"Exposed! The enemy's artillery position is finally exposed!"
After encountering this shelling in the front enemy headquarters of the Third Division, instead of panicking, they were filled with excitement!
In the minds of these officers, although the shelling caused some casualties, the biggest threat exposed was more worthy of celebration!
"Great, there is no deviation in our intelligence. The enemy has hidden the artillery in the Sorbonne University, right in the Sorbonne College!"
"Attack! The Guards Cavalry is dispatched, and the reserves are pressing in! Once this artillery position is destroyed, the entire Saint-Michel Street will no longer be a threat!"
"Tell the boys that they are the last pride of the Imperial Cavalry! Don't let His Majesty down, don't let these thugs have the last laugh!"
The Third Division has more than 10,000 troops. Only half of its troops have been deployed so far, and it has already suppressed the Paris Commune. What are the remaining troops doing?
They are all in reserve, all waiting for the cannon controlled by the commune to fire!
Artillery is the god of war, these are Napoleon's original words! It is possible that modern people no longer realize how important cannons are, because people in the 21st century have long been fed by more black-tech weapons.
Guns already existed during World War II. Large-caliber naval guns exceeded more than 400 millimeters. One shell was enough to destroy an entire building!
Even more so in the new century, the emergence of smart weapons has doubled the efficiency of human beings killing each other!
In this context, ordinary people would think that old-fashioned artillery is so powerful!
Coupled with the future weapons imagined and depicted by movies, TV, Internet and other media, such as Star Wars and so on, it has greatly expanded human imagination!
But people today are different from the ancients. When analyzing any problem, you should jump to the environment of the ancients and think about it!
What was the cannon of the late nineteenth century? The cannons at that time were actually just like today's nuclear weapons and bombs. They were strategic weapons and important weapons of the country!
Is this a bit heavy-handed? Absolutely not!
Because in that era, no weapon was more powerful than a cannon. As the top king of all weapon systems, he was the brightest diamond in the crown of war!
Moreover, judging from the technological level of mankind at that time, cannon-making technology has always been a unique skill of a few industrial powers. It is the most important commodity that earns foreign exchange!
The profit from Germany's export of a large-caliber naval gun to the world was enough for the medium-sized British spinning mills at that time to go to extremes!
It can be seen that the cannon manufacturing industry at that time was a real pillar industry of the country, just like the chip industry, biopharmaceuticals, new energy, Internet... and other cutting-edge violent industries in the 21st century!
On a cruel battlefield filled with human lives, who has cannons and who doesn't have cannons, the results are completely different!
From the Franco-Prussian War to the First World War, human wars focused on who had more cannons, who had larger calibers, and who could produce faster...
At the end of the 19th century, no one dared to underestimate the power of cannon. Because of this, Thiers desperately wanted to attack the artillery position of the commune and steal the cannon from the commune first.
Today, the imperial veterans who came out of these prisoner-of-war camps will not neglect the artillery, a big killer. They would rather use half of their troops as reserves than wait until the artillery fires.
The sound of artillery finally sounded, and a large section of the charging foreign legion was killed. The offensive wave was blocked at the fourth barricade. Now the commune finally had a chance to breathe and began to rebuild its defense.
"Our artillery has begun to counterattack! Don't be afraid! Hold here and don't give an inch!"
"Fire! Blow up these executioners! Fire!"
Boom...boom...boom...
Amidst the rumbling sound of artillery, the attacking government troops sought bunkers to hide, and the battlefield suddenly entered a stalemate stage.
At this moment, fierce horse hooves suddenly sounded around the small streets near the Paris Meteorological Observatory east of Saint-Michel Avenue.
The rubbish-strewn streets were filled with the horrified gazes of citizens, who suddenly discovered hundreds of strong horses rushing out from the south.
On horseback were all Imperial cavalry wearing half-cuirass plates. The sabers in their hands were raised high, the necklaces on their helmets were fluttering in the wind, and the military flags were ringing fiercely.
"The Guards Cavalry...charge!"
"Long live the Empire!"
"Long live His Majesty the Emperor!"
Unexpectedly, in such a short period of time, McMahon not only restored the organization of the infantry group, but even restored the organization of a small number of cavalry units.
Cuirassiers, the pride of the Bonaparte dynasty!
The Algerian Third Division was assigned a full four hundred cavalry. This new force became a sharp bayonet for attacking artillery positions!
The war horses broke through the commune's fragile defensive barricades like a tide. The war horses jumped over the low sandbags and debris, and slashed left and right with their sharp sabers.
The commune member with no combat experience screamed and covered his head and fell in a pool of blood!
Many young children were even knocked away by war horses, flying in the air and then hitting the ground hard!
Paris is so big that even 300,000 National Guardsmen cannot defend all the streets. Many narrow alleys can only be defended by temporarily recruited citizens.
Today's frenzied attack by the Third Division has attracted the attention of all the regular commune armies in the surrounding area. There are currently no elite troops in the cavalry assault position!
They were all a group of old, weak, sick, disabled, and young children. How could they be the opponents of the wolf-like cuirassiers? They were all overwhelmed without any decent resistance in a single encounter!
"Accelerate, accelerate! Target the Sorbonne, target the enemy's artillery position!"
"Our brothers are being slaughtered, we can't waste a second! Speed up..."
Sorbonne University, close to the Panthéon in Paris, also known as the Pantheon!
This is the cemetery of all the great men of France. Voltaire, Rousseau, Alexandre Dumas... dozens of great men of France are buried here, and are respected by future generations like those gods!
The Sorbonne is close to the Panthéon, and this bloody battle broke out in front of the tombs of these sleeping great men. I really don’t know what those sages sleeping underground thought!
Four hundred cavalry drove straight in like hot knives piercing butter. They passed through the alleys parallel to the Avenue Saint-Michel and charged north.
Like a storm, he suddenly rushed to the artillery position!
More than a thousand Commune Guard soldiers guarding the artillery positions looked at the charging cavalry in horror and shouted, "Enemy's cavalry! Fire quickly...fire!"
Facing an enemy several times their own, the Guards Cavalry was not afraid. The commander's saber made a beautiful sword in mid-air!
"Guards Cavalry Battalion! Charge!"
"Kill..." Four hundred tigers and wolves rushed towards the enemy!
Looking at the defending members, their legs were shaking, and their hands holding the rifles were shaking. "Fire...fire quickly..."
Bang... bang... the chaotic shooting has no sense of rhythm at all, and it is impossible to form a dense rain of bullets!
