I Became A Genius Of The French Royal Family [EN]: Chapter 145

145. Manifest Destiny (1)

“They have arrived! The enemies are coming!”

“Of course. We are at war. It is natural for the royalists to come.”

Lieutenant Colonel Raimundo, who was reviewing how to march south, replied irritably to the messenger who was making a fuss.

He felt that the sense of victory from completely annihilating Lieutenant Colonel Gabriel’s unit was diminished because of his fussing subordinates.

However, he was stunned by the messenger’s next words.

“They say that French bastards are rushing in from the east. It is said that there are at least a thousand troops confirmed.”

“What? France was clearly watching the situation….”

It seems that we have no choice but to interpret the movement of this number of troops across the border as intentional. Orders!

France is an ally of Spain… then are they on the side of the royalists?

The alliance between the Creoles [people of Spanish descent born in the Americas] and the natives is clearly an unauthorized rebel army.

Even if it is the United States, there was no guarantee that the French army would take their side.

However, the rebels have been winning every battle so far and their morale is quite high.

Even if it is France, the opponent is clearly the same colony, New France.

In that case, it is highly likely that they are no different from the royalists of New Spain.

“For now, we must consider the French bastards as enemies since they have not said anything to us. They are probably thinking of suppressing us and demanding a price from Spain.”

Currently, even if the main force of the rebels is concentrated in the central region, the power in the northwest is not weak.

This is because those who have been dissatisfied with the government have been recklessly rising up.

Thanks to this, public order is also plummeting, but this is a problem that will be solved somehow once the new government takes its place.

France seems to have underestimated us as a simple rebel army, but unfortunately, they miscalculated.

“How are the French bastards moving right now?”

“According to the latest report, they are spreading out widely and approaching us.”

“Foolish. It’s good news for us. They seem to be underestimating us and trying to occupy as much land as possible quickly, but it won’t work as they want.”

Lieutenant Colonel Raimundo immediately summoned troops and decided to intercept the French army.

He had no intention of tolerating New France occupying their bases and settling down.

The troops scattered in various places began to gather, forming a line to block the route of the New French army, according to Lieutenant Colonel Raimundo’s summons order.

However, the French army moved several times more quickly than this infinitely relaxed movement.

Taang!

Tatatang!

“Enemy! Get in formation and shoot!”

“What, why are the French bastards already here!”

“Where are the allies who were supposed to join us! Tell them to attack quickly!”

“Ugh! French cavalry from the rear!”

A simple strategy that even if they can’t win by fighting together, they won’t lose.

Napoleon brutally trampled on the rebels’ naive thoughts.

Audaciously, Napoleon deployed troops to the center where the New Spain rebels were gathering.

In a way, it was like walking into a self-enclosed formation, but at the same time, Massena’s unit, with its superior mobility, cut off the rear of the enemy soldiers.

It was a kind of internal line strategy to eliminate enemies within supporting range before they could respond.

As soon as they were in an unexpected situation, the limitations of the inexperienced rebels were revealed.

“Just shoot! Shoot so that the enemies can’t come close!”

“How can we shoot when we haven’t formed a proper formation! We need to fix the formation first!”

“Damn it, then quickly form a formation and shoot!”

What Napoleon emphasizes is always a mobile warfare that is one step ahead of the enemies.

And it was an annihilation battle to thoroughly destroy the lagging enemies.

From the beginning, he had no intention of occupying the area by surprise.

If you annihilate all the main forces of the enemy, the territory will naturally follow.

While the rebels’ joining forces were being subdued by Massena and Berthier’s units, the main force led by Napoleon raided Lieutenant Colonel Raimundo’s forces.

Peong! Pow!

While the cavalry strikes the rear, the artillery pours out cannons.

The organic tactics of cavalry, artillery, and infantry that they had never experienced before.

Raimundo couldn’t even understand how the soldiers could move like that.

“Ugh! You cowardly bastards! Respond with a fair and square battle!”

“Is this ancient times, you morons!”

“Hahaha!”

Moreover, France was not simply a group of people who were engaged in ingenious movements.

Even if they tried to push forward by force, the enemy’s infantry power itself was far stronger than theirs.

The French infantry, which uses a combination of vertical and horizontal formations, seemed very familiar with this kind of battle.

“Retreat! Retreat!”

Just a few hours after the start of the battle, a premonition of annihilation was taking over his head.

Lieutenant Colonel Raimundo shouted desperately and retreated faster than anyone else, but the devilish enemy commander did not even allow that.

The enemy’s cavalry, which had moved to this side’s escape route as if they knew it, pierced through the flanks.

I have to admit it.

The enemy commander is at least several levels above this side’s strategist.

Still, if I get a chance, I can analyze and learn from this defeat and strengthen this side’s unit.

Puh-uh-uh-uh! Wheeeeeing!

However, the rapidly approaching terrible roar erased even a glimmer of hope.

Listening to that sound, which seemed to be getting louder and louder, made my body tremble and tears welled up for no reason.

A fleeting moment too short to leave a will.

In the end, the only thing that popped out of his mouth was a short and thick word.

“Damn it, you sneaky bastards.”

쾅!

Lieutenant Colonel Raimundo, who was trying to escape, was hit by a cannonball that landed squarely and became a body that could not even be recovered.

“Brave soldiers of New France! Kill all the rebels!”

“For freedom!”

“Freedom! Equality! Harmony!”

The French troops, shouting incomprehensible slogans, did not even allow retreat.

In particular, the native soldiers took the lead more than anyone else, shoving guns into the Creoles and cutting off their necks.

The more they perform here, the better treatment they and their tribes will receive.

Those in front of them right now are, in a way, like stairs they can step on.

So they will kill the enemy as much as they can and return.

And they will enjoy the glory of victory with their families.

Even for the sake of their compatriots who will take root and live in this land in the future.

They had to become a symbol of freedom that brings victory.

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“I report. Our army has completely annihilated the enemies. Lieutenant Colonel Napoleon will continue to march west.”

As soon as I arrived in Oklahoma, pleasant news greeted me.

According to the report, it has not even been a week since this side’s army crossed the border.

And the news that they had engaged the enemy and the report that they had annihilated the enemy came almost simultaneously.

It is an incredibly fast-paced battle.

After all, it was the right answer to come down to Oklahoma instead of Toronto.

If I had stayed in Toronto, the actual situation would have been over before I could even figure out how things were going.

“What about the United States? It seems like it’s time for the US military stationed in Louisiana to start moving.”

“Yes. It seems that the US side did not expect us to strike first. For now, according to the report from Washington, there is a lot of debate going on there as well.”

“Is there no consensus on how to intervene?”

Coming down to Oklahoma was not only to communicate smoothly with our expeditionary force.

This is because I can immediately know how the US military is moving in Louisiana, which is located in the southeast.

The United States that I know is a country that will never easily allow us to monopolize the benefits alone.

They will definitely come out at some point, and we must closely monitor the logic they put forward and their actions.

That way, we can come up with a scenario to effectively wrap up the current situation.

“If it goes as expected, they must be doing something….”

If it were Jefferson that I know, he would have done all the work in advance.

If I could even send a telegram, let alone a phone call, I wouldn’t have to feel this frustration.

Since the thirsty dig a well, is there no choice but to create the technology on this side?

The problem is that as a pathetic liberal arts student, I have no way to do anything in this field except to grind my subordinates.

If I had taken the path of science and engineering, I could have at least suggested the direction of research, but….

“Your Majesty! Urgent news!”

Grushy’s voice, who rushed in urgently, broke my thoughts that were following one after another.

“As Your Majesty expected, the United States has moved. The US troops stationed in Louisiana have started to advance all at once.”

“Really? What justification did they put forward to move? Is it the exercise of the right to self-defense like us?”

“It’s similar, but a little different. This is a newspaper sent by the embassy. They are promoting their legitimacy very extensively here.”

I wonder what kind of novel sophistry they are putting out.

I opened the newspaper that Grushy handed me with a strange expectation.

From the first page, there was an article boasting that the proud American army was advancing towards Texas.

The content that both the opposition and ruling parties are emphasizing the legitimacy of this war also followed.

It seems that the debate that took place in Washington was a process to create plausible logic.

My gaze, which was quickly scanning the contents, stopped at a specific part of the long speech.

Because I saw a very familiar word that I had seen a lot somewhere.

-God has given us an important mission. We must practice and develop the freedom given to us and spread it throughout the continent.

We are fighters who have risen up against all oppression and injustice. But despite the great victories we have achieved, unequal oppression is still taking place outside our territory.

We must continue to reach out to defend the inviolable rights we have received from God.

We hereby declare that this is a manifest destiny and a legitimate right given to us.

I’ve heard this drivel somewhere… I never thought such a word would come out so openly from the start.

Well, they would have needed a slogan to respond to our slogan emphasizing freedom.

It was ironic that the phrase that was created by working hard was a copy and paste of the monumental excuse of the original history.

“So, to summarize, are you finally going to participate in the war to save the people of New Spain who are groaning under oppression? It’s really a poor logic….”

Not surprisingly.

The United States’ excuse was not the end of this.

-The Federal Government’s Liberation Army. Dispatching troops to defend South Texas.

Since when did South Texas become a state of the United States?

I smiled and read the newspaper and the report that Grushy brought, and I was finally able to understand the whole story of the incident.

Jefferson had 미리 [Korean word meaning “in advance”] sent Americans living in Louisiana to Texas to create several settlements.

It seems that the government of New Spain did not know because it was not that large.

As soon as the rebellion broke out, this settlement declared that they had seceded from New Spain and called their name the Republic of South Texas.

At the same time, they sent a request to the United States of America to incorporate them.

It was only a comedy that a village with only a few hundred people called itself a state, but the federal government accepted it.

And they sent troops under the pretext of protecting South Texas, which had become a member of their own.

Amazing, amazing.

I was wondering what excuse they would make to advance the troops, but they were so openly trying to cover their eyes and ring the bell [deceive themselves and others].

Of course, when viewed calmly, this side is not in a position to point out.

In the end, the justifications that both sides are putting forward were similar.

The wave of freedom that France is advocating and the manifest destiny that the United States is shouting.

Is the level of excuse real? The war of nerves between the strongest players in North America… my heart is getting petty.

Manifest Destiny End