Almost while Napoleon solved the Toulon problem, the French, who quickly mobilized more troops, also moved into the attack in the north. Their opportunity to choose this attack was very suitable, because when they launched the attack, something happened to happen to the anti-French alliance.

Just like the fable of swans, pikes and prawns pulling a carriage together, each of the anti-French countries has their own small abacus. As a result, they lack cooperation with each other and even destroy each other.

The first thing the British had to ensure was their interests in the Netherlands. So they strongly proposed to use their main strength to the attack on Dunkirk. They surrounded Dunkirk from both sea and land, and asked the Prussians and Austrians to join the attack on Dunkirk.

But Dunkirk was not an attractive target for the Austrians and the Prussians, so they in turn tried to convince the British that they would waste time and strength on such "secondary targets" and quickly transfer the army to join them in and launch a decisive attack on the French on the Belgian border.

The British army was limited in number and were thrown into the battle for overseas colonies with more visible interests for Britain. Both the Austrians and the Prussians tried to persuade the British to mobilize quickly. However, Prime Minister Pitt was unwilling to disrupt the pace of British national development. So Pitt took a more compromise method. That was, Britain paid for money and guns, Italy sent people to fight against the French.

The British recruited more than 10,000 mercenaries in Italy, and then used Austrian roads to send them to Belgium. When the British borrowed roads from Austria, they once said that these troops would be used to fight on the Belgium and France. However, after the team arrived in Belgium in August, the British said that due to changes in the battlefield situation, they had to use these mercenaries in Dunkirk.

However, the Austrians and the Prussians claimed that they had already counted the mercenaries into the combat plan. Although they did not use the Italian mercenaries as the main force when formulating the combat plan (all of us know that the combat effectiveness of these Italian mercenaries is not very reliable, far less than that of mountain people or German mercenaries. The only advantage is that they require less money.), they can at least use garrison tasks to liberate more military power. Now that the British suddenly distrustfully and transfer the army away, their attack will naturally not be carried out.

But the real facts are actually different from what they said. Recently, Her Majesty the Queen of Eastern Rome was so sad that she lost her beloved lover, Bo, and became ill. As soon as the Queen fell ill, the guys in Poland were about to move, and the areas controlled by Prussia were also in a bit of turmoil.

The Queen's serious illness also allowed the Prussians and Austrians to see some ideas of getting some benefits from Poland. However, any idea must be supported by military forces, otherwise it would be a delusion. Austria and France are not very brave enough to transfer the army back, but Prussia is not like this. Prussia now feels that the security of the Rhine states seems to be fine for the time being, and the interests of France are limited. Therefore, the Prussians have long been thinking about transferring their troops to the east. It's just that Austria used various means to hold them back.

After knowing that a mercenary with more than 10,000 people was about to join the Belgian battlefield, the Austrians could no longer hold back the Prussians. Before the Italians were in place, the Prussians transferred more than 10,000 troops back. Anyway, the Italians would fill the gap he left... However...

On the front line of confrontation between the two sides, one side suddenly lost more than 10,000 people, which naturally had more flaws. But on the other side, on the French, the situation was completely different. While using the guillotine to quickly solve the guys with "German" in their names, the commissioners from all over the country continued to send large quantities of wealth and recruited soldiers to Paris. By the end of September 1793, France had organized as many as one million troops. Yes, most of these troops were under-trained and poorly equipped (because military production could not keep up with such conscription rhythm), but they were highly motivated. Most of their troops could not be put into battle, but the new, completed training troops (in fact, training was quite limited) were also sent to the north by the revolutionary government. Unlike when Di Murier rebelled, the French army had recovered its morale and had a clear advantage in terms of number of people.

Taking advantage of the hesitation of the anti-French allied forces, Kano concentrated a large number of troops in the Noor State. Under the supervision of the St. Just (political commissar), the French army launched a counterattack in early September. They first defeated the British army commanded by the Duke of York (later George V) in Honzshot, and then turned to the direction of Mauberz, and defeated the army of General Koble in Austria here.

The military dangers in France seemed to be temporarily resolved, but once the tight military thread relaxed, many problems that were originally suppressed by the military crisis emerged immediately.

The first thing that emerged was economic issues.

After taking power, the Jacobins adopted a physical solicitation system and various price limit systems in the country in order to support the war. Although this trick similar to wartime communism ensured that the country could concentrate its efforts to fight against foreign enemies, it also brought many problems.

According to the Act of September 29, France's counties were in charge of food prices, while municipalities were responsible for determining wage limits. Under the constraints of this Act, generally speaking, the price of food generally increased by one third compared to 1790, while people's wages generally increased by one half. Everything seemed to be pretty good.

However, there is a great imbalance in the prices and wage standards set in various parts of France. Each county strives to raise the prices of local products and lower the prices of goods from other places. (If this is not the case, it will be difficult to maintain wage growth.) This has led to fragmentation of the national market.

On the other hand, the large number of conscription caused the labor force to be tight, especially in rural areas. This year, there was a bumper harvest, but due to the lack of manpower, the harvesting and threshing of grain have been delayed. Coupled with the demand for a large amount of military rations, many places experienced food shortages in the year of bumper harvest, especially in some areas in southern France. Due to the influence of the war, these problems became more and more serious.

To put it simply, the current problem is to use the control of the country and their understanding of the economy to abandon the traditional market economy and directly use plans to allocate national resources. However, once these things full of planned economic colors are abandoned, they are almost suicide politically.

Therefore, the National Salvation Commission must continue to deepen the revolution so that it can truly control the country and overcome the current crisis.

But this requires pressure. Previously, the foreign interference army provided this pressure. But now, a funny situation has emerged, that is, the previous series of victories have fundamentally shaken the legitimacy of the revolutionary government.

If there is no pressure, then artificially create pressure. At least, you have to drag a dead tiger to beat it hard. So Robespierre chose to church the dead tiger.

Before this, the revolutionary government had already cracked down on and plundered the church through the Patriarchal Law. Now the rest of France are already priests who are willing to swear allegiance to the parliament. But now, the Republic needs an internal enemy that can unite everyone. So the remaining priests, as well as the entire Christianity itself (including Catholicism, Orthodoxism and any Protestantism) have become the kingly enemies of the Republic.

On October 24, the National Assembly passed a bill to implement the republican calendar in France. This move actually sounded the clarion call for a full declaration of war on Christianity and expelled Christian faith from France.

Kano returned home very depressedly, and he was not interested in the "Republican Calendar". Although in the eyes of some guys in later generations, the "fog moon", "frost moon", "snow moon", "bud moon", and "flower moon" were so beautiful that they were super high. But in Kano's view, this was completely a mess. Moreover, although he was the first hero of the French army's series of victories over this period of time, the authority and legitimacy of the Saving Committee were weakened by the victory it led, Kano's status also declined due to this series of victories. Therefore, his opposition to the Republican Calendar and the non-Christian movement was almost ineffective.

"These guys are getting crazy! Especially the power-taking thugs in the Paris Commune! If France lets them do this, it will be done sooner or later!" Kano said to his wife without dying.

His wife was so scared that her face turned pale when she heard this. She looked around and lowered her voice: "You are crazy! Can you say such words casually? Are you desperate?"

"What do they dare?" Kano lowered his voice in discontent, "It's so damn. At this time, Napoleon was in the south, and Joseph locked himself in the laboratory! There was not even a person who could negotiate..."

"You can't go to the lab to find Joseph? Or let him come to the War Department to report to you on research?"

"Well, this is also a solution. Joseph has many ways, maybe there will be some good solutions." Kano said.

Compared with Kano, whose status declined due to victory, Joseph's status has risen a little. The grenades launched by the laboratory he was responsible for shining in the Battle of Toulon and the Battle of the North. Napoleon called it "the cannon in the hands of infantry" and "Jupiter's Thunder" in the battle report, and praised it that without the help of grenades, it would be difficult for them to sacrifice such a small amount, and to seize the key Malgrave Fortress in such a short time, and it would not be possible to easily repel the British counterattack.

In the north, Saint Just also admires the products of Joseph's laboratory.

"This new weapon played a decisive role. The trained strong soldiers can throw this thing fifty or sixty meters away, and can also ensure a relatively accurate landing point. This distance is not much different from the usual distance of enemy platoons. In Honzshot, the British wanted to hit us head-on and fight with us as usual. As a result, they were halfway through the way, they were bombed by grenades. And in Moberge, grenades also played a decisive role. Especially the scattered soldiers equipped with grenades, which was even more of an enemy's nightmare... Therefore, I suggest that the production of grenades should be carried out as the most urgent and important military task. Everything about grenades must be the highest secret of the country..."

Because of this credit, Joseph was also promoted to brigade general. Of course, his military rank was still under Napoleon. When Joseph accepted this honor, he strongly praised Lavoisier's contribution in the development of grenades. He told the observer sent by the National Salvation Committee that the explosives and fuses used in the grenades were all the credits of the research team led by Lavoisier. He also suggested that the explosives be named after Lavoisier's name.

However, the National Salvation Committee believed that Lavoisier was a captured enemy, and all his research results were to return what he had stolen from the people. Therefore, Lavoisier did not deserve such honor. Therefore, this explosive was named Republic 1, while the grenade was named Equal Grenade. It was claimed to be the collective achievement of the military technical laboratory. However, the soldiers prefer to call it "Bonaparte Melon".

It is said that after Joseph told Lavoisier the decision of the National Salvation Committee on the naming of grenades, Lavoisier muttered: "It's nothing. Anyway, I have made enough contributions to science, and it is enough to leave a thick chapter in the history of science. Besides, a weapon that defends this group of thugs, if named after me, would be a satire to me! Well... that's it!"

But after a while, the guy said, "Oh, Joseph, if I were an Englishman, how much money would I make just by inventing the patent fee for nitrified starch? And in France, let alone patent rights, there is no power to name it."

Joseph could only comfort him: "Mr. Lavoisier, as long as you take care of yourself, keep a healthy diet, and run and exercise on time every day, you will definitely get a patent fee in the future."

"When it comes to running exercises, it really makes my body better, so that my appetite has increased. By the way, when I run every day, I can see the thug named Charles hiding behind an iron window and looking at me."

"I told him that this is a disciplined domestication of you," said Joseph. "Of course it's just used to fool him."
Chapter completed!