18th century total war

Chapter 322 The Destructive Landing

With the help of the three small powers in the Balkans to watch the gate, the Li Wei government's troop deployment plan has been going smoothly, and it will not take long for the decisive battle between China and Europe to start.

It wasn't until Levi received news that the British Royal Navy bombarded multiple port cities in Vienna, and within a few days, three landing points with complete port facilities were opened up!

This is the first time that Levi has deeply felt how strong the combat effectiveness of the Royal Navy is.

In the battle report received by Li Wei, the British Royal Navy launched a surprise attack on three port towns in Greece at the same time with half of the ships of the Mediterranean Fleet alone.

In front of the battleships of the British Royal Navy, the Greek ships could not stop even a salvo...

The coastal defense forts of the Hellenic Republic were all inherited from the Ottoman Empire, and being in disrepair was not a big problem. When it came time to fight, the defenders of the Hellenic Republic found that many of the artillery exploded as soon as they were fired!
After the battle, hundreds of Greek defenders were killed and injured just by exploding their barrels...

This is a crushing battle.

The British Royal Navy is completely using its experience in fighting indigenous kingdoms to fight this landing battle.

First, they took advantage of the crushing level of naval guns to wipe out all the forts in the Greek port.

Then clean up the barracks near the port. Wherever the Royal Navy can see, the Greek soldiers who appear will be baptized by countless shells.

The battle report emphasized that because the resistance of the Greek defenders was too weak, the British Royal Navy sent many small gunboats (the kind of wooden sailboats sailing in the river) to the shore and used grape bullets to kill the Greek soldiers and civilians. .

what?
Can war not harm the innocent?

hehe~
Not to mention this era, even during World War II, the agreement not to harm civilians is just an international practice...

Whether it is the Allies or a certain Sith, the number of civilians slaughtered during World War II is too numerous to record!
Of course, as the victors, the Allied forces can erase the crimes they committed. However, the massacre records revealed by a certain Sith country alone are enough to shock the whole world!

If not, why would there be more women than men in many European countries after World War II?
Could it be that all the men died on the battlefield?

Do not make jokes!
Even if it is a devil soldier who lives a good life, not all the troops will fight to the last one!
Not to mention the European armies who are not ashamed to surrender!

Whether captured and massacred, or "accidentally wounded" on the battlefield, most of the men killed were not killed in battle.

Anyone who has studied war knows that the difficulty of killing a soldier in war is much higher than that of soldiers and civilians who put down their weapons!
And most of the soldiers who were killed on the battlefield did not die while resisting, but were chased to death while fleeing!

Of course, Levi has nothing to do with the loss of the Greeks in this sudden landing battle. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland is just proving to the world how big the gap between big countries and ordinary countries is in this era!

What surprised Levi was that after the British Royal Navy had completed the occupation of the landing point in a devastating manner, all the troops sent down were Indian soldiers, except for the British King's German Corps, which was initially used to seize the landing point and expel the remnants of Greece.
The King's German Legion is a unit with brilliant records in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and Li Wei is naturally familiar with it.

It can be said that the combat effectiveness of the army composed of these Germans is comparable to the most elite native troops in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and it can fight much more than the average red shirt army!
The strength of the Army of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland is interesting, as there is no particularly famous unit among the English formations that dominate this country.

The most capable ones were the Scottish Highlanders and the British King's German Regiment.

Obviously, the King’s German Legion is a national mercenary army. It started as an ordinary mercenary fighting for the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Later, the British royal family found that they were better than the local red shirts, so they simply turned them into a standing army. .

As long as it is a battlefield that Britain values, the King's German Legion can be seen.

The combat effectiveness of this army is strong, and the Livy government has also analyzed it. The reason is for no other reason than that the vast majority of German mercenaries in this regiment are veterans. Coupled with the generous treatment from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, morale is high, and they are also hung up. With the glory that only belongs to the British royal family, the fighting power is naturally explosive.

The Scottish Highland Corps of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland has a strong combat effectiveness, mainly because most of their soldiers come from the bitterly cold place in the British Isles-the Scottish Highlands.

The inhabitants living there were even called barbarians by the English.

The truth that troublesome people come out of poor lands is also applicable on the European continent.

In the Middle Ages of Great Britain, the combat effectiveness of the troops produced in Wales was also quite strong. Wales was relatively poor at that time, but now Wales has almost assimilated with England and entered the industrial age. Compared with other parts of the British Isles, the standard of living is also lower Not bad, the Welsh troops have never entered the sequence of elite troops.

This attack on the London government of Greece did not put all the old foundations on the line, so only the British King's German Army was sent.

The Scottish Highland Guards were left in the British Isles for other purposes.

Of course, the current London government is not only recruiting a large number of Indian cannon fodder, but also gradually expanding the Red Shirt Army locally.

The expansion speed is not fast, so as to ensure the quality of the red shirts as much as possible.

The British stick training method is relatively reliable in this era, and it is easy to train rigid and dogmatic line infantry.

All the British instructors had to do was make the recruits fear the officers more than the enemy's bullets.

"How did Aristotle's government respond to the crisis?"

Li Wei put down the battle report and asked Manid, the director of the General Administration of Military Intelligence in front of him.

Since Aristotle came to power, the General Administration of Military Intelligence has set up a branch in Athens and has maintained close contact with the Aristotle government for a long time.

Of course, this is not a branch on the bright side, it is a different concept from a diplomatic embassy.

Of course, the current Greek Republic has no secrets for the General Directorate of Military Intelligence.

This was achieved with the tacit approval of the Aristotle government.

"Report to Your Majesty.

Aristotle has already issued a mobilization order for the whole people, but the military system he established has already used the human resources of the Greek Republic to the limit. After all, the population base of the Greek Republic is not high, even if Aristotle accepted many people from the Balkans. The ethnic minorities in the region cannot make up for the shortcomings of Greece's underpopulation.

Moreover, limited by the poor financial situation of the Greek Republic, Aristotle's mobilization order only increased the strength of the local militia and city guards, but was unable to increase the strength of the Greek Defense Force.

Aristotle's response plan was to personally lead the [-] Greek Defense Forces, rely on militias and city guards from various places to maintain local rule, and personally face the British Indian army that landed.

Aristotle's speed of action is still good. After all, he also knows that if the delay is one more day, the British fleet will be able to unload a batch of Indian soldiers and military supplies.

According to our estimates, starting from today, the forward line of [-] Greek defense forces led by Aristotle himself will come into contact with the landing British troops three days later. "

"The London government really trusts the Indians, and even armed a full [-] Indian servants, and there seems to be no sign of stopping.

Are they not afraid of financial bankruptcy? "

In the intelligence battle, Livy's government has been unable to penetrate into the upper class society of the British Isles, so its plans for the London government are very vague.

It was only after the Indian servants landed in Egypt that Li Wei learned of the crazy combat plan of the London government.

If the Greek Republic really can't handle it, maybe the London government can really force Levi to suspend the launch of the Central European offensive, continue to maintain the strategic balance between the two sides, and keep going like this...

This is obviously the result that Levi does not want.

After all, in addition to the Central European front, the Ottoman Empire had a clear advantage in the war in the Balkans. The Kingdom of Serbia and the Kingdom of Bulgaria were completely desperate to stop the Ottoman Empire's offensive. If time dragged on, the Kingdom of Bulgaria would inevitably collapse.

The Ottoman Empire can arm more troops than the Bulgarian nation's young and strong!

What's more, after the end of the Greek Republic, Li Wei had to dispatch the French Defense Forces to rescue the scene, and then he would fall into a long war of attrition with the British servants in the Greek mountains.

With the source of Indian soldiers, the war really left the London government with money.

Most importantly, if the fourth anti-French war is not over, Li Wei's total war system will not be settled, and he will not be able to obtain glory points to train the brainwashing army to replenish!
Therefore, this fourth anti-French war dragged on to make the Kingdom of Prussia and the Russian Empire and other continental European countries feel uncomfortable, and Li Wei also felt very uncomfortable...

Even the London government did not reap any benefits from this war. The wealth earned from the monopolized overseas trade was all thrown into the bottomless pit of the war before it got hot.

Many of the military expenditures of the Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia were supported by low-interest loans provided by the London government.

Although all these loans were digested into various materials in the British Isles before they were shipped to the European continent to allies, it was only the British capitalists who made money, not the London government!

The fourth anti-French war caused the London government to lose its national wealth, but it made the domestic economy abnormally prosperous, especially the military industry and financial industry. It was really hot, and it indirectly solved the job problems of a large number of low-level civilians.

The continuous opening of various production military supplies (not only arsenals, but also factories that produce various supplies) has fed tens of thousands of workers!
However, the London government is very clear that this kind of prosperity is false, and it is based on the rapid loss of government wealth. It won't be long before the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland will be in debt!

Those politicians are not ignorant of the result of the country's financial poverty and the accumulation of private wealth.

What's more, folk wealth is gathered in the hands of a few bourgeois and aristocratic people (the British aristocrats also have many part-time capitalists and factory owners), not scattered into the hands of the common people.

Once the war is over, factories that produce a large number of strategic materials will inevitably collapse and go bankrupt.

The bosses can temporarily take a break, but what about the laid-off workers?
Time has dragged on for a long time, and the national financial deficit is getting bigger and bigger. At that time, even the money to appease the unemployed workers will not be available!
The Great Britain of this era is not the America of later generations. The government has not yet been completely controlled by capital plutocrats. Britain is still the property of the royal family!
Therefore, even the London government is gambling that the Levy government will not be able to sustain the summation first.

For the London government, the fourth anti-French war must not be as disastrous as the previous three, otherwise it will be difficult to find an opponent on the European continent that can match the Li Wei regime!

By then, Li Wei, who had unified the European continent, would be able to kill the British by slowly consuming his power even without resorting to war.

The industrial productivity of continental Europe alone is not comparable to that of the British Isles.

And industrial production capacity is the biggest advantage of the British Isles compared to other European countries in this era, none of them!

This is the result of quantitative change causing qualitative change.

After listening to Manid's report, Li Wei pondered for a moment and ordered: "Let General Napoleon prepare in advance.

We cannot pin all our hopes on Aristotle.

It would be best if Aristotle can maintain the situation. If the Greek Republic falls, or the Aristotle regime falls, we must immediately send troops into the Greek region while the British are not firmly on their feet!

Aristotle took away the most capable troops in the whole of Greece. His failure must be accompanied by the disappearance of the essence of the Greek army. At that time, Greece was the weakest and would not cause us much hindrance. "

Li Wei is very aware of the military system reforms carried out by the Aristotle government. The current Greek Defense Force is a corps composed of elites selected from the former Legion of Honor, the Greek Regular Army, and the Greek local warlords.

Under the strict screening system, the essence of Greece is condensed. Every soldier in the Greek Defense Force has participated in at least three battles!

More than half of the soldiers have participated in battles of more than [-] people!
When Li Wei gave strategic instructions, the cavalry scouts in front of the army led by Aristotle made contact with the British scouts for the first time.

The two sides did not engage in fighting and maintained restraint.

Soon after this contact, both sides sent out a large number of reconnaissance troops, with the battalion as the basic unit!

Immediately afterwards, the Greek Defense Forces led by Aristotle were heavily beaten by the British German Army. In just three days, they lost more than a thousand people!

These small scouting encounters baffled Aristotle.

Aristotle even once believed that the London government planned to let the elite King's German Legion attack his [-] troops at the vanguard!

(End of this chapter)