Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A ranar 10 ga Oktoba, tashin hankali ya fara tsakanin sojojin Jamusawa da na Jamhuriyar Faransa kusa da Orléans. Da farko, Jamusawa sun yi nasara amma Faransanci ya jawo ƙarfafawa kuma ya ci sojojin Bavarian a yakin Coulmiers
a ranar 9 ga watan Nuwamba. Bayan mika wuya na Metz, fiye da 100,000 da aka horar da kuma gogaggen sojojin Jamus sun shiga cikin 'Sojojin Kudancin' Jamus. An tilasta wa Faransawa barin Orléans a ranar 4 ga Disamba, kuma a ƙarshe an ci su a Yaƙin Le Mans. Sojojin Faransa na biyu da ke aiki a arewacin Paris an mayar da su a yakin Amiens (27 ga Nuwamba), yakin Bapaume (3 ga Janairu 1871) da yakin St. Quentin (13 ga Janairu).