066 The Battle Begins
"I didn't expect that Resarith's ability was unexpectedly good. He actually used a team of less than a thousand people to delay for an additional month.
Now I have completed the upgrade training of guard infantry in the original basic line, and have trained two thousand guard infantry in the additional training.
Resarith also returned with the fox camp, with more than 4,000 troops together, and should be able to resist with the coalition forces of the two provinces in Rennes for a period of time."
At this time, tens of thousands of troops could be seen outside the outskirts of Rennes, and the blue, white and red tricolor flag was intercepted outside by a field fortification.
Although Li Wei was ready to fight street battles in Rennes, he did not intend to put the enemy into the city from the beginning.
Street fighting causes great harm to the city. Rennes is a very wealthy city. There are many important handicraft workshops and steam factories in the city. If street fighting starts, the losses will be great.
For Li Wei, who has already regarded Rennes as a private property, he will feel distressed if any factory building in Rennes is beaten away.
Therefore, Li Wei established two outdoor defense lines outside the suburbs of Rennes, and every street in the city where horse-drawn carriages are available for driving, barricade defense lines are arranged.
Guards wearing black police uniforms patrol the entire city under the leadership of the police captain enlightened by the full war system, helping the Black Dragon Legion maintain public order in the city.
Most of the Black Dragon Legion went to the wild fortifications outside the suburbs, resulting in very few troops in the city and could only rely on police to maintain public order.
Fortunately, in the past few months, Rennes City was continuously launched by Li Wei to confiscate a large number of guns held by the civilians, and even the local hunting rifle was not spared!
Even if the citizens in Rennes want to riot, they probably can only go out to the streets with kitchen knives and axes...
The citizens of Rennes knew very well the combat effectiveness of the Black Dragon Legion. Many passionate young men joined the National Self-Defense Force at the call of Wallace and their group, and then were beaten out by the Black Dragon Legion in a battle.
Therefore, the existing citizens of Rennes can be regarded as obedient people. They know that the Black Dragon Legion is not easy to mess with, and that the trouble is purely a truth that it is impossible to overcome one's own life.
Therefore, it is only necessary for some police to maintain the order of public order in Rennes.
The premise is that the enemy does not come in and breaks out in street fighting!
Once street fighting breaks out in Rennes, it means that the Black Dragon Legion's control over Rennes disappears.
This is why Li Wei tried his best to avoid street fighting.
Rennes is a city that has been calibrated by the full-scale war system. Li Wei could not give up on this city for the sake of plug-ins in his hands.
Li Wei’s troops were not sufficient and could not defend the enemy outside the country’s borders. More than 4,000 troops seemed to be a lot, but compared with the hostile 20,000 troops, division of troops would be a desperate battle!
At this moment, the administrative staff enlightened by Li Wei played a crucial role. Without their loyalty, Rennes would inevitably lead to civil unrest when the enemy arrived.
After all, the Black Dragon Legion's rule over Rennes was unpopular.
Li Wei is the leader of the rebel who is going against the rules and restores traditional aristocratic privileges!
Perhaps in the eyes of foreign forces, French scoundrels like Li Wei are worthy of praise, but in the eyes of the French people, Li Wei is a naked demon.
Even Louis XVI's reputation is much better than that of Li Wei now...
At least, Louis XVI did not object to the Declaration of Human Rights.
One artillery has been arranged on the first line of defense in the suburbs. The first line of defense in the suburbs is actually the main position line of defense, and the second line of defense is more like a support line of defense, used for internal troop mobility channels.
As long as the enemy attacks the first line of defense, the two sides will immediately start a decisive battle!
Naturally, the first line of defense in the suburbs, which was regarded as the focus by Li Wei, was constructed very carefully.
First, there were a circle of horse-rejecting wooden stakes, then several meters wide, and there were trenches filled with wooden trenches below. Behind the trenches were chest walls more than half a person high, and there were sharp trenches on the chest wall to prevent climbing.
There is not only one floor of the chest wall. The high ground behind the chest wall has two or even three floors of chest wall shooting positions. The artillery positions are also arranged at these high points, so that firepower can be easily covered on the heads of the enemy troops attacking the chest wall.
The first and widest chest wall is built close to the trench. If you want to climb the chest wall, you must first fill the trench.
Even if the enemy breaks through this chest wall, on the uneven ground behind, there will be a circular fortification as a fulcrum at every high point to shoot at the enemy who breaks through the first chest wall defense line.
At the same time, there are trenches and forks in front of each defensive fulcrum, and the artillery positions are also surrounded by trenches.
Obviously, these fulcrum defense lines are designed without considering the issue of soldiers retreating inside. When the soldiers inside face the enemy's fierce attack, there are only two options.
Repel the enemy and leave the defensive fulcrum, or be wiped out all.
The fortifications established by Li Wei are not too surprising, such as stacking sandbags and anti-cannon measures on chest walls, which have already had precedents in this world.
It is precisely because of the sandbag that the chest wall, which does not look very strong, is enough to resist the bombardment of solid iron bullets.
The two provincial coalition forces, which were attacked and consumed by Resarith and the scattered barracks, had less than 20,000 troops at this time. After seeing this complete field fortification outside Rennes, they couldn't help but retreat.
The officers and soldiers who made a small fortune in the province of Morbiang were unwilling to fight the Black Dragon Legion here.
If you want to surround Rennes, you can slowly kill the Black Dragon Legion by spending hunger.
They gave Li Wei several months to prepare. Li Wei sent troops everywhere to rob or extort, and expelled the elderly, weak, sick, disabled, and pregnant women in Rennes, etc., and stored enough food supplies for Rennes to spend more than a year.
If the enemy really besieged Rennes and planned to kill Levi by hunger, then Levi would be dying of laughter.
Because more than a year has been enough for Li Wei to add tens of thousands of troops!
At that time, it may not be certain who will hit whom!
However, the coalition forces of the two major provinces did not expect this. They did not dare to rely on besieging Hunger to deal with Li Wei, mainly because the Paris government was too tight.
Wallace could not convince the coalition forces of the two major provinces, but it did not prevent him from sending people to the Paris government to "report the imperial complaint".
The "leading MPs" in the two major provinces were warned by the Paris government. If they delayed, their MPs might not have to do anything...
In today's Kingdom of France, the identity of a parliamentary member has many conveniences for capitalists, and no one is willing to give up the identity of a parliamentary member.
Chapter completed!