Hidden Dragon in Qing Dynasty

Of course, McMahon did not doubt his subordinates who had been under him for many years. He knew that his subordinates would not dare to lie about this sort of thing.

Before aviation weapons were invented, cannons would always be the god of war. The most important thing for a country's military prowess was to see how many cannons they had.

This was a good tradition laid down by Napoleon. Back then, when he swept continental Europe, he relied on his Three Axes.

The cannons rumbled, the infantrymen fired, and the cavalrymen raided! Just these three axes, because of his mysterious use of the results of all the countries of Europe have suffered.

But Napoleon III obviously didn't have his uncle's Inherent Skill. Before the Franco-Prussian war, this guy had completely pointed out the wrong technology tree!

He should have invested everything he had into the weapon, but he had ignored this point and invested a lot of money into upgrading his rifle and heavy machine gun.

Of course, it could also be that among the Poo War, he had been provoked by Prussia's Potion Rifle, so he had been bitterly looking for a weapon that could break the Prussian army's strategy.

Never would he have thought that Bismark was so much more cunning than him. After the Poo War finished, he immediately stopped upgrading the equipment on his rifles and heavy machine guns, and forcefully stopped this technology tree.

Instead, he invested all of his limited funds into cannon research and development, allowing the Krupp to develop a new type of field steel gun.

This kind of cannon's firing speed was fast. After all, it was loaded from the back and its firing speed was four to five times faster than that of the artillery!

The other point was the pure steel gun s, their structure was stronger, and their range was more accurate!

There were clearly only sixty Krupp steel gun, but they actually produced two hundred in actual combat. The commander of the French army did not know the ins and outs of the situation, and really thought that the Prussian army was equipped with two hundred cannons.

In the end, McMahon had once again wrongly estimated the enemy's strength!

"As expected, the main battlefield is on my side!" Your Majesty has miscalculated, your Majesty has miscalculated, he has been deceived! "

"Xiao Letian played a fool with Steinmetz. They lured His Majesty into investing heavily in the western front. In fact, their main target is me!"

"Damnit …" "Dammit, what should I do …"

Just as McMahon was in a dilemma, he suddenly heard the sound of cannons coming from afar. Prince Karl's vanguard unit finally appeared outside of the city and the two armies immediately fell into a battle.

Walking out of the HQ, McMahon climbed up to the tall wooden tower and looked at the battlefield through his binoculars.

"Sure enough, they didn't lie to me. The enemy's cannons are indeed overequipped!"

In his line of sight, his front line of defense had already been covered by smoke. Explosions exploded one after another, and the defensive position was in chaos.

The French artillery was also fighting back, but it was unexpected that the enemy's artillery range was really far enough. As long as the French artillery position exposed the target, they would normally be suppressed by the enemy's concentrated fire after five minutes.

These veterans of wars were not pushovers. They crawled forward to fully utilize the advantage of the Shasped-type Rifle, and counterattacked the Prussian army in the wilderness.

The French lying on the ground reduced their target, and they used the mecha shovels to create a number of horizontal shooting bunkers, on which the rifles began to strike back.

When both sides started shooting at each other, the Prussian army began to have a large number of casualties.

In the face of the French counterattack against Prussia, the cavalry regiment quickly launched an attack. Soon they clashed with the infantry, and then the Prussian infantry charged forward and together with the cavalry, stabbed the bold French soldiers to death on the battlefield one by one.

McMahon painfully closed his eyes as he excitedly said, "So many people! There are too many enemies … Looking at the number of cannons, the enemy definitely has more than a hundred thousand soldiers! "

"We cannot let the Empire's veterans die for nothing … Pass my orders, retreat while fighting, return to the Foshan Mountain Pulse, and gather at the new castle! "

The order to retreat was passed on to the various departments, the retreat of 30,000-40,000 troops was not an easy task, the frontlines had to have troops at the rear to block the attacks of the Prussian army, the people at the back had to take their supplies and destroy their positions.

Very quickly, smoke began to burn within the command camps of the various ministries. This was because the French army was burning all kinds of confidential documents.

The logistics department was currently taking inventory of the supplies. Important weapons had to be taken away, and some cumbersome food, tents, etc., had been set on fire.

Soon, the small town of Walther was set on fire. The retreating French army did not even let the houses escape as they set them on fire.

There were even engineers who charged into the railway bridge in an attempt to break the connection between the East and West of the Rhine!

At this time, the garrison troops of the Baden Territory on the other side of the river could not do anything. Although these Germany soldiers looked like garrison legions, as they were fighting in their own country, what they were protecting were their own property!

In order to protect their homeland, they fought bravely and did not fear death. Many of the French engineers that they killed died, and the Rhine was filled with corpses.

In the end, the French army had no choice but to give up on destroying the railway bridge and turned south!

These Baden defenders took the opportunity to charge towards the West Bank and actually set up a small defensive position on the West Bank of railway bridge, protecting the strategic region in the end.

The 40,000-strong army retreated to the south like a stray dog. The army at the back fought and retreated while the veterans used their lives to block the attack of the 100,000-strong army. They couldn't even bring back the corpses of their comrades who died fighting on the battlefield.

The Chinese officer group who were watching the battle from the edge of the battlefield, were all dumbstruck. The joints of their fingers holding onto their binoculars were completely pale.

"Good heavens! Why couldn't these Frenchmen stop beating him up? Nearly forty thousand troops versus thirty thousand Prussian army s, and they actually suffered defeat after defeat? "

"This is the world's strongest army?"

"Let's record all of this down. The conclusion of the meeting will be held immediately after the armistice. This battle is too interesting!"

The two thousand elites that Xiao Letian had brought were not only brought here to kill his enemies, he also wanted to train these officers' combat skills.

Many of the military students were assigned to various units in the Prussian army. When there were combat missions, they would participate in them as well.

It was a rare opportunity for all military officers and students to personally observe this great battle that had changed the structure of Europe!

Ye Qiu and Pang Chaoyun were both members of the Night Assault Team yesterday, but today, they became hungry military academy students.

This Walter Battle had taught them a lot of things that were not written in the textbooks!

Kacha, kacha, kacha … The cameras brought by the military officers and students had recorded everything about the war. These precious historical data would be kept in a Chinese museum for a long time!