In the past, transportation and communication were not comparable to those in modern times, and the signal corps might have to walk for several days for an order, and it would take three times as long to go back and forth.

However, this also explains in some ways why the Austrian Imperial Army was always so crushed.

"What formal order? This was both an order of the command of our army and the supreme order of the commander-in-chief of the allied German forces.

Immediately go to the reserve to build a defense, and let the soldiers on the front line come back to rest. ”

"Yes!"

The French army in Celesta was even more confused, and suddenly the attack was almost completely stopped, and the newly arrived German soldiers began to dig trenches and fortifications as soon as they came up.

This has made the already devastated city even more dilapidated. Blanqui, who was waiting on the bell tower of the cathedral in the center of the city to lead the Celesta militia in the counterattack, was very confused after seeing it.

"What's going on? Why don't you fight again? ”

Bono de Cullen and Blanqui sighed at the same time.

Bono de Cullen, who had been beaten by the Austrian's netting attack, felt as if he was fighting against dozens of opponents at the same time.

The German coalition attacked from several different areas, and then changed its strategy in a very short period of time after the French command responded accordingly.

In particular, the timing of the bombardment was so precise that Bono de Coullen felt that the shelters in the city were nothing at all.

Whenever French support units left bunkers to reinforce an area that was being heavily attacked, German artillery and rockets landed accurately in that area.

What is even more hateful is that whenever the smoke clears, they cannot find the shadow of the German coalition army.

The rest of the area was then in a hurry, and in less than a day's effort more than a dozen important defensive areas had been lost, and Bono de Coullen's reserves had lost a quarter.

And his intuition told him that the real attack had not yet begun at this time.

Suddenly, the Austrian offensive stopped, and the inexplicable construction of fortifications began, which made him suspect that some greater conspiracy awaited him.

The morale of the French soldiers, who had not won since the beginning of the war, fell to the bottom, in addition to the successive defeats, the lack of medical care and medicine and the shortage of food were also important reasons.

The Second French Republic, due to its poor economic situation, was unable to provide adequate supplies.

Coupled with the previous high-intensity combat, Bono de Coullen's supplies were already under the red line.

Although his courage in choosing to enter the city of Celesta was commendable, it seemed to be a bad move at this time, because it was impossible for the supply team to break through the German defense line.

The supply team directly carried the goods with the people, and the horses and vehicles became the trophies of the coalition forces.

Although the supply team had a certain amount of armed escort, they did not have any ability to resist in the face of the cavalry brigade of the coalition army.

Most of the members of the supply team chose to raise their hands and surrender, and only a few who had the courage chose to flee, but at the cost of a guaranteed beating, and some of the unlucky ones even lost their lives.

Due to the influence of modern warfare, Franz has attached great importance to supplies to the point of perversion, so he is very puzzled about the more supplies he fights.

At this moment Colonel Monta jumped out and proudly explained to Franz how they had captured the French supply convoy.

Franz only gave one evaluation after hearing this.

"Catch rabbits?"

"Archduke Franz, are you going hunting? Sure enough, it's so interesting! However, the royal hunting grounds of the French were burned by the Alsatens. ”

Franz looked at the future commander of the Forbidden Army in front of him with some helplessness, and then looked at Bordeaux, which was smelling everywhere, and couldn't help but sigh helplessly.

As a result, this sigh was caught again by the perceptive Colonel Monta, who immediately changed his words.

"There's an empty camp to the east, we just need to put some rabbits around it."

Franz interrupted his clumsy sycophants with a kick, and it was better for such a person to take orders directly.

However, for the sake of safety, Franz still asked Colonel Monta's aide-de-camp to report the details to the staff headquarters, hoping that no important details would be missed.

After Franz's order to stop the offensive was given, the staff officers of the General Staff and the representatives of the states could not sit still, they could not understand what Franz's purpose was.

But they did not dare to disobey Franz's orders, whether it was the nobility of the German states or those German nationalists, they had to care about Franz's identity and influence.

However, the Allies of the Orleans dynasty were different, and they did not want to give the traitors a respite.

As a result, the Orleans army attacked the city of Celesta, but their combat effectiveness was much worse than that of the Austrian army, which had previously been in charge of the main attack.

The brutality of the street fighting soon knocked them back, and Bono de Coullen's army finally got a little respite.

These French, loyal to the House of Orleans, treated the soldiers of the Second French Republic more extreme than the most extreme German nationalists.

Patching up the corpses would not satisfy them, and the soldiers of the Second French Republic who fell into their hands were brutally tortured before they died, and even after death they were burned to ashes and buried deep in the ground like non-degradable garbage.

The Orleans Army, which had just been beaten to the ground in the street fighting, turned around and protested to the Allied High Command.

This had long been expected by Franz, and he was a little surprised that the commander of the Orleans army was actually a woman.

Duchess Fanny Curt, a teenage widow who inherited a large inheritance.

Supposed to be a victim of a family, the Curt family suffered an unprecedented catastrophe during the French Revolution, and the old Duke of Curt even worked as a gelter while on the run.

Even after the restoration of the Bourbons, they were still poor. By the time of the Orleans dynasty, everything was more focused on money, and the Curt family was in complete decline.

In the end, the old Duke Curt and a wealthy merchant made an agreement that the old duke would marry his daughter to the wealthy merchant, and the Curt family would be paid handsomely to perpetuate the family's image in high society.

In this era of old and new, Fanny Curt is nothing more than one of countless pitiful victims.

However, fortunately, her husband and father died violently one after another, which made Fanny Curt a wealthy and noble lady.

Before the February Revolution, Fanny Curt's salons were always filled with suitors of all kinds.

After the fall of the Orleans dynasty, Fanny Curt did not embrace the new government like the other ladies who presided over the salon, but chose to follow in the footsteps of her idol and sell her property to Strasbourg.

Fanny Curt's idol is Joan of Arc, who ended the Hundred Years' War between England and France.

(End of chapter)