had resisted the Germans for ten days.

Over the past ten days, the Germans crossed the river several times and were inflicted heavy casualties on the French.

On the banks of the east and west banks of the Moselle, many German corpses were left behind.

As the defensive side, the French army can be regarded as waiting for work. Inside the withered yellow reeds by the river, there was a strong Makqin machine gun.

They are all veterans, so they naturally know how to fight most effectively.

When the barrel is raised, it attacks in a parabolic scatter.

Bullets are falling from the sky, and even if you are copper-skinned and iron-clad, you will have to be beaten into a hornet's nest.

The Germans were clearly eager to take Metz, because once they were taken, there would be no strong French fortresses ahead.

The next time we encounter such resolute resistance, it is estimated that it will be Paris.

But the Germans were skeptical of the determination of the romantic French to defend Paris!

Warsaw's lessons were there, although Warsaw eventually surrendered. But the bustling city of Warsaw was almost razed to the ground.

Sixty percent of the population of Warsaw was lost, and the rest were wounded.

This shining pearl of Eastern Europe is completely destroyed.

At that time, the French also used to cheer up the Warsaw people and support them spiritually.

But now that feng shui is turning, they probably don't have the courage to stick to Paris and finally turn Paris, the capital of Europe, into ruins.

As if under pressure from above, the German shells kept falling and the shelling lasted for thirty-six hours.

Ney stayed at the command post on the west bank of the Moselle, feeling the earth tremble from time to time.

It must be a gun with a caliber of more than 120 millimeters, otherwise it will definitely not have this power.

Ney was very worried that his troops would be crushed by heavy artillery.

The First Army was the unit he created and followed Napoleon in his campaigns.

Ney, who has a violent personality, can call every officer in this unit by name.

suffered heavy losses in Russia, and in the end had to retreat to France.

Ney's First Army, after withdrawing from Kharkov, went all the way to the west. Then take a break from Metz!

Originally planned to take a two-month break, Ney had already left the army and returned to his home in Paris to enjoy his family.

Unexpectedly, it has only been more than a month. The Germans rebelled, attacking the retreating French troops, inflicting heavy casualties on the French.

In Austria alone, as many as 20,000 French troops were ambushed and killed by the Germans.

If you add in the number of casualties on German territory, the French lost at least 30,000 men before the war began.

This is the last unit to be withdrawn from Kyiv, Ukraine!

The French are very fortunate that they have a wise and martial emperor.

If the French had withdrawn another week, most of the French army would have been blocked by the Germans on the way back.

At that time, it was really a man for the knife and I for the fish.

The cannon was still ringing, and Ney was holding the phone in his hand, and he was vigorously demanding the defenders of the fortress ahead.

At the forefront was the regiment of the French First Army. Royal Praetorian Lancers!

Despite its name, the Lancers were left with no horses.

The only horses are still cannon-packers.

These days, they hid in the trenches and endured the explosion of shells from above.

It's all veteran oil, and they don't worry about their positions.

This position has been under construction since 800 years ago, and forts have been added in the era of rampage muskets.

The so-called fortress is to build a dirt slope or stone slope outside the city.

When the soldiers attacked, they needed to attack artificially. In this way, you have to expose your head and upper body.

The French soldiers stayed in their bunkers and could easily shoot the Germans who rushed out recklessly.

On the banks of the Moselle, there is such a fortress. He overlooks both sides of the Moselle and controls the upper and lower reaches of the Moselle, a two-kilometre-long stretch.

There were not only Maxim machine guns on the fort, but even a mortar platoon, which was responsible for suppressing the fire of the Germans.

In the past few days, the Germans crossing the river would be shot at by the defenders on the fort.

It was also the mortar plus Maxim pattern that allowed the Germans to attack for ten days, but still returned in vain.

Of course, the fortress, as the defending side, naturally suffered from the focus of German artillery fire.

The beautiful battlements of the castle were gone. The whole wall was as jagged as an old lady's teeth!

Cannonballs exploded one after another on the castle walls, and even the huge bluestone could not withstand such a wild bombardment.

Who knows how long the crazy, shell-laden Germans will be able to shell.

In the last war, there was a grand scene of artillery fighting each other for a week.

During that week, the French and British fired 1.9 million shells.

And the number of shells fired by the Germans was one and a half times that of the Anglo-French forces!

It was for this reason that Germany finally capitulated because of the collapse of its finances.

It is hard to imagine such a country as Germany. France only crippled the people, warned them to apologize humbly, and reduced the army to only 100,000 men.

Fortunately, Frederick and Bismarck came up with a good idea.

Germany's 100,000 Army became a 100,000-strong officer training corps. There were hardly many soldiers here, all of them officers.

When the French proposed to join forces with Prussia and go to Eastern Europe to fight the Ming people.

It took only a few months for Prussia to expand the 100,000-strong officer training regiment into a million-strong Prussian army.

"Hey, how is the front, did the Germans attack?" Ney's phone is finally going to the front line.

"Your Excellency, the Germans hit with a lot of shells. Listen, almost every minute a few shells come down. ”

"What about the casualties?" Ney heard the rumbling sound of cannon on the other side of the earpiece, and his heart was extremely anxious.

He knew that at this time, the troops could not be easily moved. Otherwise, before the real battle has started, many people will have to be taken away by this artillery fire.

"Your Excellency Marshal, our soldiers are hiding in bunkers, and the casualties inflicted on us by German shelling are minimal. Apart from a few observation posts at the front, there were no greater casualties. ”

"If only there were no casualties! I'll send someone to support you! Ney was relieved when he heard the news from the front that there were few casualties and that the soldiers had taken refuge in bunkers.

I can be regarded as withstanding it here, but the news from my left and right flanks is not good.

Yesterday, I lost a lot of positions on my left and right flanks. The two sides have been intertwined and intertwined.

If the left and right flanks can't withstand it, their main position is likely to be surrounded.

At the thought of the left and right wings, Ney wanted to jump up and scold his mother.

François and Alexander, when they were in Russia, were afraid of war. On the battlefield, as long as you see the tanks of the Ming army, they will immediately collapse.

But because they were so fast, there were fewer casualties. Unlike Ney's First Army, the battle losses had exceeded 30% before returning to France.

It has only been a month since he returned to China, and the roots of the soldiers have not been replenished. Now they are being pulled to the Metz position and fighting the Germans.

And these two people on the left and right seem to have escaped from addiction in Russia. If you can't beat the Ming, can't you beat the Germans?

After thinking for a long time, Ney called the artillery position again.

"Hey, I'm Marshal Ney.

Our artillery positions need to be hidden, and we are not allowed to return fire without my orders. Do you understand? ”

Ney yells into the microphone!

The French did not engage in artillery battles with the Germans, and that was because the French army was running out of ammunition.

During the great retreat from Russia, not only did they lose a lot of baggage, but they also lost Sharma, who pulled it.

Without the Sharma, the French would have had to use ox carts. But the ox cart can be pulled, but it is slow enough.