18th century total war

Chapter 336

"Pan Sen, I heard that your ancestors were Spartans?"

"Yes, my father was proud of this, but I would rather my ancestors were craftsmen!
At least craftsmen don't have to leave their hometowns to come to Istanbul ruled by pagans!

Damn it, those aliens only equipped me with spears and shields!

Aristotle was really blind! "

"Haha, shouldn't the Spartans use spears and shields?
At least that's what the bards say.

But there is one thing I agree with.

Aristotle was not only blind, but his brain was taken away by the tyrant Livy.

Otherwise, how could he conscript his own people to Istanbul to fight for the tyrant Li Wei! "

"Aatrox, you once won the championship in the arena with a long sword, so your current weapon is a two-handed sword. Are you very confident about the battlefield you are about to embark on?"

"Oh, Pantheon.

my brother.

This joke is not funny at all!
If the guns hadn't appeared, I would be more than happy to put on my heavy armor and rush to the top of Istanbul against the big sword I loved since childhood.

Unfortunately, today's heavy armor will only make me a target for muskets.

And the bulky big sword prevented me from rushing to the enemy at the fastest speed, at least I couldn't touch the enemy before the opponent pulled the trigger.

I can only pray that the enemies I face are as bad at marksmanship as you are. "

"Aatrox, if you didn't have a bad mouth, I think I would agree to marry my sister to you."

Aatrox was stunned when he heard this, and his tone became low.

"Panson, what do you say our family will be treated after we died fighting for the tyrant Livi in ​​Istanbul?
I don't think you still believe in that traitor Aristotle.

There are no strong enough men in the village to plow the land. How much food can the village harvest by relying on women and the elderly? "

"Aatrox, this is not for you and me to decide, if I survive, I will witness everything.

If our village dies in a famine, I will do whatever it takes to pierce Aristotle's heart, and then join the revolutionary party, and use my life to resist the rule of the tyrant Li Wei! "

"Pan Sen, this may be the reason why we young men appeared outside Istanbul. You have seen it before. Greek wounded were constantly being transported down from the front line. Their miserable screams are still fresh in my memory.

These are still the surviving members of the same clan. Those who died will only be burned on the spot. A tombstone is a very luxurious request for them.

If there is no accident, that is the end of people like you and me. "

"Aatrox, what do you want to say?
Do you know how many alien soldiers with muskets are around us looking at us?
Even Aristotle's lackey guards are watching out for us!

We only have weapons that were popular hundreds of years ago.

Even if my ancestors and all the Spartan warriors are fully recovered, they will be swallowed up in an instant by the guns of the tyrant Levi!

We resist now, only to die instantly.

Help Tyrant Levi win this battle, we still have a chance to go home...

Or go back for revenge!
You and I are lucky, more than 10 people of our kind have died on the front line, this is the news I got from the officers of my kind.

And the price paid by these 10 people was to clean up the fortresses outside Istanbul.

The only thing we need to face is the city wall of Istanbul, and we don’t have to be like the group of people in front, who have been sleeping in the darkness forever before seeing the city of Istanbul!

Aatrox, put away your dangerous thoughts.

We are not far from victory, take Istanbul and we will be free to do what we want. "

Aatrox moved his lips, and after a long silence, he finally said, "Panson, you are right, we have no ability to resist, and I don't even have the confidence to persuade others.

If there is any abnormal movement at this time, those foreign troops will not let us go. "

"Aatrox, actually we can think about the advantages.

For example, the tyrant Li Wei has artillery that we have never seen in our life, and the entire mountain is covered.

That was firepower unmatched by the Ottoman Empire, and it could clear enough obstacles to snipe us before we charged.

It is impossible for the Ottoman Empire to win this war, but the believers of God will surely win!

At least we are on the winning side! "

"Pan Sen, I cannot sympathize with your optimism.

Because you and I both know that the Greeks who died in the previous battle all attacked and died under the superior artillery of the tyrant Li Wei.

Artillery can easily blast through the city wall fortress, but the Ottomans are very firm in their belief in defending their capital. They have no way out, rushing in and occupying it, I don't know how many people will die.

The garrison and city defenses in Istanbul are far more dangerous than any previous fortress. I have no confidence that I can survive...

Really do not have……"

woo~~~
The sound of horns resounding across the sky interrupted Aatrox's words. He, Pantheon, and the resting crowd around them had to grab the weapons around them and stand up.

On the other hand, the outer city wall of Istanbul in the distance has dozens of gaps in the bombardment for several days, which is enough for tens of thousands of people to attack at the same time!
Of course, if you want to continue bombarding the inner city walls of Istanbul, you need to occupy all the outer city walls.

The premise of occupying the outer city wall is that a large number of troops are required to rush in regardless of casualties, kill the defenders in the outer city wall, and at the same time resist the shells and bullets projected from above the inner city wall fortress!

The Greek phalanxes moved forward slowly amidst the sound of long horns. In order to prevent the rebellion of these young and strong Greek troops who had been forcibly recruited, they only had plenty of cold weapons in their hands, and no gunpowder-fired weapons!
This is the best plan that the Czechoslovak Legion came up with after suppressing three Greek mutinies!
Three mutinies killed more than 1000 infantrymen!

And thousands of servants assembled from other regions.

The status of these servants can be half higher than that of the Greek cannon fodder, even if they belong to the cannon fodder in the eyes of the Li Wei government.

Among the group armies attacking Istanbul today, the Greek Corps is undoubtedly the lowest in status, and the upper ranks are the servants formed by the soldiers screened and eliminated by the armies of the vassal states in other regions.

Further up is the highest level, which is the systematic brainwashing army led by Karl.

That is, the other Twelve Legions except the French Legion.

Of course, these losses are very worthwhile for the Li Wei government, because the systemic brainwashing army did not lose a single soldier in the siege battle, and swept all the fortresses in the Istanbul area, approaching the city of Istanbul!

It only took half a year to achieve this record!

This is the case when the Ottoman Empire is going all out to resist!
The whole of Europe knows that the most heavily guarded part of the Ottoman Empire is the Istanbul Capital District, which is regarded as the glory of the ancestors by the Sultans of the Ottoman Empire, and it is also the bridgehead and base camp for them to conquer Europe!
Whether it is political significance or strategic significance, it plays a decisive role in the Ottoman Empire.

Once the Istanbul region is lost, the Ottoman Empire will become a fish belly on the chopping board of the European powers.

Pantheon and his friend and fellow countryman Aatrox were mixed in the Greek phalanx in the middle. The entire Greek army in the offensive array formed multiple battle lines.

This is a tactic that Karl borrowed from the attitude of the British towards the Indian servant army.

The rear battle line is the supervising team of the front battle line. As long as the front battle line dares to escape, it will be slaughtered by the rear battle line immediately.

Of course, the battle line in the back row can also maintain sympathy, accept the defeated soldiers in the front row line, and even run away together, until they bump into the battle line formed by other alien servants further back. .

Even if the Greek rout broke out, or the same hatred broke out the servant army lines composed of other nations, and the massacre line of the Czechoslovak Legion with full guns was waiting for them, then it would be flowering bullets and grape bullets. , volley gun, grenade plus bayonet charge a full set of service.

It was this series of combined punches that made the Greek servants very few after each battle.

Karl followed Li Wei's order and adopted a zero-tolerance attitude towards the Greek rout. As long as he retreated without receiving an order to retreat, everyone would be slaughtered!

Even more Greeks died at the hands of Karl than at the hands of the Ottomans!

Otherwise, how could the Holy Alliance have swept across the Istanbul area in just half a year, compressing the remaining Ottoman army in the isolated city of Istanbul?
The price Karl paid was only about 1000 system soldiers, thousands of dispensable servants, and more than half of the Greek cannon fodder killed!
The number of [-] is only announced, and the actual death of Greek soldiers far exceeds this number!
Moreover, the last group of Greeks mobilized by Aristotle had already included craftsmen and other technical talents in remote areas, just because these technical talents were also infiltrated by nationalist ideas and were potential development groups for the revolutionary party!
Today's Greek peninsula is desolate, the villages are deserted, and the elderly, children, and women have been forcibly recruited by Aristotle's government just to facilitate management and 'processing'.

Of course, all this was an order issued by the Aristotle government after all the young and strong were recruited to the front.

The only people who did not need to be requisitioned were the die-hard supporters of Aristotle's government and the screened citizens of Athens.

Athens is also the only place in the Greek peninsula that still maintains the function of the city.

Most of the old, young, women and children who were collected were arranged to cultivate the abandoned land around Athens to support the consumption of the entire city.

Aristotle would rather let the Greeks die on the battlefield than die in famine and rebellion.

Because of this, Aristotle's work efficiency has been fully recognized by Li Wei, because the number of young men recruited by Aristotle is much more than Li Wei's government estimated!
This is undoubtedly good news for the Levi government.

Even the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire did not expect that the Holy Alliance would attack Istanbul at the cost of a nation's life!
Facts have proved that no matter how strong the fortress group is, it will surely fall under the superior artillery and enough human resources.

tong tong~
The artillery lurking in the city of Istanbul began to fire at the advancing Greek phalanx. Because the distance was close enough, even though the quality of the artillery of the Ottoman Empire had already fallen behind the average level of the European continent, it still set off a large number of corpses and broken arms.

However, the Holy Alliance in the rear quickly overturned the exposed Ottoman artillery positions with field artillery several times that of the Ottoman Empire.

On the battlefield, almost every exposed Ottoman artillery piece will be bombarded by nearly ten Holy Alliance artillery pieces!

When the Greek phalanx in the front row was smashed by Ottoman artillery, almost all the artillery exposed on the outer wall of Istanbul was overturned...

On the dilapidated city walls, soldiers wearing different postures and wearing traditional Ottoman uniforms were hung everywhere, including the corpses of the Sudanese Guards with similar military caps on their backs!
This is not the first time that the Holy Alliance has encountered the Sudanese Guards. In other words, the most elite Sudanese Guards in the Ottoman Empire have suffered heavy losses in half a year of war, even though the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire has been careful to let them rely on solid fortresses. , conduct defensive battles in rugged terrain!
No way, there are too many enemies, and the enemy's firepower is too fierce!
The two sides were not fighting on the same order of magnitude at all. The war between the Ottoman Empire and the Holy Alliance made the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire despair.

Even when facing Catherine the Great of the Russian Empire, the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire had never been so desperate!

The top leaders of the Ottoman Empire could not understand how the Livy government, which was already notorious in Europe, mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops to sweep across the Istanbul area.

Why did the Greeks still let the corpses of their own people spread all over the fortresses and fortresses in the Istanbul area under the high-pressure conquest of the Livi government?
It was not only the senior officials of the Ottoman Empire who were shocked, but also other countries in Europe.

They found evidence that actually proved that Li Wei was an anti-human tyrant, the destroyer of the Greek nation, but the European countries would rather they had not seen such tragic evidence!

Because of the mobilization ability of the Li Wei government, the European countries are once again terrified!
If the powerful Holy Alliance can mobilize countless cannon fodder as the vanguard, who in the whole of Europe... no, in the whole world can resist the ambition of the tyrant Li Wei?
Of course, facing the overwhelming abuse and condemnation of European public opinion, Li Wei has long since lost his sense of it, and even regarded it as entertainment news after the event as a pastime.

PS: Due to my devout belief in the motherland, I will continue to celebrate the motherland's birthday today. There is only one chapter, and the normal update will resume tomorrow.

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