239 French Hero
"General, the enemy is coming up again, and there are many!"
General Campbell, who was appointed during the reign of Robert Spear, raised his monocular lens and saw the opposite side wearing different styles of military uniforms, and various colorful military flags fluttering in the wind. After calculating the number of the other party in his heart, his face suddenly became serious.
“These damn Italian vendors send so many people up every time!
Everyone was ready to fight, transported the cannons to the front, and used shotguns.
Those Italian vendors are cowards. If you spray a wave of shotgun at them with cannons, we will win!"
General Campbell shouted loudly to the messengers around him.
If you observe carefully, you will find that only half of these soldiers stationed in the fortress defense line were wearing the military uniforms of the original Revolutionary Army of the National Salvation Army, and most of the soldiers were wearing various civilian costumes and wearing triangular hats in civilian styles on their heads. This is a mixed force between militia and the original Revolutionary Army of the National Salvation Army!
At this time, General Campbell had only more than 2,000 troops under his command, but he was facing an attack of tens of thousands of Italian coalition forces!
"General, our shotgun has been used up, and the ammunition behind has not yet been shipped..."
With a loud bang, Campbell hit the wooden table with a ferocious face and cursed: "Damn Li Wei!
At this time, the ammunition behind him was still stuck. He wanted to see the army of our former revolutionary government being annihilated by the anti-French alliance!
Li Wei is not worthy of being the chief consul of the French Republic. How did he deceive the members of the Republic's parliament to become the president of the Republic's parliament?
Could it be that Levi bought the entire parliament of the French Republic?”
General Campbell knew that he could not rely on the rear now. Since the war broke out, no soldiers, soldiers, guns and bullets have been transported from the rear!
If it weren't for the firearms arsenal in the city where he was stationed, even muskets and ammunition would have been in short supply.
"Let everyone prepare for hand-to-hand combat, and behind us is our hometown. We have no way out. Long live the French Republic!"
General Campbell personally raised a tricolor red, white and blue flag, pulled all the remaining non-combatants around him, and rushed towards the frontier position that had been trapped in bayonet fight.
The Italian coalition relies on the tactics of the sea of people and has begun to gradually devour the entire frontier position. If the fortress is lost, their hometown cities will face the burning, killing and looting Italian coalition forces!
The militia and the soldiers of the former country-savior Revolutionary Army who had begun to retreat, the morale was immediately filled after seeing their supreme commander General Campbell, whose bright uniform appeared on the battlefield.
On the entire battlefield, the revolutionary slogan of "freedom, equality, fraternity" suddenly sounded, and more than 2,000 soldiers began to launch fierce bayonet counterattacks against tens of thousands of Italian coalition forces!
After just half an hour of bayonet fighting, all the reserves of the Italian coalition were repelled. A large army of tens of thousands of people threw down more than a thousand bodies and left the battlefield without any establishment defeat. In the subsequent pursuit, General Campbell took his troops to arrest more than 5,000 prisoners of war from the Italian coalition despite his own danger!
The proportion of soldiers in the Kingdom of Sardinia was the highest among the Italian coalition forces, followed by those northern Italian states that remained independent. The fewer troops sent to the south of the Italian Peninsula.
In this battle, General Campbell reversed and turned the tables in a situation where ammunition and troops were extremely scarce, and successfully annihilated the main force of the Italian coalition, and immediately became a hero in the entire southeastern French war zone!
A large number of scattered raiders from the southeastern French war zone gathered towards the city where General Campbell was stationed. It took General Campbell only a week to increase the strength of his troops under his command, and expanded to more than 8,000 people, and continued to increase!
Under General Campbell's fierce attack, the French cities that the Italian coalition had occupied were successively lost. Compared with the successive defeats in the Northeastern French Theater Command, General Campbell's counterattack record in the Southeastern War Zone immediately became the backbone of the entire eastern France.
However, after winning personal reputation, General Campbell continued to point out in public the inaction of the Levi government in this anti-French alliance invasion war.
Campbell published a large number of newspapers and magazines in French cities he controlled, about the predicament of the soldiers on the front line short of clothes and food, and even had cannons but no shells available. However, the Li Wei regime in Paris did not care about it, and Paris did not transport even a bullet to support the Patriotic War on the front line!
After Li Wei received the news, he immediately became unhappy.
In the current office of Levi’s Cabinet Government in the Palace Duille in Paris, Levi took a newspaper in front of the Minister of Propaganda.
“What’s going on?
We have already taken control of the central power of France, but now so many local newspapers and magazines are openly slandering the central government!
What is that Campbell?!
A general who was granted by the old Robert Spear government has never admitted it, nor has I ever admitted it!
What qualifications does he have to criticize the central government?
Campbell's behavior is a warlord and must be dealt with seriously!"
“Yes, Chief Consul.
I'll publish news in the National Honors newspaper that Campbell is self-respecting and tries to split France!"
After hearing this, Li Wei nodded slightly and looked at his army minister.
"Although Campbell had the mistake of having a self-respecting force and slandering the central government, he defeated the Italian coalition and defeated many Italian states led by the Kingdom of Sardinia, and indeed made due contributions to the French Republic.
I am a very tolerant and generous person. The Army Department sent Campbell a document telling him that if he still admitted that he was a French general, he would come to Paris alone to report his duties. At that time, I would personally award him the rank of French Major General!
And as long as he comes to Paris, he proves that he does not have the idea of self-respecting troops, he is the real French hero!”
Li Wei felt that whether General Campbell could really fight or not, his reputation now plays a significant role in appeaseing the Eastern French theatre, and it is worthwhile to spend administrative enlightenment to control General Campbell.
At that time, not only will the anti-central situation in southeastern France stabilize immediately, Campbell's army can also be transferred to the northeastern theater to delay the attack of the Pu'Austrian coalition.
Compared with the Italian coalition, the P-Australia coalition was significantly stronger and more powerful. The revolutionary cities in northeastern France were either without revolutionary generals like Campbell, but they all failed without exception. In the end, they were either killed or turned into runaway generals...
Because the Livi government was in power for too short, most cities in northeastern and southeastern France followed the military and political system during the reign of Robert Spear (the government was in power for too short, and there was not much adjustment to the military except for disarmament), so there were still many "former generals" left in eastern France.
These generals of the former dynasty were nominally deprived of command, but overturned the Robertspier government and did not appoint a new military chief. During the invasion of the anti-French alliance, many of these generals who were removed from command summoned old subordinates and militias to resist foreign enemies in the patriotic sentiment of the Patriotic War.
This is why Li Wei still has time to slowly train his 100,000 troops in Paris.
However, Li Wei did not expect that some of the generals left by Robert Spear during the period would really make a name for themselves, and even led the Italian coalition forces among the two anti-French alliances to the border!
You should know that in the southeastern French Theater Command, since the Li Wei government did not establish the authority to establish unified command, all provinces and cities will independently fight against the enemy, and at most they will join forces to fight against the enemy. In addition, there is no shortage of troops, weapons and ammunition, etc., and there is no money to recruit soldiers, it will be vulnerable to the Italian coalition.
Unexpectedly, under such a harsh situation, a leader who turned the tide appeared in the southeastern French Theater Command.
General Campbell has the ability to integrate the southeastern French war zone and hold high the national flag of justice. If he goes further, he will be a real warlord!
Li Wei naturally would not allow General Campbell, who was stepping on the "corpse" of the Italian coalition, to become a phenomenal leader in the French Republic.
As for the newspapers and magazines published by General Campbell in major cities in southeastern France, every sentence is true, and there are no intentional exaggerated words, but as shameless... Well, as a central government with orthodox status, it is naturally impossible to admit this kind of slander.
You should know that except for the northeastern and southeastern regions of France, the people in other regions of France did not know Li Wei's strategic plan at all. They also thought that the war with the anti-French alliance was a national Patriotic War!
This is the benefit of not having the Internet, and the central government can easily cut off public opinion.
Now the news that has been sent back to the Southeast War Zone is still under the control of public opinion in Paris. Except for the top government officials, ordinary Parisians have no idea that their French compatriots are fighting against the enemy alone in the southeast of France. They are treated as cannon fodder by the central government and do not give any support to the front!
Otherwise, the Parisian people with a strong revolutionary atmosphere would have erupted long ago.
Of course, the entire French Republic's parliament is under the control of Levi. Those parliamentary leaders are the leaders of the Paris public opinion orientation. If they don't speak, General Campbell's no matter how happy he is in the southeast of France, the news cannot be spread.
Even nowadays, most people in Paris do not know the name Campbell. At most, they know that the situation in the southeastern war zone in France is better than in the northeast. Many Parisians with low news do not even know the news of the defeat of the Italian coalition.
The French Propaganda Department led by Levi was very common in Levi's 21st century in Levi's previous life.
It's just a downplay.
As long as the matter is not reported, the public knows nothing.
The people are the most forgetful people. Even in the 21st century Internet era, if someone takes action behind the news and suppresses the hot search, the entire network will be purified and the news will no longer be broadcast. In just a few months, most people will completely forget the social injustice they have paid attention to.
Li Wei saw too much in his previous life. The most frightening thing about the power of capital is that capital can make the people not even have the right to know!
You don’t know what happened, how can you proclaim justice?
Even the Internet keyboard warrior has no place to play...
In France in the 18th century, public opinion control was countless times easier than in the 21st century, and Li Wei naturally would not give up this government advantage.
After responding to Levi's order, the Secretary of the Army hesitated for a moment and asked, "Sir, what should I do if Campbell refuses to enter Paris alone?"
"reject?
Haha, if Campbell refuses to enter Paris alone and ignores the orders of the French central government, it will be treason!
Then we will have solid evidence to prove that Campbell is a traitor who takes advantage of the opportunity of the Patriotic War to split the great France.
First, we will deduct the charges and wait until our military preparations are over, and then we will catch Campbell and his accomplices in one place."
Li Wei is now increasingly mature in his use of politics.
To attack your own enemies, you not only need to destroy the other person physically, but also to discredit the other person mentally.
To be precise, it is to take the blame first, support the opponent's stigma, and then master the master's reputation and eliminate the opponent. In this way, wouldn't Li Wei firmly occupy the moral commanding heights?
This is what a qualified politician should do. There may be voices of opposition, but in the face of the Li Wei regime that controls the general trend of public opinion, the voices of opposition will sooner or later be overwhelmed by spitting, and even Li Wei does not need to do it himself.
After all, most people do not always pay attention to politics. They all need to eat, drink, defecate, and sleep. As long as the government persists in controlling public opinion orientation and turning heroes of the country into treason bears, it is really not difficult.
Therefore, in all dynasties, the most important thing to be a national hero is not how noble personal sentiment is, but to choose the correct political position to stand!
Only by following the right boss will you be praised as the altar of heroes.
The letter from the Levi government's Army Department was soon delivered to General Campbell, who was confronted with the Kingdom of Sardinia on the southeastern France front.
After reading the documents from the Paris Army Department, General Campbell locked himself in the house for a period of time before he walked out.
Then, he did what all patriotic French generals in this era would do - obey the Paris government, insisted on maintaining the unity of France, and went to Paris alone with only a few servants to report their duties!
As for the command of the front line, he was handed over to his trusted adjutant by Campbell. Anyway, the Italian coalition was already afraid of being beaten and probably would not launch a new offensive.
Thanks to the large account for being sealed and rewarded with a small account for 8,000 starting point coins, becoming the first guardian of this book!
Thanks to Shangshan Ruoshui for rewarding 500 starting coins.
Thanks to the Taoist monks of the Heavens for rewarding 100 starting points coins.
Thanks to Sanshi Daojun for rewarding 100 starting points coins.
Chapter completed!