165 I Can't Cross the Border
In the Austrian Netherlands War Zone, Fatis took several trusted guards and took advantage of the break of the frontline battle to come to the soldiers resting behind the chest base.
The arrival of Fatis immediately made the officers and soldiers passing by excitedly climb up from the ground. Many soldiers even had cloth strips wrapped around their arms or heads, and the cloth strips were covered with red and black blood!
These wounded people are lucky. If the lead bullet hits their torso or enters the body, they will not be able to stay here.
"Heroic soldiers, Paris is watching us from behind, the flag of Free France leads us, and the more foreign invaders we destroy here, the safer our families behind us.
The great Jacobin can draw more troops to protect our family and friends and suppress the evil Levi rebels!
For freedom, equality, fraternity, French citizens will never retreat!”
Fatis's simple improvised speech on the front line immediately made the officers and soldiers on the front line stand up collectively and shout the revolutionary slogan of "freedom, equality, fraternity."
It is this belief that allows them to withstand nearly twice the repeated attacks of the enemy here!
At this moment, a rumble of cannons suddenly broke out in the position of the anti-French alliance opposite. The newly-standing French revolutionary soldiers immediately returned to their combat posts under the call of grassroots officers.
The Northwestern French Army led by Fatis, who had severely insufficient artillery shells, did not dare to fight with the other party such a very poor artillery battle in order to save shells and gunpowder. Fatis quickly left the dangerous frontier position under the cover of his own guards.
The position of commander of the Northern Army for many days has allowed Fatis to develop a bureaucratic style that is common in this era and even in the 21st century.
However, Fatis, who could come to the front line to express his condolences at this time, was already considered a relatively outstanding type in the 18th century. The noble generals of those monarchical countries rarely took the initiative to inspect the dangerous front line.
The so-called aristocratic officers in this era took the lead in charge, but actually refer to officers below the school level. When the major goes up, they rarely take the lead in charge.
Not to mention the general!
Therefore, Fatis's actions in person to the front line excited the soldiers of the Northern Army.
Today's Fatis' status is much higher than that of an ordinary Jacobin branch's small "cadre".
There were no casualties, but after the shelling that smashed many roadblocks, waves of battalion-level formations of Dutch flags, Prussian flags, and Austrian flags began to surge towards the defense line of the northern army.
Not long after Fatis left, dense sounds of gunfire came from the front line, and it soon turned into a melee of shouting and killing and bayonet fighting.
A group of troops continued to support, and replaced the teams with more losses and huge physical energy consumption, and stood up against the enemy's attack echelons that kept coming up.
The fight lasted for several hours before the attacking anti-French alliance troops retreated due to insufficient momentum and casualties.
Then another round of artillery bombardment came!
In terms of firepower, the Northern Army led by Fatis is absolutely weak, and only when enemy infantry rushed up will their own artillery be bombarded.
"General Fatis, the enemy's offensive is very fierce. Although our morale is good, the losses are huge. If we continue to fight like this, our soldiers will not be able to withstand the consumption."
Wright, who was already used to the position of staff, found Fatis and submitted a report to Fatis and reported it.
Fatis looked around and found that it was all the sharpshooters whom Li Wei gave him, and he shrugged indifferently: "I will send more propagandists to the troops below to do ideological education.
Anyway, these people are loyal to the Jacobin government, and are not our own direct troops. What if they die?
And the more tenacious we fight here, the greater the achievements we have in the Paris Revolutionary Government, the less they will revoke my military power. I didn’t see my current position, and didn’t even send a special envoy to the Paris Revolutionary Government?
Oh by the way, I will summarize the casualties data. I will submit it to the Paris Revolutionary Government in the future and let them have a headache for pensions!"
"General, if the Paris Revolutionary Government knew about this, they would have doubts about our command capabilities."
"That's why I said I'm looking for an opportunity. I definitely can't give it to you now. Lord Li Wei has sent someone to inform you. The more we win, the better!
And look at how beautiful the land of the Austrian Netherlands is. If we withdraw to France, how can we have the reason to let our soldiers supply on the spot?
The financial resources of the Paris Revolutionary Government are tilted towards the Revolutionary Army of Saving the Country. The logistics supply we provide is only some arms and ammunition, and most of the food needs to be raised by ourselves!
So, we need to nail here, no matter how much we pay!"
Fatis' performance naturally cannot escape the eyes and ears of the Paris Revolutionary Government, or Fatis has no prerequisites to conceal it.
However, Fatis resisted the strongest combat effectiveness of the Netherlands, Prussia, Austria and some Holy Roman Empire state armies that acted as "cheerleaders", which made the Paris Revolutionary Government very satisfied.
Even Robert Spear, a suspicious dictator, no longer looked at Fatis with suspicion, but devoted himself to the training and formation of the revolutionary army in the country-salvation.
In addition to the good news coming from Fatis, the news that the country-salvation revolutionary army in the south, with far less than the enemy's forces, had also spread to the Paris Revolutionary Government.
Not long after, good news came from the east. More than 30,000 Italian coalition forces, with the army of the Kingdom of Sardinia as the core, were repelled by more than 10,000 defenders of the country-savior Revolutionary Army!
The anti-French alliance had a very high-profile three-sided attack, and none of them broke into the French territory!
With such a brilliant record, the public opinion newspaper controlled by the National Salvation Committee is naturally desperately adding publications to promote the victorious results of the revolution and enhancing the morale of the National Salvation Revolutionary Army!
Now after the military reform led by Robert Spear (mainly learning Li Wei's supervisor system), the various troops under the Paris Revolutionary Government have been selected by survival of the fittest and merged with the new recruits to form the revolutionary army to save the country.
Only the northern army led by Fatis, who was still deep outside the Austrian Netherlands, did not carry out reforms to the revolutionary army in the country.
However, Fatis has submitted a report on his imitation of the revolutionary army in saving the country and establishing a propaganda system. Otherwise, the Northern Army would not be able to explode with such strong combat power. Facing the anti-French coalition forces with more troops than themselves and with artillery advantages, they can stand firm.
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