Faint cheers were heard, mixed with the intermittent sound of gunfire echoing in the sky, exuding a strong battlefield smell.

His Royal Highness Don Li Kun received the report as soon as possible; The army of Versailles broke through the fortress of Issy, and the armed citizens of Paris retreated with heavy casualties.

"Great, God forbid. Finally defeated these damn mud legs, it's time to celebrate with a big party today. ”

The crown prince of Saxony cheered and stretched out his hand to high-five His Royal Highness Don Li Kun in celebration, and his face could not hide his joy.

It is said that the European aristocracy is one family, and the same is true of the French and German aristocracy, and they marry each other frequently, and France has a traditional influence in the northern states of the German Empire, and the common enemy is the dangerous social movement, commonly known as the "mud legs".

Due to the limitations of his background, His Royal Highness Don Li Kun sympathized with the Paris Commune, but it was difficult for him to truly stand in the camp of the other party to breathe and share the same fate. That would mean a betrayal of the royal family of the Tang Empire.

"Opening the door to Paris is just a good start......" Seeing Crown Prince Albert's look of not being disappointed, Don Li Kun spread his hands helplessly and said; Well, that's a great offer, and I'll be on time for the dinner. ”

"Hey, remember to ask your officers to help, we need to make some delicious food that is ingenious."

"Yes, Your Highness the Crown Prince, but my pet beast won't show up." His Royal Highness Don-Li Kun emphasized.

Prince Albert only shrugged his shoulders regretfully and did not object.

The companion divine beast of His Royal Highness the Seven Princes has now grown into a majestic beast, and ordinary people can't get close to it at all.

At a recent dinner, a German lieutenant colonel who had drunk too much alcohol wanted to touch it, but he was slapped over with a slap, resulting in a broken arm and four ribs, and he is still recuperating in bed.

This lieutenant colonel is said to be still a viscount, which is really unlucky!

Half an hour later

The Versailles army, which had captured the fortress of Issy, cleared the battlefield and brutally mended the wounded armed citizens one by one, and sent them to God. And all the prisoners were gathered for screening, eliminating the danger and hidden danger on the battlefield.

Until this time

The members of the military observer missions of various countries climbed the fortress of Isi one after another, looked around for four weeks with solemn expressions, and looked at the battle flags fluttering on the ruined ruins, and they didn't know what it was like in their hearts.

The soldiers of the Paris Commune, each of whom had lost their lives and had shed their blood on the battlefield, loved France, had no one to rely on in the event that the emperor and the upper echelons of the government had surrendered to foreign countries, and revolt would lead to nothing but sacrifice.

Even so

He still died generously without hesitation, for the dream of equality, freedom and liberation in his heart.

Don Li Kun suddenly felt that his nose was a little sour, he stood up straight with a solemn expression, and saluted these members of the Paris Commune who died for their ideals.

This scene

Let a lieutenant colonel commander of the Versailles army not far away see it, with a hostile look in his eyes, but he was dragged away by the officer who was very eye-catching.

Today's France is beating the drums, or it is better not to do nothing.

His Royal Highness Don Richard, the Seventh Prince, also sensed the hostility of this lieutenant colonel officer of the French army, and frowned slightly at the provocation of this little bug, so he did not pay attention to it.

On the contrary, Prince Albert came over curiously and asked; "Why?"

"Whether right or wrong, those patriots who fall on the road in pursuit of their ideals are worthy of admiration. Everyone knew that the Paris Commune would lose, but they did it anyway, just for the sake of their convictions. ”

"Oh God! It sounds like Blanquism or liberal republicanism, with ideals and beliefs on your lips all day long, but it's our traditional way of life that needs to be subverted, and it seems that I should be wary of you...... Dear Highness, are you one of them? ”

"No, I am an imperialist of the Tang Dynasty, and I have it as my mission to spread the glory of the empire. Yes now, and will be ...... Nor will it change at the last moment of my life. His Royal Highness Don Li Kun replied proudly.

"As far as I know; The territory of the Tang Empire has surpassed that of France and the Qing Dynasty, and you occupy almost the best territory in the Americas, which is really jealous. Prince Albert rolled his eyes, hung his precious cane on his arm, took out a silk handkerchief and put it on the end of his nose and continued;

"And our great German Empire can only be trapped in Europe, watching you colonize the whole world, but there is no way to follow it. It's so frustrating!

Let's get out of here, the French are going to turn this place into a slaughterhouse, and they kill their own people more ruthlessly than the Germans.

But I wouldn't be surprised, because these French had sent their own emperor to the guillotine, and what else could not be done? ”

In European countries

"Killing kings" is a taboo subject, and it is also a criminal act that attracts the common hostility of all kingdoms and all nobles, and once it leaves a stain, it cannot be washed away for hundreds or thousands of years.

The threat of the Napoleonic Emperor across Europe was so great that the anti-French alliance led by Britain did not think of killing the monarch, and only banished him to an overseas desert island, for fear of bearing the notoriety of killing the monarch.

His Royal Highness the Seventh Prince also saw the French lieutenant colonel walking down the dilapidated fortress in a menacing manner, and then ordered the soldiers to take out some of the captured members of the Paris Commune and line them up in a line, ready to be executed.

Such executions were common without trial, and Versailles soldiers had to vent their anger on their captives, which was the most barbaric of killings.

His Royal Highness the Seventh Prince Tang Li Kun frowned in disgust, turned around and followed the British General Mace and others who left together and walked down the stairs of the fortress, and soon heard a "crackling" burst of gunshots, and the smell of blood became more and more intense.

He could not stop it, and it is possible that the massacre of the Paris Commune by the Versailles army was instigated from the upper echelons and was widely present on the battlefield.

Fearful of the radical policies of the Paris Commune, the Thiers government pursued a bloody policy of mass repression, and there were countless cases of organized shootings without a verdict.

The capture of the fortress of Issy opened the gates to Paris.

What is the tragic state of mind that is about to unfold in the siege of Paris?

The "National Guard", composed of armed citizens, lacked training, strong command and support, artillery fire, and all logistics, and most of them relied on nearby barricades to fight the Versailles army in an attempt to prevent the government army from entering Paris.

Don Li Kun knows;

This practice of blocking the car with the mantis arm is nothing more than sending them to death in vain, and the unorganized army of more than 300,000 is like scattered sand, the number seems terrifying, and the actual combat effectiveness is almost child's play.

They will be broken by the concentrated superior forces and artillery fire of the experienced Versailles army, and they will not last long.

The members of the Paris Commune were so naïve that the city was in dire need of supplies, and that they could not even get enough rations to fill their stomachs, but they did not know how to urgently requisition the Banque de France, which was close at hand, to solve their urgent needs.

In the Banque de France, it is naïve to have a billion francs worth of gold and banknotes, but no one dares to touch them.

As a native of Paris, who doesn't know that the Banque de France is a mountain of gold and cash?

As long as you have money, what supplies can't be bought?

A group of people left the fortress of Issy, and the sound of gunfire behind them was still heard from time to time, and it was still a chill to the bones in the warmer weather of early May 1871.

From the beginning of May to May 21

For nearly three weeks, the rearmament of Versailles launched a massive siege of Paris, and this ancient and beautiful European city was plunged into unprecedented bloody battles, with the sound of guns day and night.

Although the National Guard is mostly civilians and has always been short of weapons and ammunition, its will to resist is resolute. The citizens of many neighborhoods organized themselves at that time and fought a bloody battle against the Versailles army with the help of barricades.

Unfortunately, there was no unified command, and the citizens of Paris had very little coordination and support from each other, and they were broken one by one by the concentrated superior forces of the Versailles army.

In this way, one by one, the neighborhoods of Paris were lost, the Seine was filled with floating corpses, and tens of thousands of resisters died in the battle.

On 25 May, Louis Charles de la Cleruz, a member of the Paris Commune and the last commander of the Auto-Defensive, was killed in a street battle, and most of the barricades of the city of Paris fell, and complete defeat was a foregone conclusion.

On the afternoon of May 27, after repeated bloody battles, the last artillery position of the Self-Defense Army, the Boutechaumont Heights, was captured by the 1st Regiment of the French Foreign Legion.

At 6 p.m. on the same day, the Père Lachaise cemetery, a stronghold guarded by 200 Auto-Defence troops, was captured by the Versailles army, and 150 wounded Auto-Defence soldiers who were still alive at the time were massacred en masse by the outer walls of the cemetery, as was the case in various parts of the city of Paris.

The city of Paris was filled with gunfire and the Versailles army hunting down the Resistance, and the untried massacres continued for a long time.

In the last few days of the "Bloody Week" alone, the generals of the Versailles army said that the number of resistance forces killed in Paris reached more than 17,000.

According to observer estimates; This number should be doubled, between 3~50,000 people, and the final exact number will never be known.

After the defeat of the Paris Commune, the French government, dominated by the Orleans faction, went on a grand campaign to arrest potential revolutionaries, and about 20,000 people were tried and executed, more than 7,500 were imprisoned, and many more were exiled or fled.

The social unrest continued until the end of 1871, when it gradually stabilized.

After the defeat in the Franco-Prussian War

France was forced to cede Alsace and Lorraine, and bear a huge war reparations of up to 5 billion francs, so much money made the nascent German Empire rich overnight, and began to develop rapidly along the road of industrialization, truly opening the era of industrialization.

(End of chapter)