18th century total war

Chapter 206

“Against civil war!
Against war taxes!
Against the Wartime Indefinite Labor Act . . . "

On the streets of Toulouse, a very organized demonstration team suddenly emerged. A group of slum residents who held various utensils in their hands, like village weapons, were skinny and malnourished. Under the arrangement of the Jacobin "underground workers" on the hidden front, they flocked to the streets.

Their goal is the wealthy district, commercial district and even the most important city government building in the urban area, where Li Wei's office is located!

In the demonstration team, apart from the hooligans, the largest number of people were handicraft workers in handicraft workshops, factory workers, women and the elderly who lost their husbands, fathers and even sons due to the war!

As soon as the parade appeared, it swept through the entire city's slums and civilian areas in a very short period of time. The nearby police were frightened by the mighty marchers and fled in panic. Those who dared to stay either joined them or were beaten to death. !

These marchers did not march on the streets empty-handed, but took all the weapons at home that could be used for fighting, and even a small number of old-fashioned shotguns could be seen among them.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the eruption of such a large-scale parade in Toulouse, which has always been calm, is obviously organized and premeditated.

With reference to the second general battle of the French Civil War that is about to break out on the front line, it is not difficult to understand the political purpose of this demonstration...

In just a few hours, the police station in Toulouse fell into a state of slowdown due to panic. The few police officers took off their uniforms and hid in fear because of the large number of parades that appeared in the streets and alleys. When I arrived at my home, the police station was full of police officers on weekdays, and only people with less than two digits were still insisting...

Among them, there are several chiefs and deputy chiefs of the Toulouse Police Department!
However, under the Li Wei regime, the police were not the sharp knives of the state's violent machinery. They couldn't even equip muskets. They were mainly responsible for arresting thieves and patrolling the streets to maintain law and order.

In the face of a large-scale violent parade, each of them is naturally as timid as a mouse.

After the parade entered the wealthy and commercial areas, small groups of people suddenly separated from the huge team, rushed into the closed store doors, and started the "zero-yuan shopping" journey with the utensils in their hands.

This is actually the root cause of the scale of the parade so large!

Of course, it is also an important means used by the hidden Jacobins to confuse people.

Amidst the riots, the city of Toulouse fell into mourning, but the looting of the business district and the wealthy district by the parade provided precious time for the Toulouse garrison, which suddenly happened.

While the parade was immersed in the carnival of zero-yuan purchases, groups of heavily armed garrison soldiers, wearing tricorn hats and gray military uniforms, faced the noisy crowd.

However, when the demonstrators saw the garrison troops approaching with guns raised, they were not afraid at all. Instead, they were aroused to blood. They held up long banners and yelled at the soldiers of the garrison troops:
"You ungrateful bastards, have you forgotten who raised you?

The city of Toulouse does not belong to the tyrant Livy, but belongs to us Toulouse. You are all native Toulouse. Do you still want to work for tigers? ! "

Amidst the angry accusations, some elderly people and women with vicissitudes came out of the crowd and came out to recognize their relatives!

As a result, the suppression by the soldiers of the garrison immediately became a large-scale confession scene, and even the officers were unable to organize those soldiers to hug their heads and cry in front of their wives and fathers!
Of course, not all the officers and soldiers of the garrison sympathized with these demonstrators. The officer who led the team stood up with a hideous face, pointed at the soldiers who put down their guns and entangled with the crowd, and reprimanded them sharply:

"What are you all doing?

Forgot your mission?

Raise the gun for me, fulfill the duty of a soldier, carry out the order! "

As soon as the officer's words fell to the ground, he suddenly found that a soldier pointed his gun at him. The officer's eyes suddenly widened, and he looked at the gun aimed at him in disbelief.

This officer was not a person enlightened by the administration, nor did he come out of the training camp. Li Wei had never mixed the brainwashed soldiers in the training camp with ordinary troops.

This officer's heart for the Li Wei regime is nothing more than his current status and the treatment he enjoys.

Even the officers of the garrison corps are very different from the soldiers at the bottom.

"Are you crazy?

He turned his gun on me!

Come on, grab him for me! "

The officer looked at the silent soldiers around him, all indifferent. Many soldiers who were reunited with their relatives looked at him angrily, and finally panicked.

But at this time, due to the inaction of the soldiers of the garrison, the parade crowd had already surrounded them. The officer staggered and sat down on the ground, pointing with one hand at the crowd looking at him indifferently and shouting loudly:

"I'm the captain of the Toulouse Garrison Corps. You can't shoot me, otherwise it will be a capital offense!"

"Kill him and overthrow Li Wei's brutal rule!"

Just when the soldier who pointed the gun at his own officer was about to pull the trigger, a soldier next to him suddenly spoke up and persuaded him: "Don't shoot!
We all received military fields when we served for Li Wei. No matter what Li Wei did, at least he did not treat the soldiers of our garrison badly! "

As soon as these words came out, the captain who was sitting on the ground with weak legs breathed a sigh of relief, as if he had grasped a life-saving straw. His face no longer showed a ferocious look, and he shouted to the surrounding soldiers with a flattering smile: "Yes, that's right.

We are all soldiers who have received military land. We cannot be sorry for Lord Li Wei's policies. We must obey orders and suppress this group of rioters who take to the streets without permission to fight, smash, and loot. "

The soldiers of the garrison who were being surrounded by the parade crowd were more hesitant at this time. A soldier of the garrison who was staying with his father seemed to be thinking of Juntian from home, and asked him with a puzzled expression. father of:
"Father, our family has already divided the land, why do you want to participate in the parade?

This is a riot, a rebellion! "

"Son, I don't know if this is a rebellion, but the big guys say that if they follow the parade in the city, they can get the goods from the shops of the rich people. I am thinking of not blaming the crowd, so I want to follow the big guys out. Earn more.

Look at these things, your father and I also grabbed a lot of them! "

"My father, you are so confused!

This is robbery, it is illegal! "

(End of this chapter)