At the end of October, William and his party returned to Sanssouci Palace.
After returning to Sanssouci Palace, William received the latest information about France, and when he learned that Napoleon had left Paris to suppress the rebels in Lyon, William's surprise was palpable.
Napoleon's ability to pick out the quagmire of Paris was a very wise and correct choice in William's opinion, and going to Lyon to suppress the rebellion was a stroke of genius, which would not only allow Napoleon to gain a foothold in the army, but more importantly, would gain Napoleon's prestige among the royalists.
Although Napoleon's performance in the rebellion in Paris was excellent, Paris is the heart of the whole of France, and it is quite difficult to show his strength in such a region.
And although decisive repression and iron-blooded means allowed Napoleon to gain Marie's approval, this did not mean that Napoleon won the approval of the royalists.
In the present period, the relationship between the royalists and the revolutionaries was not as clear as it was later, and the relationship between the Parisian aristocracy could be said to be intricate, even if Napoleon's actions were to defend the Bourbons, but in the eyes of some royalists, Napoleon was still encroaching on their interests.
For example, many of the members of the Brittany Club who were captured by Napoleon were unusually close to the royalists, and some were even relatives.
In this way, even if Napoleon did a good job in Paris, he still could not be recognized by most people, and although it seems that Napoleon could be said to be a monopoly in Paris, everyone understands it.
Where did Napoleon's power come from, to put it mildly, Napoleon in Paris can be said to be a fox and a tiger.
Such a horn sè could not grasp the support of the army at all...
By jumping out of Paris, Napoleon could not only avoid the unrest in Paris, but he could also use this precious opportunity and rare time to develop his power, and he could see the situation in Paris from the sidelines in order to make the best decisions for himself.
Lafayette, the rebel leader of Lyon, can be said to be a long-time admirer, although William admits that Lafayette does have a unique personality and the necessary elements of perseverance for a person to achieve great things.
However, William did not think that he would be able to withstand the attack of the French army led by Creech.
What Leon's army of 100,000 was, William knew very well in his heart, precisely because he was so clear.
That's why he is not optimistic about Lafayette.
It seems that the army of 100,000 is terrifying, such a huge number can even overwhelm the many small vassal states on the European continent with the tactics of crowds alone, but these so-called armies have not been systematically trained at all, and even the weapons in their hands are very scarce.
Even because of the frenzied recruitment, the entire foundation of Lyon's livelihood has been seriously damaged.
With an army of 100,000 in a field battle with the French regular army.
William believed that he would be defeated, and the only way to keep the rebels alive was to concentrate all the main forces on Lyon and fight the French to the death, but there was still a fatal problem, that is, the food and grass in the city of Lyon.
No matter what time it is, the army's food and grass are the lifeblood of the army, although the outside of Lyon can be said to have been cleared by the rebels, but you must know that there are not only 100,000 rebels in the city of Lyon, if you add the population of the rebels who moved into Lyon.
According to Prussia's spies lurking in Lyon, the population of Lyon has exceeded the 500,000 mark. 500,000 people.
It is not denied that the rebels did obtain a lot of grain and grass through the fortified wall, but how long these grain and grass could last under the consumption of 500,000 people is a very difficult question to calculate.
The other is the armament of the rebels, although the captured weapons were delighted by the capitalists' financing and the rebels' subsequent attack on Lyon, but these weapons were not enough to arm the rebels of Lyon.
According to rough calculations, less than 20,000 of the 100,000 people in the city of Lyon now have guns and weapons, and as for the many others, some of them use cold weapons such as swords, while others simply use whatever they get as weapons, so that a group of people is like lambs to the slaughter in the face of the fully armed French army.
There is also the problem of ammunition for the rebels, although Lyon is an important textile city in France, but this does not mean that these silks can replace gunpowder, you must know that there are no saltpeter mines and sulfur near Lyon, and because there are not many garrisons in the Lyon area, so Lyon itself is not produced gunpowder, only relying on external supplies.
In addition, because there was no large-scale garrison, Lyon did not have a large inventory of ammunition, so after the rebels captured the garrison warehouse in Lyon, they found that although they had captured more than 10,000 weapons, the ammunition in the warehouse averaged less than 20 ammunition per gun.
Of course, the issue of ammunition, William is not clear, but for the rebels in Lyon, it is clear that William has already been sentenced to death in his heart.
After rubbing his forehead and sobering up for a while, William decided to put aside the situation in France for the time being, of course, he did not forget to tell the Prussian spy agency hidden in France, as soon as he seized the opportunity, then immediately kill Napoleon!
After thinking about the situation in the west, William set his eyes on the east.
After the accession to the throne of Paul I, the emperor was cautious at first, but when he won the support of the St.
Petersburg army, Paul I began a vigorous purge within the Russian Empire.
The officers and officials who insulted Paul I or participated in the coup d'état of Catherine II were all imprisoned, but except for St.
Petersburg and Moscow, which were the most powerful areas of the empire, in the more remote areas of the empire, Paul I's purges were greatly thwarted.
At the end of May, Paul I sent a Praetorian Guard to Russian Poland with the task of arresting Kutuzov.
But then, this army disappeared for more than a month, and after not getting news for a long time, Paul I impatiently sent the men and horses to track down, and the people and horses that were tracking down also disappeared inexplicably.
At the end of August, Paul I sent an army of 2,000 men to inspect the area where the first two teams had disappeared, and finally found that the first two disappearances were completely destroyed.
When Paul I received the news, he was furious, and even the most stupid man knew that the first two men sent to Poland must have been killed by Kutuzov's men.
Just as Paul I was about to send an army against Kutuzov, a piece of news made him hold back his anger that something had happened on the Crimean Peninsula of the Russian Empire.
One propaganda is that the heirs of the Crimean Khan family carried out a rebellion on the Crimean Peninsula, and this rebellion was carried out very quickly, it seems that in just half a month, this rebellion swept the entire Crimean Peninsula, and according to the statistics of the front-line army, the rebels in front of them reached more than 80,000 people, and these rebels had sufficient weapons and ammunition in their hands.
Whatever the reason, Paul I would never allow the Crimean Peninsula to be lost in his own hands.
You must know that the Crimean Peninsula took nearly a decade of imperial effort, countless supplies, and the loss of more than 30,000 Russian soldiers' lives, and the conquest of the Crimean Peninsula is considered one of Catherine II's main achievements.
And now, once the Crimean Peninsula is lost in the hands of Paul I, it will not only greatly affect the prestige of Paul I within the empire, but also make the ministers feel that Paul I is not as good as Catherine II, and make people feel that they are inferior to that woman, which is absolutely unacceptable to Paul I.
The development of this rebellion was completely unexpected by Paul I, and it was so strange that it took place just as he was preparing to purge the entire empire, and Paul would not have believed it if there was no one behind it.
Paul I was a wise man, and smart people often think a little deeper than others.
The Ottoman Turks must have been behind the rebellion in the Crimea, and not only that, but the reason why the rebellion developed so quickly must have been supported by the people of the empire.
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Paul had already wondered if some nobles who felt they were going to be purged had taken the risk of making some kind of agreement with the rebels to allow the rebels to grow.
You must know that the army that the Russian Empire was originally going to use for war against the Turks had a full 130,000 troops, although because of Paul's accession to the throne, a part of the army was withdrawn from the front line and the rest of the army was put on the defensive, but now there are still a full 100,000 troops of the empire in the Black Sea region!
The 100,000-strong army did not have any problem in eliminating these rebels, and now the rebels have not been suppressed but are becoming more and more powerful, which can tell a lot!