However, he was truly unwilling to accept it. He hadn't done anything wrong, so why had he failed? It was Bellevue, that damned man. If only his forces had been a little larger, the German Allied Forces would never have broken through at Sarrebourg.
Just then, Lamoricière suddenly remembered his troops in Metz. Metz was a fortified city with strong defenses, situated at the confluence of two rivers. Its batteries on all four sides were still intact, and its heavy guns were more than enough to offset Austria's artillery advantage.
As for the people of Lorraine, they had been the Duke of Orléans's subjects all along. Why should the warriors of France care about them?
At that moment, Lamoricière made a bold decision. He would appoint General Gaine commander of the Sarrebourg garrison, then lead his main force back to Metz to face the German Allied Forces in battle.
At night, after a full day of fierce fighting, both sides finally got a chance to catch their breath. The Allied soldiers rushed for the dining cars almost at once.
After a day of bloody fighting, the soldiers had long since exhausted their strength. As soon as their taut nerves relaxed, hunger and cold crept in.
The Austrian dining cars had steaming porridge and hot soup ready. Though calling it porridge might have been too generous to the cooks' skills; more accurately, it was some sort of paste.
Luckily, the famished soldiers didn't care. They just wanted to fill their stomachs and ease some of the pressure that had built up.
Field kitchens had first been invented by the Prussians. But a decade or so later, the United States government announced that Western cowboys had invented similar kitchens at nearly the same time as the Prussians. Since no patent holder could