The war finally lost all chivalry and the ancient gentlemanly spirit of point-and-shoot!
War is no longer about winning or losing, war is about life and death, life and death between nations!
The fighting spirit is gone, and what remains is only the naked struggle for interests among the nations. The winner will be passionate about the national destiny, while the loser will sink into the quagmire, and it will be difficult to turn around for a hundred years!
The professional military system established by the French Emperor is obviously backward. In the future, the Prussian system of universal conscripts will become popular. Once war breaks out, it will probably drain the last drop of blood from the entire nation!
Prussia's powerful industrial system completely exploded. The number of military trains mobilized by Prussia during this war was actually more than the number of locomotives in France.
Prussia has far more steel plants, arsenals, machinery processing plants, military production plants than France... It has more railway transportation miles, more locomotives and carriages.
What's more important is that they have stronger mobilization power and the whole nation's single-minded desire to win!
They are not patriotic like the French who put patriotism on their lips. The patriotic spirit of the Prussians is even more reflected in their work.
Few Prussians would take to the streets to demonstrate. In the eyes of these people, any demonstrations that have not yet received news of victory are inappropriate and will cause chaos to social order!
To be patriotic is to work hard, to be patriotic is to donate your real money!
It is this power of silence that is even more terrifying. It is this kind of national war in which the whole nation works together to squeeze out all potential that can defeat France, the world's second most powerful military country!
The battle in the Vosges Mountains completely verified the correctness of the Prussian military strategy. The war was fought so fiercely, but their supply of troops was actually endless, and there was no sign of exhaustion at all.
When the outline of the Vosges Mountains was polished by the morning light in the east, Prince Carl led another 160,000 troops and launched a crazy charge again!
"McMahon! Tell me do you have any reserves? Tell me how long you can last?"
"Twelve hours have passed. Tell me, can you still fight? How much courage you still have in your chest to fight!"
"For this war, we, the Prussians, have prepared an army of 1.2 million. You can have as many as you want... We will fight you to the end this time!"
"We will fight to the death! We, Prussia, and you, France... fight to the death!"
The prince's roar was replaced by the charging cry of 160,000 troops. The fighting troops pressed upward layer by layer. The French battle formation was already full of black heads.
During the night battle, the French soldiers still did not feel the pressure of large numbers of troops. When the morning light illuminated the entire Vosges Mountains, the French truly realized what fear was.
The Prussian troops are so numerous that they are almost limitless. You can feel the physical strength of the opponent's soldiers with every charge. Experienced veterans and officers can even distinguish different military flags.
They knew that every charge the Prussians invested were fresh troops!
And what about your own side? They were all half-disabled soldiers who were exhausted from a bloody night of fighting!
Wounded soldiers piled up in the field hospital in the rear, and the wails could be heard clearly ten miles away. What was even more frightening was that the French army's supplies were almost at the bottom. According to the current scale of the battle, the French army would have to fight for another five or six hours. Even the supply of bullets is out of stock!
"Oh God! Have you abandoned France? Why is this, why is this!" The emotionally broken recruit kneeled in the shell crater with his head in his hands and cried loudly.
"We have been fighting for twelve hours. We have tried our best, but we really can't fight anymore..." Even the veterans couldn't hold on at this moment, and some were even so tired that they vomited blood.
"The enemy...the enemy's military flags are different every time they attack. They are using us as grindstones!" The dog-headed knives in the hands of the soldiers of the Foreign Legion were broken, and a wound like a baby's mouth was protruding from the ribs. Oozing blood.
"Where are the heavy machine guns? Where are the artillery? Why are there no heavy firepowers? How can we fight this battle? How can we fight this?" The angry officer held up the broken military flag and looked at the half-broken company with grief and anger. McMahon goes to reason.
But what can McMahon do? The heavy machine gun had been knocked out by the Prussian artillery in a night of melee, and the limited artillery had also run out of ammunition. What else could he do?
Standing on the tall wooden watchtower, McMahon's hands were shaking like sieves, and the overwhelming Prussian regiments in his field of vision completely shocked him.
"Pass my order..." McMahon's voice choked and he couldn't continue.
"Pass my order...retreat, we can't continue to be so wasted, retreat..."
After saying this, the old general covered his face with his hands and burst into tears!
The twelve-hour Battle of the Vosges Mountains finally came to an end with the collapse of the French on all fronts. McMahon's 40,000-strong army was reduced to more than 15,000 in the end, which can be said to be severely damaged.
This retreat was the biggest stain on McMahon's life, because he lost all his baggage and even all his wounded soldiers!
After the Prussians rushed to the commanding heights of the mountains, they discovered a field of field hospital tents behind the French army. There were wounded soldiers everywhere, so dense that they could not be seen to the end.
The strong smell of disinfectant and blood mixed together made people unable to breathe. The vanguard Prussian soldiers held their rifles in confusion and were at a loss.
Military doctors and nurses stood hand in hand outside the field hospital, using their bodies as human walls!
"We are members of the Red Cross, we are members of the Church, and for God's sake you cannot harm these wounded soldiers!"
"They have no fighting ability, they have no weapons! For the sake of God, please let them go!"
The Prussian soldiers were very disciplined, and they would not put down their guns aimed at these wounded soldiers until they received an order from their commander.
At this moment, Prince Carl's war horse stepped on the blood-stained mountain road and appeared on the front line!
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