; "The forces we have concentrated in Dijon this time are huge, so that no matter how the enemy comforts himself, but at least having such a strong force as ours here will become a thorn in the hearts of the rebels, I can conclude that the Marquis de Lafayette will lead the main force to hide in Lyon as long as the situation is not good, and then rely on the strong city defense of Lyon to resist our attack, but in this way, it will be the worst outcome for us!"
"Our soldiers have a quality that the rebels are far from matching, if on a frontal battlefield, I believe that a well-armed squadron can crush the rebels of thousands of people, but once the rebels hide in the city, then we have to face the battle for the city, and once that time comes, the buildings in the city will become the enemy's helpers and strangle the lives of our soldiers!"
"So our goal is to paralyze the enemy, to make the enemy think that they can destroy us with their large forces and then sweep the whole country, as long as we draw such a blueprint for the rebels, I believe that the rebels will attack us desperately, and in this way, we can defeat the enemy with our superiority" "Fifty thousand against one hundred thousand, it seems to be an overwhelming advantage, but in fact, it is not, we are 50,000 fully equipped and fully armed troops, and the other side is just a mob army that has just captured the city for less than a month, it is completely impossible to expect those mobs to defeat our Jing Rui army in a frontal battle."
"So we have to fail, and through small defeats to achieve the effect of paralyzing the enemy, not only let the enemy belittle our combat effectiveness in the heart.
And it can also breed pride in the rebels, and when the time comes, if only one of them surprises and paralyzes the arrogant rebels, they will surely become our defeated men!
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"Bang Bang Bang" Napoleon had just finished his opinion.
The Marquis of Creech, who was sitting across from him, snapped his applause, apparently Napoleon's idea had made the Marquis find a new idea, although both the Marquis and Napoleon had the idea of luring the rebels to a decisive battle outside the city, but Napoleon came up with the idea and the Marquis did not, which made Creech have to applaud Napoleon's wisdom.
"Very well, Napoleon, you said it very well!"
"Thank you, Your Excellency, Marquis, for the compliment!"
As he spoke, Napoleon respectfully saluted the Marquis de Creech.
But at this moment, the marquis frowned and said: "What do you think we should do to paralyze the enemy?"
"This, Your Excellency the Marquis.
I think that this time our army went to Lyon, it was completely possible to let the soldiers of the city defense army drawn from all over the country form a vanguard army, and the mission of this vanguard army is not to cut through obstacles for our army, but to let the rebels see the hope of defeating our army, and because these city defense troops and our Second Army and Nancy's army are two systems, so the heavy damage of the rebels to the city defense army will not weaken our morale to a greater extent.
On the contrary, we can use the example of the vanguard as a negative teaching material to encourage the main army to forge ahead."
While saying this.
The expression on Napoleon's face was unusually indifferent, but it was this indifference that made Creech feel as if the temperature around his body had dropped by more than ten degrees.
It must be admitted that the idea just mentioned by Napoleon does have a great possibility of success, and whether it is France or other countries on the European continent, basically the standing field army of the country and the city defense army and militia in various places are completely two systems, and there are no longer a few examples of the field army looking down on the city defense army or even despising it.
Because the main responsibility of the city defense army is to defend the city and maintain law and order, relatively speaking, the combat effectiveness of the city defense army is indeed inferior to that of the field army, and it is precisely because of this that the field army will not look down on the city defense army.
If you let those city defense armies be the vanguard of the whole army.
Even defeat will not affect the combat effectiveness of the main army, after all, it has already been said.
The field army did not look down on these city defense troops.
Moreover, after seeing the defeat of the city defense army, as long as the soldiers of the field army understand that defeating the rebels is equivalent to defeating an opponent who is more powerful than the city defense army, presumably the soldiers of the field army will definitely burst out with greater combat effectiveness in order to prove their strength.
"But, Napoleon, I think those rebels must know the composition of our army, and let these city defenders take the lead, I'm afraid those mobs will be even more afraid to attack because they are afraid of the main force behind?"
Creech suddenly thought of a question, although he was very confident, but he himself did not believe that those rebels would not know the composition of the counterinsurgency army, those city defense soldiers were not a secret at all, and the origin of the 50,000 army was even more secret.
"No, Lord Marquis, you must also know that the rebels have a full strength of 100,000 troops, if they still dare not attack those weak city defenses with such a large force, presumably the Marquis Lafayette's face will be lost, and even if Lafayette is unwilling, but those who despise the kingdom because of the success of Lyon will definitely force Lafayette to go to war to test our strength, as long as we show that we are not strong, Those people won't let go of the fat in their mouths!
” Napoleon's words are so naked, you must know that at this moment, because of his words, he will dominate the fate of nearly 10,000 soldiers!
Napoleon's words completely used the 10,000 soldiers of the city defense system as a bait to throw stones to ask for directions, and at this moment the fate of the bait was already doomed to death!
After much thought, the Marquis de Creech agreed to Napoleon's proposal, but decided to test Napoleon just in case "Napoleon, I think you also know the importance of the city defense army in this plan, but we can't reveal the plan to others, once others know, then the 50,000 army will fall apart before it has set off, so I need a person to personally go to the 10,000 city defense army to sit in town, only in this way can we ensure that nothing goes wrong to the greatest extent" Creech looked at Napoleon with a burning eye, and it was clear what was on his mind.
"Well, Your Excellency Marquis, I hereby request that you be able to transfer me to the city defense army, so that you and I are the only two people who know the plan, and I can guarantee that the plan will not leak out of me!"
Seeing that Napoleon was so sensible, Creech seemed very happy, and he smiled: "It's gratifying to see you think that.
I think the future of the kingdom will be more prosperous with you young talents, and I have approved your application to go to the vanguard army, but I ask you to bring the first brigade to the vanguard army as well, in case of any situation, you can also use such an army to stabilize your position and not say that the whole army will be wiped out."
With that, Creech stood up, walked over to Napoleon's side, and patted him on the shoulder.
On October 10, 1789, Napoleon left Lyon with a vanguard army consisting of 10,000 soldiers of the city defense and 8,000 men from the 1st Brigade of the 2nd Legion.
The 18,000-strong force was very shocking, and of course this did not include the Marquis de Lafayette, when the Marquis learned that the French army in Dijon had been dispatched, the Marquis only asked how many people, and when he received the answer of 18,000 men, the Marquis pouted.
After a five-day march, Napoleon's French army reached the border in the Lyon region, where he was in a small village.
Judging from the map, the village is not very far from Lyon, about three days away, but at the moment the village has been burned to the ground, of course, all this was not done by Napoleon, and when Napoleon saw the situation in front of him, he was also shocked.
Not only that, but the ground of the village was covered with corpses of sèsè people, including old people and children Seeing this scene, Napoleon's heart twitched, although he was praised by others and political opponents as the "queen's executioner", but Napoleon never killed innocent people like this.
After searching the village, Napoleon received the news, a chilling news, that there were no living people in the village, and that there was no food to be found anywhere, and that most of the corpses on the ground were old men and children, and very few were young and middle-aged corpses.
Hearing this news and combining some of his own speculations, Napoleon could roughly get a simple clue, that is, there was a lack of food and soldiers in the city of Lyon!
Thinking about it, these mobs were all rioters who only thought about riots, and they didn't think about how to govern the local area after they seized the right to rule, and in order to deal with the encirclement and suppression of the royal family, those mobs immediately began to expand on a large scale.
Although Lafayette was supported by the capitalists, these capitalists would not use all their property for the cause of rebellion for no reason, so that in order to cope with the encirclement and suppression of the royal family, it was necessary to recruit enough soldiers, and in order to feed these soldiers, it was necessary to have a large amount of food, and now Lafayette was busy with the rebellion and did not think about obtaining food through labor, so looting became the best choice.
History is always strikingly similar, whether ancient or modern, Chinese or foreign, all rebellions and uprisings are basically the same vein, basically the rebellion initiated by civilians is through rapid looting to expand their own strength, and then through weapons and food coercion to lure new members to join, and then snowball like a snowball after destroying one area and then moving on to the next.
Think about the fact that the rebel army in Lyon has swelled to the size of 100,000 people in just over half a month, which has almost pulled half of Lyon's young men into the army, such an act can be said to be crazy!