Kano worked hard to get more people and supplies to the north. However, the Northern Army did not immediately receive sufficient men and supplies, for the simple reason that a large-scale rebellion broke out in the Vendée region.

The Vendée is a region full of hills and forests, one of the most traditional, backward and closed regions in the whole of France, where the way of life is not much different from even a few hundred years ago.

However, the closed and backward Vendée region was not actually the base of the royal party, and the peasants there had no affection for the king or anything. This is also normal, just like the peasants of Dongda who eat the country, sang in "The Song of Striking Kik": "The sun rises and the sun sets." Dig wells and drink, plough fields and eat. What is Dili to me? "So, in the eyes of the peasants of the Vendée, what happened to the king, and what did it matter to them?

The revolutionary government cut off the head of a guy named Louis XVI, and it was not a big deal for the peasants of the Vendée - are the crops still growing in the fields? It's still growing, so that's no problem! As for the aristocratic lords, they were also unlucky, and the peasants of the Vendée were equally unconcerned. The old man was hung with a street lamp, so what does it matter to them? As long as the crops in the field ...... Therefore, the monarchy is constitutional, and the Vendée is very stable; The king was beheaded, and the Vendée was still at peace.

Recently, however, the Vendée peasants have also come to feel that the current revolutionary government is a bit of a problem.

The first annoying move of the revolutionary government was that they wanted to drive out the clergy. After the Revolution, the Law on the Clergy was passed, which required the Clergy to swear allegiance to the government, which led to the split of the Church in France. But the clergy, who did not swear allegiance to the government, kept their churches, performed their rituals, and held the keys to the ascension of every poor peasant to heaven, and the French government in Paris could not actually control such a poor country. Therefore, for a while, the influence of the "Law of the Clergy" on the Vendée was also very limited.

But after the king lost his head, the situation changed. Because many clergymen who refused to swear allegiance to the government became the backbone of the rebellion everywhere. The National Assembly then passed a decree deporting all clergy who had not sworn allegiance to the Government.

According to this new decree, all clergy who did not swear allegiance to the government were required to leave France within the time specified by the decree, and any clergy who remained in France after the deadline and did not swear allegiance to the government were to be considered rebels and could be sentenced to death without trial.

Some of the clergy in the Vendée also launched some rebellions after the king's execution. These rebellions at first looked no different than those in other regions. The vast number of peasants in the Vendée still maintained the attitude of "what is Dili to me" and did not participate much. So these rebellions were quickly suppressed.

But the ensuing expulsion of the "unlicensed" clergy caused great discontent among the Vendée peasants. Because in the closed Vendée region, there are basically no so-called "licensed" clergy. Thus, the action of the republican government in the Vendée was, in a sense, an action to purge Christianity from the Vendée.

If the rebellion of the clergy did not receive much support from the peasants, the republican government's expulsion of the clergy provoked anger throughout the Vendée.

But if this is just the problem, the rebellion in the Vendée may not be so serious. Because of the crisis in the north, the republican government passed a decree on national conscription, proposed by Carnot. And sent commissioners to various places to supervise the conscription and taxation.

Because of the limitations of the mode of production, the agricultural population is generally reluctant to leave their hometowns. The same is true of the farmers of the Vendée. In fact, even the National Guard in the cities were generally reluctant to leave their cities to fight elsewhere, let alone the peasants of the Vendée. Coupled with the fact that the clergy, nobles, and foreigners fanned the flames, the rebellion of the Vendée spread rapidly.

The revolutionary government mobilized some of the National Guard to suppress it, believing that it would be able to suppress the peasant rebellion with ease, as in the past. Unexpectedly, the situation in Vendée today is completely different from the past. The peasants of the Vendée were as brave as the volunteers in defending their homeland. And their commanders were all aristocrats who had served as middle and high-ranking officers in the French army.

The Vendée was close to the sea, and at the beginning of the rebellion, the British saw that this was a good opportunity to strike at the French, so they searched for those who were full of hatred for the Republic and had some military experience among the French exiled nobles, gathered them in England, organized them, and then sent them to the coastline of the Vendée by warship, and then they went to different teams under the guidance of the local church to take command. This is how the Marquis de Landenac, in Hugo's last novel, Ninety-Three Years, ascended to the Vendée lands.

Therefore, when the sans-culottes generals of the revolutionary government, who had no combat experience, entered the Vendée with the National Guard, what they had to face was not the kind of scattered rebels who had a large number of people but were not subordinate to each other and could not cooperate, but a real army with the same high morale, better command, better coordination, and more soldiers.

In this way, the outcome of the battle is naturally 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 moved to the north to fight the Austro-Prussian army, and the whole south was empty. If the rebels take advantage of the opportunity to move north, the Republic will be in a crisis of fighting on both sides.

Since joining the opposition to France, the British had not really put a platoon of combat troops on the ground, but in terms of the threat and losses inflicted on France, they were no less than Austria and Prussia, which had issued mobilization orders and mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops. Legendary-stirring sticks, terrifying!

Of course, the-stirring stick specialization will also bring other problems, such as being too willing to rely on the strength of others to play the trick of "razing and razing", and not wanting to give a penny of their own strength. Even when France was conscripted nationwide and Austria was constantly mobilized, the British also cut the size of the army by a quarter to save costs.

This brings up another problem, that is, although the royal elements who led the Vendée rebellion were very much expecting the British Army to land in the Vendée and join forces with them to make a northern expedition to Paris, to quell the rebels, and to restore Bourbon. But the British refused to send a single soldier, hoping that the rebels would solve the problem on their own. Because according to the calculations of the British, if the rebels of the Vendée moved north at this time, it would be enough to achieve their goal.

But something unexpected happened to the British and the royal party, and that was that the peasants of the Vendée were not loyal to the royal family.

In fact, just as the National Guard in the cities were reluctant to leave their homeland to fight on distant frontiers, the peasants of the Vendée were reluctant to leave their villages and farmlands. This nostalgia for home extends even further than that of the citizens of the city.

When the people of the city, who had forcibly dragged them hundreds of miles away to fight, were driven away, the peasants dispersed in a hurry, and went back to their homes and their mothers. As a result, only the nobles were left, and a few kittens and puppies that followed them.

Looking at the peasants who scattered in a hurry, whether it was the republic's side, or the royal party's side, or other foreigners, they were all stupid, and they all felt that their eyes had deceived them.

So the Northern Expedition to Paris naturally had no drama at all, or the peasants were too ...... Too sincere?

But it won't work if you leave Vendée alone. What if, what if the British army really came over from there? The British are not sending troops over now, but who dares to guarantee that they will not send troops in the future, if the British are stabbed in the back of the ass when they are having a good fight with Puo in the front, it will be a ......

Therefore, the revolutionary government could only hope to resist the north first, and then transfer the troops that had been transferred to the north to the south, so as to solve the Vendée problem once and for all. Fortunately, Austria and Prussia were also more cooperative, especially Austria, when they saw that the pressure on the battlefield was relaxed, they immediately remembered that the empress had eaten such a large piece of meat, but only let them smell the meat. So he turned around again and became entangled with the empress about the special interests of the "Holy Roman Empire" in Poland.

In addition, Austria felt that if he tried too hard in the north now, he would only attract more French troops, and in the end they would be bloodied, and most of the benefits would be lost to the British and Spaniards. If it is like this, won't you once again only be able to smell the smell of meat wafting from other people's side?

As for Prussia, it also felt that it was time to slow down and let the French fight the French themselves. It is better to have the French and the British to fight, and then do it, that will maximize the benefits.

As a result, the two kings and one emperor's small abacus were the most critical, but as a decisive northern battlefield, they were temporarily quiet. The French, instead, were given a rare respite.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Cano hurriedly transferred Joseph and Napoleon, as well as the Red Army. Anyway, now the commander of the Northern Army felt that they were too influential in the army to prevent him from commanding the army.

Cano brought Joseph and Napoleon back, and one of the ideas was to put them in charge of suppressing the Vendée rebellion. However, when he and Joseph brought it up, Joseph expressed his strong opposition.

"The Vendée is not a military issue, but a political one. If the political problem has to be solved militarily, Lazar, then I have to say that the number of troops you have prepared is too small. ”