The defeat of the Young Guards in the Brittany theater of operations was not only due to the small number of people, but also a very important factor - the reserves of military supplies of Lin Haoda's forces, which had been fighting a high-intensity war for more than a year, had been depleted!

Lin Haoda, who has laid more plates, controlled the raw material supply base, and various artillery factories, has always only used the artillery units he exchanged from the all-out war system, which is not the embodiment of 'the system must be a high-quality product', but the helplessness of Lin Haoda's logistics and military industrial system!

The replenishment of lead bullet is easy to do, as long as enough finished lead is seized, and it is handed over to the soldiers themselves to make usable lead bullets, the melting point of lead is very low, and it can be melted by roasting it on the fire, and then use a small tool' In fact, most of today's Young Guards are using this kind of homemade ammunition, the production capacity of the factory is limited, and now it is not the era of industrial assembly line production, Lin Haoda can only sacrifice the production capacity of firearms and ammunition in order to supplement the massive consumption of shells on the front line.

Fortunately, Lin Haoda's army came out with its own flintlock pistol, which saved a lot of productivity in making firearms, otherwise, the logistics would have been dragged down by the endless war!

Why was the army of Robespierre's government so poorly equipped with muskets? It's not that they don't have a gunsmith factory, it's that they don't have time to build so many muskets in a short time!

In addition, the consumption of a large number of arms and materials makes the supply of raw materials insufficient, and it takes time to open mines!

Lin Haoda was melted along with the captured backward guns and artillery wreckage, and the manufacture of iron solid bullets barely supported the logistics of the shells, of course, these materials can actually be bought as finished products, even if the European countries blockade, but as long as there is enough money to drive, those greedy businessmen do not care about the behavior of the enemy, after all, in the eyes of foreign businessmen in Europe, the arms or raw materials sold are finally used on the French.

However, Lin Haoda didn't have that much money......

Lin Haoda took over the finger inflation to the extreme, the social wealth was transferred by a large number of exiled aristocrats and fugitive big capitalists, and the continuous war destroyed a large amount of local wealth, in fact, the most valuable property obtained by Lin Haoda is just land, and other wealth gains are not enough to make up for a fraction of the military expenditure!

Otherwise, war and the economy are a balancing scale, and if the economy collapses, war is not far from defeat, and most of the time, the ultimate goal of war is to plunder economic wealth.

In fact, the reason why the European powers did not unite in the first place was because they saw Lin Haoda's unpopularity and the poor state of the French economy, and it was not until Lin Haoda overthrew the Girondists, the regime gathered by the big guys, that they were forced to the point of embarrassment.

However, although the big capitalists and big businessmen are very rich, they are relative to ordinary people, and for a country, these people alone are also insignificant wealth, not to mention, when they armed the National Guard before, these bigwigs have already broken their fortunes once, and their real value is not fixed property, not how much gold and silver treasure they have, but the support of trade contacts and social productivity.

To put it simply, they need more liberal policies in favor of the bourgeoisie, so that they can earn more profits, so that they can feed back Lin Haoda, who is now their master.

This is also one of the reasons why Lin Haoda chose to attack the Girondist regime first, defeating the Marquis of Lafayette Lin Haoda can only gain a devastated land, and a more prominent reputation, attracting more hatred and fear......

But to put down the Girondist regime is to control more than two-thirds of the power of the original French bourgeoisie that has not fled abroad!

If these bourgeoisie kill chickens and monkeys, they will not be able to squeeze out much military spending, and France, which has been in a long civil war, has almost squeezed the fixed floating wealth of these bourgeoisie, and the greater role of these bourgeoisie is to create a steady stream of wealth.

If Lin Haoda only relied on his own productive forces, it would be basically difficult for the Young Guards after the defeat of the Girondist regime to come up with an overwhelming artillery bombardment, and if the war was carried out more frequently, I am afraid that even the ammunition for muskets would be cut off!

This is not because Lin Haoda occupied too few arsenals, but because there were not enough raw materials to fully start producing armaments!

There is only one reason - there is no money......

Therefore, the reason why Lin Haoda accepted the surrender of the chief consul of the French Republic and the Girondist regime was not because he was benevolent, but because he needed this group of French bourgeoisie to create wealth, supply his army, and use slaves to produce weapons and equipment is always the least efficient, and can only be used as an add-on and cannot support a complete national military system.

Even in the era of industrial development during World War II, the Axis powers, which occupied a large number of foreign territories, ultimately relied on their own military industrial system, and no matter how many prisoners were captured and how many factories were opened in the enemy country, they could not be compared with their own military production capacity.

When Lin Haoda first rebelled, he had more than two years of reserves, and there were not many troops, so there was no war consumption, so he could naturally support it, but now Lin Haoda has fired incalculable shells and consumed astronomical military supplies.

The military logistical pressure was also reflected in the destruction of the Marseille theater and the Verdun legion, and the 50,000 young guards in the Marseille theater had the strength to defeat the French aristocratic mercenary army, which was mainly composed of Italians.

It's just that they don't dare to launch a large-scale full-scale offensive, and there is not enough logistics and ammunition!

Because of this, after Lin Haoda accepted the Girondist regime's surrender, his first goal was to win over these French capitalists who could lay golden eggs and provide a large number of loans that were 'borrowed but not repaid'.

Such loans were only paper data, and the French capitalists could not come up with such a large amount of money, but they only needed to have some privileges to pledge the profits of trade that would be reaped in the future for war materials.

Europe in this era is a free economic system, and if you want to buy something, you don't necessarily have to pay real money, of course, the price will be much higher, but Lin Haoda will not care about it, because there is a large group of people who will bear these 'expenses'.