Chapter 380: Blue Storm Five
In the vision of the ruling government and the National Assembly, in www.biquge.info order to completely eliminate the political influence of the radicals in the army, a new army of the republic will be re-established!
The French Volunteer Army is a model borrowed from the National Guard, which belongs to a revolutionary army without thresholds, and after the completion of the training of new recruits, qualified soldiers will be selected from them to form a real regular army of the Republic - the French Guard!
Of course, all this is the framework of the future, and now the French Volunteer Army has not yet been formed, and the local government is also maintained by the temporary militia, and the entire French Republic is equivalent to a military management system!
The French Republic's counterattack against the anti-French alliance caused tension throughout Europe, and the Kingdom of Prussia, which was the main force of the anti-French alliance to declare war, immediately entered a state of all-out war.
The million-strong National Guard of the French Republic divided into two routes, all the way to attack the Kingdom of Switzerland, the plan was to first subdue the Kingdom of Switzerland, and then enter the Kingdom of Sardinia, along the line of the Italian peninsula, and storm inside!
It is better to crush the Republic of Genoa, the Duchy of Tuscany, the Papal States, the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and other anti-French allies all the way!
The other way is to put the first target on the Germanic vassal states of the Holy Roman Empire on the northern border, the goal is to fight across the Rhine, preferably swallow the Republic of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, and conquer a large number of Germanic princely states of the Holy Roman Empire into the little brother vassal states of the French Republic!
If you can, it would be better to beat the Kingdom of Prussia, a newly rising powerhouse, and the Kingdom of Austria, the leader of the Holy Roman Empire, to the ground, and destroy them may not be possible, but at least a treaty in favor of the French Republic!
This is the good wish of the National Guard, which is indirectly controlled by the Radicals, and even the leaders of the Radicals have stepped on the battlefield with this army, and they fantasize that after their unprecedented victory, they will return to Paris, the capital of the Republic, in triumph, receive the cheers of the people, and then enter the center of political power in the French Republic in the true sense!
And then nominally take the National Guard in full control of their own hands!
It is foreseeable that if the National Guard really runs over the continent like a bulldozer, the chaotic French Republic with signs of centrifugation will inevitably show signs of the rise of warlord power!
This is also the inevitable routine of the people's revolution from the bottom up, without a well-organized and clear leader, no matter how powerful the revolutionary force is, it will eventually ferment with time and become a hunting ground for careerists!
During the period when the National Guard of the French Republic went on a mighty expedition, the remnants of the royal party in the whole of France were completely hidden, except for Paris, the French capital, because it was the starting point of the revolution, the royal party power was seriously weakened, and a large part of the aristocratic royal power remained in the vast countryside of France, but because of the peak military strength of the republic, it had to be incognito!
It is not only a few big aristocratic families that support the restoration of the king, each big aristocracy has a whole set of vested interest groups from top to bottom, this group controls a large amount of wealth, but the strength is weak compared to the number of the poor, but as long as they do not show their heads, they can still be well hidden, and the phrase that money can make the devil grind is also good for the revolutionary army!
When the revolutionary forces spread to the French countryside, those well-informed big nobles and big capitalists had already hidden their lifelong wealth with reliable henchmen!
Pretending to be an ordinary middle class is really not too simple for these big nobles and big capitalists!
Even in the ruling government, there are traitors who work for the royal forces!
After all, the words royalist party will not be written on people's faces, and everyone will shout slogans, as long as they do not expose their political leanings, those sans-culottes will not be able to tell who is a member of the royal party!
Not to mention the internal hidden dangers of the French Republic, the defeat of the intervention army of the anti-French alliance made the morale of the National Guard unprecedentedly high, and at the same time, the heavy weapons and artillery left after the defeat of the intervention army also became the equipment of the National Guard!
This solves a major shortcoming of the National Guard in a real sense!
In particular, the Third Intervention Army from the countries of the Italian Peninsula was simply a good friend of the French people, and the role of the captain of the transport brigade was played very well, and almost none of those artillery pieces were destroyed, and all of them went to the hands of the National Guard!
The defeat of the third intervention army is called a complete one, and that is called a quick ......
The least captured was the Austrian-led intervention army in the center, and the Austrian marshal destroyed all the heavy weapons that could be destroyed before the defeat, which made the French very angry!
In contrast, the people of the Italian peninsula are friendlier......
The strength of the National Guard on the two roads is about the same, both are about 500,000, and the National Guard that attacked Switzerland easily swept away the few remnants of the Swiss Kingdom with its absolute superiority in the first battle, and then the Kingdom of Switzerland surrendered in the streets......
The French Republic has thus received its first vassal!
Subsequently, in March of the 50th year of the Han Dynasty, the First Route National Self-Defense Force from the northern border defeated a group of allied forces composed of Germanic vassal states on the banks of the Rhine, and the armies of the entire Germanic vassal states on both banks of the Rhine collapsed!
Immediately afterwards, the Republic of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, which received the news of the Battle of the Rhine, immediately submitted a peaceful diplomatic agreement to the government of the French Republic and privately withdrew from the anti-French alliance!
At the same time, the Germanic vassal states of the Holy Roman Empire, nearly half of which were on both sides of the Rhine, were forced by the guns of the First National Guard of the French Republic to collectively sign an agreement to withdraw from the anti-French alliance, and soon after, together with the conquered Kingdom of Switzerland, nominally merged into the Rhine League!
And the French Republic is a protectorate of the Rhine League!
This act shocked the entire European continent, and the French Republic's forcible conquest behavior that did not play cards according to the international routine caused the anger of all European countries, and the Russian Empire, the Kingdom of Sweden, the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania and other European continental countries that retained their strength quickly joined the anti-French alliance and submitted a war letter to the French Republic!
In April of the 50th year of the Han Dynasty, most of the European continent was at war with the French Republic!
The entire French Republic, with the exception of the feel-good National Guard, felt the imminent danger of Mount Tai!