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Chapter 457 If you want to survive, run away quickly (first update, please subscribe)
The airship is coming!

The Sixth Army assembly area in the south was the first German unit to be attacked by air and licked by machine guns. When tens of thousands of Prussian soldiers fell into the hell of machine guns licking the ground, the Prussian artillery on the southeastern highlands was still on the ground. Constantly shelling towards Sedang City.

"Fire!"

Accompanied by the orders of the officers, the artillerymen pulled the fuse again and again, and in the thick gunpowder smoke, shells whizzed out one after another, flying towards the inside and outside of Sedan City.

In the past two days, the Prussian artillery fired more than [-] shells at the city, a near-destructive artillery fire, enough to destroy everything.

What can they do in the face of such fierce French artillery?

They can only be beaten passively, at most they are reinforcing the fortifications, and they want to use the fortifications to protect their own safety.

As a professional artillery officer, Major Jean-Pierre was on the verge of collapse. When the Prussian shells roared and exploded the moment they hit the ground, he shouted excitedly.

"Damn it, damned marshal, damned general, don't you know that the world has changed? Where's our breech-loader, where's our bumper fuze?"

The reason why Jean-Pierre was so excited was because their cannons were bronze muzzle-loading guns, still using the old-fashioned timed fuzes.

Well, Emperor Napoleon is still wielding the weapons of Emperor Napoleon.

Facing the fierce shelling of the Prussians, they were not only unable to fight back, even the range of the cannon could not reach the opponent, so they could only be beaten passively!

"Look, what is that?"

Suddenly, an officer pointed to the Prussian artillery positions on the high ground and shouted.

"Look, they're under shelling!"

As if to prove his words, suddenly a huge puff of smoke exploded on the high ground, looking at the huge black puff of smoke, Jean-Pierre said excitedly.

"This, this is at least a 500-pound shell..."

500 pounds... do we have that big of a gun?

As soon as his words fell, more than a dozen huge smoke columns exploded on the high ground again. The deafening explosion sounded like fireworks on the National Day, continuously ringing on the Prussian artillery positions.

bomb!

Hundreds of 10kg, 50kg, and 100kg bombs rained down on the Prussian artillery positions.In order to improve the bombing accuracy, under the command of Ma Guangming, the airship unit even descended to a height of 1000 meters.

"Observer, find their ammo pile!"

While observing the bombing effect, Ma Guangming yelled at the observer.

Although the bombs are very powerful, it is unrealistic to destroy those cannons. Compared with destroying all the cannons, it is undoubtedly more appropriate to destroy ammunition piles or military depots.

When the airship troops descended slowly, the people on the ground finally saw their existence!

"It's an airship, it's our airship!"

Just a few minutes ago, the French who were still struggling under the intensive artillery fire all jumped out of the trenches and fortifications excitedly. They pointed at the airship in the air desperately and shouted excitedly.

"Yes, that's right, that's it, blow up those damn Germans!"

"Hey, fry some to the north, fry to the north..."

Although everyone knew that the airships in the sky must not be able to hear their shouts, but what is certain is that at this moment, the courage lost by the French soldiers returned.

In the past two days, in the face of fierce artillery fire, their will almost collapsed. Even Marshal McMahon doubted whether the troops could persist. With his right arm injured, he hung a bandage and stood on the ruins watching Looking at the columns of smoke rising from the Prussian army's position, looking at the battlefield shrouded in gunpowder smoke, he said to the emperor a little excitedly.

"Your Majesty, look, Nanhua's airship is coming, and they are bombing the Prussian positions. Now, we must seize the opportunity to break out from the town of La Montsalle while the Prussian army is in chaos!"

Facing the Marshal's request, Napoleon III said.

"God bless, they have come at last, and my venerable niece-in-law hastened in with his invincible airship army, my God! He has saved France. But now, Marshal, Na. The town of Montsalle is already under the control of the Prussian army. If we break out of the siege, will we suffer more losses? And..."

Napoleon III looked at the soldiers in the distance. In the past two days, in the unprecedented shelling, tens of thousands of officers and soldiers lost their lives and tens of thousands of soldiers were injured. Are they ready to break out?
"Our soldiers need to rest, after all, in the past few days, they..."

"Your Majesty, if we don't hurry up, maybe we will miss this opportunity!"

McMahon said eagerly.

"Your Majesty, now, we must break through. No matter what the cost, the airship bombing has brought unprecedented trouble to the Germans. Their cannons have been destroyed. Now is the time for us to use our advantages!"

Facing the Marshal's request, Napoleon III turned his attention to Felix Douai, who also agreed.

"Your Majesty, just as the marshal said, we must seize the last chance. If we miss this chance, maybe we will never have another chance! Even at that time..."

Staring at His Majesty, Félix Douai did not continue. What he wanted to say, Napoleon III himself knew very well - when the time came, he would become a prisoner or die in Sedan.

This is obviously not what Napoleon III wanted, he thought about it and said in the face of the generals' request.

"If we were to retreat, our wounded..."

At this time, he seems to be a good emperor. Compared with victory, he cares more about the wounded. If they retreat, what will happen to the wounded?

McMahon, who knew that the emperor was looking for an excuse, said directly.

"Prussia is a civilized country after all. I believe they will treat them kindly. Also, we throw away all unnecessary supplies and try our best to break through the encirclement towards Paris before the Prussian army reacts."

Just when McMahon's voice fell, suddenly, a huge column of smoke rose from the forest outside the city. The black smoke column rose for thousands of meters, and at the same time, there was a violent explosion. In an instant, people seemed to be able to feel the tremor of the earth.

"It's their arsenal! God bless, Your Majesty, they must have blown up the Prussian arsenal. Now those damn four must have fallen into chaos. We must escape now... "

(End of this chapter)