18th century total war

Chapter 47 The Tricolor Flag Appears

"I didn't expect Li Wei to be so arrogant that he dared to confront us head-on. If he escaped with people and became a gang of bandits, we could save a lot of trouble."

Wallace and a group of people gathered together on horseback, looked at the black dragon flag in the distance, and said in a slightly regretful tone.

In this three-way expedition, Wallace and his party never thought that Li Wei would dare to confront them head-on. Wallace and his party planned to force Li Wei into a bandit, occupy the territory of the Charles family, and cut off Li Wei's foundation.

By that time, Li Wei's reputation in Morbihan Province will be wiped out.

For a rebel army like Li Wei who goes against the general trend, once he becomes a bandit and is chased by the regular army, those armed groups such as mercenaries, bounty hunters, local city guards, township militias, etc. Hyenas usually pounce on their prey and bite.

The reason why Li Wei was able to run amok in the province of Morbihan was not because his army crushed various armed forces in the province of Morbihan, but because he won the Battle of Vannes and established the foundation of the Black Dragon Army. The prestige has deterred the local armed forces in the province of Morbihan.

This makes many towns face Li Wei, it is all based on the call, and they dare not resist at all.

Nowadays, the three-way army encirclement and suppression led by Wallace is to break Li Wei's reputation. As long as Li Wei abandons his nest and escapes, no matter whether the Black Dragon Army under his command will be dissatisfied or not, Li Wei will become everyone shouting. Hit the street rats.

After all, the head of a rebel leader who seems to have lost power is a favorite in the eyes of many people.

The reason is very simple. Everyone fears the upwind situation like a tiger, and the fools in the downwind situation want to participate and earn some pocket money.

At that time, even if Li Wei has superior fighting power, he will fall into the position of being beaten by the group, hiding in XZ, and being eaten alive in the ocean of people's war.

Because Li Wei saw this, he never had the idea of ​​becoming a rogue.

Since ancient times, how many people have succeeded in rogue bandits?

And those few people all have the right time, place and people!

The most important thing is the will of the people!
For example, at the end of the day, Li Zicheng and his gang were able to succeed as bandits. Wasn't it because the orthodoxy of the Ming Dynasty was unpopular?
This allowed Li Zicheng's gang of rogues to have a steady stream of supporters and new recruits to join.

However, Li Wei's current situation was just the opposite. The Declaration of Human Rights allowed the French Kingdom's Constituent Assembly to win the support of the majority of the people at the bottom. The rebel army led by the remnants of nobles like Li Wei was simply unpopular.

Under the premise of being unpopular, if you play the game of rogues again, everyone will shout and beat you. If you attack a small village at random, a group of village guards will emerge to fight Li Wei!

The general trend and the people's hearts are still very important. Those in power who do not have the people's hearts will naturally try to control the general situation. The people's hearts do not represent the general situation, but the people's hearts can affect the general situation!
Only when Li Wei maintains an invincible personality, can most people dare not speak out, and even have to kneel down to Li Wei, providing him with various supplies and even a young and strong population!

Li Wei marched all the way, and did not encounter a single guerrilla attack, because Li Wei's reputation gained in the Battle of Vannes made those who opposed him frightened.

Wallace and his party who play politics are naturally very aware of this. Unfortunately, what they are waiting for is not the fleeing black dragon army, but the head-on black dragon army.

In the eyes of Wallace and his team, Levi who escaped will definitely lose, but as long as Levi who is facing him wins this battle, he can continue his glory.

Of course, Wallace and his team did not think that Li Wei could win. The rebellion of the Bavarian Corps had already been learned by Wallace's scouts and scouts from the Bavarian Corps' rout.

So knowing that the Black Dragon Legion under Li Wei's command lost hundreds of people, the real comparison of the strength of the two sides has reached 1 to 3!

The ratio of troops is 1 to 3. It is not just that Li Wei's soldiers can win if they can fight three. The larger the army base, the more the difference in the ratio of troops can determine the outcome.

Not only Wallace and his party are full of confidence, but the entire Ille-Vilaine army is full of momentum and feels that their side will win.

This is the general trend mobilized by Wallace and his team.

Li Wei held up the binoculars and watched armed soldiers in various military uniforms and even civilian clothes pouring out on the distant horizon.

The armed men in civilian clothes are all National Self-Defense Forces established by the province of Ille-Vilaine after the Paris National Self-Defense Forces. The sources of troops are "enthusiastic citizens" from various cities. train.

At this time, many large cities in the Kingdom of France that supported the revolution began to form national self-defense forces, some of which were spontaneous organizations, and some of which were led by municipal governments or parliaments.

The Declaration of Human Rights pushed the revolutionary enthusiasm of the French people to another climax, and everyone highly respected the National Guard, which played a leading role in the Paris Revolution.

However, the National Self-Defense Force has not obtained the establishment of a regular army, and the way to form the National Self-Defense Forces in various places is too childish. There is no fixed allocation, and even the National Self-Defense Forces in many places require people to pay for weapons and equipment out of their own pockets.

Therefore, at this time, the National Guard did not have its own fixed uniform.

However, the Constituent Assembly in Paris has begun to rectify the National Guard in the Paris area, and the standard blue military uniform has appeared.

In order to deal with Levi, the Brittany Regional Council, run by Wallace and his colleagues, also used the name of the National Guard to deceive... and called on many citizens to form the National Guard.

Because the appropriation is less, naturally there is no fixed standard military uniform!

If not, how could the province of Ille-Vilaine easily gather more than 1 field troops?

Obviously, these National Guards were used as cannon fodder by Wallace and his party, because they were the first teams to appear in Levi's field of vision, walking in the front row!

Apart from a blue, white and red military flag, there was no trace of any connection between these people and the army. They were no different from the rioting peasants who had armed themselves with muskets.

Except for the National Self-Defense Forces, the uniforms of other troops are not unified, because they are not the regular army of the Kingdom of France, but the local army and even the militia in various cities and towns.

Naturally, military uniforms vary from place to place.

The only thing that is the same is the flags they play, all blue, white and red tricolor flags.

This kind of flag first appeared in the Paris Revolution, and now it has become a spiritual symbol of the people's support for the achievements of the Great Revolution.

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Thanks to Ji Bingtian for the reward of 100 starting coins.

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