18th century total war

Chapter 311 Long Live Freedom!

On the long official road, undulating banners lined up to the end of the sky. The French Empire major general Napoleon Bonaparte, riding a tall horse, came to a small hillside accompanied by several Serbian generals and French officers. superior.

Yes, Napoleon is the supreme commander in charge of commanding the encirclement and suppression of Aristotle's Legion of Honor this time. Among the armies sent by the Kingdom of Serbia, the Kingdom of Romania, and the Kingdom of Bulgaria, no matter how high the rank of the commander is, they must obey Napoleon, the French leader. Major General's orders.

With the rise of the Li Wei regime, the French also ushered in their bright moments. Even though the Li Wei government did not provide much preferential treatment to the French, national pride can make up for material life in a sense. required.

Few French people, even the poor, now starved to death, taking pride in the continuous expansion of the French Empire.

With the victories of Livy's government, the development of the French Revolutionary Party in France gradually fell into a bottleneck.

Because the French Revolutionary Party found that more and more French civilians were incapable of resisting the Livy government.

Now that France has been victorious in foreign wars, and everyone is not hungry, why rebel?

Indeed, there were various unfair laws in the French Empire, and Livy, the French emperor, was even more dissolute. Every year, a large-scale talent show was held in France, and it had even become an annual 'festival' of the French nation.

Every time there is an audition, young and beautiful girls from all over the capital cities will gather to feast the eyes of the locals.

This kind of draft was initially just to satisfy Li Wei's selfish desires, but as the system of draft activities gradually improved, the files of beautiful girls became more and more complete, and many upstarts of the French Empire also set their sights here.

Just like after the model talent show in the 21st century is over, the rich and powerful will send people to contact their favorite women in private. Those beautiful girls who have not been selected into Li Wei's harem don't have to worry about their coming in vain, as long as they If you are willing to dedicate your body, you can earn wealth that they can't imagine!

There was even a trend in the French Empire. The French upstarts who rose together with the Li Wei regime took pride in supporting the beauties who were eliminated in the draft.

These French upstarts set strict thresholds in a boring way. For example, supporting the beautiful girls who were eliminated in the first batch of auditions is undoubtedly the most worthless. There are a total of three elimination thresholds in the draft. Who can support them until the last threshold? The beauties who come down represent who has the most prominent status and the wealthiest family background!

Of course, due to the factors of administrative enlightenment, the upstarts of the French Empire did not dare to intervene in the draft activities to conduct secret operations and keep those good things alone.

After all, there are too many officials who have been enlightened by the administration to intervene, and it is completely impossible to do it silently. To snatch a woman from the tyrant Li Wei, it is really an old birthday star hanging himself-tired of work!

This kind of thing has not happened before. After all, it is impossible for Li Wei to give administrative enlightenment to all the upstarts in the French Empire (upstarts are just a general term, not necessarily nobles, but including many rich people and high-ranking officials without aristocratic status). Those daring people want to cut off their beards in the draft.

I don’t know if I am really fascinated by the beauty or if I want to feel the sense of accomplishment of the Jiehu Emperor woman...

But this kind of people will end up with the same fate in the end. The eighteen generations of their ancestors have their families ransacked and exterminated!

In the French Empire, Livy's will was God, and it would not work even if God came. Livy gave an order, it doesn't matter what famous family you are from, how many people are involved, how much impact they will have on the political arena by killing them all.

As long as Li Wei wants to kill your whole family, no one will dare to protect you unless you flee to the anti-French allies!
After several precedents of killing chickens and monkeys, the draft activities naturally became clean, and Li Wei, who has a total war system, did it like this.

After all, throughout the ages, any ruler who offended a vested interest group would not end well.

Even Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding monarch of the country, was wantonly slandered by corrupt officials and civil servants after his death, and portrayed as a tyrant who killed innocent people indiscriminately.

That is to say, Zhu Yuanzhang's achievements were too high, otherwise those civil servants could criticize Zhu Yuanzhang as useless.

This is what happens when you offend vested interest groups, and you are still the founding monarch!
If you are the Lord of Moderation, being directly ignored is not a big deal.

How beautiful was Wu Zetian who established the Wu Zhou Empire?

After he died, his entire family was killed!
Wasn't it because of Wu Zetian's rise to power that he killed so many people?

It is impossible to kill all enemies, because if they are all killed, there will be no one left to govern the country.

The hatred is not only between relatives, but also the relationship between master and apprentice, confidant and friend, etc. If there is a killing spree, it is easy to kill the relatives and friends of officials who are not involved.

Even the ruler himself doesn't know how many people he has offended.

These people will naturally shrink their necks when the ruler is in power, but sooner or later the ruler will be born, get old, get sick and die.

It's time to turn over old accounts!
Because of this, none of the rulers in history who massacred their own people had a good reputation. Genghis Khan was able to stay famous because he slaughtered all his enemies, and it was quite interesting to Genghis Khan, his own people.

However, Li Wei, who has a total war system, broke this routine. Relying on the means of administrative enlightenment, Li Wei continued to clean the interior, and at the same time ensured that all the people in the court were his diehard loyalists!

"General Napoleon, the remnants of the Legion of Honor have been surrounded by us in the forest ten miles ahead. The encirclement has basically taken shape. The victory of annihilating the Legion of Honor and capturing Aristotle alive is not far away."

A Serbian general said with a flattering smile.

"The situation seems to be favorable to us, but at this moment, we cannot be careless.

In the previous confrontation, the Legion of Honor did not hurt the main force. Aristotle still had tens of thousands of troops.

These tens of thousands of people are all brave soldiers who were inspired by Aristotle's national hatred. Their fighting power is no less than that of the French Revolutionary Army during Robespierre's administration. You're welcome! "

Napoleon warned mercilessly.

Napoleon glanced around and found that no one was talking nonsense anymore, he smiled and said: "Okay, everyone already knows the next military deployment, I won't keep you, I will command the one I brought over alone Wehrmacht, the rest is up to you.

After this battle, everyone can also take a good rest and go home to relax with their wives. "

After saying that, Napoleon rode away with his French officers.

At the same time, at the Legion of Honor headquarters in the mountains, Aristotle was convening a meeting with all officers above the rank of colonel.

Although Aristotle had a hostile relationship with the French Empire, he highly respected the military organization promulgated by the Livy government. The entire Legion of Honor was actually modeled after the organization of the French Defense Forces.

Aristotle personally held the rank of general of the Legion of Honor, and the following are lieutenant general, major general, colonel...

And Aristotle convened a military meeting for officers above colonel to participate in a military meeting, which often meant that the Legion of Honor would have a main decisive battle!
"The enemy has gradually compressed our circle of activities by relying on the superiority of its forces, and now we must go all out to break through.

The current situation is not very bad for us. After all, our Legion of Honor has always been behind the enemy lines and surrounded by the enemy.

This siege means nothing to us.

Moreover, due to the needs of the siege, the enemy's army has been dispersed to three directions, which just gave us a chance to break through the siege and defeat them one by one!
To the north is the army of the Kingdom of Serbia, with the strongest military strength. Although the quality of the army is not good, the comparison of military strength is too great.

Moreover, if we forcefully break through, we will inevitably go deep into the hinterland of the Kingdom of Serbia, where there are Serbian settlements everywhere, and it is difficult for us to obtain the support of the people to establish a stable guerrilla base.

To the southeast is the army of the Kingdom of Bulgaria, whose strength is far less than that of the Kingdom of Serbia.

But after defeating the army of the Kingdom of Bulgaria, we can only return to the territory of Greece, which is what the Holy Alliance wants.

Moreover, the army of the Kingdom of Bulgaria does not account for a high proportion in the coalition. Even if they are defeated, their foundation will not be damaged. After entering Greece, if we want to go deep into the Kingdom of Serbia to fight guerrillas, it will not be as simple as before.

The Holy Alliance has already built a defense network this time, just to prevent us from continuing to infiltrate.

To the southwest is the army of the Kingdom of Romania, whose strength and combat power are similar to those of the Kingdom of Bulgaria. After defeating the army of the Kingdom of Romania, we can continue to penetrate into the Albanian region, and even penetrate the coastline to obtain supplies from the British fleet!
Therefore, the Romanian army in the southwest is our target for this battle!
The coalition forces would never have thought that the current Legion of Honor has been reborn and is no longer the mud-legged force in their eyes. This time we will use the same force to completely annihilate the regular army of the Kingdom of Romania and let the Holy Alliance be shocked by the Legion of Honor again!
for freedom!

For honor! "

Aristotle suddenly beat his chest with one hand and shouted loudly.

The generals present followed suit one after another, shouting in unison: "For freedom!
For honor! "

At the end of 1801, the main force of the Legion of Honor suddenly rushed out of the mountains and rushed to the Romanian Legion garrison.

The two sides combined for more than 10 people. They fought fiercely for three days and three nights on a front that was more than 30 kilometers long. The tens of thousands of Romanian legions were completely defeated. The Legion of Honor once again achieved a brilliant... tragic victory!
After counting the battle losses, Aristotle had to give up his plan to attack the other two coalition forces, and moved towards the Albanian coastline with the Legion of Honor, which had shrunk by nearly half.

He needs to lead the Legion of Honor out of the siege.

However, what Aristotle didn't know was that the strategy he planned had long been understood by Napoleon...

"Report!!!
General Aristotle, we have spotted a large French Wehrmacht directly ahead! "

When Aristotle heard this, he frowned and ordered the army to turn around without even asking about the number of the French Defense Forces.

However, less than 10 minutes later, he received a report again. The left and right wings discovered the French Defense Forces pressing in!
Aristotle's face suddenly became ugly, and he gritted his teeth and ordered: "Instruct the whole army to launch defense on the spot. We are going to fight a beautiful defensive counterattack and defeat the hateful French guy!"

The sound of high-spirited war drums sounded on the small plain between the jungles. Ettore, the captain of the Legion of Honor, who occupied a slope, looked cautiously at the black military line gradually emerging from the 'water' on the horizon.

Ettore was originally just a small soldier, because he performed well in the battle against the Romanian Army, and his superiors were killed one after another, so he stepped up and became the company captain!
This is already an official officer in the Legion of Honor.

Ettore, who was born in poverty, never thought that he would be an official one day.

It's a pity that his original company no longer exists, and too many familiar faces fell on the battlefield, just as they swore that they had dedicated their lives to the national freedom revolution!

Aristotle's propaganda to the lower ranks of officers and soldiers is that all their battles are to create a harmonious society of freedom and democracy.

This will be a great and just revolution, more noble than the French Revolution!

Aristotle did not deny the justice of the French Revolution, but in Aristotle’s propaganda, Li Wei, who insisted on the feudal monarchy, destroyed all of this, and it was Li Wei who ruined the fruits of the French Revolution.

After all, many of the current military founding concepts of the Legion of Honor are based on the ideas of the French Revolution.

Not only do we want the officers and soldiers of the Legion of Honor to accept the ideas of liberty, equality and fraternity of the French Revolution, but we also want them to fight against the French. Naturally, we have to give a reasonable reason.

And isn't Livy, who built an empire rather than a republic, the villain on the table?
"Everyone, check your guns one last time and get ready to fight!
God is with us!
for freedom! "

Ettore skillfully started the final mobilization. Although many soldiers in his company had only met Ettore in the past few days, they still shouted enthusiastically under the common ideal: "Long live freedom!" !!!”

The effect of the pre-war mobilization was very significant, and the morale of the Legion of Honor climbed to the top at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Aristotle once said in front of everyone that freedom and equality are the noblest ideals, and any commoner who wants to live like a human will never reject freedom and equality!

In the cry of long live freedom, the artillery of Ettore's side took the lead in roaring.

(End of this chapter)