18th century total war

Chapter 350 Dramatic Spanish Civil War
This 7-inch howitzer is actually an evolved version of the mortar. Both the effective range and the explosive power of the shell are enough to crush the original version of the mortar.

Because the Kingdom of Prussia invented the stable flowering bomb and named it the grenade.

This is an epoch-making revolution in military technology, because the effective range of the 7-inch howitzer is already comparable to that of the traditional six-pounder field gun!
At the same time, the mobility is also superior to the traditional six-pounder field gun. In other words, after the appearance of the 7-inch howitzer, the traditional six-pounder field gun can already be retired.

The lethality of the grenade is not much smaller than that of the grape bomb.

Stable blooming bombs mean that the probability of bombing and duds has dropped significantly.

This military parade even surprised the British, because the British howitzer is still in the experimental stage. Although a stable howitzer has been developed, it has not been put into mass production. Obviously, the Kingdom of Prussia is at the forefront in this regard.

At the same time, it also made the watching European countries more confident in the victory of this war.

After all, these are not one or two 7-inch howitzers. The Kingdom of Prussia displayed hundreds of 7-inch howitzers at the military parade!

Moreover, most of them are equipped with the [-]st Grenadier Corps!
It can be said that in the current Kingdom of Prussia, except for the Royal Guards that protect the royal family, there is no army comparable to the First Grenadier Corps.

In order to form the First Grenadier Corps, the Kingdom of Prussia even banned the designations of many old elite troops and merged them into the First Grenadier Corps.

In addition, the relatives and family members of all officers and soldiers of the First Grenadier Corps have obtained Berlin residence permits.

Soldiers on the front line died in battle, and the country helped you support your family!
The pension treatment is directly equal to that of the Royal Guards!

Enjoyed the honor that the Prussian army never had before!

In the First Grenadier Corps, from the second lieutenant to the general, all the tough Junker nobles of the main combat faction served.

The Times of London used bold headlines to highlight the birth of the First Grenadier Corps of the Kingdom of Prussia, claiming that it was a war beast spawned by the tyrant Livy!
During the military parade, the [-]st Grenadier Corps demonstrated all combat methods of queuing up and shooting, from shooting and bombing to bayonet hand-to-hand combat.

It even includes mountain jungle warfare. The skirmishers in the [-]st Grenadier Corps of the Kingdom of Prussia, that is, soldiers with good marksmanship in grenadiers, are all good at mountain jungle warfare.

Because they were originally selected from the light infantry of the National Army of the Kingdom of Prussia.

The melting pot of war allowed the Kingdom of Prussia to fully unleash its final potential.

Under the crisis of national subjugation, the power struggle within the Kingdom of Prussia was suppressed, and everyone united as one to fight against the great enemy of the tyrant Li Wei.

At the beginning of 1809, the Fifth Anti-French Coalition was born at the Berlin Conference.

Member countries include the United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland, the Kingdom of Prussia, the Russian Empire, the Ottoman Empire, the Kingdom of Denmark, the Kingdom of Spain, the Kingdom of Portugal, the Kingdom of Sweden, the Kingdom of Sicily, the Knights of Malta, the North African countries and so on.

It can be said that the European continent and even the surrounding countries have all been drawn into the fifth anti-French alliance!

The independent nomadic country in Central Asia refused to join the Fifth Anti-French Coalition. As a result, the hegemonic Russian Empire declared war. In just one month, the capital fell...

Of course, the wars that took place on the Central Asian steppes, that is, muskets versus spears, Cossacks versus nomadic cavalry, were completely unequal.

After weighing the pros and cons, although the Persian Empire did not join the Fifth Anti-French Coalition, it was willing to provide food and materials for the Fifth Anti-French Coalition.

The Times said that the fifth anti-French alliance is a collective resistance of mankind against tyrants and dictators, and it is a just battle for mankind to fight for freedom!

Then, in the newspapers, a series of crimes against humanity committed since the rise of the tyrant Levi were listed.

This kind of crime is not difficult to find. How many people have been massacred by Li Wei's army, even Li Wei himself can't remember...

It's a pity that in this world, justice has never been judged, otherwise the monarchs and nobles of various countries count one by one, and 100 of 99 people will be shot without any injustice, and there will be a criminal who escaped the law!
Truth is within the range of the cannon because justice is a doll in the hands of the victor!

The victor makes justice kneel, and justice dares not stand, because those who stand will be slaughtered!

Humans are, of course, a forgetful species, and it only takes a generation or two for the nascent population to forget past sins.

As long as Li Wei can remain in power, his past black history will be completely swallowed up by historical dust, just like decades after the end of World War II, no one knows how many people were massacred by the Allied forces.

As the loser, the evidence of the Axis massacre will be posted on the pillar of historical shame and abused by people for generations.

This is justice!

In Li Wei's previous life, in many European countries in the 21st century, there has always been a problem of more women than men, which is actually a sequela left over from World War II.

It's not that too many soldiers died in battle, civilians, especially male civilians, died in wars, far more than soldiers!
The survival rate of young men in war is not higher than that of women, because women are often raised as useful trophies, and everyone knows what to do, at least women can survive.

But men, to intruders, are potential threats!
The cloud of war has once again shrouded the European continent. Perhaps at this time only the Ottoman court feels lucky, because the fifth anti-French war saved their precarious empire!

The front line has sent back news that the Roman Guards will no longer reinforce, and all the reserve troops have been transferred to other directions. Only the Czechoslovak Legion and a small number of local militias from the Balkans remain on the front line.

Even for the Ottoman Empire at this time, this was still a powerful military force, but this power was no longer enough to occupy the entire Asia Minor region, and it did not even have the ability to storm the capital of the Ottoman Empire.

After all, the Asia Minor region was the home of the Ottoman Empire. For the Roman Guards, heretics were everywhere, and every town needed soldiers to occupy it, otherwise it would be 'liberated' by those pagan guerrillas in minutes.

Occupying the Asia Minor region For the Roman Empire, the biggest problem was never the regular army of the Ottoman Empire, but a large number of sites that needed to be occupied by garrisons.

According to the original plan, the Czechoslovak Legion, as the vanguard, would move forward little by little, and the follow-up troops would land step by step, taking over the military gap left by the Czechoslovak Legion, and slowly devouring the territory of the Ottoman Empire.

Now that the backup is gone, the Czechoslovak Legion will naturally be unable to take the initiative to attack...

After the establishment of the Fifth Anti-French Coalition, everyone knew that war was inevitable, but because neither side was ready for a full-scale war, no one shot first, and they all desperately transported supplies to the border front at home, assembled and rectified the army, and recruited The reserve service, on the side of the Roman Empire, gathers local militias and conducts temporary training for them.

In order to prepare the local militia to maintain law and order in the occupied area.

This is very important. Don't forget that the local militias in the Roman Empire are very afraid of war, not only fearing their opponents, but also fearing that the monarch behind them will use them as cannon fodder and send them to the battlefield as fertilizer!
No one wants to follow in the footsteps of the Greek Legion.

Therefore, it is necessary to let the local militia officers and soldiers who are about to go to the front-line occupied areas know that they do not need to face the enemy's regular army directly, but only need to follow the large troops and station in the occupied towns.

It's just a group of mobs and guerrillas to deal with.

In addition, the sources of local militias are very messy, and they need to be reorganized before they can go to the front line.

The local militia is actually a motley army of the Roman Empire. Their individual weapons are actually not much different from the Roman Guards, but they don't have many horses and equipment, and they don't have artillery units.

Just when the two sides were making the final sprint for the outbreak of war, an accident happened.

The cabinet of the Kingdom of Spain was worried that Carlos IV, who was pro-French, would stab an ally at a critical moment, and even wanted to launch a coup to overthrow Carlos IV again!

This kind of behavior is understandable, and the countries of the Anti-French Alliance are very happy to see that the central government of the Kingdom of Spain, which is currently in internal struggle, can return to one voice again.

It's just that the great nobles of the Kingdom of Spain in the cabinet team have a lot of people talking, and somehow the news of the coup reached Carlos IV's ears.

Although Carlos IV is a faint king, he is not a fool!

What's more, he also has an extremely powerful queen.

Queen Luisa was also fierce enough. After getting the news, regardless of Carlos IV's objection, she forcibly mobilized a guard loyal to the royal family and arrested all the cabinet ministers who stayed at home!

Without any judicial process!

The soft-hearted Carlos IV found that the cabinet ministers who wanted to rebel fell into his dungeon so easily, and became more courageous. He followed his queen and started messing around, announcing the restoration of the traditional court system and banning the cabinet!
This act of completely using the Spanish Constitution as a wiper completely angered the aristocracy in the Kingdom of Spain.

Those cabinet ministers who were arrested were backed by big families, and many of them were even the heads of big families themselves!
As a result, this incident, known as the Madrid dictatorship coup, detonated the flames of the Civil War in the Kingdom of Spain.

Carlos IV saw that so many Spanish nobles rebelled in their fiefs, so he did nothing but unilaterally announced that the Kingdom of Spain would withdraw from the Fifth Anti-French Coalition, and sought military assistance from the Kingdom of France in the Roman Empire!
This time, the entire anti-French alliance was offended!
Originally, the London government did not intend to intervene in this oolong incident of the civil strife in the Kingdom of Spain. Anyway, the European war has not yet broken out. With the preparations of both sides, it will be delayed until at least next year or even the year after.

No one wants to start an all-out war when they are not ready.

The scale of this all-out war will surely surpass that of the past, and it will determine the future situation in Europe. Naturally, the more preparations, the better.

The Li Wei government also thinks so.

All-out war is not about dispatching the army to launch an attack directly. The army without logistical support only needs one or two high-intensity wars to fall into the predicament of running out of ammunition and food.

At this time, the troops gathered on the borders of both sides had already exceeded the million mark, and it was obviously impossible to decide the outcome in one or two battles.

However, the behavior of Carlos IV made the London government intolerable!
Other countries of the Anti-French Alliance cannot reach it, but the Kingdom of Portugal and the United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland can touch it!

After Carlos IV announced that the Kingdom of Spain would break away from the anti-French alliance, the French reinforcements did not wait, but instead waited for the news that the army of the Kingdom of Portugal joined the anti-Spanish noble coalition.

Fortunately, Carlos IV was the legitimate king of the Kingdom of Spain after all, and he still had the support of a group of nobles. Coupled with the troops belonging only to the royal family, he was able to protect himself.

Thus, the vigorous Spanish Civil War broke out.

During this period, the Spanish Armada, which declared allegiance to Carlos IV of the Kingdom of Spain, was attacked by the British Royal Fleet and wiped out in the port...

Obviously, the reason why the sneak attack went so smoothly was because of the information betrayed by the Spanish traitor!
After annihilating the Spanish Kingdom's Armada, the King's German Legion, which had recovered to full strength, landed in Gibraltar and quickly occupied the Mediterranean traffic fortress.

Using this as a base, various military supplies began to be transported here continuously, and with the support of the Spanish rebel nobles, a Spanish corps was formed.

There is no other reason, the British are rich!

As long as you are willing to spend money, the Kingdom of Spain has plenty of mercenaries, robbers, bandits, and hooligans who are willing to sacrifice their lives...

As a result, as soon as the civil war began, Carlos IV discovered to his horror that his enemy army had become more and more numerous!

This is still the reason why the London government did not land in large numbers on the Kingdom of Spain.

Because the London government is worried that the Iberian Peninsula will become the first area to be conquered by the tyrant Levi. The British army that lands is likely to be crushed by the main force of the Roman Guards. If too many people land, they will not be able to return if they want to retreat. !
With a small number of landings, you can quickly evacuate when the situation is not good.

For this reason, the King's German Legion did not intend to leave the Gibraltar Fortress at all, and the troops sent out were all Spanish legions led by British officers.

The chaos in the Kingdom of Spain gave Bohr, who was gathering the French Legion, a headache.

There is no way, watching the army supporting Carlos IV, who have been defeated repeatedly on the battlefield where there are too many enemies, and are about to retreat to Madrid. They can only have enough war supplies after the French Legion is not prepared, even 20 When the troops were not assembled neatly, [-] advance troops were sent into the sparsely populated Catalonia region.

Due to the full-scale civil war in the Kingdom of Spain, there are almost no regular Spanish troops stationed in Catalonia, only some militias.

Because the Catalan nation has been destroyed, the number of militias here is also very few.

(End of this chapter)