18th century total war

Chapter 346 The Resurgence of the Ottoman War

"Your Majesty is wise!"

All the cabinet ministers stood in formation, bowed in unison with smiles on their faces.

This has become the signature ceremony of Li Wei's imperial meeting.

Anyway, every decision made by the great Roman Emperor was extremely wise!
Who dares to say otherwise, he is a traitor, he must be arrested and shot a hundred times!

The next voice of the Roman Empire wanted this effect.

Of course, Li Wei's ability to achieve such perfection still relies on the assistance of the golden finger of the total war system.

Britain, Prussia, Russia and other small and insignificant European countries all affected the whole world.

Since Li Wei said not to move the United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland, the next target will naturally not be the country in it.

The current Roman Empire declares war on any country in Europe, and it will be collectively declared war by other European countries!
The Roman Empire is too huge, and it really cannot be allowed to expand any longer!
As for diplomatic efforts, in the face of the European situation at this time, it is like taking off your pants and farting. As long as you are not a ruler who wants to kneel and lick the soles of Levi's shoes, you will not choose to ally with the Roman Empire.

The reason why the three major powers, the United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland, the Kingdom of Prussia, and the Russian Empire, did not form a military alliance was just to avoid irritating the Roman Empire.

After all, the United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland is fighting against the Qing Empire, which is thousands of miles away. The Kingdom of Prussia is completing the system of mobilizing the reserve force. The people are very disgusted with the unpaid reserve training. The Kingdom of Prussia is biting the bullet to suppress it!
The Russian Empire is resuming domestic production, and then slowly repaying the interest on the loan from the previous war...

"We already have a fleet in the Mediterranean that can rival the British Royal Navy. I think it is time to launch a war in Asia Minor and destroy the Ottoman Empire.

The Asia Minor region is the birthplace of the Ottoman Empire and their core territory. If they occupy this place, the Ottoman Empire will be completely out. "

"Your Majesty, although the Ottoman Empire is weak in combat power, it has a vast territory and a very complicated ethnic composition. If it occupies Asia Minor, it will inevitably need to station a large number of troops. After all, there are many people in the Ottoman Empire, and most of them are heretics, so it is difficult to govern."

"It doesn't matter, our strategic goal is to occupy the Asia Minor region while allowing the Ottoman Empire to submit to the Roman Empire and become a vassal state of the Roman Empire.

An independent sovereign state.

There are still powerful enemies around us, so naturally I won't waste too many troops to equalize the mess left by the Ottoman Empire.

The pagan population in Asia Minor was all forcibly relocated to the territory of the Ottoman Empire as a reward for their loyalty. "

"Your Majesty, what should we do if the Ottoman Empire becomes tough?"

"Then keep going!

It has been fighting eastward to the border of the Persian Empire, and then southward to occupy the Arabian Peninsula.

If the Ottoman Empire wants to destroy the country, we will also capture the last North African territory of the Ottoman Empire. "

When Levi said this, he suddenly paused: "As a liberator!"

As we all know, the land of the Ottoman Empire is mainly the Asia Minor peninsula, and other territories, including the Arabian region, the Greater Syria region, and the North African region, are all follow-up conquests, filled with lands where a large number of other ethnic groups who were discriminated and squeezed lived.

In these lands, the rule of the Ottoman Empire was not popular, and the Roman Empire only needed to defeat the local Ottoman regime to easily disintegrate the long-term rule of the Ottoman Empire here as a liberator.

There is no need to leave a single soldier to garrison.

Therefore, as long as the Ottoman Empire is not brain-dead, it will definitely not fight the Roman Empire to the end.

If you can't even keep the territory of Asia Minor, the Ottoman Empire will not be the opponent of the Roman Empire in other territories. If you don't surrender, will it really be waiting for the country to be destroyed?

It is actually not difficult to maintain the long-term peace and stability of the territory of Asia Minor, as long as the behavior is rough.

Forcibly relocating the pagans there, and then introducing some white Catholics from Europe, can control this place.

Those white people who migrated, no matter what race they were before, could only rely on the government of the Roman Empire in the unfamiliar Asia Minor. In addition, most of the pagans were migrated away, and the remaining Christians, whether active or passive, converted , it is difficult to confront the Roman authorities.

Those white Christians who migrated will become the most loyal supporters of the Roman Empire, and they have no right to choose!
In this way, it can also reduce the pressure of ethnic conflicts within the Roman Empire.

As for the massacre, it seems to be a very simple method, but it is the least efficient method and can easily cause backlash.

The reason is simple. People are often forced to extremes when they have no hope of living.

If the heathen heard the order to migrate, not many would stand up and rebel.

If you hear an order that you will be slaughtered, as long as you are not a coward, you will stand up and resist!
At that time, the Roman Empire would have to station a large army here and fight with the guerrillas all day long.

Of course, the victorious side will belong to the Roman Empire, but how can the Roman Empire, which has been involved in a large number of troops, use troops in other directions?
Other European countries will never let go of this opportunity, and will inevitably fund those guerrillas who resisted the Roman Empire, making the Roman Empire sink deeper and deeper in the ocean of people's war.

Then, when those European powers saw an opportunity, the fifth anti-French alliance broke out.

what?
You said that it is the Roman Empire now, why is there still an anti-French alliance?

Haha, the Roman Empire was self-proclaimed by the Livy regime, and no sovereign country in Europe recognized it!
In the newspapers of continental Europe, Livy is still called the tyrant of France.

The European powers never gave up the idea of ​​driving Li Wei back to France.

After all, anti-French and anti-Rome have completely different political meanings for European countries.

Levi did not adopt a policy of massacres only because it would be harmful to him.

Even if we really want to engage in genocide in the future, we have to wait until there are no strong enemies around.

Dealing with external enemies while suppressing the rebellion is the most desperate decision.

In history, how many tyrannical countries have suffered from internal and external troubles?
Germany in World War I was not defeated by the Allied Powers, but was overthrown by the domestic revolutionary party!
Of course, the Tsar in World War I also ended in this way.

The reason why the Germans dared to start a war again in World War II was because of the pit left by World War I.

Because during the First World War, Germany itself was not invaded. If the post-revolutionary government in power had not been politically deceived by the President of the United States and played in applause, millions of German troops would never have surrendered their arms.

As a result, after Germany lost its armed forces, the German people discovered how stupid the revolutionary government was...

It is not difficult to understand that the German government had a bad reputation at that time, and the mustache who later came to power succeeded.

The economic crisis is nothing more than a trigger to intensify the hatred of the Germans.

It is precisely because after the end of World War I that the Germans felt that they were not defeated but deceived, so there was a situation where Germany started the war in World War II.

Then, at the end of World War II, Germany's backbone was completely broken...

If Germany was self-disarmed in World War I, Germany lost all its underwear in World War II.

Some people may refute that before the end of World War II, the German army still had hundreds of thousands of field troops, capable of fighting.

However, looking at the military strength of the Allied forces at that time, you will know why the remaining German troops surrendered.

Whether it is equipment or military strength, Germany, whose capital has fallen, has no hope of a comeback, even if it is only a glimmer of hope!
After all, the German army at that time was not a brainwashed diehard army.

Compared with the landing war against the British Isles, the plan for the landing war against the Asia Minor Peninsula is much simpler.

The Mediterranean fleet of the Roman Empire could completely wipe out the navy of the Ottoman Empire first, and then transport troops and various war materials to the Asia Minor peninsula little by little.

The Roman Guards who landed will have sufficient logistical supplies, as well as enough support troops to crush Asia Minor.

Relying on the Strait of Istanbul, which is now renamed the Strait of Constantinople, the Roman Guards can quickly land and fight.

Even if the United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland suddenly declared war and attacked the Roman Empire's Mediterranean fleet blocking the strait, the Roman Guards that landed at that time would be enough to sweep the weak Ottoman Empire.

What's more, the main energy of the United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland is now devoted to the Far East, and the probability of participating in the war between the Roman Empire and the Ottoman Empire is not high.

In 1808 Vienna had already received news from the Far East.

After a series of military victories, Major General KFC was finally limited by the long distance.

As the battle line continued to stretch and the Qing court gathered more and more troops, the expedition led by Major General Kentucky was no longer able to continue. According to the news Li Wei received, Major General Kentucky had to abandon Jiangning Mansion under the pressure of the Qing army. Back to Guangdong city.

This was Major General KFC taking the initiative to retreat, and he didn't want to see his retreat cut off.

As a result, the war between the two sides has reached a stalemate.

The London government also seemed fed up with the costly war in the Far East and was negotiating a truce.

As for the truce conditions proposed by Major General KFC, they were naturally rejected.

The Manchu Empire was too far away, and the London government felt the pressure just to supply less than [-] Indian soldiers to fight.

If it can get trade profits and compensation, the London government is still very happy.

Of course, the best result is to occupy a Far Eastern stronghold and always threaten the Manchu Qing court to prevent them from changing their minds suddenly.

The credibility of the Manchu court was very low in the eyes of Europeans.

In the eyes of white people, those orientals have no contract spirit at all!
The negotiated tariff can be raised for you in a blink of an eye!

This is the fundamental reason for the London government to adopt military measures.

In the eyes of the Manchu court, there is no need to talk about credibility with barbarians...

Since it is impossible to change the image of barbarians in the eyes of the Manchu and Qing court, then beat them until they admit that they are civilized people!

Isn't the difference between civilization and barbarism the strong and the weak?
After the imperial meeting ended, the Roman Empire started a war again after two years of silence.

In just one month, all members of the Czechoslovakian Legion with the smallest number boarded the Mediterranean Fleet of the Roman Empire, landed on the other side of the Strait of Constantinople, and defeated the Ottoman Empire who came to support them in one day. Human Corps!
Since the fall of Istanbul, the elite of the Ottoman Empire has been exhausted, and the current Ottoman new army has only been reorganized in the past two years.

Even though all members were equipped with bayonets and flintlocks produced in Britain and conducted round-the-clock military training, they were still an army that had never seen blood.

As a result, in the first actual battle, the entire army was wiped out by the same number of Roman guards. Since there was no organized cavalry unit, except for a small number of officers and generals on horseback, they all fell into the hands of the Czechoslovak Legion.

In this battle, the Czechoslovak Army lost only more than 800 people.

The new Ottoman army is already the most elite army that the sultan of the Ottoman Empire can produce. With the same number of people, they have a record of 800 to [-]+. How can this be fought?
You know, the new Ottoman army only organized a total of more than 6 people!

These new Ottoman troops still have to defend the capital and major cities, and it is impossible to pull them all out!

The previous battle of Istanbul has proved that the traditional feudal army of the Ottoman Empire should have been eliminated long ago. On the battlefield, even a round of enemy guns could not stand up, and they were not qualified to be cannon fodder!
The sultan of the Ottoman Empire didn't expect that the Roman Empire would kill him so soon. Didn't the tyrant Li Wei worry that other European countries would play tricks behind his back?
The Ottoman Sultan, whose news was delayed, had no idea that the Roman Empire's army was now all brainwashed loyal troops, with the combat effectiveness of the former French Defense Forces, instead of being mixed with the vassal servants with combat effectiveness.

The regular army of the Roman Empire has more than 60 on the books, and the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire thought that half of them were former vassal servants.

In addition, the Ottoman Sultan also overestimated the fighting power of the new army he rebuilt, and did not really wake up the Ottoman Sultan until the end of the landing battle.

So, on the third day after the battle, the commander of the Czechoslovak Army on the front line was approached by the Ottoman Empire's emissary.

This time the Ottoman Empire’s surrender attitude is very sincere. It not only officially recognizes the establishment of the Roman Empire, cedes all the territories that the Roman Empire has occupied (jurisprudential basis), but also is willing to pay a good amount of war reparations to comfort the soldiers who died in the Roman Empire. in the name of!
Now the navy of the Ottoman Empire has been overwhelmed by the Mediterranean Fleet of the Roman Empire and dare not leave the port, and the new army on land is weak, and the top leaders of the Ottoman Empire have no hope of victory.

However, when the commander of Czechoslovakia proposed to cede the Asia Minor region, the high-level Ottoman Empire decisively refused.

This is their hometown, their lair, never give up!

(End of this chapter)