18th century total war

Chapter 48
Although the blue, white and red tricolor flag has not been designated as the national flag by the Constituent Assembly of the Kingdom of France, it has been spread throughout the Kingdom of France, and the National Self-Defense Force in Paris has directly identified it as its own military flag.

At this time, the National Self-Defense Force in Paris was completely different from the regular army of the Kingdom of France. It was even completely different from the city guards in Paris, the security forces in the countryside, the police force and other armed organizations.

There have been voices in the Constituent Assembly wanting to disarm the National Guard and outlaw this unnecessary army.

In the eyes of some bigwigs, the Great Revolution is over, and there is no need to spend a large amount of additional military expenditures to maintain the National Self-Defense Forces.

Even the National Guard is the staunch guardian of the revolution.

Today, those who earn the fruits of the Paris Revolution are the big bourgeois bankers, liberal aristocrats, speculators and other upper-class people who have come from behind the scenes to the foreground. They are either powerful or rich!

Naturally, some people do not want the National Self-Defense Force, which is mainly composed of Paris citizens, to continue to exist, even if the current National Self-Defense Force generals are all from the upper class and obey the orders of the Constituent Assembly.

The fruits of the Paris Revolution have now been completely plundered by the top leaders of the Kingdom of France. Even the National Guard, which served as the vanguard in the Revolution, has been controlled by Lafayette and others and has become a sharp blade for power struggle.

The blue, white and red tricolor flags represent different meanings, and blue represents the city government during the Great Revolution, that is, order.

In the Great Revolution, the city government was on the side of the revolution!

Red represents freedom and the people, and blue and red are actually the colors of the emblem of the Paris City Government.

White was added later. After the surrender and compromise of Louis XVI, the constitutional monarchy led by Lafayette proposed to add white to the flag representing the revolution, forming the current blue, white and red tricolor flag.

The background color of the royal flag of the Kingdom of France is white!

This shows how powerful the constitutional monarchy is in the constitutional assembly today.

If it were not for the protection of the constitutional monarchy, Louis XVI would have been unable to restore the identity and rights of the king.

The constitutional monarchists want to imitate the political situation in Britain to reorganize the state power and jointly manage the whole of France with the king.

It's a pity that the constitutional monarchists were too idealistic. On the one hand, they recognized the achievements of the revolution, deprived Louis XVI of the rights granted by the absolute monarchy, and only reserved part of the king's rights for Louis XVI, which made Louis XVI very dissatisfied.

And because he defended King Louis XVI, he offended those revolutionary parties who wanted to imitate the establishment of a republican system in the United States, and neither side was appeased!
This is also the reason why the constitutional monarchy is still unable to control the overall situation despite the fact that the constitutional monarchy is dominant in the constitutional convention, and there are endless voices of opposition.

Levi sighed helplessly when he saw the uniform blue, white, and red tricolor flags across the street.

He doesn't know about other places, but Li Wei knows that the Brittany region has become a die-hard supporter of the Paris Revolution at this time, otherwise there would not be so many miscellaneous troops using the blue, white and red tricolor flags.

This is not good news. It means that the bourgeoisie represented by Wallace, the speaker of the parliament of the Brittany region, has more power and influence in the Brittany region than it has shown!
The biggest beneficiary group of the Paris Revolution is the French bourgeoisie. The beneficiaries of the Revolution...

If the people at the bottom really benefited, the revolution would not have won. Until now, there are still a large number of civilians and farmers who can’t get enough to eat!

It is no exaggeration to say that the living standards of the French bourgeois and peasant classes have not improved much compared to before the revolution. The rioting peasants did burn a large number of contracts, but this was not enough for them to get much bread.

The bourgeoisie in the cities are even more miserable. They have no chance to rob the castles of the nobles. The bourgeoisie is different from the peasantry. The peasants are mainly oppressed by the fiefdom nobles and church forces, while the bourgeois factory owners are mostly oppressed by the citizens.

Now that the bourgeoisie is in power, how can it be possible to improve the social welfare of workers?

Of course, the bourgeoisie are not all fools. As time goes by, more and more ordinary citizens have noticed something is wrong.

The brain can be fooled, but the stomach can't fool people. The revolution has been successful, why do they still not have enough to eat?
Therefore, the seemingly harmonious city of Paris is actually full of undercurrents, and various secret clubs emerge in endlessly, and pubs and clubs have become gathering places for those petty bourgeoisie and intellectuals.

These people are not particularly rich, they live in the same place as ordinary citizens, and they have brains, and they are most aware of the annoyance in the hearts of ordinary citizens today.

Moreover, this kind of people has no worries about eating and drinking, has received various ideological shocks, whether for ideals or pure ambition, they are all forming parties together and conspiring to set off a second revolution!
The bourgeoisie without enough to eat is the best cannon fodder, and any smart person can see it!
This is also the reason why the National Self-Defense Force has not been disbanded by the Constituent Assembly for a long time and can receive military pay.

The leaders of the Constituent Assembly are worried that once the civilian armed forces who have seen blood in the National Self-Defense Force are disbanded, they will become the main force of the second revolution!

The Declaration of Human Rights pleases the people, but it cannot solve the people's food problem for a long time, and it will explode sooner or later.

Of course, this is not something that Wallace and his party need to worry about now.

If the second revolution really broke out, the densely populated and economically developed city of Paris would definitely be the first eruption point.

The artillery of the Black Dragon Legion has moved to the front row, and the line infantry under Li Wei's command formed a company square, walking forward slowly, with military music and drums playing endlessly.

More than a dozen artillery pieces moved forward in the gaps between the company phalanxes.

However, the Ille-Vilaine Legion on the opposite side, already relying on a three-to-one force advantage, expanded into a semi-enclosed large circle, wrapping towards Li Wei's Black Dragon Army.

At the same time, cavalry teams were cruising around the periphery, compressing the space for the Black Dragon Legion to move.

The advantage of the Ille-Vilaine Legion is too great, there is no need for any tactics at all, just press up and envelop the Black Dragon Legion, and eat it forcibly.

As the Ille-Vilaine Corps appeared on the horizon and fully expanded, Li Wei found that the number of the enemy's left and right wings and the three armies of the Central Army were no less than that of his own Black Dragon Corps.

In other words, no matter which direction the Black Dragon Legion attacks, the enemies they encounter are similar.

As the distance got closer, the direct-fired field artillery began to deploy on the spot, and the infantry's footsteps had not stopped, and the roaring artillery battle broke out suddenly.

(End of this chapter)