C3043 Early Winter (1/2)

This year, the climate in France was very strange. According to the old saying of the Paleogene, if there were too many dead soldiers, it would cause wind and water to stir.

After a war, there would usually be plagues, droughts, earthquakes, famine, and snowstorms … Wait, what kind of disaster was this? Was there any sense in this? There must be a reason for this in feng shui astrology, but modern natural sciences do not understand the inner workings.

But no matter what, the weather in France today, including the whole of Western Europe, was abnormally cold and eerie!

It should not be that cold after autumn, but after autumn for a few years, people would not feel like it is winter yet, so the exceptionally cold northwest wind brought an extreme cooling down. The temperature at night had already reached below zero, and small pieces of ice had actually appeared on the Seine.

The weasel was a sick duck. At the critical moment when Paris was starting to organize continuous breakouts, the weather was also messing up. All of the pawnshops in Paris were destroyed. The winter clothes that were previously pawned by the citizens were now redeemed free of charge.

The pawnshops' owners were all on the verge of tears. Wasn't this the same as blatantly stealing away their property? If their property was taken away by these lowly commoners, who would be the one to compensate for this loss?

Only Eugene and Andrew had managed to change in time. When the weather had just turned cold, they took the initiative to have their pawnshop give them the winter clothes for free.

What do we need to pawn tickets in times of war? Many people have already died on the battlefield, so we can just randomly grab and distribute the winter clothes. After sending them all out, we can clear out the warehouse.

The sudden drop in temperature had not only affected the pawnshop, but also the interests of the rich and powerful families. The materials management department under the commune had already begun 'mobilizing' families one by one.

How could this be called mobilization, this was like a robbery. The wolf-like National Guard soldiers rushed into the houses of the nobles, capitalists, and middle class, leaving them with a few pieces of clothing.

In a short period of time, the rich district of Paris was filled with tears. The rich and powerful did not manage to escape the city in time. Their intestines turned green with regret.

Even worse, the businesses that had escaped the Parisians had been ordered to be confiscated. The villas were given to the poor to live in, and the clothes that had not been taken away were distributed to protect them from the cold. The gold and silver treasures, along with the antique calligraphy and paintings, were transported together to the warehouse of the commune for whatever purpose they were kept.

General Trochu was already unable to control the security in Paris anymore. The one hundred and eighty thousand garrison unit s were fighting with the Prussian army outside the city in turns.

Without a truce or a break, Bismark understood General Trochu's difficulty. He would not give these trapped beasts any chance to escape, the Prussian army wanted to take the initiative to control the pace of the battle and mess up their plans to break out of the encirclement, so as to not let them gather their forces.

The advantage he brought was not only the three hundred thousand to four hundred thousand troops. More importantly, he had lost such a strategic location, causing many of the guerrillas to lose their backbone. With the addition of the large numbers of the Prussian army's cavalry, the railway network in the north had begun to return to normal.

The artillery shells and supplies at the rear could be delivered to Paris in a steady stream. Finally, the War God no longer needed to save ammunition!

Only now did the Parisians understand why the French Emperor had lost to the North. Against such an overwhelming advantage in firepower, the old army could not hold on much longer.

Usually, the main forces would sacrifice thousands of their lives to take back the position, allowing the Prussian army artillery to shoot once or twice before exploding into a sea of flames, the difference in casualties was too great.

The coordination of the sinister Prussian Battle Cannons was indeed exquisite. The infantry assault attracted more French troops to launch a counterattack, and when the density of the French army was high enough, the cannons would pour down a torrent of firepower without any stinginess.

No one had accurately calculated the loss rate, but after a quick analysis by the Chinese observers, the losses in the last ten days had reached at least 1: 8. That was to say, one soldier from Prussian army had died, while eight from France!