Make France Great Again

Chapter 122: Flattery of the Holy See

"Report to the commander, our army has occupied the passage to the inner city, and ask for the next step!"

The soldier in charge of conveying the order came to the front of Major General Reynio and saluted him and said.

"Tell Major Edgar Ney and order him to control the city gates to receive the troops into Rome!"

After giving the next order to the messenger, General Reño yawned and said to the artillery commander next to him: "If Major Edgar Ney reports again, tell him to rest. He should know my place!"

"Yes!" The artillery regiment responded quickly.

General Reño turned to leave, and he suddenly thought of something before he took a few steps, and he turned to face the artillery commander again.

"Commander!" The artillery commander was stunned for a moment and stared at Reno with puzzled eyes.

"Where is the map?" General Regnio ordered the artillery commander again.

The artillery commander hurriedly brought the map in front of General Reno, and ordered the soldiers beside him to bring a kerosene lamp for General Reno to illuminate.

Under the light of the kerosene lamp, Reño would use his rough hand to draw the map of Rome, frowning, he stopped his hand on a place marked by some gates and asked: "Can you tell me, this place where?"

The artillery commander was stunned for a moment, carefully checked the position where General Reño pointed his finger, and then looked at the city of Rome with the help of the moonlight. Rome did not seem to have the door that General Reño pointed to.

"Si... Commander... This may be because of the age!" The artillery commander carefully tried to explain: "This map is actually left over from the emperor's time. The emperor's era has been more than 30 years away from us. The change is also as it should be!"

"Should? You call this ought?" General Reynio raised his voice and criticized sternly: "Your sentence ought, may ruin the lives of many people!"

The artillery regiment commander lowered his eyebrows and did not dare to refute.

Since the emperor's abdication, the French army has not changed much, and even the basic intelligence work of the army is a mess.

If this continues, the entire French army will face a crisis.

Of course, in General Reigno's mind, this was just a small crisis for the French army, far from the danger of destroying the army.

All it takes is a little beating on them.

"Let Major Edgar Ney, Brigadier General Niel... complete the order and come to my residence later!" General Reigno said to the artillery commander, and he was going to command all the middle and high-level commanders in this expedition. All the officers were called over, and he wanted to rectify the freedom of the French army.

"Yes!" The artillery regiment commander, who did not dare to offend General Reynio, responded in a low voice.

"Align, here...here...and here give me a hard bang!" Reynio pointed to the city hall on the map and the surrounding landmark buildings and said to the artillery commander: "Give me a go! Get rid of their arrogance!"

After explaining all the situation, Regnio slowly descended the mountain under the protection of the soldiers, leaving only the artillery commander who obeyed General Regnio's orders.

June 2, 1849.

After a night of scuffles, the French army finally occupied the Roman city walls just before the sun reached the horizon, and Rome was exposed as the possession of France.

The Roman Republic is dead.

As the ruling Roman Republic, Mazzini escaped from Rome. There were only about 5,000 soldiers scattered in the streets of Rome under the leadership of Garibaldi. They were going to make this place another "Austria", draining the French army. every drop of blood.

Of course, France would not do as they wish. The artillery on Mount Yaniculum and the cannons on the Roman city wall had already been aimed at the city of Rome. Once there was movement in the streets of the city of Rome, the cannons would shoot the streets as soon as possible.

The soldiers who had been tired all night began to rest one after another under the orders of the "merciful" commanders.

The commander, who had also fought all night, was told by the artillery commander to go to General Reño's residence before he had time to make repairs.

The puzzled commanders could only forget their exhaustion for a while and head to General Reynio's temporary residence.

More than a dozen military commanders came to an apartment on the outskirts of Rome, passed through a unique garden, and faced the rising sun to the door of the apartment.

This apartment was originally a wealthy nobleman from Rome. After the establishment of the Roman Republic, the nobles fled in a hurry, and the apartment became an ownerless thing.

After the French army was stationed on the outskirts of Rome, the apartment became a French thing.

"The commander just fell asleep, you wait!" the soldier in charge of guarding the gate said to the commander present.

After the commanders looked at each other, they could only wait at the gate of the apartment.

After about half an hour, the door of the apartment slowly opened, and General Reño in the uniform of the First Empire appeared at the door.

Everyone except Edgar Ney showed surprised expressions.

"Come in!" Reynio waved to everyone, Edgar Ney and the others entered the hall.

The artworks in the hall have long since disappeared, leaving only a long table of walnut wood. On the long table is a simple sand table, and next to the sand table is a slightly yellowed map.

"You guys, great job!" General Reynio gave a thumbs up to everyone present.

"For the Empire!" Edgar Ney, who was excited, responded first.

"For the Empire!" The remaining commanders also shouted loudly.

After all, in an army that works from top to bottom, the commander is a Bonapartist. How could they not move closer to the commander.

The next action is crucial, which is directly related to their wallet.

If that Bonaparte could lead them to the same wealth as the emperor, they certainly wouldn't mind giving the president a center.

When everyone came to the front of the map, General Reño started a frenzy of dividing up.

"Brigadier General Niel, your next task is..." Niel, who was second only to General Reigno in the expeditionary force, won the beautiful job around the city hall, so that his peers cast him envious look.

"Colonel De Lacimeau, your mission is to eliminate the traitors in this area!" Reigno once again circled an area and handed it over to Colonel De Lacimus.

Colonel De Lacimus, who was second only to Colonel Niel, also smiled.

General Reño arranged for everyone present to clear the area of ​​"gangsters" in turn, and then said solemnly: "Everyone, I wish you all success!"

"Long live the president, long live the empire!" The satisfied officers cheered sincerely.

Reynio nodded with satisfaction, the effect of this expedition obviously exceeded his expectations.

It appears that the military's resistance to the president is not strong.

After the division was completed, General Reño informed every officer present about the map, and the officer's face showed a little shame.

After beating the officers, General Reño then warned: "I don't want to see situations where the labels in the pictures do not conform to reality in the future! Now I want to give you a task to give every street in the area you are responsible for. I marked it out on the map and put it together!"

"Yes!" the officers said in unison.

"Let's take a rest first! By the way, Brigadier General Niel is staying!" Regnio said kindly to all the commanders.

The commanding staff took orders to leave, and Brigadier General Niel was briefly confused for a few seconds and then stood up straight and obeyed General Reño's orders.

"Niel, sit down!" General Reño, who was sitting beside the map, warmly invited Niel to sit down.

"Yes!" Niel sat next to General Reno.

"Look, here...here, and here!" said General Reigno, pointing out several buildings to Niel: "These buildings were not there when I looked down at Rome from the heights of Mount Yanicurume. See!"

Brigadier General Niel instantly understood what General Reño meant: "General, do you want me to recheck the map of the suburbs of Rome?"

"That's right!" Reigno nodded and said to Niel: "You are the Paris Engineering School, and I will let them (the officers) put together the streets and buildings in the area they are in charge of and hand them over to you. You and your subordinates make a new map, we can't fight here with maps from decades ago, otherwise there will be trouble!"

"Yes!" Brigadier General Niel immediately took over the task of Major General Reigno. When he was at the Paris Institute of Engineering, he was a surveyor. If it weren't for some unexpected circumstances, he might have become the national engineer of the road and bridge troops. .

"Then take your troubles!" General Regnio said to Brigadier General Niel.

After Brigadier General Niel left, Regnio continued to stare at the map, and an absurd thought poured out of his mind.

Perhaps I should suggest to His Majesty that all maps should be remade.

General Reno did not know that what he was thinking about had already been carried out in an orderly manner in Jerome Bonaparte.

The time gradually came to 6 o'clock in the afternoon. The fiery red disc was slowly falling, and the French army, which had been repaired during the day, was reborn. They were gearing up to go deep into the Roman block and completely destroy Garibaldi's troops.

On the other hand, ~www.readwn.com~ General Reino's apartment also welcomed an "uninvited guest".

A sullen middle-aged man with a naturally curly face with a Chinese character in mind came to General Reno's villa in black tights and trousers, and said to General Reno with a pious expression, "God bless! General, You defeated the mob! Protected God!"

"Bishop Antonelli! I'm just following the order of Your Excellency the President!" General Reño said in a humble voice to the "big red man" Cardinal Antonelli next to Pius IX in front of him.

Antonelli, who was only 42 years old, gradually showed a kind smile and nodded and said: "Of course! Of course! Mr. President is really a pious person. I heard that he came to Rome as early as a year ago!"

Immediately, he showed a regretful expression: "But I was still visiting Naples at the time, and I didn't have the chance to visit Mr. President!"

General Reño did not speak, and waited quietly for Antonelli's performance.

"General Reigno, when will His Majesty the Pope be able to enter Rome?"

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