Chapter 94: , The crisis (two)

Kano worked hard, trying to send more people and materials to the north. However, the Northern Army did not immediately receive sufficient personnel and supplies. The reason was simple, because a large-scale rebellion broke out in the Vendée region.
Vendée is an area full of hills and forests. It is one of the most traditional, backward and enclosed areas in France. The lifestyle of the people there is not much different from that of hundreds of years ago.
However, the closed and backward Vendée area is not actually the base of the royal party, and the farmers there have no feelings for the king or anything. This is also normal, just like the peasants from the East China Food Country sing in "Song of the Earth": "It works at sunrise, and rests at sunset. I dig a well and drink, and I eat in the fields. What is Dili to me? Yes?
So, from the point of view of the farmers in the Vendée region, what happened to the king?
The revolutionary government cut off the head of a guy named Louis XVI. For the farmers in Vendée, it was not a big deal-are the crops still growing? It's still growing, then no problem! As for the noble lords, the peasants in Vendée also did not care. The masters were hung up on the street lights, what does it matter to them? As long as the crops are in the field... Therefore, the monarch is constitutional and Vendée is very stable; the king is beheaded, Vendée is still very peaceful.
But recently, the farmers in the Vendée also gradually felt that the revolutionary government is really a problem.
The first annoying move of the revolutionary government was that they even drove out the priests. After the revolution, the "Priest Law" was passed, requiring priests to swear allegiance to the government, which led to the division of the church in France. But in Vendée, those priests who did not swear allegiance to the government still open their churches, do their memorial service, and are in charge of the keys to the rise of every poor peasant to heaven. The French government in Paris actually does not care To such a poor country. Therefore, the "Cleric Law" had a limited impact on Vendée.
But after the king lost his head, the situation changed. Because many priests who refused to swear allegiance to the government became the backbone of the rebellion everywhere. The National Assembly passed a decree announcing the expulsion of all priests who had not sworn allegiance to the government.
According to this new decree, all priests who have not sworn allegiance to the government must leave France within the stipulated time of the decree. Any priest who has not sworn allegiance to the government but still stays in France after the expiry date will be discovered. , Will be regarded as insurgents and can be directly sentenced to death without trial.
Some priests in the Vendée region also launched some rebellions after the king was executed. At first, these rebellions looked no different from insurgents in other regions. The vast number of farmers in the Vendée still maintained the attitude of "How can Dili be to me" and did not participate much. So these rebellions were quickly suppressed.
But the subsequent expulsion of "undocumented" priests caused huge dissatisfaction among the farmers in Vendée. Because in the closed Vendée area, there are basically no so-called "certified" priests. Therefore, the republican government's action in Vendée is, in a sense, an action to remove Christianity from Vendée.
If the clergy's rebellion did not receive much support from the peasants, the republican government's expulsion of the clergy aroused the anger of the entire Vendée region.
But if it was just this problem, the Vendée's rebellion might not be so serious. Because of the precarious situation in the north, the Republican government passed a national conscription decree proposed by Kano. And sent special commissioners to various places to supervise the recruitment and tax collection.
Because of the restriction of production methods, generally speaking, the agricultural population is generally unwilling to leave their hometown. The same goes for farmers in Vendée. In fact, even the National Self-Defense Forces in the cities are generally unwilling to leave their cities to fight in other places, let alone the farmers in the Vendée? Coupled with the fact that the priests, nobles, and foreigners fan the flames, the rebellion in Vendée expanded rapidly.
The revolutionary government mobilized some National Self-Defense Forces to suppress it, believing that it could easily suppress the peasants' rebellion just like the past. Unexpectedly, the situation in Vendée is completely different from the past. The farmers in the Vendée were very brave in defending their hometowns, no less than the volunteers. And their commanders are all aristocrats who once served as middle and senior officers in the French army.
Vendée was close to the sea. When the rebellion first began, the British discovered that this was a good opportunity to strike against the French. So they searched all over the French exiled nobles who hated the Republic, and at the same time they had a certain People with military experience gathered them in England, organized them, and then sent them to the coastline of Vendée by warships. Then, under the guidance of people from the local church, they went to different teams to take charge of command. This is how the Marquis of Roundnack in Hugo's last full-length novel "1993" came to the land of Vendée.
Therefore, when the generals of the revolutionary government without trousers and no combat experience entered the Vendée with the National Self-Defense Forces, what they had to face was not the total number they had imagined. They are a scattered sand-style rebels that do not belong to each other and cannot cooperate, but a real army with the same high morale as them, better command, better cooperation, and more soldiers.
In this way, the result of the battle is self-evident. The government army was defeated by the peasant army, and the entire Vendée region fell. At that time, most of the French army was transferred to the north to fight the Prussian and Austrian coalition forces. The entire south was empty. If the rebels take the opportunity to go north, the Republic will be caught in a crisis of fighting on both sides.
Since joining the anti-France camp, the British have not really invested even one platoon of combat troops on the ground, but in terms of the threats and losses caused to France, they are no less than a mobilization order. Austria and Prussia that have mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops. The legendary stick, terrible!
Of course, the specialization of sticks can also bring other problems. For example, too much hope to rely on the power of others to play the trick of "controlling the barbarian", and he is unwilling to give a penny of strength. In the case of French national conscription and the continuous mobilization of Pau, the British also cut the size of the army by a quarter to save costs.
This brings up another problem, that is, although the royalists who led the rebellion in Vendée are very much looking forward to the British Army landing in Vendée, unite with them, expedition to Paris, defeat the rebels, and recover beside. But the British refused to send a soldier, hoping that the rebels could solve the problem on their own. Because according to British calculations, if the Vendée rebels moved northward at this time, it would be enough to achieve their goal.
But something unexpected happened to the British and the royal party, that is, the farmers of Vendée were not loyal to the royal family.
In fact, just as the National Self-Defense Forces in the cities are unwilling to leave their hometowns and fight in remote frontiers, the farmers in Vendée are also unwilling to leave their villages and farmland. This nostalgia for hometown even extends far beyond those citizens in the city.
When the people in the city who were forcibly dragging them hundreds of miles away to fight were driven away, the peasants scattered all at once, went back to their homes, and went to their mothers. In the end, only those nobles and a few kittens and puppies were left with them.
Looking at the group of peasants who were scattered in a rush, whether they were from the Republic, the Royal Party, or other foreigners, they were all stupid, and all felt that their eyes had deceived themselves.
So the Northern Expedition to Paris is naturally no more drama, how about the farmers are too...too honest?
But leaving Vendée alone is not acceptable. What if, what if the British army really kills over there? The British have not sent soldiers here, but who can guarantee that they will not send soldiers here in the future? If the British stabbed the back of the when they had a good fight with Pu'ao, it would be really...
Therefore, the revolutionary government can only hope to stand up to the north, and then transfer the troops transferred to the north to the south, in order to completely solve the problems of Vendée. Fortunately, Austria and Prussia are also more cooperative, especially Austria. When the pressure on the battlefield was relaxed, it immediately remembered that the queen had eaten such a large piece of meat, but only let them smell the meat. So he turned his head again, and became entangled with the Queen's special interests of the "Holy Roman Empire" in Poland.
In addition, Austria feels that if he is too desperate to the north now ~EbookFREE.me~, it will only attract more French troops. In the end, they will be beaten to death, and most of the benefits will be taken by the British and Spanish went. If it was done like this, wouldn't it be possible to smell the scent of meat coming from the other side again?
As for Prussia, I also feel that it is time for the French to fight the French themselves. It is best to have the French and the British fight, and then do it, that can maximize the benefits.
As a result, the two kings and one emperor’s small abacus was originally the most critical. As the decisive northern battlefield, it was temporarily quiet. The French got a rare respite instead.
Taking advantage of this gap, Cano quickly transferred Joseph and Napoleon, and the Red Army back. Anyway, now the commander of the Northern Army feels that they are too influential in the army to prevent him from commanding the army.
Kano transferred Joseph and Napoleon back. One of his ideas was to let them be responsible for suppressing the Vendée rebellion. However, when he and Joseph raised the matter, Joseph expressed firm opposition.
"Vendée's matter is not a military issue, but a political issue. If the political issue must be resolved by the military, Lazar, then I have to say that the number of troops you prepare is too small."