3241 The Incomprehensible War
The bells ringing by Michel marked the complete break between the Paris Commune and the Third French Republic, and the civil war finally began.
But the civil war was full of comedy at the beginning, confusing countless historians!
Because there was no serious conflict from the beginning of the war, after Leconte's vanguard was exposed, both sides did not fire a single shot for more than three hours.
The whole battle seemed to be not a war, but a street demonstration that was common in later generations. Those soldiers only knew how to use their bodies to fight against the people, and no one used the weapons they killed.
The alarm bell rang from various parts of Paris, and basically all artillery positions in the Montmartre Heights and the Belwif Industrial Zone were attacked by government forces.
Trox invested a total of 20 battalions for this plan, with a number of people approaching more than 13,000. Of course, so many people attacked sneak attacks are also the key to being easily exposed.
All the sneak attack plans went bankrupt, Michelle's alarm bell woke up the citizens of the city, and then more bells rang, and all the citizens got up and walked onto the streets.
Before the National Self-Defense Force began to take action, the citizens of Paris who had already been angry took the lead in taking to the streets to fight against these soldiers. They used their bodies to block the soldiers' progress, and they cursed and spitted everywhere.
This chaos certainly awakened the German and Chinese troops besieged in the city. The Schapellemen has always been the guardian of the Chinese troops. Xiao Letian has not lived in Versailles these days, but lived in the train station outside the Schapellemen.
When the fire broke out in the city, the head of state put on a military coat and climbed up the city tower and looked into the city of Paris!
"Good... the whole city is mobilizing! The noise of Tier's trouble is really quite..."
But it was quite a bit large, especially on the right bank of Paris, the main battlefield of the attack, the fire had already begun to illuminate the sky. Of course, it was not that someone set fire to the city, but that the bonfires of the defense lines that the communes deployed were ignited.
Of course, night battles require fire to illuminate. In that era, there was no electricity, so night lighting still relies on combustion, and burning kerosene lamps on the battlefield was obviously not enough.
The most primitive and effective ones are torches and bonfires!
Piles of bonfires were lit, and almost all intersections were bonfires. The torches in people's hands were whispering, and the hot pine oil fell down. People didn't know how painful it was when they were burning on their arms.
People's emotions have become excited. The burning flames and their anger are really the best atmosphere catalyst on the battlefield. The bare-handed people use their chests to block the soldiers' bayonets.
The officers behind the army fired the gun again and again, but no soldier obeyed the order!
The chaos in the entire city was reported by spies in batches, and Xiao Letian seemed to be on the front line on the city tower.
Luo Huo was already confused. "So many disturbances didn't start fighting? The two sides did not shoot? They just fired at the sky occasionally? Are they scaring people?"
Many people couldn't understand the situation in front of them. Even Sima Yun and Director Wang said in confusion, "Didn't the commune kill with Troxu's subordinates before and were quite fierce?"
"When we ransacked the Duille Palace and the Louvre, the commune and government forces confronted each other along the Seine River. Both sides shot each other, and many people died..."
"Why did both sides become grass-eating sheep in a few months? No more?"
Xiao Letian put down the telescope and rubbed his eyes. "I can't see anything clearly, I'm so tired... Don't guess it, how I taught you before. Don't look at the name for any confrontation, but what is the main body that makes up the name!"
"Is Trosh's government the same thing as Thier's government? Is the army the same? It was called the Provisional Government before, but now it is the real Third Republic of France!"
Xiao Letian tightened the woolen military coat on his shoulders, and his soldiers handed over a cup of hot tea. Everyone watched the battle on the city wall in the cold wind at one or two o'clock in the morning.
"The previous exchange of fire between the Provisional Government and the Commune did not break out in one day. When the Provisional Government was first established, the two sides also cooperated... Don't forget that each person in the Commune's National Self-Defense Force has military pay every day!"
"But with our siege, the conflict between them gradually became revealed, and the differences in the two sides finally led to a huge conflict... I don't know who fired the first shot, but after the first shot, hatred spread and the war was aroused!"
"But the moment is different. After several months of truce, the cold snow and wind in this winter have caused the anger in both of them to drop a lot, and the hatred has faded a little..."
"More importantly, the main soldiers who formed the French government army have changed!"
"In the past, it was a war between commune and the Paris garrison, but after Thierre's reorganization, many new troops from southern France joined in!"
"This is interesting! You must study and study this France well. Their people awakened early and were full of romantic feelings. They are very likely to be confused by the concepts of ideals, fairness, justice, truth, conscience, etc.!"
"To be honest, the South has never experienced the painful experience of killing one's own people. These soldiers are still more sympathetic to the poor in their consciousness!"
"To be honest, the commune's slogans and ideas are very marketable in France... because the gap between the rich and the poor is everywhere, and the weakness of the country is also obvious!"
"Will such an army put a butcher knife on its own people? Is this psychological hurdle so easy?"
Xiao Letian's rhetorical question made the generals present fall into deep thought. Noheita frowned and said, "Don't they know that military orders are like mountains? Do they dare not obey military orders?"
Sima Yun sighed, "That's not what he said. Military orders are like mountains and depends on what the soldiers are like. Our soldiers have undergone very rigorous training and have all experienced the baptism of war!"
"Have these soldiers experienced it? Haha... they are just some young people with patriotic feelings gathered by Gan Bida in the south!"
"I guess the recruits have not been trained for three months. If you can shoot, you will be sent to the battlefield... These people rely on purely on patriotism to fight!"
"They are cute and respectable... But, they are not real army! The army should not be like this..."
Luo Huo scratched his head, "Haha, the master's bet has won again... Tier is sure to lose... I think the master can open a casino in the future, just for luck, there is no reason to lose money!"
Chapter completed!