Chapter 81: , Valmi (2)

　　 On August 29th, the P-Austrian forces surrounded Verdun, the gate of Paris. By the morning of September 2, the royal party launched a rebellion in Verdun and killed the commander of the city defense. Verdun surrendered to the Allied forces of Pau, and the gate of Paris was opened.
　　 Verdun lost because of the rebellion, completely beyond the French's expectations. In the French plan, Verdun, whose terrain is difficult and easy to defend and difficult to attack, should serve as an indestructible anvil, while the French army will become a heavy hammer. They cooperated and smashed the enemy to pieces. However, the anvil of Verdun was easily taken down because of the traitors inside. This made all the French people extremely angry, but also very scared-because everyone is worried about whether there will be traitors of the great motherland around them, ready to betray the motherland at any time.
　　 The National Assembly responded quickly, and now their first important task is to suppress the counter-revolution. Dandong, the most wanted criminal not long ago, the Minister of Justice of the new government, presided over the work of eliminating traitors from the motherland. He delivered a famous speech "Brave, Brave, Be Brave!" in the National Assembly that afternoon. "And began to lead the work of suppressing counter-revolutionaries in Paris.
　　 A large number of nobles, as well as those who have relationships with the nobles, or are suspected of sympathizing with the king and nobles, were put in prison
preventively
without any investigation and trial.
　　 If you just do this, it’s not too much. After the Pearl Harbor incident broke out in later generations, the Beacon Nation also imprisoned all the Nihong diasporas in concentration camps regardless of the three or seventy one.
　　 Amidst fear and anger, the policy adopted in this "preventive" arrest is naturally "every suspected crime", "I would rather catch a thousand wrongs than miss one." The prisons of Paris were quickly filled, and "traitor" suspects continued to be sent over.
　　 At this time, a rumor appeared. According to this rumor, the royalists would launch a rebellion, rush to prison, rescue those "traitors", and join forces with the P-Austrian forces close at hand to suppress the revolution in Paris. The Austrians have already said that they will wash the streets of Paris with blood in order to avenge their insult to the king.
　　 The people of Paris quickly became armed and prepared to deal with the royalist rebellion. But at this time, the royalists were either caught in prison or escaped from Paris. Where is the capital of the rebellion? However, an unexpected event made the whole situation out of control.
　　 Because a prison was full. Therefore, the National Self-Defense Army plans to send all the "suspects" here to another prison with room. In order to make room for the next batch of "suspects." When they left the prison, they were seen by some citizens. The nervous citizens mistakenly thought they were royalists, and now they have robbed the prison, and they are about to rescue those "traitors", so they shouted loudly. Then the citizens of Paris, holding various weapons, surrounded them.
　　 The National Self-Defense Forces were not willing to clash with the citizens for these "traitors", so they left the "traitors" and ran away.
　　 The citizens naturally cannot catch up with the National Self-Defense Forces, but they at least stop the "traitors" who "try to escape". In anger and excitement, the citizens killed all these "traitors" who "want to escape". Others shouted: "Why are these traitors locked up? They all deserve to die!"
　　 Then the crowd passed to other prisons. They rushed into the prison and killed all the other people in the prison-whether he was a "traitor" or not, as long as he was kept in the prison.
　　 Queen’s best friend, Princess De Rambala, was also killed by angry citizens, cut off her head, inserted a spear, and marched outside the tower where the king and queen were imprisoned. People shouted towards the tower: "You will be like this one day!"
　　 Some Brissot parliamentarians proposed to Attorney General Dandong that order should be restored and the massacre should not be allowed to continue. However, although Dandong did not refute on the surface and even agreed with the statement that order should be restored, in fact he did not take any action.
　　 "We cannot stand on the opposite side of the people." Dandong explained later.
　　 However, many Brissot parliamentarians believed that Dandong was deliberately indulging in such behavior in order to tie all the people in Paris into a chariot against the P-Austrian coalition forces. And with this method, after the hidden dangers are eliminated in one go, Paris can put more power into the battle with foreign intervention forces.
　　 Indeed, after this crazy massacre, the government quickly mobilized another 20,000 volunteers within two days to support frontline operations.
　　 At the suggestion of Napoleon, General Di Mourier placed his army near the Valmi Heights in Sainte-Méneute. This place is not on the avenue from Verdun to Paris. But if the Prussian and Austrian coalition forces dared to pounce directly on Paris, then Di Mourier's army could easily cut off the back of the coalition army from here.
　　 Napoleon estimated that because of the continuous rain, the logistics of the coalition must have been very tense. Once the back road is cut off, it will definitely collapse quickly. Therefore, until the threat of Valmy's French army is eliminated, they will absolutely not dare to march towards Paris.
"Our army has the courage, but lacks training, and it is difficult to carry out complex offensive operations, but relying on terrain defense is relatively easy." Joseph also expressed support for his brother's plan. "In most cases, defense is It is a more powerful method of warfare than offense. If the enemy takes the initiative to attack us, then we will be able to defeat them in a defensive battle."
　　 Things are just as Napoleon judged, and the Duke of Brunswick did not dare to lead his troops straight to Paris before eliminating their threat to the back road. But he also knew that the longer the stalemate, the better for France. Because the French army is becoming more and more every minute and every second, and it is also becoming more and more well-trained.
　　 Therefore, the Duke of Brunswick decided to concentrate his forces first to defeat Di Mourier’s army before he could advance towards Paris.
　　 On September 17th, the Prussian and Austrian forces began to approach Valmi. At first, the Duke of Brunswick hoped to force the French army to retreat by threatening the French army's logistics channel Vitry Avenue. But before that, the revolutionary government had collected a large amount of grain and transported it to Du Mourier’s army through price restriction. So at least for a long time, Di Mourier was not worried about his food passage being cut off. On the contrary, the Prussian and Austrian coalition forces' own food roads have become precarious under the constant attacks of the volunteers in France.
　　 This status quo also forced the Duke of Brunswick to violate military principles and launch a forceful attack on the preset positions of the larger enemy.
　　 Most of the French army are volunteers. These volunteers are under-trained and cannot even get out of a decent queue on the battlefield. So they can only go into battle as a skirmisher. But their morale is high and their combat is fierce, which makes them especially useful when fighting as skirmishers.
　　 Generally speaking, in this era, the skirmish formation is not the main body, it is because this formation is vulnerable to the cuirassiers. Cuirassiers, in theory, can easily defeat them and kill them cleanly in pursuit.
　　 But in the outpost, the performance of these Volunteer Skirmishers exceeded the expectations of the Austrians and Prussians. When they discovered that the French army did not form a strict formation and did not have too many cavalry (because there are many nobles in the cavalry, they are relatively unreliable, and the mud legs of the volunteers are still unreliable. This kind of technical work, so there are not too many cavalry in the French army at this time), the Duke of Brunswick naturally sent his own cavalry without hesitation. He originally thought that his cavalry could easily disperse and destroy these mobs wearing blue uniforms (in their minds, these people are not an army at all), but when the attack began, he was surprised to find that the French Although the soldiers could not line up a tightly formed hollow phalanx specially designed to deal with the cavalry, when facing the cavalry, they unexpectedly greeted the cavalry bravely and fired at the cavalry instead of turning and fleeing normally.
　　 The hit rate of these guns is not high, UU reading www.uukanshu. com but still caused certain losses to the Prussian cavalry. However, the cavalry rushed up quickly. Under normal circumstances, the enemy should abandon their weapons, turn around and run away, and then they would easily catch up from behind to take the head. But those guys didn't retreat. Instead, they held up their bayonets and confronted the cavalry.
　　Warhorse can easily knock an infantry to the ground, but such a collision is not without damage to the warhorse. Especially when this person is still holding a bayonet rifle. The cavalry certainly had the upper hand in such a hand-to-hand combat, and they cut down all the blue thugs. However, their own losses are not small. Although only four or five blue thugs would die before one cavalry would die, the exchange ratio still made the Duke of Brunswick feel terribly distressed.
　　 You know, how much money did it cost those French people to recruit those blue thugs? And these cavalry will spend much more money. In such an exchange, Prussia naturally has the advantage in terms of the number of people; but in terms of cost comparison, Prussia has suffered a lot. Not to mention the cavalry, even the war horses are far more valuable than the blue thugs!
　　 However, the Duke of Brunswick still believes that the well-trained infantry on his side (at least compared to the "volunteers" in France) will surely destroy the defense lines of those French mobs.
　　After repelling the French skirmishers, the cannons of the Prussian and Austrian coalition forces began to fire violently at the French positions. After a brief but violent shelling, the infantry line of the P-Austro coalition began to press towards the French position.
　　 Napoleon stood behind a trench, looked at the approaching Austrian coalition forces, curled his lips and said, "I rushed up after only a few shots. It seems that there is indeed a big problem with their logistics supplies."