18th century total war

Chapter 249 Attack
After the reorganization, the responsibilities of the three military-level units were also determined.

The most powerful First Army is mainly responsible for external and internal field battles.

The Second Army is mainly responsible for internal combat. Of course, if there is a shortage of foreign combat troops, the Second Army will also be responsible for reinforcing the First Army, or simply open up another front.

Tens of thousands of troops are enough to support a front in this era!

You must know that before the French Revolution, the population of France was only 900 million people. After Li Wei came to Paris, due to the losses in the civil war, the Li Wei government initially estimated that the population of France was about 500 million people.

Of course, there is no way to count those guerrillas who drilled into the valley, and the actual number is estimated to be a little more than 500 million.

However, this does not change the fact that several years of civil wars have reduced the population of France by millions!

Most of the sharply reduced population was not killed on the battlefield, but starved to death and exhausted in concentration camps...

Those who were actually killed on the battlefield in the war will always be a minority of the population lost in the war.

Levi didn't know what the population of France was in the 18th century in the history of his previous life, but in this parallel world, the French had indeed experienced a bloody lesson.

Until now, there are still many poor areas in France where people continue to starve to death.

After Li Wei came to power, he did not make any improvement to the problem of enough food for the French people. The reason why the citizens of Paris with a large population feel that they are not as hungry as before is because of continuous revolutions and wars. The base has dropped quite a bit.

With fewer people, the remaining people will naturally get more food distribution!

Not many people died of starvation in Paris, which is also one of the reasons why there has been no civil unrest since Li Wei became the chief executive officer.

However, Paris is the most prosperous capital city in France, and many foreigners come to seek opportunities every month.

Paris, whose population has been reduced due to the war, will recover sooner or later.

The third army led by Kleber was mainly responsible for stationing the mainland.

For example, all border provinces, cities and transportation points, etc., are all garrisoned by troops of the Third Army.

Both the First Army and the Second Army are mobile units, and only the Third Army is scattered and stationed in cities and transportation points all over France except Paris.

The number of garrisons is adjusted according to local conditions.

Generally speaking, a stable big city only needs to garrison a battalion or even a company. After all, there are a large number of police forces everywhere.

After the reorganization of the French Defense Forces, the Li Wei government also issued a national police reform system. The original local security regiments and garrison regiments were all reorganized into police officers.

The current garrison corps has gone through the first round of selection of the standing corps, and after the second round of the deployment of capable troops during the reorganization of the French National Defense Forces, the remaining ones are all crooked and have similar military quality to the local security corps.

The battle with Louis XVI's French Kingdom Army also showed how weak the garrison was.

Such a weak army, in Li Wei's eyes, is naturally not eligible to continue to enjoy military treatment!
Those military fields are not remote areas. They are fertile lands close to cities. How much government funds can be recovered from selling these lands to those rich people?
As for local military threats, the Third Army is enough to bear them. Li Wei believes that a company of Guards infantry can definitely prevent ordinary guerrillas from taking the initiative to attack the city!

And a city with a battalion of infantry guards can take the initiative to attack the guerrillas.

There is a regiment of Guards infantry stationed there, and they can even pull a net to carry out clearing operations against the local guerrillas!
As a result, the useless Garrison Corps was naturally swept into the historical garbage dump, and like the similarly useless Local Security Corps, it was downgraded to a working-class police force.

The police force, which was originally a small number and was only responsible for being a "mentally handicapped version of Sherlock Holmes", suddenly expanded its staffing.

Obviously exceeding the needs of various places, but Levi did not draw down, and it is obvious that there are plans to arrange these overflowing police forces in the future.

After the establishment of the Third Army, Kleber's commander's headquarters was still set up in Paris, but except for one guard company, all the troops under his command were scattered to garrison in various areas far away from the war.

The Third Army is also the real ruling tentacles of the Li Wei government!

The First Army has been moving towards southern France one after another, attacking the main force of the Kingdom of France and the main force of the Kingdom of Spain.

As for the second army, it went straight to Geneva, the capital of the Kingdom of France, and attacked southeast of France.

If Li Wei didn't make a move, it would be fine, and if he made a move, it would be thunderous!

The focus of the anti-French alliance once again focused on the French Civil War, but this time Prussia and Austria generally disliked Louis XVIII and the Kingdom of Spain.

Even Austria privately notified Louis XVIII to run away...

Louis XVIII was also unequivocal. He even found a substitute for himself, and kept transporting his wealth to Vienna.

The Austrian Habsburgs really had nothing to say about their support for Louis XVIII's relative. Louis XVIII naturally wanted to reciprocate the favor and chose Vienna as the place of escape.

Louis XVIII did not run alone or only brought his own family with him. His cabinet ministers and a group of exiled French nobles who supported him also followed Louis XVIII!
These exiled French nobles had already lost their way to join Li Wei's government because they offended Li Wei in the early days. The Revolutionary Party even believed that these French exiled nobles were traitors, and they would all be guillotined!
Therefore, if these exiled French nobles didn't want to be rich with no titles of nobility, they could only follow Louis XVIII.

Of course, the exiled nobles who really want to become rich can't keep their titles of nobility for long.

Once the Kingdom of France fell and the Livy regime did not recognize these noble titles, why would these exiled nobles still retain their noble titles if they did not choose to support Louis XVIII?

Is it by the thickness of the skin?

Unsurprisingly, the Second Army commanded by Bolcha was in a state of turmoil all the way. The defenders left in various cities in southeastern France collapsed under the attack of the Second Army. Have you ever beaten such a brutal style of play by the infantry guards?
The Guards infantry didn't even use the self-destruction tactic, and the opponent had already fallen...

The army of the Kingdom of Spain and the [-] main force of the Kingdom of France panicked immediately after learning that the Paris government of the French Republic had sent a [-] army south, and all of them stopped attacking.

The expanded army of the Kingdom of France in the southern region, which is hostile to Li Wei, has exceeded 20. After joining forces with the [-] army of the Kingdom of Spain, the total strength of the coalition army is as high as [-].

The army of the Kingdom of France is quite loyal enough, allowing its headquarters to be stationed in a more peripheral area to block the main force of the first army of the Li Wei government, and let the army of the Kingdom of Spain detour and flank the first army of the Li Wei government.

The combined strength of the two sides involved in the battle was as high as hundreds of thousands. Naturally, it was impossible to fight in a limited area. The front line spread by both sides was as long as a hundred miles away. The frontline troops had already exchanged fire, and the troops behind were still marching.

Soon, the first division of the first army, which was the vanguard of the first army, was blocked by tens of thousands of the main force of the Royal French Army outside Toulouse. The first division did not launch an offensive without authorization, but began to call for reinforcements.

Naturally, the main commander of the French Kingdom Army would not let the vanguard of the First Army wait for reinforcements, and take the initiative to attack the simple field fortifications dug by the First Division.

Then in just one day, the casualties were as high as [-]%!
In the first division's defensive counterattack, the Royal French Army was completely defeated, and the disadvantage of the French Royal Army's militia as the majority was undoubtedly revealed at this moment.

In the end, under the frantic pursuit of the first division, the main force of the French Kingdom Army with tens of thousands of people collapsed, losing all formations above the regiment level.

The first division that achieved such a great victory only killed more than [-] people.

The commander-in-chief of the Spanish Kingdom Army, who was on his way slowly and circuitously, was immediately frightened out of his wits when he heard the news. He quickly turned the army around and retreated frantically towards Spain.

After the main force of the Kingdom of France Army was completely defeated, the doors of the entire front opened wide. The Second and Third Divisions of the First Army followed in the footsteps of the First Division and immediately launched a fierce attack on the city of Toulouse, which was heavily garrisoned by the Kingdom of France Army.

This time the battle took place even faster, half a day passed, and the black dragon battle flag was raised above the city hall of Toulouse...

Although the French Defense Forces did not have the establishment of the Black Dragon Legion, they retained the Black Dragon battle flag. The reason is very simple. The rise of Li Wei has always been realized under the witness of this military flag. This military flag has long been a kind of spirit of Li Wei's regime. symbol.

Moreover, the prestige of the Black Dragon Legion can also deter the enemy through this Black Dragon battle flag.

After breaking through the city of Toulouse, the Royal French Army had about 12 troops, and only [-] people fled towards the Marseille area.

In the battle to capture Toulouse, the loss of the French Defense Forces was not as good as the first battle, only about 600 people.

Adding up the front and back, only more than [-] people were killed, and the Army of the Kingdom of France was almost wiped out!
The remaining more than 2 people lost tens of thousands of people during the escape process. In the end, only the remnants in the early [-]s fled into Marseille.

The army of the Kingdom of France hated the Spaniards for betraying their teammates, and even hated the anti-French alliance that supported them. Before Karl led the first army to encircle the Marseille area, the more than 1 defeated remnants took the initiative to send people to surrender .

Originally, they wanted to surrender to the Li Wei government, but Karl did not accept the surrender of the defeated enemy, only surrender.

Of course, there are still preferential treatment for this kind of formal surrender. After surrendering, they only need to hand over their weapons to regain their freedom without being sent to a labor camp.

Now that Li Wei has become the master of the house, the brutal and inhuman concentration camp-style labor service has naturally been banned, and those workers under centralized management have been dispersed to various places again, so that they no longer suffer from the torment of living without enough food and working hard day and night.

It is very fortunate for these officers and soldiers of the Kingdom of France who surrendered that they do not have to work in a labor agency.

After they happily put down their weapons and went home, Karl's First Army immediately conducted investigations in various southern cities that had supported the Kingdom of France.

There are officers and soldiers who surrendered to testify on the spot, and Karl's infantry guards don't have to worry about finding the wrong one.

Families were picked out one by one, the young women were filled into the teaching workshops, half-grown children and the rest were filled into the labor offices, contributing to the construction and development of France.

As a matter of course, this mass cleansing of the cities of southern France was once again declared as an act against humanity abroad.

However, in France, it greatly shocked the ordinary French people. Everyone suddenly realized that Li Wei, who became the chief consul, was still the cruel and heartless tyrant!

Naturally, this great purge also aroused huge repercussions in the city of Paris. Parisian citizens with high revolutionary consciousness were very angry at the French Defense Forces' purge of revolutionary compatriots in southern France.

Even if those people supported the army of the Kingdom of France, and even the males in the family joined the Army of the Kingdom of France, how could they destroy their entire family?

For a young woman to enter the Jiaofang Division, it is undoubtedly the worst punishment for a woman!
Who among the French people today doesn’t know that the notorious Jiaofangji is the official hospital, with more than one branch in Paris!
The Secretary of the Jiaofang is one of the sources of income for the Li Wei government...

In other words, soldiers who have been systematically trained are not lewd, otherwise the Jiaofang Division will definitely undertake the business of accompanying women.

Let me ask, who would want their wife and daughter to enter a place like Jiaofangsi?
The execution of the old man was extremely inhumane and completely violated the concept of fraternity in the French Revolution.

On the contrary, it is the fact that other personnel were rushed into the labor office, and everyone no longer cares much...

The French people seem to have gotten used to the existence of labor agencies.

The labor service has indeed facilitated everyone's life. Almost all the road construction work in France is undertaken by the free labor of the labor service.

Road construction has always been a matter of great concern to the Li Wei government, which is related to the mobility of its own army in local operations.

It was the Li Wei government's continuous commitment to road construction that made the transfer of the Black Dragon Legion very convenient during the French Civil War.

If it weren't for the current industrial conditions, Li Wei would have wanted to build a railway in France.

The biggest beneficiary of good road conditions is the government. Whether it is a foreign war or internal suppression, good road conditions allow the central government to concentrate its forces in the shortest possible time.

Foreign wars can quickly gather troops on the border to prevent foreign enemies from invading the territory. Internal suppression can shorten the development time of the rebels, and suppress them when they first emerge.

The rapid destruction of the French Kingdom's army terrified the Kingdom of Spain. Before the fall of Geneva, the temporary capital of the Kingdom of France, the peace envoys of the Kingdom of Spain had arrived in Paris.

(End of this chapter)