Chapter 6: France's Savior ()

"Good morning, Uncle Paris, is your business good today? Good morning, Mrs. Coot." Xiao Jie greeted everyone he met.

"Good morning, Andrecy. Where are you going to play today?" asked the owner of the tailor shop who was called Paris by Xiao Jie and smiled.

"The weather is very good today, I'm going to go to the river to play." Xiao Jie replied.

In the blink of an eye, Xiao Jie has been in this world for six years. History has not changed because of his arrival. Everything happened according to the previous trajectory. In August 1793, the British fleet attacked France and captured the Port of Toulon. Such a chaotic era provided a lot of opportunities for a 24-year-old young officer named Napoleon Bonaparte. His real military career was about to begin. On November 30, 1793, the army major Napoleon (he had to do it again.

Upon promotion) He studied 13 artillery companies in Toulon, a French port in the Mediterranean. He was very tired and almost had no rest. When he was transferred here on September 17 to serve as the commander of the two remaining artillery companies, there were only 8 to 10 ruined field cannons, more than half of which were either without ammunition or had wrong artillery speed. His long cloak and high horse boots were covered with sludge and his damp military uniform was wrinkled, but he created miracles in less than two and a half months.

Napoleon carefully surveyed the complex terrain of the Toulon region and spent several weeks collecting various artillery from Avignon, Nice and Marseille. Barras and Salicheti saw the young 24-year-old gunner bringing lower artillery officers, ammunition, artillery, brand new cannon barrels, and 300 horses, mules and cattle to carry those military supplies onto the fortifications. A few weeks later, at the end of November, the newly promoted major officer brought more than 90 artillery pieces, including huge 24-pound artillery used to deal with British fortresses and warships. "Before this week, Toulon will be back to you," Napoleon told the commander-in-chief.

Due to the correct combat plan proposed by Napoleon, at 9 a.m. on December 19, General Dugomier's revolutionary army finally recovered Toulon. On December 22, 1793, he received an order to be further promoted to brigade commander (brigadier general). In Napoleon's military career, his name was widely spread in the countryside for the first time, and Napoleon was only 25 years old.

Although in 1794, due to the rapid resignation of the Jacobin Party, its main leaders, Robespierre, and others, were also hanged. In July, Napoleon, who had just returned to Nice from the Republic of Genoa, was immediately arrested, but finally, was in danger. General Dimabion ordered the release of him after repeated thoughts, but the new government tried its best to anger him, revoked all his posts in the artillery unit, and transferred him to the infantry brigade as a humiliation to him...

But at midnight on October 3, Napoleon's fate took a turn. On that night, thousands of working-class Parisians and royalists marched into the Palace of Duilary with flags. At dawn the next day, tens of thousands of strong rebels were in their positions, and at this time, Barras (one of the main leaders of the new government after overthrowing the Jacobins rule) was anxiously waiting for reinforcements transferred from the suburbs. In the early morning, he summoned Napoleon and ordered him to mobilize artillery to defend the Palace of Duilary. It was obvious that he was very evident that he summoned Napoleon and ordered him to mobilize artillery troops to defend the Palace of Duilary.

Time was very urgent. Napoleon immediately dispatched the 27-year-old cavalry officer Murah, who had a dark curly hair, to carry out the orders of Balas. Murah almost magically brought 40 powerful artillery and ammunition from the suburbs. Napoleon carefully deployed these forces, and the streets on the edge of the city were also built by regular troops. However, due to the overly congested ancient streets, he placed most of the heavy artillery opposite the Palace of Duille, forming a wide firepower network.

The first attack of the rebels defeated the troops that were not yet deployed in Duille, but the regular army defended the position with guns, and the two sides remained stalemate at 2:00 pm. At 3:00, the rebels launched a more powerful attack, breaking through the defensive forces and threatening the security of the National Assembly. The defensive corps regained the situation and successfully repelled the advancing armed forces. Napoleon, who was waiting, issued an order to fire, and dozens of cannons blew the rebels into flesh and blood.

It was not possible to deal with them with only a smoothbore gun. The rebels were in chaos and were defeated. It took hours to clear the 14,000 bodies on the street, as Napoleon said in his letter to Joseph: "The enemy attacked us in Duille. We wiped them out a lot. They killed 30 of us, and another 60 were injured... Now everything is back to peace. As always, I did not hurt a hair. I am so happy."

Two weeks later, Napoleon was promoted to major general, and on October 25, Napoleon took over as commander of the internal defense force of the Balas. Napoleon's name spread throughout the past kingdom, the current First Republic.

In 1795, Napoleon met a woman who made her obsessed. She was Josephine, who later became the queen of the French Empire. Although Josephine and many people were involved, Napoleon still fell in love with him crazy.

On March 6 of the following year, Napoleon and Josephine officially got married in Paris despite the opposition of their relatives and friends. Napoleon was appointed commander-in-chief of the Italian Front in the last week of last month. This was the dowry prepared by Balas for Josephine because he and Josephine were also apart. For a long time, Napoleon, Balas and Osh took turns to share Josephine's night. Even in France, it was a headache for the three to share a mistress.

Under Xiao Jie's lobbying, Joseph arrived in Paris to attend their wedding. In history, Napoleon and Josephine were married, and no one in the Bonaparte family was present. Because they both hated Josephine, especially Napoleon's mother Letizia Bonaparte, who hated Josephine to the extreme. In her opinion, Joseph was simply a slut, and a widow with two children. Such a person must not marry like the Bonaparte family. Joseph did not intend to go, but Xiao Jie did not intend to go there.
Chapter completed!