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The Battle of Paris was the French unilateral name for the upcoming huge battle.

It was not the Battle of Paris, but the Defense of Paris. It can be seen that the French actually lacked confidence in themselves and had a deep fear of the Chu people.

But at the same time, he also has the determination and courage to protect his home and country!
After all, no high-level French official, whether it was the king or the nobles, would not have a good imagination about what would happen to the Chu people after they captured France after seeing the tragic situation of the Spanish and Portuguese in the south.

After Spain was defeated and Madrid was captured, what happened to the local Spaniards?

In order to seek peace, the Queen Mother of Spain took the initiative to walk into the Chu army's camp... for three days and three nights!
There was also a large-scale purge of nobles who advocated forced resistance before the war. This purge was not the kind of purge that Europeans were accustomed to, which only involved killing individuals and expelling people, but the kind of confiscation of homes and genocide.

To be honest, the people of Chu were shocked by the Europeans' tolerance towards their defeated enemies... Both countries fought in a life-and-death fight, with countless casualties. In the end, they were able to spare the lives of the other party's leaders and even captured the enemy's generals. The other side was actually able to get a ransom to redeem it...

The Chu people couldn't understand it, but they didn't bother to care what the Europeans did to the Chu people. However, for the Spanish rebellious nobles who fought against the Chu people, the Chu people purged them in their own way, not just killing them. The person involved, and also ransacked the family and exterminated the family... let's just wipe it out!
This revenge directly caused the Spanish side to lose a quarter of its nobles... Not only were their titles deprived of their titles, and the nobles themselves were executed, but all the men and women in the family were killed.

The Chu people brought a profound traditional Chinese cultural education to Europeans!

And those nobles who were not retaliated had a hard time. First of all, after the Chu army killed them to no avail, they would not forget the traditional skill of the Chu Empire: large-scale confiscation!

When the Chu army captured Madrid, they emptied the city of Madrid of all gold and silver, regardless of whether it was the royal family, the nobles, or the homes of wealthy merchants... The Chu army did not care who the wealth belonged to, and they would move away the gold, silver, and jewelry they found. !
There are also a lot of messy works of art and the like. Although the Chu people don't appreciate these European indigenous works of art, they will confiscate them first.

Not only in Madrid, the Chu army did this in every city they captured.

After such a disaster, the Spanish royal family and those nobles who survived were all left empty-handed, and even the warehouses were emptied by the Chu people...

The Spanish Royal Palace was the worst. Even the carvings on the building were cut up and taken away as trophies by Chu soldiers!

Although the Spanish Royal Palace, which was magnificent before the war, had not experienced any war, it turned directly into a bare, dilapidated and unfinished building after the war... Many Chu soldiers even destroyed the walls in order to pry away some carvings. Smashed.

After the European Expeditionary Force conquered Spain, it used five or six transport ships just to transport the soldiers' personal trophies back home... Among them, the cultural artifacts that many Europeans think are precious can be calculated in tons... Such a huge The specific value of the loot cannot be calculated.

This is still talking about the private trophies of the soldiers... and the bulk is actually a large-scale confiscation of official acts!
The official large-scale confiscation has contributed at least 8000 to [-] million yuan in confiscation revenue to the imperial treasury. This price is mainly based on the confiscated gold, silver, precious metals and things that can be clearly valued. There are many other things that are incidental and have no value at all. Calculate the money or just get a symbolic price...

For example, it is difficult to price cultural works, and there is little interest in European cultural works in China, so it is difficult to judge the price of these things, and there are too many of them. People at the treasury simply calculate the price according to the weight of different materials... one ton How much does it cost? The converted price of paper things is cheaper than food.

As for the stone carvings pried out of many palaces and churches...the money is calculated directly according to the price of the stone.

As for why even various cultural works that are difficult to price have to be calculated, even if they are only given a very cheap price, that is because these large-scale official confiscations are not just as simple as being included in the national treasury, but also later paid to the military How to divide...

As the saying goes, brothers can settle accounts, let alone the cabinet and the military.

The sharing of war income is also an old tradition in the Chu Empire. The military can get a share of various trophies confiscated during overseas recruitment and war compensation.

According to the tradition of the Chu Empire, according to the temporary agreement reached between the military and the cabinet before the war, this time the European Trade Freedom Operation, the military can obtain a 20.00% share of the war revenue. These shares will be used as temporary war funds and special research and development. Funds and other funds were returned to the military in batches in different names.

This tradition of war revenue sharing is also the reason why the military particularly likes to play expansion wars overseas, because if you find the right war target, fighting a war is very profitable, but if you find a pauper to fight, you may also lose money... For example, in In that hellish place in Africa, if you beat the indigenous people who are still in primitive tribal conditions, sometimes you won't even get a single hair, which is a big loss.

But in places like India and Europe, the benefits of war are very large.

In addition to direct confiscated loot, part of the war revenue is war reparations.

That's right, Spain was not only robbed by the Chu people, but also had to bear a large amount of compensation... Because they had been robbed and had no cash to pay the compensation, they were forced to ask the Chu people for loans, and these loans had high costs interest.

If the above is just an analgesia and you can get over it, then the real fatal thing is to fully liberalize the market... As soon as Spain signed the treaty of humiliating and humiliating the country, countless products from the Chu Empire poured into Spain. A large number of handicraftsmen lost their jobs overnight, and countless noble industries went bankrupt!
And this completely destroyed the handicraft industry and the overall economic model in Spain... Of course, it is not that they have no way to survive. In fact, there are still some. While dumping industrial goods in Spain, the Chu people also purchased all kinds of agricultural and livestock in unlimited quantities. Products, mainly wheat and wool.

The Chu people believed that in addition to some areas in Spain that were more suitable for growing wheat, there were also some areas that were suitable for grazing sheep and producing wool. For this reason, they began to support the local wool industry alliance, uniting with the big nobles who had surrendered, and wanted to build several in Spain. A very large ranch!

After the market was fully opened, Spain could only completely transform into an agricultural country due to the dumping of industrial goods by the Chu Empire, or even an agricultural and animal husbandry economic model with a very simple structure.

In the future, Spain will completely become the agricultural products and industrial raw materials of the Chu Empire... There will be no other possibility, unless they can fight hard to drive away the Chu people and get rid of the Chu people's colonization.

This is unlikely to happen in the foreseeable decades or even hundreds of years.

The Great Chu Empire was far more powerful than other indigenous countries of this era.

The tragic situation and future of Spain can be said to scare the French... After all, no one wants their country to become a colony.

So even though they had a lot of fear and lack of confidence in the Chu people, the French still resisted.

The Battle of Paris broke out under this tragic background!

Of course, this so-called tragedy is a unilateral feeling of the French, but for the Chu people who fought on the outskirts of Paris, this is just one of countless overseas expansion wars... nothing special, even The special significance is not as great as the previous attack on Spain... The attack on Spain is a starting point for setting a model. At the same time, we can gain some experience in large-scale battles with European armies. At the same time, we also want to obtain Cadiz, a vital strategic bridgehead for colonial Europe.

By the way, I would like to intimidate many messy countries in Europe: We Chu people are coming, so be honest and open the market, otherwise we will all die...

But if we attack France and Paris, then there won't be much messy strategic significance. It's just a purely overseas expansion war. The French refused to open their market, so the Chu people came over. It's that simple.

As for similar overseas wars, Chu people have to fight many times every year...

The Dachu Empire can be proud to say that since the day it was founded, they have been in a state of war, and there is no exception!

On November 38, [-], in the winter of Paris, although there was no snow in the suburbs of Paris, it was still very cold. The cold air from the north was constantly attacking the city.

Paris's geographical location is actually very good, and the climate is also very good. It is a typical maritime climate city. The average annual temperature in normal years can reach about ten degrees, but the temperature difference between the four seasons is not large. There is no extreme heat in summer and no severe cold in winter... Today's This coldness is not normal.

In this era, Paris is generally in a cold and rainy state, with more extreme climates. It rains for one-third of the year. In some years, it can be extremely cold, even reaching minus [-] or [-] degrees Celsius.

This abnormal climate is also the main feature of the Little Ice Age... The biggest feature of the Little Ice Age is not how cold it is. This is a very one-sided and stereotyped statement... because the temperature drop in the Little Ice Age was very macroscopic. The data, if you really want to talk about it, is only one or two degrees cooler than later generations. You don't even feel much about the human body!

It's just that these seemingly macroscopic data will cause huge climate changes, leading to frequent extreme climates.

During the Little Ice Age, what had the greatest impact on people was not the one or two degrees colder weather, but the abnormal and extreme climate.

To put it simply, it’s extremely hot when it’s hot, and it’s extremely cold when it’s cold... One place has droughts every year, and another place has floods every year.

But if you zoom in and look at the annual average temperature, it is actually similar to that of later generations, and the temperature difference is only one or two degrees...
According to some later studies, the average annual temperature in Paris in the late seventeenth century was similar to that in Paris in later generations... both were around ten degrees.

However, it is very cold in Paris this winter!

A few days ago, a cold wave from the north to the south directly brought a significant cooling to Paris, and the temperature went directly to below zero... And depending on the changes in the weather, it is possible that it will snow heavily back then.

As the weather turned colder quickly, even the Chu army, which had made many preparations, did not want to drag on. Instead, they wanted to kill the French in front as soon as possible and end the war... They couldn't really fight in the suburbs of Paris under the heavy snow. No, even if the Chu people were well prepared, they would not want to do this.

For this winter operation, the Chu people were very well prepared in terms of time. The soldiers, even the Indian Fourth Division, were issued thick and warm winter uniforms.

The soldiers of the Third Division were all wearing thick cotton-padded coats, long leather velvet boots, thick and warm military caps, and were also issued with warm masks and gloves!

There are still two pairs of gloves... One pair is winter tactical gloves made of leather and fine velvet that are standard in the Chu Army. They have good thermal insulation properties and are also convenient for movement. They can be worn directly and used to fight with a gun. This thing is very popular in Chu. The large-scale equipment in the army is also the iconic equipment of the Chu army.Basically, the Chu army uses half-finger tactical gloves when fighting in summer, tropical and other areas, and uses full-finger tactical gloves in winter or other conventional areas.

However, combat troops fighting in cold areas, especially in winter, are often issued thick cotton-padded jacket gloves that are truly protective against the cold and warm.

This thing looks rather bloated. It is mainly worn when it is extremely cold and does not require finger operations. The main reason is that it cannot be loaded and fired while wearing this thing, so it can only be worn during non-combat times.

With the current textile technology of the Dachu Empire, it is still impossible to produce thick military gloves that can not only protect against cold, but also have many characteristics such as wear resistance and lightness.

Therefore, multiple types of gloves can only be used together.

The soldiers of the three divisions who went to Europe were issued three types of gloves at the same time, including universal half-finger tactical gloves, full-finger tactical gloves, and cold-proof gloves... At the same time, the different situations of summer operations, regular autumn and winter operations, and extreme cold operations were taken into consideration. .

Because of the war in Europe, there is only one regular main force such as the Third Division. The war of the Third Division is not only in the scorching hot North Africa, but also in the mild Spain and other regions, and in the future it will be very content in the Nordic region.

Therefore, the third division brought different types of equipment to Europe.

This time to fight the French in the winter, naturally all kinds of winter equipment have been prepared...According to the preparations of the Third Division, let alone Paris, even if they go to Northern Europe, they will be enough to fight in the winter in places like Russia. of.

However, even so, the Chu army did not plan to fight the French when it was snowing. Even if they were not afraid of the cold, logistics and transportation would become very troublesome after snowfall. At the same time, they had to be prepared for special situations, such as the Senna in extreme cold conditions. The river is frozen.

Don't think it's impossible... With the extremely abnormal weather these days, not to mention Paris, even the mainland of the empire, Guangzhou in the south, will occasionally give you a heavy snowfall...

As for Paris, in special years, the temperature can be as low as minus [-] degrees, and there is a possibility that the Seine River will freeze.

Although this possibility is unlikely, it still needs to be considered!
Therefore, in order to avoid many troubles caused by snow in winter, the Chu Army Expeditionary Force decided that since they have all arrived in Paris, they should not wait any longer and go directly to fight and finish the fight as soon as possible.

Compared with the Chu army who decided to attack Paris early because of the severe cold, the French army in Paris was more affected by the climate. Many soldiers even suffered from frostbite in the severe cold.

These French people were not as well prepared as the Chu people, or they were not willing to spend the money to equip the soldiers with a complete set of good winter clothes.

The winter clothes of the soldiers of the Third Division of the Chu Army's Expeditionary Force are not cheap...the cotton-padded trousers and tops plus the long and wide cotton-padded military coats, and then the hats, shoes and gloves are all made of fine leather, fine cashmere and other materials...this outfit It's at least hundreds of Chu yuan better. This is based on the fact that the military uniforms of the Chu Empire are mass-produced on a large scale, and the cost is greatly reduced compared with indigenous manual production.

It is impossible for those indigenous countries to provide such good winter equipment to ordinary soldiers. It is not that they are unwilling, but that they do not have the strength.

A lot of the combat power of the Da Chu Empire was, to put it simply and straightforwardly, made of money... Food, clothing, weapons and equipment, as well as various daily trainings, exercises, etc., all of these are money...

Even if the French nation on the opposite side also holds breech-loaded rifled weapons, the Third Division can still defeat them... because weapons and equipment are only part of the strength, not all.With breech-loading rifles, if you want soldiers to shoot accurately, you have to let them conduct live ammunition training. Every bullet used in this training is money...

If it were the French, with their financial resources, it would be extremely heartbreaking to fire a few rounds of live ammunition into the soldiers a year, and it would be impossible for them to let the soldiers conduct live ammunition training.

Even the Chu Army, in order to reduce the cost of live ammunition training for soldiers, specially developed blank ammunition that simulated live ammunition for training and exercises... Of course, it was later discovered that this thing was only slightly lethal at close range. It has no lethality at a distance and is safer during drills and training.

But from the beginning, the Chu Army developed blank ammunition not for the sake of exercise safety... but to save the cost of live-fire training.

It can also be seen from this that the cost of intensive live-fire training for soldiers these days is very high. Even the Chu Empire itself found it expensive, let alone the indigenous countries.

They were reluctant to use lead bullets and gunpowder for flintlock muskets even a few times during training... Many recruits who entered the battlefield had actually never fired live ammunition a few times.

The gap between the French army, or the armies of all indigenous countries, and the Chu army is all-round, not just in weapons.

To put it to the extreme, in this Battle of Paris, even if the Chu army went up with cold weapons such as spears, swords, bows and arrows, they would probably be able to defeat the French army. However, the Chu army would not do this, so whether it would work or not is still unknown.

On November [-], the [-]th Indian Division of the Chu Army's Expeditionary Force took the lead in marching towards Paris. At this time, their forward troops were only ten kilometers away from Paris.

This time, the Indian [-]th Division did not act alone. There was an artillery battery from the Guards in the rear, accompanied by the Navy's river gunboat unit, providing long-range fire support at any time.

Behind, were the main force of the Third Division and a 20mm light howitzer battalion directly under the No. 150 Seventh Army, with a total of about [-] troops advancing along the Seine River.

Their direction of advance was simple and clear, which was to advance directly along the Seine River and directly enter the city of Paris... without detours, encirclement and reinforcements, and many other tactical strategies, they just went straight through in an open and honest manner.

This is also a major feature of the Chu army in overseas wars, that is, it does not engage in so many messy tactics and strategies, and purely relies on hard power to crush them all the way, and the effect is quite good!
Sometimes some young grassroots commanders will show off their so-called various tactics and strategies, such as raids and detours when fighting overseas... This style of play is successful most of the time, but occasionally it will capsize in the gutter. To an enemy ambush or something like that.

However, some experienced Chu army commanders who are familiar with the strength and fighting styles of the indigenous people will basically not engage in these messy tactics. They often push all the way towards the enemy's capital or other important cities, which avoids many unnecessary risks, and the results are often better.

The same is true for Chu Jun in Paris this time. They don't play any tricks with you at all. They just push along the river all the way. In order to avoid any unnecessary risks, even if the river is winding, they just follow the river honestly. Walk.

It seemed to take a lot of extra time, but it prevented any accidents...

Then the French army in Paris discovered that many of the resistance tactics they had prepared, such as dividing their troops into Paris from the north and other directions after the Chu army broke away from the river, and then sending cavalry for high-speed attacks, were useless.

Chu Jun doesn't want to play with you at all, he just heads towards Paris and kills you.

Under such circumstances, the French army has only a few options left.

Either choose to take the initiative to leave the city, and the army will get ready to fight face-to-face with the Chu army. They will use a wider battle to give full play to the advantage of [-] troops, forming a larger force to fight the smaller ones, and strive to keep the Chu army out of Paris.

Or choose to huddle in the city and resist.

Or abandon Paris and run away.

It is obviously not possible to abandon Paris and escape. The French these days are not the French in World War II and are not that weak... If they want to abandon Paris, they will not gather [-] troops in Paris.

Going out of the city to form a stubborn resistance seemed to be able to take advantage of the strength of the [-]-strong army. However, the French army really did not have the confidence to withstand the firepower of the Chu army in frontal combat in the wild... The French had actually fought several field battles with the Chu army before. However, the opponent they faced was still a servant army like the Indian Fourth Division, and the result was a complete defeat, with a total loss of [-] to [-] troops.

Now that the regular troops of the Chu people are coming to kill you, if you fight head-on in the field, you will probably lose even more miserably.

Therefore, it seems that they have three choices, but in fact they only have one, which is to rely on the walls of Paris to fight to the death.

This is also the common choice made by most indigenous countries when facing the invasion of the Chu army... Of course, so far, no indigenous country has been able to withstand the Chu army's strong attack. It is just a question of how long it can defend.

The French just wanted to hold Paris for a while, preferably a few months, so that they could buy more time to recruit more troops to fight the Chu invasion.

To be honest, the invasion of the Chu Empire was so fast that the French were caught off guard.

From the time of landing to the moment we reached the outskirts of Paris, it only took half a month.

The Chu army advanced so fast that the French did not have enough time to mobilize more troops, especially to transfer the troops on the southern border back to Paris, and did not have enough time to conduct in-depth mobilization and recruitment of troops and gather various supplies. .

Therefore, the French hope to rely on the big city of Paris to hold off the Chu people for a while.

But can they do it?

The French themselves don’t know!