18th century total war

Chapter 186 The Strategic Goals of the Revolutionary Government

"The main force of the traitor Li Wei is now attacking Spain, a member of the Anti-French Alliance. This is an opportunity God has given us. We must seize it and completely solve the biggest hidden danger in the French Republic.

Li Wei himself is in Toulouse, and winning Li Wei will become the next primary strategic goal. "

In the small meeting led by Robespierre, apart from a few key members of the National Salvation Committee, there were also a large number of senior generals of the National Salvation Revolutionary Army, all of whom had the rank of generals!

Not the generals of the second-line local troops, but the generals of the Revolutionary Army for National Salvation, and the Revolutionary Army for National Salvation is the only regular army title in the French Republic today.

Even those regular armies that had not been reorganized were given the official designation of the National Salvation Revolutionary Army by the National Salvation Committee.

For example, the northern group army led by Fatis is now given the designation of the No. 11 Army of the Revolutionary Army for National Salvation.

This legion number has a deep charm. After all, in the Western world, eleven is a very unlucky number.

Obviously, Fatis' self-contained behavior outside the French border prevented Robespierre, who was naturally suspicious, from completely letting go of his guard, and directly pinned this legion number that no one liked on Fatis.

It seems that they want to use this method to curse Fatis for a big defeat on the front line?

As long as Fatis loses a game, the National Salvation Committee has a reason to dismiss Fatis.

The Revolutionary Army for National Salvation founded by Robespierre fully explained what pragmatism and borrowing are.

Even the French Revolutionary Government had to face up to the combat effectiveness of the Black Dragon Legion, so Robespierre simply copied the Black Dragon Legion's establishment on a large scale when reorganizing the National Salvation Revolutionary Army.

For example, the Black Dragon Legion has divided the ranks of generals into three levels: major general, lieutenant general, and general. Li Wei took the rank of general himself, and the lieutenant general has not yet appeared.

But in the National Salvation Revolutionary Army, there are major generals everywhere, and there are quite a few lieutenant generals. Those commanders who are in charge of a group army even have the rank of general.

Fatis, for example, was awarded the rank of general.

In this way, the flooded generals in the National Salvation Revolutionary Army have a clear division of superiors and subordinates.

It is naturally beneficial to learn from Li Wei's reorganization of the ranks of senior generals, so that the generals on the front line have a clear concept of superiors and subordinates, and understand who is more effective in what they say.

At the same time, it also gave the generals the hope of continuing to be promoted.

The orderly expansion and development of the National Salvation Revolutionary Army is inseparable from the various plagiarism of Li Wei's Black Dragon Legion military system by the National Salvation Committee headed by Robespierre.

Even if the military system of the Black Dragon Legion established by Li Wei is only half-baked, it is still half-baked among amateur military enthusiasts in the 21st century. Compared with this era when the perfect military rank system has just started, it is still very advanced.

Seeing this, Robespierre and his team brazenly plagiarized.

The concept of "regiment" was even added to the National Salvation Revolutionary Army, and a combat regiment composed of three to five battalions was responsible for combat.

Of course, above the regiment is the division-level combat unit, above the division is the legion, and above the legion is the group army, copying the Black Dragon Legion is nothing left...

Anyway, the Revolutionary Army for National Salvation of the French Revolutionary Government also started from a blank slate. The original old military system had already collapsed because of the elimination of noble officers, and there was little resistance to reorganization.

In this way, today's French National Salvation Revolutionary Army has formed six levels of organization: group army, corps, division, regiment, battalion, and company.

And each establishment roughly stipulates the specific number of people, and there will be no more embarrassing things that a battalion team is more than a regiment...

In addition, Robespierre and his team also learned the flexible organization method of the Black Dragon Army. When the war situation required it, troops were temporarily deployed to form independent battalions, reinforced battalions, independent regiments, and reinforced regiments in a certain theater.

In order to maximize the deployment of troops and integrate combat power.

Robespierre and his team don't actually understand military affairs, but they believe that the Black Dragon Legion can achieve such a superior record, and their organization must have merit.

Later, after the reorganization of the establishment, the officers below did not react too much with resistance, which made the establishment of the Black Dragon Army fully implemented in the National Salvation Revolutionary Army.

Compared with the drastic plagiarism of the National Salvation Revolutionary Army, the plagiarism of the armies of other European countries is very conservative, perhaps because they have not been severely beaten by the Black Dragon Army. , plagiarized the system of the Black Dragon Legion in its entirety!

In fact, as the scale of military input from both sides of the French Civil War has increased, many senior generals in the French Revolutionary Government have discovered that the battalion is not enough as a basic combat unit. Appointing the supreme commander is very cumbersome.

The emergence of the regiment has made up for this very well, replacing the uncertainty of the vague concept of the Corps in the past.

In the past, the corps was just a general term in the army, while the regiment was an integrated unit with fixed officers and a certain range of troops!

"Our army will dispatch 30 troops to attack the southern region of France where Toulouse is located.

The first strategic goal is to regain the Aquitaine region, occupy the capital of Bordeaux, cut off the route of Li Wei's escape to the north, and completely divide the occupied area of ​​​​Li Wei's rebels into two!
The second strategic goal is to launch an attack from the north, east, and west directions at the same time towards Toulouse as the core, the southern territory of the French Republic occupied by the Levy rebels, and join forces in Toulouse!

In addition, we will dispatch 20 troops to attack the Normandy region and the Brittany region in two separate ways, so that the core hinterland of the two Levi rebels cannot send troops south to support Levi.

The remaining National Salvation Revolutionary Army serves as the general reserve, maintaining the security of the logistics line and the newly recovered territory, and will be sent to the battlefield when necessary to supplement the consumption of the frontline troops! "

What Robespierre gave was only strategic and operational goals, and how to fight is naturally a matter for the generals below.

The Revolutionary Army for National Salvation already had a huge advantage in military strength and the support of French public opinion. Even in the French territory occupied by Li Wei, there were a large number of ordinary people who were interested in revolution and opposed the rule of Li Wei's regime.

Under such a good situation, the main force of Livy's Black Dragon Army went to attack the Kingdom of Spain again. The Jacobin dictatorship headed by Robespierre would of course boldly attack Livy and take advantage of this opportunity to solve France's internal troubles in one fell swoop!

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