248 Three Armies and Two Divisions(1/2)
"Your Majesty, are we going to continue the attack now?"
"attack?
The Pu'Austrian coalition has retreated. How can we fight Paris by relying on ourselves?
Let our army turn the direction, take advantage of the opportunity when the Levi government has not reorganized his French Defence Force and guard the south to empty the south, and regain the coastal cities of southward, so that we can get the supply support from British ships from the southern harbour.
And I heard that the Marseille region is very disgusted with the Levi regime. There are countless Marseille people who died in the Marseille tragedy. We should be able to get more support when we get there."
Louis XVIII ordered calmly.
"Your Majesty, the revolutionary atmosphere in the Marseille region is very strong. Will it really support us?"
“How many cities in the southeastern France that support me now have not supported the revolution before?
Haven't you all been loyal to me now?
With Levi, a common enemy, placed in Paris, we can definitely find more friends in France."
Louis XVIII replied with a smile.
"Oh by the way, have our people entered Paris?
Have the reward documents I signed sent out?”
"Report to Your Majesty, our people's actions in Paris are quite smooth. Except for the middle and lower-level officials in several important departments who did not accept and report to the Levi government, most middle and lower-level officials in Paris have accepted the reward documents granted by His Majesty.
The royalist power in Paris has been further expanded.”
"Well, right, the infiltration of the Paris municipal government cannot be stopped. As long as I am willing to oppose Li Wei, no matter how many nobles I killed before, I can forgive him for his crimes.
However, the fact that Levi could hypnotize should be true. Neither Levi's cabinet government nor the senior officials of the Paris Municipal Government should contact each other. Those people may have been controlled by Levi's hypnosis!
All failed cases will be recorded and screened to see which departments refuse our rewards and reports will be used to improve our intelligence."
Compared to Louis XVI, Louis XVI, who had experienced the ups and downs of life, was obviously much more cautious and laid out countless hidden lines to back up.
Although the enemy of Levi is very terrible and difficult, Louis XVIII was already placed in the position of King France. Whether for himself or by his followers behind him, Louis XVIII had no way out!
The Pu'Austrian coalition was defeated, and the Italian coalition led by the Kingdom of Sardinia was not as good as the French army under his command. Louis XVIII can only rely on himself now.
Three days after the news of the defeat of the Pakatans and Austrian coalition forces evacuated France into Paris, the 100,000 troops of the Kingdom of France restored by Louis XVIII turned their fingers and attacked southwestern France, where there were no Black Dragon Legion guards, but only some garrison corps and local security regiments.
As a result, the garrison corps and local security regiments in southwestern France were about to collapse under the offensive of the French Kingdom Army!
The armed forces in the Marseille region even turned against each other and sent all the administrative enlightenment officials sent by Li Wei to the guillotine...
Without a decent battle, the Kingdom of France ‘recovered’ the Provence, the Alps, and the Languedoc-Roussillon in southwestern France.
As Louis XVIII speculated, the strong revolutionary atmosphere in southwestern France, which was destroyed by the Levi Black Dragon Legion, did not have much resistance to the restoration of Louis XVIII. As long as Louis XVIII still insisted on fighting against the Levi government, they would be willing to join Louis XVIII's army!
As a result, the Kingdom Army under Louis XVIII in southwestern France was recovered, and a large number of local armed forces and even revolutionary guerrillas in the southern region were collected, and the scale increased instead of decreasing!
After seeing this scene, Carlos IV of the Kingdom of Spain suddenly felt confident. Finally, he stopped delaying the urging of the anti-French alliance, and pieced together a 120,000 Spanish army to head north into the Pyrenees region of France.
These 120,000 Spanish Army are the last essence of the Spanish Kingdom Army today. Even the elite noble private troops were added and they participated in the battle to destroy the Kingdom of Catalonia. It is no exaggeration to say that the most capable troops in the Kingdom of Spain are among these 120,000 people.
And the Kingdom of Spain can no longer provide additional regular military field forces...
For this anti-French war, the Carlos IV government has begun to rely on debt and is really unable to train a new army.
Although the Spanish Kingdom was rich, it was corrupt, and the wealth plundered by the colonies was shared by the royal government. The money that fell into the hands of the royal government was not much.
There is nothing in peacetime, and it is more than enough to maintain the luxurious life of the royal family. Once a war occurs, the finances will be short of money.
So far, the Carlos IV government has not raised enough funds to repair the trauma of the Madrid War.
However, it was the most capable field troops in the 120,000 Spanish Kingdom that were blocked by the only regiment-level unit left by the Black Dragon Legion, who barely gathered their opponents to annihilate them after being blocked by the only regiment-level unit left by the Black Dragon Legion.
The price of these ten thousand people is the number of casualties, and the number of injured is three times that of casualties!
The 120,000 Spanish Army wiped out more than 2,100 Black Dragon Army members, but they paid such a tragic price, which made the morale of the Spanish Army go down...
However, after gnawing off this hard bone, the Pyrenees region no longer blocked the regular army of the Spanish army. The Spanish Kingdom chose a good time. Li Wei was trying his best to shrink his guard against Paris and reorganized the French Defense Forces.
In the end, the remaining 80,000 troops of the Spanish Army rested and headed north again to meet with Louis XVIII's troops in the city of Toulouse.
Toulouse, a city that was used as the ruling capital by Li Wei for a period of time, is now in a state of unpreparedness. When the army arrived, all the officials enlightened by Li Wei's administration fled with Li Wei's permission, while the remaining garrison corps and local security groups all laid down their weapons and surrendered.
Of course, they surrendered to Louis XVIII rather than the Spanish invaders.
The Kingdom of Spain invaded France in the form of a "helping punch". It was an open ally with Louis XVIII's Kingdom of France. Carlos IV and Louis XVIII were still in kinship!
The two countries are well-deserved brotherly countries.
After the two sides met, the messengers representing the king's will also meet quickly and held non-public talks.
Although the 120,000 army of the Kingdom of Spain besieged the city where the 2,100 soldiers of the Black Dragon Legion were stationed, the total casualties were as high as 40,000, and there were more than 10,000 casualties alone!
It is not so much a victory as a shame to the Kingdom of Spain...
However, the Kingdom of Spain still has the strength to continue to let the 80,000 troops head north, so Louis XVIII naturally cannot ignore it. These 80,000 people are an important military force!
So, at the instructor of Louis XVIII, the messenger of Louis XVIII signed a secret agreement with the Kingdom of Spain.
As long as Levi's regime is overthrown and killed Levi, Louis XVIII is willing to ced the entire Pyrenees region to the Kingdom of Spain!
Such a treason treaty could not be made public. Although there were paper documents, Louis XVIII would never admit it before the overthrow of Levi's regime.
The Kingdom of Spain would not be so useless to do such a disgusting thing.
If the Levi regime was really overthrown, France, which had just experienced many civil wars and had a weak national strength, would naturally not be able to continue to challenge the anti-French alliance.
Moreover, Louis XVIII will inevitably be hostile to the French Revolutionary Party again. We must have the support of the anti-French alliance to hold the throne. At that time, as long as the major powers in the anti-French alliance are willing to come out to endorse the letter, they can be fulfilled without an open secret agreement.
Therefore, the government of Carlos IV was very satisfied with Louis XVIII's "sincerity".
Of course, now, except for both parties, outsiders do not know the existence of this secret agreement.
When Louis XVIII signed a secret agreement with the Kingdom of Spain to form a common front, tens of thousands of French defence forces in Paris had completed the training.
And every day, a built-in team came out of the barracks.
They expressed their loyalty to Li Wei with a pious tribute.
When a team of French Wehrmachts, who were very loyal to Levi, walked out of the barracks, the whole of Paris became quiet.
Even the most active Paris Commune gave up the plan to mobilize the masses during Li Wei's reign.
As the reorganization of the French Defence Force approached the end, the military system reform was announced by the Li Wei government, and all the original Black Dragon Corps were incorporated into the French Defence Force.
The organization of the company, battalion and regiment has not changed much, and the division level is fixed to about 10,000 people from now on.
The organization of large corps at the division level or above is no longer named after the legion, but has been changed to a streamlined "army".
An army will have at least three division-level troops, with a maximum of no more than ten divisions.
The army became the highest organization in the French Defence Force.
The banned legions will become another name, such as the Prussian legion among the French foreign legions, etc.
The army is the largest military organization in the standing position. If there is a battlefield demand for more troops in the future, several armies will be gathered to form a group army in a certain aspect.
The army group was temporarily organized during the war and was responsible for overall operations in a general direction.
It seems that Li Wei does not need to establish an army organization.
An army-level unit composed of tens of thousands of people is enough to deal with the enemies in France.
After the reorganization of the French Wehrmacht, more than 180,000 guard infantry were placed in the three armies and a guard division.
The First Army has 10 infantry divisions, hundreds of field artillery of various types, siege artillery and mortar artillery, two guard cavalry regiments, and of course a small number of sharpshooters equipped.
The sharpshooters were scattered in various troops and were not independent.
However, in addition to the three army-level troops, Li Wei set up a mountain division composed of sharpshooters, which is specially used for jungle and mountain combat. If nothing unexpected happens, this independent mountain division will become the main force in encircling and suppressing guerrillas in the future.
The Independent Mountain Division has a sharpshooter of over 10,000 yuan. The commander of the Mountain Division was Major General Resarith. Resarith first received sharpshooter training, so he served as the commander of the Mountain Division.
Resarith, who was originally a colonel, was promoted to another level and officially became a general.
The rank of general in the army under the Li Wei government is very rare.
Among the more than 18,000 sharpshooters, more than 10,000 people joined the mountain division, and the remaining less than 8,000 were scattered into three armies to serve as scattered soldiers.
The guard cavalry are all organized into regiment-level units, with a similar number of people as infantry regiments. They are classified as large corps in the cavalry.
In addition, in addition to the guard cavalry responsible for combat, there are also a large number of civilians and servants. Although these people are staff members, they have not been trained. Many of them are grooms, who are specialized in caring for the guard cavalry horses.
After all, Li Wei’s guard cavalry is a configuration of one man and three horses!
Therefore, there are more non-combatants in the Guards Cavalry Regiment than combatants!
There are almost no non-combatants in the infantry force, and even cooking is done by the guards infantry. Only when they are stationed in peacetime will professional chefs be hired to be responsible for the military food.
In wartime, it is also a relatively safe means of protection to let the guards infantry take on the responsibility of cooking.
The army-level troops of tens of thousands of people are equipped with hundreds of various artillery pieces. They are not outstanding among the army of European powers of this era, but they can also be called wealthy.
The main reason is that the casting and maintenance costs of artillery are a bit high, and the movement of artillery is difficult. Too many will seriously affect the speed of the troops' movement.
The First Army is the backbone of the French Wehrmacht, equipped with the most artillery and troops!
The commander of the First Army was naturally Carl, who was promoted to Lieutenant General.
To be continued...