Napoleon II Reborn Chapter 6

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"Good morning, Uncle Paris, how is business today? Good morning, Mrs. Coote." Xiao Jie greeted everyone he met.

"Good morning, Andresi. Where are you going to play today?" The tailor shop owner, whom Xiao Jie called Paris, asked with a smile.

"The weather is fine today, I'm going to play by the river." Xiao Jie replied.

In the blink of an eye, it has been six years since Xiao Jie came to this world. History has not changed because of his arrival, everything still happened according to the previous track. In August 1793, the British fleet attacked France and captured the port of Toulon. Such a troubled world provides a lot of opportunities for a 24-year-old young officer named Napoleon Bonaparte, and his real military career is about to begin. On November 30, 1793, Major Napoleon (he was promoted again) was studying 13 batteries of artillery in the French port of Toulon on the Mediterranean. He was so tired that he could hardly rest for a moment. When he was transferred here on September 17 to assume the command of the two surviving artillery batteries, there were only 8 to 10 battered field guns, more than half of which were either out of ammunition or bored. wrong. His long cloak and high riding boots were smeared with mud, and his damp uniform was crumpled, but he had performed a miracle in less than two and a half months.

Napoleon carefully surveyed the complex terrain of the Toulon area, and spent several weeks collecting various artillery from Avignon, Nice and Marseilles. Barras and Salichetti saw that the 24-year-old young gunner brought in junior artillery officers, ammunition, cannon, brand new cannon barrels, and 300 horses, mules, and oxen from all directions every day to carry those munitions to the fortifications. When I went up, I couldn't help showing a look of surprise and admiration. A few weeks later, in late November, the newly promoted major officer brought in more than 90 guns, including huge 24-pounders for use against British forts and ships. "Toulon will be back in your hands before the end of this week," Napoleon said to the commander-in-chief.

Due to the correct battle plan proposed by Napoleon, General Dugomière's revolutionary army finally recaptured Toulon at 9:00 am on December 19. On December 22, 1793, he received an order for further promotion to Brigadier General (Brigadier General). For the first time in Napoleon's military career, his name was widely spread in urban and rural areas, and Napoleon was only 25 years old at this time.

Although in 1794, due to the rapid resignation of the Jacobin Party, its main leaders Robespierre and others were also hanged, so in July, I just returned to Nice from the Communist Republic, and I still have nothing to say about this matter. The well-known Napoleon was immediately arrested, but at last, General Dumabione ordered his release after careful consideration, but the new government did everything possible to provoke him, and dismissed him from all positions in the artillery corps. , transferred him to the infantry brigade as a humiliation to him….

But at midnight on October 3, Napoleon's fortunes took a turn. Thousands of mostly working-class Parisians and royalists marched to the Tuileries that night, carrying banners. By dawn the next day, with tens of thousands of strong rebels in place, Ballas (one of the main leaders of the new government that overthrew the Jacobins) was anxiously awaiting reinforcements from the suburbs. In the early hours of the morning he summoned Napoleon and ordered him to mobilize artillery to defend the Tuileries. Obviously, time is very tight. Napoleon immediately dispatched Murat, a burly, 27-year-old cavalry officer with dark curly hair, to carry out Ballas's order. Murat almost magically brought 40 powerful cannons and ammunition from the suburbs. Napoleon deployed these troops carefully, and regular army barricades were built on the streets around the city. However, because the ancient streets were too congested, he placed most of the heavy artillery on the opposite side of the Tuileries Palace, forming a wide firepower network.

The first attack by the rebels routed the troops at the Tuileries before they could deploy, but the regular regiments held their positions with guns, and by two o'clock in the afternoon the two sides were still deadlocked. By 3 o'clock, the rebels launched an even more vigorous attack, breaking through the defenses and threatening the security of the National Assembly. The defending corps successfully repelled the advancing armed forces after regaining control of the situation. Napoleon, who was waiting, gave the order to fire, so dozens of cannons blasted the rebels to pieces, and it was impossible to deal with them only with muskets. The rebels were chaotic and defeated. It took hours to clear the 14,000 corpses in the streets, as Napoleon wrote to Joseph: "The enemy attacked us in the Tuileries. We destroyed many of them. They killed 30 of us, another 60 were injured... now everything is calm. As always, I didn't hurt a single hair. I'm so happy."

Two weeks later, Napoleon was promoted to major general, and on October 25, Napoleon succeeded Barras as commander of the internal defense forces. Napoleon's name spread throughout the former kingdom of what is now the First Republic.

In 1795, Napoleon met a woman who fascinated her. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com She was Josephine who later became the Queen of the French Empire. Although Josephine had affairs with many people, Napoleon Still madly in love with him.

On March 6 of the following year, Napoleon and Josephine formally married in Paris despite the opposition of their relatives and friends. And Napoleon was also appointed as the commander-in-chief of the Italian Front in the last week of last month. This was the dowry prepared by Ballas for Josephine, because he also had an affair with Josephine. Even for a long period of time, Napoleon, Barras, and Hosh took turns sharing Josephine's night. Even in France, three people sharing a mistress is a headache.

Under Xiao Jie's lobbying, Joseph rushed to Paris to attend their wedding, but in history, when Napoleon and Josephine got married, no one from the Bonaparte family was present. Because they all hated Josephine, especially Napoleon's mother Letizia & #8226; Bonaparte hated Josephine to the extreme. From her point of view, Josephine is simply a whore, a slut, and a widow with two children. Such a person must never marry into the Bonaparte family. Joseph didn't plan to go at first, but Xiao Jie told him that Napoleon today is not what it used to be, and he is just a small quartermaster now. If you go to Napoleon's wedding at this time, you will definitely get unexpected benefits, so Joseph was moved and took the whole family to Paris. This made Napoleon very happy, and it also enhanced the relationship between the two brothers so much that after his victory in Italy, he put Joseph in charge of the entire army's supplies, and Joseph took the opportunity to make a fortune. .

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