Chapter 127: Iberica - The Eastern Empire
The Revolutionary Army, which had recruited close to one hundred thousand men, was mostly demobilized.
These men, who had fought relentlessly from the civil war and the revolution to the battles against King Louis and the Germania Empire, briefly returned to their daily lives.
Some argued that to face the Krafte army, a mighty force trained by maintaining a standing army of 100,000 for ten years, we should fiercely train our soldiers for two years without demobilization, but…….
Unlike the Great King, who transformed Krafte from a mere feudal state to the hegemon of the northern Empire and became a fanatically followed icon of the era, we had to first consider our people.
With an election looming before the war with Krafte, no party dared to insist on keeping the soldiers enlisted.
Besides, the government had no money for it anyway.
Still, we couldn't just leave them be, so Louis Desaix and the Chief of Staff, Alexandre Berthier, remained behind to regularly train the disbanded Revolutionary Army soldiers as a reserve force.
Meanwhile, the undemobilized standing army, led by the Revolutionary Guard and the Cuirassiers, was in the midst of preparations for dispatch to the Iberian Peninsula.
My leading them to help Kroxx would allow the soldiers to gain combat experience.