The base camp was bombed!
After this news came out, the shock to the Prussian soldiers was unimaginable. While they were thankful that the king, prime minister and others were safe, their fear of airships and even the fear of Nanhua deepened again.
When people talk about the bombing of the base camp, they will look to the sky. Once upon a time, the blue sky and unpredictable clouds could relax their mood, but now it has brought them death and fear!
And all this is brought by Nanhua!
Nam Hwa!
The Nanhua Army must be defeated!
This is the largest room in the manor. Although it is very large, everything seems a bit messy. The "tick" sound of the telegraph echoes in the air. From time to time, telegraph operators are running around with long telegram strips.
Officers in blue military uniforms discussed issues with each other from time to time.
There were documents piled everywhere on the tables. In the center of the room was a large sand table filled with small flags. The red flags represented the South China Army, while the blue flags represented the Prussian Army. The two sides formed a formation outside the city of Rouen.
It has a crescent shape.
The surrounding map shelves were filled with military maps. Although all the windows in the room were open, the atmosphere here was still tense and made people feel anxious and stuffy.
Sitting behind a large table was an officer with his collar open and sweat on his forehead and on the tip of his nose. He was Count Moltke, the commander of the Prussian Fourth Army.
At this time, he had completely lost his aristocratic demeanor. Not only did he lose his former military appearance, his sunken eye sockets were black and blue. Although his face was exhausted, he was still staring at the map.
It’s been five days!
In the past five days, outside Rouen, his Fourth Army launched attack after attack against the South China Army, but their attacks were repelled, and even the artillery suffered heavy losses.
"Now we are repeating the tragedy of the French!"
In his telegram to the Chief of Staff, Count Moltke described the gap between the two sides in this way.
The rifles were far inferior to those of Nanhua, and even the ace of the Prussian army, the Krupp cannon, was not as good as their cannons.
tragedy!
"How comfortable we were when we beat the French, now they feel so comfortable when they beat us!"
But that's not important!
The important thing is that Prussia needs a victory and needs to use victory to prove that the South China Army is not invincible!
With his brows furrowed, Count Moltke stared at the situation between the two sides on the map, thought for a while, and then gave the order.
"The Fifteenth Army will attack it from the front one by one tonight..."
"Order the Thirteenth Army to detour from the right wing to the rear of the Nanhua Army tonight and launch an attack on their rear!"
The issuing of orders one after another means that the war is intensifying.
For those Prussians who went to the battlefield under the baptism of patriotism, perhaps the enemy they faced was powerful, but they believed that Prussia would be able to win.
For the unification of Germany!
Stein was an engineer who worked in a British shipyard before the war broke out. After the war broke out, he, like many Germans working in Britain, returned to Hamburg by ship, and then he joined the army. In the army and others
There are many of the same people, including farmers, scholars, shoemakers, engineers, young people, and old people. But they are all Germans.
"Germany, Germany, is above all else, above all things in the world; at any time, in order to protect and defend, brothers will always stand together. From Maas to Memel, from Esch to Bert..."
The recitation of hymns came from the trenches, and he knew that it was the "Deutsche Lied" recited by Backhouse there. This psalm, published in 1841, has been deeply loved by people in the German region since it was first published.
They also sang this hymn again and again at gatherings of expatriates. The melody of this hymn is "Emperor Quartet" written by Haydn Pu. In 1809, before Haydn died, Napoleon's French army besieged Vienna, and the sound of cannons
As the days passed, Haydn, who was dying, often played this song on the piano affectionately in order to gain spiritual comfort from it.
Similarly, this "German Song" has been a place for Germans to express their national feelings and find spiritual comfort for more than 20 years. Of course, it is also their desire. For the Germans who have been divided for a long time, they
Longing for Germany to become one country, longing for reunification!
This song is the voice of all of them!
"...Unity, justice and freedom, for the German fatherland; let us fight for this goal together, united as brothers, giving our hands and our hearts..."
In the dusk, the songs in the trenches merged into one. The soldiers from all over the North German Federation sang this German hymn. Under the light of the stars and the moon, and under the German pointed helmets, their expressions were resolute and determined.
"For Germany!"
"For unity!"
"For justice!"
"For Germany!"
They encouraged each other and looked at each other. At this moment, no matter whether they came from the southeast, northwest, Maas, Memer, Esch, or Bert, they were all Germans and Italians.
brother.
The officers drew their revolvers. When they were about to step out of the trench, they looked back at the soldiers in the trench and said.
"For the unification of Germany!"
"For the unification of Germany!"
In the night, tens of thousands of Prussian soldiers walked out of the trenches. They stepped onto the battlefield with absolute and calm expressions. While the infantry set off, the gunners carried cattle straps on their backs and dragged the feldkanonec/64 field gun. It weighed only
650 kilograms, Prussian gunners towed it to the front line countless times, accompanied the infantry attacks, and used shrapnel to blast away the enemy's defense lines.
Under the cover of darkness, Stein and his brothers, armed with rifles, approached the Nanhua Army's defense line in a scattered skirmish line.
After their rear gunners pushed the cannon into position, they immediately stuffed the cannon with 3.8-kilogram shrapnel shells. This shell was loaded with 48 50-gram lead bullets, which can be called a powerful weapon.
Complete.
While the gunners were preparing, tens of thousands of Prussian soldiers set foot on this battlefield. As they marched, Stein looked towards the night sky and looked at the stars in the night sky. His mood was calm and unruffled.
.
"For the unification of Germany!"
Their belief was firm. Just when Xuan Taiyin and those German brothers from all directions were walking towards the defense line of the South China Army in the night, in the trenches of the South China Army, the soldiers were urged by the company platoon leader.
Lie down in the shooting position.
"The Prussians are coming up!"
Li Ping held the rifle and said softly.
"Everyone, get ready. Keep the bullets and grenades at hand. Twist off the cap..."
Soldiers wearing steel helmets were lying on the edge of the trench, aiming their rifles into the distance. Their vision at night was very poor. At most, they could only vaguely feel some movement in the wilderness shrouded in twilight.
"They're coming up!"
Suddenly, when the sharp-eyed soldier saw the figure, he shouted, and at the same time, gunfire rang out, and for a while the trench was filled with gunfire!
This chapter has been completed!