18th century total war

Chapter 292 The Great News
On the outskirts of Paris, the capital of the French Empire, the emperor's office in the Palace of Versailles.

Not long after he stabilized the situation in Paris, Li Wei, who pursued enjoyment, redecorated the bustling Palace of Versailles according to his favorite style, and then used it as his "second residence".

When Li Wei was tired of staying in Paris, he would come to Versailles to live and work.

The ministers of the cabinet government naturally need to come with Li Wei, but generally Li Wei will only meet those important cabinet ministers, and other cabinet ministers only need to submit a document to Li Wei's attendant unless there is a major event.

Of course, as the master of a military empire, the cabinet ministers Levi met the most were the Director of Military Intelligence and the Minister of War.

In particular, Manid, the director of the General Administration of Military Intelligence, has been granted the privilege of meeting Li Wei directly without going through an aide, and can report the latest domestic and foreign news to Li Wei anytime and anywhere.

Today, Manid took a carriage all the way to the Palace of Versailles and reported a great news to Li Wei!
Since the outbreak of the third anti-French war, due to Li Wei's too many opponents and strong military strength, the Kingdom of Spain in the south has scattered troops from time to time to attack and disturb the war. The situation is overwhelming.

The most important thing is that the opponents of the French Empire have already been abused by Li Wei. They basically do not have ten times or more troops. They are determined not to fight field battles with the French Defense Forces. Inside!

Since the start of the war, the third anti-French coalition has always been on the defensive, even though the anti-French coalition has absolute superiority in strength and firepower!

In order to prevent the French National Defense Forces from breaking through, the Anti-French Alliance built dense fortifications in all towns and transportation points that could support the march of the army, and they were very 'obsessed' with civil engineering work.

The chest barrier was built higher (lower on the inside and higher on the outside, the higher here is only for the outside), the trench was built wider (the trenches in this era are deep and useless, and they can be stepped over with a few planks), and there are still shooting holes Great work has been done on the bezel.

In order to injure as much as possible the vital force of the French National Defense Forces before engaging the enemy, the Anti-French Alliance gathered all the soldiers with good marksmanship and distributed high-quality and higher-precision smoothbore guns and even front-loading rifles. The shooting position is arranged above.

These shooting positions are specially set up. There is a hole in the middle of a thick iron-clad wooden board that is bulletproof, or it is made of stones, and a shooting hole is left in the middle to protect these 'snipers' with good marksmanship to the greatest extent. .

In addition, these shooting positions are often arranged in places with higher terrain, and a large number of ordinary private defenses will be arranged around each shooting position. Even if the enemy breaks through from other areas, each shooting position must be enough to last longer time.

In fact, these shooting positions are somewhat similar to the original bunkers, except that instead of machine guns, there are a few skirmishers with good marksmanship.

In the era of queuing and shooting, this kind of small bunker is very cost-effective in defensive warfare. After all, with the rate of fire of a musket, can a skirmisher with good marksmanship inside fight out ten bullets by a single person?
On the contrary, the manpower and material resources consumed to build such a small fortress are much higher than the ordinary chest defense line!

Therefore, this is not worth the loss.

Weapons limit the appearance of bunker fortifications.

However, the self-destruct tactics of the French Defense Forces that frightened the Anti-French Alliance forced the Anti-French Alliance to use this "stupid method" to strengthen the fortifications as much as possible.

For the Anti-French Allied Forces, every French Wehrmacht soldier is a potential explosive barrel. Every time a French Wehrmacht soldier is killed, it can save the lives of several soldiers of our own!

But gunners with good marksmanship are rare in this era. After all, the accuracy of the musket is there. If you want to practice the marksmanship of the musket, you will have to pay several times the effort and even the talent price of the rifles of later generations!

What's more, even if the smoothbore marksmanship is well practiced, it will still be blind if it exceeds 100 meters, and the hit rate is no different from that of a recruit...

This is still based on the use of high-precision and high-quality smoothbore guns. As for front-loading rifles, the sad reloading speed is destined not to become a large-scale weapon.

Even the sharpshooters in the French Defense Forces did not use front-loading rifles as their main weapons, but wore two muskets, one smoothbore and one front-loading rifle.

Of course, during non-combat periods, the sharpshooter only needs to carry one musket on his back, and the remaining musket can be thrown to the accompanying army convoy.

This can save the sharpshooter's physical energy consumption.

The method of the anti-French Allied Forces seems stupid, but it did increase some casualties to the French Defense Forces during the defensive battle. It was still difficult for the Guards Infantry to attack those small bunkers that seemed to be closed.

Coupled with the lack of explosive power of black powder in this era, it is difficult to blast that small bunker from the outside, unless you dig a blasting fortification with a pile of gunpowder barrels below.

With the ever-changing situation on the battlefield, how can there be time for you to dig blasting fortifications?
In this way, the Anti-French Allied Forces set up fortifications layer by layer, digging holes one after another, and hundreds of thousands of Anti-French Allied Forces are about to dig into migrant workers...

Efforts still pay off. The long line of defense that can't be seen at a glance really slows down the offensive strength of the French Defense Forces.

Even if the French Defense Forces attack regardless of the cost, if the casualties are too large, even if they are defeated after a series of tragic victories, how many troops will the French Defense Forces have to occupy the territory?
The Anti-French Allied Forces made it clear that they wanted to fight a war of attrition with the French Empire, and see who had more soldiers, and gradually exhausted the strength of the French Defense Forces.

Even though this war of attrition suffered greatly in terms of supplies due to the fact that the Anti-French Allied Forces were far more powerful than the French Empire, the Anti-French Allies also gritted their teeth and persisted. The price is raised from time to time, and the whole country celebrates by selling military supplies...

In addition, the British financial and capital circles also ushered in a carnival. After all, this kind of war of attrition is about national strength. The soldiers of the French Empire do not need to pay military salaries, and their strength is much smaller. Naturally, they can sustain it, but Puao and others The Anti-French Allied Forces couldn't hold on, especially the Russian Empire, which was facing a two-front war, and was on the verge of financial collapse.

To this end, the anti-French allies on the mainland had to borrow heavily from the financial world.

It is obvious that the domestic financial capitalists can't swallow it, and many financial capitalists have also raised the loan interest rate to the point where the government wants to shoot them.

At this time, the London government, which gave its allies various loan concessions, stepped forward.

Since the London government is responsible for the endorsement, British financial capitalists are still willing to pay. In the eyes of most people, the third anti-French alliance is the power of the whole of Europe to attack the Ottoman Empire and the French Empire. No matter how you look at it, it will not be defeated. .

Well, at least in terms of national strength.

The previous battles also seemed to prove this point. The French Defense Forces easily killed more than [-] people after only breaking through two lines of defense, which forced Karl to give up the onslaught tactics that did not count casualties.

Unable to face the in-depth defense line of the hard-shelled anti-French allied forces, Karl could only dispatch troops in different ways, attacking from some remote paths, trying to break the deadlock.

It’s just that those routes that are not blocked by the defense line are not suitable for the march of large troops. The main force of the French Defense Forces cannot cross at all. The encirclement and suppression of the main force of the French Allied Forces.

Of course, Karl's tactics are also effective. The small units he sent out have many routes, so the main force sent by the anti-French allied forces to encircle and suppress has to be dispersed, chasing and suppressing the small units that infiltrated and interspersed. military.

After dispersing the forces of the anti-French allied forces, these small groups of French troops will take the opportunity to find those enemy forces that do not have too much strength to attack, and they can eat every bite.

Small-scale encounters often broke out between the two sides in the surrounding areas of the entire front, and hundreds of casualties occurred every day.

As for the main force of the French Defense Forces on the frontal battlefield, Karl had no intention of transferring them away. The three armies did not change their attack plan.

At first, the Anti-French Allied Forces thought that the French National Defense Forces wanted to create miracles through the interspersed small French army, so they used the main force to attract the main force of the Allied Army, and could not dispatch large forces to encircle and suppress the small French army that interspersed.

Until the Lindenwan uprising broke out in various cities in the rear!
Yes, because the leaders of this revolutionary uprising were all the Lindenwan Brotherhood, it was called the Lindenwan Uprising by European countries.

If the Lindenwan Brotherhood did not break out, once it broke out, it was famous all over Europe. Even the Ottoman Empire next door was terrified when they got the news of the Lindenwan Uprising. Gang searches.

However, because the Ottoman Empire has always strictly controlled the penetration of European countries. After all, the two sides have always been in a state of hostility, and exchanging spies has long become the norm. Therefore, the branch of the Lindenwan Brotherhood in the Balkan Peninsula controlled by the Ottoman Empire is very weak. , It cannot be compared with Central Europe at all, and even the Davari Mutual Aid Society in Eastern Europe is far inferior.

"Your Majesty, great news, the Secret Service's Lin Deng Wan plan has succeeded!
After nearly a week of bloody battles, Vienna, the capital of the Austrian Empire, successfully repelled the onslaught of the Royal Guards led by Emperor Franz I of Austria. The loss is as high as [-]%, and it has been completely abolished.

Eileen, a senior member of the Secret Service, announced to the whole of Europe in Vienna that the Austrian Republic was established, and Eileen was the first president of the Austrian Republic.

After the outbreak of the Lindenvan Uprising, a total of 18 cities in Central Europe successfully launched uprisings. During the subsequent anti-French alliance encirclement and suppression, three cities blocked the anti-French alliance's attack.

This was mainly because the main force of the anti-French Allied Forces was confronting the main force of the French Defense Forces and the rear was empty, which led to such a huge achievement. "

Hundreds of cities in Central Europe launched uprisings, but only 18 cities succeeded. Later, only three cities survived the encirclement and suppression of the army, which became a great victory in Manid's mouth!

This kind of logic may be a bit incomprehensible in the eyes of future generations, but if you understand how deeply the autocratic monarchy system is in the hearts of the people in this era, you will understand how rare it is to have three revolutionary uprisings to hold the city, not to mention Vienna, the capital of Austria. !

This is politically equivalent to tearing a bloody wound under the European autocratic monarchy system, setting a historical milestone!

After all, compared with Western Europe, the countries and cities in Central Europe are more conservative. The more eastward the European continent is, the more conservative the people's thinking is. The Russian Empire generally implements the serf system. Compared with the traditional feudal empires in the East, there is not much difference in the system. .

"Unfortunately, the Berlin uprising did not succeed."

Li Wei regretted.

The Lindenwan plan was promoted by Li Wei alone. The two cities of Berlin and Vienna have assembled the vast majority of the Lindenwan Brotherhood. Normally, the probability of success in the revolution in these two cities should be the highest, not to mention The revolutionary leaders of these two cities were still French who had been enlightened by the administration.

After hearing Li Wei's words, Manid explained: "Your Majesty, the nobles of the Kingdom of Prussia have a strong military tradition, and their fighting will is much higher than that of the Austrian nobles. The news from my spies said that when the revolutionary uprising broke out in Berlin, Many Junker nobles in Berlin who did not go to the front line took the initiative to pick up the weapons collected at home and rushed to the streets with their servants and guards.

It was the extra armed forces of the Junker nobles in Berlin that caught the revolutionary army off guard and failed to take down important buildings such as the police headquarters in the first place, allowing the government forces in Berlin to gather time to suppress the revolution. "

Li Wei nodded slightly, and did not continue to ask this question.

"The news of the Battle of Vienna must have spread."

"Reporting to Your Majesty, according to the itinerary, except for St. Petersburg, all the countries of the Anti-French Alliance should get the news before us."

Small countries such as Sweden were directly ignored by Manid.

In the eyes of the French Empire's cabinet ministers, in this anti-French war, the only opponents worthy of the French Empire's attention were the United Kingdom, the Kingdom of Prussia, the Russian Empire, and the Austrian Empire. The Kingdom of Spain can be counted as half. After all, the geographical location of the Kingdom of Spain is very delicate. A lot of French troops were involved.

As for other European countries, without the protection of the anti-French alliance, under the attack of the French Defense Forces, the country will be destroyed in less than a week!
This is the tragedy of too small a territory and no strategic depth.

Of course, the Kingdom of Sweden is not enough, and the territory of Sweden is still not small.

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