At his imperial council, Louis XVII gave his interpretation of the attitude of the Ming Dynasty, which calmed and lifted the spirit of the French high-level.

Then he changed into a military uniform and personally went to the various barracks and defensive lines in Paris to inspect and pacify the officers and soldiers in the middle and lower ranks.

One by one, the barracks walked over, confronted the petty officers and soldiers from all sides, and said to them over and over again:

"Paris is behind us, the heart of France and the pride of our country.

"I, Louis, will always stay in this city of Paris and fight with you until the final victory!

"The Germans and Lucians are not capable of defeating us under the city of Paris!

"Germany and Lucia have annexed Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Austria, the Ottomans, and now they are going to annex us France!

"Their wickedness and tyranny have become known to the whole world, and the Ming Dynasty has once again issued new reminders and warnings.

"We helped Austria, supported the Ottomans, fought against Germany and Lucia, and it was always just.

"Our fight to defend the gains we have made over the past fifteen years of hard work has been just.

"Justice and justice will always be on our side, and the Ming people will always be on our side!

"The French are not dead yet, and the French nation will never perish!"

The enemy army was approaching the city, and the anger that had already accumulated in the French army was already accumulated.

The fighting of the past two months has also familiarized a large number of French soldiers with the rhythm of the battlefield.

Now with the encouragement of Louis XVII, who was expected to return, the will to fight has completely burst out.

Three days later, the combined forces of Germany and Lucia officially launched a full-scale attack on Paris.

Since the beginning of the Tessie War, one of the most tragic battles for the city began.

The Germans tried to take Paris quickly, dealing a major psychological blow to the forces in France and destroying the will of the French to continue to resist.

As a result, the defenders of the city showed even more tenaciousness than Vienna.

The momentum of the German and Lucian attacks was firmly held back outside Paris.

After a long and long history of the Germans and Lucians for half a month, they had to temporarily abandon the idea of a quick capture of Paris.

A similar program to the attack on Vienna began.

Prepare to encircle the point and send reinforcements while quickly capturing the rest of the surrounding area.

The tactics of the Germans really worked.

The defenders of the rest of France, in terms of equipment, training, and will to fight, were inferior to the defenders of Paris, who were directly inspired by Louis XVII.

On the two fronts in the north and center, news of defeats and retreats was constantly coming.

Louis XVII knew that if the situation continued like this, Paris would not be able to hold on sooner or later.

Paris is the center of the whole of France and is also dependent on French supplies.

More and more French lands were occupied by the combined German and Lucian forces, and the supplies available to Paris became increasingly scarce.

Even after Paris was completely surrounded and cut off from the rest of the world, it was only a matter of time before it fell.

So, after the German and Lucian attacks on the city weakened, Louis XVII asked the French generals to launch a counteroffensive together with the English generals.

Prepare to push the front beyond the borders of France.

The sudden and powerful attack of the French and the British caused some minor problems for the Germans and Lucians.

The combined forces of Britain and France succeeded in tearing a hole in the German and Lucian lines.

French general Davout, led the elite armored corps of the LinkedIn and French coalition forces, and quickly advanced more than 100 kilometers to the northeast.

However, the generals and soldiers of Germany and Lucia had been fighting for a whole year.

Already in the last year, the initiative of Archduke Karl was tried.

After the original front was torn apart by the British and French forces, the Germans quickly organized a second line of resistance.

The Germans also already had a basic method of warfare against armored combat vehicles.

The troops on both sides of the battle line, which had been torn apart, did not break up, but were quickly reorganized by the middle and lower ranks.

Thinking of attacking with a hole torn open by the French, he prepared to rebuild the battle line and encircle the British and French armored forces.

The French and British infantry behind the armored forces were a little out of pace, and the Germans were almost cut off by the Germans.

Davout had to give up the idea of continuing the offensive and turned back to attack the German and Lucian lines from the rear.

This time, the Germans did not resist, but took the initiative to get out of the way, allowing Davout's armored corps to return to the city of Paris.

When Davout found out, he did not immediately return to the city, but instead attacked the Germans' other positions.

The Germans immediately mobilized anti-armor forces and tried to encircle Davout's Panzer Corps.

The two sides continued to fight outside the city for almost a month, and each side consumed a lot of men and ammunition, but the battle line itself did not change much.

Paris was still able to liaise with the rest of France and get supplies, and the roads outside the city were not completely cut off by the Germans.

At the same time, however, the plans of the British and French to take the initiative to attack did not achieve substantial strategic success, except for the exhaustion of part of their living forces outside the city of Paris by confronting the Germans.

The situation on the battlefield has not changed significantly.

The armies of the Germans and Lucians, the pace of their advance on other French fronts, were largely unaffected.

By September of the second year of the Archduke, Paris had become a very visible salient.

Lucia and German troops rushed out of Switzerland and captured Lyon, an important city in southwestern France.

It then continued south along the Rhône valley and quickly reached the port of Marseille on the coast of the Great Qin Sea.

The main Spanish forces were using the port of Marseille as a base to fight the Italians who were trying to rush out.

Lucia and the German army went directly behind the back of the Spaniards and, together with the Italians, made the main Spanish forces into dumplings.

Thus, the Battle of Marseille, which can be called a turning point, broke out.

The Spaniards, who had the least combat experience, were unable to withstand the attacks of Germany, Lucia, and Italy.

At the end of the second year of the Grand Duke, more than 600,000 Spanish troops besieged on the coast finally surrendered to the triumph of Germany, Lucia, and Italy.

At the same time, more than half of the territory of mainland France was already occupied by Lucia and the German coalition.

The siege of Paris has finally come to an end.

The combined German and Lucian forces completely cut off Paris from the rest of the surrounding area.

King Wilhelm of Germany and Emperor Nicholas of Lucia jointly issued an ultimatum to the French, demanding that Louis XVII leave the city and surrender.

Otherwise, the two countries will launch a final full-scale attack on Paris.

Louis XVII very decisively refused.

It was said that it would fight to the end, and now it is impossible to surrender with the whole of Paris.

So on the 5th day of the first month of the third year of the Grand Duke, the combined forces of Germany and Lucia launched another attack on the city of Paris.

The battle for the city of Paris lasted for almost two months, and the combined German and Lucian forces slowly occupied the whole of Paris, street by street.

At noon on March 8, the German Army surrounded the Royal Palace in Paris, where Louis XVII was located.

Louis XVII waited in the halls of the palace with his entire family, France's most important ministers and generals.

Louis XVII did not surrender in the end, but he did become a prisoner of the Germans.

Whether in accordance with the tradition of Ctessy, or considering the relationship between Louis XVII and Zhu Jingyuan, the Germans would treat him as if they were entertaining the king.

The safety and well-being of Louis XVII and his family were fully guaranteed.

But freedom is not possible for the time being.

It's just that when the generals on the German front entered the royal palace in Paris and were about to take away Louis XVII's family, the diplomats of the Ming Dynasty in France stood up.

Ask the Germans for permission to bring Louis XVII and his family back to life in the Ming Dynasty.

The general in charge of this matter immediately had a big head.

Now the whole of Paris is under the control of Germany and Lucia.

The security force of the Ming Dynasty here is only the security guard in the industry owned by the Ming people, and there is nothing that can resist the power of the regular army.

But Daming's status is too special.

Even the Germans have won several battles in a row, and their self-confidence has swelled to a very high level.

At present, the Germans still do not dare to rush into conflict with the Ming Dynasty.

So the general did not continue his mission, and immediately called the rear command and conveyed the meaning of the Ming diplomat.

The news changed hands twice and was quickly delivered to King Wilhelm of Germany.

William's mental state is very good right now.

He knew that Paris had been successfully taken and that a total rout of all of France was only a matter of time.

The plan to unify the entire Tessie continent has once again taken a big step forward.

It's just that William is still a little undecided about how to deal with Louis XVII.

William, of course, did not dare to kill Louis XVII.

Not only did he not dare to kill himself, but he also had to ensure his safety as much as possible.

William even feared that Louis XVII would commit suicide in the palace.

If Louis XVII committed suicide, his death would surely be counted on his own head.

As soon as Louis XVII died, the Ming Emperor would definitely be furious, and the subsequent events might get out of control.

Now that he and Lucia haven't had a decisive battle, it's best not to pull Daming in immediately.

Now that the news from the front came to confirm that Louis XVII was not dead, William was immediately a little relieved.

But after receiving the request of the Ming diplomat, he became entangled again.

It was certainly useful to hold Louis XVII in his own hands, and it could be used as a bargaining chip in the face of the Ming Dynasty.

But he's also a hot potato.

As long as he became his own prisoner, the Ming had a reason to declare war directly on Germany.

Now is not the time for a decisive battle with the Ming Dynasty.

If he was handed over directly to the Ming people, William would not be willing to do so.

He quickly decided that Louis XVII would be handed over to the Ming Dynasty, but the Ming needed to come up with enough conditions in exchange.

William Lion opened his mouth wide and demanded 1,000 of the latest combat aircraft, 1,000 armored combat vehicles, and 1,000 military vehicles.

As well as spare engines and shells prepared in a one-to-one ratio.

As a result, Da Ming basically accepted it without much bargaining.

On the contrary, William was a little worried about whether he wanted too little.

However, William did not change his words in the end, and directly accepted the deal from the Ming side.

On the eighth day of the fourth month of the third year of the Grand Duke, the things demanded by the Germans of the Great Ming were sent to France and handed over to the Germans.

The aircraft, of course, was a piston propeller fighter with a turbocomposite engine design and a maximum power of two thousand horsepower.

The combat vehicle is also directly a relatively new mass-produced diesel-powered armored shield vehicle.

Military trucks, of course, are also models that are installed in the Ming Dynasty.

It's just that the planes that Daming actually replaced and used were at least those that had replaced turboprop engines, as well as pure jet aircraft.

Daming's armored combat vehicle is also the latest model, and it is only used in a power-driven version.

However, the supporting ammunition is also traditional all kinds of ammunition, rather than the tail stabilized shelling armor-piercing bullet invented by His Majesty the Ming Emperor a long time ago

The performance of these equipment has already surpassed the level of most of the Tessie army.

After the German pilots tried the military aircraft of the Ming Dynasty, they said that the gap between them and the Ming Dynasty was too big.

Compared with the German plane, the Daming aircraft is basically in a leading state in an all-round way.

The material itself is lighter, and the weight of take-off is greater.

The Ming people didn't care much about these things, and received Louis XVII at the same time as the delivery.

Then they were escorted by plane and flew directly to Crete.

Most of what France is now occupied would have been.

Now the only megacity and capital, Paris, has an accident,

The point is that the most prestigious young king also became a captive,

The rest of France soon collapsed.

On the 12th of June in the third year of the Grand Duke, the whole of France was occupied by the Germans and Lucians.

The strategy of the two military powers did not stop, but directly continued to attack Spain.

The combat effectiveness of the Spanish Army was already weak, and it was simply unable to withstand the stormy attacks of Germany and Lucia.

The retreat of the Spaniards was really close to a thousand miles.

In just six months, by the end of the third year of the Archduke, all of Spain was completely occupied by Germany and Lucia.

Portugal was also dealt with in one fell swoop.

The armies of both countries were slightly trimmed, stabilized and restored, while suppressing resistance everywhere.

The two countries, the monarchs of the three countries, should be said to be the three countries, have once again gathered to discuss future plans.

Nikolai of Lucia first referred to the promises made before the start of the war, demanding an exchange of occupation zones with Germany.

Lucia completely renounced the lands she had seized in France and Spain, and demanded most of the lands east and south of Austria.

The German king, however, was a little evasive and said that the two sides were now in a state of cooperation.

The next target, the British, as a matter of course.

But once the British are forced to be in a hurry, it is possible to directly summon Da Ming to end.

So Wilhelm of Germany suggested that he should keep this state of affairs and fight against Britain.

Then, according to the reaction of the British and the Ming, it was decided whether to exchange the occupied areas first, or to fight against the Ming together.

If the two sides cooperate against the Ming and win, then there is no need to exchange territory in the current way.

Just let Lucia get more land from Daming.

(End of chapter)