Chapter 453: Se Dang! Se Dang! (Second update, please subscribe)
On August 31, the German Confederation Army, which had already surrounded the French 2nd Army, launched a general offensive against it.
Seeing that things were not going well, Napoleon III and the Chalons Corps led by McMahon fled to the northeast, and the German army immediately followed.
Faced with the German pursuit and encirclement, the French army had to retreat to Sedan.
Sedan!
There was an open area around Sedan, with no strategic locations to defend and no fortresses to use. The French army, which had hastily retreated to Sedan, did not even have time to build fortifications before it was hit hard by the Germans.
On September 1, the Battle of Sedan began!
On that day, as soon as the battle broke out, the Prussian army assembled 700 Krupp cannons to bombard the French camps inside and outside the city. In the next half day, shells fell on the French positions like raindrops. The whole city of Sedan was a sea of fire and filled with smoke. The French army suffered countless casualties. The remaining people hurriedly got into the fortress, and even McMahon was injured several times.
"Marshal, my marshal, how are you? My God!"
In the underground wine cellar of a mansion in Sedan, the exhausted French Emperor Napoleon III saw that McMahon was injured and immediately became concerned about his safety.
"Your Majesty, I have no problem. We are now surrounded here, with hundreds of thousands of troops crowded here..."
McMahon's tone became a little low, even a little lost. He had repeatedly opposed helping Bazin, so what was the best help?
They were the ones who held their ground in Paris and then attracted the Prussians to attack Paris!
But what about Your Majesty?
Originally, His Majesty agreed to his suggestion, but a telegram from the Regency Council in Paris changed everything.
"If Bazaine is not supported, the consequences for Paris will be extremely dire. Faced with this situation, it is doubtful whether the capital can be defended!"
Now they were all surrounded by the Prussians.
Bazin was in Metz, maybe he had started to break out, but whether he could do so was still unknown. As for him? He was surrounded in Sedan.
France was finished. But McMahon knew that as a commander he could not say this.
"Marshal, if anything happens to you, France will be finished. I really can't imagine what will happen without you..."
What!
McMahon looked at His Majesty with wide eyes and asked, "Do you know what you are talking about?"
Is this what you should say as an emperor?
"Your Majesty, France will not fail, you must believe..."
What to believe in?
Reinforcements?
There are no more reinforcements.
All French troops are surrounded!
All the troops!
"Your Majesty, the Nanhua people! Nanhua has promised to send out their powerful airship force. As long as we hold on, Your Majesty, I think we will be able to see Nanhua's airships soon!"
Commander Chalon's words made Napoleon III feel a little expectant, but also a little skeptical.
"Airship? Will my niece really send her airship?"
The niece he was referring to was of course Charlotte, who married Zhu Xianhai. Now the airship was like the last straw.
The only question is – will they come?
When Daniel rode into the unfamiliar, burning center of the city, the bombardment continued, but it seemed to have slowed down: the Germans moved the firing circle to the periphery, and the shells were still falling, but they were no longer bombarding as wildly as before. Instead, they were strictly fired at certain areas, so Daniel was able to carefully observe the surrounding situation.
Everything was burning, all the houses and buildings, even the church and the houses nearby, everything that could burn was burning.
Even that which cannot burn is burning!
Amid the roar of flames, the sound of falling shells and the flying of hot shrapnel, almost everyone was running around in panic.
There were also horses neighing, they were somewhere not far away, stray horses were running wildly in the streets, and some houses were burning, and the people inside were being burned to death.
Daniel was not familiar with this city. He had broken through the Prussian defenses on horseback at night and entered the city. But the city before his eyes was now covered in thick smoke and fire, with shrapnel flying and many people falling down while running.
Daniel rode his horse forward in the gunfire for a while and barely recognized the location of the town hall. He ran towards there, but there were not many people there. There was no one in the empty town hall.
"Where are the people? Where are they?"
Where are you going now?
"Is anyone there? Is anyone there?"
As Daniel rode his horse down the street, he held the back of his head with his hands. He rode over craters, piles of stones and bricks. For a moment, he even felt a sharp, hot piece of shrapnel flying past his face.
Stumbling along the street, Daniel could hear the roar of shells tearing apart. As he ran forward, he saw an officer and asked loudly.
"Your Majesty, where is His Majesty?"
Right here, he felt something huge approaching on his back. Almost out of instinct for survival, he jumped off his horse, held his head tightly with both hands, and threw himself into a nearby bomb crater. At this time, he heard an explosion, and suddenly a terrible force pushed him into the sand. This force was so strong that he couldn't breathe. Under this pressure, he curled up and greedily inhaled the air with his mouth wide open.
There was another person in the crater, also breathing there. He was an officer. The officer, with a face covered in dust, looked at him and asked.
"How did you get here? There's a war going on right now. Don't you know?"
"Fighting, I know, I know!"
Daniel said excitedly.
"It is because of the war that I came here. Look, this is the newspaper. Now all the newspapers in Europe are reporting this."
"What's the report?"
"The airship, Nanhua's airship, they are on their way here. Sir, where is His Majesty? We must tell him this good news! And..."
Daniel spoke loudly as he looked at the soldiers running around.
"Hey, gentlemen, you don't have to worry anymore. The airships, the airships of Nanhua are coming. They are our allies. Soon our airships will blow all the Germans into the sky..."
After receiving this news, Na San was so excited that he couldn't even speak. God can testify.
This news was definitely the best news he had heard in the past month. For Na San, who was exhausted and tortured by illness, this good news was enough to keep him going.
"God bless them to finally come..."
(End of this chapter)
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