18th century total war

Chapter 308
Snapped!
Li Wei slammed the document on the copy, looked coldly at the Minister of War and scolded:
"Look at this document, is this the Serbian army you supported?
They were defeated by a little-known Greek guerrillas and lost their city and territory!

Hehe, this Aristotle, who has the same name as the ancient Greek philosopher, stepped on the head of the Serbian army to start his own reputation.

What Legion of Honor? !

What poor man's army? !
What is the national slogan for establishing national equality and freedom? !
This Aristotle’s political acumen was not a reckless one! "

Livy was clearly annoyed by the sudden appearance of Aristotle and his Legion of Honor.

Originally, the regular Greek army had been pushed back steadily by a partial division of the Eastern Group Army under Karl's command. A few days ago, news came from the front line that the French Defense Forces wiped out the main force of the Republic of Macedonia and Macedonia with the strength of a division.

As a result, under such a good situation, the Kingdom of Serbia was ravaged by a Greek guerrilla army!

Almost every minority has established its own army under the leadership of Aristotle, and the weapons and equipment for building these armies are all provided by the Serbian army!

The Kingdom of Serbia is really a qualified transportation captain...

Although the results of the Legion of Honor were nothing compared to the situation in the entire Balkan region, Aristotle's reputation gave the Greek Republic the morale to resist resolutely!

After Macedonia was destroyed, the capitulation faction of the Greek Republic has begun to rise. It was because of Aristotle's Legion of Honor that the main combat faction of the Greek Republic regained a round!

Of course, the support of the British shit-stirring sticks to the main combat faction is indispensable.

Now that the war in Central Europe is at a stalemate, the main force of the Fourth Anti-French Allied Army and the Eastern Group Army led by Karl has stretched the front from the Moldova area to the North Sea coastline!

It can be said that the whole of Central Europe is in the flames of war.

And since there are no convenient transportation methods such as railways in this era, Li Wei's army can't play the effect of a blitzkrieg at all. It relies on two legs to drive, no matter where it breaks through, the anti-French allied forces have plenty of time to mobilize the army to make targeted deployments .

If the French National Defense Forces that break through have a large number of troops, the anti-French allied forces will adopt the strategy of encircling Wei and saving Zhao, and go straight to Vienna or the capital of Paris, the mainland of France.

If the French National Defense Forces that break through have fewer troops, the Anti-French Allied Forces will dispatch the main force of hundreds of thousands of troops to come out of the urn to catch the turtle.

Therefore, the Li Wei government's energy is now focused on the Balkans, intending to pacify Greece first, and then draw back all the troops and vassal states there to launch a decisive battle in Central Europe.

The strength of the vassal state is also useful, at least it can fill the trenches of the chest and delay the enemy's attack, and the tactics of "encircling Wei and saving Zhao" against the anti-French allies can delay a lot of time.

For the French National Defense Forces, which was attacking rapidly, Berlin could be captured as long as it could hold back the main force of the anti-French Allied Forces.

Once Berlin is captured, the Kingdom of Prussia can be forced to withdraw from the war. The political significance of the capital in this era is still very important. After the capital of a country is lost, the morale of the country's army will plummet.

The Austrian Republic fell into despair after losing Vienna. Even if it was inspired by revolutionary ideas, it was defeated and disarmed in the face of the attacks from the Kingdom of Prussia and the Russian Empire.

However, the current French imperial front is spread too far, and troops are needed everywhere. It is obvious that it is unable to launch a large-scale war in Central Europe.

Originally, it was a matter of time before the war in the Balkans ended, but the appearance of the Legion of Honor added unexpected factors to the war. How could Li Wei not be angry?
The prolongation of the war was certainly a huge drain on the Anti-French Alliance, but how could it not be the same for the Livy government?

You must know that the Li Wei government has been fighting, and the property of the aristocrats and religious forces has been emptied long ago. Even if they rely on the monopoly profits of the Wallace business alliance and are limited by the blockade of ocean trade, they cannot supply the consumption of the war for a long time. .

This is still based on the fact that the French Defense Forces do not need military pay!
If the French Defense Forces had to pay their salaries, the finances of the French Empire would have collapsed long ago!
"Your Majesty, calm down. The appearance of the Legion of Honor is indeed an accident. I will now contact the Kingdom of Romania and the Kingdom of Bulgaria to jointly dispatch troops to quell the internal rebellion in the Kingdom of Serbia."

The Minister of War hastily made an assurance.

Among the three territories divided by the Livy government, the Kingdom of Romania is in the north, the Kingdom of Bulgaria is in the northeast of the Balkans, bordering the Istanbul region of the Ottoman Empire, and only the Kingdom of Serbia has full borders with the collapsed Republic of Macedonia and the still-resistant Republic of Greece.

Therefore, from the map point of view, the threat facing the Kingdom of Serbia is the greatest.

Of course, the location of the Kingdom of Romania is not very good. If the Russians are willing to cross the mountains, they can also attack the Kingdom of Romania.

It's just that, now that the war in Central Europe has caused hundreds of thousands of troops to explode in St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg really can't milk the stormy soldiers, even if there is a nurse like the British, it won't work.

After all, it is impossible for the British to support St. Petersburg unconditionally. Most of the support provided by the British is low-interest or even interest-free loans, and the money given needs to be repaid!
The most important thing is that the British did not lend money to the Russian Empire in the form of pounds or real money. Instead, they used these loans to purchase military supplies in bulk domestically and then shipped them to the Russian Empire.

In this way, the capitalists in the UK will be happy, and it will also prevent the bureaucrats of the Russian Empire from directly embezzling real money and value-preserving pounds!

The British pound is the only universal currency in the world today, thanks to the colonial system in which the sun never sets.

Of course, there are still many countries in the world that do not give face to the pound. For example, the Far Eastern Empire, which has not experienced the severe beatings of the Opium War, never accepts pounds, only silver!
In the beginning, Britain had been in a trade deficit with the Qing Dynasty, and silver continued to flow into the Far East Empire. Even if Britain obtained a lot of wealth through slave trade and mining American gold and silver, it still could not keep up with the "unfair" trade brought by the Far East Empire. harvest.

Gradually, the British government became dissatisfied with allowing the Far East Empire to earn such huge profits every year, but the tea, porcelain, silk and other products produced by the Far East Empire were temptations that Europeans could not refuse, and Far East trade could bring huge profits.

As a result, the British government began to import a large amount of opium into the Far Eastern Empire, using this addictive thing to plunder the wealth of the Far Eastern Empire, and opium was also given a very elegant name in the Far Eastern Empire-drugs.

It is obvious that the illiterate Far Eastern Empire did not understand the harm of opium to the body. This addictive poison quickly became popular in the Far Eastern Empire. Even the dignitaries of the Manchu Empire could not help but be addicted to the opium. .

The cost of making opium was ridiculously low. This necessity for the Qing people soon brought huge profits to the British, and they successfully turned the trade deficit into a trade surplus, plundering a large amount of wealth from the Far Eastern Empire trade.

Now, this wealth is being used in the Fourth Anti-French War!
The Li Wei government, which has been blocked from overseas news, has never figured out why the British are so rich?

The British were the financial backers behind the four anti-French wars!
It's so unscientific!

After all, the United States has become independent, and Britain has been deprived of most of its colonial interests in the Americas!

It’s just that the British Royal Navy is an unsolvable existence in this era. The original Spanish Kingdom’s Armada (the Spanish Kingdom has always called its own navy this name, and it was also called that when it was destroyed and rebuilt. This is their glorious history!) and France Combined, the navy can still compete with the Mediterranean and Atlantic fleets of the British Royal Navy.

But now it is very difficult for the Armada of the Kingdom of Spain to remain neutral. The French Navy is unable to support itself, and it is not an opponent of the Royal Navy at all.

The strength of the British Royal Navy alone in the Mediterranean and Atlantic Ocean could crush the French Navy.

You know, the British Royal Navy has squadrons all over the world, and it is difficult and impossible to gather them together. Otherwise, how can the interests of other British colonies be protected?

British maritime trade also requires the protection of the Royal Navy.

Pirates in this era were very rampant.

Therefore, the Li Wei government mainly faced the British Atlantic Fleet and Mediterranean Fleet.

Among them, the Atlantic Fleet is the strongest, after all, they are the main force protecting the English Channel barrier.

The Mediterranean Fleet is slightly weaker, but it is also stronger than the current French Navy.

Limited by the blockade of the British Royal Navy, the Livy government did not know much about the news from further areas except that the British were opening up the Indian subcontinent.

The Far Eastern Empire is indeed too far away from Europe today, completely located at both ends of the planet.

At this time, the Foreign Minister suddenly stood up and said: "Your Majesty, what the Legion of Honor has done in the Kingdom of Serbia is not harmful or beneficial to us.

Since Aristotle's Legion of Honor became famous, the government of the Kingdom of Serbia has completely turned to our side, and all the original opposition voices in the country have disappeared.

After seeing the tragic situation of the Kingdom of Serbia, the Kingdom of Bulgaria and the Kingdom of Romania also began to seriously and thoroughly implement our suggestions to oppress other ethnic groups. If it were not to avoid triggering large-scale domestic riots, the Kingdom of Romania and the Kingdom of Bulgaria would have already The massacre started. "

"People in the Balkans are really barbaric, and they always learn from the Ottoman Empire."

Levi scoffed.

After the Ottoman Empire emerged from the quagmire of war, it immediately carried out a bloody suppression of the Armenians who revolted. According to the news that Livy knew, more than 30 Armenians were massacred by the Ottoman army!

This is recorded data, God knows how many Armenians massacred have not been recorded.

After all, the Ottoman Empire could not be too 'serious and responsible' in this regard.

It's just that many Armenian cities were killed so that no one could hide it, so some records had to be made.

Even so, the recorded massacre figures are shocking.

Of course, in this era, the Ottoman Empire is the epitome of barbarism, and European society has not reacted much to reports of the Ottoman Empire’s massacre of Armenians other than moral condemnation.

After all, Armenians are also 'barbarians' in the eyes of Europeans.

The poor Armenians were completely abandoned by the Russian Empire that encouraged them to revolt. If the Russian Empire did not cease war with the Ottoman Empire, the Ottoman Empire would not be able to quell the Armenian rebellion, let alone a massacre.

After seeing the methods of the Ottoman Empire, Li Wei discovered that what he had done before seemed to be in line with the 'trend of the times'.

This is a barbaric and dark era. Even Europe, which claims to be a civilized world, can see human tragedies from time to time, let alone other countries?
As for the Manchu Qing Empire in the Far East, the well-documented massacres such as the Ten Days of Yangzhou and the Three Massacres of Jiading are shocking enough, not to mention those massacres that have not been recorded at all.

Back then, the Manchu Empire's policy of keeping hair but not hair, but it was killed with a knife.

Compared with the "glorious past" of the Far Eastern Empire, the massacres in the European War can only be regarded as commonplace.

It is not difficult to understand that the Kingdom of Romania and the Kingdom of Bulgaria started to think of genocide after seeing the foreigners in the Kingdom of Serbia rebelling with the Legion of Honor.

This is what the heads of governments of various countries believe to be the most effective means of resolving internal crises in the current era.

Of course, you must have absolute strength to massacre, otherwise it will easily lead to civil war and even the country's political power cannot be preserved.

Therefore, genocide in this era often occurs when the majority ethnic group targets the minority ethnic group, and it is rare to see the reverse.

Conversely, it was successful. The Manchu Empire is definitely a model among them. It was convinced that hundreds of millions of Han people were killed by relying on millions of tribesmen!

After Li Wei heard the words of the Foreign Minister, his brows relaxed slightly.

The change in attitude of the three Balkan countries was an important political bonus for him. With the outbreak of the fourth anti-French war, Levi once again felt that his troops were stretched thin. It was naturally a good sign that his younger brothers could take the initiative to take on the pressure and do things!

Moreover, the Legion of Honor is, to put it bluntly, an organized guerrilla force. At most, its centripetal force can be stronger, but it is far from being able to subvert the political power of a Balkan country.

The reason why Aristotle was able to win consecutive victories was because he only did things in non-Serbian areas, with the support of a large number of local minority groups, coupled with the tenacity of the Legion of Honor, it would be no wonder if he didn’t win !
As for the core area of ​​the Kingdom of Serbia, Aristotle had no intention of going deep into it. Now, under the propaganda of the Kingdom of Serbia, the Serbians wanted to skin Aristotle alive!

(End of this chapter)