War is definitely not a child's play, it is a top science and even an art!
All military powers in the world have their own origin, transition, development and process of reaching their peak, just like France.
From a historical point of view, it is true that France is the first-class power in Europe, but France's status as a military power was established by Napoleon. Before that, France could not even defeat the British army.
During the Hundred Years' War between England and France, the British long archers gave the French a lot of credit!
Even in the end, a woman named Joan of Arc was needed to inspire the morale of the nation!
It can be seen that France has not been the best in the world in terms of military force since ancient times. What has been strong since ancient times is their developed agriculture, technology, and culture!
Until Napoleon was born, he cleverly borrowed the power of the Revolution and finally created an invincible iron army that swept across Europe!
Napoleon's army was an army that was basically separated from the medieval heritage. He basically did not use those ancient blood nobles. His army was entirely composed of free peasants liberated by the Great Revolution.
Then a large number of middle-class children with a certain level of education were promoted to become officers, and a military aristocratic group was quickly formed!
It can be said that Emperor Napoleon and Xiao Letian made the same choice. They both chose to paint a new army on a piece of white paper by themselves, rather than bothering to transform the old army.
They are afraid that the bad habits of the old army will contaminate the new army. What they are pursuing is a completely new system and power!
The French Revolution freed a large number of oppressed tenants and slaves, turning them into extremely loyal and heroic warriors in the army!
Immediately after the Great Revolution, France's religious forces were strongly suppressed, and basic science finally could not be suppressed. New technologies sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. At that time, French artillery technology was definitely the best in Europe.
Of course, there is also a group of well-ordered officer corps. These officer groups were personally trained by Napoleon the Great, and they were the most important military force that later supported Napoleon III’s rise to power!
This is the source of France’s strong military!
Warfare is both science and art. This is not a skill that ordinary people can master! Many outstanding senior generals were raised through three generations of influence.
For example, if you open their family resumes and look at the senior German generals during World War I and World War II, you will see that they were basically from military aristocrats for several generations.
The toys that the generals grew up with were weapons. While other children were still shining shoes, growing crops, and raising cows, the children of these military aristocratic families had already begun to ride horses and hunt, fly private jets, read military classics, and build sandboxes to play war. It’s game!
This kind of generals who have been nurtured since childhood are the core of an army, and their family background is the magic weapon for invincibility!
Many of the unique skills on the battlefield are passed down by word of mouth among these families, and many are purely based on experience!
Only with such a group of officers and well-disciplined soldiers can we create an iron army that can conquer all corners of the country!
Why is it said that the more than 10,000 French cavalrymen killed by Xiao Letian in Syny were the most tragic massacre in the entire Franco-Prussian War? Because Xiao Letian killed all the aristocratic children with good family backgrounds!
All those killed were future French generals!
In the battle of Sedan, what the French army broke out was their true appearance. The French army, which was cornered, finally woke up from their sleepwalking, and they finally displayed the majesty they had when they swept across Europe!
On the other hand, Belgium has never won a military victory. Their army is completely symbolic. Even if the weapons are the same, they do not have such an orderly officer corps or a group of soldiers who risk their lives. !
Such a unit can only fight with favorable conditions, and its command is completely based on a small-scale peasant mentality. If it doesn't take enough advantage, it will run away if it suffers!
When the French cavalry charged just now, if the Ba Dao team had not reacted quickly, all their positions would have collapsed!
But now when they saw that the city wall of Sedan had been breached and the city gates were opened by the Prussians, their desire to take advantage suddenly defeated their reason.
Countless Belgian soldiers did not wait for Luo Huo and Sima Yun to give orders, and launched the charge themselves!
Fortunately, the Chinese soldiers reacted quickly and blocked the subsequent charge of the Bi army. Otherwise, it would not have been two battalions that rushed into Sedan City this time, but a reorganized division!
"Idiot! Bastard! Will there be a war? If this happened to us Chinese, you would all be shot..."
"Order the artillery support from the rear...the artillery is pushed forward...without the cooperation of the infantry and artillery, we will never have a rash street fight!"
"You're looking for death! Is your brain flooded?"
The charging Belgian army couldn't hear the angry curses of the Chinese soldiers at all. Of course, they couldn't understand the Chinese language. These noisy so-called troops actually didn't know how to fight at all.
Belgium has not undergone modern military reforms. Most of the officers under its command are traditional blood nobles, while the soldiers are a group of ordinary people fighting for military pay.
Once such a combination arrives on the battlefield, it will immediately fail!
"Kill! Enter Sedan...avenge Sygny...capture the French Emperor alive!" The Belgian soldiers from the two battalions shouted so loudly that the running formation was almost gone.
If ordinary people heard such cries of killing, they would really think that this was a strong army, but in the eyes of the Chinese officers and soldiers, this group of people was just a group of chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep about to die!
Sure enough, when most of the Belgian army rushed into the city, a bastion at the eleven o'clock position on the left front of the army suddenly let out the roar of a heavy machine gun.
Ta da da...ta da da...
The French Mitrayotz machine gun was spitting flames in the bastion. In the sight of the heavy machine gunner, this group of soldiers were beaten to a bloody pulp!
"Open fire! Kill these invaders who are taking advantage of the situation!"
Countless French soldiers flashed out of the buildings on both sides of the road, their rifles stretched out and firing downwards!
This group of Belgian troops fighting without authorization were like a group of surrounded rats running around!
"Counterattack! Fire... Find cover!" The officer repeated these two sentences back and forth. He had no idea how to deal with such an ambush.
At this moment, the French artillery on the bastion suddenly opened fire!
Boom...boom...two artillery shells exploded directly in the Belgian army. The battalion commander who was directing the battle just now was directly blown into a pulp.
"We can't get through it... Oh my God... We can't get through it... Retreat quickly!"
"Help me...someone help me...Mom..."
The Belgian army, which suffered heavy casualties, began to retreat, and even a group of cowards were frightened out of their courage. They hid in the corner of the ruins, holding their heads, shouting their mother's name and praying to God.
At this moment, a loud noise suddenly came from the city gate, and a cannonball went straight towards the bastion with a bang. The violent explosion directly cut off a corner of the bastion.
"Back off...move out of the main road...let the artillery clear the way!"
In the chaos, the Chinese vanguard pushed a Krupp steel cannon and opened fire on the French army from the city gate.
Note: The third update is coming! Tired and vomiting blood...
