213 Civil war breaks out

The Provisional National Assembly, in order to awaken the resistance of the French plebeians to the reactionary forces of the old aristocracy, issued proclamations to local cities throughout the country, declaring:

"The question is no longer a choice between order and chaos, but between the new system and the old one. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoBecause one sees the fugitives gathered at the border behind the foreigners, the turmoil is terrible, especially when it takes place deep in the foundations that bear almost all the weight of the old edifice, where millions of people toil by their hands to make a living...... Among the masses of people who have been taxed, plundered, and reviled, who have suffered, oppressed, and despised for centuries!

Through personal experience, they know the difference between what was in the past and what was happening at the time. They only have to recall it to feel at once the heavy pressure of the royal tax, the church tax, and the lord's tax, accompanied by the national songs exposing the conspiracy of the tyrant and calling on the people to take up arms, a terrible anger swells among the toiling masses of the city and the countryside! “

The Jacobin government's radical denigration of the reactionary forces of the aristocracy led to a retaliatory offensive by the armed forces of the reactionary aristocracy and exiles entrenched in the border areas.

The military forces of the reactionary aristocracy and exiles concentrated on the Rhine border in southeastern France, armed with the aristocratic mercenaries assembled on the eastern border of Sardinia, mostly from the Turin region, attacked the interior of the Kingdom of France from both directions.

The main target of the reactionary aristocratic exiles from the Rhine border in the southeast was Strasbourg, a fortress city in the southeast of the Kingdom of France, and the aristocratic mercenaries from the Turin region and the Kingdom of Sardinia (the predecessor of the later unified Kingdom of Italy) advanced to Marseille in the south of the Kingdom of France, one of the sources of the outbreak of the democratic revolution, in a vain attempt to occupy and eliminate the origin of the democratic revolution.

However, the two military forces, which gathered the strength of most of the reactionary aristocracy and exiles, once again confirmed how weak the fighting power of the unsupportable 'Adou' was......

The reactionary aristocracy and the exile forces attacking Strasbourg, with the cooperation of the internal aristocracy in Strasbourg, were unable to capture the small number of military forces, mainly composed of militias and local National Guard recruits, but the internal forces of the nobility in Strasbourg were uprooted by the National Guard......

As for the military forces of the nobles and exiles who attacked the Marseille region, they were even more miserable, defeated by the coalition army and the militia volunteers, who were far fewer than themselves, and the whole army was wiped out!

The scattered mercenaries had no intention of returning to the banner of the reactionary aristocracy, and all fled back to the city of Turin and the kingdom of Sardinia......

At this point, the armed forces of the French reactionary aristocracy gathered on the southern border of the Kingdom of France, from the Turin region and the Kingdom of Sardinia, are finished!

Both battles were won and lost in a single battle, and there was no suspense, and the corrupt and degenerate reactionary aristocracy once again proved how vulnerable they were to the people's army armed with democratic ideas.

The military defeats of the reactionary aristocracy and exiles who took the lead in launching the attack without authorization in two directions greatly increased the prestige of the Jacobin government, and the French national sentiment was once again raised to a new height, and the elite of the 100,000 National Guard led by the foreign intervention forces and the Marquis de Lafayette and other generals were greatly frightened, for fear that this military defeat would trigger a chain reaction and make the Kingdom of France a republic in the true sense of the word!

To this end, the Prussian and Austrian forces, led by Brunswick and the King of Prussia, advanced inland into the Kingdom of France, while a part of the generals who controlled the elite of the National Guard led their men and horses to support the reactionary aristocratic forces that had not succeeded in attacking Strasbourg.

With the support of some elite veterans of the National Guard, Strasbourg was unable to stop the attack and fell into the hands of the reactionary forces in the hands of the aristocracy and exiles.

However, after taking Strasbourg as a strategic base, the arrogance of the nobles and exiles was suddenly revealed, and they assumed a posture of superiority to the low-ranking officers and soldiers of the National Guard, who had suffered huge losses during the siege, and ordered their mercenaries to loot and massacre the poor in Strasbourg, in retaliation for the hatred of the National Guard and the militia for the armed massacre of the Strasbourg aristocracy.

The elite veterans of the former National Guard, who were despised by the aristocracy, saw the mercenaries of the nobles acting so brutally, and felt deeply humiliated to help them fight, and the reactionary aristocracy thought that as long as they co-opted the generals, they could control these elites, but they ignored the appeal of the Jacobin democratic government on the side of Versailles to the soldiers at the bottom!

The reason why these elites of the National Guard obeyed the orders of the noble generals was that most of the officers in them were from the nobility, but the soldiers at the bottom were still from the civilian class.

At the moment when the Prussian and Austrian coalition forces are invading the motherland on a large scale, the veterans of the National Guard, who are supposed to defend their homeland, have to help the arrogant nobles slaughter their own people, and their emotions are naturally quite resistant!

After the massacre in Strasbourg, the elite veterans of the former National Guard, who had helped the reactionary aristocracy and exiles to seize Strasbourg, fled from the barracks stationed outside the city on a large scale, taking advantage of the fact that their generals and most of the aristocratic officers were feasted by the nobles to celebrate their victory.

At first, it was just a small group of troops fleeing, not wanting to continue to work for the reactionary nobles and exiles, but later with the formation of the trend, more and more soldiers fled without permission, and in order to prevent themselves from being captured, the deserters began to flee the barracks in groups and finally from the National Guard sequence of the noble generals!

The aristocratic reactionary mercenaries, who were busy purging the democratic forces of Strasbourg, had no time to prevent the escape of the elite veterans of the National Guard stationed outside the city, and they did not have the heart to do so......

In this way, the elite of the National Guard, which had come to help the reactionary aristocracy and the exiles in their fight, collapsed on their own, leaving only a group of noble officers and generals who were helpless to look to the sky......

These desperate aristocratic officers and generals had no choice but to join forces with the reactionary forces of the aristocratic exiles in Strasbourg because of their own positions, and with the addition of this group of professional aristocratic officers, the combat effectiveness of the reactionary aristocratic exile armed forces in Strasbourg has been greatly improved!

In the context of the large-scale invasion of the Austro-Prussian intervention forces, except for the elite of the National Guard controlled by the Marquis de Lafayette, the elite of the National Guard stationed in other places fled the control of the aristocratic officers and generals in the same way, and did not want to die for the aristocratic class who defected to the enemy and betrayed the country.

The military honor preached by the nobles became a big joke at this moment, and the cohesion of the army in the hands of the reactionary aristocratic officers and generals was not as strong as the armed forces of the foolish people gathered by the rebel clergy who could not fight, at least the Vendée region, which had successfully rebelled, under the leadership of the Catholic rebel clergy, had been fighting stubbornly against the local National Guard and the Union Army, which represented democracy!

I have to say that the brainwashing power of religion is much more reliable than the so-called aristocratic honor......

When the news reached the city of Paris, Lin Haoda didn't know whether he should cry or laugh.

The reason for crying, of course, is that the reactionary aristocratic exiles, who have now become potential allies, are largely negligible......

The reason for laughing is that Lin Haoda betrayed the interests of the old aristocratic class before, and he didn't have to worry about getting any strong revenge for his practice, and his fear of the king's line could also be thrown into the trash!

As for the only reactionary rebellion in the Vendée that still insisted, far away from Paris, Lin Haoda did not have to worry about the old power class in that place taking revenge on his head......

The reactionary aristocracy in Strasbourg was nothing more than a lingering joke, and since the elite veterans of the National Guard who had helped them had collapsed, they had only dared to retreat to the Strasbourg area to build fortifications, apparently realizing that they were not enough to fight for themselves, and pinned all their hopes on foreign interventionists.

The Jacobin regime, which was originally in a situation of encirclement on all sides, suddenly became enlightened because of the rapid collapse of the military power of the reactionary aristocratic exiles and the self-disintegration of the elite of the 100,000 National Guards. 40,000 elite National Guard forces are present as military forces......

In order to prevent his army from collapsing like other elite friendly forces of the National Guard, the Marquis de Lafayette set up a gendarmerie controlled by his henchmen internally, strictly guarded the lower-level soldiers, and officially renamed the army under his control the Royalist Army, declaring within the army that everything he did was only to restore the honor of the subverted royal power and the glory of being a soldier, and constantly instilled in the soldiers the glorious prospect of becoming 'heroes' one by one after the restoration of the royal power......

In this way, the Marquis de Lafayette barely managed to keep his royalist army from disintegrating on its own, and even gathered many hardcore supporters of the king led by a small group of aristocratic officers who feared to be liquidated by the Jacobin government after the collapse.

Among the elite veterans of the old National Guard, there were also many soldiers who sincerely supported the king, and the Marquis de Lafayette absorbed these remnants and integrated and accommodated the 10 elite veterans of the National Guard after the collapse, and finally formed an armed force of 50,000 Royalist Army.