Hidden Dragon in Qing Dynasty

A war like the Franco-Prussian War, which had over a million legions strangling it, was very complicated. Sometimes, it was you who got involved, and sometimes it was you who got into trouble.

For example, French Emperor had already retreated to Salon City, but his army was not completely annihilated, there were still many formed armies resisting the enemy's attack.

Although the Prussian Army had a large number of people, but because of the rapid progress, it was impossible to destroy all of the enemies.

To give a simple example, the regions of Arthas and Lorraine were currently nominally occupied by the Prussian Army. However, many of the fortified French fortresses had not changed their hands, and the French flags were still fluttering in the air.

Isn't it wonderful? This was war, and what both sides were fighting for was power! Just like Chinese Go, in the end, he still won by momentum, and that was by physical victory!

For example, Lao Maoqi and Bismark's temporary headquarters was set up in Transcendence. However, the flag of the Second Empire was still fluttering in the air in the Fortress of Verdun. A single brigade of France was still guarding the fort.

Bismark and the others had set up their headquarters in the city area not far away from the fortress. In other words, the Prussian army had only taken over a portion of the city area and a few towns.

The French army was divided and surrounded, they lacked reinforcements and ammunition and supplies, while the arrogant France people refused to surrender. They kept fantasizing that the Emperor's army would come rescue them in the next second.

Prussian army looked at the army that had no attack power and could only use the trapped beasts' tortoise shell, and he lacked the interest to attack. Not mentioning killing these beasts would be useless, he might as well just surround them and wait for a while before taking care of them.

There were many other situations like the Verdun Stronghold. In fact, there weren't many French troops that were directly annihilated during the entire Franco-Prussian War. Most of them were actually scattered and disrupted.

Many of the troops, who were unable to flee in time, were stuck behind, and could only watch as the hundreds of thousands of Prussian army flaunted their might outside yet did not dare to attack.

Forget about Verdun, even the Mace that was captured first, on the Rolin Plateau in the south of the city, there was still a division of the French army guarding it.

These were the French troops who had failed to escape in time, and now they couldn't even escape if they wanted to.

In fact, the war was all-rounder. It was impossible to tell what was the front line and what was the back line. A chaotic battle had to wait for several large-scale battles before one could see clearly who won and who lost!

Ba Zan and the others knew very clearly that as long as they could turn a defeat into a victory in a battle, and as long as the army could launch a counterattack, these scattered troops that had fallen behind would once again return to their original positions.

Ba Zan always had a plan to counterattack to the Mace. As long as he succeeded in breaking through, he would be able to gather at least seventy to eighty thousand of this scattered army along the way.

At that time, Ba Zan would have at least a hundred and sixty thousand battle-able elites, and he would be the strongest in France!

The key to Ba Zan's plan was the current Prince Karl's army. He had to defeat this obstructing tiger or else he would not be able to fight his way back to Mace.

Marshal Ba Zan returned to his headquarters and passionately lectured his subordinates, "The empire has reached a life and death juncture, we have nowhere to retreat to!"

"If we go forward, we will be able to gain a chance at survival. "If it fails, the second empire will collapse and all the socialists and republicans will take power!"

"We will all lose our rights! I, Ba Zan, am not greedy for power, but I will not allow those thugs to judge me!

"Remember, almost every one of us has suppressed those thugs over the years, and our hands are stained with their blood!"

"If you do not care about their trial, if you do not care about the final guillotine! Then let's just continue to be dispirited! "

"For yourself! You all must also fight well in this battle! "

These were all the old subordinates that Ba Zan had commanded for many years. There was no need to talk about their loyalty, but once they heard the Marshal's words, everyone threw caution to the wind!

"Please rest assured Marshal!" They could only fight to the death! If all the commanders were to personally go to the front lines, I will not believe that those Prussian s are made of iron! "

Boom! Boom! Boom! Prussian's cannons were still wreaking havoc, as if they were mocking the French for their pathetic logistics supply. When Prussian army's cannons were opened for firing, they did not even consider the consumption of ammunition.

After a full half an hour of artillery barrages, a Prussian army of one of the armies started to feign an attack.

Immediately after, flags were raised everywhere, and the military drum s of Napoleon's era sounded out yet again. Thousands and thousands of French soldiers carrying bayonets jumped over the sandbag wall s, and started their counterattack against Prussian army.

The officers were ready to throw caution to the wind. All of them rushed to the front line to command the troops.

The two legions clashed into each other with just one shot. More than twenty thousand people were fighting each other on the battlefield. The sound of bayonets clashing was deafening. Blood Qi filled the air and even the ghosts and gods were forced to back off!

Prince Karl looked at the bloody scene on the battlefield and frowned, "These French Veterans's army are very outstanding. If not for the fact that their political, economic and military forces had all collapsed, just based on the quality of our troops, we, Prussia, would have been slightly inferior to them!"

"Hehe, but Ba Zan, you are wrong, I am not here to fight with you!"

"Order..." The main force moved southwest... Attack and conquer all the ferries in Mann River! "

Ba Zan had never thought that Prince Karl would only send a portion of his artillery and one of his troops to tangle with him. The remaining hundred thousand soldiers had already begun their stealthily journey towards the Southwest Mann River.

Salon City was right beside the Mann River, and the people of the Seine flowed all the way out of the Langerhans plateau and into the Seine. This was the most important battlefield of the war, the core of the Paris defense system in France.

As long as Prince Karl controlled the west coast of Mann River, he would have cut off all connections between the French army and Paris as well as the south.

Unfortunately, France was not the First World War, and France did not have the backing of British allies. The Mann River was not a defensive line, and only had a few troops guarding the crossings.

Prince Karl's feint was a success. That night, his vanguard unit had already captured the ten crossings and three bridges on the Mann River.

Furthermore, the Prince Karl Army had collected over a hundred ships!

When Marshal Ba Zan heard the shocking news, both his legs went limp and he slumped into his chair.

"It's over! Now, even His Majesty was unable to return to Paris … "It's over!"