18th century total war

Chapter 265 Harvesting and Buying

In the city of Tuscany, there was a loud bang, and the door of a small detached house was violently opened by several guardsmen, which immediately attracted the attention of the surrounding neighbors.

However, the number of concerned neighbors soon decreased sharply, because many people's homes were invaded by French Guards infantry!

Only the poor households renting houses looked at each other in confusion, feeling as if these invading French troops were going to do something big again!

"Lord Conskan, you have been charged with treason and all your property will now be confiscated and you and your family will be arrested.

Your only right is to write letters to your relatives and friends in prison, asking them to redeem you with money. "

Baron Conscan, who was having breakfast with his wife, elderly mother, and three children, immediately yelled in despair when he heard the infantry guards rushing in and explaining the crime to them in stumbling Italian.

"I'm just a little baron from Tuscany, an ordinary timber merchant, how could I be treason?!
I am not capable of treason at all!
Moreover, Tuscany is gone, where would I go for treason? ! "

The infantryman obviously couldn't understand such complicated Italian, but Kang Scankan saw his wife, children, and old mother screaming, and was pressed on the dining table by the strong French Defense Force soldiers and began to tie their hands behind their backs. The proficient French repeated his own words.

This time, he finally caught the attention of the Guards Infantry Sergeant who led the team.

To arrest such ordinary people who have little resistance, the officers of the French National Defense Force will naturally not go there personally. At most, they will arrange for a sergeant to come with ordinary infantry guards to perform the task.

There is a non-commissioned officer level in the French National Defense Forces. The word "soldier" actually comes from the European military system and is used to summarize soldiers and non-commissioned officers.

Because in the eyes of superiors, non-commissioned officers and soldiers are at the same level, and they are occupations that noble children disdain to engage in.

The original setting of non-commissioned officers is actually to accommodate those elite veterans who have merit but no culture.

Nowadays, various European armies have the position of non-commissioned officers, but the non-commissioned officers in many countries are not as clearly divided as in the French National Defense Forces.

From the lowest rank, private, to private, then corporal, sergeant, staff sergeant, and sergeant major.

The French National Defense Forces divided non-commissioned officers into multiple grades. As a matter of course, these non-commissioned officer grades were all set by Li Wei's copying of the military system in his previous life.

These non-commissioned officers are the same as ordinary soldiers on the battlefield. At most, they can be assigned to the positions of flag bearers and officer guards. However, when several or even a dozen people perform tasks, the sergeants often play a leading role.

The reason why Li Wei established the strict non-commissioned officer system in the French Defense Forces is mainly to use the fastest way to transform the army of the era of queuing and shooting into an army of class combat mode after the weapons are updated in the future.

Levi knew very well that as long as the breech-loading gun appeared, even a single-shot breech-loading gun would be enough to make squad combat the most effective way of fighting.

In Levi's last life, during the early stages of World War I, the British and French forces were still using the tactic of queuing to kill, just because the governments of that era were relatively pedantic.

It does not mean that weapons must be developed to the level of World War I before squad combat and skirmishing tactics can be used.

In fact, squad combat and skirmishing tactics complement each other. The basic combat unit in this era is the company, because the queuing and shooting tactics require the strength of a dense formation to ensure the density of firepower and the strength of bayonet charges.

Divided into skirmish lines, even a bayonet charge of the enemy can't stop. In the first Opium War, the British used bayonets to hang and beat the green camp of the Qing army with far more people than them...

The British army’s weapons and equipment in the first Opium War did not actually have any advantages. The biggest advantage came from the sea. The flintlock guns used by the British Red Shirt Army were not much different from the shotguns used by the Qing army at that time.

The shotgun is an improved version of the matchlock gun. The loading procedure is much more complicated than that of the flintlock gun. However, at that time, the Qing army was fighting in the local area and had a huge advantage in strength.

Not to mention that the Qing army was on the defensive for most of the battle at that time...

Matchlock guns also have the shooting tactics of matchlock guns. For example, one person is responsible for shooting, and three to five people are responsible for loading.

During the first Opium War, the British army mainly dealt with the Green Battalion Regular Army stationed on the southeast coast and a small number of Eight Banners Army. The Green Army of the Qing Dynasty on the southeast coast is a force that respects pragmatism very much.

These green battalions have generally seen Western weapons and know the power of firearms, so they like to use shotguns very much.

Including the generals of the Green Battalion at that time!

Statistics show that during the first Opium War, the shotgun equipment rate of the Green Battalion along the southeast coast could reach an astonishing 80.00%!

The green battalion soldiers all went into battle with swords, spears and shotguns, but bows and arrows were not used much...

Even British officers who participated in the war lamented that under musket fire, the Qing army's battle line was as stable as Mount Tai, as if it would never collapse. Those Qing army soldiers who looked thin and weak could even withstand British artillery shells. and muskets, stubbornly shooting at the British red shirts!

Of course, due to the lack of training of the Green Camp soldiers, their marksmanship is poor...

Later, the British army discovered that there was no advantage in shooting against the Qing army, but as long as the British army launched a bayonet charge, the Qing army would definitely be defeated!
After the British army discovered this weakness of the Qing army, it became invincible...

Throughout the wars between the late Qing Dynasty and the West, the gap in weapons was rarely a generational difference. Whether it was the Eight-Power Allied Forces or the Sino-Japanese War of [-]-[-], the Qing army purchased and equipped a large amount of Western-style equipment, but the Qing army's use of Western-style equipment was very inefficient. , and the Qing army's combat courage was very low.

In addition to the courage of the Eight Banners Army, the Green Camp has long been rotten...

It's not that the weapons are bad, but the morale is bad!
Especially during the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War of [-]-[-], the Japanese troops who landed were surprised to find that the Qing army's firearms they seized were even better than the Nissan domestic products in their hands!

It can be said that the fundamental reason for the Qing army's successive defeats lies in: a group of useless Eight Banners generals, a group of Han slave soldiers with low morale but equipped with advanced firearms, and the Eight Banners whose equipment is still in the cold weapon era, but is still courageous. Soldiers, how could such a strange combination not be defeated by the modern armies of foreigners?
Not all the Eight Banners in the late Qing Dynasty were rotten. After all, the Eight Banners were also divided into classes. The children of the Eight Banners who could play wildly in the streets were all noble families in the Eight Banners, and the bottom of the Eight Banners could barely get enough food and clothing.

These people still have a certain fighting ability, they have courage but not much fighting ability, courage is because the people of the Eight Banners know that the Qing Dynasty is their country, and they know why they are fighting.

This is the biggest gap between the Eight Banners soldiers and the Green Battalion soldiers.

However, no matter how bad the green battalion soldiers are, they will occasionally conduct training camps, and the Eight Banners soldiers are really rice worms lying at home, and the barely enough food and clothing line is not enough to support them to train martial arts.

As a result, in the Battle of Baliqiao, most of the last group of people who could be fought by the Eight Banners died...

After the leading sergeant of the French Defense Force understood Conscan's French, he replied in fluent French: "The country you betrayed is not Tuscany but the great French Republic!"

After Kang Scan understood the meaning of this sentence, he immediately froze in place and allowed the guards infantry behind him to tie his hands behind his back.

It wasn't until Kangscan and his family were escorted out of the house that he shouted frantically in French at the French soldiers: "I am a Tuscan, not a French, how can I betray France?!"

You are deceiving me, no one in Tuscany! ! ! "

In the end, Conscan was already in tears, and then he accused the crimes of the French Defense Forces in Italian to the impoverished households on the street.

Not surprisingly, this fresh and refined treason by the French army aroused the anger of most Tuscans, but everyone is the type who dares to be angry but dare not speak out...

Especially those poor households who were not arrested, fearing that the crazy French army would target them, they all silently and numbly looked at the wealthy "landlords" in their eyes on weekdays, and were escorted out one by one.

At this moment, an officer of the French Defense Forces who can speak Italian stood up and shouted to the low-level Tuscans onlookers: "These so-called middle-class people have violated the law, and all their properties have been confiscated. Great! The French Republic is a tolerant country, a country that is willing to help the poor.

All the impoverished people who have no house and no property can get a house for free as long as they swear allegiance to Mr. Li Wei, the Chief Executive of the French Republic!
Cheers to Lord Levi! "

The expressions on the faces of the poor households in Tuscany suddenly became astonished, and then many people showed ecstasy.

Especially those poor households renting houses in this block, who were still sad because they witnessed the landlord being arrested and killed, immediately imitated the appearance of the French Defense Forces, raised their right arms obliquely, and shouted in awkward French: "Master Li Wei! Long live!"

The officer of the French Defense Forces, looking at No. 1 poor Tuscan poor man, drew a curve at the corner of his mouth, and sent someone to bring him over. After asking a few words, he announced in front of everyone that he was renting a house. His real estate will be his personal property from now on!
All of a sudden, the city of Tuscany resounded one after another, even shouting 'Master Levi!Long live! ' slogan.

Of course, this kind of property allocation cannot be done hastily. It requires registration and confirmation.

And the real estate certificate will be issued by the French Defense Forces in person.

Of course, these real estate certificates distributed by the French Defense Forces became invalid after the retreat of the French Defense Forces and the restoration of the Italian region and the Kingdom of Sardinia...

A group of impoverished households wanting to get their property for free, their moment of happiness must be interrupted the moment the French Wehrmacht withdraws!
However, it is impossible for poor households to have that kind of long-term vision. At least at this moment, they are beginning to accept the French Defense Forces for the first time!
This is the third step of the plan to loot Italy issued by Levi, targeting the middle class in Italy and the Piedmont region of the Kingdom of Sardinia!
The first and second steps of the plan are aimed at the powerful and rich in the upper class. The third step will naturally target the middle class.

Although the wealth of the middle class is far from being comparable to the wealth of the upper class, there are many people in the middle class, and many of them are real aristocrats with minor titles.

Don't think that the baron is such a noble existence, their nobility is only for ordinary people, and the baron is actually similar to a servant in the eyes of the great nobles.

The middle class in Italy and the Piedmont region of the Kingdom of Sardinia actually made a small fortune when the French Defense Forces cleaned up and searched for the rich and powerful in the upper class, because most of the fixed properties confiscated by the French Defense Forces were sold at the price of cabbage. Sold to these middle class who can afford to take over.

It is also these middle-class takeovers that prevent people in Italy and the Piedmont region of the Kingdom of Sardinia from buying daily necessities, and there are still markets selling necessities and food in cities.

Economic depression does not mean that there is no market.

However, the third and final step of the French Defense Force's looting plan generally emptied the market economies of Italy and the Piedmont region of the Kingdom of Sardinia.

Except for ordinary agricultural products sold by the poor in the countryside, almost all shops in the city were permanently closed.

This time, the French National Defense Forces could not even find Pan Xia. Those low-level civilians who had escaped the disaster had eaten their last meal, so how could they have the money to take over?

Of course, the French National Defense Force did not waste these fixed assets. The fixed assets that could not be taken away could not be sold. They could be distributed to the urban poor for free.

In this way, the French Republic can also have a group of bottom supporters in Italy and the Piedmont region of the Kingdom of Sardinia.

This is already very good, after all, the Levi government paid for useless things.

Will Li Wei from the 21st century understand buying public opinion?
He didn't do it just because there was no need for it!

In addition, due to the limited strength of the French National Defense Forces, they mainly targeted cities and even larger towns. The vast rural areas were unable to raid homes one by one, which allowed many middle class people who fled to the countryside to escape.

These people are also the seeds of economic recovery in the Italian region and the Piedmont region of the Kingdom of Sardinia after the withdrawal of the French Defense Forces.

Li Wei, who comes from the 21st century, knows very well that when cutting leeks, the roots cannot be cut off, and the seeds can only be harvested repeatedly!
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