The weather in France this year is very evil. According to the old saying of the ancients, any year when there are too many soldiers and dead people, the Feng Shui will be affected.
After a war, there are usually plagues, floods, droughts, earthquakes, famines, snowstorms, and other inexplicable disasters. Is there any reason for this? It must make sense in Feng Shui astrology, but modern natural science cannot figure out the reason behind it.
But no matter what, today the climate in France, including the entire Western Europe, is extremely abnormal and extremely cold!
After late autumn comes early winter. Normally, the weather shouldn't be that cold again. However, after a few years of late autumn, people still don't feel like early winter. The unusually cold northwest wind brings extreme cooling. The temperature at night has already reached below zero. On the Seine River, there are actually Small ice floes appeared.
It's true that weasels only bite sick ducks. At the juncture when Paris began to organize a continuous breakout, the weather also came to cause trouble. All the pawnshops in Paris were smashed open. The winter clothes that people had pawned before were now available for free. Redeemed free of charge.
The pawnshop owners all cried their eyes dry. Isn't this an open robbery? Their property was robbed by these untouchables. Who will reimburse the losses?
Only Eugene and Andrew made the transition in time. When the weather just got cold, they took the initiative to ask their pawnshops to distribute winter coats in the warehouse for free in advance.
Why do we need to pawn tickets during the war? Many people have already died in the battlefield. Now we can just grab the winter clothes and distribute them as we please. Once they are all distributed, it will free up the warehouse.
The sudden cooling has not only affected the pawnshops, but also affected the interests of wealthy families. The material coordination department under the commune has begun door-to-door 'mobilization'.
This was not a mobilization, it was an open robbery. The wolf-like National Guard soldiers rushed into the houses of the nobles, capitalists, and middle class, leaving a few pieces of clothing for them, while confiscating all other winter clothing.
Suddenly, the rich areas of Paris were filled with cries, and those wealthy people who were lucky enough not to have time to escape from the city were so regretful that their intestines turned green.
Even more unlucky were the properties left by those who had escaped from Paris. The Commune ordered all properties to be confiscated, and the villas were given to the poor to live in. The clothes that were not taken away were distributed to keep out the cold. The gold and silver treasures and antique calligraphy and paintings were concentrated in Transport them together to the commune's warehouse, and keep them for God knows what.
General Trochu could no longer control the security of Paris. The 180,000 garrison troops were taking turns fighting fiercely with the Prussian troops outside the city. Sometimes, artillery fire continued 24 hours a day.
There is no truce, no rest. Bismarck has also understood the difficulties faced by General Trochu. He will not give these trapped beasts any chance. The Prussian army must actively control the rhythm of the war and disrupt their deployment of breakout forces. They pooled their strength.
The city of Metz surrendered. The benefit he brought was not only the liberation of three to four hundred thousand troops, but more importantly, the loss of such a strategic location. Many guerrillas lost their backbone, plus a large number of Prussian cavalry focused on strangulation. , at this moment the northern railway network has begun to resume traffic.
Artillery shells and supplies from the rear can be continuously transported to Paris. The God of War finally no longer has to save ammunition!
At this time, the Parisians finally understood why the French emperor failed in the north. Facing the overwhelming firepower advantage, the old troops really couldn't stand it.
Often the positions that large troops sacrificed thousands of lives to recapture would explode into a sea of flames after one or two volleys from the Prussian artillery. The battle loss ratio was really too big.
The insidious Prussian infantry and artillery coordination is really exquisite. The infantry assault attracts more French troops to counterattack. When the French army is dense enough to explode for one round, the artillery will pour out firepower without hesitation.
No one has accurately calculated the battle loss ratio, but a hasty analysis by Chinese battlefield observers shows that the battle loss ratio within ten days has reached at least 1:8. In other words, one soldier died in the Prussian army, and at least one soldier died in France. Eight!
This is the difference between professionals and non-professionals. Among the eight French soldiers who died, at least six were National Guardsmen who had not received much training. This statistic is really terrifying.
What's even worse is that the Prussian army also carried out strategic bombings into the city from time to time, specifically targeting civilian areas. Countless houses were razed to the ground during the artillery bombardments, and fires often burned down entire neighborhoods.
In order to avoid the artillery bombardment, more people gathered towards the center of the city. The Ile de la Cité was no longer able to get in. People bundled up in clothes to avoid both the artillery fire and the cold north.
"Oh God! Please save Paris, save France!"
"God! Please end this war!"
Outside Notre-Dame Cathedral on the Île de la Cité, thousands of women and children were praying. Often, before the prayer was even halfway through, the sound of prayer would be replaced by crying.
In addition to war and cold, there is of course hunger. At this moment, all food in Paris has been collected and distributed uniformly.
Of course the troops have priority. They have their own warehouses and distribution plans. The most pitiful people are the citizens. They can no longer find any food at home. Every day they have to queue up in long lines outside the food supply points. What we got in the end was just a little bit of potato skin soup.
Blanqui walked on the street and looked at the queue that was one kilometer long in front of him. People were so hungry that their eyes were dazzled. The food supply point distributing potato soup in the distance was the last hope for these people to survive.
In a small alley, several armed National Guardsmen were monitoring a dozen children catching rats. These rats were also public property, and even a little bit of rat meat was not allowed to be taken privately.
All mice caught by the children must be turned in and distributed uniformly. The best mouse catcher can finally get a small potato as a reward.
Blanqui burst into tears when he saw all this. "Oh God! How long are you going to punish us? Food is the biggest consumable. Winter clothes are easy to buy. Each person can wear one suit for several years..."
"What should we do with this food and fuel? How many more people will die in Paris this winter!"
At this moment, a soldier ran panting from a distance!
"Sir... General Thiers ordered our department to organize two armies to cooperate with the garrison to break out of the Champigny area..."
"Champigny area? How many troops has the general prepared..."
"One hundred thousand! The old general has prepared one hundred thousand people!"
"A decisive battle?" The people around Blanqui suddenly burst into an uproar!
"The old general can't bear it any longer. He's trying to fight for his old fortune!"
Blanqui sighed with a grimace, "What if we don't fight? We don't even have food, are we waiting to die?"
