18th century total war

Chapter 180 Taking the blame and resigning
"what?
In just half a day, all the forward positions guarded by more than 2 people were breached?
There are less than 5000 people in the withdrawn team!
In such a short period of time, even if our soldiers charged at the muzzle of Levi’s rebel army together, it would be impossible for more than 5000 people to die. There are only so few people who have withdrawn. You should understand what this means! "

The commander-in-chief of the Spanish army suppressed the anger in his heart and shouted to the noble generals in front of him.

The forward position is the place with the most complete fortifications. Because the border defense line was built temporarily and did not take into account preparations for a long-term war, so more efforts were made on the forward position.

The rear position has only simple parapets and battery, and is used as a support position.

As a result, the forward positions filled with Spanish soldiers collapsed in less than half a day, and most of them surrendered voluntarily!
After all, with the lethality of guns in this era, even if the Black Dragon Army has a lot of people, it is impossible to kill 5000 people in half a day!

Killing 500 people is almost the same!

What does this mean?
It is likely that more than half of the Spanish soldiers surrendered!
Of course, it is also possible that they escaped and did not return to the team, but the probability of this is less than that of being killed in battle...

Everyone knows that Li Wei's Black Dragon Legion likes to capture prisoners the most, and they don't even hide it. After all, the labor dispatch department under Li Wei's command has spread throughout France, and has contributed a lot to Li Wei's army's military expeditions. .

It's just that this kind of forced enslavement of the people, not to mention the French Revolutionary Government, which advocates freedom, equality, and fraternity, even other monarchies in Europe feel that it is too cruel to do so.

The labor dispatch department under the Li Wei regime is not a charity job, and there are up to four figures of various deaths every year.

Some were beaten to death while trying to escape, some were tortured to death because they could not bear the punishment, and some were overworked, exhausted, and exhausted...

All in all, no one in the labor dispatch department dies happily.

It is this brutal way of governing that makes the workers in the various labor agencies under the Labor Dispatch Department very much hope that through their own performance, they can get the opportunity to enter the training camp for "reform" and join the army.

The defect that the Black Dragon Legion does not pay military salaries is nothing to the workers under the labor dispatch department!

Of course, people in France and the surrounding areas of France know that being captured by Li Wei as a prisoner will not die, but will work in a labor agency, so the enthusiasm for surrender is not bad.

It is much better to work as hard labor in a labor agency than to be beaten to death on the battlefield.

The spiritual needs of human beings are constantly being lowered in this way.

"Commander, let's retreat. After the news of the fall of the forward position came back, the soldiers below became more war-weary. We simply don't have the capital to confront Li Wei's rebels head-on."

"retreat?

I want to retreat, but the land under our feet is the land of Spain. Once we withdraw, the Levi rebels can enter the land of Spain and do whatever they want!

At that time, no one can escape this responsibility. "

"Commander, we really can't understand Madrid's decision this time, the facts are already in front of us, maybe we should give up this mess in our hands.

If we hand over the remaining 3 troops to the Madrid government, we can also get a good death, right? "

After the voice appeared, the commander's tent suddenly fell into silence, and then the commander of the Spanish army sighed helplessly.

Obviously, he accepted this retreat.

Withdrew to Madrid with the remaining troops, then handed over the army, and resigned himself.

He believed that the noble generals present had already come up with this idea.

Since we can't beat Li Wei's rebels, let's go home and retire.

At least, the defeat of the Kingdom of Spain cannot be 'realized' in their own hands.

Yes, these Spanish generals who have personally experienced the combat power of the Black Dragon Legion have already crossed the future of the Kingdom of Spain in their hearts. They feel that the Madrid government's offending of Li Wei is likely to bring a catastrophe to the Kingdom of Spain .

It's a pity that they can't influence the decision-making of the Madrid government and can only passively accept this situation.

The retreat of the Spanish army was so fast that it exceeded Karl's expectations.

Before Karl's troops finished cleaning up the spoils on the battlefield, the main force of the Spanish army fled in desperation, and left all the cavalry behind.

With such a cavalry watching, the infantry of the Black Dragon Legion could not pursue them with all their strength, otherwise they would easily be killed by a wave of raids by the Spanish cavalry and suffer heavy losses.

As for Li Wei, because the Black Dragon Legion participated in the battle this time with a large number of troops, it barely reached the standard of the total war system campaign evaluation, and got a small victory reward—a little glory point.

On the other hand, the loss of the Guards infantry was as high as more than 600 people.

Most of them were killed by Spanish army's explosive bombs, most of the rest were killed by lead bullets, and a few were stabbed to death by Spanish soldiers' bayonets.

Queuing and shooting is a very cruel mode of war, because of the limitation of weapons and equipment, often the winning side has to pay a high price.

Only a dense formation can exert the power of front-loading muskets, and a dense formation happens to be easily slaughtered by bullets and explosive bullets.

Of course, compared to the loss of more than 600 people, the results of the Black Dragon Legion's battle are very huge, and they captured more than 4000 prisoners alone!

Less than 1000 Spanish soldiers were killed!

After the infantrymen broke through the front line of defense, the Spanish soldiers knelt and surrendered in groups. The Spanish soldiers on the entire battlefield were either busy surrendering to save their lives, or running away to save their lives...

Thanks to the physical strength of the infantry guards and their ability to run fast, most of the Spanish soldiers were captured as prisoners.

The huge number of captives delayed Karl's marching speed, and he had to dispatch a large number of soldiers to transport these precious labor forces to the rear.

The labor dispatch department of the Li Wei regime died so many people every year, but there was never a shortage of labor force, and it was rich enough to provide high-quality soldiers for Li Wei's training ground at any time, relying on the continuous import of prisoners of war.

The prisoners of war who entered Levi's hands basically never thought of returning to their hometowns. In this era, there is no Geneva Convention to provide humanitarian rescue for prisoners.

Due to the need to transport prisoners, Karl's main force could not continue to attack, so he could only send a small group of troops forward.

Unexpectedly, several battalions of Guards infantry stormed into Catalonia, the Kingdom of Spain, with overwhelming force!

(End of this chapter)