Fox of France

The rebels moved very slowly. After Napoleon arrived at Le Mans, it took more than two weeks before the army of General Dracotri slowly arrived near Le Mans. It was not that General Dracotree deliberately delayed, but that he really couldn’t move fast.

　　 First of all, what held him back was the declining morale of his army. In order to persuade the farmers to leave their hometown, General Dracotri offered a relatively high salary. But in this way, General Dracotree would not have much money to buy munitions.

　　 General Dracottri had hoped that he would be able to capture something after breaking into Angers. However, after scoring Angers, General Dracotri found the situation was different from what he had imagined. It is not that they did not seize anything in Angers. For example, they seized more than ten cannons. However, the things they need most, such as food, gunpowder and the like, are not much.

　　 The lack of munitions naturally makes it difficult to maintain military discipline. After the rebels entered Angers, they were able to control military discipline in the first two days, but soon the military discipline began to lose control. The streets are full of rebels who buy, sell, and rob. Some rebels even broke into the homes of Angers, who had made great efforts during the incident that night, and robbed them.

　　 The rebels recruited by General Dracotri and the rebels that defeated the government forces in Vendée have actually changed a lot in terms of their composition. The original rebels were more of local honest farmers. However, among the current rebels, there are a lot fewer farmers, and there are a lot more swingers.

　　 This is also normal, because most of the honest farmers have gone home to farm and are willing to run out for the nobles’ military pay, and many of them are not honest farmers. So it’s even harder to get these people to follow the rules. These guys not only broke into other people’s homes to grab money, they even acted on the women in their homes, doing a lot of things that were not allowed to be described. It’s almost like the Huns entered Rome.

　　Dracottri took some things too much, especially the guy who went to the noble house to rob and committed indescribable crimes, arrested and hanged on the gallows in the square. Finally, this wave of things was pressed down. But what I didn’t expect was that with the purge of military discipline, it brought another problem.

　　The first problem is the escape of soldiers. Some soldiers fled because they missed their hometown, and some soldiers fled because they were in charge and could not looting at will. Moreover, once a fleeing incident occurs, it is often not a person who ran away, but people from the same village or even the same area. For this reason, General Dracotri had to take various severe measures to combat deserters. Only any soldier who tried to escape and was caught would definitely be hung up.

　　 Such severe measures have brought about a new problem, that is, the soldiers actually began to resist. In less than two days, three military judges were shot and killed. One of them was also the nephew of General Dracotree. General Dracotree knew that the pressure on the gallows had come to an end, and if he continued to hang it, he didn’t know who would hang on the gallows by then.

　　 Then the military discipline was completely unregulated. At this time, the only thing General Dracotri could do was to restrain the soldiers from infringing upon the personal and property of those nobles and decent people. Later on, he couldn’t do this, and what he could do became: restrain soldiers not to infringe upon the personal and property of nobles, and not to violate the personal safety of decent people. As for ordinary assholes, there is really no way.

　　 Brutality is like drinking alcohol sometimes, it is addictive. In the beginning, the atrocities of the rebels were only to fill their own stomachs, but now, the purpose of their atrocities is no longer such a material thing. Instead, it has reached a higher state, a state of pursuing spiritual enjoyment-for pleasure.

　　 The decent people in Angers couldn’t stand it anymore. They sent representatives to find General Dracotri, and proposed to him that in order to support the great cause of restoration, they were willing to donate part of the supplies to support the army of the “king and God” to move forward. To put it more clearly, they are now willing to spend some money and quickly send these plague gods to any other place to harm others.

If the rebels were able to get this gift package a few days earlier, they would naturally go to Le Mans happily. However, now they have evolved into an army with spiritual pursuits, and they are thoroughly demonstrating Angers. Before the game broke, the soldiers refused to leave.

　　 “Today I still plan to go to the daughter of the owner of the small hotel and try some new moves. How can I leave like this?”

　　 “His brother is also very beautiful, as well as their mother. We are planning to have a party with their whole family. How can we leave now?”

　　 “Yes, yes!”

　　 So the spree was left by General Dracotri, but the “Army of King and God” did not leave immediately, but planned to stay in Angers and “live with the people” for a few more days.

　　The unbearable people of Angers finally decided to resist. Some citizens suddenly attacked “the king and the army of God” one night. As a result, the city of Angers was wiped out by a fire that night.

　　 An aristocrat who escaped from the fire, later mentioned this experience in his memoirs, said:

“Just like Prince Alexei brought the Crusaders, (Byzantine exile Prince Alexei brought the Crusaders to Constantinople, which resulted in Constantinople being slaughtered and looted by the Crusaders) We got in touch with the army of Vendée and helped them enter Angers. Their behavior in Angers was almost the same as the crusaders’ behavior in Constantinople… Before they arrived, the Republic had already Take away my privileges, but I still have money, property, land, and our family… Now, I have nothing…”

　　 After a great fire, the “king and God’s army” finally couldn’t continue to have fun with the people, so they had to continue to march north. However, because of the chaos of military discipline, the speed of the march has also become protracted, so it was only then that they slowly walked to the vicinity of Le Mans.

　　 At this time, in the face of sluggish morale, General Dracotree had no choice but to break the pot and announce that after the city was broken, he would take a three-day holiday to boost morale.

　　 Hearing the news, Napoleon almost fainted without a smile. He found several regiment commanders and battalions under his command and began to deploy operations.

　　 Encouraged by the “three-day holiday”, the rebels raised a little morale and launched an attack on Le Mans. However, at this time, the story of their “happy with the people” in Angers and their preparation for a “three-day holiday”, through the efforts of Fouché and the mayor of René, has made the whole Le Mans known. .

　　 So in the matter of defending the city, the Le Mans people were extraordinarily determined. After all, no one wanted to have a vacation and fun with the guys outside the city. As a result, the National Guard of Le Mans fought extremely bravely and firmly. In contrast, the guys on the opposite side, perhaps because they still want to save their precious lives to enjoy the upcoming vacation, have already received a counterattack, and they immediately retreat. In the end, the rebels failed to make any progress.

　　 Napoleon gave almost all defense tasks to Fouché’s National Guard. This army was just formed, and the military quality is quite poor, but because it is really defending the country, their morale is very high. After the enemy is approaching several times, they can charge with bayonet and easily take the rebels. Hit it down.

　　 As for Napoleon’s main force, it was placed behind the National Self-Defense Army by Napoleon, ready to stop leaks or counterattack.

　　 At the same time, Napoleon’s cavalry units under the command of Davout continued to attack the rebel logistics lines in the rear. The rebels do have an advantage in numbers, but this advantage is limited to infantry. The rebels do not have many cavalry, which makes it difficult for them to effectively restrict Davu’s actions ~www.wuxiax.com~ In this way, the rebels can only send more troops and set up more military stations along the supply line. , Arranging more troops in these positions to ensure the safety of the supply line.

　　 The result of doing this is naturally to greatly reduce the forces that can be used for front-line operations. Therefore, although General Dracotri had as many as 40,000 men in total force, he was forced to draw out a considerable army to defend the supply line after experiencing the battle and escape in Angers. The number of troops that can be used for first-line offensive operations has rapidly dropped to about 20,000. In Napoleon’s hands, in addition to the more than 5,000 members of his division, there were more than 5,000 members of the National Self-Defense Army formed by Fouché. Now on the battlefield, the disparity between the numbers of the two sides is actually not that big. Coupled with the fortification bonus, in fact, theoretically speaking, it is impossible for the rebels to take Le Mans.

However, because Napoleon kept his main force well hidden and never used it on the battlefield, General Dracotri didn’t know how many enemy troops were on the opposite side. According to the information he had received before, and the past few days The situation of the battle, General Dracotri judged, the enemy army was at most six or seven thousand. He felt that he could still fight. After considering the attacks of the past few days, he felt that he seemed to have some understanding of the enemy’s defenses, and he seemed to be reckless. Moreover, the logistics are getting more and more difficult, and there has been no progress in the past few days, and the morale of the own army has begun to decline. If you don’t launch a general offensive, I am afraid that there will be no morale required to launch a general offensive in the future. So General Dracotree decided: “Tomorrow morning, let everyone have a good meal, and then launch a general attack!”

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