C3245 A sneak attack became a farce (1/2)
Killing people had never been a simple matter. If the enemy was an invader or an extremely vicious bandit, then the burden on people's hearts might be a little less.
Sublime morality can make up for the negative emotions associated with killing, but killing your own people is a different matter!
Did he really shoot his own kind? An average person really couldn't do it, let alone at such a close distance.
The soldiers were still young. Looking at the familiar yet unfamiliar faces in front of them, it was very easy for them to substitute these people as their family and friends.
The grandma, who was swinging the skillet across the room, smelled of baking bread. Perhaps a batch of sticks had just been baked in the fireplace last night, and they tasted like a mother's.
The blushing girl looked so similar to the milk-milking Sunny of their hometown, and even the smell on their bodies was the same.
The middle-aged man who wore round glasses looked like the Teacher Qiao Zhi who taught him how to read when he was young. That Teacher Qiao Zhi who liked to spank kids, but also gave them a piece of candy after they were done.
Every single one of them was a living person, speaking the same language and culture, living under the same sky as the France.
We have the same joy, anger and sorrow, we have the same sorrow, but we are all one... How am I going to shoot, how am I going to pull the trigger?
The soldiers hesitated and were noticed by the citizens. The citizens were immediately cheered as they smelled the scent of their own people.
”Child, stop fighting for those traitors. Besides killing their own people, what else can they do?”
”Did one of those great men fight in Paris when it was hard to fight? The so-called President is just a coward who escapes at the last moment! ”
”The surrender agreement signed by Trochu must be compensated to the enemy with 260 million francs! Brothers, how many schools, how many hospitals, how many railway transportation... How much bread did French people talk about! ”
”We just gave it to the enemy for nothing, tell me …” How could you want us to kill? ”We're the ones who are on our side …”
Crowds crowded and pulled, and the new army of the Republic was crushed by the people of Paris.
General Le Kongte was so angry that his face darkened. Although he had been in the army for a long time, he had always been indifferent.
This time, he got in contact with Thiers through various connections. It was time for him to perform well, how could he let these lowly thugs mess with him.
To tell the truth, a general who had followed the vanguard troops to the front line had already expressed his impatience. He was eager to make a meritorious service and wanted to work for his master.
Seeing that the good sneak attack had turned into a farce, the old General Le Kongte was so angry that his white beard flew up into the air, ”Fine, fine, fine.
”If humans don't listen, then the beasts will at least listen, right? ”On the cavalry, prepare to make a path for me …”
This time, the sneak attack on General Le Kongte had brought along cavalry, but the first wave of sneak attacks did not use cavalry, it was really too big of a target and the sound of horses' hooves was too obvious at night.
The purpose of these horses was to pull the cannons, and the plan was for the vanguard unit to ambush the cannons from the artillery position, followed by the cavalry, the horses and the cannons would immediately leave the place.
Thiers was actually a more pragmatic President, he did not have a plan to annihilate the Paris Commune, his first plan was to snatch the cannons.
As long as the enemy didn't have cannons, then the odds of victory were high. In this era, cannons were the strategic weapon that decided the outcome of a war.
However, he had never expected that these soldiers would be so useless. Not only did they expose their target, they even refused to listen to his commands and refused to fight with these thugs.