18th century total war

Chapter 363 Europa Federation Empire

"Your Majesty, this is the armistice condition proposed by Alexander I."

In the Vienna Imperial Palace, Li Wei, who had just emerged from the gentle township, received the Russian Empire's truce document from the Minister of Foreign Affairs.

Of course, Levy prefers to call it the surrender clause.

Li Wei knew that since the foreign minister would give this document to him for review, it meant that the Russian Empire had compromised in the general direction.

For example, permanently give up control of the Moscow region!

Li Wei is not an aggressive person (mainly because there are not so many administrative officials who control too much territory). As long as Alexander I is willing to hand over the European part of the Russian Empire, Li Wei allows the Russian Empire to continue to exist.

Oh, by the way, in the way of the Kingdom of Russia, the title of Tsar will also be downgraded to King, and the Roman Empire will be recognized as the suzerain state.

The Russian Empire is too big, and it is impossible for Levi to really go to Siberia or even further north, close to the Arctic Circle, to pursue the cold-resistant Russian nation.

"Um?

Alexander I, want to relocate all Russian nationalities? "

When halfway through, Li Wei asked in a slightly dissatisfied tone.

"Your Majesty, if the Russians want to migrate to Siberia and Central Asia, they must have enough main ethnic groups to ensure their own dominance. Alexander I and the Duma nobles who supported him will never back down on this clause. .”

"It's okay to emigrate the Russian people, but you can't relocate the Russian people in the areas we already control. Tell Alexander I that if he agrees to this article, I will sign the terms of the armistice.

Letting Alexander I and his followers take away all the serfs and freemen in their estates is already my greatest mercy to the Russians. "

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Li Wei's will was quickly spread to Moscow through the fast horse. At this time, the front lines of both sides had basically been shut down due to the cold winter, so the boundary line changed very little.

Faced with Li Wei's request, Alexander I and the Duma noble council who supported him agreed after only one day of discussion.

With the surrender of the Kingdom of Sweden, the last country in Northern Europe, no country on the Europa continent continued to fight against the Roman Empire at this time, and the Russian Empire was completely in the predicament of fighting alone with no doubt of defeat.

Of course, there are exceptions for those island countries that were not occupied by the Roman Empire. The island countries of Europe are also the only countries in the fifth anti-French alliance that are still resolutely maintaining a state of war with the Roman Empire.

It's just that except for the United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland, the rest of the island countries will not be brought to the cabinet meeting of the Roman Empire for discussion.

After all, the United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland still has the ability to carry out local landing operations on the long border of the Roman Empire, which makes the Roman Empire's army exhausted. Other island countries do not even have the conditions for landing, so naturally they will not be taken seriously by the Roman Empire. inside.

If it weren't for the blessing of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland, those Mediterranean island countries would have been flattened by the Roman Empire long ago.

The Roman Guards only needed one battalion to capture Malta, and only one regiment to destroy the Kingdom of Sicily on the island of Sicily.

The so-called sovereign country in the eyes of these island countries is a joke in Li Wei's view.

The Roman Empire at this time is not a little stronger than the Napoleonic Empire in Li Wei's previous life.

Especially in terms of control over the European territory, the Napoleonic Empire in Li Wei's previous life did not fully occupy the continental powers such as Prussia and Austria, and did not destroy the foundation of the great powers.

Instead, it exists in the form of an ally of the Napoleonic Empire.

On the other hand, in the Roman Empire in this parallel world, those countries even put the crown on Li Wei's head, and there is only a slight gap in name compared to the territories directly under their jurisdiction.

The entire Roman Empire was controlled by a bureaucracy absolutely loyal to Livy.

This is also the reason why Li Wei found that after defeating the Russian Empire, the expansion motivation was insufficient.

There are not enough places for administrative counseling!
This is why Livy allowed Alexander I to continue to exist and rule Siberia and Central Asia, which had a small population, as a vassal state.

Of course, the current Central Asia has not been completely annexed by Russia, and Alexander I still needs a lot of time to invade if he wants to gain a firm foothold in Central Asia.

This is also the reason why Alexander I needed to migrate a large number of Russian nationalities.

In fact, the Russian nation in the eyes of Alexander I and the nobles of the Duma is a very general concept. Basically, as long as they are not faces of Central Asians and Mongolians, they are classified as the Russian nation.

This is why Alexander I and the Duma Noble Council did not argue about the migration of Russian nationalities in the occupied areas of the Roman Empire.

Anyway, those foreign serfs who were oppressed by the Russians had no national concept at all. The uprising of the Davari Mutual Aid Society only spread the concept of nationality in cities and bustling towns, and the manors in the countryside were not affected. The impact of nationalist ideology.

As long as Alexander I and the nobles of the Duma migrated a large number of people, and then integrated the remnants of the Russian Empire, it would be no problem to flatten the backward nomads in Central Asia.

This is an era of very serious generational differences in military power.

During the European War, muskets and muskets have been reduced to rotten street weapons, but among the nomads in Central Asia, even arquebuses are treated as treasures. era.

Also known as cavalry and archery plus assault cavalry.

In the world of Li Wei's previous life, many people believed that the weapon that ended the cavalry was the popularity of heavy machine guns such as the Maxim.

However, the cavalry here is ignored, referring to modern cavalry units!

It is true that the army built by muskets and smoothbore cannons really cannot be crushed in the face of European cavalry, at best it is evenly matched.

But if an army armed with muskets and smoothbore guns is placed in Central Asia or even the Far East, it will be an unrivaled and powerful army!

European cavalry and nomadic cavalry of the same era are two completely different creatures. Even the cavalry of Genghis Khan’s era is useless. It’s not that the Mongolian cavalry of Genghis Khan’s era was insufficient in combat effectiveness, but that there was a generational difference in the concept of weapons.

Of course, if the Central Asian nomads at this time really have the fighting spirit of the Mongols in the Genghis Khan era, they can still learn from the enemy and improve their own tactics after experiencing initial failures.

If the enemy gives them enough time...

The traditional Mongolian riding and charging tactics are completely useless in the era dominated by guns.

First of all, cavalry and archery will be filled by cheap musketeers.

On the real battlefield, the effective killing range of cavalry shooting is not as good as that of muskets used by infantry, which is only tens of meters away.

This is still against unarmored targets!
If you want to deal with a plate armor target, you must replace it with an armor-piercing heavy arrow and shoot it from a distance of more than ten meters!
Still can't shoot the thickest front armor breastplate.

When the descendants of Genghis Khan made an expedition to Europe, the European knights were close to a distance of more than ten meters. At that time, the European knights did not have modern plate armor, and most of them were still relatively backward plate chain armor.

If you encounter armor of the strength similar to the Milan plate armor later, even the English longbow can't shoot through it.

Historically, the English longbowmen defeated the French armored knights, not because the longbowmen's arrows broke through the French knights' plate armor, but because they knocked down the horses under their crotches, and the battlefield at that time was because of the command of the French knights. He made a mistake and entered a quagmire-like soft soil area, causing the war horse's speed to seriously decline.

Because of this, the English longbowmen can easily aim, put down all the horses under the knight's crotch, and then take the small dagger to the swampy battlefield, hold down the French knight who is too heavy to get up because of the heavy armor, and take it from the helmet. stabbing through the gap to kill.

Yes, the ultimate weapon for the English longbowmen to defeat the French knights is actually a pair of cheap small daggers and short knives...

Of course, this does not prevent the victorious British from blowing the English longbow into a magic weapon.

In fact, the later wars also proved that the English longbow can deal with chain mail or leather armor targets, but it is basically scratching an itch when encountering plate armor targets.

This is also one of the reasons why Britain was finally defeated in the Hundred Years War between Britain and France.

Bows and arrows not only have poor armor-piercing ability, but also very difficult to aim. After all, there are only a few sharp archers.

On the other hand, the accuracy of a musket is not enough, but if a farmer trains for a few months, his hit rate can catch up with an archer who has been trained for several years!

Coupled with that unrivaled armor-piercing ability, crushing nomads in the gun era is nothing new.

Therefore, the Russian Empire flattened Central Asia, not because the nomads in Central Asia became weaker in combat, but because the age of weapons was different...

If the Mongols from the Genghis Khan era come here, as long as they do not update their equipment and improve their tactics, they will also fail.

The Maxim ended the age of the cavalry, and the musket ended the age of the nomads.

This is why Alexander I and the Duma Noble Council were willing to accept Li Wei's harsh armistice conditions.

They can't defend their hometown, but they can still go to Central Asia and continue to be the masters.

For the Russian nobility, there was no difference between enslaving whites and enslaving Central Asians.

In 1812, under the angry protest of the London government, the Russian Empire surrendered to the Roman Empire and handed over all the territories in Europe. It voluntarily downgraded to the Kingdom of Russia, recognized the Roman Empire as its suzerain, and began a long migration.

On the other hand, Li Wei, on behalf of the Roman Empire, forgave Alexander I and the nobles of the Duma for his offense (war behavior), accepted their loyalty, and allowed the Russian Kingdom to retain its independent power.

The birth of the Kingdom of Russia marked a change in Li Wei's way of expanding regions outside of Europe. It was no longer a forcible annexation, but a conquest in the form of a vassal state.

The vassal state can retain its own army and bureaucratic system, and the suzerain state will not overly interfere with the sovereignty of the vassal state, but the vassal state needs to pay half of the tax each year as the suzerain state's 'protection tax' to the vassal state under the supervision of bureaucrats sent by the suzerain state.

Obviously, this protection tax is an overlord clause.

However, Alexander I and his Duma noble council felt extra reassured by this protection tax, which meant that Livy had no intention of exterminating the Russian Kingdom!
It is already very rare for the current Russian royal family to be a local emperor.

After the example of the Kingdom of Russia came out, the Kingdom of Sweden immediately submitted an application to obtain the same political status as the Kingdom of Russia, but was rejected by Li Wei mercilessly...

The Roman Guards, which were originally used to cleanse the Russian army, were directly transferred to the Nordic region, stepped into Finland, and headed straight to the mainland of the Kingdom of Sweden!

This time, the Kingdom of Sweden is completely honest...

Anyone with a discerning eye can see how strongly Li Wei has a strong appeal for direct control of the Europa continent.

The occupation of Moscow eased Li Wei's quota of administrative enlightenment.

With the decline of the Russian Empire, the Fifth Anti-French War also came to an end.

The London government has to admit that it is meaningless for them to continue to maintain the war, and it will only cause them to lose wealth caused by the war of beasts.

Although the navy of the Roman Empire was not good, the Roman Empire could attack the maritime trade of the United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland by breaking the warring piracy at sea.

On the other hand, the United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland has no means of warfare that can threaten the Roman Empire, except for forcing the landing by injuring eight hundred enemies and self-defeating one thousand.

The Roman Empire, which owned the entire continent of Europe, was completely self-sufficient.

As a result, at the end of 1812, the Fifth War against France came to an end.

Li Wei did not ask the United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland for any compensation. Both sides tacitly stopped the state of war, and Britain acquiesced to Li Wei's occupation of the entire Europa.

As for the recognition of the legal system, it seems very ridiculous at this time. There are no countries in Europe that care about the legal system...

After the end of the Fifth Anti-French War, the London government began to integrate the colonies all over the world and the island countries in Europe that were not conquered by the Roman Empire.

As for the Ottoman Empire, under the premise that Li Wei did not have the energy to deal with them, he followed the template of the Russian Empire, surrendered his national status, and took the initiative to become a vassal state of the Roman Empire and changed it to the Ottoman Kingdom.

And donated all the territories except Asia Minor.

However, Li Wei did not have much control over the territories separated by the Mediterranean Sea. This time the territorial dedication was only on paper treaties. Syria and North Africa basically entered the era of independence and self-government.

Because the Ottoman Kingdom also lost control of those territories.

Li Wei, who has occupied the entire Europa, has also begun to fully integrate the territory under his command while gaining 500 glory points.

In 1813, Livy announced in Vienna that the Roman Empire would be changed into the Federal Empire of Europe.

And on the continent of Europa, implement an unprecedented state centralization system!
Trying to build a powerful empire that is in the interests of the multi-ethnic nations of Europe.

(End of this chapter)