18th century total war

Chapter 291 The Tragic Siege (Subscribe)

"Your Excellency, our troops once again repelled Franz I's Royal Guards. They have left more than 2000 corpses. I estimate that Franz I has no ability to continue to attack Vienna."

Alleyn's trusted generals reported with joyful faces.

"Don't be too happy. This victory is only because Franz I underestimated the power of the revolution. He rushed to attack Vienna without even waiting for the artillery. When the first batch of light artillery of the Royal Guards is in place tomorrow, they will surely Will try to attack.

The Royal Guards will have curved mortars for this attack. How long can those temporarily armed Viennese citizens last under the indiscriminate bombardment of flowering bombs? "

The general of the Lindenwan Brotherhood who reported was stunned, then carefully looked at Elaine's face and said: "There are still many people in the Austrian Freedom Party, we can let them all go up."

Speaking of this, the general of the Lindenwan Brotherhood paused for a moment, and after finding that there was no anger on Elaine's face, he continued:

"The fighting power of the Austrian Freedom Party is still good. They have great conflicts with Franz I's autocratic monarchy. Let them all stand on the front line, which can not only block Franz I's offensive tomorrow, but also consume the power of the Austrian Freedom Party. .

After all, after the success of the Vienna Uprising, the Austrian Freedom Party expanded a lot of people. This is Austria's territory after all, and the leaders of the Austrian Freedom Party use the name of the Austrian Freedom Party to recruit people, making it easier to recruit people. "

The general of the Lindenwan Brotherhood said at the end, with obvious dissatisfaction in his tone.

Although Elaine has always emphasized that everyone is a member of the Lindenwan Brotherhood, the leaders below have promised on the surface, but they are doing things in private to expand their own cronies.

The expansion of ordinary gangs is nothing to worry about. They have no popular base and can only rely on the Lindenwan Brotherhood.

But during the period of lurking, the Austrian Freedom Party, which had established itself, secretly set up an internal party leadership organization and established a ten-member Austrian Freedom Party committee to deal with the internal affairs of the Austrian Freedom Party!

This is obviously the establishment of independent parties and even armed forces in the Lindenwan Brotherhood and the Austrian Republic!

It is naturally impossible for Allen to be unaware of this behavior, and it is precisely because of this behavior of the Austrian Freedom Party that the revolutionary party that captured the city of Vienna gradually divided into two factions.

One faction is a staunch supporter of Allen, and the other faction is the Austrian Freedom Party, whose political idea is that the Austrians govern Austria.

Of course, there are still some people who are temporarily in a neutral position. After all, the two sides have not yet openly confronted each other. Alleyne is still recognized by everyone as the President of the Republic of Austria and the Supreme Leader of the Revolutionary Armed Forces!
In an environment with strong enemies outside, even the ten-member committee of the Austrian Freedom Party, which had small intentions and did not want a Frenchman to sit on its head, did not dare to openly refute Alleyn.

Alleyn was naturally happy as he listened to the words of his generals.

The other party was not a brainwashed Frenchman, but an ordinary French officer brought here by Fatis.

The Lindenvan Brotherhood has developed to this point, and the number of real brainwashed soldiers is already very small.

The Lindenwan Brothers are absolutely loyal to Fatis and Alleyn, mainly due to the French soldiers brought over by Fatis. These people are not only capable of fighting, but also firmly united in the Lindenwan Brotherhood because they are in a foreign country. Next to the supreme leader.

Most of these Frenchmen were left in Central Europe and were promoted to the middle and high levels of the Lindenwan Brotherhood.

The Russian Empire was a very closed country at this time. When Fatis went to the Russian Empire to establish the Davari Mutual Aid Association, it was difficult to bring too many people there, so he could only leave most of the French people in Central Europe to engage in revolutionary activities.

Long-term revolutionary activities and witnessing the growth of the Lindenwan Brotherhood from scratch, the loyalty of these original Lindenwan Brotherhood French veterans is still very reliable.

Therefore, as soon as the Austrian Freedom Party made a small move, some people came to Elaine to make a small report, and even proposed such a blatant plan to entrap teammates.

Of course, this does not mean that the only supporters of Alleyne are the French. The Lindenwan Brotherhood also has many Austrians, and these Austrians are different from the Austrian Liberal Party.

Most of these people are people without borders. They think that they should ignore the nation-state like the high-level French in the Lindenwan Brotherhood, spread revolutionary ideas where they are needed, and bring the dawn of revolution to the suffering people.

Obviously, if you want to do this, you must be firmly united around the Lindenwan Brotherhood, not the Austrian Freedom Party, which only cares about its own three-acre piece of land.

The seizure of the city of Vienna has caused divisions within the Austrian Liberal Party. Many people want to preserve the revolutionary achievements of the Austrian Republic, and then reach peace agreements with European monarchies to seek coexistence.

The other group is those who agree with the revolutionary ideas of the Lindenvan Brotherhood and feel that we should continue to export revolutionary ideas to the outside world and not just focus on the regional division of countries and ethnic groups.

The latter is the political idea that the Lindenwan Brotherhood has been promoting. The appearance of the former can only show that the European monarchy is too powerful in this era, so many people dare not fight against the traditional monarchy system even if the revolution is successful.

Alleyn was naturally aware of this. Even before the Vienna Uprising, he had already noticed the political divisions within the Austrian Liberal Party, but it was not yet time for political struggle.

“The battle to defend Vienna is not over yet, and we should unite all our forces.

Since the Austrian Freedom Party has developed so many members, it is natural to exert more strength, but our Lindenwan Brotherhood cannot be idle and send all the gangs who follow us.

As for our old brother, he has to undertake the task of punishing deserters in the rear, so he cannot go to the front line in person. "

After Alleyn finished speaking, the generals of the Lindenvan Brotherhood looked overjoyed. What these French old men were most worried about was that Alleyn was concerned about the overall situation and did not dare to attack the Austrian Liberal Party.

With the development trend of the Austrian Freedom Party, it won't take long for them to become the backbone of the Austrian Republic. The President of the Republic, Elaine, is elected, not hereditary. Once the Austrian Freedom Party grows completely, President Elaine's position will inevitably be lost !

At that time, what will the old brothers of the Lindenwan Brotherhood do?
They have long been imprinted with the imprint of the Alleyn faction. After the Austrian Liberal Party takes power, they will definitely not have any good fruits.

What's more, a small number of ultra-nationalists in the Austrian Freedom Party have been clamoring not to let the French ride on their heads, and to expel the middle and high-level French members of the Lindenwan Brotherhood!
This is something that the old brothers in the Lindenwan Brotherhood cannot tolerate. Without their existence, the Austrian Freedom Party would not have been possible. Now this group of people have hardened their wings and want to seize power!
However, the plan of the Austrian Freedom Party is a joke in the eyes of Allen. After all, they are subordinate organizations developed by Allen. In order to let the Austrian Freedom Party do some shady deeds and attract the attention of the Vienna authorities, they can only Throw the Austrian Freedom Party out and develop on its own.

There was no way. At that time, the Austrian Freedom Party was a wanted criminal. As the leader of a legal organization, Allen could not have too close contact with the illegal Austrian Freedom Party.

This gave the Austrian Freedom Party a chance to sprout its own interest groups!
These are the inevitable prices to be paid for developing revolutionary forces.

In the early morning of the next day, as no surprise, the Royal Guards used the light artillery that had just arrived, mainly small-caliber field guns and light mortars.

Small-caliber field artillery was unable to destroy the city walls of Vienna. In addition, the upward shooting angle and effective range were not adequate, so it could not pose any threat to the Vienna defenders.

These small-caliber field guns were invented not for siege, but for mobile field warfare.

Small-caliber field artillery is carried by cavalry all over the ground. In the field, it can quickly reach the tactical position for rapid shelling, and then change places after the shooting.

This is actually a cavalry cannon.

However, mortars are very useful in siege warfare. It can even be said that mortars plus mathematical knowledge have ended the era of bastions!
With the supplement of artillery and a night's rest, the morale of the Royal Guards has been steadily restored.

Under the personal supervision of Franz I, the Royal Guard once again rushed to the city walls of Vienna frantically.

The artillery on the walls of Vienna, like yesterday, has poor accuracy. Solid bullets from long distances will hardly cause any casualties to the Royal Guards. Only when shotgun shells are fired at close range will the Royal Guards feel uncomfortable.

But this time the siege, the Royal Guards don't have to stare at the artillery on the fort on the Vienna City Wall. The mortars followed the soldiers of the Royal Guards who were attacking the city. After calculating the angle, they quickly deployed the mortars. In the positions, the light mortars fired shells towards those forts in a very short period of time!

Compared with the traditional trebuchet, this thing is many times better!
Higher accuracy, stronger explosion power!

As long as a flowering shell falls around the artillery, the entire fort will be a corpse!
Not long after, the forts on the city wall that the Royal Guards attacked were called out one by one. Due to the huge technical gap between the artillery of the two sides, all the forts of the revolutionary army were overturned by mortars!
It wasn't that the artillery was blown up, but that the artillerymen above were dead and crippled. Although there were enough armed citizens in the revolutionary army, there were only a handful of people who could fire them. Soldiers who can shoot...

Manipulating the artillery does not mean that you can fire the artillery to be qualified, at least you must know how to aim, the general direction must be right, otherwise you shoot more shells and bombard the enemy next door, what is the point of wasting the shells?
There may be many people who can shoot cannonballs, but those who can aim are the real artillerymen. Even if they are only gunner recruits, they are very few in the revolutionary army at this time.

Fortunately, Elaine had predicted this situation long ago, and kept some skilled gunners from sending them to confront the Royal Guards.

In the close-range artillery battle between the two sides, the gunners of the Royal Guards achieved an astonishing one-to-five damage ratio!

In other words, on average, 5 gunners were killed or injured on the Revolutionary Army side, and only one gunner was killed or wounded on the Royal Guards side.

Although the number of Royal Guards is small, there is not much difference between the number of artillerymen and the number of gunners of the Revolutionary Army. With such a disparity in battle damage ratio, Elaine will naturally not fight to the end with the Austrian Royal Guards.

Without the suppression of the artillery at the top of the city, the casualties of the Royal Guards decreased a lot, and they soon climbed to the top of the city again.

Then facing the huge crowd, Alleyn used the revolutionary army's human sea tactics to its fullest!

And this time, Alleyn used the reason that the Austrian Royal Guards had artillery and the defense of Vienna was facing a crisis, and sent all the armed forces of the Austrian Liberal Party to the city, letting them lead the armed citizens in a fierce battle.

At this time, Alleyn's identity as the President of the Austrian Republic played a key role. The president of the nascent Austrian Republic also held the position of Commander-in-Chief of the Army. He had unlimited power, especially during wartime!
Because of this, Alleyn regarded the private actions of the Austrian Freedom Party as a joke.

How could the President of the Republic, who has so much power, allow the Austrian Freedom Party to gain power?

Even without the defenders of Vienna this time, Elaine still has ways to use the Austrian Freedom Party as cannon fodder.

The reason why Allen didn't stop the Austrian Freedom Party from pulling people in its own name was mainly to get more cannon fodder and to avoid the early outbreak of internal strife in the revolutionary army.

In this battle of Vienna, the Austrian Freedom Party was still very useful.

It didn't take long for the Austrian Royal Guards who had climbed to the top of the city to be driven down, while members of the Austrian Freedom Party were busy directing armed civilians to avoid mortar shelling below.

Vienna's city defense system is very complete, with special anti-bunker holes, that is, areas with a solid top layer above, which can effectively prevent mortar shells falling from the sky.

Therefore, explosive bombs alone cannot blow up the defenders inside the city wall until they collapse.

However, if the enemy troops rushed to the top of the city, the Vienna Revolutionary Army would have to go out to the roof of the anti-gun cave, and they would naturally be bombarded by explosive shells.

The Royal Guards, who knew the Vienna city defense system very well, did not waste many explosive shells on the revolutionary troops inside the city walls. When no one was seen at the top of the city, they stopped firing.

Not long after, the next wave of Royal Guards rushed up.

In this way, the Royal Guards repeatedly attacked the Vienna city wall regardless of casualties. With the support of mortars and shells, they killed the revolutionary troops in the city until they were howling like ghosts. After half a day, there were corpses everywhere inside and outside the city wall, and they couldn't even find a clean place to stay. Both the enemy and us are stepping on slippery bloody battles!
As for the place where deserters were executed behind the city wall, hundreds of deserter corpses had been hung up!

(End of this chapter)