18th century total war

Chapter 359 Prussian Surrender

"Your Majesty, are you really going to do this?"

In the Berlin Palace, a group of cabinet ministers and Junker nobles looked at Frederick William III with a dejected face, waiting for his final decision.

"We have lost hope of victory, and if we continue to fight, more innocent people will die and the whole of Berlin will be reduced to ruins.

You have also seen what happened to the Kingdom of Spain and the Kingdom of Portugal. Li Wei's army will mercilessly execute all opponents, and then arrest their families and relatives into labor camps to live a life like slaves.

Do you want to make your family's future miserable? "

"Your Majesty, more than 20 regular troops have gathered in the city of Berlin. If the militia is added, it will not be a problem to double the number. We are not powerless to fight."

The aristocratic Junker general who was in charge of the battle came out to persuade him.

However, before Frederick William III could reply, some Junker nobles of the capitulation faction took the initiative to stand up and retort:
"In our previous battles, the army size was as high as one million, and we were still completely defeated by Li Wei's guards.

Is this lesson not enough?

The troops in Berlin now, including the 20st Grenadier Corps, which we have high hopes for, are only defeated soldiers under Li Wei's men. There are more than [-] regular troops. Which army has not been defeated by Li Wei's Guards on the battlefield? ?
Li Wei's messenger has already told everyone what the end of stubborn resistance is.

With Li Wei's nature, if we continue to fight the Berlin Defense War, the entire Berlin and even within a hundred miles will become barren!

Levi's guards will turn into man-eating beasts and devour everyone in Berlin!

Li Wei is the incarnation of the devil from hell. He can control hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers to fight for him at the cost of their lives. We are only mortals, and mortals cannot defeat the devil! "

"That's right."

Frederick William III interjected: "Li Wei is not a mortal human being, he must be the incarnation of the devil from hell, that's why he can do all this.

We have already lost, and we cannot drag everyone into the death spiral.

Even if you yourself are willing to die in battle, are your wives, children, parents and brothers also willing to be killed?

Prussia may not have it, but people must live, not to mention that Li Wei is willing to continue to recognize everyone's titles, even if they are titles without fiefdoms, at least everyone's personal private production capacity will be preserved.

This is the official sanction of the Roman Empire.

I don't think anyone still fantasizes that the Anti-French Alliance can defeat Li Wei's Roman Empire. "

As soon as the King of Prussia spoke, the hall suddenly became quiet.

The Junker nobles who fought in the main battle were full of bitterness. Before the war, in the Kingdom of Prussia, the Junker nobles who fought in the main battle had an absolute advantage, but now the Junker nobles who are standing here again have only Less than half of the face below...

After all, the generals who commanded the battle at the front were almost all Junker nobles of the main combat faction.

No one knows better than them how powerful Li Wei's guards are.

They still insist on fighting, just because they are unwilling.

But now, this unwillingness to be bloody cut open by his own king is placed in front of everyone.

Let everyone understand that unwilling battles will only bring more deaths and destroy everyone!

And as long as everyone puts down their weapons and surrenders to avoid this inevitable war, everyone can still keep their family property and titles of nobility, and continue to enjoy the generous life of a master.

Even if there is a risk of being hypnotized and brainwashed by the tyrant Li Wei in the future, it is enough to preserve the continuation of his family.

It is not unacceptable for the Junker nobles to pay the price of one person and protect the entire family.

After all, many Junker nobles were prepared to die on the battlefield before the war.

However, the Prussian army is obviously not as high-minded as the Junker nobles. Even the [-]st Grenadier Corps, which had high hopes, was defeated. What confidence do you have to continue the battle of Berlin?
The reason why Frederick William III advocated surrender was because he knew very well that the current defenders in Berlin had no advantage other than numbers!

Morale has already dropped!
It was not that Frederick William III was willing to give up the throne, but that he had to give up the throne. At least, Li Wei allowed him to retain the honorary title of Duke of Brandenburg, and his family members could get priority in the Brandenburg region. officer's privileges.

Naturally, these privileges cannot be written in the law, and they are all specially granted by Li Wei and his cabinet.

Although the Roman Empire has launched a civil servant examination and selection system, in fact, in addition to the civil servant examination to become an official, there is also a direct promotion channel for nobles, but this kind of channel is not open to the public, and no newspaper dares to release the news. .

The civil servant examination and selection system selects low-level civil servants and small officials.

This is actually a way for the Li Wei government to buy the hearts of foreign nobles.

The nobles who surrendered to Li Wei, why should they surrender if they can't get anything?

If you can't beat them, can't you run away?
What's more, if you really can't get anything, there is no guarantee that there will be such a single-minded nobleman who will lead his troops to fight to the end, and even bite a bite of flesh on the Roman Guards before he dies.

This is obviously not in the interests of Li Wei.

Fighting a war does not mean that destroying all enemies is called victory. It is also a huge victory to disintegrate the enemy's will to fight from the perspective of attacking the heart.

Even Li Wei doesn't need to worry about the loyalty of the enemy after the surrender. As long as there are enough places for administrative enlightenment, Li Wei can nip all hidden dangers in the bud.

For a large aristocratic family that surrendered, Li Wei only needs to give administrative enlightenment to the head of the family and even a few important leaders to completely and completely control the entire aristocratic family. The connections and other resources of the aristocratic family will also be quickly absorbed by the Roman Empire Come in and restore the damage caused by the war in the shortest possible time.

For an important European city like Berlin, Li Wei naturally does not want it to be destroyed in the war. What good does a ruined Berlin do to Li Wei?
Although it was refreshing to massacre Berlin, it was not just the aristocratic families who were massacred in Berlin, but also the lower class civilians.

Now the population gathered in the city of Berlin and the surrounding Acropolis has exceeded one million. If all of them were slaughtered, the North German region would almost return to before liberation...

If Berlin surrenders, that's a completely different concept.

First, the Prussian army in East Prussia, which has not yet been occupied by the Roman Guards, will turn into an allied army of the Roman Empire. Even if this allied army does not have much will to fight, it can at least be used to delay the Russian Empire's attack.

Second, the surrender of the Kingdom of Prussia heralded the end of the entire Central European battlefield, so that on the entire European continent, only the Russian Empire was still stubbornly resisting.

Whether it is military significance or political significance, it is a qualitative leap for the Roman Empire!
It can even greatly deter a small country like the Kingdom of Sweden, making them surrender without a fight.

Apart from the risk of being hypnotized and brainwashed by Li Wei, surrendering to the Roman Empire, other treatment is still possible.

Many local nobles have been preserved on the lands under the Li Wei government, and they still have huge influence in the local government.

Although the fiefs and noble privileges were lost, the quality of life of the surrendered nobles did not decline much.

Still living the life of a master.

Because of this, the European nobles would not be so disgusted when they surrendered to Li Wei. The biggest fear came from Li Wei's ability to hypnotize and brainwash.

It's just that the Kingdom of Prussia is at the end of its rope now, and it's better to be hypnotized and brainwashed than to kill the whole family.

Not to mention this era, even in the harmonious society of the 21st century, if there is really a temptation from hell devils, how many people would sell their souls for profit!
In the Berlin Royal Palace, the words of the war faction quickly disappeared completely, and the king's will became the last straw that crushed their will to resist.

In the middle of 1811, King Frederick William III of the Kingdom of Prussia publicly announced the unconditional surrender of the Kingdom of Prussia to the Roman Empire in the Berlin Palace!
During the war, the legitimacy of the Roman Empire was not recognized, and when the surrender was made, there was no need for the messengers of the Roman Empire to remind, and the Roman Empire became the most orthodox country in Europe.

Li Wei, the emperor of the Roman Empire, wore the crown of the Kingdom of Prussia when the King of Prussia abdicated and became the new king of the Kingdom of Prussia in de jure.

He also became the supreme commander of the surrendered Prussian Army.

Many Prussian troops that kept their organizational system did not even change their uniforms, but they joined the army of the Roman Empire to help maintain order and even went to the front line of the battlefield to defend against the Russian Empire's attack!
So far, Li Wei has won two crowns through the fifth anti-French war, one is the king of Denmark and the other is the king of Prussia.

After Li Wei became the king of Prussia, he immediately incorporated the occupied Hanover into the Kingdom of Prussia to facilitate wartime management.

Li Wei's crown was presented by the kings of Denmark and Prussia who surrendered, so the legal effect is still there.

As for those Junker nobles who surrendered, as long as they have a good attitude towards surrender, they can keep their private property and honorary titles, but the privileges and fiefdoms of the nobility cannot be preserved.

In the Roman Empire, all land belonged to the state, that is, the personal property of Livy, the emperor of the Roman Empire.

This is also where the European nobles resisted the most, but this resistance is being disintegrated by the guns of the Roman Guards.

The surrender of the Kingdom of Prussia was a shock to the Russian Empire and the United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland.

Not long after Li Wei put on the Prussian crown, peace envoys from the Ottoman Empire and the Russian Empire arrived in Vienna.

At this time, Li Wei had just completed the additional functions of the Berlin system building, and gave administrative enlightenment to the leader of the surrendered Junkers and the former King of Prussia, now the Duke of Brandenburg.

The Ottoman Empire's condition for peace was the cession of land and compensation, and voluntary recognition of the Roman Empire as the suzerain of the Ottoman Empire.

Naturally, the land ceded could not be Asia Minor, but North Africa and Greater Syria. In other words, the Ottoman Empire ceded all territories outside Asia Minor to the Roman Empire.

It's a pity that this surrender clause is not attractive to Li Wei.

The Ottoman Empire's control over North Africa and Greater Syria was not good at all. These lands all had their own spheres of influence. If the Roman Empire wanted to be directly under the central government, it had to send the Roman Guards to clean it up. the difference?

What's more, without the rich Asia Minor area as an offensive springboard, Li Wei's army must attack by sea, and the Royal Navy of Britain controls the command of the Mediterranean Sea!

Not surprisingly, the Ottoman Empire's peace terms were rejected.

As for the terms of the Russian Empire's peace, it is quite sincere. It will hand over all the occupied Polish regions, including the previously occupied territory of the Austrian Empire.

However, Li Wei felt that this territory was not enough. His goal was to occupy the entire Ukrainian Great Plain of the Russian Empire.

This is a piece of fertile soil, and it is also an important food producing area of ​​the Russian Empire!

Without the Ukrainian Great Plains, the demographic advantages of the Russian Empire would disappear.

From now on, after digesting the fruits of victory, Levi can easily destroy the Russian Empire like beating a child.

However, the Moscow government is not a fool, how could it be possible to hand over its foundation?
After all, Li Wei's expansion ambitions are obvious to all, and the peace of this truce cannot be permanent.

As a result, peace negotiations between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire failed.

The Russian Empire did not want to become the second place in the Kingdom of Prussia, and assembled millions of troops to launch a general offensive on the third front at the same time.

All the way to attack Romania, all the way to attack East Prussia, all the way to attack the southern part of Poland.

As a result, the first two attacks failed, and the third attack was even worse. Suddenly, a large number of Polish Restoration Army appeared in the rear to make trouble!

The General Administration of Military Intelligence of Li Wei's government had already communicated with the Polish independent organization for the restoration of the country. The Poles have always had a strong desire to restore the country. How could Li Wei not take advantage of it?

Of course, the ethnic hatred between the Poles and the Russians was also the fundamental reason why the Poles were willing to surrender to the Roman Empire and resist Russian rule.

As a result, just a few months after the Kingdom of Prussia surrendered, the Russian Empire suffered a series of defeats on the frontal battlefield, losing as many as 30 troops!
The army lost by the Russian Empire was not only killed, but most of them were captured and surrendered.

That's right, with the surrender of the Kingdom of Prussia, the army of the Russian Empire began to surrender to the Roman Empire as a system!
There were even terrifying rumors in the Russian army that Levi was a devil from hell and would unify the European continent.

A series of defeats on the front lines of the Russian Empire also gave the Davari Mutual Aid Society, which had been lurking in the rear, an opportunity.

(End of this chapter)