v3 Chapter 632： north-south pattern of france

Time goes back 2 days.

On November 23, 1869, the Prussian First Army and Second Army swept from the northeast to the west and surrounded the entire Reims where Napoleon III was located.

Napoleon III saw that the situation was not good, and immediately retreated. He handed the marshal's seal to General Bourbaki, the commander of the Royal Guard of the French Emperor, and planned to flee westward in a carriage.

On November 24th, the remaining main force of the 4th and 5th Army of the Metz Corps in Chaumont, Radmiro, was surrounded by the Prussian army in the fortress of Chaumont, and was unable to resist.

Seeing that the general situation was not good, Napoleon III fled to the west of Paris with an army of 100,000, but within ten minutes of leaving Reims, they encountered the 150,000 Prussian army of the second army of Prince Karl of the Prussian army.

At this time, he had to retreat to the city of Reims again, so he could only watch the second and third legions of the Prussian army, which had left Prince Karl, immediately assembled to the city of Reims.

On November 25, 1869, the Battle of Reims began. 700 Prussian artillery bombed the Reims camp, and the shells fell to the French positions like raindrops. The whole city of Reims was in a sea of ​​fire, smoke filled with gunpowder, and the hundreds of thousands of French troops of Napoleon III were killed and injured countless times.

Then the Prussian army launched a fierce attack on Reims with more than 250,000 people. At 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the French army finally couldn't hold it anymore and raised the white flag in Reims City. Napoleon III already knew what he was about to face by this time. ending.

So at 5 o'clock in the afternoon in 1869, Napoleon III, with a heavy heart, used a stiff hand to write a letter of surrender to King William I, but what he didn't know at this time was that the letter of surrender turned out to be his fig leaf .

What Napoleon III did not expect was that that night, the telegraph machines of major newspapers around the world received telegrams from the Prussian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the content of which was the content of Napoleon III's surrender letter.

"My dear brother, because I was not in my army, I have to dedicate my glimpses to Your Majesty, and I hope to continue to be His Majesty's good brother, Napoleon"

However, at this time, Napoleon III could not care so much. On November 26, 1869, Napoleon III went to Verdun, which was occupied by the Prussian army, and met with the Prussian Prime Minister Bismarck who arrived there, and officially signed the surrender document. Napoleon III and his following 39 generals and 110,000 soldiers were all prisoners of the Prussian army. 650 French cannons were also captured by the Prussian army.

On November 27, 1869, in the presence of Bismarck at Verdun, Napoleon III sent a telegram to Paris. The content of the telegram was: "The Eastern Army has been defeated, and all officers and men and myself have become prisoners."

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On November 27, 1869, when Napoleon III's telegram was reprinted by various countries, William IV, who was on his way back, arrived at Bielefeld, a city in the eastern part of North Rhine Westfa, in the western part of the Kingdom of Prussia.

North Rhine Westfa used to be the province of Gelderland in the east of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. As long as he walked out of North Rhine, the return journey of William IV was completed.

Just at this time, the telegrams of Napoleon III's capture and surrender were sent out, which shocked the world.

William IV pointed out the defeat of Napoleon III keenly and criticized: "If Napoleon III did not allow himself to dedicate the entire French Empire to the invaders, not wanting to fight in a street where he would soon force him to surrender, he should When the battle started, he immediately retreated from Metz, and then, his command remained in place and missed many opportunities for comeback."

"Secondly, what is more direct is that McMahon violated the basic principle of being a scumbag and chose to take a detour to the border city of Sedan to rescue Lorraine and Alsace. For Kermahon, the shortest, fastest and most reliable route to Lorraine is to go directly through the Third Army of the Prussian Army. Of course, doing so requires a keen strategic vision and the courage and courage to defeat a strong enemy, but he Mike Ma Hong lacked due qualities in both aspects, because he had to take the road of annihilation of Sedang.

The small land of Sedan is only 8 kilometers away from the Belgian border in the north, and there is another big river, the Max River, in the west and southwest. During the battle, more than 100,000 French troops were attacked by the Prussian army on all sides, and finally it was squeezed. In the arc area with only three or four kilometers in depth and front, it is impossible to carry out maneuvering, and it is difficult to carry out proper opening configuration. In this way, the loss caused by the Prussian army only concentrated a few hundred points of artillery shelling is enough to prevent the French army from being able to. Support, and eventually be destroyed.

Napoleon III hid in Reims without learning his lesson, and also used McMahon's fighting style, making Reims not as good as Sedan."

The Dutch Deputy Foreign Minister Nicholas Pearson could no longer maintain his composure at this time, and said with a shocked face: "Your Majesty, Bismarck really treated His Majesty Napoleon III in a humiliating and humiliating way, and the situation in Paris will definitely be rolled up because of this. There are huge waves, and the negative impact of the situation in France on the Netherlands may have a spillover effect. I am afraid that The Netherlands will be affected by then”

Cantur, director of the Dutch National Security Council and Atlantic affairs coordinator, shook his head and said, "Don't worry, we need to worry more about how much power the nobles can hold under the domestic power struggle in France."

Nicholas Pearson looked at Cantur in confusion.

As the head of William IV's most important think tank for nearly a decade, Cantur led William IV's brain team. It can be said that the orders of His Majesty William IV were discussed and formulated by them before His Majesty began to communicate with the cabinet government and the military.

Cantur's influence is evident.

And the boom in the Netherlands over the past decade has been seen by everyone, thanks to his think tank.

No one underestimates the number one chief of staff around the king who thinks he has decision-making power.

Cantur only spit out a shocking truth after getting a nod from William IV. It turned out that under the extremely uneven domestic development of the French Empire in recent years, the aristocratic forces and the bourgeois-class forces have fought many times. , Look at the war between France and Prussia now, the south is almost calm, but the north is in full swing.

It turned out that the assets of the south, Jia, etc., had taken a wait-and-see attitude towards Napoleon III's dispatch of troops as early as the beginning of the Franco-Prussian War. At this time, the internal affairs of France's enemy country were being squeezed by two major forces.

Cantour said: "To the west of the entire oblique straight line dominated by Saint-Quentin-Paris-Bourges-Orleans-Chateauroux-Poitiers-Niort-La Rochelle is Napoleon III. Regent of the government, including Queen Eugenie.

South from Chalons-Châteauroux-Poitiers-Niort-La Rochelle, it is now controlled by various factions in France. "

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