On November 11, 1789, on this day that was celebrated as a festival by countless ** silk in later generations, the army of Napoleon and the Marquis de Clicci joined forces under the city of Lyon.
< －》 Perhaps the only good news for the panicked city of Lyon at the moment was that their leader, Lafayette, woke up from a coma, and the first thing Lafayette did when he woke up was to personally lead a small group of cavalry to quietly go to the French position to reconnoitre.
Fortunately, because the two French armies had just met under the city of Lyon, the encirclement of Lyon was not fully formed, so Lafayette and his party had an opportunity to cross the French line to reconnoitre.
The formation of the French army can be said to be decent, but it is this kind of regularity that makes Lafayette very troubled, because this style of play is very helpless.
The French army relied on its strong strength and combat effectiveness to advance step by step, although slowly, but it was effective against the rebels in Lyon.
Sometimes on the battlefield, there is no fear that the enemy's sword will go off the rails, because although the sword goes off the rails, although it may bring a big victory, there are too many accidents of all kinds, so the success rate is far lower than the failure rate.
But if a French army is slow but steady at every step, perhaps the victory will not seem so legendary in relative terms, but this situation of black clouds crushing the city is the most frightening.
Standing on a small hillside, Lafayette looked south through the trees on the hillside.
It is clear that Napoleon's fifteen-thousand-strong army was wider and shallow in depth than the 30,000-strong army of the Marquis de Creech.
Lafayette's mind turned a few times, an idea had just been born in his mind, but it was overturned in the blink of an eye, and after thinking for a while, Lafayette felt that his head was going to be big.
"Let's go, let's go back first, Chalmers, and tell me what happened in the city when I was unconscious."
"Yes, Your Excellency" Lafayette nodded.
Then he took the reins of his horse and turned away.
Coincidentally, less than an hour after Lafayette and the others left, the hillside welcomed another group of guests.
Looking at the city of Lyon in the distance, Napoleon's heart was filled with joy.
Now the matter has reached the final step, as long as the city of Lyon can be captured.
Then when the time comes, you will be rewarded for your deeds.
He, Napoleon, must have been one of the most prominent men in war.
After all, Napoleon's fire in the town of Enlaze wiped out the rebels' army of 35,000 troops, accounting for a small half of the rebels, and in such a situation, as long as the city of Lyon was taken.
When the time comes, the addition of officials to the knighthood is just around the corner.
But in addition to this joy, Napoleon also secretly warned himself in his heart that he must not be proud, and the example of Bethitan is vividly placed there, although it can be said that Napoleon is very clever in disguise, but even if Bethitor can be more cautious.
I don't know who the last laugh is.
"Mortai, our fifteen thousand men are really in charge of the two directions of Lyon City alone, you go and apply to His Excellency the Marquis of Creech to see if you can send some reinforcements over, and send Bethitan to the Marquis, I think the Marquis will use his" "Yes, Your Excellency" Although he believed in the combat effectiveness of his army, compared to the still large base of the rebels in the city, if the rebels were determined to break through from the south.
Napoleon did not think that he would be able to completely stop all the rebels here.
The battle of Enlaize wiped out 35,000 rebels, and the Marquis of Creech's attack in the north also severely damaged the rebels' two legions, causing the losses of nearly 30,000 rebels.
In this way, there are still up to 30,000 rebels in the city of Lyon, many of whom are remnants of the defeated army that have retreated from the two lines of defense in the north!
But sometimes the victory or defeat of a war is not entirely based on the comparison of forces between the two sides.
Lafayette had the fortified city of Lyon in his hands.
As an important city in the south-east of France, Lyon is not only a commercial center, it also bears the responsibility of radiating to the south-east of France.
Although now Lyon has lost its latter responsibility, France has not forgotten the city.
Every year the city council of Lyon devotes a sum of money to the renovation of Lyon's city defenses, and for this reason.
The original mayor of Lyon was a very conscientious mayor.
However, in addition to the fortification of Lyon, Napoleon also learned that the rebels in Lyon had made contact with some rebels in the southeastern part of the kingdom.
After Lafayette took control of Lyon, he not only sent troops to conquer the city in the Lyon region, but he also sent countless spies to contact revolutionary organizations throughout France, Lafayette's contact operation encountered great resistance in the north, because the northern territory of the kingdom has always been the most powerful area of the royal family, but in the south, Lafayette's rebellion made him an idol.
Benefiting from the development of capital trade, the southern part of the kingdom has been the hardest hit by the proliferation of revolutionary parties, and when these revolutionary parties learned of Lafayette's success in Lyon, these revolutionary parties were greatly encouraged, and even the newly suppressed Marseille region showed signs of instability again.
This is not because he was worried that Lafayette would receive reinforcements from the Southern Revolutionary Party, because at present, although the southern region is unstable, because of the close surveillance of the royal army, there will be no such example as Lyon for the time being.
Napoleon was worried that once Lafayette concentrated all the forces in Lyon to break through to the south, it would be a great crime if there was a breach in the French defense line and Lafayette fled to the south, so Napoleon asked Creech for reinforcements.
After looking at the hillside for a while, Napoleon raised his arm and pointed to the city of Lyon, and said to his subordinates: "There is the stronghold of the rebels, and from tomorrow our army will launch a large-scale assault on the city.
When the time comes, you must do your best, there is no enemy and no self, there is no invincible!
After defeating the rebels, His Majesty the King and His Royal Highness the Queen will not be stingy with rewards, so the eldest husband has made meritorious contributions and increased his official ranks, all in this dynasty!
” "Yes!"
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Having inspired his subordinates, Napoleon drove his horse south, where his headquarters was.
Upon his return to Lyon, Lafayette summoned all the platoons of rebel officers and capitalists and representatives of civilians to the former Lyon City Hall.
"Now that those lackeys of the feudal bureaucracy have arrived under the city of Lyon, what we should do next, everyone will discuss!"
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Lafayette, who was sitting at the top, threw out the issue after seeing that most of the people had arrived.
The people who had been in a panic because of the French soldiers coming to the city were even more panicked now.
"What a noise!
Look what you all look like!
Isn't it that stupid king and the lackeys of those corrupt officials and corrupt officials who actually scared you into this, and you are embarrassed to say that you are revolutionaries!
” Without waiting for Lafayette to come forward to maintain order, Chalmers, who had been standing behind Lafayette, couldn't see it, and despite his low status, he decisively stood up and loudly reprimanded everyone.
Hearing Chalmers's reprimand, everyone in the hall suddenly looked a little embarrassed, joking, although Chalmers is not the lowest person among all the people here, there are many people with higher status than him.
But everyone looked at Lafayette, who was sitting on the top and looked a little ugly, and reason prevented them from coming out to reprimand Chalmers for his rude behavior, after all, it is also up to the owner to beat the dog.
Giggs, who had been lucky enough to save his life from the north, stepped forward "Your Excellency Lafayette, I think that now Lyon is surrounded by those feudal lackeys, and the previous battles have suffered a great loss because our army is not familiar with the way the army fights, resulting in the current strength in the city is really weak, so I think the most important thing we should do at the moment is to keep the flame of the revolution."
"Speaking of which, Giggs, you don't want to run away, you are so righteous and bright, I think you have been scared out of your guts!
In addition, the last time you abandoned the army and broke through alone, we haven't settled with you yet, if you weren't the first to escape, would our army have been defeated so badly?
Also, do you dare to say that you are not responsible for the rout of the Second Army?
If you hadn't sat idly by and watched your death, how could the Second Legion end up like this!
..............”
The man who spoke was called Harun, and he was one of the capitalists in the city of Lyon.
Harlan had been a general of the Second Legion and had performed well in the Battle of Draketown, where he had witnessed the most critical of the Battle of Draketown, when the Third Army was only three miles away from Draketown, but Giggs was watching the fierce battle between the Second Legion and the French.
That's why after meeting Giggs, Harlan had so much resentment.
"Okay, what time is it now, you are still blaming each other, can you just blame the army outside the city defeat those armies outside the city?
Now is not the time for us to hold accountable, we should think about how we should get through this now!
” "But, Lord Lafayette......"
"Alright, I got it!"
Lafayette's eyes suddenly became a little fierce, especially when he looked at Giggs, who was eager to eat him alive.
Lafayette's coma that day was precisely because of the defeat in the battle in the north and south, and the culprit of the defeat in the north can be said to be Giggs, in this case, although Giggs had previously gained some favor from Lafayette, but now these favors have long been eaten into the dog's belly.
But now the city of Lyon must not be in chaos, once it is chaotic, it is easier to create opportunities for the French army outside the city.
To be continued... ）