18th century total war
Chapter 339 The Glory of Greece
Chapter 339 The Glory of Greece
"Most of the defenders in Istanbul have lost most of their morale, and they have no ability to launch a counter-charge.
Send me another [-] Greeks, rush in, and take down the broken inner city wall in one fell swoop. "
Karl put down the binoculars and gave orders to the surrounding generals.
But not long after, a general who went down to deliver the order came back to report.
"Commander, there are no more Greeks in the army. The last Greek soldiers are there."
After speaking, he raised his right hand and pointed to the outer city of Istanbul, which was still burning in flames.
After several days of fierce street fighting, more parts of Istanbul's outer city wall collapsed, basically losing its defensive capabilities. Naturally, large areas of civilian houses in the outer city wall were also on fire during the fierce fighting.
Neither the enemy nor the enemy has the energy and time to set up firebreaks. No matter who occupies the outer city, the attackers will try their best to set fire to those wooden buildings and cause as much trouble as possible for the guarding enemies.
As a result, after a few days, the fire has not been completely extinguished!
Thanks to Istanbul being a city with a large population, even if a large number of rich people and Ottoman nobles fled before the war, there were still countless houses left that could be used as raw materials for the flames.
Of course, soldiers fighting inside, as long as they pay attention to smoke and fire prevention, generally very few people will be burned to death and choked to death.
The purpose of setting fire is not to burn the enemy to death (soldiers are not fools, they have to rush into the fire), but to interfere with the field of vision of the defenders on the battlefield and provide convenience for the attacker.
The protection effect against long-range attacks is very good. With thick smoke, no matter whether it is artillery or long-distance firearms, it is almost useless.
As for the civilians stranded in the city, neither the Greek cannon fodder in the Holy Alliance army nor the Ottoman defenders cared about their lives.
Even civilians die more thoroughly than soldiers, because civilians have no weapons and means to protect themselves!
Soldiers who are red-eyed can do anything, and many times it is even just to drag a few backs to go to hell together before they die.
The battlefield is the easiest place to highlight the depravity of human nature. It is completely different from the battlefield in movies and TV series.
After Carl heard the report, his face remained unchanged.
"I didn't expect that the Greeks were so inexperienced that they died a week earlier than I expected."
"Commander-in-Chief, there should be many surviving Greek soldiers in the outer city of Istanbul. It is their presence that makes the Black Dragon battle flag of the Holy Alliance fly above the outer city."
"That's right, I think those Greeks must have cursed my name countless times in their hearts, and even had bad thoughts about my emperor disrespectfully.
This kind of person should die in the ruins of Istanbul.
Send those eliminated vassal servants up and tell their generals not to rush to attack after entering the battlefield, but to collect all the hidden Greek soldiers.
Then tell those Greek soldiers, whoever can rush into the palace of Istanbul and capture the sultan of the Ottoman Empire, whoever can get eternal freedom, and a huge amount of gold they can't imagine! "
"Commander-in-Chief, according to the report of the spies of the General Administration of Military Intelligence, the sultan of the Ottoman Empire left by boat three days ago. He should have fled to Ankara in Asia Minor, which is the birthplace of the Ottoman Empire. After the Ottoman Empire lost Istanbul , to become the new capital of the Ottoman Empire."
"In other words, there are no valuable high-level Ottoman empires in the current Istanbul Palace?
In this case, the Greek soldiers may never receive the rewards I decreed. "
"Commander-in-Chief, does that order still need to be issued?"
"Why not?
The generals and lower-level soldiers of the servant army didn't know that the sultan of the Ottoman Empire had escaped, and there was no honor to capture the Ottoman sultan. How could those Greek soldiers believe our promise? "
Karl, on the other hand, has a clear understanding of the credibility and image of himself and even the Levy government in the minds of the Greeks.
It can be said that the current Greek soldiers have regarded any orders from the Livi government that are beneficial to them as fart.
Even if it is Aristotle's words, no Greek soldier would really believe it, because Greek soldiers have been deceived too much.
It paid an unimaginable price for this!
That is, I don't want to be killed, otherwise the Greek soldiers would have died together with the army of the Li Wei government.
To be alive is the most primitive 'greed' of the living.
Who is to say that there is no leadership of a certain ideology in this era?
The influx of tens of thousands of servants and vassals forced the hidden Greek soldiers to bite the bullet and set foot on the inner city wall.
There is no need for the system army directly under Karl to supervise, because those vassal servants know very well that if there are no Greeks to fight their lives, they need to face the countless bullets, arrows, and stones on the top of the city. !
Only the artillery unit that poured into the outer city was controlled by the soldiers of the systematic brainwashing army. Of course, in order to prevent the Greeks and even those vassal servants from temporarily rebounding, Karl arranged to send all the Czechoslovak Legion in to guard the artillery unit.
Siege warfare is boring and cruel, especially when Karl urges the vassal servants and the remaining Greek army to use the most primitive and effective way of attacking the city with ants, which highlights the cruelty of siege warfare.
Fortunately, the Holy Alliance side maintained the artillery advantage from beginning to end. When the inner city wall fell, the defenders of the Ottoman Empire had no intact artillery to shoot at the enemy.
This makes the number of hand-to-hand combat between the two sides more frequent.
In fact, the promise issued by Karl did not inspire much courage in the Greek soldiers, but the Greek soldiers feared the lead bullets of the vassal vassals who were better equipped than them.
In the Holy Alliance coalition army led by Karl, the weapons used by the three levels of troops have obvious generational differences.
The Greek cannon fodder corps basically stayed in the era of cold weapons, but the vassal servants were equipped with a lot of gunpowder weapons, such as homemade inferior bombs, arquebus guns and multi-handed flintlock guns from unknown sources.
The Li Wei government, which had financial difficulties, did not provide standard equipment to the vassal servants, and it was impossible for the officers and generals to arm the soldiers out of their own pockets, so the soldiers of the vassal servants all found their own weapons.
It's uneven, but at least there are a lot of gunpowder weapons flooding it.
Unlike the Greek soldiers, even if they had muskets in their hands, they would be taken away by force, just because there was a mutiny in the Greek Legion.
At the end of 1804, Istanbul, the last stronghold of the Ottoman Empire in Europe, fell.
In fact, when the battlefield moved to the palace, the remaining Ottoman defenders had already lost their desire to continue fighting. Groups of Ottoman soldiers and even officers threw away their weapons and came out holding white swordfish, facing the messy The vassals surrendered.
At the same time, the Greek region was also completely 'purified' by Aristotle, who was at the rear.
Except for the city of Athens and the surrounding plains, the rest of the Greek peninsula has become a vast uninhabited area. In order to ensure the success of the 'migration plan', the Greek cavalry loyal to the Aristotle government continued to patrol the Greek peninsula. Capture the living.
Of course, this refers to valuable living people. If they are old, weak, women and children, they will be wiped out quietly, unless it is a beautiful young woman.
The vested interest groups of the Aristotle government are all in the city of Athens. They have no worries about food and clothing, enjoy the last prosperity of the Greek region, and naturally have the instinctive needs of men.
These people are hard-core supporters of Aristotle, and Aristotle still relies on them to continue serving as the future Governor of Greece. Naturally, these "loyal ministers" who will follow him even if they betray the nation cannot be ignored.
In fact, there are only three types of people living as 'serfs' in Athens today.
The army loyal to Aristotle and their family members, the administrators of the Aristotle government and their family members, as well as the handicraft technicians that the city must have, are commonly known as craftsmen in this era.
The Greek Republic was played by Aristotle alive and returned to the city-state era, and even slavery was almost restored!
The farmers who worked hard on the farmland outside the city had no personal freedom at all, and most of the troops under the Aristotle government were also used to guard these farmers.
Singing and dancing in the city of Athens, and military control outside the city of Athens, this is the country that belongs exclusively to Aristotle!
Today, Aristotle's rule of the Greek Republic is no longer relying on his own personal prestige. What Aristotle did has long been an open secret in Greece.
Even the military and administrative officials who continued to be loyal to Aristotle talked about Aristotle's character and traitorous behavior behind his back.
However, no one dared to resist Aristotle, just because behind Aristotle stood the tyrant Livy!
Those who are still in power in Greece at this time are very clear that today's Greece has been completely abolished, and the tyrant Li Wei only needs to blow a breath to completely reduce the Greek peninsula to nothing!
Therefore, Aristotle, who was supported by the tyrant Li Wei, naturally no one dared to question his power, and even the assassination was stopped by vested interest groups.
After all, no one can guarantee that after Aristotle was assassinated, whether the tyrant Li Wei would bloodbath Athens to avenge Aristotle!
Because of this, even though Aristotle's rule is already unpopular in Greece, his position is more stable than before. Aristotle has no competitors, even potential competitors have disappeared!
For the sake of selling the country, Aristotle can be regarded as a successful traitor enough to be listed in the annals of history. If the Li Wei government can continue to win, it is not impossible for Aristotle's reputation for traitorousness to be washed away.
It is nothing more than another way of saying that Aristotle has contributed to the unification of Europe, and has worked hard to stabilize the situation on the Greek peninsula...
Anyway, as long as you have the power of public opinion, some people will whitewash the peace.
After Istanbul was breached, Karl immediately wrote an eloquent report and submitted it to Vienna, and then issued an order that could not be recorded in the annals of history.
On this day, tens of thousands of surviving Greek soldiers were quietly slaughtered, and their corpses were mixed with the corpses of those who died during the attack and defense of Istanbul and burned together.
It really did it, leaving no trace of evidence after the massacre!
After all, those who do it are absolutely loyal system soldiers.
It only takes one order to keep them tight-lipped.
Therefore, Li Wei got his wish and received the news that "all Greek rebels will be punished".
As for cruelty...
Hehe, all fools know how deep and heavy the hatred of those surviving Greek soldiers towards Li Wei and Aristotle is!
And these people are veterans who have been trained from the mountains of corpses and seas of blood. It is impossible for immature recruits to survive the meat grinder in Istanbul.
What would these people be if they were set free?
potter?
Lumberjack?
builder?
Grain Collector?
Maybe there will really be those Greek veterans who are disheartened and plan to be ordinary people, but most of them will definitely go to resist Li after they find out that their relatives are either dead or reduced to alien slaves. The revolutionary road to maintain tyranny.
Moreover, the Greek veterans with unwashable hatred will be even more fearless than in the Battle of Istanbul!
At the same time, these Greek veterans only need a few smart people to learn from Aristotle's path and spread the idea of liberal revolution to the outside world!
And, the massacre of the Greeks by the Levy government!
Therefore, for Li Wei, the best Greek soldiers are dead Greek soldiers, unless Li Wei has enough glory points to brainwash them.
Of course, Li Wei is not short of soldiers now. After the battle of Istanbul, there were 10,000+ Ottoman prisoners of war (most of them were originally militiamen). !
Li Wei, who owns half of Europe and is still a developed region of Europe, is really not difficult to support hundreds of thousands of troops who do not need military pay.
"The Battle of Istanbul was not surprisingly a brilliant victory.
The achievements of the Greeks in this battle are worthy of our study. The sacrifices of all Greek soldiers must be honored. I declare that the Greek peninsula will permanently retain the name 'Greece' under my rule. Specially set Greece Governorate, Aristotle will be the first Greek Governor.
The Viceroyalty of Greece will become the crown territory of the Roman Empire in the future! "
The glory of no money was generously sent by Li Wei, and the massacre of the remaining Greek veterans could be covered up, but the sacrifices made by countless Greek soldiers in the Battle of Istanbul could not be covered up anyway.
That being the case, might as well give the Greek region the highest honor and let the Aristotle government inherit this honor.
Thanks to the Ada Death Squadron for the reward of 500 starting coins.
(End of this chapter)
"Most of the defenders in Istanbul have lost most of their morale, and they have no ability to launch a counter-charge.
Send me another [-] Greeks, rush in, and take down the broken inner city wall in one fell swoop. "
Karl put down the binoculars and gave orders to the surrounding generals.
But not long after, a general who went down to deliver the order came back to report.
"Commander, there are no more Greeks in the army. The last Greek soldiers are there."
After speaking, he raised his right hand and pointed to the outer city of Istanbul, which was still burning in flames.
After several days of fierce street fighting, more parts of Istanbul's outer city wall collapsed, basically losing its defensive capabilities. Naturally, large areas of civilian houses in the outer city wall were also on fire during the fierce fighting.
Neither the enemy nor the enemy has the energy and time to set up firebreaks. No matter who occupies the outer city, the attackers will try their best to set fire to those wooden buildings and cause as much trouble as possible for the guarding enemies.
As a result, after a few days, the fire has not been completely extinguished!
Thanks to Istanbul being a city with a large population, even if a large number of rich people and Ottoman nobles fled before the war, there were still countless houses left that could be used as raw materials for the flames.
Of course, soldiers fighting inside, as long as they pay attention to smoke and fire prevention, generally very few people will be burned to death and choked to death.
The purpose of setting fire is not to burn the enemy to death (soldiers are not fools, they have to rush into the fire), but to interfere with the field of vision of the defenders on the battlefield and provide convenience for the attacker.
The protection effect against long-range attacks is very good. With thick smoke, no matter whether it is artillery or long-distance firearms, it is almost useless.
As for the civilians stranded in the city, neither the Greek cannon fodder in the Holy Alliance army nor the Ottoman defenders cared about their lives.
Even civilians die more thoroughly than soldiers, because civilians have no weapons and means to protect themselves!
Soldiers who are red-eyed can do anything, and many times it is even just to drag a few backs to go to hell together before they die.
The battlefield is the easiest place to highlight the depravity of human nature. It is completely different from the battlefield in movies and TV series.
After Carl heard the report, his face remained unchanged.
"I didn't expect that the Greeks were so inexperienced that they died a week earlier than I expected."
"Commander-in-Chief, there should be many surviving Greek soldiers in the outer city of Istanbul. It is their presence that makes the Black Dragon battle flag of the Holy Alliance fly above the outer city."
"That's right, I think those Greeks must have cursed my name countless times in their hearts, and even had bad thoughts about my emperor disrespectfully.
This kind of person should die in the ruins of Istanbul.
Send those eliminated vassal servants up and tell their generals not to rush to attack after entering the battlefield, but to collect all the hidden Greek soldiers.
Then tell those Greek soldiers, whoever can rush into the palace of Istanbul and capture the sultan of the Ottoman Empire, whoever can get eternal freedom, and a huge amount of gold they can't imagine! "
"Commander-in-Chief, according to the report of the spies of the General Administration of Military Intelligence, the sultan of the Ottoman Empire left by boat three days ago. He should have fled to Ankara in Asia Minor, which is the birthplace of the Ottoman Empire. After the Ottoman Empire lost Istanbul , to become the new capital of the Ottoman Empire."
"In other words, there are no valuable high-level Ottoman empires in the current Istanbul Palace?
In this case, the Greek soldiers may never receive the rewards I decreed. "
"Commander-in-Chief, does that order still need to be issued?"
"Why not?
The generals and lower-level soldiers of the servant army didn't know that the sultan of the Ottoman Empire had escaped, and there was no honor to capture the Ottoman sultan. How could those Greek soldiers believe our promise? "
Karl, on the other hand, has a clear understanding of the credibility and image of himself and even the Levy government in the minds of the Greeks.
It can be said that the current Greek soldiers have regarded any orders from the Livi government that are beneficial to them as fart.
Even if it is Aristotle's words, no Greek soldier would really believe it, because Greek soldiers have been deceived too much.
It paid an unimaginable price for this!
That is, I don't want to be killed, otherwise the Greek soldiers would have died together with the army of the Li Wei government.
To be alive is the most primitive 'greed' of the living.
Who is to say that there is no leadership of a certain ideology in this era?
The influx of tens of thousands of servants and vassals forced the hidden Greek soldiers to bite the bullet and set foot on the inner city wall.
There is no need for the system army directly under Karl to supervise, because those vassal servants know very well that if there are no Greeks to fight their lives, they need to face the countless bullets, arrows, and stones on the top of the city. !
Only the artillery unit that poured into the outer city was controlled by the soldiers of the systematic brainwashing army. Of course, in order to prevent the Greeks and even those vassal servants from temporarily rebounding, Karl arranged to send all the Czechoslovak Legion in to guard the artillery unit.
Siege warfare is boring and cruel, especially when Karl urges the vassal servants and the remaining Greek army to use the most primitive and effective way of attacking the city with ants, which highlights the cruelty of siege warfare.
Fortunately, the Holy Alliance side maintained the artillery advantage from beginning to end. When the inner city wall fell, the defenders of the Ottoman Empire had no intact artillery to shoot at the enemy.
This makes the number of hand-to-hand combat between the two sides more frequent.
In fact, the promise issued by Karl did not inspire much courage in the Greek soldiers, but the Greek soldiers feared the lead bullets of the vassal vassals who were better equipped than them.
In the Holy Alliance coalition army led by Karl, the weapons used by the three levels of troops have obvious generational differences.
The Greek cannon fodder corps basically stayed in the era of cold weapons, but the vassal servants were equipped with a lot of gunpowder weapons, such as homemade inferior bombs, arquebus guns and multi-handed flintlock guns from unknown sources.
The Li Wei government, which had financial difficulties, did not provide standard equipment to the vassal servants, and it was impossible for the officers and generals to arm the soldiers out of their own pockets, so the soldiers of the vassal servants all found their own weapons.
It's uneven, but at least there are a lot of gunpowder weapons flooding it.
Unlike the Greek soldiers, even if they had muskets in their hands, they would be taken away by force, just because there was a mutiny in the Greek Legion.
At the end of 1804, Istanbul, the last stronghold of the Ottoman Empire in Europe, fell.
In fact, when the battlefield moved to the palace, the remaining Ottoman defenders had already lost their desire to continue fighting. Groups of Ottoman soldiers and even officers threw away their weapons and came out holding white swordfish, facing the messy The vassals surrendered.
At the same time, the Greek region was also completely 'purified' by Aristotle, who was at the rear.
Except for the city of Athens and the surrounding plains, the rest of the Greek peninsula has become a vast uninhabited area. In order to ensure the success of the 'migration plan', the Greek cavalry loyal to the Aristotle government continued to patrol the Greek peninsula. Capture the living.
Of course, this refers to valuable living people. If they are old, weak, women and children, they will be wiped out quietly, unless it is a beautiful young woman.
The vested interest groups of the Aristotle government are all in the city of Athens. They have no worries about food and clothing, enjoy the last prosperity of the Greek region, and naturally have the instinctive needs of men.
These people are hard-core supporters of Aristotle, and Aristotle still relies on them to continue serving as the future Governor of Greece. Naturally, these "loyal ministers" who will follow him even if they betray the nation cannot be ignored.
In fact, there are only three types of people living as 'serfs' in Athens today.
The army loyal to Aristotle and their family members, the administrators of the Aristotle government and their family members, as well as the handicraft technicians that the city must have, are commonly known as craftsmen in this era.
The Greek Republic was played by Aristotle alive and returned to the city-state era, and even slavery was almost restored!
The farmers who worked hard on the farmland outside the city had no personal freedom at all, and most of the troops under the Aristotle government were also used to guard these farmers.
Singing and dancing in the city of Athens, and military control outside the city of Athens, this is the country that belongs exclusively to Aristotle!
Today, Aristotle's rule of the Greek Republic is no longer relying on his own personal prestige. What Aristotle did has long been an open secret in Greece.
Even the military and administrative officials who continued to be loyal to Aristotle talked about Aristotle's character and traitorous behavior behind his back.
However, no one dared to resist Aristotle, just because behind Aristotle stood the tyrant Livy!
Those who are still in power in Greece at this time are very clear that today's Greece has been completely abolished, and the tyrant Li Wei only needs to blow a breath to completely reduce the Greek peninsula to nothing!
Therefore, Aristotle, who was supported by the tyrant Li Wei, naturally no one dared to question his power, and even the assassination was stopped by vested interest groups.
After all, no one can guarantee that after Aristotle was assassinated, whether the tyrant Li Wei would bloodbath Athens to avenge Aristotle!
Because of this, even though Aristotle's rule is already unpopular in Greece, his position is more stable than before. Aristotle has no competitors, even potential competitors have disappeared!
For the sake of selling the country, Aristotle can be regarded as a successful traitor enough to be listed in the annals of history. If the Li Wei government can continue to win, it is not impossible for Aristotle's reputation for traitorousness to be washed away.
It is nothing more than another way of saying that Aristotle has contributed to the unification of Europe, and has worked hard to stabilize the situation on the Greek peninsula...
Anyway, as long as you have the power of public opinion, some people will whitewash the peace.
After Istanbul was breached, Karl immediately wrote an eloquent report and submitted it to Vienna, and then issued an order that could not be recorded in the annals of history.
On this day, tens of thousands of surviving Greek soldiers were quietly slaughtered, and their corpses were mixed with the corpses of those who died during the attack and defense of Istanbul and burned together.
It really did it, leaving no trace of evidence after the massacre!
After all, those who do it are absolutely loyal system soldiers.
It only takes one order to keep them tight-lipped.
Therefore, Li Wei got his wish and received the news that "all Greek rebels will be punished".
As for cruelty...
Hehe, all fools know how deep and heavy the hatred of those surviving Greek soldiers towards Li Wei and Aristotle is!
And these people are veterans who have been trained from the mountains of corpses and seas of blood. It is impossible for immature recruits to survive the meat grinder in Istanbul.
What would these people be if they were set free?
potter?
Lumberjack?
builder?
Grain Collector?
Maybe there will really be those Greek veterans who are disheartened and plan to be ordinary people, but most of them will definitely go to resist Li after they find out that their relatives are either dead or reduced to alien slaves. The revolutionary road to maintain tyranny.
Moreover, the Greek veterans with unwashable hatred will be even more fearless than in the Battle of Istanbul!
At the same time, these Greek veterans only need a few smart people to learn from Aristotle's path and spread the idea of liberal revolution to the outside world!
And, the massacre of the Greeks by the Levy government!
Therefore, for Li Wei, the best Greek soldiers are dead Greek soldiers, unless Li Wei has enough glory points to brainwash them.
Of course, Li Wei is not short of soldiers now. After the battle of Istanbul, there were 10,000+ Ottoman prisoners of war (most of them were originally militiamen). !
Li Wei, who owns half of Europe and is still a developed region of Europe, is really not difficult to support hundreds of thousands of troops who do not need military pay.
"The Battle of Istanbul was not surprisingly a brilliant victory.
The achievements of the Greeks in this battle are worthy of our study. The sacrifices of all Greek soldiers must be honored. I declare that the Greek peninsula will permanently retain the name 'Greece' under my rule. Specially set Greece Governorate, Aristotle will be the first Greek Governor.
The Viceroyalty of Greece will become the crown territory of the Roman Empire in the future! "
The glory of no money was generously sent by Li Wei, and the massacre of the remaining Greek veterans could be covered up, but the sacrifices made by countless Greek soldiers in the Battle of Istanbul could not be covered up anyway.
That being the case, might as well give the Greek region the highest honor and let the Aristotle government inherit this honor.
Thanks to the Ada Death Squadron for the reward of 500 starting coins.
(End of this chapter)
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