No matter how many times you have seen Paris on military maps or intelligence photos, you have never been as shocked as seeing it with your own eyes!
Don’t think that you have lived in Paris for a long time, but if you have never overlooked this city from the sky, you cannot truly appreciate its magnificence!
More than two million people crowded into this planned city. The slow flow of the Seine River divided this beautiful city into the left bank and the right bank!
Rows upon rows of streets are filled with small buildings of different heights, and the spacious streets are bustling with pedestrians and vehicles!
What’s on the Ile de la Cité in the distance is the bell tower of Notre Dame de Paris?
In the distance of the Louvre is the Arc de Triomphe that Napoleon passed through?
Bismarck and Xiao Letian have been shocked by the Paris in front of them. Whether you are an enemy or not, you cannot deny the unique charm exuded by the city in front of you!
Paris is Paris, no need to say more, no need to say more! This is a magical city that you will never forget once you take one look!
What surprised the two of them even more was that this city of art and humanities was currently shrouded in layers of murderous intent!
Not to mention the tall and magnificent city walls, the continuous fortifications and huge bastions outside the city walls are even more surprising!
At this moment, Bismarck realized why Xiao Letian had always asked for a decisive battle outside the city instead of forcibly attacking the city. Trochu was simply a country rat. He spent more than a year using trenches and bunkers to surround Paris. stand up.
This is really a giant hedgehog with all its spikes erect, with two million pairs of hateful eyes behind the trenches that will tear apart all invaders!
What is even more frightening is the urban street fighting fortifications with Montmartre as the core. Parisian workers have armed all streets.
The sculptures that carved the majestic image of the Napoleon family were beheaded and pushed to the ground. They were replaced with layers of sandbags and cannons behind the sandbag wall.
Perhaps the lifeless war with the Chinese stimulated all left-wing workers, and now they are armed with tenfold enthusiasm for street fighting.
All street entrances are armed fortifications. Sandbags are the most consumed material at the moment. The windows of the buildings along the street are also half filled with sandbags. The gunmen can easily shoot down.
The streets were full of self-defense force officers and soldiers marching and training. They had no ready-made barracks to use, so they commandeered almost all the leisure squares and spacious streets. Many children aged 18 or 19 received simple military training here.
All this was seen by everyone on the airship. Everyone was stunned. Even the intelligence officers carrying cameras and shorthand notebooks forgot about the work at hand.
"Don't be stunned, gentlemen...start your work...outline the city defense map of Paris in the shortest possible time, let us see where there are gaps that can be attacked..."
Only then did people wake up. The camera on the tripod began to frame the scene and clicked the shutter. The pencil sketch on the white paper rustled. The Paris city defense map began to be perfected bit by bit.
The sudden appearance of the huge airship in the sky naturally attracted the attention of the Paris defenders below. Countless soldiers rushed out from their hiding places, pointing at the sky with various weapons and telescopes.
At an altitude of more than thirty meters, looking down is the enemy's territory. You can still hear some curses in the whistling wind, but you can't hear them clearly yet.
Soon, French soldiers began to shoot with their guns. The bullets flew upwards, and several of them hit the armored panels of the pods, making crisp sounds.
"Increase the pressure...enter an altitude of fifty meters...keep a safe distance..."
Duke Zeppelin did not dare to let the two big men take risks. He knew that the height of thirty meters could already protect him, but he continued to increase the height just in case.
The initial anger of the Paris soldiers and civilians quickly turned into panic. When they found that all the weapons in their hands could not deal with this big guy, they were all scared.
Some people are even afraid that this huge airship will parachute into the city with countless soldiers!
Every neighborhood where the airship flew over triggered a crowd of panicked people. Xiao Letian saw with his own eyes the crowds of Parisian citizens running away in all directions, as if someone would throw a gun at them in the next second!
Bismarck sighed, "If I had thirty of these airships, modified a batch of bombs, and bombed the city all night long... why does the war have to be so complicated!"
"Impossible!" Xiao Letian shook his head. "The airship is too seriously affected by the climate. If the weather is slightly worse, it will not be able to take off..."
"The limitations of combat are too great... In addition, this airship is too expensive. Just one of these airships cost me nearly four million pounds. Even if mass production becomes cheaper in the future, it will probably cost around three million pounds..."
"With so much money, wouldn't it be nice to build some ironclads?"
"More importantly... there are too many ways to restrain airships, and they are all cheap..." Xiao Letian pointed to some steel plants and machinery processing plants on the edge of the East District of Paris..."
"With the industrial strength of Paris, it is very simple to make weapons against airships...Build a few small-caliber artillery pieces separately, modify the gun mount, and increase the elevation angle of its up and down adjustment..."
"This is an anti-aircraft gun that can easily fight against airships... It doesn't cost much but it can easily penetrate our defenses. The key is that our speed is too slow and we can't escape..."
Hearing Xiao Letian say this, Bismarck's newly warmed-up heart felt cold again. "Since you have already seen the shortcomings, why do you still invest so much? It's such a waste..."
"You can't say that... I purchased Duke Zeppelin's airship patent. My purpose is to use it in special operations. Airships have little military use in Europe, but they are a good treasure in Asia!"
"With Asia's industrial level, they can build anti-aircraft guns that can't restrain me, and my airship can become invincible... Occasionally launching a surprise attack or something, of course it will be useful!"
"So Mr. Zeppelin, if you do bold research, I will come and acquire new patents..."
The Zeppelin began to rotate clockwise along the city walls of Paris. All Paris defenders were in panic wherever it went, while the Prussian siege troops in the distance cheered.
Under the pens of eighteen master cartographers, the city defense map of Paris gradually took shape. The more Bismarck looked at it, the more anxious he became. He finally knew how difficult it was to defeat Paris. If he attacked by force, he would have to pay at least 70,000 to 80,000 troops. Huge casualties.
"Go to Kassel tomorrow... have a good talk with Napoleon III, as long as he cooperates with us to activate the royalist forces in France..."
"I'll give him freedom... By the way, you can also go and meet this old enemy... I know you've been biting and wanting revenge for a long time, so I'll give you a chance to slap him in the face..."
"Pass my order...all besieging troops strictly prohibit construction, build permanent fortifications, and surround this city to me!"
