18th century total war

Chapter 354 For the family
"Long live His Majesty the Emperor!"

With a loud bang, the guard infantry rushed into the crowd of Prussian soldiers. While being pierced by three bayonets, the explosive package behind them also exploded, taking away enemies several times their own!

The remaining Prussian privates looked at all this with horror. This was not the first enemy they had seen charging suicidal!

"Damn it! Are the French all a bunch of lunatics?

They charged with explosive packs on their backs!
How can I fight this? ! "

Obviously, the Prussian soldier who uttered this sentence was a 'new recruit' who fought against the French army for the first time.

"Everyone is not allowed to retreat, you are glorious Prussian soldiers, died on the battlefield, the country will support your family for you!"

The Prussian officer wielding his command knife frantically pushed the retreating Prussian privates, while right in front of them were rows of guard infantry who scattered and charged up with smoking explosive packs behind them!

Napoleon in the rear held up the binoculars and watched with a smile as one Prussian company after another was defeated by self-destruct tactics, and his own battle line advanced steadily.

"A unit with this kind of will, even if the Prussians have several times the strength advantage, cannot be our opponent."

Even though General Napoleon saw this scene countless times, he still couldn't help but sigh at the people around him.

"General Napoleon, we are all soldiers who are willing to sacrifice our lives for His Majesty the Emperor. Not only are the soldiers on the front line, but if necessary, I will personally charge the enemy array with explosives on my back!"

A leader of the reserve group responded loudly.

Napoleon glared at the other party, not bothering to waste time with these brainwashed lunatic officers.

There is a big difference between Napoleon, who was enlightened by administration, and these officers who were born in the military camp and whose brains have been washed and disabled.

At least Napoleon thought he was more like a real living person than a walking war machine compared to them.

Nicholas did not participate in the front-line battles because he was running out of troops when he was guarding Hanover.

The constant sound of explosions coming from ahead, which was very different from that of artillery, made Nicholas' face full of anxiety.

Nicholas, who participated in the last anti-French war, knew very well that this was the explosion sound of those French lunatics who blew themselves up and charged!

With such a dense explosion sound, I'm afraid there are hundreds of French lunatics who exploded and charged.

Can the Prussian soldiers on the front line really stand up?

"Captain Nicholas!"

At this moment, Nicholas suddenly heard a voice calling him. Nicholas, who had made great contributions in resisting the counterattack of the Lindenwan Brotherhood in Hannover, had been promoted to captain at this time, but the rapid promotion made him a little uncomfortable with this title. .

After all, he was just a humble second lieutenant a week ago.

A captain can already be regarded as a figure in this era, and no matter how bad the captain is, he will manage at least one company under his command, unless it is the captain who retreats to the rear and is in charge of logistics.

There are hundreds of people in a company, which is enough to guard a small town in peacetime.

The most important thing is that at the level of captain, there is no need to face the crisis of retirement in the Kingdom of Prussia. No matter whether there is a war or not, the captain can work until old age.

In other words, as long as Nicholas does not make a big mistake, the Kingdom of Prussia can keep him forever, which is a veritable iron rice bowl.

"Sir, I'm here."

Nicholas quickly took his own gun, stood up and faced the shouting officer.

Judging by the military rank and military cap, the opponent should be a major.

After the other party saw Nicholas, he briefly inquired about the other party's ID, nodded, and handed over the dozens of soldiers who followed behind him, who smelled of gunpowder, to Nicholas, and ordered:
"Your company has suffered heavy losses. These people are your supplementary soldiers. They are not recruits, but soldiers who have been scattered on the battlefield. I ask you to use the shortest possible time to give them the courage to set foot on the battlefield again."

"Yes, sir!"

Nicholas responded with his head held high.

After Nicholas signed his name on a document, the other party left.

The explosions on the front line have not stopped, and the battle is obviously not going well.

You know, Nicholas at this time is staying in the city of Hanover in the rear, where the headquarters of tens of thousands of Prussian soldiers are located!

Nicholas only had to walk a few blocks to find the Prussian general who commanded tens of thousands of soldiers.

So, Nicholas is the safest place here.

Nicholas looked at the listless soldiers in front of him, and guessed that these people were a group of defeated soldiers and came from different teams.

"My name is Nicholas, let's talk about the situation on the front line first."

"Sir, I'm the only soldier left in our company. Those French are not afraid of death. We can't win..."

After Nicholas heard this sentence, his face turned cold. This is blatantly destroying the morale of the army!

"Prussian soldiers will not surrender to the enemy, you are here to ruin the morale of the army, I must let you remember the lesson.

Someone, drag him down and beat him with twenty army sticks! "

"don't want!
I'm just telling the truth, you don't make sense!

Is it true that in the Prussian army, even the truth is not told? "

"Gag him up!"

Nicholas ordered with a gloomy expression.

Afterwards, he once again faced those broken soldiers whose faces were flickering. These people may have been psychologically shadowed by the Frenchman...

"I know that fighting on the front line must be very cruel. I am a veteran who survived the Fourth Anti-French War. I know the way those Frenchmen fight.

but!

We have reasons to fight!

If we fail here and let the French enter the Kingdom of Prussia, have you ever thought about how your family and friends will be treated? !

Everyone should have heard about the extravagance and lust of the tyrant Li Wei. Are you willing to watch your daughters and even wives being ruined by the tyrant Li Wei? "

When Nicholas said this, a voice suddenly came from the broken soldiers:
"Report sir, I am the only son left in my family. Both my older brothers died in battle, and I don't have any sisters. My elderly mother still needs me to go home and take care of her alive. I don't want to die here..."

"how?

Do you want to be a deserter?
The king has personally issued an order that all deserters be shot on the spot!

This is a battle related to the rise and fall of the Prussian nation and the country, and no retreat is allowed!

If you are killed by the enemy on the battlefield, you are a hero and martyr of the Kingdom of Prussia!

The king will share money from the state treasury to give your family a pension!
But if you are executed as a deserter, you are a traitor. Not only will you die meaninglessly, but your family will also be implicated!
May I ask, do you want your old mother to be implicated in your greedy behavior and fear of death? "

"No...don't want to, I will not be a deserter, I will fight for the king and Prussia!"

The soldier who made the sound echoed loudly with a slightly trembling voice.

"Remember, we are fighting now not only for His Majesty the King, but also for the future of your relatives and friends.

Only by defeating the tyrant Levi's army can we save our country and our home!

Perhaps, some of you present will fall on the battlefield and will not enjoy future peace, but if this war fails, not only you, but also your compatriots behind you will suffer and even die under the tyrannical rule of the French forever!

Are you willing to fight for the future of your family and compatriots, or are you afraid of death, give up all resistance, and be enslaved by the French bayonets for the rest of your life?

Remember, the glory of Prussia above all else!
Long live Prussia!
Long live the king! ! ! "

Inspired by Nicholas, the soldiers present either expressed their feelings or followed the crowd, raised their right fists and shouted at the top of their voices.

After seeing this scene, a Prussian general who was inspecting the army in the distance asked the adjutant beside him with great interest, "What is the officer's name and what rank is it?"

"General, he is Captain Nicholas, one of the surviving officers and soldiers who fought against the Lindenwan Brotherhood during the Hanover War, and is also the highest rank among them.

Promoted from lieutenant to captain after the battle.

Oh, by the way, he was originally a second lieutenant. After carrying out the task of assassinating the leader of the Lindenwan Brotherhood, Allen, he was promoted to lieutenant by his boss at the time. "

"Yes, he is a promising young man. Which family does he come from?"

the Prussian general asked next.

The adjutant was slightly taken aback after hearing this, and replied truthfully: "Captain Nicholas came from a commoner family, and he did not join any family."

The Prussian general frowned after hearing this, and immediately suppressed the idea of ​​promoting the other party to a major. If a civilian officer becomes a major, it does not conform to the unspoken rules of the army. It is easy to offend the old stubborn gang. It's worth it.

What Nicholas didn't know was that he passed by the major officer in charge of the battalion only because his background was too humble.

Although the Kingdom of Prussia, under the pressure of the tyrant Li Wei, has moderately relaxed the suppression of civilian officers in the army, the threshold for school-level officers as mid-level officers is still relatively strict controlled by the Junker nobles, and those who are truly relaxed In fact, they are all promotions to lieutenant officers.

Of course, in order to encourage civilians to join the army, the Prussian army is not without officers of civilian origin, and even the number is not small, but civilian officers who can be promoted to majors or even higher ranks have generally achieved marriages with Junker nobles. It is commonly known as entrapment.

They mainly rely on nepotism to climb up the ranks. There are not many civilian officers who truly rely solely on military merit and ability to break through the threshold of major, but there are really too few.

As more and more broken-up soldiers reorganized in the rear, Captain Nicholas's company quickly filled up, and under his encouragement, the soldiers once again had the courage to go to the front line.

Regardless of whether it is active or passive, they all have combat effectiveness.

In this regard, the military literacy of Prussian soldiers is definitely among the best in continental Europe.

This is inseparable from the decades-long compulsory education efforts of the Kingdom of Prussia. It is the universal compulsory education that enables Prussian civilians to have universal values ​​of loyalty to the monarch and patriotism.

The most important purpose of education in this era is not to cultivate talents. After all, talents are always a minority. The goal of compulsory education is to popularize political ideology of loyalty to the monarch and patriotism.

Why did the churches in the Middle Ages in Europe control people's spiritual world and become so powerful?
It is because the church monopolized the education industry in the Middle Ages in Europe, and church schools were almost the only schools that common people could study in the Middle Ages in Europe!

It is conceivable how pious the common people who have walked out of church schools will have in their belief in God!

Education is the shortest way to control the mind.

The rulers later realized this truth, so after the aristocratic education, there were systematic universities and even compulsory education for common people!

Of course, with the development of the world revolution and the awakening of national consciousness, the education industry has gradually changed from a tool for rulers to control people's hearts to a real industry that benefits the people (political disciplines are an exception). Patriotism, but is no longer the main subject.

Only by learning mathematics, physics and chemistry well can you travel all over the world!
The Prussian army has high combat effectiveness and stronger fighting will. The main reason is that they were the first to popularize compulsory education!

Even Livy's government can't do this - there's no money!
After all, wars are very expensive, and Li Wei is still a hungry ghost. Every year, he conducts a fashion model talent show all over the country. This thing is a big project that consumes money!

After all, there is no income in the fashion show shows in the Roman Empire, and Li Wei will not allow the audition to be open to the audience and then charge for profit...

However, this expense was considered the most valuable expense by the official circles of the Roman Empire. Not to mention objections, local governments in various places spent a lot of thought on selecting high-quality women.

After all, as long as they are qualified to enter the quota reviewed by Li Wei day and night, the local government with a large number of quotas will receive key commendations from the cabinet, and the promotion path of those local officials will naturally be opened.

The promotion of bureaucrats in the Roman Empire was really decided by Li Wei, but Li Wei rarely participated in government affairs.

Organizing a fashion model talent show is the only way local officials can make Levi remember him. How could he not be serious and responsible and spend all his money!

Anyway, the money is spent on local finances, so you don’t have to pay out of your own pocket...

Even if the fifth anti-French war breaks out now, except for the border provinces, the Roman Empire still insists on the annual fashion model talent show. After all, Li Wei has to be the groom every night, and the goods cannot be broken!
Even many foreign newspapers satirized the tyrant Levi with the waste of money like the fashion show. Otherwise, Nicholas would not threaten those soldiers, and their daughters and wives would become Levi's playthings...

In fact, this was purely misleading by the newspapers of the Kingdom of Prussia. After all, Li Wei's eyes were so high, and it was not easy for their daughter and wife to pass the audition. How could it be so easy to become Li Wei's plaything?
I don’t know how many girls in the Roman Empire dreamed of becoming Livy’s plaything!
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(End of this chapter)