"We must establish true freedom through violence, and in order to crush the despotism of kings and foreigners, we should practice liberal despotism.

You must save freedom, proclaim all kinds of freedoms, show your perseverance! You have a pure and powerful mass of sans-culottes, who cannot leave their jobs, so let the rich pay them! “

When Lin Haoda personally led the army to Brittany, Robespierre made an impassioned and loud announcement of the pre-war mobilization in the National Salvation Committee, and Robespierre knew very well that only when the commissioners of the National Salvation Committee were united could the vast revolutionary army and the revolutionary masses be united.

The next day, the commissioners, who had been mobilized for the final war, went to various places to entangle the regular army of the First French Republic, as well as more than two-thirds of the citizen volunteers.

As Robespierre propagated, the wartime allowance for the civic volunteers, who were temporarily unable to work because of the expedition and had lost their main source of income, were all showdown over the heads of the wealthy class.

Under the high pressure of terrorist politics, those rich French people did not dare to resist at all, so they could only pay obediently, and it was the sacrifice of these French rich people that made Robespierre successfully mobilize more than 100,000 field troops and transfer them to the front.

Although the number of the Republic's revolutionary regular army on the books of the former French First Republic was 100,000, these troops who had undergone regular military training were very scattered, and they all relied on local support, and the cost of having 100,000 troops and mobilizing 100,000 troops was very different, not to mention the mobilization of the civic volunteers in the form of 'part-time work and half-military service', and the huge wartime allowance was enough to bankrupt the already not wealthy Robespierre government several times!

In the eighteenth century, when the productive forces were backward, the mobilization of the whole army meant that the government of Robespierre did not control the whole of the rich French land, but only a quarter of the area of Brittany and a few surrounding provinces, and the mobilization of more than 100,000 troops was definitely beyond the government's financial potential.

After all, the sans-culottes support Robespierre because they can eat enough, if they are hungry, no matter how loud they shout about freedom and democracy, they will not be able to fight, even if they barely go to the front, their morale will be low, after all, the compulsory military service system in this era has not yet been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, national patriotism has just begun to sweep in France, and most of the civilians in other European countries are still living in a numb stage of exploitation day after day.

I was really hungry, and at most I would hold some regional peasant uprising, which would be just a large group of armed mobs, which might cause great social unrest for a while, but would eventually be suppressed.

This is the biggest difference between a peasant uprising without a core idea and a revolution with powerful brainwashing.

The government of Robespierre was well aware of the strength of the field capability of Lin Haoda's army, and it was not surprising that the strategy of clearing the wilderness was carried out, and all the countryside and villages were forcibly 'relocated' into the towns, and the complaints of the French peasants were so powerless against the bayonets of the fanatical revolutionary army.

What's more, the revolutionary army is driven out with national righteousness, and if you don't get it right, the big hat of a national traitor will be buttoned down, and you will be shot, no one will care about the lives of a group of 'hillbillies', especially in this moment of war!

The Revolutionary Army of the Republic controlled by Robespierre's ruling government naturally chose the battlefield in the defensive battle of the big city, and if it didn't dare to confront Lin Haoda's Young Guard, Robespierre's dictatorship that he had managed to establish with the politics of terror would collapse in an instant, because Robespierre had offended too many people!

One of the reasons why most of the members of the National Convention endured Robespierre's horrific dictatorship was that he was expected to lead his troops to block Lin Haoda's surging offensive.

The site of the battle was chosen around Caen, an iconic city that had once erupted in a violent revolution.

For the first time, 100,000 revolutionary regular troops under the control of Robespierre's government and countless citizen volunteers dug trenches on a large scale in this time and space.

The reason is very simple, Lin Haoda pulled all 120 12-pounder infantry field guns over this time, and the firepower was a fierce mess, even if the morale of the revolutionary army of the republic was high, the generals of the republic did not dare to guarantee that the soldiers of the revolutionary army under his command would continue to fight under the continuous artillery bombardment.

As long as Lin Haoda's past victories are slightly analyzed, it is not difficult to see that the bombardment of hundreds of large-caliber infantry field guns definitely played a great role.

Although the lethality of the solid iron bullet is limited, the effect of the blow to morale is surprisingly good, as long as a person with a brain, seeing the solid bullet flying sideways to 'penetrate a hole' for the surrounding comrades, the face will probably be very 'wonderful'.

There are many kinds of death, and some of them will greatly deter the will of ordinary people, and most of the members of the soldiers of the revolutionary army are precisely ordinary people.

They are just brainwashed by the revolutionary idea of freedom and equality, which does not mean that they are really not afraid of the shadow of death, they are desperate because they firmly believe that the revolution will win and defend their homeland and the country, not for the sake of fighting to the death!

The improvised lateral trenches on the outskirts of Caen were surprisingly effective at protecting Lin Haoda's artillery, at least much better than fortifications such as the breastwork that could not withstand the bombardment of large-caliber infantry field artillery.

The soldiers of the Revolutionary Army of the Republic lying in the pit, as long as they are not unlucky enough to be 'hated' by God and his old man, are rarely hit by solid bullets that just happened to bounce into the trench pit, and most of the shells flew over the heads of the soldiers of the Revolutionary Army of the Republic lying in the horizontal pit.

This method undoubtedly greatly strengthened the fear mentality of the soldiers of the Revolutionary Army of the Republic for the artillery power of Lin Haoda's department, and digging a pit to defend is really the king!

Lin Haoda, who came from the 21st century, can naturally see the protective power of the horizontal simple trenches dug by the Revolutionary Army of the Republic against their own artillery fire, and it can be said that the 'ideas' of the Robespierre government are quite rich, because the number of officers from the military academy is not large, so the combat ideas in the Revolutionary Army of the Republic are very 'flexible', and it is normal to be able to come up with the 'trench-type anti-artillery method'.

However, the officers and generals of the Revolutionary Army of the Republic seem to have overlooked a crucial issue, even if the horizontal trenches they built had the rudiments of the trenches before the First World War, but in the 18th century there were no machine gun mass kills!