Chapter 393: Under the Civil War in the Republic
When the French thought they could have a real occupation of the Pyrenees, the Spanish resistance ensued to become extremely fierce. The failure of the regular army in www.biquge.info battle made the Spaniards pick up their old method - "guerrilla warfare".
The Spaniards used it to defeat the armies of the Roman Empire a long time ago.
The French saw themselves as the liberators of the Spaniards, freeing them from ignorance and ignorance, but the Spaniards did not see it that way, they saw the French as invaders and were determined to defend their religion, their homeland to the death!
The guerrillas in Spain were mostly led by unemployed military officers, university students, and monks, and most of their members were ordinary people from the middle and lower classes of Spanish society, including peasants, coachmen, deserters, and smugglers. These people, who had little to do with each other in normal times, were united by the French invasion and fought side by side against the French under the banner of defending their faith and their homeland.
The partisans only operated far from the large forces of the French army, but this was still very lethal to the French, especially mentally. They would attack the French army when they were superior in numbers. After their victory, they did not leave prisoners, but triumphantly tortured them to death, and some French soldiers were crucified, some were hung from trees with ropes, some were thrown into boiling pots, some were tied to the stake, and some were gouged out and tongues cut out, and some were disemboweled.
The gruesome cruelty of the Spanish partisans made the French Revolutionary Army shudder!
The actions of the Spanish guerrillas greatly encouraged the Portuguese, and the Portuguese Republic in the northwest corner of the Pyrenees was the first to usher in a real liberation, expelling the few French occupation forces!
At the same time, the guerrilla warfare of the Spaniards plunged the French Revolutionary Army into the sea of people's war!
The reason why the Spaniards were able to resist the French army for so long was not only their extraordinary courage in the face of the brutal war, but also the support of Great Britain, France's old enemy.
When the British saw that Spain was stubbornly standing up against the French army, they quickly formed an alliance with the enemies of this enemy and supported the Spaniards very generously in money and goods.
The republic and the kingdom of monarchy, in the face of interests, came together for the first time!
In the eyes of the British, letting those so-called republics bleed each other is simply the most beautiful music!
This is, the military alliance of the Monarchical Entente has been reached, and the three bigwigs of the Revolutionary Alliance, who intend to carve up the European continent, have fallen into the quagmire of civil war!
The Spaniards were the first to dare to eat crabs, and the tenacious guerrilla warfare of the Spaniards gave those oppressed nations the hope of victory against the invaders!
After the Spaniards launched a vigorous national war of resistance, the fierce and belligerent Hungarians also raised the banner of righteousness and took advantage of the local mountainous terrain to fight against the revolutionary army of the Republic of Austria!
The military strength was far inferior to that of the Austrian Revolutionary Army in the Kingdom of France, and the Hungarian partisans faced by the Hungarian guerrillas were not as strong as the Spaniards, but they were not as good as the French!
The Ottoman Turkish Empire, having seen the actions of the British in support of the Spaniards and achieving such good results, learned to secretly supply weapons to the Hungarians!
Two of the three great tycoons of the Revolutionary League fell into the quagmire of a war of aggression, and the various nationalities of the German Republic, which had not been integrated, began to become restless!
Although the Germanic nation occupies the main body in the German Republic, the Germanic nation has been divided for hundreds of years, and the revolutionary army of the German Republic is formed by the convergence of various original states, which creates a natural basic plate for the formation of warlords!
Under the ambitions of some generals, voices erupted in the revolutionary army of the German Republic to return to the limits of their original territory!
This republic, which was forcibly co-opted by the French, was founded for too short a time, and the internal problems were not really eliminated, and after the French were dragged down by the Spanish uprising, the German Republic began to divide as a matter of course!
The civil war in the German Republic was different from that of the Republic of Austria and the Republic of France, which fought a war of aggression and counter-aggression, while the German Republic really turned into a messy warlord melee!
The first to issue the Declaration of Independence were the Hanoverians, who were secretly supported by the British, and the Republic of Hanover was proclaimed when the Austrians were overwhelmed by the Hungarians!
However, before the German Republic could crack down on Hanover, generals everywhere declared the independence of the Republic in their hometowns!
The Republic of Bavaria, the Republic of Saxophone, the Republic of the Netherlands, the Republic of Hesse, the Republic of Batvia and many other small countries were driven by their personal ambitions to become completely independent!
The only area that did not declare independence was precisely the territory of the original Kingdom of Prussia, and these Prussians were also the most supportive of the establishment of the German Republic, because they had the largest number of troops in the revolutionary army, and the territory was also the largest, and they could theoretically occupy the majority of the seats of the Republic......
It's a pity that the Prussian dream is beautiful, the reality is skinny, those generals have no intention of building a country together with the Prussians, and the independent split in just one year has created an established fact!
However, the division of the German Republic turned the Revolutionary League into a complete joke, which the Republic of Austria and the French Republic would never allow!
Although they were fighting the partisans, they still had the upper hand on the whole, and the guerrillas could only bleed their troops, but they could not stop the Austrian and French powers from infiltrating the occupied territories!
But! Wouldn't the collapse of the German Republic, as one of the three major alliances, be a great blow to the prestige of Austria and the French?!
Such a blow to prestige is likely to bring the occupied territories, which have not had a large-scale uprising, into the footsteps!
The Austrians and the French soon contacted the Prussians, the only ones trying to establish a unified state, and after the three parties were combined, the Revolutionary Army of the German Republic, led by the Prussians, declared war on all the independent republics!
The Prussians denounced in thousands of words the secession of the independent republics!
At the same time, the French Directory and the Republic of Austria also declared their obligations as Revolutionary Leagues to take part in the war against the independent Republic and to fight for the unification of the German Republic......
What an ironic declaration......
The European continent, which had just been peaceful for less than a year, once again ushered in a civil war in the republic, and the fruits of the world revolution were wiped out at this moment......