Chapter 55: 8000 Army
"It shoots farther and more accurately than the line infantry, and the morale is higher, and it can also form a line of battle and has the ability to fight in the straggler line, this light infantry is really powerful!
That's the price......"
Lin Haoda is undoubtedly very satisfied with the introduction of the attributes of the light infantry, but not to mention the 120 people in the light infantry team, but also the double recruitment price of the line infantry, which is a bit hurtful for Lin Haoda, who has just started and needs a large number of troops to deal with the consumption of future conflicts......
Although the ability of the line infantry is very mediocre, but the low price is their biggest advantage, to replace the line infantry with light infantry, this number of losses can be large!
However, this kind of light infantry is also an indispensable existence, and the light infantry tactics are still quite impressive in the early stage of engaging the enemy's vital strength and morale. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info"
After Lin Haoda stared at his history smash points for a few seconds, he no longer hesitated, and spent 1000 history smash points to recruit 5 teams of light infantry, and the remaining 4000 history smash points were all recruited cheap, and only 100 history smash points were needed to exchange for a team of 160 line infantry!
Even if the statistics of these line infantry are very mediocre, in this war era of fighting for manpower and firepower, the position of the main infantry unit is unbreakable just by virtue of the fact that the line infantry is cheap!
Under Lin Haoda's more and more skillful operation, the historical crushing point was quickly consumed, 5 teams of light infantry cards, a total of 600 people appeared side by side at the bottom of Lin Haoda's retina, and 40 teams of full-line infantry cards also appeared, with a total of 6400 troops (160 times 40 = 6400, for Mao to have a team of 160 people?) It's not at all easy to calculate! )。
After Lin Haoda consumed all the mission rewards, plus the remaining troops guarding the Bastille, he suddenly became the absolute master of nearly 8,000 troops!
This is an army of nearly 8,000 heavily armed, and it is still in the critical period of the French Revolution, such a force, no matter from any point of view, is enough to be taken seriously!
During the days when Lin Haoda served as a low-level mercenary on the eve of the revolution, he obtained accurate information that before the outbreak of the revolution, the total number of German and Swiss mercenaries hired by King Louis XVI of France was only about 20,000.
At this time, France was not later broken by Napoleon, and the First French Empire, which opened the national mobilization buff, had a lot of troops on the French mainland, but together with the revolution, the French army had already been substantially divided!
Each administrative capital-level city has its own security army, and the countryside is full of private armies of large and medium-sized nobles......
In particular, those French nobles with heads and faces, many of whom are themselves prominent generals in the French army, and most of them have an army under their hands, and in peacetime, these noble generals naturally dare not disobey the orders of the Paris government, but now there are two sets of government teams in France at once, one is the Standing Committee of the Paris City Hall representing the interests of the bourgeoisie, and the other is the feudal absolute monarchy headed by King Louis XVI of France. In the middle, there are a large number of archbishops and all kinds of nobles who are either defective or neutral, how can the situation be described in a garbled word?!
After coming to France in this era for so long, Lin Haoda's biggest impact on the concept of feudal rule is that the aristocracy does not need to stand on the same front with the king!
If someone said at this time that the nobles and the king were diehards in the feudal society, Lin Haoda would definitely pull him by the collar and ask: "Who said that the aristocracy can't wear the same pants as the capitalists and bankers?" Who said that the bourgeoisie had to cut off the heads of the aristocracy? ”
There have been countless connections between the bourgeoisie and the aristocracy, there are many capitalists who are themselves aristocrats, and there are also many ancient aristocrats who have long followed the east wind of the industrial revolution and become the behind-the-scenes bosses of a large factory!
These aristocrats, either taking bribes or having interests with the new capitalists, formed an unnoticed alliance of interests, which was undoubtedly more reliable than the so-called allegiance to the king!
In the Palace of Versailles, it seems that there are elite guards and a large number of old mercenary legions, but even one of the attendants in the Palace of Versailles knows that the lords above are divided into several factions and argue all day long!
The authority of Louis XVI had been in crisis with the fall of Paris, and even though the nobles and archbishops still respected the French king on the surface, only God and his old man knew what was going on behind the scenes......
Of course, the Standing Committee of the Hôtel de Ville in Paris, on the other hand, was not in a peaceful situation, and if you looked into it, it was even more complicated than the factions at the Palace of Versailles, who did not even have a clear leader......
However, the strongest advantage of the Paris City Hall over the Palace of Versailles is that their goal in the short term is exactly the same, and this goal is also temporarily the same as that of the Parisian mud-legged people!
The goal was to overthrow the king's feudal autocracy!
It is to overthrow the feudal autocracy of the king, not to slaughter the king's family!
Although the revolutionaries shouted very reactionary slogans, the capitalists in power wanted political rights, while the people of Paris wanted bread and tax cuts, and the big guys did not have to take the life of King Louis XVI of France......
Unless any nobleman has a brain pump, and at this time openly stands up and rebukes the people of Paris!
Lin Haoda, who had obtained so many troops, suddenly became strong with the light of desire for ambition in his eyes, and directly ignored the problem of food stored in the Bastille, and concretized all the troops!
On the afternoon of July 15th, the Bastille was like a monster that made an army, and from the drawbridge gate, a steady stream of blue uniformed infantry drove out, led by their respective officers, to the barricade line that had been taken from the Revolutionary Army of Paris, turning this vigilant outer line of defense into a real tactical defensive position!
With nearly 8,000 troops, Lin Haoda naturally could no longer use the company as the basic combat unit as before, and Lin Haoda, while retaining the original military system, simply organized the line infantry of 40 companies according to the standard of 10 companies and a temporary line infantry regiment, and promoted a different number of temporary acting regiment commanders and other acting officers.
This move has greatly improved the combat initiative of the officers in the line infantry.