C2817 The army approaches the Mann River. (1/2)

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!