Make France Great Again

Chapter 122 The Flattery of the Holy See

"Report to the commander, our army has occupied the passage leading to the inner city, requesting instructions for the next step!"

The soldier in charge of conveying the order came to Major General Reinio and saluted General Reinio and said.

"Tell Major Edgar Ney and order him to control the city gates to allow the large troops to enter Rome!"

After General Renio gave the next order to the messenger, he yawned and said to the artillery commander next to him: "If Major Edgar Ney comes to report again, tell him to go to rest. He should know My place!"

"Yes!" The artillery commander hurriedly responded.

General Renio turned and left. Before he had walked a few steps, he suddenly thought of something, and he turned to face the artillery commander again.

"Commander!" The artillery chief stared at Reinho with puzzled eyes.

"Where's the map?" General Renio ordered again to the artillery chief.

The artillery chief hurriedly brought the map in front of General Reinho, and ordered the soldiers beside him to bring a kerosene lamp for General Reinio to illuminate.

Under the light of the kerosene lamp, Reinho will use his rough hands to draw on the map of Rome, frowning, he will stop his hand at a place marked by some gates and ask: "Can you tell me, this place where?"

The artillery chief was stunned for a moment, carefully checked the position General Reinho pointed at, and then looked at the city of Rome with the help of the moonlight. It seemed that Rome did not have the door that General Reinio pointed to.

"Commander... this may be because of the age!" The artillery chief tried to explain cautiously: "This map is actually left over from the emperor's time. The emperor's time is more than thirty years away from us. A little Changes should be made!"

"Should? You call this what you should?" General Renio raised his voice and criticized severely: "Your sentence of "should" may ruin the lives of many people!"

The commander of the artillery regiment lowered his eyebrows and did not dare to refute.

Since the emperor abdicated, the French army has not changed much, and even the basic intelligence work of the army is a mess.

If this continues, the entire French army will face a crisis.

Of course, in the mind of General Renault, this was nothing more than a moderate crisis for the French army.

Far from reaching the danger of destroying the army.

Just tap them a little.

"Let Major Edgar Ney, Brigadier General Niel... come to my residence with the complete instructions!" General Renio said to the artillery commander, he was going to command all the middle and high levels in this expeditionary force All the officials were called over, and he wanted to rectify the looseness of the French army.

"Yes!" The artillery regiment commander, who didn't dare to offend General Reinho, responded in a low voice.

"Aim, here... here... and here, give me a hard bang!" Reinho pointed to the city hall on the map and the surrounding landmark buildings and said to the artillery commander: "Give me a boost!" Drop their arrogance!"

After explaining all the situation, Reinho walked down the mountain slowly under the protection of the soldiers, leaving only the artillery chief who obeyed General Reinho's order.

June 2, 1849.

After a night of melee, the French army finally occupied the walls of Rome just before the sun stretched out of the horizon, and Rome was exposed as France's pocket.

The Roman Republic was dead in name only.

Mazzini, who was in power as the Roman Republic, escaped from Rome. There were only about 5,000 soldiers in Rome scattered on the streets of Rome under the leadership of Garibaldi. They were going to turn this place into another "Austria" and drain the French army every drop of blood.

France will definitely not follow their wishes. The artillery on the Yanikulum Mountain and the cannons on the Roman city wall have already aimed at the city of Rome. Once there is movement in the streets of the city of Rome, the cannons will shoot at the street as soon as possible.

Under the orders of the "benevolent" commanders, the soldiers who were tired all night began to rest one by one.

The commander, who also fought all night, was told by the artillery regiment commander to gather at the residence of General Regno before he had time to rest.

The bewildered commanders could only temporarily forget their exhaustion and go to General Regno's temporary residence.

More than a dozen military commanders came to an apartment on the outskirts of Rome, walked through a chic garden, and came to the door of the apartment facing the rising sun.

This apartment was originally a wealthy nobleman from Rome. After the establishment of the Roman Republic, the nobleman fled in a hurry, and the apartment became an ownerless thing.

After the French army entered the suburbs of Rome, the apartment became a French thing.

"The commander just fell asleep, wait a little longer!" The soldier in charge of guarding the gate said to the commander present.

After looking at each other in blank dismay, the commander could only stay at the gate of the apartment and wait.

After about half an hour, the door of the apartment opened slowly, and General Renio, who was wearing the military uniform of the First Empire, appeared at the door.

Everyone except Edgar Ney showed expressions of surprise.

"Come in!" Renio waved to everyone, and Edgar Ney and others entered the hall.

The old artwork in the hall has long since disappeared, leaving only a long walnut table with a simple sand table on it, and a slightly yellowed map next to the sand table.

"Boys, well done!" General Renio praised everyone present with a thumbs up.

"For the empire!" Edgar Ney responded first.

"For the Empire!" The remaining commanders also shouted loudly.

After all, in an army that works from top to bottom, the commander is a Bonapartist, so how could they not be close to the commander.

The next action is crucial, which is directly related to their wallets.

If that Bonaparte can lead them to obtain the same wealth as the original emperor, they certainly don't mind donating the center to the president.

When everyone came to the map, General Renio started a vigorous carve-up frenzy.

"Brigadier General Niel, your next mission is..." Niel, who was second only to General Renio in the expeditionary force, got good jobs around the city hall, so much so that his colleagues envied him look.

"Colonel de Lacycho, your task is to eliminate the traitors in this area!" Renio once again circled an area and gave it to Colonel de Lacitum.

Colonel de Lacimon, who got the area second only to Colonel Niel, also beamed with joy.

General Renio arranged the area for everyone present to clear the "bandits" one by one, and then said with a solemn expression: "Everyone, I wish you all the best!"

"Long live the president, long live the empire!" The satisfied officers cheered sincerely.

Renio nodded in satisfaction, the effect of this expedition obviously exceeded his expectations.

It seems that the resistance of the military to the president is not strong.

After the division was completed, General Renio informed every officer present about the map, and the officers' faces showed a little shame.

General Renio, who finished beating the officer, then warned: "I don't hope that in the future there will be situations where the labels in the picture do not match the reality! Now I want to give you a task to give every street in the area you are in charge of I will mark it on the map and then summarize it!"

"Yes!" The officers said in unison.

"Go and have a rest first! By the way, Brigadier General Niel is staying!" Reinho said kindly to all the commanders.

The command staff took the order to leave, and Brigadier General Niel stood up straight after being briefly confused for a few seconds, obeying General Reinho's orders.

"Niel, sit down!" General Renio, who was sitting next to the map, warmly invited Niel to sit down.

"Yes!" Niel sat next to General Renio.

"Look, here... here, and here!" General Renio pointed out several buildings to Niel and said, "When I was observing Rome from the heights of Yanikulum Mountain, there were no such buildings at all." See!"

Brigadier General Niel instantly understood what General Reinho meant: "General, do you want me to re-check the map of the suburbs of Rome?"

"That's right!" Renio nodded and said to Niel: "You are the Paris Engineering Institute, I will ask them (officers) to collect the streets and buildings in their area of ​​responsibility and hand them over to you. You and your men make a new map, we can't fight here with a map decades ago, otherwise there will be trouble!"

"Yes!" Brigadier General Niel immediately took over the task of Major General Regno. When he was at the Paris Engineering College, he was a surveyor. If it weren't for some unexpected circumstances, he might become a national engineer of the Road and Bridge Corps. .

"Then don't worry about it!" General Renio said to Brigadier General Niel.

After Brigadier General Niel left, Lei Nio continued to look at the map, and a ridiculous thought came out of Lei Nio's heart.

Perhaps I should suggest to His Majesty that all maps be reworked.

General Renault didn't know that what he was thinking about had already been carried out in an orderly manner by Jerome Bonaparte.

The time gradually came to 6 pm, and the fiery red disc was slowly falling, and the French army, which had been repaired for a day, was revived again, and they were gearing up to go deep into the Roman neighborhood to completely wipe out Garibaldi's troops.

On the other hand, an "uninvited guest" also ushered in General Renio's apartment.

A sinister middle-aged man with a square face and natural curls came to General Renio's villa in tight black uniform and trousers, and said to General Renio with a devout expression, "God bless! General, You defeated the mob! Protected God!"

"Bishop Antonelli! I'm just following the orders of the President!" General Reinho said to the "big red man" Cardinal Antonelli next to Pius IX without humility.

Antonelli, who was only 42 years old, gradually showed a kind smile and nodded: "Of course! Of course! Mr. President is really a pious person. I heard that he came to Rome as early as a year ago!"

Immediately, he showed a regretful expression: "But I was still visiting Naples at the time, so I didn't have the chance to visit Mr. President!"

General Renio did not speak, and quietly waited for Antonelli's performance.

"General Regno, when will His Majesty the Pope be able to enter Rome?"

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