18th century total war

Chapter 125 Rouen Uprising
"Everyone stop moving forward!"

Teams of liberal aristocratic generals and private soldiers who surrendered without even changing their military uniforms (Li Wei did not allocate funds) filed out of the courtyard next to the city hall with muskets.

Such an important office of the city government naturally has a special military station next to it. The number of people is not large, but it is enough to put a few hundred guns in.

The Li Wei regime is not well-known to the people, so there will be some guards next to the municipal governments of various cities under the Li Wei regime.

Hundreds of soldiers wearing the military uniforms of the former nobles' private army held muskets and crowded together with the marching parade. At first, they were simply pushing and cursing, and gradually rose to physical conflict.

During this period, Kanoer rushed into the gate of the city hall with his family in a hurry.

He is a liberal aristocrat who came here for refuge, so naturally he had already greeted him, and the guards at the door did not embarrass his family.

Just as Kanol stepped into the gate of the city hall, there was a sudden gunshot behind him, and then the gunshot exploded like popping beans!
Kanol froze. At this moment, he wanted to leave the city government and return to his manor in the countryside, even if it was very dangerous!

"Down with the decadent French Kingdom, liberate Rouen, and welcome the French Republic. We don't want to be pariahs, we want to be real people of equality and freedom!"

Although it was not neat, there were very loud shouts outside, followed by a set of revolutionary slogans of freedom, equality and fraternity, which shook the sky and even overwhelmed the gunfire at one point!

As soon as the gunfire rang out, how could the hundreds of private soldiers of the nobles who had already joined the marching citizens stop the angry crowd like wolves and tigers?
After the people of this era are awakened with revolutionary enthusiasm, they are actually more desperate than the citizens of the 21st century. The reason is very simple, they are poor and arrogant!

Once a person is poor, he is willing to do his best to change his life!
Among the crowd participating in the demonstration, many people are hungry, just waiting to follow the call of the revolution to grab a fortune and eat a full meal. Can they not work hard?

Why is it so easy for the Li Wei regime to recruit security forces?
It's because there are too many hungry men in France today. As long as we give money and food, there really aren't many people who are willing to serve as soldiers and eat food...

Of course, it wasn't just Li Wei who was doing this. The National Convention of the First French Republic had already issued a national conscription order, preparing to fight Li Wei's rebel forces and foreign intervention forces to the end.

The Jacobin Radical Party has brought more than 6 temporarily recruited and reorganized National Guards (most of them are armed citizens of Paris) to Verdun to prepare to resist foreign intervention forces.

Few of the citizens in the parade had muskets, and the security forces did not dare to participate in the riot.

To put it bluntly, they came here just to escort the parade. How could they have thought that the demonstration would turn into an armed uprising!

Now, no one knows who fired the first shot...

These noble private soldiers have no determination to die for their bosses. To put it bluntly, the cohesion of the liberal nobles in the Normandy region is getting worse day by day. Whether the private army below will disband depends entirely on the willingness of the noble officers and generals above. Continue to pay military pay.

Kanol's troops disbanded because Kanol didn't want to invest the wealth accumulated by his family into this army without combat effectiveness!
There were too many people in the parade, so many that it made hundreds of noble private soldiers feel desperate. Of course, after the conflict broke out and even the death, the hundreds of noble private soldiers dispersed in a hurry, running faster than anyone else. quick.

And Kanol, who was about to leave the city hall with his family, happened to see the scene where the guards at the door dropped the muskets that were in the way and ran away with other soldiers.

And the turbulent crowd has already surrounded!

Kanol glanced at the women and children around him, and decisively chose to retreat to the city hall building to find the current mayor of the city.

Violence can no longer solve the problem, and Kanoer can only think of relying on the identity of the people here to suppress the rioting people.

The Rouen uprising is okay, just don't take everyone's wealth and lives away!

It's a pity that Kanol's thinking is too simple.

The demonstrators who saw people dying of blood needed to kill to vent their anger!

On this day, dozens of liberal aristocrats in the high-level city government of Rouen City happened to have a meeting in the conference room. As a result, an uprising happened outside, and the marching crowd rushed into the city hall, blocking all portal!

The timing was so clearly arranged, it was obvious that someone was manipulating it behind the scenes!

Kanol, Mayor Lahr, and dozens of liberal nobles who were bewildered were captured by the armed citizens who were marching.

Afterwards, Fatis, a "well-known figure" registered in the Jacobin branch of the Normandy region, led the army outside the city, and joined forces with the armed citizens who broke up the city government, disintegrated and engulfed the security team in the city. Defeat the leaderless noble private army.

In fact, the battle was over as soon as it broke out. After learning that all the bosses who paid their salaries had become prisoners, the morale of these troops had long been cleared. Many people even sympathized with the revolutionary private army of nobles and immediately surrendered.

The uprising in Rouen started from the clashes between the parade and the city government guards, and ended when Rouen declared the uprising a victory. !
However, the Jacobin revolutionary government headed by Fatis, established the day after the uprising in Rouen, immediately pronounced death sentences on those captured high-ranking city government officials and liberal aristocrats. Put them to death for treason and send them to the guillotine!

In the eyes of Easterners, beheading is a very harsh death penalty, but in Western society, those who can go to the guillotine are people with certain social status!

Those who were hanged were often untouchables and common criminals.

For example, vicious pirates generally do not enjoy the treatment of the guillotine at all.

This is mainly because in the history of Europe, there was an accidental mistake when executing a prisoner by hanging. As a result, a nobleman who was executed was not strangled to death in the first place, and was tortured several times before he died in great pain...

Since then, nobility and even people with status in society have been sentenced to death, and hanging is no longer used. Hanging is also considered a very cruel method of death penalty by Europeans. How can it be as easy as the guillotine?

With a click, there is no need to accept any torture, and the person is gone...

This is completely contrary to Eastern culture. After all, among the capital punishment in Eastern countries, hanging with a three-foot white silk ribbon is preferential treatment.

The city of Rouen was liberated by Fatis, the Jacobin military leader of the Normandy region. Such glorious news spread throughout France in the shortest possible time.

For a time, the name Fatis became the recognized revolutionary leader of all resistance forces in the Kingdom of France under Livy's control.

(End of this chapter)