Wild North America 1846

Chapter 566
There were faint cheers, mixed with intermittent gunfire echoing in the sky, exuding a strong smell of the battlefield.

His Highness Tang-Li Kun received the report immediately; the Versailles army broke through the fortress of Issy, and the armed citizens of Paris retreated with heavy casualties.

"Great, God bless. Finally beat these bloody mudlegs, should celebrate with a big feast today."

The Crown Prince of Saxony stretched out his hands in cheers, high-fived with His Royal Highness Tang-Li Kun, with a look of joy on his face.

It is said that the European nobles are one family, and the same is true of French and German nobles. They often marry each other. France has traditional influence in the northern states of the German Empire. The common enemy is dangerous social activists, commonly known as "mud leg son".

Restricted by his birth, His Royal Highness Tang-Li Kun expressed sympathy for the Paris Commune, but it was difficult for him to really stand in the other party's camp to breathe together and share fate.That would mean a betrayal of the royal family of the Tang Empire.

"Opening the door to Paris is just a good start..." Seeing Prince Albert's expression that you don't want to be disappointed, Tang Li Kun spread his hands helplessly and said; "Okay, this That's a great offer, and I'll be there on time for the dinner."

"Hey, remember to ask your officer to help, we need to make some ingenious and delicious food."

"Okay, Your Royal Highness, but my pet beast will not appear." His Royal Highness Tang Li Kun emphasized.

Prince Albert just shrugged regretfully and did not express any objection.

The companion beast of His Royal Highness the Seventh Prince has grown into a majestic and majestic beast, and ordinary people can't get close to it.

At a dinner party not long ago, a German lieutenant colonel who drank too much wine insisted on touching it, but was slapped over with a slap, causing his arm and four ribs to be broken, and he is still recuperating in bed.

The lieutenant colonel is said to be a viscount, what a pity!

After a while
The Versailles army who captured the fortress of Issy cleaned up the battlefield, brutally repaired the wounded armed citizens one by one, and sent them to see God.And all the captives were collected and screened, eliminating hidden dangers on the battlefield.

until then

The members of the military observation groups from various countries boarded the Yixi Fortress one after another. They looked around solemnly and looked at the battle flags flying on the dilapidated ruins. They didn't know what it was like?
These members of the Paris Commune, who sacrificed their lives, spilled blood on the battlefield. Each of them loves France. When the emperor and the upper echelons of the government all surrender to foreign countries, there is no one to rely on. Resistance will not have any other results except sacrifice. .

Even so
He still died generously without hesitation, just for the dream of equality, freedom and liberation in his heart.

Tang Li Kun suddenly felt his nose sore, stood up straight with a solemn expression, and saluted these members of the Paris Commune who died for their ideals.

This scene

A lieutenant colonel commander of the Versailles army not far away saw it, with a look of hostility in his eyes, but was dragged away by the winking officer around him.

Today's France is breaking the drum and everyone is beating, it is better not to make trouble out of nothing.

His Royal Highness Tang-Li Cha, the Seventh Prince, also noticed the hostility of this French lieutenant colonel officer, and frowned slightly at the provocation of this little bug, but he didn't take it to heart.

Instead, Prince Albert walked over curiously and asked, "Why?"

"Whether right or wrong, those patriots who pursue their ideals on the road are worthy of admiration. Everyone knows that the Paris Commune will definitely lose, but they still do it, just for the belief in their hearts."

"God! This sounds like Blanquism or liberal republican arguments. They talk about ideals and beliefs all day long, but what they want to subvert is our traditional way of life. It seems that I should be wary of you... ...My dear Highness, are you one of them?"

"No, I am an imperialist of the Tang Dynasty, and I take it as my mission to spread the glory of the empire. It is now, it will be in the future...it will not change at the last moment of my life." His Highness Tang Li Kun replied proudly.

"As far as I know, the territory of the Tang Empire has surpassed that of France and the Qing Dynasty. You almost occupy the best territory in America. This is really enviable." Prince Albert couldn't help rolling his eyes, and put the precious Hanging his cane on his arm, he took out a silk handkerchief and put it on his nose and continued;
"And our great German Empire can only be trapped in Europe, watching you colonize the world, but there is no way to follow. This is really frustrating!
Let's get out of here, the French are going to turn this place into a slaughterhouse, they kill their own better than the Germans.

But I wouldn't be surprised, because these Frenchmen once guillotined their own emperors, and what couldn't they have done? "

in European countries

"Kingkilling" is a taboo topic, and it is also a criminal act that attracts the common hostility of all kingdoms and all nobles. Once a stain is left, it cannot be washed away for hundreds of thousands of years.

The threat of Emperor Napoleon across Europe was so great that the anti-French alliance headed by the United Kingdom never thought of killing the king, but only exiled him to a deserted island overseas because he was afraid of bearing the notoriety of killing the king.

His Royal Highness the Seventh Prince also saw the French lieutenant colonel walking aggressively down the dilapidated fortress, and then ordered the soldiers to bring out some captured Paris Commune members and line them up for execution.

This kind of private execution without trial was common, and Versailles soldiers wanted to vent their anger on prisoners, which was the most barbaric killing.

His Royal Highness Tang-Li Kun, the Seventh Prince, frowned in disgust, turned around and walked down the stairs of the fortress with the British General Mace and others who left together, and soon heard a burst of "cracking" gunshots, and the smell of blood became stronger. A little strong.

He couldn't stop it. The massacre of the Paris Commune by the Versailles army may have come from the upper echelon, and it appeared widely on the battlefield.

Fearing a series of radical policies of the Paris Commune, the Thiers government adopted a bloody policy of large-scale repression, and there were countless cases of organized shootings without judgment, which could not be controlled at all.

The capture of the fortress of Issy opened the gates to Paris.

It is completely foreseeable, what kind of tragic situation will the upcoming siege of Paris be?
The "National Self-Defense Army" composed of armed citizens lacked training, strong command and support, artillery fire, and all logistics. Most of them relied on nearby barricades to fight the Versailles Army, trying to prevent government troops from entering Paris.

Tang-Li Kun knows;

This practice of blocking cars with praying arms is nothing more than death in vain. The unorganized army of more than 30 is like loose sand. The number looks scary, and the actual combat effectiveness is almost child's play.

They will be defeated one by one by the concentrated superior force and artillery fire of the Versailles army with rich combat experience, and they will not last for too long.

The members of the Paris Commune were too naive. The city of Paris was in short supply of all kinds of supplies, and the financially constrained could not even get enough rations to fill their stomachs. They didn't know that the Bank of France was urgently requisitioned to solve the urgent need.

In the Bank of France, it is naive to have billions of francs worth of gold and banknotes, but no one dares to touch it.

Who, being a native Parisian, doesn't know that the Bank of France has mountains of gold and cash?
As long as you have money, what materials can't you buy?

A group of people left the Fortress of Issy, and the gunfire behind them still came from time to time. In the warmer weather in early May 1871, it still brought a bone-chilling chill.

From early May to May 5st

For nearly three weeks, the re-armed Versailles army launched a large-scale siege of Paris. This ancient and beautiful European city fell into unprecedented bloody battles, and the sound of guns was endless day and night.

Although the National Self-Defense Forces are basically civilians and have a shortage of weapons and ammunition from beginning to end, they have a firm will to resist.Citizens in many neighborhoods spontaneously organized at that time, and launched a bloody battle with the Versailles army with the help of barricades.

It is a pity that there is no unified command, and the citizens of Paris have little cooperation and support among each other, and they are defeated one by one by the concentrated and superior forces of the Versailles Army.

In this way, one by one, the various neighborhoods of Paris fell, the Seine was filled with floating corpses, and tens of thousands of resisters died in the fighting.

On May 5, Louis Charles Delecruz, a member of the Paris Commune and the last commander of the Self-Defense Forces, was killed in a street battle. Most of the barricades in the city of Paris fell, and complete failure was a foregone conclusion.

On the afternoon of May 5, after repeated bloody battles, the last artillery position of the Self-Defense Forces, the Butte Chaumont Heights, was captured by the 27st Regiment of the French Foreign Legion.

At 6 p.m. that day, the Lachaise Cemetery, a stronghold guarded by 200 Self-Defense Forces, was captured by the Versailles Army. place.

There were gunshots in the city of Paris one after another, and the Versailles army chasing and killing the figure of the resistance army was everywhere. The massacre without trial lasted for a long time.

In the last few days of the "Bloody Week" alone, the general of the Versailles army said that the number of resistance forces killed in Paris reached more than 1.7.

According to estimates by observers; this number should be doubled, between 3 and 5, and the final exact number will never be known.

After the failure of the Paris Commune, the French government, dominated by the Orleanists, arrested possible revolutionaries. About 2 people were tried and executed after trial, and more than 7500 people were imprisoned, and many more were exiled or fled. .

Social unrest lasted until late 1871, when it gradually stabilized.

After the defeat of the Franco-Prussian War

France was forced to cede Alsace and Lorraine, and assumed a huge war compensation of up to 50 billion francs. With so much money, the nascent German Empire became rich overnight, and it began to develop rapidly along the road of industrialization. the age of industrialization.

(End of this chapter)