18th century total war

Chapter 176 A Miracle Was Really Born

"Sir, the soldiers below are making a big fuss, and even many battalion heads have begun armed protests. There is no essential conflict between the Levi's rebels and us, and the reinforcements of the Levi's rebels are moving south quickly. We will delay here for a few more days. , it is no longer facing the Li Wei rebels with more than a thousand people."

"That's right, my lord, these 5 people are the elite troops of our Kingdom of Spain, if they are all buried here, how will we explain to the king and the cabinet.

I thought it would be easy to win the Eastern Pyrenees province, and Li Wei would not fight the great Spanish kingdom for a French province.

But we all underestimated Li Wei's madness. Now he would rather stop the attack on the French revolutionary government, but also dispatch the main force to go south. If we continue to fight like this, we will be sinners in the anti-French alliance! "

The commander-in-chief of the Spanish army frowned at these noble generals.

The armed protests of the Spanish soldiers that just broke out really frightened these aristocratic lords.

If your own army blows up the camp before the city of Perpignan is captured, it will be a matter of life and death!
Now that we know that the Li Wei rebels in Perpignan are difficult to deal with, and the morale of the army is so impetuous, everyone naturally doesn't want to stay here and work hard.

Withdrawing the army and returning to the country at this time, at most they will be dismissed, which will not affect the family behind them. If the army is buried before returning to the country, then it will be...

Oh no, if the army is really defeated, will they still have a chance to escape?

And without these more than 5 'elite' regular troops, how can the Kingdom of Spain resist the crazy Levi's attack on the Spanish mainland?

If it really comes to that point, everyone will be nailed to the pillar of shame in Spanish history!

However, the commander-in-chief of the Spanish Army understands that as the supreme commander, he is also the supreme person in charge. Once he retreats, it will be a military and political stain that will accompany him throughout his life.

More than 5 regular troops besieged a city with only a few thousand defenders and retreated. It only takes such a sum to be recorded in the history books, and he will become a joke in the history textbooks of later generations.

The Spanish army commander did not want to be a joke, but had to face the reality that it was about to become a joke.

The following high-level generals don’t want to fight anymore, and the low-level soldiers are even armed to protest. Is his insistence useful?

Although everyone knows that even if more than 5 people only use bayonets and rush into the city to fight for a certain loss, they can wipe out the Li Wei rebels who are not afraid of death.

But if you know it, you know, who wants to be the cannon fodder for those sacrificed pioneers?

The previous battles have proved that taking the city of Perpignan and eliminating more than a thousand Li Wei rebels will not kill dozens or hundreds of people, and it is very likely to break through four figures!

Obviously, none of the top soldiers below wants to be a victim...

What's more, even if the city of Perpignan is captured, how can he resist Li Wei's black dragon army?
Originally, he had never fought against Li Wei's Black Dragon Army. The Spanish army commander still had a little confidence. At worst, he built a solid fortification to fight Li Wei's Black Dragon Army, which made Li Wei retreat.

Can't fight in the field, can't rely on solid city defense?
Then in Perpignan, the Spanish army commander was taught a good lesson, maybe he really can't beat...

Relying on such a group of so-called "elite soldiers" who have never been paid in full, what a fart!
Since the follow-up battle is bound to fail, the commander-in-chief of the Spanish army will naturally stop the loss in time. It is much better to be a joke than to be a bigger joke, or even be killed after being a joke!
Reason occupies the peak of the brain, and the Spanish army commander can only agree with the opinions of the majority.

This decision was not difficult, and it even earned him a lot of appreciation from the army. Although everyone didn't like a general who was defeated, a general who could lead everyone to escape would not be complained by the officers and soldiers below.

Of course, if the Spanish army commander led Jacobin's National Salvation Revolutionary Army, there would be two completely different results.

If you become an escaped general in the Revolutionary Army for National Salvation, you will be guillotined!

After the order to retreat was issued, there was a burst of cheers in the barracks. Outsiders who didn't know it saw it and thought that these Spanish soldiers had won a rare victory!
No, they were happier than having won the battle, because they could save their lives and go home!
More than 5 Spanish troops retreated just like that. When retreating, they did not forget to send someone to explain to Karl, the main commander of the Black Dragon Legion, who was heading south.

Explain that it was a misunderstanding...

The misunderstanding is not to despise the IQ of the other party, but to find a way for both parties to step down. To put it bluntly, many misunderstandings are compromises for mutual benefit.

This misunderstanding is actually the softness of the Spanish Army.

At the same time, Li Wei, who was far away in Toulouse, received a reward for this anticlimactic battle.

Thanks to the size of the Spanish Army and the disparity in the corresponding black dragon army defenders, this battle successfully met the evaluation criteria of the total war system.

However, since the Spanish Army retained most of its strength and retreated, the victory evaluation was just an ordinary victory, and Li Wei was rewarded with two glory points.

Of course, for Li Wei, these two points of glory were earned in vain, because not one of the Black Dragon Legion defenders in Perpignan City died!
In other words, the soldiers of the Spanish Army never had contact with the enemy from beginning to end.

The envoy of the Spanish Army, who admits to counseling, has a very good attitude, so good that he is humble. The other party is not a genuine envoy, but an ordinary second lieutenant officer. It doesn't matter how low his posture is.

Karl learned through scouts that the main force of the Spanish army had lifted the siege of Perpignan. After they all went south and returned, he did not dare to make his own claim and sent someone to Toulouse to seek Li Wei's opinion.

When Karl's troops arrived at the southern border of the Eastern Pyrenees Province, which is the border between the former Kingdom of France and the Kingdom of Spain, they stopped and confronted the more than 5 Spanish troops who had shrunk into the border fortifications on the opposite side. .

These border field fortifications were built by the Spanish army after being beaten by the National Salvation Revolutionary Army once, to prevent the National Salvation Revolutionary Army from going south and invading the Kingdom of Spain.

And the commander-in-chief of the Spanish army who retreated here never dared to retreat again, otherwise he would be guilty of losing the country, and the nature would be completely different!

It didn't take long for Carlos IV, the current king of Spain in the palace of Madrid, to receive the battle report from the front.

Of course, in the battle report received by Madrid, it was not the military humiliation of 1000 people repelling 5 people, but the loss to the main force of Levi's rebel army going south. In order to keep the 5 elite soldiers, the Spanish army commander had no choice but to withdraw to the border. among the fortifications.

(End of this chapter)