"Vivien, it's God's favor to be able to meet you!"
As he spoke, William stretched out his hand and put his arm around Vivian's waist, and then Vivien looked at William with a slightly red face, and saw that Vivien, who was as tempting as a red apple, William couldn't help kissing Vivian's red lips. .................................
Under the leadership of Ferdinand Jr., the coalition forces continued to advance towards the northern part of France, because with William's instructions and the mediation of the British envoy, all parties in the coalition army also unified the power of Ferdinand Jr. to temporarily act as commander of William, because there was no problem in the command of the coalition forces for the time being.
The Prussian army reached 50,000 people, the Dutch had only 10,000 people, and the British army had nearly 30,000 troops.
After conquering Lille, an important town in northern France and also an important border town in France, the coalition army was divided into two parts, one part was composed of 10,000 British troops and 10,000 Dutch troops, headed by the Dutch ruler William V, supplemented by the British general Moore.
John Moore can be said to be one of the few senior British generals of the British Expeditionary Force who survived the disastrous Battle of Beveron, and Moore, who is now thirty and two pairs of Chinese New Year's Eve, is the year of the fight, but the British Expeditionary Force was completely annihilated and directly gave Moore a head-on blow, which deepened Moore's hatred of the French while making Moore dare not underestimate the world.
The British Expeditionary Force led by Walter can be said to have brought together all the elite soldiers of the British Isles and the meritorious troops who had made great achievements in the various colonial battles, but it was these troops that were reduced to powder under the attack of the French army led by Napoleon.
If it weren't for the fact that John Moore was ordered to guard Antwerp, I'm afraid this general would have fallen in Beveren.
The 20,000-strong army was split from the coalition precisely because Ferdinand the Younger took into account the British territorial claims to northern France.
And because northern France and Britain are only separated by the English Channel, the capture of northern French cities, especially those port cities, is undoubtedly a blessing for the coalition forces, after all, it can reduce the logistical pressure of the coalition forces a lot.
And the main force of the other coalition army, the 70,000 army composed of 50,000 Prussian troops and nearly 20,000 British ** troops, is directed at Paris!
The three countries that formed the coalition had already agreed that either the Bourbon family in France would surrender and be willing to cede the northern French territories to the British, or that the Bourbon dynasty would completely end its rule over France, without achieving this goal.
None of the three countries were allowed to make peace with France.
At this moment, when the boots of the allied army set foot on French soil, Louis XVI, located in the Palace of Versailles, was also lost.
News of Napoleon's defeat had already reached Versailles.
Not only that, but even the news of the destruction of the 30,000 Spanish coalition reached the ears of Louis XVI.
The loss of Napoleon's army meant that the northern French territory had become a delicacy on the lips of the enemy, because in the whole of northern France, in addition to Paris and the coastal cities, there were a number of defense armies.
In the rest of the country, there are no formed armed forces at all.
And that's not all.
Even all the armies of Paris and those coastal cities together were just over 10,000 men, and how could such a force be able to confront the coalition forces.
Louis XVI wanted to recruit more troops to fight against the coalition, but conscripting an army meant spending money, and France's finances were on the verge of bankruptcy.
Even if Queen Mary had not insisted on selling some of the antiques and treasures in the Palace of Versailles, then France's national finances would have been bankrupt.
Even so, the state treasury simply could not afford to levy an army of more than 10,000 men.
Of course, the bankruptcy of the country does not mean that the Bourbon family is bankrupt, but the current property situation of the Bourbon royal family is not optimistic, with the rise of revolutionary ideas in the country.
The estates and properties of the Bourbon royal family in various places were attacked by revolutionaries and suffered heavy losses.
Not only that, but with the blockade of the whole of France by the British Offshore Fleet, as well as its colonies.
France had not received a penny of tax revenue from the colonies for more than a year, and the Bourbons had to pay for it out of their own pockets because of the destruction of the previous revolutionaries in the country.
Thus, in the words of an old chief keeper of the royal estate, if there is no more income, the Bourbons will go bankrupt in two years.
Now France can no longer collect much tax revenue from all over the country, and even some towns in the south of France where revolutionaries gather refuse to pay taxes to the state treasury, although Louis XVI wanted to teach this gang of clowns a lesson, but the lack of money in the treasury means that the army's military pay cannot be paid in full, and if the military salary is not paid, how can the soldiers of the army be expected to work for the royal family!
Louis XVI sat in his office, and he was the only one in his office.
Because of the financial difficulties of the country and the royal family, Queen Mary, who was in the hospital bed, personally issued an edict, that is, to abolish the attendants in the Palace of Versailles and the royal palace in Paris, and at the same time, all the royal family, including the servants, will not add any jewelry and clothing within three years, not only that, Queen Mary also asked for some cultural relics and treasures in the Palace of Versailles to be sold in the market in order to raise funds.
And not only that, Marie stipulated by law that no banquet was to be held in the Palace of Versailles, and that everyone was forbidden to waste the food they ate, and that any waste was to be punished immediately.
For this reason, even Queen Mary's eldest son, His Royal Highness Charles, the Crown Prince of the Kingdom of France, was severely whipped five times after occasionally throwing the cake in his hand on the ground and refusing to eat it.
Queen Mary's methods had a considerable effect, at least when everyone felt terrified when they saw Queen Mary still standing on the steps with great difficulty with the support of her attendants, shouting the word "beating" and asking her attendants to whip Prince Charles in public.
And afterwards, Queen Mary was even more bloody from her buttocks, and Crown Prince Charlie, who was crying indifferently, said to everyone: "If anyone disobeys the rules I have set, even my son, they will be punished severely!"
Through a series of means, the consumption of Versailles has been reduced by nearly sixty percent compared to before.
Queen Mary has run out of oil, and she used to be able to walk on her own, but now Mary can't even walk by herself, and no matter how carefully decorated by the royal maids, Mary's sick face can't be hidden.
If it weren't for the medicine collected by the ancestors in the Bourbon royal storehouse, Mary wouldn't have survived now, but even now, everyone knows that Queen Mary will not survive this year.
It can be said that for the country of France, Marie did more than anyone in the French court, such an Austrian princess held up the sky of the Kingdom of France, if it were not for Mary repairing the Kingdom of France like a painter over the years, then this long-been hollowed out edifice must have collapsed long ago.
With the defeat of Napoleon's army and the Spanish army in the Austrian Netherlands, there was an apocalyptic atmosphere throughout Paris, and countless nobles fled from Paris, even those who were the most diligent in running to Versailles.
Since the time of Louis XIV, the Palace of Versailles has been the center of France, and countless nobles have lived day and night in this huge court, and now there is no other nobleman in the Palace except for the officials of the French government and some relatives of the Bourbon royal family.
As early as the news of the defeat of Napoleon's army reached Versailles, the Prince of Condé exhorted Louis XVI to leave Paris and Versailles for the northwestern part of France, where the Bourbon royal rule was the strongest.
But Louis XVI rejected the offer of the Prince of Condé.
Yes, if there is any place in France where the people are attached to the Bourbons, it is undoubtedly the Northwest of the Royalists.
But what about fleeing to the northwest, after capturing Paris, can't the coalition advance to the northwest?
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And once Paris was captured by the coalition forces, then it can be seen that the rule of the Bourbon royal family over France has been overthrown, which is not only what Louis XVI does not want to see, but also that Marie resolutely cannot bear.
Mary said to Louis XVI on this subject: "You are the king of France, the contemporary master of the Bourbons, and if you flee Paris, what will the Parisians think of you, and what will the people of France think of you?
Paris is the capital of France, and everyone can leave, but you can't!
If you leave Paris, you can make a comeback or even regain Paris, but have you ever thought about it, will the rebels who call themselves revolutionaries give you such a chance?
Will the combined forces of the British, the Prussians give you such an opportunity!
I once heard that little king of Prussia say that the Son of Heaven guards the country, and the monarch dies!
Even if we die here if we can't hold Paris, then we will win the sympathy and support of the people, and France will sing your name for generations to come.
And if we escape, then the Bourbon dynasty is really finished!
” Marie's exhortations did a great job, at least for Louis XVI, who had always had little opinion, and Marie's words helped him to make up his mind.
To this end, Louis XVI had already ordered the Prince of Condé to protect his son, His Royal Highness Charles Crown Prince of France, to Nantes.
As the area where the Bourbon royal family and royalists were most powerful, the vicinity of Nantes was dominated by royalists, and with 30,000 troops there, Louis XVI believed that his son would be able to rise to the top even if something happened to him.
Although Charlie is still young, from the moment he was born, the burden of the family will always fall on his shoulders, but it is a little earlier now.