18th century total war

Chapter 84 Confrontation
"It's a really sad story."

In the office on the top floor of the Municipal Government of Rennes, Brittany, Li Wei put down the report on the failed escape of Louis XVI and muttered to himself.

It has been two years since Li Wei raised his troops, and the Brittany region has all surrendered to Li Wei's rule. Although there are still some guerrillas who are still loyal to the Paris government to sabotage, the Brittany region is generally It has become Li Wei's speech.

Wallace's business alliance has greatly accelerated Levi's control of the Brittany region. Since Wallace and his party met with Levi, Wallace still has several important allies. Inspired by Li Wei.

Since then, the propaganda and money disintegration of Wallace's business alliance in the Brittany region, and the increasingly powerful Black Dragon Army soldiers under Li Wei's command outside the Brittany region, the four provinces have never been able to organize even an effective one. Resist.

Under Li Wei's promise not to plunder the city, the entire Brittany region is almost "decided".

The joke-like new council of the Brittany region announced its closure two months ago.

However, Li Wei's control is still slightly insufficient, and the way the traditional aristocrats who have taken refuge in controlling the vast rural areas has gaps as Li Wei's territory grows larger and larger.

After all, not every traditional noble who took refuge brought with him a large amount of wealth or even a bodyguard.

Sometimes, when they took the enfeoffment documents issued by Li Wei to the corresponding villages to swear their sovereignty, they would be thrown out by the mob...

The peasants who are used to freedom and no debt burden are very disgusted with the serfs who have become nobles again!

Of course, where there are mobs, there are obedient people. Under Li Wei's military power, villages and towns with relatively open terrain have accepted Li Wei's enfeoffment and rule, but those villages in mountainous areas and jungles often organize militia guerrillas to fight against those nobles. Armed to fight to the end!

And Li Wei was unwilling to spend precious troops to drill into the valleys to fight endless security wars, so even if the guerrillas in the Brittany region did not become powerful, they still could not be wiped out.

Li Wei's method of preserving strength is still rewarding, and now he has consumed all the glory points. Since Wallace and his party surrendered, Li Wei has never fought a serious battle, and naturally no glory points have been recorded.

As for the guerrillas who drilled into the valleys to encircle and suppress the guerrillas, those guerrillas also knew the power of the Black Dragon Army, which fully explained what is called the tactics of the enemy advancing and retreating, the enemy retreating and disturbing, and did not give Li Wei a chance to fight head-on!
This is also one of the reasons why Li Wei temporarily gave up the encirclement and suppression of the guerrillas.

Today, Li Wei has more than 18500 infantry guards and more than 600 sharpshooters.

17 points of glory, only one point is used to train sharpshooters, and the rest is thrown into the infantry guards.

The obedience of the Brittany region has allowed Li Wei not to lose many brainwashed soldiers in the past two years.

On the contrary, the enfeoffed nobles armed and killed many people.

There is no way, Li Wei is only responsible for dividing the fiefs, not for arranging armed forces for them. The nobles should use collateral loans from the banks under the Wallace Business Alliance, and then hire foreign mercenary teams to 'receive' the fiefdoms.

Otherwise, you can only rely on your own family guards to fight.

Of course, some aristocrats have a lot of floating wealth, so they don't need loans.

This is a very good time, as long as you have enough money, it is equivalent to having a decent army.

Under the large number of European countries adopting the standing army system, mercenaries had to find other bosses to make a living, so the rich and powerful became the first choice targets.

Li Wei has developed so well, apart from his own efforts and Wallace bringing him a big gift package, the most important support is foreign forces, to be precise, the British shit-stirring stick is powerful enough!
From the beginning of the Paris Revolution, the British shit-stirring saw his century-old friend-France was about to enter an era of chaos and weakness, and then began to combine vertical and horizontal foreign policies.

I have to say that the British guy, who has a group of smart people in the parliament to advise, has done a very good job in diplomacy.

First, it took advantage of the identity and tragic experience of Louis XVI's wife, Queen Mary, to win the sympathy of the Austrian Habsburg royal family and pull the powerful Austria into the chariot.

Then it influenced the Holy Roman Empire through Austria, and several powerful states close to France were also brought to the negotiation table!

Finally, the Dutch region and the Belgian region were pulled into the chariot again!

On the moral high ground, the British used the sacred and inviolable power of the king as an excuse to denounce the rampant behavior of the people of Paris and those revolutionaries.

Then he promised a lot of profits and hinted to many countries that once we help Louis XVI, the little fat man, bring the French Kingdom back to the normal track, Louis XVI will definitely remember everyone's kindness, and won't we just ask for a price at that time?
what?
Worried about Louis XVI bargaining?

how could it be possible!
When we help Louis XVI return to the throne, we must have marched into Paris. Our army has entered the city of Paris. Does Louis XVI still have the courage to bargain?
It's as simple as that, the British did not send a single soldier, relying on their three-inch tongue and some trade concessions, they gathered soldiers on the eastern border of the Kingdom of France!
The Habsburg family of Austria, whose relatives were trapped in Paris, was the most active, dispatching the largest number of troops, and implicitly becoming the leader of the coalition forces.

Naturally, the Paris government of the Kingdom of France faced so many foreign troops marching on the border. Even if they did not declare war, but only issued various protests and condemnation warnings, they did not dare to take it lightly. Most of the regular troops stationed around the city of Paris were transferred to the borders line stationed.

Defense against foreign enemies!

As a result, Li Wei was relieved. The French regular army that was originally used to suppress him, because the British, a shit-stirring stick, all confronted the foreign coalition forces headed by Austria.

Of course, the Paris government did not ignore Li Wei, a rebel, and still mobilized a small number of regular troops. Together with the provincial coalition forces in the Normandy region and the Loire region near Brittany, Chen Bing was in Brittany. The border of the Nigerian region to prevent Li Wei from attacking with the Black Dragon Army.

Today, most of the brainwashing corps under Li Wei's command are not in the city of Rennes, but at several defensive nodes on the border of the Brittany region, confronting the troops of the Paris government.

In the past two years, Li Wei has been busy accumulating strength, so he has not taken the initiative to launch an attack. The Paris government has poor military quality and is worried about repeating the mistakes of the previous coalition forces in the Brittany region, so it has been in a defensive posture and chose Soft persimmons are pinched first.

In the past two years when Li Wei was developing with peace of mind, the rebels in the Vendée region were beaten to death by the Paris government...

(End of this chapter)