The Crescent of the Sultan

Chapter 148 Proud Napoleon

Unlike Peter's worries, Napoleon's life can be said to be quite comfortable.

When he took over as governor of Lyon, he was already semi-alienated from Paris.

And Paris is a forgetful city. The disappearance of Napoleon will not make him nostalgic. She will always only fall into the arms of the heroes of the time.

Robespierre and Roland were still quarreling.

General Dumouriez's victory in the Austrian Netherlands caused Roland to lose face, but Duke Biron suffered a defeat in Italy.

Roland sent people several times to invite Napoleon to command the army in battle, but Napoleon always found excuses to refuse.

This made Roland particularly angry, but he was unable to trouble Napoleon, and he couldn't trouble Napoleon at this time.

Robespierre put more and more pressure on him, and Napoleon was so powerful that he even had to beg him.

After all, Lyon may already be above Paris at this time, and the sans-culottes, or the Paris citizens represented by this group of people, are not easy to deal with.

They are not completely succumbing to the rule of any faction, but trying to express their own needs.

Under this situation, the order in Paris was not easy to maintain, and small-scale shocks and riots occurred almost every day.

These events severely damaged Paris's self-sufficiency. At the same time, except for Lyon, which was under the supervision of Napoleon, and the hometowns of the revolutionary party bosses, the chaos caused by the revolution still did not stop in the provincial areas.

Taking the army as an example, before the Republic's military reorganization work was carried out, we could see that various armed forces of different structures were mixed in French society.

The various armed forces not only have superficial differences in their organization, demands, and uniforms, but also have innate opposition due to differences in composition and interests. During the entire revolution, annexation and cannibalism among them are very common.

Even among the armed forces belonging to the same new regime, there are conflicts caused by various reasons.

The confrontation between the armed forces of different organizations was only one of the manifestations of the internal divisions in the French armed forces at this time. It was also manifested within the troops of the same organization.

After the Revolutionary War broke out, there was a confrontation between veterans and new recruits within the troops sent to the front line.

In the original time and space, this matter could not be basically resolved until the spring of 1794, when large-scale mixing work was carried out.

Prior to this, veterans in the revolutionary army mostly referred to soldiers who had served in the army for a long time. Most of them had served in the army since the old times, with low military pay and strict military discipline. Their consciousness and habits retained the pre-revolutionary elements, and they wore wave-like clothes. The white military uniform, the symbol of the royal family, is called the "god White Army".

Most of the recruits come from the revolutionary volunteer army and the conscription system. They have a high sense of identification with the revolution and the republic. They have high military salaries and are weakly bound by military discipline. They wear blue military uniforms that symbolize the revolution. They are called "vulnerable blues" by veterans because of their lack of qualifications and experience. military".

The opposition between the two often leads to quarrels and fights between the two parties.

The antagonism between veterans and recruits is only one kind of contradiction between soldiers. Different hometowns and different social compositions also add obstacles to the inability of the troops to form a united fighting force.

Therefore, the work of military reorganization is imperative, but strong resistance makes the work impossible to carry out under normal circumstances. The Gironde government was a staunch war party before the outbreak of the war, but it was unable to implement reorganization after the outbreak of the war. The mixing of military forces,

Therefore, the mixed work bill passed in February 1793 had to wait until the Jacobin government implemented extreme policies before it was implemented in the spring of 1794, and it achieved immediate results.

However, in this time and space, Roland's rapid seizure of power within the Girondins allowed him to leak a lot of loopholes in front of Robespierre, and ultimately the dominance of French politics fell into the latter's hands.

But even Robespierre could only temporarily curb the skyrocketing prices in Paris. The follow-up tasks still need to complete the counter-insurgency in various parts of France and repel the foreign intervention forces.

This required Napoleon's action. The British and Dutch intervention forces surrounded Dunkirk, an important port in northern France, from the north. The Prussian-Austrian coalition crossed the northeastern border of France, captured Mainz, forced the landing of local republican troops, and then surrounded Dunkirk. Waleng Er'en Fortress.

This road can still be solved by General Dumouriez. After all, his performance in northern France is still very good, and the siege of Varengen Fortress can still be solved.

But on the southern front, the army of the Kingdom of Sardinia crossed the Alps from the east and approached Grenoble, the capital of Isère province, followed closely by the Austrian army.

The Duke of Biron joined the Girondins at the behest of the Duke of Conde-Bourbon and was ordered to fight the Austrian and Sardinian armies. As a result, he was severely defeated in Italy.

Although this was not the case at his level, it was a pity that during the battle, he deliberately put the Blue Army in front to create opportunities for the White Army.

They were originally inexperienced, but they were put in the front by the commander. In this case, the Blue Army felt that they were being used as cannon fodder, so they dispersed as soon as the fight started, resulting in a huge defeat.

If Napoleon hadn't commanded the army to meet Duke Biron at that time and forced the Austro-Saharan coalition back, it is estimated that these people would have gone on a killing spree in France.

In southwestern France, the Spanish army crossed the Eastern Pyrenees from the southwest and approached Perpignan, the capital of the Roussillon region.

What's even more serious is that under the signal of the Duke of Condé-Bourbon, the royalists entrenched in Toulon directly led the wolf into the house.

In order to prevent the government forces from occupying Toulon and in exchange for the asylum of the British army, they directly handed over the Toulon Fortress and the French Mediterranean Fleet with more than 30 ships to the British and Spanish, thereby freeing the British and Spanish troops. Toulon was easily captured with a single shot.

Toulon is the largest military port in France and one of the important ports in France, responsible for the important task of importing grain.

Not only that, Toulon is only 65 kilometers away from Marseille, and British and Spanish troops may attack Marseille at any time.

After experiencing the incident of Duke Biron, both Roland and Robespierre finally decided to send Napoleon to send troops

Although Lyon, where Napoleon was located, had faintly surpassed Paris at this time and was in danger of becoming bigger.

But they had no choice. Duke Biron's performance was too bad. It was not that the other armies were missing, but they were just worried. After all, neither the Girondins nor the Accords could afford the risk of losing Marseille.

For Napoleon, with the support of the royalists, he led the army to quickly restore order in Lyon. Coupled with the advantage of his governance and the north-south connection of Lyon, the city quickly regained its vitality.

At the same time, he also made great efforts to recruit various scientists and engineers, and vigorously introduced advanced machinery, which led to the rapid development of Lyon's industry at this time.

But this is not enough. He needs political influence and expansion of his territory. At this time, Marseille and Toulon have already come to his door. Why shouldn't he?

The general patted the officer next to him, whom he had taken away from the Fifth Cavalry Regiment, and said.

"Nei, are you ready?

We are going to defend France. "

The officer looked at the general riding on the tall horse with envy and said.

"Yes, General."

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