18th century total war

Chapter 209 Easy Suppression
"But, my lord, your safety..."

Lesarit's voice was filled with worry, but was mercilessly interrupted by Levi.

"The city government building has not been attacked by the mob yet. You have enough troops to leave a battalion. When suppressing, use the cannon to reduce the casualties of our soldiers as much as possible.

The firepower of the flintlock guns was too weak, and those instigated rioters might not be afraid. They directly bombarded them with cannonballs and shotguns. It took only a few rounds, and no matter how many mobs there were, they would be defeated.

Remember, this is an organized and premeditated urban rebellion, we have to suppress our opponents the same way we treat our enemies! "

"Yes, my lord!"

The alarm bells in Toulouse were ringing endlessly, and a large number of Black Dragon Legion soldiers were continuously coming out of the military camp near the city hall building.

Most of the main forces of the garrison and security regiments in Toulouse are stationed in the military camps on the outskirts of the city. Only the main force of the Black Dragon Legion is stationed in the military camps near the city government building.

Faced with the urban riots in Toulouse, Levi did not panic at all, because this is not the first time he has encountered urban riots!

Why are there almost no demonstrations in cities under the control of the Levy regime?

It is because only one lesson is needed, and the troublemakers will understand how serious the consequences are!

Therefore, Li Wei is too aware of the pissing nature of those rioting citizens. Except for Paris and a few revolutionary cities, the main purpose of the citizen riots is not to overthrow the government, but to buy zero yuan and fill their stomachs!

For this kind of people, as long as their bloody courage is suppressed, the rest will be much easier, which can just make up for the labor losses caused by the concentration camps of labor agencies.

The assembled soldiers of the Black Dragon Legion Guard Corps quickly pulled out field cannons and mortars from the barracks.

Large field artillery is generally not placed in the barracks in the city.

One is that it is difficult to move, which is very inconvenient.

The second reason is that bombing heavy field artillery is not very effective in urban street battles. Often when encountering enemies in street battles, the enemy has already rushed to the face before the deployment begins...

In the era of front-mounted smoothbore guns, the heavier the artillery, the more cumbersome the less maneuverable it is.

A rabble is a rabble after all, and after the Jacobin revolutionaries took the rioting people out of the ghettos and civilian areas, they almost lost control of the rioting people.

The vast majority of the people stayed in the wealthy and commercial districts to plunder wantonly, and did not heed the call of those 'leaders' at all, and went to besiege the downtown area where the city government was located.

Many rioters even blatantly contradicted the Jacobin revolutionaries, accusing them of letting people like themselves who don't even have guns besiege the city government simply to die.

Of course, there are also rioters who are willing to obey orders to besiege, or really want to kill those officials and even Li Wei.

The proportion of these people is not high, but they can be regarded as the most united group of mobs.

After the black dragon army guard group that came to suppress them merged with some of the retreating security groups and garrison groups, they were the first to encounter these armed mobs who seized many soldiers' guns.

Lesarite came to the front line in person, looked at the dense crowd on the street, strode towards the line of guns listed on his side, and asked people to push the three-pound field gun to the front, and put a few old-fashioned mortars behind them .

"Down with Levi!
Kill the tyrant!

Liberty, equality, fraternity, or die! "

These armed mobs, who were bewitched by the Jacobin revolutionaries, shouted slogans to embolden themselves as they walked.

However, when the black muzzles of the guns were pushed up, the crowd stopped abruptly, and the crowd behind couldn't see the situation ahead, but they were still rushing forward, but the people in front didn't want to face the black muzzles !
In this way, the crowd couldn't move forward and couldn't retreat amidst the crowding and shoving. They crowded together chaotically and stagnated right in front of the artillery!

The rioters in the front row looked at the infantry guards behind the artillery in horror, and inserted the ignition rod into the medicine room behind the artillery!

Boom boom boom...

The gunpowder smoke dissipated, and the screams immediately overwhelmed the previous impassioned slogans. After a round of shotgun salvos, the armed mob who were aggressive a second ago suddenly turned into frightened quails, constantly retreating to the surroundings and the rear!
But the ranks of the armed mob had no hierarchy at all, they were all clustered together, and the people behind couldn't see the tragedy in the front row, and they still swarmed forward under the support of inertia, which seriously delayed the retreat of the people in front!
At the same time, mortars also fired more expensive shells and fell into the crowd. Not long after, the three-pound cannon fired a second round of shells!

After two rounds of shotgun shells and close-range shooting from mortars, the streets were already drenched in blood, and there were too many casualties. Even the armed mob who couldn't see the situation behind could smell the strong smell of blood, and there was even blood under their feet. Thick blood flowed slowly!

Such a tragic scene, even if the armed mob behind them could not see the battlefield in front, they began to become timid.

A big collapse occurred, and Lesarit turned and left this main road, because he knew that the outcome of the battle here was doomed.

The soldiers of the guard regiment of half a company, with a small number of soldiers of the garrison regiment and security regiment who had just retreated and simply reorganized, raised their guns while advancing and reloading. When passing by the wounded, they all stabbed them with bayonets to end them. pain of!
The Li Wei regime will not heal these rioters. If they are injured, they cannot be a good laborer, so they are killed, and they can save food.

Of course, if it was found that the rioters were only frightened and not injured, they would be arrested and waited to be sent to work in the labor camps of the concentration camps.

The victorious Black Dragon Legion guard infantry did not use their physical advantages to chase and kill the armed mob that collapsed, but advanced steadily to ensure that they would not be damaged.

Although doing so will allow many armed mobs to successfully escape back to their homes and become good citizens again, it will allow the Black Dragon Legion to solve the civil riots almost without damage!

This is the precious experience accumulated by the soldiers of the Black Dragon Army under the Li Wei regime.

Anyway, even if those armed rioters fled back home to escape the catastrophe, they still had to work in various handicraft workshops and factories in order to make a living and contribute to the Li Wei regime. These young and strong citizens are the cornerstone of a city, and Li Wei will naturally not Kill them all.

What's more, even if these armed mobs plan to riot next time, Li Wei also welcomes it very much. In the activity of scoring points, Li Wei was very proficient in playing games in his previous life!
In the city of Toulouse, as soon as the Black Dragon Legion came out, with the support of artillery, they easily quelled the massive urban riots without paying much loss!
(End of this chapter)