18th century total war

Chapter 157 Revolutionary Tribunal
"We lost... we lost again!

Salva the idiot!
Fortunately, I am still so optimistic about him!

Could it be that Li Wei's army is really invincible? "

In the Rouen city government office, Taylor, who had just received the frontline war report, tore up the documents with a twisted expression and scattered them everywhere. After venting his anger, Taylor sat back down with a heavy breath.

That disappointing fellow Sharva failed to escape when the army was defeated, and died on the battlefield, which fulfilled his 'famous name'.

Now Taylor can't find a blamer if he wants to!
Those guerrilla leaders who were lucky enough to survive were not qualified. Fatis had already led his followers to the Somme province in the Picardy region, which had nothing to do with the Battle of Rouen...

In other words, Taylor can only take the blame himself...

Fortunately, he is a civilian commissioner, so he does not have to bear too much responsibility for the military failure. What's more, behind him is Robespierre, whose reputation in Paris is increasing. As long as he can prove that he is loyal enough, he will not Hidden by snow.

After calming down, Taylor immediately ordered people to pack up their things, and sent guards to sweep the mansions of nobles and rich people in the city!

The reason is very simple. There are not many defenders in Rouen, and after watching a series of unimaginable frontlines, Taylor armed the guerrillas in Rouen after being attacked by the New French Kingdom's garrison with fewer attacks and more attacks. It is distrust from the bottom of my heart.

They are useless except for their ability to drill into the valleys and make cold shots!
No wonder tens of thousands of people, before Fatis captured the city of Rouen, were overwhelmed by the security regiment of the Kingdom of New France, which had few Black Dragon Legion soldiers in the rear!

How could Taylor, who is a senior member of the Paris Revolutionary Government, not know what those security groups are?
It was a complete copy of the law and order of the Kingdom of France, at most there were a little more people.

"I was so confused before that I believed in the fighting power of these guerrillas and tried their best to seize power from Fatis!
Had he known this earlier, Fatis should have been blamed for this failure! "

Taylor complained helplessly while packing up his personal belongings.

But what he said was true. If there hadn't been the power-seizure behavior of the Paris Revolutionary Government, Fatis really planned to use the tens of thousands of guerrilla armies to have a hearty defeat and score points for Li Wei!

Of course, if it was commanded by Fatis, he would definitely be able to take advantage of this defeat to collect a large number of defeated troops, and then use his 'excellent' strategic vision to penetrate into the Picardy area and continue to maintain the cause of resisting Levi's rebels.

As long as someone from Li Wei's side throws water on Fatis, it is enough to promote Fatis to the status of a military god.

Who says there is no shining point in a defeated battle?
During the American Revolutionary War, Washington, as the commander-in-chief of the Continental Independent Army, won the hearts of the people by relying on "strategic transfer"?
Don't look at Washington's repeated defeats, but in the eyes of Americans, that is called repeated defeats!

Moreover, in most of the defeats, Washington was able to bring out a large number of routs to escape the encirclement of the British army. This is also a skill!
Without Washington's strategic transfer of technology, how many times could the British encircle and annihilate the British with just the strength of the American Independence Army?
Not to mention standing strong until French reinforcements landed!

However, although Taylor's arrival disrupted the double spring plan of Fatis and Levi, it had little impact, but this time the defeated guerrillas were armed and defeated, and it was impossible to be incorporated by Fatis. Under Ritter's instructions, they pursue and fight fiercely, striving to annihilate every enemy!
Annihilation does not mean extermination, but taking prisoners is also counted.

The last order issued by Commissioner Taylor in Rouen suddenly plunged the already poor public security into anarchy and chaos. The soldiers who originally maintained law and order turned into bandits attacking the mansions of nobles and wealthy people. The hungry hooligans in the streets and alleys naturally don't mind coming out to get some benefits.

Interestingly, the orders issued by Commissioner Taylor, who represented the facade of the Jacobin dictatorship, to rob the mansions of nobles and rich people did not make most of the lower class citizens think that Jacobins were bandits.

Because in the latest bill promulgated by the National Salvation Committee, it is clearly stated that all nobles and rich people involved with the nobles are counter-revolutionary targets, and their assets come from plundering the fruits of people's labor!
Now the Jacobin National Salvation Committee has set up a revolutionary tribunal to attack the nobles and church leaders who have lost their privileges, and even some wealthy capitalists who have no heart for Jacobin.

This revolutionary court has fully explained the hard truth that the mud-legged head of the family is bleeding like a river!
Because the Revolutionary Court does not accept any defense lawyers, member Dandong of the National Salvation Committee clearly pointed out that lawyers are professions that serve money. If there are lawyers defending in the Revolutionary Court, they must have received money from nobles and rich people!
This will bring into question the meaning of the existence of the Revolutionary Tribunal!
Danton's remarks have been supported by the majority of mud-legged people, oh yes, mud-legged people in France say sans-culottes!
Naturally, these sans-culottes cannot afford lawyers, and many of them have never seen what a lawyer looks like in their entire lives...

In their eyes, lawyers are very important people, but in the eyes of nobles and rich people, lawyers are just a kind of "beating workers".

Therefore, the statement of putting an end to lawyers' defense was immediately supported by the majority of sans-culottes. They cheered for it and killed people like hemp for it!
There is no distinction between ancient and modern hatred of the rich. Today's revolutionary courts give the common people an opportunity to judge the upper class in an open and honest manner. How could they not cheer for it?
The Revolutionary Tribunal was first launched in Paris. The trials of the nobles and rich men did not require any witnesses or physical evidence. All that was needed was for the judge who executed the verdict to conjure up a logical reasoning out of thin air. Sentenced to death!
The most frightening thing is that the revolutionary court has no other penalty, only the death penalty!
Suddenly, the guillotine business in Paris was busy, and people lined up to be chopped off their heads every day.

Even because of the large number of nobles and rich people who were sentenced to death, the National Salvation Committee used large-scale executions or even artillery executions in order to increase the efficiency of "execution"!

Cannonball is to bombard at close range with shotgun shells. One shot down, don't even think about finding a complete corpse...

Obviously, the benefits of this method of execution are vivid, one execution can execute dozens of death row prisoners!
The frightening thing is that this kind of revolutionary court is still in the National Salvation Committee, and it is promoted by Dandong and even a few extremist members.
(End of this chapter)