18th century total war

Chapter 327 Long live the Republic!
As the Gulag fell to the ground on his back, the last bloody courage of the Indian soldiers in the fifth battle line was quickly worn away!
The tragic casualties are enough to wake people up, even if it is the fanaticism inspired by the killing.

However, Aristotle once again defeated the attack of the Indian servant army, but Aristotle did not show even the slightest smile.

He frowned, turned to look at the cavalry general and ordered: "Take your men and penetrate the British army's frontal defense line!"

"My lord.

There is still a long depth in front of the enemy, and it is difficult for our cavalry to rush through.

Perhaps we could rush through the British flank, where the battle line didn't seem to have much depth. "

"Oh?
Do you want to have a taste of the fighting will of Britain's famous King's German Regiment? "

The Greek cavalry general hesitated for a moment, feeling that he had already said his words. If he backed down at this time, he probably would have to withdraw from the frontline troops after the battle.

"Your Excellency, I am willing to sacrifice the last drop of blood for the Greek nation!"

"I see your courage, but I don't want the best boys of the Hellenic Republic to die here.

It is too dangerous for our cavalry to attack the famous British King's German Legion. After all, this is the era when guns dominated the battlefield, not the Middle Ages when knights ruled the roost.

Follow my orders and trample on those weak Indian servants! "

"My lord, the performance of Indian soldiers on the battlefield is really mediocre. Even if they were killed by their own people, they still cannot match the heroic boys of the Greek nation.

But the number of Indian soldiers is simply too many.

I'm not saying that our cavalry cannot defeat those rubbish Indian soldiers, but that the constant breakthrough and killing will make it difficult for our cavalry to maintain their physical strength, and it will be difficult for the horses to keep breaking through all the front lines of Indian soldiers at full speed.

Maybe we can wait a little longer, continue to weaken the strategic depth of the Indian servant army's defense line, and then crush them in one fell swoop. "

As soon as these words came out, they immediately got the approval of many Greek generals.

After all, no one wants to take risks easily in this kind of decisive battle. They all know that the outcome of this decisive battle is directly related to the future of Greece.

Once this decisive battle fails, the Hellenic Republic will probably disappear completely. Even if the Holy Alliance finally counterattacks, given the nature of the Livy government, it will be difficult for the Hellenic Republic to maintain its current sovereign and independent status.

The Aristotle government was only close to the Holy Alliance, but it did not openly sell Greece's national sovereignty.

Aristotle looked around and exchanged glances with the Greek generals who responded.

"I know what you're thinking.

Every time the Indian servant army is defeated, it means that their number will decrease sharply, and you can still enjoy the scene of the enemy killing each other. Isn't it very comfortable?
but!

Every time these Indian servants who are driven to a dead end are defeated, the battlefield will be covered with a layer of corpses of Greek soldiers!

Pick up the monocular in your hands and take a look. Can you still find a place to stay on the frontline battlefield that is not soaked in corpses and blood?
This is a huge meat grinder. The British are exchanging the lives of Indians for the lives of our Greek soldiers!
To the British, Indians are just foreigners and an inferior race. No matter how many people die, the British nobles in London do not have to bear any responsibility for this!
I can guarantee that even if [-] Indian servants die here today, as long as the London government does not report to their people, [-]% of the British people will not know the tragic death experience of these Indian servants!

Because of this, the London government, which does not have to bear any political responsibility, as long as it has enough money and is sure that this tactic is useful, it will continue to transport batch after batch from the Indian subcontinent, a land with hundreds of millions of people. Indians died.

Even if the lives of ten Indians are exchanged for the life of one Greek, the Greek Republic will be killed by the British tactic to kill the last Greek!

What's more, without the [-] Greek Defense Forces, the Greeks simply could not achieve the disparate exchange ratio with the Indian servants.

Therefore, we cannot let the British think that this tactic is effective. We must deal with the remaining Indian servants with thunder and let the Indian servants suffer an unstoppable rout, proving that the British generals' plan is a joke. !

Only in this way will we not have to face a steady stream of Indian soldiers landing on the Greek Peninsula!

For this, we should make any sacrifice we can.

Everyone should understand that Greece is not a big European country. Our land and population are far from being comparable to those of the European powers. If we want to maintain the status of an independent and sovereign country in this European war, we have to fight hard!

Desperately let our enemies understand the strength of the Greek nation!
Desperately let the allies behind us know that Greece is a hungry wolf, and it is worth their high price to win over, instead of taking the opportunity to annex!
Now, who has any doubts about my orders? "

The Greek cavalry general took the initiative to stand up this time and responded loudly: "Please rest assured, Mr. President, I will go through fire and water to complete your orders!"

After saying that, the cavalry general took his own guards and rode towards the location of the Greek cavalry.

Aristotle did not wait for the moment when the Indian servant army was exhausted to use cavalry. Naturally, he was worried about the counterattack of the British King's German Corps!
According to the progress of the current battle, when the Indian slave army fights to the next two or three battles, all the fresh army reserves of the Greek Defense Force must have fought on the front line once.

Even the Greek defense forces on the two wings may need to be rotated once to withstand the madness of the Indian minion army before death.

At that time, perhaps the Indian servant army will be crushed by the Greek cavalry, but after the battle, the Greek Defense Force will inevitably lose troops and be in poor condition.

Once the British King's German Army took the initiative to attack at that time, can the Greek Defense Forces in poor condition withstand it?
You know, so far, the British army in Britain has not suffered any damage. Even the British officers who commanded the Indian servants safely rode to the safe position where the British King's German Corps on the two wings were located.

All the artillery of the European Expeditionary Force is in the hands of the King's German Corps. The King's German Corps not only guards the two wings, but also arranges a battle line in the rear. Those large-caliber field guns that were transported off the battleship are all in that battle line on-line.

The [-] Indian servants are actually a solid 'biscuit' wrapped in a thin military line.

For Aristotle, the elimination of the Indian servants was just hollowing out the inside of the biscuit, the outer shell was still there, and this shell was much harder than the inside, and a large number of artillery were arranged!

Relying on the connection of the King's German Corps on the last battle line, the King's German Corps on both wings will not fall into a state of fighting alone.

Even they only need to evacuate the British King's German Corps guarded by the two wings for a certain distance, and then they can be spliced ​​together with the last battle line to form a new battle line with no defensive dead ends!
Aristotle believed that with the combat quality of the British King's German Legion, their formation changes would never expose themselves to huge flaws.

Not surprisingly, at that time, it will be the real moment of decisive battle. The Greek Defense Force, which has fought at least one round of fierce battles and suffered heavy losses, will face the onslaught of the British King's German Army.

The most terrible thing is that they also have an absolute artillery advantage!
As for retreat?

Hehe, the main force of the Greek National Defense Forces is infantry. If they really retreat, they will definitely be chased and killed by the British King's German Army, which is very famous for light infantry tactics!
The opponent is a fresh force chasing a tired army.

Except that Aristotle left behind a large number of troops.

No matter how you look at it, the final winner of this decisive battle will not be the Greek Republic. When Aristotle waits until that moment, all he can decide is the amount of loss.

Once this decisive battle is lost, what Aristotle loses is not only a large number of elite veterans of the Greek Defense Force, but also the Greek nation's belief in victory!

Originally, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was a strong country that launched a war against a weak country called Greece. Many Greek citizens did not have much confidence in winning, and the support of the Holy Alliance was only verbal. If the Greek Defense Force was defeated again and suffered heavy losses, perhaps The British army can enter the city of Athens without bloodshed...

Of course, for the Li Wei government, this situation is not too bad. Once Athens is occupied by the Anti-French Alliance, the Holy Alliance can justifiably "liberate" the entire territory of Greece.

If you are lucky, you may even get the support of some Greeks.

It's just that Aristotle's use will become very small at that time.

Aristotle did not want to become a dispensable Greek governor. He believed that even if the whole of Greece was occupied by the Holy Alliance, Livy would let his loyal self be the Greek governor to lead Greek affairs.

But how can a governor be compared with the now powerful Greek president?

Power is a poison that corrupts people's hearts. Aristotle's mentality is different from when he left Vienna. If it weren't for the overbearing administrative enlightenment and brainwashing of the total war system, Aristotle may have begun to fight for his own. The power and position are up for grabs, as a fence...

For the current Greek Republic, there is capital on the wall.

However, Aristotle chose to completely fall to the side of the Holy Alliance. It is not difficult to understand why the London government insisted that Aristotle was hypnotized by Li Wei.

Aristotle is now not only for Livy's strategic situation, but also for his own supreme position in the Greek Republic. No matter how many people are sacrificed, he must completely defeat the main force of the European expeditionary force!
brush brush~
The battle line of the Greek Defense Forces suddenly opened a huge gap, and a group of Greek cavalry rushed into the wall, followed behind their respective officers, and drew their sabers.

The Greek cavalry are not veteran cavalry. They are all saber cavalry with simple training.

The saber cavalry was also the most common type of cavalry in Europe during this era.

After all, immediately using a spear to charge requires too much skill for cavalry!

And immediately use the spear to charge, and there is a risk of easily injuring yourself. Once the spear enters the target's body, if it is not released immediately, the spear-wielding cavalry may dislocate their arms or even break and fracture them, and in severe cases, even their horses and men will be abolished. !
Therefore, charging on horseback with a spear does not mean that you are qualified if you can skillfully dance the spear on the horse!

Even among nomads, cavalry who can charge with spears on horseback are elite troops.

In today's wall charge tactics, the technical requirements for cavalry charging with spears are higher.

In the past, traditional cavalry could reduce damage to themselves when charging with spears and hitting targets through deceleration. However, in a wall charge, all cavalry must maintain the same speed and charge forward like a wall. Where is the effort for you? Preparation time?

This is why there were not many spear-wielding charge cavalry in the era of queuing to kill.

Even many elite cuirassiers are using sabers instead of spears.

Of course, all the Greek cavalry at this time were using sabers.

The leading cavalry general was the one who took orders before Aristotle.

This can be regarded as one of the few heroic traditions maintained by the Greeks!
The cavalry has always been the elite among the elite, and the Greek Defense Force is no exception. Being a Greek cavalry means enjoying better military treatment, and naturally it is the best.

It is naturally impossible for such a group of elite Greek generals to be mediocre.

“For Greece!”

The Greek general, who had a white beard on his face, did not show any signs of aging. He skillfully controlled the horse at his hip with his legs, pulled out the Greek saber from his waist, raised it diagonally forward, and shouted in his loudest voice.

"Long live the Republic!!!"

These Greek cavalrymen deserved to be soldiers who had been re-educated by Aristotle's thoughts, and the slogans they shouted sounded very revolutionary!

You know, the armies of this era almost always shout "Long live the King (or Emperor)". Even if that doesn't work, they will shout "Long Live God" (or Allah).

Those who shout long live freedom are usually rebels...

The Indian servants in the sixth battle line who were massacring the defeated Indian troops had no formation at all. Facing a large number of Greek cavalry charging towards them, they were naturally cut through and harvested without any resistance!

The cavalry's charge trampled on the morale of any army. It was a terrible blow to the morale of any army. The bloody courage inspired by the killing and rout of the Indian servants in the sixth line of battle dissipated in an instant.

Naturally, the Greek defense forces behind would not miss this opportunity and directly launched a bayonet charge, delivering the final blow to the bewildered Indian servant army on the 'ruins' trampled by the Greek cavalry!
For the first time, the number of Indian servants killed by the Greek Defense Forces exceeded the number of Indian servants killing each other!
Under the charge of the Greek cavalry, not many Indian routs escaped their pursuit!

(End of this chapter)