In the end, the French failed to resist the Prussian army's march towards Paris. Although countless brave French guerrillas and civilians used their lives and blood to resist these invaders, they were still unable to resist the attack.
They fired cold shots, dug rails, demolished bridges... and used all kinds of sneak attack and destruction tactics. However, if the national destiny is defeated, it is defeated. Under the crushing force of absolute strength, the resistance of these stragglers is completely in vain.
The Prussian cavalry doubled in size immediately after being captured by the French army. They covered the fields and villages and massacred any French people who dared to resist.
Many villages were set ablaze, and if a family resisted, the entire village would be destroyed!
These romantic Frenchmen could not imagine the industrial efficiency of the Prussians, and the efficiency of those engineers repairing damaged railways was beyond his dreams.
What's even more frightening is Prussia's very strict and sophisticated logistics coordination system. All logistics officials are as accurate as mathematicians. They can calculate how much supplies are in the captured French warehouses as quickly as possible.
Then use the fastest time to deliver it, how long it will take on the road, how many trains need to be mobilized, and how to arrange the time period so that there will be no chaos... All of this is a very large and delicate system project. .
To operate this kind of system, it is absolutely impossible to rely on the romantic character of the French. Only the rigor of the Prussians and mathematical calculations can ensure the normal operation of the system.
The French were frightened. Many scholars and experts in the occupied areas of northern France finally understood that they had not lost unjustly. Let alone the enemy's combat effectiveness, it was enough to see them maintaining an efficient logistics support system. A miracle.
This was simply an extremely efficient water pump. Wherever it passed, France's wealth accumulated over the years was plundered extremely efficiently.
This is not the kind of burning, killing and looting where you vent your anger. This is a scientific and systematic screening and then turning it into your own use. Nothing will be wasted and any materials will be processed reasonably.
After the Prussian army swept through, the French would find that not even a grain of oat was left in their warehouses!
The most terrifying thing is that after the Prussians stole all the supplies, they would clean your warehouse, repair the broken doors and windows, and give very generous wages to the temporarily requisitioned French migrant workers.
This is simply a famous thug in a suit, who looks like a gentleman but is doing the most primitive banditry!
This extremely depressing atmosphere made all French people feel fear from the bone marrow. This was the first time that they faced the Prussian nation. They suddenly discovered that they had not really known the true appearance of this neighbor for thousands of years!
"They are just a machine, a very sophisticated state machine in which every part does its duty. It is cold, efficient, systematic and scientific...but they just can't see the humanity!"
"Not only are they inhumane to their enemies, they also seem to be inhumane to themselves!"
This is a common evaluation given by many French people in enemy-occupied areas after the war. It was also from the time of the introduction of France that the seeds of fear of Germany were sown in the French nation.
The ruthless German state machine was overwhelming the French land with all its strength, suppressing all resistance and plundering all supplies... The armies turned into huge arrows on the map, and the entire north of France trembled under these arrows.
All soldiers have only one goal, and that is Paris!
Prince Carl's vanguard has already moved to the south of Paris. They are fighting against the French Southern Army again and again. He wants to create the best fighter opportunities for the friendly forces surrounding Paris.
In the tug-of-war, the two sides were victorious, especially in Orleans. The positions of the enemy and ours almost changed every three days, and the reinforcements from both sides never stopped from beginning to end.
Prince Carl's army was never able to go south, and the French Southern Corps was never able to break through to support Paris!
Farther south, in the warm areas of Marseille, Lyon, and Bordeaux... all the people have been mobilized. Minister of the Interior Gambetta sent all his elite troops to every large city.
They went to raise funds, recruit troops, and quell internal conflicts... The developed nationalist spirit became a hot coal in the furnace of war!
There has been a stir in the south, all cities and villages have been mobilized, and the entire south of France has begun strong military preparations for war!
The north is not idle at the moment. Amiens and Arras in the northwest, Belfort and Dijon in the east, and the Orleans region in the center have become the three largest main battlefields for guerrilla warfare.
The unyielding French are resisting with all their strength, and their resistance will not stop until the Prussian army withdraws!
The whole of France has turned into a burning hell, and the flames of the peaceful nation began to burn unbridled. They burned the vitality of France and began to launch a counterattack against the enemy!
Paris! Everything is for Paris!
This historic city that makes all mankind proud has now become the core of the whirlpool of the war. If Paris holds, France will hold it, and if Paris falls, France will fall!
One city is related to one country, and one country is related to the power territory of global powers!
The eyes of the world are on Paris. At this moment, there is only Paris and nothing else!
But is Paris really ready? Obviously not, Paris has fallen into serious internal strife at this moment!
The emergence of the Chinese Corps broke the political balance that had only been maintained for a day after the emergence of the Republic. Xiao Letian's plan of killing people with a borrowed knife suddenly brought the hidden contradictions between the left and the right to the surface.
Thiers, Trochu and others mobilized all their forces and began to propagate the right-wing collusion with the invaders and treason. Otherwise, how could the battle end without anyone dying?
How cruel is Xiao Letian's army! Take a look at the Battle of East Frisia. How did it kill the French combined fleet?
How could such a cruel Eastern warlord have kind thoughts towards your National Guard? Let him go without killing anyone? There must be a ghost here!
Blanqui and others would never admit this scapegoat, and they began to launch their own newspapers to criticize item by item, from the enemy's too few troops to the deliberate preservation of strength, to the tactical discussions caused by the differences between the two armies...
But in general, the left's defense is far more favorable than the right's accusations, because the vast majority of the people are conspiracy parties, and they inherently like this kind of news with added information.
The conflict became more and more intense, and Blanqui and others received some hints during the meeting with Xiao Letian, which made Blanqui and others deeply worried about the changes in the situation.
"Comrades! We can no longer hesitate. We must have our own counterattack. Now it seems that the internal enemy is far more ferocious than the external one!"
"Illusions must be abandoned!"
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