The blue military uniform, the unique high hat, and the Iron Cross Eagle Flag fluttering in the wind slowly passed by under the indifferent gaze of the French townspeople.

At this time, in the town government building, a captain was wearing white gloves and holding a war knife at his side, and proudly instructed the mayor and several council members of the town with a lofty attitude: "Since you are loyal to His Majesty Louis XVII, King of France, you must take out the materials that support the king to unify France and suppress the rebels, whether it is metal money or kind, and the king's army does not accept the 'finger coupon' that is too hard to wipe the buttocks." ”

The mayor of the town retorted with an ugly face: "You are fighting with the national government, why do you want to have a showdown with us? Was the king's army a bunch of bandits? ”

The captain's eyes flashed with a cold light, and he took out the flintlock handcuff that the officer was equipped with and pointed it at the mayor, while the two guards beside him also raised their flintlock pistols and aimed them at everyone present.

"I have not come here to consult with you, but to give orders, and I think you should understand the meaning of the word 'order.'"

Just when the captain thought that the prominent figures in these towns would bow their heads, a young man next to the mayor suddenly smiled and said something inexplicable: "Mayor, you should understand the meaning of the revolution by now." ”

The captain frowned slightly, and the muzzle of the flintlock handcuff moved slightly to the young man who was talking nonsense, and said coldly: "This young man, you'd better give me a reasonable explanation, otherwise I will shoot you on the spot for treason!" ”

Seeing that the respected mayor had no intention of refutating, the French youth suddenly pulled out a flintlock firearm from his bosom with a fanatical face, and shouted, "What are you waiting for? The time has come to give one's life for freedom! ”

Bang ~ Bang Bang!

The captain and the two guards beside him pulled the trigger without hesitation, they didn't expect the revolutionaries to hide in the management of the town!

The young man who shouted was the first to bear the brunt and was killed directly, but after hearing the slogan, the people next to him took out all kinds of weapons and rushed towards the newly arrived captain and his guards!

The sound of gunfire from the town hall building immediately startled the line infantry who were passing through the town, and they quickly divided their small forces and dared to go there, while the guards guarding outside the town hall also carried muskets and intended to rush in.

However, the gunshot sounded like a signal for an uprising, and almost all the members of the town government took out their rudimentary cold weapons and launched an attack on the line infantry not far away!

"Long live the French nation who kills the lackeys of foreigners!"

The French town, which had surrendered, suddenly stretched out countless flintlock muskets from unknown corners and fired at the marching line infantry, which caught the commander of the line infantry by surprise!

The main force of the coalition army was still hundreds of miles away, and they never expected that there were no militants on the surface, and so many revolutionary 'martyrs' suddenly appeared in the town where they were allowed to pass through and surrender!

This can only show one thing, the reputation of the Paris Legion has been so bad that the people and gods are angry, and it can not be led by distant revolutionaries to break out in such a sudden attack, but must have been spontaneously organized by the natives!

It was only these local people who did not know the strength of the Parisian legion that would brazenly launch an impossible attack when the main army of the line infantry passed by.

In any case, the sudden attack by the locals of the town really stunned the advance force, which was not very numerous.

First of all, in the town government, where the local revolutionary militants were most concentrated, dozens of line infantry guards were beaten to death by hundreds of local farmers and craftsmen armed with various farm tools and flintlock muskets.

This time, the villagers around the town were involved, and the reason why the line infantry was so ostracized here was that Lin Haoda had a huge army, but he did not have enough money to supply the army for long-distance campaigns......

In order to collect as much grain as possible from French farmers, Lin Haoda issued a seemingly reasonable 'surplus grain collection system'.

When the army passes by, the company is used as a unit to search from village to village, not letting go of any area where there are fields and people!

These line infantrymen who implement the surplus grain collection system will not wait for the villagers to offer grain with their hands at all, but will search for grain from house to house, take more than ninety percent of the food, and leave only a small amount of food to ensure that the peasants will not starve to death immediately, so as to show the legitimacy of the surplus grain collection system......

Because in the propaganda of the surplus collection system, all the peasants in the areas occupied by the 'king's army' could only keep basic rations, and the way the line infantry calculated the basic rations was very harsh, a family of ten, the line infantry could leave the rations of up to five people, and the rest would be snatched away......

In fact, this is also Lin Haoda's purposeful reduction of the French rural population, leaving a little ration so that the French peasants will not all starve to death, and the rest will depend on themselves.

As for the wealthy families such as landlords, rich peasants, and small and medium-sized nobles in those places, Lin Haoda was apportioned a large number of war materials, and the materials apportioned by Lin Haoda were within the range that these people could bear but had to break their bones......

Under the oppression of the surplus grain collection system and the apportionment policy, Lin Haoda's reputation as a cold-blooded butcher played a great role, and most of the wealthy class French did not dare to resist, and the slightest resistance of those peasants at the bottom would be exchanged for a mass massacre by the line infantry.

If you don't resist, you can still leave at least a little ration, and if you resist, you will die, so most of the French peasants chose to swallow their anger, and as for the problem of insufficient food, those peasants can only rely on their own means in the future......

However, under these two great oppressive systems, revolutionary ideas flourished, and not all French were willing to survive in secret, and many small towns set off a full-scale war of resistance under the leadership of some extreme local elites.

It's like this town under attack!

When a group of dignitaries of the town government heard the amount of money apportioned by the officers of the Legion in Paris, they completely extinguished all luck and launched the signal of a full-scale uprising.

The marching line infantry fell into the dilemma of suppressing the rebellion in the town in the blink of an eye, and the battle in this town lasted until late at night, when the huge town government was broken by the line infantry, and the group of local armed men who shouted "Long live freedom" were either killed or scattered, and in the eyes of the line infantry, there were no prisoners!

All the captured personnel were secretly transferred out of the town, and then all of them were buried alive to become the cornerstone of Lin Haoda's total war system kill indicators.

This kind of rebellion organized by the local people who did not want to die continued to take place under Lin Haoda's almost robbery-like surplus grain collection system and apportionment policy, and the army marching on the three routes encountered many such small battles.

The army in the direction of Verdun, led by Lin Haoda, suppressed the largest number of uprisings in such places!

Because the main force of the coalition army was facing the large army led by Lin Haoda, under the bewitchment of a small number of revolutionaries, many locals thought that their uprising and rebellion could echo the uprising forces and win the victory, without being robbed by the Iron Cross Eagle Banner, and the result was ......

It's just that it caused some casualties to Lin Haoda's line infantry and provided a reason for the line infantry to slaughter!

Fortunately, Lin Haoda's purpose this time was to defeat the main force of the Alliance Army, not to sweep the countryside, otherwise I don't know how many people would have to be slaughtered in exchange for peace......

Because Lin Haoda's department carried 100 12-pounder infantry field guns, the marching speed was slowed down a lot, and when Lin Haoda led people to the periphery of the Verdun fortress, the main force of the alliance army had successfully returned to the reinforcements and established a defense line that spanned hundreds of miles on the front line of the Verdun fortress!

The main forces of the coalition army, with high morale, took the lead in occupying the Valmi heights on the outskirts of the fortress of Verdun, intending to launch an attack on the reactionary warlord Lin Haoda from a high position.

The strength of the Union Army is very sufficient, even if they fail to attack, there are a large number of personnel in the rear to defend the fortress of Verdun, the Union Army intends to use the tactics of the sea of people to consume the main army of Lin Haoda's department, and even the fanatical Jacobins and the radicals preach among the main forces of the Alliance Army that they want to capture Lin Haoda, the regent puppet king, in a battle!

For this reason, the soldiers of the main force of the alliance army who really had combat experience were all sent to the front line of Valmy Heights and put into the offensive position of Lin Haoda's army.

When Lin Haoda came to the front line of Valmy with a large army, the main force of the Allied Army set up an offensive echelon composed of 100,000 troops on the Valmy Heights, all of which adopted the advanced battalion-level column model, and more than eighty percent of the artillery of the main force of the Allied Army was pulled here, intending to defeat the Austro-Prussian intervention army to defeat the largest reactionary warlord force in France today, and let the Nationalist Government return to the city of Paris.

Compared with the arrangement of the main force of the coalition army, Lin Haoda's side is much more decent, the middle is the first division of the Guards Corps responsible for the attack, and 50 12-pounder infantry field guns are arranged on each wing, lined up, and there are no guards at all in front, adopting the most free and wide firing line of sight formation.

Lin Haoda was not worried that a group of mud-legged armed men could rush up under the concentrated bombardment of 50 guns, the only thing that needed to be paid attention to was the safety of the flanks of the artillery position.

To this end, Lin Haoda divided the 3rd Infantry Division and placed it on the flank of the artillery position.