Looking at Alfred and the others who were extremely excited, Xiao Letian turned around and said, "Although they are enemies, their spirit also shines. These are a group of people who have witnessed the evolution of the times!"
"Give them the best wine! Let them face Paris in the morning light...and then leave this world!"
After Xiao Letian finished speaking, he turned around and left. Wang Huaiyuan and others trotted after him quickly, "The head of state...really wants to kill them? These are big fish! They can exchange benefits!"
Xiao Letian shook his head and whispered, "I don't want any benefits. I respect these people, but they must die!"
Everyone climbed back onto the watchtower, and Xiao Letian looked at the French officers sitting around on the wall below, drinking wine and waiting for execution, and said with shame.
"They must die! Because these people are the soul of France's military. If they don't die, the country's military power will resurgence!"
"You must always remember, what is a military spirit, and how can we have a powerful army that will make the world fearful?"
"The most important thing is that you must have a core elite group with inheritance, ideals, and no betrayal. This group will have many names, but they are essentially the same as these military nobles!"
"These people have culture, inheritance, and loyalty to the country and the nation... As long as these people are passed down from generation to generation, then a country's army will have a backbone!"
"The more officers like Alfred who survive, the faster France's military strength will recover in the future. These are the excellent genes left by Napoleon!"
"Gene, gene...what exactly is the gene you always talk about?" Luo Huo asked, scratching his head.
"Shut up and focus on the main point. Why are you asking this..." Wang Huaiyuan glared at him, and Luo Huo immediately woke up.
There is an unwritten rule among senior Chinese leaders. If no one can understand the words spoken by the head of state, they must be recorded by the daily attention team, permanently entered into a secret file, and studied slowly in the future.
It seemed that Luo Huo was really tired from fighting all night, and he actually forgot this iron rule!
Xiao Letian smiled, "I have a hunch. I feel that this Franco-Prussian War will definitely trigger a great purge within France. The conflict between various factions will become very cruel. Many outstanding elites will probably be killed in this conflict." Lose your life!"
"If the old foundation left by Napoleon III is abandoned by France, then I can say with certainty that this country will never be able to return to the position of a first-class military power!"
"Never. Even if their economy, culture, art... are restored to the status of a world-class power, their military will never go back!"
"Because their roots are broken!"
There was a hiss... The surrounding officers took a breath of air, "No wonder you insist on shooting these people. It turns out it's not just because they massacre civilians! It turns out you want to break France's military backbone!"
"Yes! You are right. The French nation is good in many ways, but there is one thing that is similar to us Chinese, and that is that it is very prone to infighting!"
"This time the French Emperor will definitely fail. Once he completely fails, the Second Empire will definitely be overthrown. The new Republic that comes to power in the future will definitely liquidate these direct descendants of the French Emperor!"
"People are hopeless once they fall into fanaticism. They will not consider that these people are actually the essence of the country's military power. They will think that these people are the direct descendants of Napoleon III and exclude them!"
"Mature and experienced military commanders, especially a large number of middle-level commanders, have been excluded at all. So do you think there is still hope for this army?"
"The most important thing is that this example is very bad and will have a very bad impact on the people. When countless military families have been excluded, tried, liquidated, and even killed, who will be the outstanding talents of France in the future?" Will you devote your life to the military?"
"People are profit-seeking, and they will not put themselves in dangerous places. When the army loses its best talents, do you think there is still hope?"
"Haha... France is finished. From now on, they will become a first-class country in economy and culture, but their military will always be second-rate!"
History finally proved Xiao Letian's judgment. Just after the French Revolution, the Second Empire was overthrown, and the legacy left by Napoleon was liquidated.
Almost all the nobles were deprived of their privileges and even excluded from the army. However, those politicians never expected that the establishment of the army's command system would not happen overnight.
The military soul was taken away, and it was not so easy to condense it again. The subsequent World War I and World War II were simply a disaster for France.
In World War I, the entire battlefield was concentrated within French territory. The Germans were always suppressing and fighting in France. World War II was even more unbearable. Under the sharp offensive of the Blitzkrieg, the French had no ability to counterattack at all. .
France's status as a military power has never been restored since the introduction of France, but France's culture, economy, art... and other fields have always been at the level of a first-class power.
The morning light in the east became brighter and brighter. Alfred and the others also reached the end of their lives. They polished their medals, leather boots, and belt buckles.
The military uniforms stained with gunpowder smoke were straightened and flattened as much as possible. The Chinese soldiers even brought them a lot of water. These people washed their faces and combed their hair neatly.
They lined up neatly, their eyes facing Paris full of longing for the motherland. Alfred led them to sing the last Marseillaise. Amidst the passionate singing, gunshots rang out!
The last group of officers of the Praetorian Guard were shot on the city wall of Syny for the crime of massacring civilians!
All the Chinese officers on the watchtower were silent at this moment. They took off their hats and gave a military salute to these soldiers!
"Farewell, the last soldiers of Emperor Napoleon! Farewell!"
At that moment, Xiao Letian seemed to see Napoleon Bonaparte sighing in heaven. The last legacy he left to France, a giant of that era, had also disappeared!
"A rich burial! Erect a monument! Hire the best sculptors in Europe to carve a statue for me in Syuni, so that everything that happened in this war... will be recorded forever!"
Holding on to the railing, Xiao Letian had mixed feelings, "They are also a group of poor people! They are not pleasing to the eye both inside and outside. In the eyes of the French workers and peasants, these people are aristocratic nobles who are oppressive. They may have been scolded a lot." !”
"In the eyes of the nobles of traditional European countries such as the United Kingdom, Prussia, and Austria, these nobles whose families have not been formed for more than three generations are not nobles at all. They even look down upon these people with half-closed eyes!"
"There are no people inside or outside, it's just them... All the efforts they made to make France a strong military power have been buried..."
"Just because Napoleon III was a pig teammate... he destroyed so many people! His uncle's soldiers were all destroyed by him..."
