18th century total war

Chapter 302
As soon as these words came out, the ruling committee members fell into a dead silence.

Yes, the reason why they dare not agree to the conditions proposed by the French Empire is not because they really have a problem with their brains, but because they simply cannot believe in the international reputation of the French Empire!

The reason why the Li Wei government launched the third anti-French war is really too rough, even more unreasonable than St. Petersburg!

"Don't mention the matter of returning the land, even if the Li Wei government is really willing to keep its promise and spit out all the land it has swallowed, what will the Greek people think of us?
Aristotle is right, there are people in Athens who are hungry and eager to change!

For the sake of the seats under our butts, we must stick to our current policies.

The behemoth of nationalism has been lured out by us, and it will be difficult to take it back. "

"Humph!

If it weren't for the rampant nationalism in Athens, there would be no room for a beggar writer like Aristotle!
How difficult the country really is, all ghosts and snakes have jumped out! "

Obviously, the ruling councilor was a Greek nobleman who valued his birth.

After the independence of the Greek Republic, the system established was quite strange. It was said to be a republic, but the noble class was still retained, but the Greek nobles changed a title, called elders.

The privileges possessed by the elders are no different from those of the nobles in the past, even worse!

Naturally, these ruling members are veritable elders.

Including which Greek generals too!

Many Greek generals were originally military adjutants serving the Ottomans or small local military and political officials.

Aristotle, who had obtained the letter of authorization and the appropriation certificate, came to the slums of Athens that he was familiar with in a hurry, and he called together the friends he knew.

As a low-level writer, Aristotle's living conditions have always been bad, and his income level determines that he must deal with these poor classes.

"Brothers, I have received my commission to form the Legion of Honor, now let us gather the poor who desire to change their lives.

If you want a warm bed, good food, warm clothing, and a good pair of boots, join the Legion of Honor.

As long as we work together, money, women and even power will all be our trophies! "

Soon, Aristotle's friends and even family members began to lecture and pull people around in the slums.

Through the Greek independence movement, Aristotle had a good reputation in the slums. At that time, he led people into the city hall, but grabbed a lot of good things.

If you are fooled by Aristotle's slogan, immediately flock to it.

Most importantly, join the Legion of Honor and take care of the food!

This is the most attractive place for the poor, and just this simple one made it easy for Aristotle to recruit more than a thousand young men.

These men are soldiers of the right age, but they are all malnourished. These are minor problems, and they can be raised after a few weeks of full food.

The most important thing is that these men are young, have little knowledge, and are very fond of Aristotle, so they can easily be brainwashed by Aristotle!

Aristotle dared to take the plate of the Legion of Honor, naturally because he studied the relevant materials of the French Revolution in detail.

Materials can enable soldiers to have sufficient physique to fight, while national ideology can serve as the spiritual fuel for soldiers to swear to kill the enemy.

After reading the relevant materials of the French Revolution, Aristotle lamented the French revolutionary thought more than once. The French even swept away the traditional aristocratic and religious forces in the country just by shouting slogans, and they still had the upper hand in the anti-French war!
Even Li Wei, who rose by hypnosis, did not completely ban the idea of ​​​​the French Revolution after he entered Paris.

In front of the ruling committee, Aristotle only said that the poor are the group most eager to change themselves, but did not say how to motivate them to change their emotions.

This is actually Aristotle’s secret, after all, most poor people are relatively numb, and this numbness must be eliminated with the nationalist ideology produced by the Great Revolution!
Let the poor see hope and have a sense of expectation to change the future!

After recruiting a thousand qualified soldiers, Aristotle did not delay a day, and immediately applied to the relevant departments for barracks and necessary ordnance supplies.

The most important thing is food and supplies!
After Aristotle received the food supplies, he personally distributed them to the poor conscripts, and while distributing them, he asked his relatives and friends to shout loudly: "Follow the Legion of Honor and eat!
Follow the Legion of Honor and have clothes to wear! "

This is not Aristotle's impromptu performance. He made this kind of ceremony a compulsory course for the Legion of Honor in the future. Every time he distributed food, he asked everyone to repeat the source of the food. Who should be grateful!
The Legion of Honor is the collective sense of honor established by Aristotle, and he personally is the spiritual symbol of the Legion of Honor.

Yes, as a writer, Aristotle already understood the true meaning of the French Revolution—creating personality cultism.

This is not only selfish, but also the most effective way to unite an army.

Only with Aristotle at the core of the entire army could he execute orders and prohibitions on the battlefield.

Therefore, Aristotle asked all soldiers to repeat their affirmation of the Legion of Honor and their personal gratitude when eating!

After a long time, these soldiers will naturally follow Aristotle's orders instinctively after they form a habit.

People in this era have not experienced repeated revolutionary brainwashing, and their resistance to this brainwashing method is very weak. Aristotle easily established his personal prestige in the army by using the government-issued meals.

In addition, Aristotle also pulled his relatives and friends into the army and promoted them to middle and senior officers. Even the female relatives were not spared. A logistics battalion for chores such as cooking and laundry.

Aristotle encouraged all soldiers to bring their families into the army, men to take up arms and fight, women and children to do what they can.

Of course, these are all free of charge. For poor families, it is already very difficult to have a stable source of food and shelter.

The most important thing is that these poor soldiers don't have their own real estate. They dragged their families to join the Legion of Honor, and they don't have any property to give up at all...

And Aristotle sold his only real estate and devoted all of it to the construction of the Legion of Honor.

After all, after adding the Legion of Honor and the logistics battalion, the quota is already exceeded, and the Athens government will not take care of the extra food for relatives. Even if Aristotle deducted a few soldiers' food to supply these logistics families, it is not very sufficient.

In other words, for Aristotle, it was impossible for his Legion of Honor to stay in the rear for training for a long time.

In fact, Aristotle only let the Legion of Honor complete a month of recruit training, let these poor recruits know how to shoot and walk in the basic queue, and then hurriedly pulled people to the front line.

Of course, the front line mentioned by Aristotle is not the real front line, but the front line of suppressing bandits.

Aristotle planned to train his troops by suppressing bandits.

You can also make extra money by suppressing bandits!
When Aristotle took his Legion of Honor all over Greece to find bandits for training, he had already compressed the power of the Ottoman Empire to the Istanbul area, invaded the Holy Alliance in the entire Balkans, and finally pointed the finger at Greece.

Because when the Holy Alliance invaded the European territory of the Ottoman Empire, the Greek army was not idle. With the support of nationalism, it continued to expand, and even had a tendency to go hand in hand with the Holy Alliance.

In order to preserve Istanbul, the Ottoman Empire had long since withdrawn its few troops in the Balkans, and on the other hand, it had stepped up negotiations for an armistice with the Russian Empire.

When the Ottoman Empire was negotiating a truce with the Russian Empire, it was also negotiating a truce with the Holy Alliance.

The Ottoman Empire, which fought on two fronts, was completely defeated on both fronts. It also had to suppress the Armenian uprising at home. It was really impossible to carry out foreign wars.

After the Russian Empire gained territory from the Ottoman Empire, it signed the armistice terms with satisfaction. Naturally, the Livy government, which planned to deal with Greece, a shameless, meat-eating sovereign country, also quickly made an armistice with the Istanbul government.

The territory of the Ottoman Empire in Europe only retained the Istanbul area, and the rest of the vast Balkan area was ceded to the Holy Alliance.

As for the distribution of the Holy Alliance, it is their internal problem.

What's interesting is that during the peace talks, the Greek diplomatic envoys were rejected by the Istanbul government. They didn't pay attention to Greece at all, and they didn't care whether to continue to maintain war relations with Greece, even though Greece is now due to its rapid expansion. Arrived in Istanbul.

Of course, the Ottoman Empire can also push all the way back to the Greek mainland, but the Livy government of the Holy Alliance warned the Ottoman Empire not to take another step into the Balkans, otherwise it will be regarded as an act of war.

The Ottoman Empire also knew that Greece was regarded as a pocket by the Li Wei government, and naturally it would not take care of a sovereign country that was about to perish.

Only the Greeks themselves, feeling despised, threatened to continue the war in Istanbul and entered the city of Istanbul!

After the Greek foreign envoy spoke harshly, he returned to Athens, and then the Holy Alliance began to demand land from the Athens government!

All lands outside the Greek peninsula, including Macedonia, must be returned to the Holy Alliance!
It is also possible for the Athens government to join the Holy Alliance. Just like Hungary and Transylvania, the command of the army can be handed over to the generals of the French Defense Forces.

Obviously, this is intolerable to the Greek government!
Look at the situation of the Hungarian and Transylvanian armies. They have no autonomy at all, and they are used as slaves and cannon fodder by the French army.

In every tough battle, the Hungarian army and the Transylvanian army are indispensable...

As for Hungary and Transylvania, they are submissive to the Li Wei government and have no right to speak at the strategic level, just like a vassal state.

Are these two countries still sovereign states?
It's just like carrying the shell of a sovereign country and doing the business of a vassal state!

The proud Greeks naturally couldn't bear it. If the Athens government dared to agree to this clause, the ruling committee would have to be replaced within a few days.

At this time, Greece also had the capital to clamor with the Holy Alliance. With the expansion in the Balkans, the Greek army, in the name of liberators, summoned a large number of local ethnic groups to form an army in the new occupied area.

And the Athenian government also promised terms to help them establish an independent country.

This is not an empty promise, but a treaty in black and white, and the armies composed of those local ethnic groups are led by local people, and the Greek army did not intervene in the issue of command.

This is actually a kind of concession by the Athens government. Aristotle has never been regarded as a life-saving straw by the Athens government. The real self-protection method of the Athens government is to establish a bunch of nationalist countries in the southern Balkans as a protective barrier for Greece. , Even the Athens government has begun to discuss the establishment of strategic defense alliances with various nation-states.

This is naturally unbearable for the Li Wei government.

Livy openly mocked in the cabinet of the Provisional Government in Vienna:

"The small country wants to carve up the Balkans with me, and they are not afraid of bursting their stomachs!"

Not surprisingly, the talks between the two parties collapsed, and just as Aristotle predicted, the Holy Alliance declared war on Greece!
On the second day after the declaration of war, more than [-] French defense troops annihilated the Serbian army supported by the Greeks, and captured tens of thousands of prisoners!

The loss of the French Defense Forces was only a little over a thousand.

However, after a good start, the Holy Alliance started to go downhill.

First, the Hungarian army in the Holy Alliance suddenly mutinied, followed by the Transylvanian army. This was obviously a premeditated military coup, and the timing was very good. It was the time when the main force of the First Army attacked the Greek army. when.

Guarding the Hungarian and Transylvanian armies was only tens of thousands of troops from the Republic of Austria.

Among them are only the presidential guard of more than [-] people.

And the coalition forces of Hungary and Transylvania are three times the tens of thousands of Austrian troops!
Hungary and Transylvania thought that this was a war that was sure to win. After all, the opponent was not the French Defense Forces, which had repeatedly created military miracles, but the Austrian army.

In the early battles, the Hungarian and Transylvanian coalition forces did gain a certain advantage, but everything changed after the more than 1-person Elaine Presidential Guard stepped onto the battlefield.

Because these presidential guards actually used the self-destruct tactics exclusive to the French Defense Forces!

It was the first time that the Hungarian soldiers and Transylvanian soldiers who were bombed by the self-destruct tactics were crying and howling. The 10,000+ army collapsed without even holding on for a day...

Only about 2000 people were killed in the Austrian Presidential Guard.

When the Hungarian and Transylvanian coalition forces collapsed, the Hungarian government, the Transylvanian government, the Greek government, and even some small nationalist governments supported by the Greeks, who had not heard of the news, jointly issued a statement to establish an anti-French alliance!
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