18th century total war

Chapter 300 Greek Independence
"Father, we can't stay here any longer, run away!"

"run?

I want to run too, but there are people all around, where else can we run but forward? "

Trost yelled with fear on his face.

Immediately afterwards, he saw his son suddenly drop the ax in his hand and rush towards the enemy on the opposite side.

Trost's mind suddenly went blank, this is his only son!

Raising a son for 16 years!

Is this suicide? !

Do not!
I must not watch my son die!

Trost, with a blank mind, didn't need to think at all, and his body instinctively rushed out following his son.

When his son turned around and saw his father following up, he grinned a big smile, and after rushing out of the crowd, he suddenly fell to the ground and hugged his head!
Seeing his son lying on the ground, Trost raised his eyes and fell to the ground as soon as his legs gave way, because the French defense forces on the opposite side had raised their muskets again.

"Fire!"

After the third round of shooting, Trost, who was lying on the ground with his head in his arms, heard the sound of his body falling to the ground again. He couldn't help but feel lucky that he had such a responsive son, otherwise his father and son would never be able to resist this round of shooting. !
Although the street is wide, there are more than 100 musketeers on the opposite side, arranged in two dense rows, which is enough to slaughter the "militiamen" in a group.

The surviving people saw that Trost and his son fell to the ground and escaped, they immediately followed suit and fell to the ground with a clatter.

However, many people didn't even think about rushing out of the crowd, and just lay down on the ground in a crowded crowd!
As a result, there were no accidents, the screams kept coming and going, and the people who got down in the crowd almost didn't end well. It was lucky to be trampled, and many people were trampled to death as soon as they got down!
Even so, when the fourth round of gunfire sounded, the crowd still got down at a speed visible to the naked eye!

Palamut and the others quickly lost the cannon fodder of the meat shield in front of them. They held swords and spears and faced the black muzzle of the guns.

However, the volley still arrived as scheduled, and Palamut suddenly felt a sharp pain in his calf, and he rolled over on the ground under the forward inertia, and barely stopped after rolling twice, hugging his The pain in the calf was earth-shattering...

After the second lieutenant saw that everyone was lying on the ground and surrendered, he finally stopped ordering the volley. After leaving a few infantry guards to guard them, he led the rest of the people and continued to move forward.

"Stand up and go over there!"

Trost was pulled up by a huge force, listening to the incomprehensible French, looked in the direction of the other's finger, immediately understood the other's meaning, and walked silently to the designated open space with his son.

When he came to the open space, Trost quickly found that he had been dragged over, his calf was covered with blood, and he was humming in pain.

When Trost saw the miserable state of Paramut, he immediately thought of the life and death experience he had experienced today. He was angry and glanced around. He found that the few remaining French soldiers were still chasing the captives away. , Immediately rushed to Paramut.

"Trost, what are you doing?
what! ! ! "

Trost kicked Palamut's injured calf, then stepped on it as if he was angry, crushing it back and forth.

Paramut wanted to stretch out his hand to resist, but was kicked in the back of the head by Trost's youngest son, and almost lost his breath.

Afterwards, Trost and his son used all their strength to vent on Palamut. In just a few minutes, Palamut, who had already lost a lot of blood, was beaten alive until he breathed his last...

The rest of the Christians watched this scene silently. When Paramut was beaten to death, they didn't see the French soldiers coming to stop them. They looked at the other pagans in a different way.

The number of pagans is smaller than that of Christians, and even fewer people have been caught. They are not the hundreds of Christian opponents who are staring at each other.

Moreover, these heretics used violence to recruit these strong men, but they did not leave a good impression on everyone.

When the gang found that their violent actions had not been stopped by French soldiers, the accumulated resentment suddenly exploded.

Trost set a good example and opened the Pandora's box in people's hearts.

Soon, there were screams one after another among the captives. When the heretics saw that the situation was not good and wanted to escape, they found that they had been surrounded by crowds!
Even if they don't have any weapons, they can still vent their resentment with fists and kicks. Especially those Christians whose relatives and friends died in the battle just now are looking for 'revenge' with red eyes.

They didn't dare to resent the French Defense Forces that had just won them, and could only vent their grievances on the heretics who drove them to die.

The infantry guards of the French Defense Forces next to them leaned against the wall with their muskets in their arms, chatting while watching the bloody gang fight scene.

"Someone has already been beaten to death. If we look at it this way, we won't be punished by the chief."

"It doesn't matter. There are only a few people who were beaten. There is no loss if they die. It is also a good thing to let them vent their grievances, as long as there is no large-scale mutual assault."

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The Battle of Belgrade ended in a devastating situation. The fourth largest city in the Balkans fell in just one day.

Even if there is a problem of insufficient Ottoman defenders, the speed of the fall is too fast. Before the war, the military and political chief of Belgrade declared that he would consume the last drop of French blood in street fighting, and publicized holy war in a high-profile manner.

As a result, no decent street fighting broke out at all during the entire Belgrade battle.

The so-called street fighting by the governor of Belgrade is just to call a group of 'militia' to follow the French army into the city to fight desperately, the ending can be imagined...

There is no way, Belgrade's regular army is not enough to defend the city, so it is naturally impossible to defend the street fighting.

For the Holy Alliance, the Battle of Belgrade was just a good start, but for the Ottoman Empire, the Battle of Belgrade was the beginning of a nightmare!
As for the dispute of faith in Trost in the city of Belgrade, it is something that cannot be brought to the table in the eyes of major powers.

Even though Trost and his son had proved their Christian status and the treatment they received when they were forcibly conscripted into the army, they still did not escape the labor camp. They only received a partial reduction of their sentences on this basis.

Of course, Christians are also given preferential treatment. The senior officials of the French Defense Forces know very well that if they want to quickly occupy the Balkans, they must win the hearts of the local Christians.

Christians in the Balkans had long been dissatisfied with the exploitative rule of the Ottoman Empire, and the Holy Alliance did not need to spend much energy to win over a large number of people.

In addition, Li Wei clearly pointed out that nationalism must not be allowed to appear in the Balkans, and the Balkans will be directly annexed as the territory directly under the emperor of the French Empire!
With the gradual expansion of the French Empire's sphere of influence, the Li Wei government is planning to establish a stronger ruling status. According to European tradition, it is naturally the safest to assign all the ruling powers of the vassal states to Li Wei's name. This is easier to be accepted by the local people than directly merging into the French Empire.

In Europe at this time, the meaning of being loyal to a monarch and losing one's own country is completely different to ordinary people.

Because it is related to the national customs, language, and even the legal provisions of ordinary people!
Incorporating into the French Empire means accepting all the laws and rules of the French Empire!

This can easily trigger civil unrest. This is not caused by the estrangement between countries, but by folk customs.

As for the unification of language and writing, it is a long way to go.

Belgrade, as the gateway fortress in the Balkans, had assembled all the field troops that the Ottoman Empire had collected from the Balkans.

There is no way, the Ottoman Empire has pulled all the troops and most of the cannon fodder that can fight to the front line of the Russian-Turkish war. There are really not many troops left in the Balkans. The tens of thousands of defenders in the Balkans seem to be many, but they are not as holy Compared with the alliance, [-] to [-]% of them were wiped out in just one Belgrade battle!
Those who were not wiped out just ran fast enough.

Thus, after the Battle of Belgrade, the Ottoman Empire opened up almost undefended to the Holy Alliance in the Balkans.

In the next month, the Holy Alliance conquered cities and lands in the Balkans, marching forward triumphantly, and most cities surrendered voluntarily without attacking at all.

The local nobles of the Ottoman Empire fled in groups and dragged their families towards Istanbul, and were then unscrupulously intercepted and killed by the guard cavalry and Hungarian cavalry who went deep into the enemy's rear.

The Hungarian cavalry is very enthusiastic about this job, because these escaped Ottoman nobles have a lot of money, and every time they encounter a target, the participating cavalry can get a lot of money, enough for them to spend several days in the church.

Yes, with the expansion of the power of the Li Wei regime, the Jiaofang Division, an important money-gathering institution, naturally also extended its trading business to the Hungarian region.

Naturally, the government of the Republic of Hungary did not dare to complain at all and watched helplessly as the Wallace Business Group enjoyed international preferential treatment while squeezing the local business industry.

As long as it is a sale of the Wallace Business Alliance, the local government and nobles of the Republic of Hungary dare not have disputes with them, otherwise the lawsuit will go directly to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs!

The diplomats of the French Empire are notoriously domineering in Hungary, and they often use war as an excuse to threaten them, completely ignoring that tens of thousands of Hungarians on the front line are shedding blood and sweat for the Holy Alliance!

The avalanche in the Balkans of the Ottoman Empire soon caused a series of chain reactions.

First of all, far away from the Istanbul region, the Greek region with a very high sense of independence launched an independence uprising.

The Athenians easily expelled the local Ottoman bureaucrats and entourage, and quickly liberated areas of Greece that had few Ottoman garrisons at all.

Most importantly, in order to dispel the hostility of the Holy Alliance, the Greeks did not establish a monarchy in accordance with the European tradition after independence, but established a republic!

Moreover, there is no presidency in the Greek Republic, only the Parliament of the Republic. The Parliament of the Greek Republic elects a permanent ruling committee to handle daily affairs, and the legislative power of the country is entrusted to the Parliament to formulate.

Only the Congress of the Republic has the power to promulgate and amend the Constitution.

Obviously, the Greeks restored the aristocratic republic.

Yes, the seemingly equal parliamentary republic system actually benefits the local Greek aristocrats.

It is similar to the citizens' assembly in ancient Greece.

Not everyone has the right to participate in the so-called citizen assembly in ancient Greece. Citizens are the nobles of that era!
Because beneath the Greek citizens there were slaves and 'foreigners' who outnumbered the citizens.

Greek citizens mainly rely on the support of the inferior people, so they don't have to work hard every day, have a lot of time to participate in political activities, and train their own martial arts, and join the army to become a citizen soldier when needed.

Greek citizens were the prototype of the early aristocracy.

Now that Greece has become independent, it has naturally not forgotten its own glorious tradition, and has also established a parliamentary system of the republic.

This is not a bad thing for the Li Wei government. Greek independence can also accelerate the collapse of the Ottoman Empire's rule in the Balkans.

However, after the independence of Greece, I don’t know what gave them enough confidence, so they quickly formed a Republican Guard and took the initiative to attack those areas controlled by the Ottoman Empire that did not have many garrisons.

Soon, the Greek army broke out of mainland Greece and annexed several Ottoman provinces including Macedonia!

This is snatching the fruits of victory from the Holy Alliance!
And the military victory also made the self-esteem of the proud Greeks continue to soar. The slogan of restoring the glory of ancient Greece has become the political correctness of the Greek Republic at some point!

Not only the Greek aristocrats, but also ordinary Greeks are full of expectations and want to restore the glory of ancient Greece, so that they can become noble Greek citizens!

The concept of citizens in ancient Greece is completely different from that of today's citizens. Citizens in ancient Greece had slaves serving them in every household!

Obviously, the political trend of the Hellenic Republic must be guided by the superstructure, and the military victory seems to have inflated the top of the Hellenic Republic.

Soon, the Republican Guard of Greece and the army of the Holy Alliance ran into each other!
At this time, the entire Balkan region has been divided between Greece and the Holy Alliance.

Under the suppression of the Holy Alliance, except for the relatively remote Greece, which succeeded in becoming independent, other nationalities did not have any plans for independence. Even if some cities successfully revolted, they were quickly taken over by the Holy Alliance troops who arrived later.

The Levy government does not allow independent sovereign states to emerge in the Balkans!
It was in this general environment that the Greek Republic demanded to communicate with the French Empire as an equal sovereign state.

The Greeks want to use the reason of joining the Holy Alliance to let the Levy government recognize their legitimacy of the land they have already occupied!
(End of this chapter)