The negotiations in Kassel could not be reached in a day. Even if Napoleon III had already wavered, it would be a very difficult decision to launch the royalists to attack his motherland.
The Emperor knew that Xiao Letian was right. The stronger the Republic became, the slimmer his son's hope of restoration became!
The only way is to make the newly established republic riddled with holes, let them have a serious civil war, and let all politicians fight in their dens like vicious dogs!
Only in this way, the great liquidation will not happen, they will not have the energy to counterattack, and they will not kill the royalists!
In other words, the more fierce the fight between the Republicans and the left, and the more overt and covert the politicians in Paris are, the more the Bonaparte family will benefit!
The French Republic was in chaos. The French emperor benefited, Prussia and the Chinese also benefited, but in the end, of course, the French nation suffered a big loss!
This knot in Napoleon III's heart was really difficult. After all, it was his own motherland. He was watching bloodshed and civil strife. In his heart, it was definitely nonsense to say that there was no moral condemnation.
However, human nature, especially the love of licking calves, is the biggest weakness in human emotions. Social animals like humans can endure some hardships, but once the interests of future generations are involved, they will sacrifice everything.
The back-and-forth negotiations continued day by day. Autumn came a little early this year. The small town of Kassel has become cooler day by day since Xiao Letian arrived.
The royalist party is a huge force, and how it should be used must be carefully calculated and scrutinized. Xiao Letian and the Emperor, the life-and-death enemies, are temporarily tied together because of their interests.
Just as the William Palace was discussing how to betray the country, the war was once again raging in Orleans, an important town in southern France. Prince Carl's regiment, which had just occupied the city for a week, suddenly encountered a large-scale attack by the French army.
Orleans is a very important historical city in central France. It is nourished by the Loire River and is the birthplace of the French royal family. In the Middle Ages, it was the richest place in France after Paris.
But at this moment, this historic city turned into a sea of fire. The whole city was filled with black smoke, and shouts of death rang out from every street!
The Loire River crosses the entire city and divides the front into two. The south bank of the river has been liberated by the French Southern Corps, and even the western city on the north bank has been established by the Southern Corps to advance.
The entire south and west of the battlefield have gradually been controlled by the French army, but the Prussian army still resists tenaciously. Nearly 100,000 Prussian troops control the north and east. The solid defense line is like an iron barrel, resisting the French army's charge.
The horns of charging echoed on the battlefield, and the frenzied Marseillaise shook the whole city along with the charging crowd!
Gambetta arrived in Orleans three days ago. His breakout was a narrow escape. Although he escaped the more than 200,000 troops besieging Paris, he was pursued by the Prussian cavalry.
An elite cavalry team of three hundred people on the ground bites the hot air balloons in the sky like bone-eroding poison. Maybe Old Moltke and the others don't know which hot air balloon has Ganbi Da on it, but this doesn't mean Prevent them from mobilizing cavalry and target all hot air balloons.
Gambetta and a balloon operator nervously controlled the altitude and headed south under the escort of the northwest wind. It took them a whole day and night to see the rich Loire Valley.
At this moment, the French cavalry was still behind them, and the hot air balloon was running out of fuel, so it had no choice but to make an emergency landing!
The French Legion on the south bank of the Loire River saw the hot air balloons in the sky early, and they had previously received the latest orders from Paris via telegram.
These legions knew that the Minister of the Interior had forced a breakout to support them, and the whole army suddenly went into shock!
The Battle of the Loire broke out suddenly without any preparation!
The hot air balloons in the sky were slowly descending. The French army on the south bank used almost all the pontoons. The pontoons composed of these wooden boats extended inch by inch to the north bank under enemy artillery attacks.
The artillery of the Prussian and French armies began to pour firepower across the Loire River. At this time, the Southern Corps was no longer as poor as it used to be. With full support from the rich south, the Loire Corps now had more than 1,800 artillery pieces and more than 1,000 artillery shells. 120,000 rounds.
Although the quality of the artillery was much worse than that of the Prussian army opposite, it could not withstand the continuous flow of follow-up support. More than 80 cannons and more than 10,000 shells were delivered to Orleans every day!
Boom boom boom... On both sides of the Loire River, flames shot into the sky, and high-explosive shells were harvesting lives. French engineers who were not afraid of death jumped bare-chested into the river and began to push the pontoon forward.
Amidst the sound of bullets and cannons, wooden ships were fixed on the cables one after another, and huge wooden boards were placed on them. Big, rough hands stained with blood used their last strength to fix the pedals.
The so-called engineers and soldiers are just ordinary and simple workers in southern cities. At this moment, they are paving a road to victory with their lives.
"Forward! Attack Orleans...rescue our deputies, rescue the ministers of the republic!"
"Mr. Gambetta is trapped on the north shore... rush over!"
The last wooden boat was tied with a cable, and the first pontoon bridge was laid under the enemy's bullets. Although there was still a distance of four meters from the north shore and it could not be paved, the troops preparing behind could not wait any longer. The commandos carried the Bayonet attacks were launched towards the north shore.
The pontoon bridge could never reach the north bank, and the last wooden stakes could never be driven to the bottom of the river. In order to prevent the pontoon bridge from being washed away by the river, these lunatic engineers used their bodies as stakes and firmly grasped the cables and stood in the river.
More than a dozen engineers gathered together and grabbed a cable and stood in the mud like living stakes. The soldiers on the pontoon shouted and charged forward.
The Prussian troops on the other side were shocked. They rushed out of their bunkers and ran to the river to get closer and shoot. These engineers were killed in the water and their blood dyed the river red.
But I never expected that those brave engineers who were not afraid of death would use their own bodies to block the bullets, and the human flesh stakes controlling the cables would not scatter until they died!
In the river, the engineer at the bottom had drowned, but the muscles of his arms and fingers were tight and stiff even when he died, and he was still holding on to the cable tightly. Even the last weight of the body, which was more than 100 kilograms, was still pressing down on him. The pontoon is as stable as a mountain!
"Crazy! These French guys are crazy..." the commander of the Prussian army on the other side shouted in horror, "the French emperor's regular troops in the north are not so crazy!"
"You are just a group of farmers and workers...you are not professional soldiers, why are you so crazy! Why?"
Every life that died in the Loire River did not answer his question. What answered him was only the tragic light of the sword and the flame of revenge!
"The 2nd Battalion of the 1st Toulouse Division... breaks through the Loire River! Attack!"
"The Marseille Independent Brigade... broke through successfully... the artillery covered our attack!"
"The Bordeaux Brigade advances...rescue Senator Gambetta...kill them!"
Gambetta in the sky had tears in his eyes as he watched dozens of torrents on the earth break through the Loire River, and they were fighting desperately with him as the center.
"O God! My country! Please give me another gust of wind, even a breeze...send me to my regiment!"
