Chapter 749 Unexpected
Northwestern France, Lille.
Outside the headquarters of the French Southern Netherlands Front.
Joseph picked up an August 1790 hunting rifle, aimed at the small barrel more than a hundred steps away, and then held his breath and pulled the trigger.
There was a loud "bang", and the rotating warhead flew straight towards the target.
The next moment, broken wood slag flew everywhere, and a palm-sized bullet hole appeared in the middle of the barrel.
Joseph looked at the wooden barrel in the distance with satisfaction, raised the musket, took the gunpowder bag from Eman, poured it into the muzzle of the gun, then stuffed lead bullets into it, and knocked it firmly with a purge bar. .
The loading process is very easy. To outsiders, what he has in his hand is definitely a musket.
However, the August 1790 is an out-and-out rifled gun.
Not only does it have a terrifying range, it also has extremely high accuracy.
According to Berthier, elite veterans of the Chasseur Battalion can shoot human-sized targets at 200 paces.
Generally speaking, this distance leaves room for cannons to play. An ordinary flintlock gun shoots at a target 70 steps away. Whether it can hit the target depends entirely on faith.
Although every country now has hunters equipped with rifled guns, the time required to load ammunition is more than half that of the August 1790 using the "Twennan model".
So most of the hunters are only organized at the company level - they mainly look for opportunities to snipe and kill officers on the battlefield. With their shooting speed, too many of them will affect their combat effectiveness.
The French Chasseurs are organized at the battalion level, and as the production capacity of the ordnance factory continues to increase, a Chasseur Regiment will soon be expanded.
The Gein August 1790 has an extremely high rate of fire, and the Chasseurs can be used to kill ordinary enemy soldiers. The more of them the better.
If one day all French infantry are equipped with this kind of gun, they can defeat the enemy's infantry line almost a hundred steps away!
Just as Joseph put the flash cap on the back of the hunting rifle and prepared to shoot again, an officer came quickly, raised his hat and saluted him: "Your Highness, yesterday morning, Wavre and other places simultaneously Riots broke out on a very large scale."
Since there was no Schaap signal in the Southern Netherlands, it took more than a day for Wavre's message to reach the French border, but it only took a few minutes. It reached Lille.
Joseph took the report, glanced at it, nodded and said: "It is basically consistent with the Intelligence Bureau's analysis."
He looked at the visitor again: "What are the trends at the Walloon Chamber of Commerce?"
"Your Highness, President Chevenemant has convinced the Walloon District Committee to follow our suggestions and make arrangements five days ago. The main police force was moved south of Brussels and logistical supplies were stored in Ti. Biz, will not be affected by the riot."
"Chevenement is doing well." Joseph turned and motioned to the herald, "Let's go to General Lefebvre.
“Oh, Count Segur can also go to Württemberg. "
"Yes, Your Highness! ”
Lefebvre, with the 1st Royal Infantry Division and two skirmisher regiments, was still waiting at Artois.
This is also the reason why according to the information received by the Prince of Coburg, the French army only has 12,000 troops on the border of Southern Netherlands.
However, Lefebvre's troops have made sufficient preparations and will use wooden tracks to transport all the soldiers' belongings. The soldiers will not only march empty-handed, but also take turns riding horse-drawn carriages, so it only takes one day. Able to reach Lille from behind Artois.
As for the Prince of Coburg's statement that "it will take a week for the French army to arrive in Brussels", that is simply not true.
At the marching speed of the corps directly under the General Staff Headquarters, it only takes 3 days to cover 100 kilometers!
Count Segur, assistant to the Foreign Secretary, will conduct intensive diplomatic activities in the South German states, denounced Austria for violating the agreement and brazenly sending troops to invade the Walloon Demilitarized Zone.
Historically, Joseph would definitely avoid the lessons learned from emperors who did not pay attention to diplomatic details and relied blindly on violence.
Many times, it seems useless to stand on the moral high ground, but it often moisturizes things silently, and when it works, it can even change the situation in the entire Europe. …
North of Wavre.
In a dry river valley, hundreds of tents suddenly appeared out of nowhere.
Although there are no flags visible around the tent, there are three to four hundred people carrying flintlock guns patrolling the area at any time.
Beside a tent, Bourget took off his hat, glanced at the bright sun in the sky, and sighed to the round-faced young man leaning on the hay on the left: "It seems that there is no going back this week. Oh my god, it will be my turn to go to Paris for training in five days. Why do I have to conduct 'field training' at this time?"
For Wallonia police officers like them, going to Paris for training every year is a dream. good days. Although the training will be difficult, the bustling neighborhoods of Paris, the fashionable beauties, and the exquisite products all make them forget to come back. What's more, there are additional training subsidies.
The round-faced young man came over and said, "Hey! Don't think about 'vacation'. I heard Superintendent Debray say this morning that Langdon was also occupied by rioters."
Bourget frowned: "Are these damn Flemish people crazy? Do they really think that Wallonia belongs to them?"
A middle-aged policeman not far away who was sharpening a bayonet said: "Obviously someone is organizing them. I'm from Namur, and there are people making trouble there, but it's just not as serious as in the north."
Le Bourget He said anxiously: "Then why don't we quell the chaos? I believe that as long as the superintendent gives the order, we can deal with those guys in just one day!"
The middle-aged man looked at the desolate valley around him. He shook his head and said: "Who knows? I heard that even the police stations of Mengsi and Langli have been emptied..."
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He was right. At this time, most of the police from Wallonia were concentrated here, with more than 4,000 people. Only a handful of police officers remained in the territory to deal with the rioters.
The round-faced policeman looked around, and then lowered his voice and said: "You said, there is no collusion between the senior police officers and the Flemish people, right?"
"You are talking nonsense. What?" shouted Bourget.
"Then why are you doing 'field training' at this time and getting double salary? Don't you think it's weird?"
It's a bit strange for Bourget and others to ask him to say this. Not sure.
At this moment, the rally call sounded suddenly in the camp.
The drummer immediately got out of the tent and began beating the drum around his team's area to summon the police.
Thanks to the training they have been doing in the past few days, the police officers responded very quickly. In less than 20 minutes, a queue thousands of meters long had formed in the open space in front of the river valley.
The security prosecutor of the police station where Bourget was located came to the front of the team and said with a serious look: "Check the ammunition carefully. Today we are not training, but going into actual combat!"
Bourget was overjoyed : "Sir, are you going to deal with the rioters?"
"No, to deal with the Austrians."
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Count Radeski rode on his horse and slowly moved forward with the endless marching column as far as the eye could see.
He turned his head and asked the staff officer beside him: "How far is it from Wavre?"
"A little more than 1 mile, General."
1 Ori is about 7 kilometers.
In other words, this Austrian army has already entered the Wallonia region and traveled far.
(End of this chapter)