18th century total war

Chapter 306 Balkan Project

"Ministers, a revolution has broken out in the Republic of Austria, and the revolution has spread at a speed beyond the expectations of the Alleyn government. Except for the cities where the Presidential Guard is stationed, other cities have been occupied by revolutionary rebel parties.

These revolutionary parties immediately signed an armistice agreement with the Kingdom of Prussia and the Russian Empire, and joined the Fourth Anti-French Coalition! "

Li Wei asked the secretary to submit the report to the cabinet ministers for review, and said.

"Your Majesty, according to Elaine's report, apart from being loyal to his cabinet government and presidential guard, the Austrian Republic has even rebelled against the regular army. The situation has deteriorated to the point of no return. Do we want to withdraw our support for Elaine? , to concentrate the strength?

After this revolutionary rebellion, the Austrian Republic will inevitably be severely weakened and will not pose much threat to us.

Elaine's ability to govern is obviously lacking. He is more suitable for underground revolutionary activities. Maybe we can let him lead people secretly to infiltrate Berlin to launch a revolutionary rebellion. The presidential guard is the elite of the empire, so we cannot continue to let Elaine The government consumes. "

The Minister of War suggested to Li Wei.

"That's right, in just over a month, due to the consumption of the Fourth Anti-French War and this revolution, the Presidential Guard has lost more than 2 people, and the situation in the Austrian Republic has not been restored. Yes Time to withdraw the Presidential Guard."

Levi thought for a while and nodded in response: "Then let's arrange it this way. Don't waste yourself in the whirlpool of the Republic of Austria. Since the Republic of Austria does not welcome a French president, there is no need for the country of Austria to continue to exist.

There are shadows of the Habsburg dynasty in this riot, so issue me a wanted arrest warrant for the Habsburg family. The fall of the Elaine government does not mean that the Habsburg family can be restored! "

With the order of Li Wei's government in Vienna, the Elaine government immediately took the presidential guard to the area controlled by the French Defense Force. The presidential guard was quickly disbanded and merged into the French Defense Force, temporarily supplementing Karl's Eastern Army.

Alleyn took a few of his henchmen to the Kingdom of Prussia to take over the Lindenvan Brotherhood there.

It's just that the Austrian Lindenwan Brotherhood has completely lost public opinion due to the disturbance caused by the Elaine government, and there is no need to maintain it.

After the Alleyn government evacuated and disappeared, the Austrian Republic fell into chaos, just as the Livy regime had expected.

Various cities and regions that became independent through violent revolutions have different views on the restoration of the Habsburg dynasty, while the Kingdom of Prussia and the Russian Empire, which are busy with wars, have no energy to support the restoration of the Habsburg dynasty.

Among them, the Russian Empire was even more greedy, and took the opportunity to take several provinces from the Republic of Austria!

The Kingdom of Prussia and the Russian Empire treated the restoration of the Habsburg family indifferently, naturally because the Habsburg family did not "return the king" as expected in the fourth anti-French alliance after the collapse of the Allen government. Except for a few cities controlled by royalist forces, most cities in the former Austrian Republic did not support the restoration of the Habsburg family.

The reason for this is simple.

Although the Lindenwan Brotherhood's reputation was ruined due to Alleyn's traitorous rule, the French Revolution ideas promoted by the Lindenwan Brotherhood have already taken root in Austria.

In addition, the downfall of the Elaine government this time was not planned by the royalist party who supported the Habsburg family. The Habsburg family did not have that much power. Great, the Republic of Austria resisted the joint attack of the Kingdom of Prussia and the Russian Empire on its own, buying precious time for the French to take over the Balkans.

This behavior greatly hurt the national sentiment of the Austrian people.

Nationalism is such a double-edged sword. Allen can rely on nationalism to gain power, and nationalism will naturally bring down the traitorous Allen government.

The collapse of the Alleyn government not only did not plunge Austria's revolutionary ideas into a low ebb, but instead entered a new realm!
The Austrian Freedom Party once again stands on the stage of history.

The Austrian Freedom Party is the sworn enemy of the Habsburg family. Naturally, it is impossible for them to support the restoration of the Habsburg family, otherwise the key members of the Austrian Freedom Party will be wanted!

So, not surprisingly, after the disappearance of the Alleyn government, the Austrian Republic fell into a state of division, divided between the Royalist Party and the Austrian Liberal Party. Among them, the Austrian Liberal Party's public support rate was much higher than that of the Royalist Party, but there were internal conflicts within the Austrian Liberal Party. There is no unified leader.

After all, the current Austrian Freedom Party is a temporarily revived party, not the original well-organized Freedom Party.

Faced with the chaotic situation in the Austrian Republic, the Kingdom of Prussia and the Russian Empire sent troops to occupy it without mercy. Austria's regular army naturally fell apart. Those Austrian cities that had succeeded in independence had no resistance to the anti-French Allied forces.

At this time, the French Defense Forces also moved. After the original Austrian Presidential Guard transformed into the French Defense Forces, they entered the territory of the Austrian Republic again and began to encroach on the territory wantonly.

These troops who changed into military uniforms fought the independent Austrian cities crying and howling, and even many revolutionary and independent cities faced the French army and surrendered directly.

When facing the rule of the Elaine government, the people in these cities have a strong sense of revolution, and when facing foreign invaders, they are extra weak...

After all, the fundamental reason why the revolution broke out in the Austrian Republic was mainly to resist the war. The reason for resisting the war was fear of death!

In this way, the Austrian Republic, which had just become independent, was quickly carved up by the Kingdom of Prussia, the Russian Empire, and the French Empire in a dramatic situation. The cities controlled by the Habsburg family were attacked by the French Defense Forces for one day. I couldn't hold on to the time...

At this point, the Holy Alliance officially disintegrated, at least in the propaganda of the Anti-French Alliance, the Holy Alliance no longer exists.

Because there is no sovereign country in the Holy Alliance except for the sovereign country of the French Empire, those vassal brothers of the French Empire are obviously not recognized internationally.

However, Li Wei's government still held high the banner of the Holy Alliance, pulled in all the vassal states to make up for it, and let Pius VII of the Vatican personally come out to stand on the platform.

This is actually to create momentum in political and public opinion to make the expansion war of the French Empire look more just.

The title of justice is still somewhat useful.

After the collapse of the Austrian Republic, Karl had to withdraw the main force from the Balkans to fight against the Prussian-Russian coalition forces.

With the full mobilization of the Kingdom of Prussia and the Russian Empire, plus the armies of those small countries, the anti-French allies have gathered more than one million troops in Central Europe. Regardless of the quality of the million troops, at least they can have a musket in hand .

In contrast to the Holy Alliance army on the side of the French Empire, the systematically brainwashed army only had more than 20 people on the line.

Even with the addition of the armies of the vassal states, it would only be 40 to [-].

However, the combat effectiveness of the armies of the vassal states has not been strong. The most important thing is that the armies of the vassal states do not know why they are fighting. They are not at all interested in the invasion war that shed blood and sweat for the Li Wei government. Let them go to the front to fight against the anti-French alliance In the army, it is easy for the established system to surrender.

Therefore, the vassal country's army is basically of no use on the frontal battlefield, and is mainly used to fill up the numbers.

This shows how much pressure the Livy government faced.

Although the strength of the Fourth Anti-French Alliance on the Central European battlefield is only five times that of the French National Defense Forces, five times the number of 100 million versus 20, and five times the ratio of [-] to [-] is obviously not a concept. The army can easily change from quantitative to qualitative!

At least now, the battle line that Karl is facing is full of loopholes. The enemy's troops are too many. They can be spread out and attack from different directions. The army broke through, thus carrying out a large-scale roundabout outflank.

Cutting off the French National Defense Force's retreat is a trivial matter, but if it breaks into the French mainland or the Vienna area and threatens Li Wei's life, it will be a huge event!
So now Karl simply does not have enough troops to launch fortifications, so he can only adopt a strict defensive approach, sealing all entrances, and holding mobile units in his hand to defend on the second line to prevent the anti-French Allied Forces from focusing on the enemy. breakthrough.

Of course, it was precisely because of Karl's defensive posture that the anti-French allied forces never launched a large-scale offensive.

Once the Anti-French Allied Forces launch an attack, they must gather their forces, and the French Defense Forces on the opposite side will naturally also gather their forces. At that time, a main decisive battle will break out between the two sides.

Even if the Anti-French Allied Forces had an absolute advantage in strength, they did not want to engage in a major decisive battle so quickly. After all, the series of failures in the previous anti-French wars were created in the main battles.

What's more, there are now a large number of new recruits in the Allied Forces, and the anti-French Allies also need time to train them.

As for the French Defense Forces, they are still digesting the Balkans at this time, and of course they hope to delay as much as possible.

At this time, Li Wei was reviewing the plan just submitted by the cabinet government on how to manage the Balkans and encourage the peoples of the Balkans to serve the empire.

"Your Majesty, our people have already contacted representatives of the Serbian, Bulgarian, Romanian, Albanian, Croatian, Bosnian, Slovenian, Macedonian, Montenegrin and other major Balkan nations.

Among them, the Romanians have agreed to accept our proposal. The Principality of Transylvania will be merged into the newly established Kingdom of Romania, and His Majesty will wear the crown of the Kingdom of Romania.

The representatives of the Romanians offered their allegiance in exchange for His Majesty's protection.

Among the rest of the ethnic groups, because many people have been recruited by the Greek army, there are completely different factions. Some support us, are willing to live in the vassal state established by the empire, and give their allegiance to His Majesty, and the other part is the revolution propagated by the Greeks. Thought infection.

They seek true independence and want to establish a sovereign country with freedom and equality. "

"The cabinet means that only three kingdoms will be established in the Balkans?"

"Yes, Your Majesty.

We do not need to establish countries for those small tribes with small populations. Although doing so will make the situation in the Balkans more complicated, it will also make our management more difficult.

And support the Romanians, Serbs, and Bulgarians, the three large population groups, to establish a country, and bring those small countries into the rule of these three countries. We can use these three groups to squeeze other small groups and intensify the relationship between these three groups and the Balkans. hatred towards other minorities in the region.

In this way, we can establish a 'balanced' system among the three vassal states.

When the main energy of Romanians, Serbs, and Bulgarians is in the struggle with other ethnic minorities, they will naturally not be able to resist the rule of His Majesty, and the revolutionary outbreak of the Austrian Republic will never happen again!
At the same time, these three large population groups in the Balkans can also provide us with local servants for security warfare.

There are too many mountains in the Balkans. It is impossible for the empire to station a large number of troops in the Balkans and waste the power of the empire's expansion. Therefore, the servant armies established by these three major population races can help the empire eliminate the manpower gap in the security war. "

After hearing this, Li Wei nodded slightly and praised: "It's a good proposal.

Using barbarians to control barbarians, I like it.

How is the situation in the Balkans going now? "

“Your Majesty, please rest assured.

The Greek Republic was clamoring wildly. In fact, their army was not much different from the traditional European monarchy and feudal army. It would collapse at the touch of a confrontation with the imperial army.

As for the national warlords supported by the Greeks, after learning that we are willing to accept them to establish their own country, the warlords with Romanians, Serbs, and Bulgarians as the main body have all invested in the Holy Alliance.

The remaining small clan warlords can be dealt with by them.

The founding process of the Kingdom of Romania, the Kingdom of Serbia, and the Kingdom of Bulgaria is almost over, and the selection of capitals has been completed. It will not take long for the armies of these three countries to join the ranks of the servant armies of the Holy Alliance.

And His Majesty will become the legitimate king of these three kingdoms!

Under the general trend of the empire, most of the Greek troops have been defeated and retreated to the Peloponnese Peninsula. Only some Greek troops are still active in the mountainous areas of the Balkan Peninsula in the form of guerrillas.

Among them, the Macedonians are the most stubborn. They seem to have formed a solid offensive and defensive alliance with Greece, and the Macedonians are different from other national armies. They are no longer warlords and have established the Republic of Macedonia!

Now in the Balkans, apart from the three kingdoms we have established, there are only two sovereign states, Greece and Macedonia. "

(End of this chapter)