18th century total war

Chapter 223 The Revolutionary Regime Cracked Again

Robespierre's ideas are still lacking in consideration, or he has no other way but to use "Levi will hypnotize" as a political bargaining chip.

After all, the conditions given by Li Wei to maintain the National Convention are to maintain all, the status and power of the First Consul, which is similar to the current Robespierre.

In the eyes of the bigwigs in the National Convention who rose through the French Revolution, the compromise they made was nothing more than replacing the Jacobin dictatorship party headed by Robespierre with Levi Charles.

Li Wei, without the title of monarch, is not even a tyrant.

Now that the Jacobin dictatorship headed by Robespierre is about to collapse financially, everyone will naturally not feel too much resistance to changing the government from above.

Most importantly, they have no choice!
If the delay continues, until the financial crisis is completely detonated, I am afraid that the right to print money for the franc will have to be controlled by the financial capitalists in Paris!
This is not what the National Convention wants to see!
Although there are many capitalists in the National Convention, the proportion of financial capitalists among them is not high, and even financial capitalists may not be able to profit from controlling the French currency.

The capital world has been in constant civil war. The saying that shopping malls are like battlefields was not invented by the Eastern world. Not to mention the conflict of interests between factory owners and financial bank capitalists, even between financial and bank capitalists, there are some dirty things. Even competition among peers is often fiercer.

No matter how strong the financial capitalists in Paris are, it is impossible to buy the entire National Convention, let alone the capital world in the 18th century, and even Wall Street, which has truly controlled international finance in the 21st century, dare not say that it will buy the entire U.S. Congress... …

The U.S. government in the 21st century is only controlled by capital, not by a certain chaebol or capitalist!

Because of this, the National Convention in the French revolutionary government had long been dissatisfied with the national financial crisis caused by the Jacobin dictatorship headed by Robespierre.

With so much borrowing, winning the civil war is fine, but now they are facing the terrible situation of losing the civil war. Robespierre's resignation alone is not enough to make up for the losses, and the entire Jacobin dictatorship is facing the risk of disintegration.

Under such a general trend, public complaints about the wanton killings by the Revolutionary Court, which had been previously suppressed, began to erupt in large-scale mass demonstrations in various places.

The sharp knife of the Revolutionary Tribunal jumped out immediately when the Jacobin dictatorship declined.

This actually means that after Li Wei publicly announced his peace intention and gave various terms of promises, the top leaders of the French revolutionary government had internal divisions, and not everyone supported the Jacobin dictatorship headed by Robespierre.

Once politics is divided, it is easy for the enemy to take the opportunity to infiltrate.

On his side, Li Wei was still busy helping Kleber to receive the Southern Group Army of the Disarmed Revolutionary Army for National Salvation, while the internal strife of the French revolutionary government had already come to power.

Except for the surrendered National Salvation Revolutionary Army Southern Group Army, the other fronts of the National Salvation Revolutionary Army began to retreat or even retreat to their original starting points.

Li Wei took the opportunity to regain the occupied Vendée area without bloodshed, and re-opened the north-south passage in the occupied area of ​​the Kingdom of New France.

The scapegoat for losing the city and land was of course pinned on the National Salvation Committee headed by the ruling Robespierre.

Even the Parisian sans-culottes who supported the National Salvation Committee headed by Robespierre the most and cheered for Jacobin's faith also showed a clear tendency to split, and a large number of people began to doubt Robespierre's leadership .

Such a remarkable effect, even Li Wei did not expect it.

He initially issued a peace statement, just to appease the surrender of the National Salvation Revolutionary Army Group Southern Army.

As Manid said, many middle- and lower-level officers and soldiers of the Southern Group Army of the National Salvation Revolutionary Army are unwilling to accept the result of surrender. In their eyes, this is no different from giving up the revolution and surrendering to the old forces.

Because of this, Li Wei came out to the platform in person, gave speeches in major cities, and asked people to distribute announcements in his occupied areas to promote his peaceful ideas.

Kleber and other senior generals who surrendered naturally also helped Li Wei build momentum in the Southern Army.

Under such internal and external attacks, the Southern Group Army of the National Salvation Revolutionary Army did not break out a large-scale mutiny.

Of course, Li Wei's tolerant policy of allowing those revolutionary fighters who were unwilling to surrender to hand over their weapons and equipment and go home on their own had also produced positive results.

In the Southern Group Army of the National Salvation Revolutionary Army, revolutionary extremists are not a few cases.

However, under the general situation, most of the Southern Group Army of the National Salvation Revolutionary Army still laid down their arms peacefully, entered the occupied areas of the Li Wei regime, and began to disperse to various cities and even rural areas to engage in agricultural and handicraft production.

To put it bluntly, the Li Wei regime assigned them temporary jobs so that they would have something to do, clothes to wear, and food to eat!
Of course, the promise of no money is also a lot of indoctrination.

The material conditions are met, and even the food is a little bit better than when I was a soldier, and the spiritual guilt is also dissipated in the repeated saturation bombing propaganda.

After all, peace of mind is the psychological portrayal of most people.

The officers and soldiers who were really restless, or who had blood feuds with the Li Wei regime, had already returned to their hometowns and would not cause trouble in the land behind the Li Wei regime.

The Southern Group Army of the Revolutionary Army for National Salvation put down their arms and surrendered, which not only affected the split of the central government of the French revolutionary regime, but also dealt a huge blow to the guerrilla forces behind the Li Wei regime.

And the cabinet of the Li Wei regime also released a political bomb at just the right time - Zhao'an.

As long as the guerrilla fighters voluntarily surrender and promise to be a good citizen, they can get a certain amount of land distribution. If they are willing to continue to join the army, they can also become a member of the local security regiment.

Such a way of letting go of the past caused the hopeless guerrillas in southern France to walk out of the mountainous forests in groups and fall into the arms of the Li Wei regime.

Since the Southern Group of the National Salvation Revolutionary Army surrendered, even ordinary French peasants knew that Li Wei would probably become the real winner in the French Civil War.

The sharp decline in the number of Jacobin supporters seems to emphasize this fact.

To put it bluntly, the civil war has been fought for too long, and the French people are a little tired and war-weary.

Now the internal situation in France is clear, and Li Wei is not a foreign invader. As long as everyone can have a full meal, why bother to go to the battlefield?

After the surrender and resettlement of the Southern Group Army of the Revolutionary Army for National Salvation ended, Li Wei also ushered in the battle summary settlement of the total war system.

From the outbreak of the second all-out war to the end of the surrender of the Southern Group Army of the National Salvation Revolutionary Army, Li Wei received a total of 6 epic victories, namely 60 glory points and 6 building points.

However, Li Wei's Black Dragon Legion headquarters also suffered a lot in this battle.

A total of more than 13000 infantrymen were killed, and more than 200 sharpshooters were killed.

There are also quite a few artillery pieces that were destroyed and bombed, but more were seized later, and the number of artillery pieces did not decrease but increased!
Ordinary firearms and ammunition filled the rear ammunition warehouse to the brim.

This is the munitions left by hundreds of thousands of troops disarmed. Even if some of them are damaged due to various reasons, it is enough for Li Wei to stop worrying about muskets for a long time.

After this battle ended, the blow to the Revolutionary Army for National Salvation was very fatal. The number of Revolutionary Army for National Salvation under the French Revolutionary Government had dropped to less than [-].

And they are scattered in various places, confronting the army of the Li Wei regime, and it is difficult to deploy defenses.

There was a shortage of muskets in the recruit camps set up by the National Salvation Committee. Financial difficulties prevented the French revolutionary government led by the National Salvation Committee from placing large orders for arms. The National Salvation Revolutionary Army's recruitment expansion plan was forced to stop.

Once a government has no money, it will become very difficult to do anything.

For the National Salvation Committee headed by Robespierre, the only good news may be that they do not have the burden of hundreds of thousands of mouths of the Southern Army, and can extend the date of financial bankruptcy later.

However, this good news did not solve the crisis facing the Jacobin dictatorship at all.

There have been signs that different parties have united within the National Convention and sent representatives to have private talks with people in the Livy regime.

Everyone just waited for a favorable treaty to be negotiated, and then immediately kicked out the National Salvation Committee headed by the unpopular Robespierre.

Kleber and other senior generals met with Li Wei soon, but Li Wei agreed to many conditions for them.

As a result, after this meeting, the documents and evidence in their hands were destroyed by themselves...

Li Wei was pleasantly surprised to find that the senior generals in these armies also had good administrative abilities.

After all, these people are all senior intellectuals of this era.

Under the influence of administrative enlightenment, they obediently obeyed Li Wei's orders, abandoned the army and entered politics, and served as conscientious senior administrative officials in Li Wei's regime.

These high-ranking generals are all supporters of surrender. Even if Li Wei gives them administrative enlightenment, he can't treat these "role models of surrender" badly. Naturally, he must be placed in a high position.

Li Wei even asked these defected generals who abandoned the army to enter politics to speak publicly, claiming that they were not forced by Li Wei to give up their military power, but because they were tired of endless wars, so they wanted to make their own contribution to the unification and peace of France. Only through the efforts of the people can they engage in political activities.

The speeches delivered by these senior generals who surrendered from the Southern Group Army, coupled with their high-level administrative positions after leaving the army to enter politics, immediately dispelled the French Revolutionary Government’s concerns about Li Wei’s unfaithful words.

No matter how bad Li Wei's character is, at least his political reputation is still good. Those who take refuge in his subordinates will get a lot of treatment and power.

However, Li Wei's reputation spread in France, and the National Salvation Committee headed by Robespierre was very uncomfortable.

Since the National Salvation Committee headed by Robespierre refused to resolve the French Civil War peacefully, Jacobin and Li Wei stood on the opposite side.

This time, Jacobin no longer received the full support of the French revolutionary regime. Even the most extreme Paris Commune had voices against Jacobin inside!

You must know that in the French revolutionary government, the status is very special. The Paris Commune, which symbolizes the achievements of the French Revolution, has a high political status. They are also the political voice of the Paris sans-culottes civilians, and even participated in the management of many Paris administrative affairs. .

More than half of the city guards and police in Paris obey the orders of the Paris Commune!

Compared with the Jacobins and the National Convention, the Paris Commune was a real civilian political organization.

Originally, the Paris Commune was the most staunch supporter of Jacobin, but now even the Paris Commune has voices opposing Jacobin. It is conceivable how critical the Jacobin dictatorship is.

It's a pity that Robespierre, who has always regarded Li Wei as his greatest enemy, subconsciously ignored the internal problems of the French revolutionary government and devoted all his energy to dealing with Li Wei.

After the personal speeches of the surrendered generals of the Southern Group Army of the National Salvation Army were introduced to Paris, the angry Robespierre immediately increased the number of revolutionary courts and sent all the direct and collateral relatives of the surrendered generals to the guillotine!

The white terror that has not disappeared for a long time once again hangs over the heads of the Parisians.

And Robespierre's behavior has caused more and more opposition from the political forces in Paris. After all, no one likes the government and leaders who kill the whole family at every turn...

Now that everyone has started peace negotiations with Li Wei, what are you trying to do by massacring the whole family of the general who surrendered?
Are you trying to scare someone?

Well, the leaders of the National Convention are indeed afraid, so their peace talks have become more covert!

The surrendered generals who have been enlightened by the administration will naturally not be shaken by the threat of killing their whole family. If their wives and children are gone, it will be a big deal to marry a wife and regenerate. For people of their status, let alone wives, lovers and The number of illegitimate children only depends on whether the ability of a certain organ of them can bear it...

If the parents, brothers and sisters were killed, there is nothing to do. Since ancient times, loyalty and filial piety have been incompatible. Under the power of administrative enlightenment, these surrendered generals unanimously chose loyalty.

Due to Robespierre's crazily using the Revolutionary Court to retaliate against those surrendered generals, the cloud of the French Civil War has not dissipated, and it has become thicker again.

The common people at the bottom know that the Jacobin dictatorship represented by Robespierre does not want to stop the civil war, and wants to fight Li Wei to the end. Peace is still far away...

However, political forces such as the National Convention, which were preparing for peace, did not dare to take the lead at all, so in the overall situation, the French Civil War is still going on.

However, this time, the Revolutionary Army for National Salvation under the control of the National Salvation Committee has not only suffered a serious reduction in strength, but also has pitifully low morale. If it is not for the benefits of land distribution, there will even be desertion.

Of course, the whole of France is not without people who support Robespierre, and the best of them are the citizens of Marseille whose revolutionary enthusiasm has not declined!
(End of this chapter)