Compared to the wailing in the French camp, the situation of the coalition forces is completely different.

A meteor shower in the sky, a series of thunders on the ground... The specific results have not been counted yet, but the French corpses all over the ground are enough to illustrate many problems.

The coalition officers and soldiers who witnessed all this with their own eyes now only have two words in their minds - "massacre".

Whether it is the air battle in the sky or the offensive and defensive battle on the ground, it is a unilateral massacre of the French army by the Austrian army.

The coalition officers and soldiers, who were originally dismal, had unstable morale and were confused about the prospects of the war, had their mental outlook at this moment.

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Alliance Command

Adrian Adrian was eager to try: "Marson, the French army suffered heavy losses in the daytime battle. There will definitely be no peace tonight. It is a good time for us to fight back."

From a military perspective, this judgment is not wrong. The heavy casualties have seriously hit the morale of the French army.

Especially these casualties were caused by misjudgment from senior management and command errors, which made grassroots officers and soldiers complain about the upper management.

"no!"

Grand Duke Albrecht refused decisively.

"It is not the time to fight back. The French army just suffered heavy losses today, and Udino had at least five divisions not participating in the battle.

We have too few mobile troops in our hands, and the newly reorganized troops are still resting and have little combat power at all.

The troops fighting during the day were already exhausted, and now there are no more than six infantry divisions that can be deployed to the attack, including three infantry divisions that retreated from the Belgian front last week.

The French are not fools. After suffering such a big loss, they will definitely be more vigilant. With our existing troops, even if we take the opportunity to launch a counterattack, it will be difficult to achieve the desired results.

Besides, the French Third Army is less than fifty kilometers away from the front line unless we can solve these enemies in one day.”

It is impossible to end the battle in one day. No matter how much advantage you take during the day, the fact that the Austrian army is insufficient is still not changed, even if the troops from the Derby countries are added.

Although today's battle has restored the morale of the coalition forces, the combat effectiveness of other troops is still recovering except for the Austrian troops.

Take the Belgian army as an example. After a few days of losing their hometown, they are crying. Unless they launch a battle to regain Belgian territory, it will be difficult for them to exert their peak combat effectiveness.

Not to mention the German army that was incorporated, they could only say that they had barely straightened out the command system, and the officers and soldiers were in a state of running-in. It was okay to let them do odd jobs and do logistics, and sending them to fight the French army to a decisive battle was a total loss of heads.

Time is on the side of the coalition forces, and reinforcements from the rear are coming continuously, and Grand Duke Albrecht can afford to wait.

The enemy's airship troops have been destroyed. Now, as long as the Rhine defense line is guarded, it is a matter of time before the French fail.

Of course, there is another reason that cannot be said.

If the sneak attack is successful, the French army will suffer heavy losses and directly retract back to the local area, and the subsequent battle will be difficult to fight.

When fighting with the French on the territories of the two countries of Derby, Austria can also hold high the banner of anti-aggression and gain support from local people.

If we enter the French mainland to fight, not to mention the fortifications, international intervention alone will be a big problem.

You should know that the international community is now supporting the anti-French alliance. It seems that it is just shouting slogans and has no substantial actions. In fact, governments from various countries are secretly causing trouble for the French.

With these small measures alone, France has to increase its expenses of hundreds of millions of francs every month. Once the money is spent, the materials may not be able to arrive on time.

If the strength and weakness reverse, the anti-French alliance will be the one who suffers now. At least before the end of the Egyptian battle, the Vienna government cannot ignore the positions of various countries.

If the daytime battle spreads, it will definitely affect the judgment of governments on the strength of both sides of the war, and may even affect everyone's foreign policy.

However, Grand Duke Albrecht was sure that the French could not inform the real situation of the daytime battle, and even tried hard to cover up the failure, otherwise they would not be able to explain it to the country.

As for the news released by the coalition forces, even if it is the truth, everyone will not help but give a discount. It is impossible to believe that the French army suffered such great casualties.

The reason is naturally the amazing record announced by both sides. According to the number of enemy annihilations announced by both sides of the war, the French have killed 3.46 million coalition forces, and the coalition forces have also killed 2.47 million French troops.

Based on this number, since the outbreak of the war, the warring sides killed 70,000 people per day on average, and the number of casualties on the entire battlefield reached an astonishing 140,000 per day.

There are so many people who died alone. The number of casualties increased by three times according to the number of casualties. Then the total number of casualties of the French army was 12.35 million; and the total number of casualties of the coalition forces reached an astonishing 17.3 million.

If such an exaggerated result really happened, the war would have ended long ago, and whoever believes is a fool.

In fact, at the beginning, the results announced by the warring parties were not that exaggerated. Even if they were artistic processing, everyone would restrain themselves, at least not to the point of adding zero.

It won't work later. For example, after a battle, the French army was about to announce the killing of 8,000 coalition forces, but when they saw that the coalition forces announced that they killed 12,000 French troops, they could not say that they could not show weakness. Then, with a big stroke, they turned into annihilation of 50,000 enemies.

Seeing that the French army announced that they would annihilate 50,000 coalition forces, the coalition forces could not suffer any losses. In a blink of an eye, they found ways to increase the results of annihilation of tens of thousands of enemies. Anyway, no one wants to lose the momentum.

If Luxembourg's defense line had not been lost and most of Belgium's territory was lost, it would have been impossible to blow up the cowhide, and the coalition forces would not have been at a disadvantage in the number of enemies annihilated.

Even so, the word game is still going on. And the later it goes, the more outrageous the results announced by everyone, and the truth is getting further and further away from the people.

There is nothing strange about it. Bragging is a common problem among humans. If you look through history books, you will know that the ancients played like this thousands of years ago.

The battle has been going on now, and both sides of the war have only wiped out millions of enemies. If you cross a zero, you will be very close to the real number, and it is completely incomparable to those bigwigs who wiped out hundreds of millions of enemies.

However, according to the current announcement of the results of the war between the two sides, if the war lasts for a few more months, the number of casualties on paper exceeds a small target, it will not be a problem at all.

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Tonight is destined to be an insomnia night. With the telegrams coming out, many big shots can't sleep anymore.

The coalition side is fine, but as the winner, they receive good news.

In addition to being unbelievable for a while and requiring multiple parties to verify the news, the politicians are in good spirits.

Some active guys have decided to have a night out to celebrate this hard-earned victory.

Of course, Franz does not include this. After receiving the telegram, he replied: I understand.

Then, there is nothing.

I was already prepared, so the surprise was not so sudden. Naturally, I should go to bed.

Without any surprises, Franz's unsuspecting performance in the face of change added another touch to his career as an emperor and left a short story for future generations.

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Compared to the quiet Vienna Palace, the Versailles Palace is brightly lit at this moment, and you can still hear the roars coming from time to time.

There is no doubt that no one who dared not sleep in the middle of the night and roared in the Palace of Versailles except Napoleon IV.

Since breaking the Luxembourg defense line, the French army has been galloping in Central Europe, "fighting the German Federation and tying Belgian children's shoes" to compete with each other.

In Napoleon IV's plan, the French army should continue, and they fought all the way to Vienna to defeat Austria.

However, the plan did not change quickly. Just as I was about to drink the Rhine River, I was hit by a blow.

It would be hard not to be angry in Napoleon IV. If anyone is in his position, he cannot guarantee that he will perform better at this moment.

First, the bad news of heavy losses from the airship troops on the front line came, which announced the end of the airship era and marked the fact that France's investment in airships over the years had all been paid.

Napoleon IV was an emperor who grew up with a new education. He could barely accept the technological updates.

Isn't it just an airplane? With France's strong family background, it was created in a few months.

Anyway, the power of airplanes is limited these days. In addition to restraining airships, the role they can play on the battlefield is not as great as that of later generations.

Even though he lost his air supremacy, Napoleon IV was still full of confidence in the French Army.

In his opinion, without the assistance of the airship bombing troops, it is simply that the cost of winning the war is higher, and there is still time to push it later.

Unfortunately, this French Army, which he had high hopes for and had a long history, gave him an answer sheet with only single digits.

The number of casualties exceeded 30,000 and the number of casualties reached 50,000. This was not a battle, but a day's battle.

The results of paying such a heavy price were minimal. Conservatively estimated that the casualties of the Austrian army were only three digits at most.

Most of these were caused by artillery, and a small number were caused by airship bombing. Although the airship troops failed to drop a few bombs, they fell to a giant bomb.

Of course, after the airship troops failed, they did not forget to visit the French camp while harming the coalition forces.

They are treated equally in this regard, and where they fall is determined entirely by the will of God.

As for the infantry that launched the attack, although they suffered heavy casualties, they actually wandered around the battlefield and sent a large number of heads.

The situation was worse than Som and the battle in the original time and space. The British simply ignored the threat of machine gun firepower networks, and the bureaucrats made a machine.

The French army didn't even know what the Maxim machine gun was, so they rushed up. If they just didn't know, it wouldn't be a big deal.

When the frontline officers and soldiers find that the casualties are heavy, they will definitely pay back to the top leaders. As long as the offensive tactics are adjusted in time, the losses will not be that great.

Unfortunately, all this does not apply to the French army, let’s tell a story.

During the battle to attack Luxembourg, a French-Italy mixed infantry division was ordered to launch a main attack on the enemy's positions.

After the battle started, the heroic French soldiers launched a charge one after another. One of the Italian soldiers formed an infantry regiment as the main body, showing special courage in the battle.

Nearly two-thirds of the 2,146 people in the entire regiment fell on the way to charge, which scared the division commander immediately stopped and replaced them for rest.

As a result, after the troops were withdrawn in the evening and when the number of people was finally counted, the 2,146 soldiers that the regiment deserved arrived actually reached 2,101 soldiers.

The missing platoon, the corpse collection team only found Qijia's corpses. There is no way to determine whether the remaining people died in battle or ran away.

Due to too many people involved, the French Army Command did not deal with the soldiers except for dismissing the officers involved and sending them to military court, but just drove them home.

There is no doubt that such an understatement was undoubtedly a big failure. By the time the French senior leaders reacted, the situation had already been out of control.

The power of role models is huge. There is never a shortage of people in this world who are afraid of death, and almost all French troops followers.

The French senior officials who reacted naturally took measures to punish these guys strictly. However, once Pandora's box is opened, it cannot be solved by closing it.

In order to avoid punishment, all kinds of strange excuses appeared. Of course, more people pretended to be injured. Many people deliberately caused some minor injuries and then hid in the rear hospital to recuperate.
To be continued...