18th century total war

Chapter 94

With such a 'rounding up', the victory of Li Wei's rebels became a victory purely by crowd tactics in the eyes of the people in other regions.

As for Li Wei's political tendency of trying to restore the old aristocratic system and going against public opinion, how did he pull up so many troops...

The Paris government has made a very logical explanation in this regard-it was the old nobles who were unwilling to lose their privileges and brought their own serfs to join the Li Wei rebels, which made the Li Wei rebels powerful!

This set of rhetoric let alone the ordinary illiterate civilian class, even many middle class people have been fooled.

Only well-informed big capitalists and the upper class know Li Wei's true strength.

This is 'politics'!
The word politics, to put it bluntly, means that the people above control public opinion and manipulate public opinion.

Of course, in the backward Middle Ages, politics had little to do with public opinion, and mainly looked at the relationship between enfeoffing nobles and the king.

But in the Kingdom of France after the Paris Revolution, politics has been firmly bound to public opinion.

It is precisely because of this huge change that the monarchies all over Europe are panicking.

When the universal spirit that public opinion is higher than the authority of the monarch spread throughout Europe, the absolute monarchy system came to an end.

"Ruined!

Completely finished!
I was unlucky enough to be the target of the black dragon army..."

"Sir, they should be called Levi's Rebels, or Black Dragon Rebels, not Black Dragon Legion..."

After the adjutant next to Captain Wright heard his captain's slip of the tongue, he quickly glanced around and warned in a low voice.

After the Senawi plenipotentiary speaker above became a 'cold man', everyone had a lot of scruples about speech.

Openly calling the army established by Li Wei, a rebel, a so-and-so legion, wouldn't it put it on the same political status as the Kingdom of France?
This is a political mistake!

If it reaches Seineville's ears, it will be considered normal if he is spanked to the end!
"Yes, you are right.

Send someone to tell the soldiers in front that the Li Wei rebels have nothing to fear. The trenches in front of the fortifications are wide and deep, and there are a lot of repelling horses and wooden fences. Just fire normally and you'll be able to beat them back! "

Captain Wright touched the cold sweat on his forehead, and gave instructions to the adjutant who reminded him.

Of course, the lieutenant adjutant, who was Captain Wright's confidant, could not do the dangerous work of issuing orders himself.

Then he called a second lieutenant and asked him to deliver the order!
Afterwards, the second lieutenant skillfully pulled over a sergeant chief and conveyed the order...

In this way, in the end, an ignorant and ignorant recruit who stood guard below took on the dangerous task of passing orders, and ran to the chest fortification not far ahead.

At this time, the field artillery behind the line of defense finally let out a roar, and bombarded the infantrymen who had approached to 200 meters away from the first chest line of defense.

His own artillery rang, which made Captain Wright feel a little more at ease.

Artillery is the courage of the army in this era!
Whoever has the artillery advantage on the battlefield can suppress the opponent in momentum!
It's a pity that the field artillery on the first line of defense is placed too far back. I don't know if it is for the convenience of quickly retreating to the second line of defense when something goes wrong.

When the infantrymen were within 200 meters of the first chest line of defense, they could barely enter the maximum range of the field artillery behind the first line of defense.

It is the maximum range, not the maximum effective range!
The aim of the smoothbore guns of this era is not reliable, and it has not been bombarded with an effective range. One can imagine where those solid iron balls flew...

Captain Wright looked left and right, looked up and down, but he didn't see his own shells flying into the ranks of Levi's rebels!

However, the sound of cannons came one after another, and the own artillery behind was obviously firing with great enthusiasm. My ears would not deceive me!

Captain Wright turned around with a puzzled face, looked towards the rear, and could still see the curling white smoke emerging from a large number of artillery fires far behind.

"Strange, what are those artillerymen fighting for?"

Captain Wright's forehead was full of question marks, and as Li Wei's Black Dragon Legion Guard infantry battle line quickly drew closer, the question marks immediately turned into exclamation points!

It's over!

Their own artillery was bombarded with honey, and the attacking Li Wei rebel troops did not suffer any losses at all, and they were close to their own positions!
Vaguely, Captain Wright even heard the beating of drums between the phalanxes of Levi's rebel battle lines that were visible to the naked eye.

Captain Wright didn't know if it was his own illusion and auditory hallucination...

The adjutant next to Captain Wright looked at his own officer from time to time. As an old man who followed Captain Wright, he felt that the sweat on the temples of Captain Wright was not a big problem at all.

My boss is still standing here without turning around and preparing to run away. He is already very brave!

However, this adjutant did not despise Captain Wright's behavior at all. Only after going through enough battles will he know how precious life is. With this kind of officer, he can live a long time on the battlefield!

He didn't die in the American War of Independence, thanks to the leadership of Captain Wright, who was not a captain at that time, because he was 'smart' enough to escape from the guns of the British again and again.

Of course, it is precisely because Captain Wright's previous record is too "brilliant", after France sold everything he could to fight the Continental War of Independence, Wright, who had just been promoted to captain, retired honorably...

The downsized French regular army doesn't need Captain Wright's little life-saving expert on the battlefield!

And because of Li Wei's sudden rise, Wright, who had experience in the American War of Independence and retired with the rank of captain, naturally received a call-up order from the Normandy regional government.

Originally, a veteran officer like him had to be promoted at least one rank to join the provincial coalition army in the nature of a local army.

However, Captain Wright's personal record was too impressive, so his superiors suppressed Captain Wright's normal promotion!

This made Captain Wright very disappointed. After all, after becoming a major, he could justifiably stay in the rear. With his extraordinary wit, even if all the Levi rebels were muscular men, they could still save their lives!
However, although Captain Wright is greedy for life and afraid of death, he is not stupid. For example, he is already sweating profusely, but he keeps restraining himself from standing here.

If he runs away at this time, he will 100% be caught by the military law team!

After all, there are two lines of defense behind...

Therefore, Captain Wright is praying to God at this time, hoping that when the soldiers under his command can resist until the whole line is defeated, he can get out in a fair manner!
(End of this chapter)