"Your Majesty the Emperor, the Pope was kidnapped by the Ming army." the intelligence officer said.\nReynaud came over in a hurry and reported to Napoleon who was talking to Leclerc.

"The Pope was captured?" Napoleon narrowed his eyes.

This news is so shocking!

Although the Pope only has a small piece of land in Europe like the Vatican, no monarch in the European countries dares to underestimate the influence of the Pope.

Although it is no longer the Middle Ages, the pope's influence on European state power is limited.

But in the hearts of most Europeans, the Pope is still the incarnation of God in this world.

Everyone in Europe is religious, the only difference is the sect.

The Ming Dynasty actually dared to risk the disapproval of the world and arrest the Pope and take him away. This was too courageous.

Napoleon didn't speak, and the people around him didn't dare to speak either.

Leclerc sat on the chair and didn't know what to say for a moment.

Originally, Napoleon recalled him from the front line this time just to discuss with him how to deal with the Ming army's magnetic tactics.

But now...!

"When did it happen?" Michelle.\nMarshal Ney asked.

"Three days ago, the Holy See blocked the news, and one of our insiders finally got the news back."

"Damn it!" Marshal Soult cursed.

A group of French generals and officers were all smoking in silence.

"It's been three days. Counting the time, I think everyone can reach Crete." Leclerc sighed.

"The people of Ming Dynasty caught the Pope at this time, which shows that they no longer have any fear.

They are determined that even if they anger everyone in Europe, we can't do anything to them!" Marshal Montebello sighed helplessly.

"Why are you all sighing like this? Are you saying that we are going to hand over Europe to the Ming Dynasty?

From now on, will we all be slaves to the subjugation of our country and slaves to the Ming Dynasty?

Look at the Indians, look at the Egyptians, look at the Tunisians, how they live.

Men worked in the mines, and women became prostitutes.

Their children spent the whole day fighting for food with the chickens on the ground, and their elderly people starved to death at home.

Are you willing to live like this?

Which of you is willing to go mining, and who of you is ready to send your wife and daughter to a brothel?”

The hot-tempered Michelle.\nMarshal Ney roared like a dragon.

No one said anything, everyone knew about Marshal Ney's bad temper.

To put it seriously, he is clamoring for a duel with you, what should you do?

The scene fell into silence again. Napoleon did not speak, and others did not dare to speak.

The current situation is very unfavorable to France.

On the battlefield, France has basically lost its offensive capabilities.

There is no other way, if France wants to attack, it can only do it at night.

During the day, the attack could only be carried out without artillery cover.

Facing steel and concrete fortifications, it is unthinkable without artillery cover.

Even if there are more people, it will only increase casualties.

Night attack, although there was no harassment from the Ming Air Force.

But..., the Ming army will not fight you.

The French army tried their best to advance, but they could not catch up with the Ming Dynasty's wheels.

The French army made great strides to attack, and the Ming army retreated in great strides.

Relying on cars, tractors and tanks, the Ming army could retreat fifty kilometers overnight.

The French army could only march fifty kilometers in one night if they worked extremely hard.

We finally saw the Ming army. Before we could unload the cannon from the carriage, it was already dawn!

Under the bright sun, the damn Ming Dynasty plane is coming again.

The result was that the Ming Dynasty's artillery and aircraft bombed indiscriminately. Even the most elite troops would be reduced to ashes in the artillery fire.

It can be said that without the support of new tactics, the French army has lost its offensive capabilities.

But it seemed that the Ming army had no intention of continuing to attack. They just restored their retreat positions during the day and retreated at night.

Even if the French army does not counterattack at night, the Ming army will retreat on time.

The French army once thought of a way, which was to install large mines on the roads.

Or other explosives used to blow up Ming army vehicles.

At the beginning, we still achieved some results.

But soon, the Ming army acquired a tank specifically designed to clear mines.

This kind of tank has a huge metal shovel in front of it and drives in close to the ground.

As long as there are landmines, they will be detonated by this shovel.

When encountering vast minefields, Ming Dynasty would also use rockets to directly shoot a rubber tube filled with explosives.

If the rubber pipe falls to the ground, it will cause continuous explosions.

In one go, a safe passage of tens of meters can be opened in a dense minefield.

The French army sadly discovered that even the mines were useless in the face of the Ming army, which was reacting faster and faster.

The passivity on the battlefield filled the French army with a feeling of failure.

In addition, from the air, Ming army fighter planes were constantly bombing, dropping bombs and strafing.

Facing the Ming army fighters flying in formation, the French anti-aircraft artillery fire on the ground was unable to do much.

A small number of anti-aircraft guns will not work, and concentrating a large number of anti-aircraft guns will only attract more Ming army aircraft.

Moreover, the number of Ming army aircraft seems to be increasing continuously.

Nowadays, Ming army aircraft no longer bomb only when they see valuable targets, but they bomb when they see targets.

Even if there are only two signal soldiers riding horses on the ground, they will be strafed by aircraft.

Some planes even flew towards the rear of the French army.

The narrow-gauge railway that was built so hard would be blown up as soon as the Ming army discovered it.

There were several relatively exposed sections of road where Ming troops came to bombard them during the day.

After the bombing, the French army would make emergency repairs every evening.

After the repairs were completed, supplies were rushed overnight.

After daybreak, the Ming army would come and continue bombing.

We did organize a few ambushes!

However, the Ming army's aircraft tactics became more and more sophisticated, and they dispatched more than a dozen aircraft.

Often only one or two aircraft dropped bombs or strafed, while the remaining aircraft hovered at high altitude.

In other words, even if you conduct an ambush, you can only kill one or two aircraft.

The remaining aircraft will attack the ground frantically.

And soon, planes from other parts of the Ming Army will arrive to retaliate.

No matter how many anti-aircraft guns there are, they can't withstand the bombing by Ming aircraft.

If you are within 40 kilometers of the battle line, you will be covered and fired by rocket launchers.

The French army discovered that the improvement in tactics of the Ming army's air force was related to a type of large aircraft.

This kind of aircraft is much larger than ordinary Ming army fighter planes. It does not participate in attacks, but always hovers in the sky, patrolling the ground like an eagle.

Even the slightest movement on the ground cannot escape their eyes.

Fortunately, there don't seem to be many large aircraft in the Ming army.

However, according to the practice of the Ming army, as long as a weapon is easy to use, there will be more and more of this weapon.

Until the end, there were too many to count.

Napoleon walked out of the meeting place, and the military meeting came to an end.

The marshals returned to their villas one after another. The long life on the front line had made them exhausted.

Those beautiful Ukrainian maids can soothe their tense nerves and relieve their stress.
To be continued...