The Second Reich: Beginning with the Prince of Prussia

President François was still struggling in his heart, and reason told him that he should throw in the defeat of the Germans, because they had no chance of winning the war.

But he still had a trace of luck in his heart, although the reinforcements in the direction of Orleans were surrounded by the Germans and were completely annihilated.

But they had reinforcements from elsewhere to count on, and if they could get there, they would be able to form a stalemate with the Germans, even if they could not defeat them, and thus be eligible for renegotiation.

When the war was first mobilized, Gaul expanded its army throughout the country, and this time there were four reinforcements that came to support it.

Among them, the 80,000 troops in the direction of Orleans have been completely wiped out, and there are still hundreds of thousands of reinforcements left in Marseille, Rouen, Nantes and other places can still be counted on.

"Your Excellency, a telegram from Rouen!"

Just when François was still holding on to a little luck, a telegram suddenly arrived from Rouen's side.

"Well, are our reinforcements arriving?"

He was just thinking about reinforcements in his heart, but there was news from Rouen's side, which made his first reaction that reinforcements were coming.

"Although it is news of reinforcements, it doesn't seem to be the news of their smooth arrival, but... 460..."

"And what?"

Seeing that the other party was divided, President François and the high-ranking officials who pinched him at the scene all chuckled in their hearts, and they all had a not very good feeling.

Could it be that the reinforcements on Rouen's side are also in trouble?

Under the watchful eyes of the president and other high-ranking officials in the government, the liaison who sent the telegram had a very ugly face.

They were also a little incredulous when they had just received the telegram and translated its contents.

But after they repeatedly confirmed the news with the Rouen side, they finally determined that the reinforcements from the Rouen side were really finished!

"A telegram from Rouen said that the reinforcements they sent were ambushed by the Germans in Elef, less than 50 kilometers from the city of Towers, and the 70,000-strong army was completely wiped out!"

As soon as they heard the news that Rouen's reinforcements had been surrounded by the Germans and annihilated, the faces of everyone present changed color, and President François sat on the ground with a pale face and trembling hands.

Rouen's reinforcements are finished!

In just a few days, they lost two support armies, and the loss of more than 150,000 troops!

And now, although there is no news of the French reinforcements from the other two directions, with the strong strength of the German army at present, they may be more than lucky!

"Your Excellency, surrender, if we continue to fight, the Imperial army will be completely lost, and then the Germanic people will definitely open their mouths and ask us for more compensation!"

"Yes, if we continue to fight, our army will be completely wiped out, and it will not only be a matter of losing money, but even the country will die!"

Without the protection of their army, Gaul was like a fish on a chopping block, they themselves could not decide their own fate at all, they could only be slaughtered!

Thinking of this, President François finally accepted the reality and said dejectedly:

"Surrender to the Hanns!"

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Seeing the Gauls waving the white flag, coming to him, begging the Germans to stop the shelling, they were willing to surrender, old Moltke sneered in his heart.

I have already given you a chance before, and you don't want it yourself, but now you are beaten with a blue nose and swollen face, and you obediently run over to ask for a ceasefire, how can this Gaul be so cheap?

This is not the case today, and the conditions given by the Second Empire before are certainly not applicable now.

"A ceasefire is okay, but we have three conditions!" (read the violent novel, go to the Feilu Novel Network!)

Old Moltke raised three fingers and said word by word in an unquestionable tone:

"First, let the defenders in the city immediately lay down their arms and surrender to us!"

"Second, the culprits who provoked the war must be duly punished!"

"Third, before the end of the negotiations, the city of Eiffel Tower will be militarized by our German army!"

"These three conditions, you go back and tell your president, if they are willing to accept the conditions we put forward, then send someone to Bailin to negotiate with us!"

"If you don't want to accept our conditions, hmph, then don't blame us for being polite, if you want to fight, our German army can accompany you at any time!"

The shadow of the famous tree, Moltke the old led the German army to defeat Gaul twice, which made him a household name in the hearts of Gauls, and even achieved the effect of stopping children from crying.

Faced with the conditions put forward by such a famous marshal, the Gallic delegates did not dare to fart a fart, and returned to the Élysée Palace with old Moltke's conditions to report the situation to their president.

Upon learning of the conditions proposed by the Germans, the Gallic high-level immediately exploded.

These conditions were too much for them, even more than the public coronation of Kaiser Wilhelm I in their palace in front of the whole world!

If the Hanns had only demanded that they pay war reparations, they would have been able to hold their noses and admit it.

However, the Hansians demanded that they surrender the capital, and that the hundreds of thousands of French troops in the capital surrender to the Germans, both of which were already so angry that the Gauls could not accept them.

The worst thing is that the other side also demanded that the culprits who provoked the war be punished.

And aren't they the high-ranking government leaders who are here who started the war?

In other words, how could the Germanic people endure the fact that they were almost named and demanded that they be punished severely?

"Is it tolerable or unbearable, the Hans are too much!"

"That's right, I don't think they have any sincerity at all, where is this like a peace talk, this is clearly trying to make us lose the country!"

"And that's not even counting the next issue of war reparations, the conditions they have now offered are already so harsh, and when the real negotiations begin, the war reparations they are asking for will be an astronomical amount, maybe more than the five billion francs of the last Franco-Prussian war!

The Gauls were very unhappy with the attitude of the Germans, but they could only be incompetent and furious in their own homes!

If they dare to say these cruel words in front of the German army, they will be considered real heroes.

Unfortunately, the Gauls did not dare to do this.

The chief of staff of the army saw that the crowd was excited, and he had the intention of adding fuel to the fire and continuing the war, so he poured a basin of cold water:

"Ladies and gentlemen, I know that this breath is difficult to swallow, but I have a question, if you really continue to fight, how do you want to resist the German attack, if you can't stop the German attack, are you ready to sacrifice your life for the country?"

As soon as these words came out, the scene was suddenly silent! .