18th century total war

Chapter 93 Where Are Our Cannons?
"Damn it!
Where are our artillery?

Why are we always being beaten? I remember that we have more than a dozen cannons than the Levi rebels! "

A frontline lieutenant roared wildly at the communications soldier.

It wasn't that he was burning with anger, but that the battlefield was full of rumbling guns, and the other party might not be able to hear clearly without shouting, even if the distance between the two sides was not far.

The communications soldiers on the battlefield are the most well-informed arms, and they often know more than the lieutenant officers who stick to one place on the front line.

The communication name who was held by Captain Wright had a bitter face. Anyone who was suddenly grabbed by the collar under artillery fire would not be in a good mood.

However, before the communications soldier got angry, he saw the opponent's epaulettes, so he became a 'bitter face'...

A captain is not a petty officer. In fact, as long as he reaches the rank of lieutenant officer, he can be regarded as the number one figure in the army. Even a second lieutenant often has a "follower" under his command.

Because the second lieutenant is the threshold of the officer and the soldier, and the captain goes up to the middle-level officer of the major, which is another huge leap.

Therefore, it is extremely difficult for a captain to be promoted to a major, causing many 'senior' captains to spend several years, ten years or even a lifetime in this rank...

The senior captain who has been in the army for a long time has God knows how many backers behind him.

After all, the kind of captain who has no background and can't make connections usually won't stay for too long.

This made the unfamiliar captains in the French army a group of people who should not be easily provoked. Even the officers with the rank of major would not yell at a captain without knowing his background and acquaintances.

Therefore, when the communications soldier saw the other party's captain's rank, he immediately acted like a rabbit.

You must know that the signal soldier is different from the ordinary line infantry. This branch is safe and easy to contact with various superior officers. Its status in the army is not comparable to that of ordinary private soldiers.

Even so, after seeing Captain Wright, the communications soldier became very considerate and explained conscientiously: "Sir, our artillery positions are in the rear, and we cannot bombard the artillery positions of the Li Wei rebels.

Now the Levi rebels are not attacking, so our artillery has no targets within range to shoot. "

Captain Wright was slightly taken aback when he heard this, and he really wanted to ask, which artillery position was it that was stupidly unarmed?

But after thinking about it, no matter which idiot gave the order, he can kill this little captain with one finger, so he should save some morals...

At this moment, Captain Wright suddenly felt the gunfire stop, and then he heard his adjutant running towards him from a long distance, gesticulating and shouting: "Levi's rebels are attacking!"

Captain Wright no longer cared about the communication soldier in front of him, and hurriedly followed his adjutant to the first line of chest fortifications, while the communication soldier fled away without looking back.

After Captain Wright came to the chest fortification, the soldiers and officers who passed by along the way all straightened up and saluted or greeted him loudly.

In order to enhance the combat effectiveness of the army, Senawi Plenipotentiary Speaker moved everything closer to the regular army, and the strict superior-subordinate relationship in the regular army was sorted out very smoothly.

Superiors almost have the power to punish subordinates in any way, and it is not impossible to punish them first, as long as sufficient reasons and evidence can be given afterwards.

Because of this, the morale of the Normandy regional and provincial coalition forces in the first line of defense is not high, but they still stick to their respective posts, and there are no deserters in sight.

Captain Wright inspected the chest fortification and found that it had been filled with soldiers under his command. He left the chest fortification with satisfaction and hid in the safe rear fortification.

This can be regarded as the privilege of Captain Wright, and his confidant adjutant and several guards naturally followed him into the safe rear fortification.

The so-called rear fortification is a small chest barrier built on a small high point. The field of vision here is very good, but there is only a breast wall in front as a shelter, which has no defensive value at all.

Once the chest fortifications in front are breached, this position has no defensive value. The only purpose is to facilitate the officers staying here to see that something is wrong, so they can take the lead in escaping...

This is not the first time Captain Wright has done this. When he was at the border defense line, he ran away with his troops as soon as he saw the black dragon battle flag!

Since most of the troops that Captain Wright brought into Caen's headquarters survived, they were not even held accountable for fleeing without a fight. They continued to serve as his captain and were supplemented with a group of enthusiastic recruits...

In Captain Wright's vision, the defense area he was in charge of was unfortunately included in the main attack area of ​​the line infantry (guard infantry) of the Li Wei rebel army.

Thousands of infantry guards spread out evenly, and there was no strategic depth, as if they were not at all worried about being outflanked by cavalry.

How confident is this!
However, Captain Wright felt that this scene was justified. The prestige of Levi's rebels had already been well-known in the Battle of Rennes, the Border Battle of the Normandy Region, and the Border Battle of the Loire Region. From a military point of view, compared with the The French regular army is not weak at all.

Of course, only a few people know the military perspective, such as Captain Wright, who was personally 'defeated' once.

Politically, the Paris government has been sparing no effort to publicize the injustice of Livy's rebels and their bandit-like fighting power...

For those who have never personally seen Li Wei's infantry guards, the Paris government's propaganda is reasonable. Li Wei was originally the son of a baron of a middle-class noble family. How strong can the army that was built in a hurry be?
As for Li Wei's various victories, they were deliberately weakened by the Paris government in their propaganda.

For example, exaggerating the strength of the Li Wei rebels participating in the battle, the Li Wei rebels with thousands of people, doubled ten times to tens of thousands, isn't it an exaggeration!

The number of rioting farmers in many large regions adds up to tens of thousands!

It's just that after these rioting peasants robbed the noble castle, they broke up on their own.

After strengthening the strength of Li Wei's rebel army in the propaganda, the strength of the government army was weakened.

In fact, there is no need to weaken it. As long as a fraction of the actual strength of the government army is removed, it is not shameful to defeat the Li Wei rebels who have increased tenfold.

All illiterates know the truth that two fists are no match for four hands!

It's just that the calculation method of removing the "fraction" in the propaganda of the Paris government is not very mathematical. The Paris government directly removed the later reorganized National Guard, township militia, and city police as a fraction...

These people are not the troops responsible for combat, and the people below will not be aware of it.

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(End of this chapter)