Chapter 221 General Frost Inspects the Sedan Fortress
Chapter 221 General Frost inspects Sedan Fortress
Although Louis XVII was only exiled, it still caused a fierce reaction from the royal party.
Of course, the royalists in Paris have either been exposed on the streets or are hiding. In short, Paris is still calm.
However, the surrounding cities and villages were not as stable as Paris. In many places, royalists gathered to massacre patriots.
The patriots and the National Guard were stimulated, and in turn arrested and tried a large number of royalists.
The compulsory conscription bill passed by the National Assembly had a very bad effect at this time. The compulsory conscription pushed many originally neutral farmers to the side of the royal party.
Previously, the Jacobins wanted to follow Anning's approach in the south to allocate land, but the bill was blocked by Louis XVII and could not be implemented. The farmers still had to pay for their own money to redeem their land. Now they are forced to perform military service, and they are directly dismissed.
Reached a dead end.
The funniest thing is that it was Louis XVII who was clearly blocking the land allocation bill, but the old farmers who didn't even know a few Chinese characters didn't care about this. They all thought that the National Assembly had taken away the king, which was why the situation was so bad.
In Paris, you can hear news of riots in new places every day, and the whole Paris is panicked.
At this time, An Ning was regarded as a life-saving straw by everyone. Wherever he went, Parisian people grabbed his hand and said: "It's all up to you, we are all counting on you!"
An Ning has been preparing for the upcoming decisive battle.
The Republic established the Ministry of War, and Lazarcano served as Minister of War on the recommendation of An Ning, taking charge of the training of the army.
The National Assembly also issued three decrees calling on patriots across the country to defend Paris, and troops composed of patriots continued to come to Paris from all over the country.
However, as the country fell into chaos, the number of troops from the northern region began to decrease sharply, while troops from the relatively stable south continued to arrive.
Anning repeatedly emphasized to Robespierre and others that this was the result of dividing the fields, and that the farmers were willing to join the army in order to defend the fields they had just obtained.
So on March 10, the Parliament once again passed a bill to confiscate the land of feudal nobles nationwide and distribute it to farmers.
Many members of the nobility voted against it, and then they were labeled as enemies of the Republic, traitors, and were quickly tried and executed.
Danton shouted loudly in parliament: "Now the Republic has reached its most dangerous moment. Only thorough ruthlessness and terror against the enemy can save the Republic!"
The guillotine was erected in Revolution Square, spreading terror day and night, and executing enemies of the Republic with astonishing efficiency.
Amidst this horror and bloodshed, a piece of news came.
The Prussian-Austrian forces finally crossed the French border.
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When the news came, An Ning was inspecting the Sedan Fortress.
He didn't know what the Sedan Fortress looked like in history, but the Sedan Fortress in this time and space was a very standard bastion fortress.
Several corners of the fortress were all built into prismatic shapes, and the shooting blind spots were filled with outwardly extending walls.
There are very deep trenches outside the fortress, and the defense of the entire fortress looks quite impregnable.
When An Ning inspected it, he felt that it would be impossible to win this fortress without a several-fold military advantage.
Relying on this fortress alone, I'm afraid there won't be much of a problem if we can defend it for a year.
After all, this is not a game like "European Universal Universalis 4", where you can spend military points equivalent to a general to break the fortress's defenses.
But when An Ning asked the fortress commanders and other professional defensive officers, they didn't look too optimistic.
An Ning asked them carefully and got a common sense from them: the main obstacles to holding on to every fortress are disease and lack of supplies.
The attacker only needs to attack fiercely for a period of time, cause enough casualties to the fortress defenders, and then continue to surround the fortress.
At that time, those corpses that the fortress defenders have no spare time to clean up will become the best breeding ground for diseases, and various plagues will soon be prevalent in the fortress.
In the old days when trebuchets were still used, the Mongolian army would even throw corpses into fortified cities to trigger plagues.
Nowadays, no one uses trebuchets, but the casualty rate in war is much higher than before.
Of course, there are various medicines stored in the fortress, but the medicines of this era can basically only play a comforting role, and not much is really useful.
In addition, just defending the city does not lead to victory.
To win, you can only defeat the enemy in a field battle.
The officers of the fortress are not like An Ning. They don't know Lazar Cano's abilities, and naturally they don't know that the Ministry of War will form a terrifying number of new troops by July this year.
Therefore, the officers of the fortress were pessimistic about the outcome of the war.
After an inspection, An Ning made a decisive decision to remove the chief officer of the fortress.
Then he appointed the ambitious Napoleon as acting commander of the Sedan fortress.
Napoleon was best at commanding artillery. Generally, artillery officers would minor in military engineering. Napoleon had learned military engineering very well when he was in school, so An Ning safely handed over the entire fortress to Napoleon.
Also handed over to Napoleon were five thousand fresh troops.
"You are only acting commander now," An Ning said to Napoleon. "When this war is over, I will promote you to brigadier general!"
Napoleon was overjoyed: "You have decided! When the time comes, you will let me command an army!"
An Ning wanted to laugh: Napoleon told me, "When the time comes, you will let me command an army." Compared with you in another time and space, you are too unambitious.
An Ning: "No problem, you will have an army when the time comes! You can even have a legion! But you have to let me hold this fortress."
Napoleon: "Am I the only one? No one will cooperate with me?"
"Of course there will be. Lana's division will harass the enemy near you, and La Salle, I will have his cavalry harass the enemy's supply lines like the wind."
Napoleon: "That's no problem!"
He paused and said with a smile: "I still hope to attend your wedding."
An Ning: "My wedding is just about the end of this war. That is, until we go to Vienna and capture the old witch and the locksmith!"
Napoleon: "Just thinking about it makes people's hearts beat! I said, Andy, are you just going to bring that locksmith and his wife back for trial? Don't you think the Holy Roman Empire is an eyesore? We should build it
A new Rome!"
Napoleon complained a lot when the National Assembly decided on the national flag and national emblem of the Republic.
This Roman fan wants a red flag with gold, not a tricolor.
The flag of Rome should have been gold on a red background.
In the end, An Ning had no choice but to agree to Napoleon. After his army became famous, when he chose his own military flag, he would be given a Roman eagle with a red background and gold pattern.
Unexpectedly, Napoleon was now thinking about the "HRE" again: "This country is too annoying. If we attack Vienna, we have to disband it! Why does the Habsburg coward have a crown, even France doesn't have one?"
Woolen cloth!"
An Ning thought for a while and nodded: "Indeed, we will solve the illegal organization of Shinra by then!"