; Three days after the departure of Napoleon's 18,000-strong vanguard army, Creech's main force of 32,000 began to leave the garrison and march towards Lyon.
"How far is it from Lyon" Standing at a long table, Napoleon pointed to a point on the map on the table and asked the staff officer who was accompanying him, who, after drawing a pen on the map, said respectfully: "Your Excellency, it is about thirty miles from Lyon here"...
After receiving the answer, Napoleon's brow furrowed slightly, according to his original discussion with Creech, Napoleon's vanguard army played an extremely disgraceful role, and their mission was to defeat and not win when fighting the rebels of Lyon.
But this does not mean that the task on Napoleon's shoulders is easy, although it is said that the vanguard must lose in battle, but it is not a rout!
In other words, the vanguard must lose by a narrow margin and not let the rebels see that the French army is releasing water, and at the same time Napoleon must ensure that the vanguard army maintains the appropriate combat effectiveness, otherwise how can it be defeated in the subsequent battle?
It can be said that this task is not only not easy, but rather arduous, and how to ensure a situation of plausible defeat and maintain the combat effectiveness of the army is a very complicated and difficult issue.
But after a few days of thinking, Napoleon had a new idea. ..
Although blind defeat can make the rebels arrogant, it has too much impact on the combat effectiveness of the army.
I'm afraid it won't change the situation of defeat, which is not what Napoleon wanted to see.
And not Napoleon's boasting, although to say that his age would make many people belittle his combat effectiveness.
But the commander of the rebels was Lafayette, with Napoleon's performance in suppressing the riots in Paris, he believed that as a smart man, Lafayette would definitely pay attention to him, and if he played too much, not only would Lafayette not be fooled, but would make him suspicious.
In addition, this expedition to Lyon was the first time that Napoleon had really come to power in his military career, and he did not want his first performance to end in failure.
So Napoleon decided that his first leg must be won.
But this victory should not be too spectacular, otherwise it would not have been good to frighten the rebels in Lyon.
What?
You say that Napoleon underestimated the enemy and did not take the rebels led by Lafayette in his eyes?
Well, if a well-armed army can't deal with a mob that is three times inferior in weapons and untrained and combat-driven. , this army is really declining.
At this moment, Napoleon's eyes were completely attracted by a black dot on the map, which was called Enlaize.
Enlaitzer is located southeast of Lyon and benefits from the prosperity of Lyon's capital trade.
Originally located in the middle of nowhere, Enlaize quickly grew from a small village to a town with a population of tens of thousands.
Of course, as Lyon is close to the Swiss region.
The prosperity of the town of Enlaze depended on its commercial circulation, and although the area around Enlaze was completely plain and unsupported by the map, Napoleon had his eye on it.
The prosperity of the town indicated that the capital trade in the city was relatively developed, and as one of the main strongholds of Lyon's trade routes to Switzerland and northern Italy, Napoleon was fully convinced that the great capitalists of Lyon had a great deal of interest in Enletze.
As long as this passage can be cut off, I believe that the capitalists in the city of Lyon will not be calm, and they will definitely do their best to get Lafayette to send rebels to retake such an important trading base.
Then Napoleon's chance will come!
"How far are we from Enlaize here?"
"Your Excellency, General, it will take two days to get from us to Enlaize.
And because we are now in the north of Lyon, there is a good chance that we will run into a patrol of the rebels of Lyon" As soon as the staff officer finished speaking, Napoleon drew a long straight line on the map, one end was the current position of the army, and the other was the position of Enlaitzer.
But after drawing this long line, Napoleon found that Lyon, the center of the rebels, was on the west side of the long line, and the distance between them was very small.
Some people may say that the tiny size on the map will be enlarged hundreds or even thousands of times in reality, but Napoleon believed that the rebels in Lyon were not vegetarians, especially under the leadership of Lafayette, perhaps there was a big problem with the combat effectiveness of these rebels, but sending scouts to detect the movements of the enemy army even those who had not commanded the battle understood this truth, and the rebels of Lyon must have sent a large number of scouts to be distributed around Lyon.
Napoleon threw down his pen and sat back in his chair, his eyes narrowing slightly, and after a while, Napoleon suddenly stood up from his chair and walked briskly to the map.
Staring at the names of places on the map, Napoleon looked at them one by one, and suddenly he saw a small river, which was not clearly marked on the map, and if he didn't pay attention to it, he couldn't see it clearly, but at this moment in Napoleon's sight, this small river became the key to his battle.
The river was not in the vicinity of Lyon, but it was close to the town of Enlais, and it was nearly twenty miles or so from Napoleon's current position.
If the river allowed, Napoleon could have commanded his army to march directly along the river to the town of Enlaize, and because of the bend of the river, Napoleon believed that even if the rebel scouts discovered their whereabouts, the rebels would not be able to react in time.
And now, the key to action is a quick word!
Although Napoleon's army had not yet found any traces of scouts from the surrounding rebels, he believed that if the French army continued to stay here, their whereabouts would soon be known by the rebels, so Napoleon had to leave here before the rebels reacted, and then march along the river to the town of Enlaize!
While Napoleon was contemplating his countermeasures, a heated quarrel broke out in a house in the city of Lyon.
"Robles.
I think your rhetoric is nothing but negativism, and now that we are in a good situation, it is time for us to continue our efforts to ensure that the people of all France can live happily.
And now, you say that we should concentrate all our forces on the defense of Lyon, and I think you are killing the revolution!
” A middle-aged man in his thirties stood up and loudly denounced a gorgeously dressed fat man opposite, and the fat man jumped out angrily when he heard the middle-aged man's accusation and scolded: "Giggs, you're just spewing blood!
We had received word a few days ago that the feudal armies of Dijon were rapidly advancing towards us, and their aim was undoubtedly to destroy Lyon.
Destroy the hope of all of us!
This is the time when we should concentrate our forces and fight to the death with the coming feudal army, and you have to scatter the army, Ryan Giggs.
What are your intentions?
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” This fat man is about fifty years old, although he looks a little old, but he still looks full of energy, and he can grow so plump in this era.
In addition to the aristocracy, there were only capitalists.
And this fat man was able to stand in this room, and his identity was obviously the latter Seeing the dozens of people in the room split into two parties and scolded, Lafayette, who was sitting at the top, couldn't help but feel a little annoyed.
Although it is said that the uprising of Lyon was successful under his leadership, after the success of the revolution, Lafayette only received the title of commander-in-chief of Lyon's Ziyou army, and now among the nearly 100,000 horses in Lyon, Lafayette can really command no more than three or two people, and most of the rest are in the hands of the following people with different hearts.
Since the success of the revolution in Lyon.
The people who had worked together were divided into two factions because of their different isms and aims, one believing that the revolution in Lyon had succeeded.
At this time, they should take advantage of this trend to sow the seeds of revolution throughout France, and then the whole French people will rise up together against the rule of the nobility and the king, and help those French people who are still being exploited by the feudal aristocracy to obtain true ziyou and happiness!
On the other hand, they believe that now that the revolution in Lyon has been successful, then they can rely on Lyon's example to ask Louis XVI to reform the country, they believe that France can retain the monarchy, but the power must be in the hands of the people, and this faction hopes to use Lyon's example to make Louis XVI realize the reality, so that he can form a constitutional monarchy.
The faction that wanted to overthrow the feudal aristocracy and the king was mainly represented by the common people, while it was the former capitalists in Lyon who believed that France should embark on the path of a constitutional monarchy.
Since the success of the revolution in Lyon, Lafayette's ears have been tormented by these two factions, and what is even more terrifying is that in order to counteract the control of money and weapons by the capitalists, the civilian faction led by Giggs actually expanded their strength at a snowball speed through looting, and now among the rebels in the Lyon area, the civilian faction of Giggs has an army of 50,000 people.
Of course, among the men under Giggs, except for a few hundred people, the others cannot be called an army at all, and the hoes, nail rakes and other tools used by the peasants have become the main weapons of the rebels under Giggs, and the army of 50,000 people has only a thousand guns, and most of these thousand guns are old and almost unusable, perhaps it would be more appropriate to call these weapons burning sticks!
Although the current Lyon is nominally led by Lafayette, because of the conflict of ideas, the whole of Lyon is divided into three factions.
The capitalists had 30,000 rebels in slightly better equipment, while the civilians, though outnumbered, were not at all combat-ready because of their lack of supplies.
And the 20,000 men in Lafayette's hands are naturally the most formidable army in the whole of Lyon, but even so, insufficient equipment and lack of training are still his fatal wounds!
And because the civilian army is very disturbing in various places, this makes many people in the rebels feel dissatisfied with the civilian faction, but there are too many civilian factions, so they just put up with it for the time being!