Blanqui and other leftist leaders are also qualified to observe the meeting. When they hear the opponent's speech, they will naturally criticize a few words: "Oh? Is the intelligence very well-informed? Two thousand Chinese troops dispersed more than a thousand French regular troops with just one charge. ?”
"It is said that even a single effective salvo was not fired before they became a group of frightened ducks..."
General Trochu's face turned black with anger. He picked up the gavel and banged it, "Gentlemen, watch your words! Observers are not allowed to speak without permission!"
Then Trochu turned his face to Thiers' side and said, "Mr. Congressman, do you have any suggestions?"
Good guy, Blanqui is so angry. You just said you were not allowed to speak, and then you asked Trochu to speak. It is clear that you are trying to put small shoes on for us!
Thiers smiled coldly, "Dear general, since some people have questioned the combat effectiveness of the regular army, then I think their team must be very capable..."
"Since I am very confident, I suggest that the National Guard go out to fight and eat these invaders who dare to invade Paris!"
With a bang, all the leftist representatives present went crazy, "What are the 180,000 garrison troops going to do? The national crisis is looming, do you want to sit back and watch?"
"Unfair and unreasonable!"
Thiers stood up and shouted tit for tat, "Justice? Reasonable? Do you think that what your Self-Defense Forces want is to eat for free and not work?"
"You just received one million francs of military pay at noon, and now you are retreating when you encounter 2,000 enemies? If you don't have the guts to fight, then return the military pay and disband the army!"
Thiers turned to look at General Trochu, "Members of the committee, the current 180,000 regular troops have caused a certain degree of command chaos due to the collapse of the empire and the establishment of a new government..."
"Many officers who were loyal to the French emperor left their posts, and some officers who were afraid of being liquidated also temporarily fled the military camp. At this moment, the morale of the military has been very unstable..."
"Although the army has issued a notice stating that it will not hold the officers left behind by the empire accountable, it still needs time to restore morale...Am I right?"
General Trochu understood immediately and nodded immediately. "Indeed, the current situation in the army is still a bit chaotic. It takes time for the officers to return to the army..."
This time Thiers found an opportunity. "During the great political changes caused by the collapse of the empire, there were no major changes in the system of the National Guard. Your command is still very stable..."
"If you don't come out to fight at this time, do you still want to hide in the city and fight for power?"
All the left-wing representatives who were crowded in one sentence fell silent. They were blushing and angry, but Blanqui stood up, "The Workers' Self-Defense Force is never a decoration, and our love for the motherland is higher than anyone else!"
"Since you want us to fight, please give us weapons and ammunition. As long as the ammunition is in place, we can go into battle tomorrow!"
"Good! Thank you for your loyalty to the motherland... I propose that the committee replenish the two arsenals around the Porte de Chapelle to the National Guard..."
Thiers is really cunning. The Porte de Chapelle is close to Montmartre. It has always been the stronghold of the left. The two arsenals were almost robbed by the Self-Defense Forces.
But this can't be said on the table. Blanqui can't say that the country's arsenal is out of arms. Can you open two other places for me?
If you really say this, some things that everyone knows tacitly will have to be put on the table and talked about!
When Blanqui left the Bourbon Palace with the representatives of the left, Varlin beside him said angrily, "These cowards, they are afraid of death and let us take the lead..."
"That's enough! Have you forgotten our original ideal? Let the world see our power... When did we start to make calculations like businessmen?"
"It's too late for us to have such an opportunity normally! Only war can show our prestige, and only victory can let the people of France know that we are the savior!"
"Go back to the meeting and prepare the troops for battle immediately..."
The military meeting on Montmartre lasted until three o'clock in the morning. Finally, the Workers' Self-Defense Force decided to send 20,000 elite troops out of the city under the leadership of Frankl and Delecluse to face the enemy's vanguard force.
Of course they would not believe the total number of troops that the ignorant people said. The total number of troops that Xiao Letian brought to Europe was not a secret. The army only had more than 2,000 people, and the navy only had officers and soldiers on the Zhiyuan.
After suffering losses in several major battles, the army's ability to maintain a size of two thousand is now at its limit!
Even if you Chinese are all elites, you can't withstand the siege of ten times the force, and Blanqui and others' plan is not to completely annihilate this army.
What they want is expulsion. As long as the Chinese can retreat, it will be considered a victory, because everyone knows that these two thousand people are just standing in the front line.
The hundreds of thousands of Prussian troops behind are the most terrifying. The decisive battle in Paris will happen sooner or later. No one dares to say for sure how this cruel battle will turn out.
After having breakfast in the early morning, 20,000 soldiers of the Workers' Self-Defense Force walked out of the Chapelle Gate with weapons and high morale. Amidst the cheers of tens of thousands of Montmartre citizens, they moved towards the north.
The whole city was filled with the singing of Marseillaise, the cheers were undulating like the ocean tide, and the rooftops of all the houses were filled with excited citizens. A war was actually like a celebration.
It is human nature that some people go crazy. The 20,000 self-defense soldiers were excited and passionate, and they really had the superficial aura of elites who have fought in hundreds of battles while carrying rifles.
However, when more than 20,000 Self-Defense Force soldiers left the city for two or three kilometers, the atmosphere suddenly changed. The city wall of Paris seemed to be a watershed.
The further north you go, the fewer people there are. It's like a no-man's land suddenly appeared in the north of Paris with the town of Beaubier as the center.
Everyone fled, and all villages and factories within a ten-kilometer radius of the town of Beaubier became lifeless.
It wasn't until these soldiers saw more than a hundred women and children who had escaped that the torture in the grape fields began!
A feeling of worry filled the hearts of the two commanders-in-chief. They suddenly found that they could no longer understand the enemy in front of them. If after questioning today, they found that these Chinese people were committing all kinds of crimes, burning, killing and looting, then they might be able to relax a little.
But I didn't expect that these Chinese people didn't play their cards according to the routine at all, and actually didn't do any harm to the people!
Because I couldn't understand, I felt a great sense of strangeness. What I feared when fighting was that the enemy's situation was unclear. In addition, the Chinese army had already made a name for itself in Europe. Under the aura of a strong army, these troops had just been established for more than half a year. The National Guard had no idea.
Bah... Frankel spit out the cookie crumbs in his mouth. "Continue the interrogation. We must find out the specific situation of the enemy... Send out the vanguard to explore in a fan shape..."
Before he could finish giving the order, there was a sudden commotion among the troops ahead.
"Coming...there are flags ahead...smoke of cavalry...the Chinese are coming!"
