18th century total war

Chapter 248 Three Armies and Two Divisions
"Your Majesty, shall we continue to attack now?"

"attack?
The Prussian-Austrian coalition forces have all retreated, how can we fight Paris on our own?
Let our army turn around and take back the coastal cities in the south of France while the Livy government has not finished reorganizing its French Defense Forces and the southern guards are empty, so that we can get supply support from British ships from the southern seaport.

And I heard that the Marseille area is very disgusted with the Li Wei regime. I don’t know how many Maasai people died in the Marseille tragedy. We should be able to get more support there. "

Louis XVIII ordered with a calm expression.

"Your Majesty, the revolutionary atmosphere in the Marseille area is very strong. Will there really support us?"

“How many of the cities in southeastern France that support me now did not support the revolution before?
Aren’t they all loyal to me now?

With Livy as our common enemy in Paris, we can definitely find more friends in France. "

Louis XVIII replied with a smile.

"Oh, by the way, have our people entered Paris?
Have the reward documents I signed been sent out? "

"Reporting to Your Majesty, our people's actions in Paris have gone smoothly. Except for the middle and low-level officials of several important departments who did not accept it and reported it to the Li Wei government, most of the middle and low-level officials in Paris have accepted the reward document granted by His Majesty.

The power of the royalist party in Paris has been further expanded. "

"Well, yes, the infiltration of the Paris city government cannot be stopped, as long as you are willing to oppose Li Wei, no matter how many nobles you have killed before, I can forgive him for his crimes.

However, it should be true that Li Wei will be hypnotized. Don't contact any senior officials of Li Wei's cabinet government and Paris city government. Those people may have been controlled by Li Wei's hypnosis!
The failed cases are recorded and screened to see which departments rejected our rewards and reported them. Making a statistics is useful for our intelligence improvement. "

Compared with Louis XVI, Louis XVIII, who has experienced ups and downs in his life, is obviously much more cautious, and he has laid out many hidden clues.

Although Livy is a very formidable and difficult enemy, Louis XVIII has been placed in the position of the King of France. Whether it is for himself or being pushed forward by his followers, Louis XVIII has no way out!
The Prussian-Austrian coalition retreated, and the Italian coalition headed by the Kingdom of Sardinia was not as effective as the French army under his command. Louis XVIII could only rely on himself now.

Three days after the news of the defeat and withdrawal of the Prussian-Austrian forces from France reached Paris, the [-]-strong army of the Kingdom of France restored by Louis XVIII turned its spearhead and attacked southern France where there was no Black Dragon Legion stationed and only some garrison regiments and local security regiments guarded it.

As a result, the garrison corps and local security corps in southern France collapsed under the offensive of the French Kingdom Army!
The armed forces in the Marseille area turned on the spot and sent all the administrative enlightenment officials sent by Li Wei to the guillotine...

The Kingdom of France 'recovered' the Provence, Alps, and Languedoc-Roussillon regions in southern France without any decent fighting.

As Louis XVIII speculated, the region with a strong revolutionary atmosphere in southern France, which was devastated by Li Wei's Black Dragon Army, did not have much resistance to the restored Louis XVIII. As long as Louis XVIII still insisted on fighting against the Li Wei government, They are willing to join the army of Louis XVIII!
As a result, the Royal Army under Louis XVIII recaptured southern France and incorporated a large number of local armed forces and even revolutionary guerrillas from the southern region. Its scale did not decrease but increased!

After Carlos IV of the Kingdom of Spain saw this scene, he suddenly became confident, and finally stopped delaying the urging of the anti-French alliance, and put together a 12 Spanish army to go north into the Pyrenees region of France.

These 12 Spanish Army are now the last elite of the Kingdom of Spain’s Army. Even the elite private armies of the nobility have been added to it, and they also participated in the battle to destroy the Kingdom of Catalonia. It is no exaggeration to say that the Kingdom of Spain is the most The troops that can fight are among these 12 people.

And the Kingdom of Spain has no additional regular army field troops...

For this anti-French war, the Carlos IV government has begun to borrow money to survive, and it is really impossible to train new troops.

Although the Kingdom of Spain is rich, corruption is serious from top to bottom. The wealth looted from the colonies is shared up and down, and the money that falls into the hands of the royal government is not much.

Nothing in peacetime. It is more than enough to maintain the luxurious life of the royal family. Once there is a war, the finances will be stretched immediately.

To date, the government of Carlos IV has not raised enough funds to repair the wounds of Madrid's war.

However, it was the 12 Spanish Kingdom's most capable field troops, who were blocked by the only regiment-level troops left behind by the Black Dragon Army, and paid a price of more than [-] people to reluctantly gather and annihilate their opponents.

The price of these ten thousand people is the number of deaths, and the number of wounded is three times the number of deaths!
The 12 Spanish army wiped out more than 2100 people from the Black Dragon Army, and paid such a terrible price, which caused the morale of the Spanish army to plummet...

However, after gnawing on this tough bone, the Pyrenees region no longer blocked the regular army of the Spanish army. The Kingdom of Spain chose a good time. Li Wei was fully shrinking to protect Paris and reorganize the French Defense Forces.

In the end, after the rest of the 8 people in the Spanish Army took a rest, they went north again and successfully joined forces with Louis XVIII's troops in Toulouse.

Toulouse, the city that Li Wei had been the ruling capital for a period of time, is now in an undefended state. When the army arrived, the officials enlightened by Li Wei's administration all fled with Li Wei's permission. The garrison corps and the local security corps all put down their weapons and surrendered.

Of course, they surrendered to Louis XVIII and not to the Spanish invaders.

The Kingdom of Spain invaded France in the form of a "assist fist", and it is an open ally with Louis XVIII's Kingdom of France. Carlos IV and Louis XVIII are still related!

The two countries are well-deserved brotherly countries.

After the two sides joined forces, the envoys representing the will of the king also quickly met and held a private meeting.

Although the 12 army of the Kingdom of Spain besieged the city where 1 soldiers of the Black Dragon Army were stationed, the total number of casualties was as high as [-], and the number of casualties alone exceeded [-]!

This is not so much a victory as a disgrace to the Kingdom of Spain...

However, the Kingdom of Spain still has enough power to continue to let the 8 troops go north. Naturally, it is impossible for Louis XVIII to ignore them. These [-] troops are an important military force!

Therefore, under the instruction of Louis XVIII, the envoy of Louis XVIII signed a secret treaty with the Kingdom of Spain.

As long as the Li Wei regime is overthrown and Li Wei is killed, Louis XVIII is willing to cede the entire Pyrenees region to the Kingdom of Spain!

It is naturally impossible to make such a traitorous treaty public. Although there are paper documents, Louis XVIII will never admit it until the Li Wei regime is overthrown.

The Kingdom of Spain would not be so shameless to do such a useless but disgusting act.

If the Li Wei regime is really overthrown, it is naturally impossible for France, which has just experienced many civil wars and is empty of national power, to continue to challenge the anti-French alliance.

Moreover, Louis XVIII will inevitably be hostile again by the French Revolutionary Party, and he must have the support of the anti-French alliance to secure his throne. At that time, as long as the major countries in the anti-French alliance are willing to endorse, no secret agreement can be fulfilled.

Therefore, the government of Carlos IV was very satisfied with Louis XVIII's 'sincerity'.

Of course, except for both parties, outsiders do not know the existence of this secret agreement.

When Louis XVIII and the Kingdom of Spain signed a secret treaty to form a common front, tens of thousands of French defense troops had completed training in Paris.

And every day, there are formed teams coming out of the barracks.

They reverently expressed their loyalty to Li Wei by raising their hands.

When a team of French Defense Forces who were very loyal to Li Wei walked out of the barracks, the whole of Paris was quiet.

Even the most active Paris Commune abandoned plans to mobilize the masses under Livy.

As the reorganization of the French Defense Forces came to an end, the reform of the military system was also announced by the Li Wei government, and all the original Black Dragon Legion was incorporated into the French Defense Forces.

The establishment of companies, battalions, and regiments has not changed much, and the establishment of divisions will be fixed at about 1 from now on.

The establishment of large corps above the division level is no longer named after the Legion, but changed to a streamlined "army".

An army will have at least three division-level troops, and no more than ten divisions at most.

The corps became the highest establishment in the French Defense Forces.

The banned legion will become another name, such as the Prussian Legion in the French Foreign Legion and so on.

The army is the largest standing military establishment. If there is a need for more troops on the battlefield in the future, several armies will be aggregated to form a certain group army.

The group army is a temporary organization during the war and is responsible for the overall operation in a general direction.

At present, it seems that Li Wei does not need to set up a group army.

A military-level force composed of tens of thousands of people is enough to deal with enemies in France.

After the reorganization of the French Defense Forces, more than 18 infantry guards were assigned to the three armies and a guard division.

The First Army has 10 infantry divisions, hundreds of various types of field artillery, siege artillery and mortars, two guard cavalry regiments, and of course a small number of sharpshooters.

Sharpshooters are scattered across units and do not stand alone.

However, in addition to the three army-level units, Li Wei set up a mountain division composed of sharpshooters, which is specially used for jungle and mountain warfare. If there is no accident, this independent mountain division will become the main force for the encirclement and suppression of guerrillas in the future.

The independent mountain division has more than [-] sharpshooters, and the commander of the mountain division is Major General Lesarite, who first received training as a sharpshooter, so he served as the commander of the mountain division.

Lesarit, who was originally a colonel, was promoted to a level and officially became a general.

The rank of general of the army under the Li Wei government is very rare.

A total of more than 8000 sharpshooters, more than 1 people joined the mountain division, and the remaining less than 8000 people were scattered among the three armies to serve as skirmishers.

The Guards cavalry are all organized into regiment-level troops, the number of which is about the same as that of infantry regiments. In the cavalry sector, they belong to the formation of large regiments.

In addition, in addition to the guard cavalry in charge of combat, there are also a large number of civilian handymen in the guard cavalry regiment. Although these people are staffed, they have not been trained. Many of them are grooms and are responsible for taking care of them. Horses of the cavalry.

After all, Li Wei's cavalry guards are equipped with one man and three horses!

Therefore, there are more non-combatants in the Guards Cavalry Regiment than combatants!
However, there are almost no non-combatants in the infantry unit, and even the cooking is undertaken by the infantry guards. Only when they are stationed in peacetime, professional chefs will be hired to take care of the army's meals.

It is also a safer means of protection to let the infantry guards take on the responsibility of cooking themselves during wartime.

A military-level force of tens of thousands of people is equipped with hundreds of various artillery pieces. It is not outstanding among the armies of major European countries in this era, but it can also be called rich.

The main reason is that the casting and maintenance costs of the artillery are a bit high, and the movement of the artillery is difficult. Too many can seriously affect the marching speed of the troops.

The First Army is the backbone of the French Defense Forces, equipped with the most artillery and troops!

The commander of the First Army is naturally Carl, who was promoted to lieutenant general.

The Second Army consists of 4 infantry divisions, more than 60 artillery pieces of various types, and a guard cavalry regiment.

After the reorganization of the French National Defense Forces, there were a total of five Guards Cavalry Regiments and eighteen infantry divisions. Among them, the Guard Division responsible for Li Wei's personal safety had the largest number of Guards Infantry, more than 5000!

Of course, there is also a guard cavalry regiment in the guard division, and more than 30 artillery pieces of various types.

All the artillery being compiled are currently the most advanced smoothbore guns and mortars in Europe.

The reorganized field artillery of the French Defense Forces is mainly divided into three-pounder cavalry guns, six-pounder infantry guns and twelve-pounder infantry guns. Twelve-pounder artillery is also known as siege artillery.

As for those eliminated artillery, most of them were refurbished, and a small part were arranged in major cities as fixed city fire prevention artillery.

The commander of the Second Army was Major General Bolcha who defeated the Prussian-Austrian Allied Forces in the Battle of Paris with fewer victories and more victories. Of course, he is now a lieutenant general.

The Third Army is the unit with the smallest number of people and the least artillery among the three military levels. It consists of three infantry divisions, more than 30 artillery pieces of various types, and a Guards Cavalry Regiment.

The army commander is a typical representative of surrender established by Li Wei - Lieutenant General Kleber, the former commander-in-chief of the Southern Group Army of the National Salvation Revolutionary Army!
The ability of a defected general to become one of the three major commanders of the French Defense Forces is undoubtedly a sign of Li Wei in the eyes of outsiders.

Of course, Kleber has been enlightened by the administration, and his loyalty is unquestionable, and there is no doubt about the other party's military knowledge.

The three armies plus two independent divisions are the entire combat power of the French Defense Forces, and it is also all the military power trained by Li Wei's system.

(End of this chapter)