18th century total war

Chapter 255 Attacking the Kingdom of Sardinia
In the Tuileries Palace in Paris, the capital of the French Republic, in the office of the chief executive, Li Wei called all the ministers of the cabinet department and announced the establishment of a new cabinet department-the Department of Education.

"New historical and political teaching materials have been compiled. The Department of Education has a very heavy task. In the future, it will not only be responsible for educating the people in France, but also the people in newly occupied foreign territories.

So as to ensure that all the people controlled by the country are loyal to me!
The first task of the Education Department after its establishment is to control all government-run schools in France as soon as possible.

Then all private and private schools will be rectified. At that time, I will promulgate a new law that prohibits all private teachers from accepting students. Those with teaching qualifications must apply to the local branch of the Department of Education.

I demand that all teaching and educating places in the French Republic must be controlled and supervised by the Education Department!
Moreover, the newly compiled history and political textbooks must be promoted to all schools, and those unqualified private and private educational institutions should be banned.

If there are people who disobey the order, they will be arrested directly in the labor office.

By the way, the public will be encouraged to report at that time, and whistleblowers can get different degrees of monetary rewards according to factors such as the size and number of illegal educational institutions reported.

Language education should also be unified. I don’t want different languages ​​to appear in a country. Those local minority language schools do not need to be rectified. They should all be banned! "

After Li Wei stabilized the interior of the French Republic, he began to carry out educational reforms the next moment.

The history and politics textbooks that are compulsory for all grades are filled with a large number of Li Wei's "brilliant deeds". The scholars who compiled the textbooks are all brainwashed people in the system college. 'Rhetorical devices' fabricated out of thin air are used.

For example, Livy's Charles family was fictionalized as collateral relatives of Charlemagne...

This allowed Levi to have a prominent family, which is very important in mainstream European society!
As for the massacre and torture of prisoners committed by Livy's Black Dragon Legion in the French Civil War, all of them were eliminated, and the reason for Livy's rebellion became 'please for the people'.

The looting of the city by Li Wei's army turned into a purge of corrupt officials...

All the cities that Li Wei took down were changed to 'liberate' instead of conquering.

Shameless textbook changes like this can be seen everywhere. The history textbooks to be released by Levi’s Ministry of Education are no longer distorting history, but rewriting history!

There is no way, there is too much black history in the process of Li Wei's rise, and only rewriting can completely beautify the image of Li Wei and his government.

At this point, Livy had begun a comprehensive transformation of France's local politics, economy, military, and ideology.

These modifications take time to see results.

Li Wei's purpose is very simple. Through large-scale internal reforms, he will create a stable rear that belongs only to him, and provide his army with an endless supply of munitions and materials to start the war.

In early 1797, the French Republic had initially completed the reform of Livy's government, and the fact that the Assembly of the French Republic had become Livy's voice was also known to the Anti-French Alliance and the French people.

In the absence of revolutionary leaders and the suppression of the powerful French National Defense Forces, the French peasants immersed in the carnival of the land reform policy took the lead in supporting Li Wei's rule, and there was no soil for guerrillas to survive in the whole of France.

At the same time, Li Wei's government also completed the next military deployment. Lieutenant General Bolcha's Second Army was deployed in the border area between northern France and the Rhine River, and killed the anti-French alliance troops in northeastern and eastern France. out of the way.

Lieutenant General Kleber's Third Army deployed a division of troops on the border between southern France and the Kingdom of Spain. The rest of the troops were divided into companies and dispersed throughout the French Republic, except for large and medium-sized cities and transportation outside the Paris area. Points.

In the Paris area, a guard division with personnel expanded to more than [-] people was stationed.

The two divisions brainwashed and trained by the subsequently arrested revolutionaries have been added to the Second Army and the First Army, and [-]% of them have been added to the First Army.

The First Army led by Karl, with more than [-] soldiers, invaded the territory of the Kingdom of Sardinia in a mighty manner.

Opposite Karl are the main army of the Kingdom of Sardinia with more than 5 people and the Austrian army with more than 6 people.

There are also coalition forces composed of various states in Italy, totaling more than 3 people.

This is already the limit of the anti-French alliance's mobilization in Italy.

Since the Livy government suppressed the restored French Kingdom, the Prussian-Austrian coalition forces were expelled, and the Spanish Kingdom was forced to turn around and sign a military alliance treaty, which indirectly led to the outbreak of the Spanish-Portuguese War, Austria in the anti-French alliance began to explode.

The fighting power shown by the Li Wei government was beyond imagination, which made the Habsburg dynasty feel a fatal crisis.

At the same time, more states of the Holy Roman Empire were joined by Austria and Prussia into the anti-French alliance. The Republic of the United Provinces of the Netherlands recovered the southern Belgium region and mobilized its national army to join the anti-French alliance army led by the Kingdom of Prussia. , confronting Porcha's Second Army on the Rhine River.

After experiencing the failure of the initial war in the anti-French alliance, they no longer seek to take the initiative to attack, and tend to let the French army attack the strong fortress line they built first.

In order to consume the strength of the French army.

Of course, if Li Wei is willing to cede the Savoy region, the Anti-French Alliance is still willing to negotiate peace with France.

It's just that Li Wei just heard this condition and blasted the anti-French alliance's peace envoys out of Paris.

Let the Anti-French Alliance lose face.

In this war between France and the Anti-French Alliance, Tsarist Russia in Eastern Europe and the Ottoman Empire in West Asia have shown great interest, especially the Ottoman Empire, which is going to the Balkans. If Austria reveals itself in this war Exhausted, the Ottoman Empire was more than happy to seize Hungary and Transylvania from Austria!
Although the Ottoman Empire in this era has begun to decline, and the industrial revolution has not yet started in the country. It was beaten to disgrace in the Russo-Turkish War during the period of Catherine the Great, but its vast territory and population base, as well as the armed Crescent Church The jihadist ideology still made the Ottoman Empire a recognized strong enemy by European countries.

Christians throughout the Balkans suffered terribly under the religious enslavement of the Ottoman Empire.

Even the Lindenwan Brotherhood, which also believed in God, could not gain a foothold in the Balkans.

The Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia, referred to as the Kingdom of Sardinia, is now the younger brother of the Austrian Alliance. Even the army of the Kingdom of Sardinia is under the command of the Austrian general. The armies around the people are all under the leadership of the Austrian generals, and there is no problem of competition for command power.

In the eyes of the Anti-French Alliance, the 15 regular army is enough to rely on the strong fortress and city defense system to resist the attack of the [-] French army.

Facing the enemy's line of defense hundreds of miles long, Karl divided the army into four parts in order to ensure that the army's back route would not be cut off.

Guard the rear and maintain the rear line of the logistics line, protect the left wing to cover the left wing of the main force of the Chinese army, guard the right wing to cover the right wing of the main force of the Chinese army, and the main force of the Chinese army with a maximum number of more than 6 people.

Karl's tactics are very simple and the most common in this era. Breakthrough in the center, follow up with guards on both wings, and expand and consolidate the achievements of the central army in all directions.

The Austrian Marshal Pauliu placed the Sardinian army in a flat defense zone, and this land was also the place where the main force of Karl's army must pass.

Due to the Alps, there are not many flat roads for the French Republic to march into the Kingdom of Sardinia. There are only a few. The Austrian-Sardinian-Italian coalition only needs to focus on defending the military fortresses on these roads to block them. French invasion.

Karl's first strategic goal is naturally to attack Turin, the richest city in the Kingdom of Sardinia and the capital of the Kingdom of Sardinia.

Carl kept in mind Li Wei's strategic instructions, this time the invasion should grab a fortune, don't stay in those ordinary towns, and focus on the wealthy big cities.

A wealthy big city not only has a lot of wealth in this city, but also often contains a lot of wealth around the city.

Moreover, taking Turin can disintegrate the Sardinians' will to resist, and even force the Sardinian royal family to sign an unequal armistice treaty.

The reason why Marshal Pauliu put the army of the Kingdom of Sardinia on the front line is very simple. This battle is a battle for the Kingdom of Sardinia to defend its home and country, and the Sardinian soldiers have reason to fight desperately to the end.

The Italian coalition army is the weakest army. It's not that their weapons and equipment are not good, but that these Italian coalition forces come from different states and regions, and many of them are composed of mercenaries. Most of them fight for money. , There is no sense of honor in the military.

And this battle broke out in the Kingdom of Sardinia, and the soldiers of the Italian Confederate States had no sense of crisis...

Of course, for the soldiers of the Italian state who are still stuck in the traditional feudal system and the traditional commercial republic system, the rise and fall of the country has something to do with them!

Among the allied forces of the Italian Confederate States, the soldiers of the Republic of Venice and the Republic of Genoa are the weakest in fighting will, but their equipment is the best!

More than [-]% of the artillery in the Italian Confederation Army was provided by the Republic of Genoa and the Republic of Venice.

These two Italian states were the richest commercial republics in Italy.

Ruled by a merchant council.

Therefore, the Italian Allied Forces were arranged by Marshal Pauliu on the mountainous defense line where the enemy is unlikely to attack.

This move caused complaints from Italian soldiers of the Allied Forces who were accustomed to city life.

Arikaia, an ordinary Sardinian born in Turin, is the 'capitalist' at the top of the discrimination chain in the Kingdom of Sardinia.

Just like in Li Wei's previous life, people in the capital and Shanghai discriminated against foreigners in the motherland. There is no lack of capital in any era who are proud of their birthplace and discriminate against other cities and countrymen.

Arikaya was no exception. After he joined the army, he immediately huddled with other Turinians in his company, and specially selected those privates who came from remote places and did not have many fellow villagers to huddle together to keep warm.

"Oh, it's lucky that there are sliced ​​meat in today's lunch."

Arikaya happily put the piece of meat in her hand into her mouth with a look of intoxication on her face. After eating her own piece of meat, her eyes instantly locked on the other foreigners in the company.

Arikaya came to a private soldier who was slightly shorter than himself, dodged the opponent's food box, and unceremoniously snatched the remaining slices of meat.

"Hey, little man, you are not suitable for eating meat. Eating more vegetables is good for your health."

Arikaya's voice immediately attracted laughter from the surrounding soldiers who were born in Turin.

Moreover, Arikaya is not the only soldier in Turin who is robbing his companions of meat.

As long as some Turin people among them are resisted, the Turin people like Arikaya will immediately swarm up and let the other party know the truth of "more people are more powerful".

The Sardinian officer who had his own small dining table in the distance had no intention of stopping this kind of thing.

These Sardinian officers are also from Turin, so naturally they will not help foreigners suppress their fellow countrymen.

At this moment, a shocking shout of killing suddenly came from outside the chest defense line where they were.

The whistle of emergency assembly sounded throughout the entire position, and Ali Kaya hurriedly stuffed the sliced ​​meat into his mouth, not forgetting to bring his own food box.

He carried his musket on his back and walked towards the position unhurriedly while eating.

The private soldier from the countryside who had just been bullied by him but didn't dare to resist, was also not far away from him, eating his food and walking forward.

The officers of the Kingdom of Sardinia seemed to have long been accustomed to this kind of laxity. Apart from complaining that the enemy's behavior of choosing meal points to attack was too immoral, they had no intention of scolding the soldiers.

When Ali Kaya came to the back of the parapet designated by the officer while eating, the food box in his hand fell to the ground with a clatter.

I saw blue and black military uniforms all over the mountains, densely packed, running towards their own positions under the guidance of the black dragon battle flag.

Pieces of obstacles such as forked rows of wooden horses that had been carefully arranged were cleared by soldiers in the front row of the enemy with axes.

"shot!
Hurry up and fire!
You idiots, don't stand there in a daze! "

The noble officers of the Kingdom of Sardinia finally stopped being calm at this moment, punching and kicking to urge the soldiers under their command to shoot quickly.

Ali Kaya didn't care about the leftover food that he had dropped on the ground, and hurriedly grabbed the musket on his back in his hand. Just as he was about to raise the gun, a cloud of white smoke suddenly appeared on the opposite side.

Since the French army directly launched a bayonet charge and did not walk over in a queue, the row of guns this time was not very neat, and it was more like many private soldiers shooting freely.

Arikaya suddenly felt a chill on his forehead. He raised his head and saw that his military cap had been knocked off!
(End of this chapter)