18th century total war

Chapter 310 The Encirclement and Suppression of 30 Troops

"General Aristotle's words are too correct, the general's words are precise, we must follow the teachings carefully!"

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Amidst the crowd of flatterers, an officer suddenly walked over quickly and reported to Aristotle.

"General, this is the latest enemy military information passed back by our informants.

The Holy Alliance has brought together more than 30 troops from the Kingdom of Romania, the Kingdom of Bulgaria, and the Kingdom of Serbia. Among them, the Kingdom of Serbia has mobilized all the people and gathered more than 20 troops to encircle us!

And this time the French of the Holy Alliance directly intervened. The tyrant Li Wei sent a French general to personally dispatch the Three Kingdoms Allied Forces to maximize the cooperation between the Three Kingdoms Allied Forces.

The French general also led a regiment of the French Defense Forces to follow the coalition forces. This time, I am afraid it will be difficult for us to take advantage of the contradictions between the three-nation coalition forces. "

More than 30 troops!

After this number was said, the expressions of the senior generals of the Legion of Honor present changed, and many of them showed sad faces. Fortunately, no one showed a cowardly expression, which made Aristotle breathe a sigh of relief.

What he is most worried about is that these close and senior officials who he personally brought out will become afraid of the enemy.

Once fear spreads, everything the Legion of Honor insists on becomes a joke.

The most important thing in the army is courage!
The regular Greek army obviously has 10,000+ troops, why are they retreating steadily in the face of the French Defense Forces, which are far smaller than their own?

It's not because I was scared of being beaten by the French Defense Forces!

The well-informed Aristotle even heard a strange battle report from the rear. The French Defense Forces of thousands of people chased the regular Greek army of tens of thousands of people and killed hundreds of miles. The regular Greek army never thought of turning back to resist, and was chased by the French Defense Forces of thousands of people for hundreds of miles, and was defeated!
In the end, the French Defense Forces stopped chasing and killing, because there were too many Greek prisoners of war, and no one was guarding the prisoners, so they had to stop!

This is simply a great disgrace to the Greek army!
Perhaps the top brass of the Greek Republic also knew that the record was too "brilliant", so they didn't make it public to the public. Only the top government and military knew the news. Aristotle still got the news through the channel of the Rothschild family. .

After all, Aristotle has always been in the occupied area behind enemy lines, and his sources of information are relatively limited.

If this war situation continues, even with the influx of a large amount of Jewish capital from Britain and the emergence of countless mercenaries and paramilitary forces in Greece, they will not be able to withstand the losses of successive defeats.

In the eyes of Aristotle, the regular Greek army could not even cause many casualties to the French Defense Forces. The only record they could get was against the Serbian army!

Yes, the French Empire’s offensive against the Greek Republic was limited by the lack of troops (the main force was in Central Europe to confront the Fourth Anti-French Coalition), so it could only use a large number of troops from slave countries.

The nationwide mobilization of the Kingdom of Serbia is not just to deal with Aristotle. A mere Legion of Honor is not worthy of the entire Kingdom of Serbia to deal with it. Aristotle is also very grateful for this...

Don't look at Aristotle's expression of winning in front of the soldiers. Leading everyone to fight will lead to more victories than defeats, and defeats will be beautified as "strategic shifts", but in fact Aristotle has been avoiding Serbia. The real field force of the kingdom, and the French Wehrmacht!
Especially the French Defense Forces. As long as the size of the French Defense Forces reached a battalion, Aristotle was determined not to touch them. So far, the Legion of Honor has never had the experience of fighting against the French army.

This is also the reason why the Legion of Honor has never shown the emotion of 'fear of law'.

There is no doubt that Aristotle's choice was correct. The Legion of Honor has always maintained high morale, which is inseparable from the way Aristotle chose his opponents.

At the same time, Aristotle was also fortunate that the strength of the fourth anti-French alliance was strong enough to drag the main force of the French Defense Forces in Central Europe. Otherwise, Karl would take the main force of the Eastern Army of the French Defense Forces southward. Nothing can change the overall situation.

Even the Legion of Honor can't withstand the full-scale attack of the French Defense Forces, unless Aristotle is willing to split the Legion of Honor and break it up into pieces to lurk in various mountains.

But doing so will not only weaken Aristotle's core leadership (after all, this is not in Greece, Aristotle's identity as a Greek has limited appeal), it will also lead to the emergence of hilltopism in the Legion of Honor.

Over time, the Legion of Honor is likely to decompose into ordinary local guerrillas, and Aristotle can only be the leader in name, not the supreme commander of the Legion of Honor today.

The nationalism of this era is still too immature compared to a certain doctrine of Levi's previous life during World War II. Moreover, the complex ethnic relations in Europe have also made the cohesion of various ethnic groups in Europe weak.

To put it bluntly, there has never been a period of great unification in Europe. The people and even the nobles generally do not have the concept of unity. The European continent was closest to the unified Roman era, but it only established a large empire around the Mediterranean Sea, and did not unify the entire continent.

However, how many years have passed since Rome?

More than 1000 years of fragmentation were enough for the people and even the nobility to forget the glory of the Roman era.

Later, the Eastern Roman Empire was renamed the Byzantine Empire, and the Slavs and the Habsburgs embezzled the name of Rome one after another, which ruined Rome's reputation.

Therefore, the current situation is not bad for Aristotle, but it is a pity that after his reputation became popular, Aristotle knew that he would face this sooner or later.

Among the three Balkan countries established by the Livy government, the Kingdom of Romania is located in the north of the Balkans, bordering the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire.

The Kingdom of Bulgaria is located in the east of the Balkans, bordering Istanbul, the core of the Ottoman Empire.

Therefore, both the Kingdom of Romania and the Kingdom of Bulgaria are facing considerable defense pressure.

The Kingdom of Romania wants to defend against the Russian Empire, and the Kingdom of Bulgaria wants to defend against the Ottoman Empire.

After all, the capital of the Ottoman Empire is too close to the Kingdom of Bulgaria, and it is only a few days of marching. Thinking in another way, it is easy to speculate how much the Ottoman Empire wants to regain its rule over the Kingdom of Bulgaria.

It can be seen from the fact that after the armistice of the Ottoman Empire, the garrison in Istanbul has not been reduced, and it has even been strengthened.

Needless to say, the military pressure of the Kingdom of Romania, the title of the Russian Empire's European steamroller was played out, not blown out!
Therefore, these two countries can send troops, but the scale of sending troops is destined not to be too large, and the main force has to stay to defend the home.

This made the main servant armies of the Holy Alliance attacking the Greek area provided by the Kingdom of Serbia.

The Serbian army is also a puppet army under the control of the French Empire.

Although the Serbian army had its own commanders and generals, they all had to obey the orders of the French generals above.

After all, the king of Serbia is Li Wei!
The Serbian army is a subordinate 'organization' of the French Defense Forces.

The current war in Greece is basically a small number of French defense forces as the main offensive force, followed by a large group of Serbian servants.

The French National Defense Forces basically no longer undertake occupation and security tasks, and have handed them over to the Serbian army. When dealing with some Greek mercenaries and second-rate paramilitary forces, the Serbian army will also be dispatched. The French National Defense Forces mainly focus on the Greek regular army.

and the mercenary forces that made the Hellenic Republic famous.

The Jewish capitalists from the United Kingdom have made many bets and have cultivated many mercenary troops whose combat power is not weaker than that of the regular Greek army.

In fact, it is not difficult to build a European army in this era. As long as there are sufficient sources of soldiers and enough wealth, enough troops can be armed.

The army training time in the era of queuing and shooting can be shortened to one month at the shortest!

Even if you want to ensure combat effectiveness, three months is still possible, but the training intensity can be higher.

After all, the tactics of the era of queuing and shooting were too rigid, mainly cultivating the obedience of the queue and soldiers. The operation of the flintlock is easy to understand, and a smarter soldier can fully master the shooting and loading of the flintlock in a day, and guarantee You can't go wrong on the training ground.

It's not necessarily the case on the battlefield. Even veterans have many cases of shooting stab sticks in fierce battlefields...

When people are nervous, they can do anything ridiculous.

What environment is more exciting than the battlefield between life and death?

Therefore, it is not that the soldiers who are nervous and make mistakes are timid, but this is the survival instinct of human beings. Only soldiers who have been brainwashed and trained by Levi and do not care about death at all can be 100% correct on the battlefield.

However, this is simply not possible without mind-controlled humans.

Being able to achieve more than 90.00% error-free, can already be regarded as the elite of the elite.

“There are 30 troops, and a French general with a regiment of troops responsible for command and dispatch. This will be the biggest challenge facing our Legion of Honor.

My brave officers, are you afraid? "

Aristotle glanced at the expressions of the trusted officers around him, and suddenly shouted loudly.

The officers with sad faces suddenly became solemn and straightened their backs subconsciously. Aristotle was very strict in governing the army and required officers to be as hard-working as soldiers.

Even Aristotle himself ate from a big pot with the soldiers, let alone these subordinates?

Moreover, there is an unwritten rule in the Legion of Honor, never to recruit the children of nobles to be officials!

As for being a soldier...

Will the son of a nobleman become a soldier of the Legion of Honor?

The Legion of Honor has been fighting guerrilla behind enemy lines!
Therefore, the best families of the officers under Aristotle were the slightly wealthier families in the middle class.

This is not Aristotle's hospitality. Middle-class families have far more opportunities to receive education than poor children. Being an officer is not the same as being a soldier. At least you have to be literate.

Even if there are rapid literacy classes within the Legion of Honor, it is easier for men from these educated middle-class families to stand out.

It's not that Aristotle didn't want to promote the poor to become officers, but it's really a headache for a group of illiterate officers under his command. In many cases, he couldn't even read the military newspaper!

Isn't this a delay?

Therefore, most of the officers under Aristotle came from middle-class families, and 90.00% were Greeks!
The Legion of Honor is now a Greek head controlling a fist composed of ethnic minorities in the Balkans.

Of course, this is also related to the unclear attitude of the upper class of ethnic minorities in the Balkans towards the Legion of Honor.

The real sufferers in the Balkans are the middle class and civilians of ethnic minorities. The real high-level leaders have already found their Serbian masters.

The Serbs are not stupid, so they naturally understand the convenience and efficiency of "controlling barbarians with barbarians".

Recruiting some elders and leaders from ethnic minorities to help with management can save the Serbian government a lot of trouble, such as taxation.

As for the leaders of those ethnic minorities, they can covertly point the finger of oppression against the people at the Serbian government to absolve themselves of their guilt.

This is why civilians of ethnic minorities generally hate Serbs, but rarely point the finger at the elders of their own villages.

Don't look at those elders who only wanted to please and flatter the Serbs when they punished the villagers.

After the Serbs left, these elders would explain their helplessness to the local villagers, and many of them lied about how much wealth their families had been deprived of.

To gain sympathy.

These leaders are all shrewd, so naturally they won't be the ones who attract hatred.

In front of the Serbian masters, the leaders of these ethnic minorities have another face.

To please both ends is the capital of a leader to keep his position.

Of course, in the face of growing momentum and a better and better reputation among the ethnic minorities in the Balkans, the leaders of the ethnic minorities have adopted an unclear neutral attitude, neither supporting nor rejecting!
To put it bluntly, it’s a trick that doesn’t offend both parties.

Anyway, for the leaders of those ethnic minorities, whoever rules them will have to pay taxes. What's more, the Holy Alliance seems to be powerful now. Even if the conditions for the establishment of an independent country offered by the Legion of Honor are very attractive, they cannot succeed. No matter how tempting it is, it can turn into poison!

Of course, there are also leaders of ethnic minorities who were deceived by Aristotle's proposal of founding a nation. Now they have basically lost all their money and joined the Legion of Honor. They can only follow Aristotle's path to the dark side...

The Legion of Honor cannot occupy a city or even a village for a long time. When the troops of the Holy Alliance come, those leaders who have taken refuge in the Legion of Honor will not be allowed to move away with their families?

They are not the same as the children of the poor with little property!
Because of this, fewer and fewer leaders of ethnic minorities have turned to Aristotle.

Everyone didn't want to give up their family business, and followed Aristotle all the way to the dark.

(End of this chapter)