18th century total war

Chapter 149 The Fall of Southern France

"Are you crazy?
What if Li Wei's people are deceiving us and gather us all together to kill them?
What do you believe in what Levi's people say? "

Among the prisoners of war, there were still some who were skeptical. They held back their companions who wanted to get preferential treatment for prisoners of war, and tried their best to persuade them.

However, this persuasion soon became meaningless, because many prisoners of war from other legions, eager to receive preferential treatment, also pretended to be soldiers of the Marseille Legion and went to the designated location.

Because they found that the soldiers of the Black Dragon Legion did not take any screening measures, and the reserved open space was large enough, the previous shouting seemed to be just a trivial reason, and they did not care whether the people who came out had ever stayed in the Marseille Legion.

In fact, this is indeed the case. Li Wei's people did this just to pick out most of the Marseille Army prisoners of war, and then put them into the training camp for brainwashing.

If prisoners of war from other legions are willing to pretend to be officers and soldiers of the Marseille Legion, at worst, they can brainwash them together. This seems to be no harm to the Li Wei regime...

To put it bluntly, Li Wei's actions were just caused by personal emotions.

Since the Marseilles are so capable of fighting and have caused such a great loss to his Black Dragon Legion, then let the surviving Marseilles officers and soldiers brainwash and join the Black Dragon Legion, and fight for it to the death!

What could be more satisfying than having your former enemies fight to the bitter end for you?

Because of this, Li Wei didn't ask the people below to strictly screen, and didn't need to spend so much energy and time.

What's more, even for the remaining prisoners of war, after entering the labor office, if Li Wei's glory points are not exhausted, they still have a certain probability to be drawn out to enter the training camp and become a glorious black dragon army infantry guard.

As for the propaganda of the traitorous soldiers of the Marseille Legion joining the Black Dragon Legion, Li Wei once asked the senior officials of the cabinet to analyze it and thought it was not very meaningful.

After all, the current power of public opinion in France is controlled by the revolutionary government in Paris. Except for the people in the controlled area who are forced to listen to the speeches of the New Kingdom of France, the French people outside the controlled area will only regard it as the incompetent barking of reactionary feudal forces... …

To put it simply, the revolutionary regime in Paris, which occupies the name of the revolution and has a high popular support rate, can easily discredit any statement made by Li Wei's New Kingdom of France!

After all, the revolutionary government in Paris has firmly occupied the commanding heights of moral public opinion.

It is impossible for Livy to compete for the commanding heights of moral public opinion. After all, the New Kingdom of France can tell by looking at the name of the country that Livy represents the interests of the traditional nobility and monarch. Even if the French commoners are stupid enough, it is possible that they can't even distinguish the difference between aristocrats and untouchables. Can't you figure it out?
Therefore, the battle of public opinion between the two sides of the civil war has not yet begun, and the revolutionary government of Paris has already won the victory...

This is an inevitable result. The slogan is on the side of the majority group. How can the war of saliva and public opinion be lost?

It's a pity that Li Wei couldn't do this in the 18th century. After all, his ass and the inextricable relationship with the nobles meant that Li Wei could only become the leader of the reactionary forces, not the leader of the French people...

If Li Wei turns public opinion to please the French people at this time, he will immediately lose the support of the traditional French feudal nobles who have taken refuge in him in his territory, and the foreign governments that have been silently watching Li Wei's expansion will also have a serious impact on Li Wei Suspect.

I wonder if Li Wei has suddenly turned his heart to the French Revolution!

At that time, let alone the support of foreign countries, it will be very difficult not to be hostile by foreign countries...

This wavering political attitude will allow the Paris revolutionary government to take the opportunity to deeply corrode the middle and lower levels of Livy's regime (the upper levels are all enlightened by the administration and cannot be corrupted by revolutionary ideas).

Therefore, the behavior of being a wallflower is absolutely unacceptable, especially from a political standpoint!
It is precisely because Li Wei is aware of this that he would rather have a bad reputation among the people in France, and still stand firmly on the reactionary position.

On the land of France, what Li Wei did represented a reaction, but in the European international environment at this time, what Li Wei did was what a nobleman should do!

The aristocrats don't support the king, so why not support the people?
It's not traditional!

The reason why the United States is boycotted by the whole of Europe is because the United States does not conform to the traditional European republic system!
In an absolute monarchy, a republic is treason and treason!
Of course, the complete defeat in the war of words and public opinion did not affect the Black Dragon Legion's invincibility on the battlefield.

Since the fall of the Marseilles, the Southern Army has either surrendered or deserted. In the southern part of France, which is being understood by Karl, there are basically no cities with resistance.

When the National Salvation Committee came to power, Livy gave a big gift to the newly appointed bosses of the French Republic.

The important southern city of Toulouse fell!
It fell almost without experiencing the flames of war...

At this point, most of the southern French provinces that supported the Girondist party most became part of the New Kingdom of France.

Although Karl's Black Dragon Legion has only occupied some big cities and traffic points in southern France, and the vast rural areas and remote cities have not yet been captured, the general trend in southern France has taken shape. 'Vote for integrity'.

Levi's total war system adds another calibrated city and gets three building points.

Of course, these three building points can't be kept by Li Wei at all, they are all used to light up the system function buildings in Toulouse, and by the way, a little more building points are needed to be enough...

Fortunately, Levi can get a few extra building points thanks to the battle victory evaluation of a great victory or above. Otherwise, his building points would not even be enough to light up the basic functional buildings of the newly captured and calibrated city.

Toulouse fell, and the entire south of France was being swept by the Livy rebels, giving the Paris National Salvation Committee a blow!
The internal struggle of the National Salvation Committee was curbed by this huge political disaster. Regardless of whether they were moderates, radicals, or even split neutrals, they all put aside their previous prejudices and began to cooperate sincerely!
The National Salvation Committee didn't even have the time to disintegrate the rebellious Northern Army Group!

Thus, under the authorization of the National Salvation Committee, a public security committee with strong military mobilization capabilities was established!
(End of this chapter)