18th century total war

Chapter 147 The Northern Group Army defected (100 monthly tickets plus updates)
"what?
Another revolutionary coup in Paris?

Can someone like Robespierre be in charge? !
Nonsense! "

In the frontline headquarters of the Austrian Netherlands, the current commander of the French Northern Army, Charles Francois Dumouriez, has just received news of another coup d'état in Paris.

Although he joined the Jacobin Club in 1790, it did not represent his opposition to the rule of the Girondists.

Like most senior officials of the revolutionary government, Dumouriez believed that the Girondins were the 'moderates' who were suitable for ruling France and coordinating the relations between all classes.

After the Girondins came to power, the Jacobin Club began to deteriorate, becoming more and more extreme and disgusting!

Not everyone likes to rule the country with extreme nationalism!
Because extremism means that the lives of high-level government officials have become dangerous, and those extremist leaders will use the name of counter-revolution anytime, anywhere to send the "revolutionary high-level officials" they dislike to the gallows.

This is why senior Girondin government officials have been reluctant to accept the option of resignation from beginning to end.

When the Girondists took over the regime, all the senior officials of the constitutional monarchy resigned and retired by themselves. They were not subject to political liquidation. After stepping down, they immediately regained their freedom and left Paris safely.

Nowadays, apart from Lafayette and other constitutional monarchists who are determined to stay in Paris and switch to other parties, no one has suffered misfortune. Especially some of them have gone abroad with their families and money, and they are living a good life.

After staying away from the center of power, these people are not ordinary poor citizens. If they are rich and have connections, their life will not be too bad.

However, according to the information obtained by Commander Dumouriez, one of the famous Girondist officials in Paris was arrested and imprisoned!

Such is the method of the Jacobin Radicals!
If it weren't for the fact that among the leaders of the Jacobin revolution, there were less radical Mountain sect bosses (the Mountain sect themselves did not consider themselves radical, and they also had moderate voices within them, but it was difficult for outsiders to see it) to stop them. Robespierre and others massacred the top Girondins.

This is not difficult to understand. Before the Jacobin Mountain Party came to power, no one cared how many moderate politicians there were among them. When the Jacobin dictatorship came to power, those Jacobin leaders from different backgrounds naturally wanted to promote their own political ideas. , and then began to split...

The moment the Committee for National Salvation was established and took power, the Montagnards as a whole as a Jacobin group had actually died out. After losing their common enemy, the group of people who were originally like-minded began to carry out their own political ideas in order to promote their own governing ideas. Followers band together into distinct factions.

This time, they were no longer the Mountain Faction, but formed independent political groups with different revolutionary leaders as the main body.

Of course, the National Salvation Committee of the Jacobin dictatorship had not been in power for a long time, so the internal fighting was not that obvious to the outside world.

However, Commander Dumouriez received very bad news.

"Commander Dumouriez, the National Salvation Committee that just came to power has sent five military commissioners, and they are on their way here. They are holding a decree issued by the National Salvation Committee to suspend all military duties of the commander."

Dumouriez's trusted lieutenant reminded him with a serious look.

Dimouriez was not surprised at all when he heard the news, because he had made a fatal military mistake before that. When he attacked the Netherlands and consolidated the results of the occupation of the Austrian Netherlands, he was foiled by the Austrian army. The loss was not light, and the French Northern Army temporarily lost its offensive capabilities.

But now that the National Salvation Committee came to power, it publicly shouted the political slogan of "resisting the outside world first", expressing the withdrawal of all French troops that had entered the country, and preparing to mobilize the elite troops of the French Republic to suppress the Li Wei rebellion.

Naturally, Dumouriez, the commander of the Northern Army Group who had just been defeated, was about to be liquidated...

This made Di Mourier feel angry and disturbed!

"No, we must not hand over the military power in our hands, otherwise the National Salvation Committee will definitely arrest us, just like Brissot and others. Our lives and deaths will become the playthings of those Jacobin lunatics."

Di Mourier, who had joined the Jacobin Club, knew people like Robespierre too well, which is why Dimourier felt unbelievable when he learned that Robespierre had become a member of the National Salvation Committee.

In the eyes of Dumouriez, Danton and Marat are the real leaders of the Jacobin Mountains. "Rising stars" like Robespierre can take the position only because their ideas are extreme enough to win a large number of uneducated people. Support from Sansculottes!

In other words, Robespierre is just the leader of a bunch of butchers!

In the eyes of Dumourier, the sansculottes of Paris are the butchers of the nobility and the upper class!
With such a dangerous person entering the center of political power in the French Republic, how could Dumourier dare to return to Paris to stand trial?
After all, he lost the battle, and he himself was guilty.

"You take my guards and arrest the five commissioners of the National Salvation Committee immediately, and don't let them enter the barracks to announce the decree of the National Salvation Committee!
Leave the rest to me.

Since France lost its king, it has become more and more chaotic every day.

Maybe my choice at that time was wrong. France cannot live without a king.

As long as Louis XVI is back in power, external enemies are no longer enemies. "

Commander Dumouriez resolutely chose treason and surrender to the enemy at this critical moment of internal and external troubles in the French Republic for his own power and safety!

It is so convenient for him to surrender to the enemy. Not far from the front line where he is located is the camp of the Austrian army. If he surrenders to the arms of Austria, the northern border of France will be open to the Austrian army again!

The powerful French regular army, the Northern Army, will also be disintegrated from within.

However, Dumouriez knew that there were many revolutionary Jacobin officers in the army. He did not dare to announce the mutiny first. He had to contact the Austrians first, and then use their hands to control the army in the Northern Army. restless elements.

At the beginning of 1793, the National Salvation Committee, which had just gained the highest power in France, suddenly received a bad news.

The commander of the Northern Army, Dumouriez, defected to the Austrian army, arrested the commissioner, and openly supported the restoration of King Louis XVI. The Northern Army, which had more than [-] elite soldiers, was taken over by the Austrian army without warning!

Commander Dumouriez even became the leader of the royalist party of the French nobles in exile!

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