18th century total war

Chapter 414 Sweeping Southeast Asia

"Long live the Qing Dynasty!
Great Qing will win!

kill! ! ! "

On a certain mountain city in Southeast Asia, the battalion soldiers, wearing battle hats and uniforms of the Qing army, were scrambling towards the gaps blasted by a large amount of black powder under the supervision of the coated slave army.

The tall and majestic city walls, whether they are solid or wooden, have become decorations.

With far more troops than the enemy, coupled with a more open and transparent flag-raising system, the Qing army's explosive combat power was no less than that of the Eight Kings Deliberation Era!
That's right, since surrendering to the dwarves, the current command of the Qing army has fallen into the hands of the young Qing emperor. Of course, the real ruler is the Minister of State.

The reason why the emperor of the Qing Dynasty did not hold real power has a lot to do with his young age. Therefore, the power belongs to the emperor in name, but in fact it is still the ministers who are in charge of the government.

Of course, now that the Qing court has the Supreme Emperor, there is nothing to fight for the highest power in the Qing court. Anyway, everyone is working for the dwarves...

However, the dwarves only controlled the high-level power of the Qing court, and did not interfere too much with the middle and low-level power of the Qing court or even the military system. They even sent dwarf officers to help train the Qing army to better accept the tactics of the era of firearms.

Especially mountain combat.

This made a huge contribution to the Qing army's march into the Southeast Asian peninsula, massacring cities and destroying the country.

After suppressing the chieftain armed forces in the territory, the Qing army, with its overwhelming strength and advanced weapons made by dwarves, smashed the Southeast Asian countries that were still in the era of handover of cold and hot weapons, and there was no single enemy.

Of course, the military promotion system of the Qing army - the coated slave army - raising the flag - 24 prospects - officers and entering the Shangsanqi has become more stable.

This kind of war system with transparent military achievements is very obvious for the cohesion and encouragement of the army.

And the disappearance of the Eight Kings' Dispute also resolved the factional confrontation in the army from the root. Anyway, everyone is fighting for the Qing Dynasty, and it doesn't matter who is who.

This kind of purity undoubtedly enhanced the combat effectiveness of the Qing army!

However, in the smooth annexation of Southeast Asia, the Qing army encountered a stubborn opponent-Gurkha.

The Gurkhas are a very barbaric population. They are extremely good at mountain warfare and guerrilla warfare, and they are very determined to fight. They often even fight to the death without retreating. The Qing army, which has an absolute advantage in strength and weaponry, is a headache.

However, under the pressure of the general situation, after two years of bloody fighting, the nail of Gurkha was finally destroyed one after another in Southeast Asian countries. Under the concentrated onslaught of the Qing army, it was consumed to death.

The mountain city in front of me is the last core stronghold of the Gurkhas. After the fall of this city, the Gurkhas can only go to fight guerrillas...

The general of the Qing army with a lightning rod on his head in the back watched his sons rush into the gap in the blasted mountain city like a colony of ants, thinking that this battle was the same as before and won the victory.

"After the Gurkhas are wiped out, the Southeast Asian peninsula will be in our hands. The Holy Majesty and the dwarves will be satisfied. At that time, my Qing Dynasty can also concentrate on dealing with the Russian army from India."

A general with Manchu blood on the side said sadly: "I heard that the forward of the expeditionary force of the Russian Kingdom has entered the Bengal area, and has been filled with a large number of Indian soldiers, equipped with weapons and equipment from the Europa Empire. This war is not easy to fight. ah."

As soon as these words came out, the expressions of the Qing army generals present became subtle.

Naturally, there will be no dwarves following this final battle. Dwarves don't like war, after all, people will die in war!
The dwarf army will not show up on the battlefield unless it encounters a hard bone that the Qing army cannot chew.

The dwarves prefer to imitate the industrial manufactures of the Europa Empire that open their eyes and are full of industrial charm.

Not only military weapons, but all the assembly line products produced by the Europa Empire, the dwarven craftsmen are obsessed with imitation and development.

Drawing inferences from one example is not the patent of human wise men!

However, no matter how strong the dwarves' imitation ability is, the lack of productivity has always plagued the dwarves. They are accustomed to hand-crafted and workshop-style production, and cannot connect to the industrial age of machine-made machines in one step.

Of course, as long as enough time is given to the dwarves, they will overcome this problem sooner or later.

The charm of industry even made the dwarves give up the research and development of weapons powered by magic stones. After all, there is no magic power in this world. There is no news about Merlin and her magic guild that was promised before. The world is full of magic and loses patience.

At this time, the timeline has come to 1829, and the Europa Empire has already reorganized the Holy Alliance, and dispatched an armored fleet to control a large number of islands!
Hong Kong Island and Ryukyu Island in the Far East both stationed a small number of Europa Empire marines, which forced the dwarves and the Qing court to allocate a large number of troops to establish guard posts along the coast.

It is impossible to build coastal defense, and the long coastline is enough to make the dwarves and the Qing court hard to defend.

And the occasional shelling program also made the Qing court in the Far East deeply aware of the power of the Europa Empire!
The sense of powerlessness that can't be fought back just by being beaten made the top officials of the Qing court privately talk about surrendering the Europa Empire.

The senior officials of the Qing court now fully understand the truth of the law of the jungle. Surrender is a matter of necessity. Since a dwarf can be the emperor of the Qing court, why can't the Europa Empire?

To whom is it not to be a younger brother?

As long as he can ensure the superior dominance of the banner man, he is a good boss!

Of course, the dwarves never showed their hearts to the Qing court. The core military technology was in the hands of the dwarves, and the cities where the dwarves lived were also separated from humans.

Dwarves prefer to live in mines!

Their body structure is very different from that of humans, allowing dwarves to ignore the ubiquitous dust and slag pollution in mining areas.

There will be no irreparable damage to the dwarves' health.

The dwarves who used the mining area as a city naturally also had a firm control over the origin of raw materials. The Qing government did not even need to prepare human labor for the dwarves to mine!
The dwarves themselves are the best miners!

The industrious and capable dwarves have no intention of using slaves to replace themselves.

Mining and smelting are hobbies among dwarves that rival fine wine.

It can be said that the dwarves completely controlled the sources of weapons for the Qing army.

Without the arms support of the dwarves, the ammunition reserves of the Qing army would not be able to fight a few battles at all.

Of course, the high-level Qing army admitted that the Qing army could not be the opponent of the dwarves, and the dwarves didn't even care about the core values ​​of raising the flag and becoming a master of the people.

This shows that the dwarves don't mind the Qing court controlling the Qing army under its command.

The high-ranking officials of the Qing court knew that it was not because the dwarves were arrogant and ignorant, but that they did not take the current Qing army seriously at all...

Don't look at the Qing army's easy sweep of the Southeast Asian peninsula. It was purely a terrible war. The only thing in Southeast Asia that caused a lot of casualties to the Qing army was not the army but the non-combat attrition caused by the tropical rainforest environment.

The battle between the Southeast Asian countries and the Qing army was basically the sound of the Qing army's artillery, the formation of the Southeast Asian countries' troops was in chaos, and then the Qing army's cavalry and infantry joined forces to charge, and the battle was basically over...

The two sides are completely armies of two eras!

Even the Gurkhas with the most tenacious will to fight can only make a close to one-to-one exchange ratio with the Qing army in the mountains.

The Qing army fought against the troops of other Southeast Asian countries, and the exchange ratio was calculated from one to ten...

On the other hand, in the main decisive battle between the dwarves and the Qing army, the ratio of damage exchange between the dwarves and the Qing army was dozens of times!

Comparing the two, the high-ranking officials of the Qing army themselves were discouraged...

Of course, being unable to defeat them will not prevent them from surrendering to the more powerful Europa Empire.

Especially when the number one thug under the command of the Europa Empire, the striker of the Tsarist Russian Expeditionary Force, had already arrived at the border.

"Let's take down the Gurkhas first, get a complete Southeast Asian peninsula, and then straighten out this place. No matter who the Qing negotiates with, it has full confidence."

The generals of the Qing army who were present either showed thoughtful expressions, or joy appeared in their eyes.

Obviously, no Qing general had a good impression of being loyal to the dwarves!

This is precisely the prejudice brought about by the core values ​​of the Far East, which must be different for people who are not of our race.

Compared with the Europa Empire, which is also human, the image of the dwarves is really ruined!

The dwarfs that the Qing generals had seen all had an unmistakable smell of slag on their bodies. The unkempt dwarves, even women, often appeared with a gray-headed appearance and seemed to have no regard for personal hygiene.

The only image the dwarves care about is probably their beards!
In the eyes of the senior officials of the Qing army, dwarves were better looking than the undead.

Human beings have the habit of looking at faces engraved in their bones.

At this moment, a series of explosions suddenly erupted in the city, and the shouts of "Long live the Qing Dynasty" all over the sky stopped abruptly, completely covered by the explosions.

None of the generals of the Qing army present were newbies. Even the generals of the Manchu Banners who were once regarded as useless had experienced more than a dozen battles under the 'experience' of the dwarves!

Even a pig, who has participated in more than a dozen battles, will have basic military knowledge.

"This is the sound of the explosion of yellow explosives from the Europa Empire. It is impossible for ordinary black powder to make such a sound!"

"Damn it!
The Gurkhas are on the line with the Tsarist Russian Expeditionary Force! "

"That's right. The forwards of the Tsarist Russian Expeditionary Force have controlled the Bengal area. It is not difficult for the Gurkhas to contact them."

When many generals of the Qing army speculated, the Qing army brigade that had just rushed in not long ago had already retreated quickly. Rows of bloody Gurkhas held a Gurkha machete in one hand and a smoking gun in the other. The grenade chased it out!

This is naturally a wooden handle grenade that has already been mass-produced in the Europa Empire!
Black gunpowder has long been eliminated in the Europa Empire, but the Europa Empire has kept the formula of the yellow dynamite tightly covered, and has not even let go of the sale of the finished product, so although all countries in the world know that the Europa Empire has a more powerful dynamite, Still using the original black powder.

After the Gurkhas drove the Qing army out, the Gurkhas who rushed out saw the dense rear formation of the Qing army outside, their expressions changed drastically, and they quickly threw out the wooden handle grenade in their hands and retreated.

But at this time, the coated slave army took over the position of the army, shouting and rushing forward!

The system of regiment training has been abolished in the Qing army, and at the same time, the establishment of the army has been relaxed, and the army has been fully nationalized in a true sense.

Thanks to the dwarf platform behind them, the Qing court took the bottom line on the local wealthy families.

The military strength of the dwarves has become a myth in the Far East. Not only the high-ranking officials of the Qing court, but also those well-informed local gentry and nobles also know that they cannot afford to provoke the dwarves.

Behind the coated slave army was the banner army carrying the Han army flag (all under the five flags), and they also shouted the slogan "The Qing Dynasty must win" and rushed up like a baton.

As for the army that rushed in before, they were completely dispersed.

After all, the lethality of wooden-handled grenades to dense formations is in pieces. It is normal for the ferocious Gurkhas to take the opportunity to charge with short soldiers.

Of course, the defeated army was only the frontier of the Qing army, and the central army, left army, right army, and rear army all over the mountains and plains were all well-organized.

The Qing army always had an absolute superiority in military strength, and even if it was filled with people, it could fill up the entire mountain city.

The irony is that in the last mountain stronghold of the Gurkhas, including the old and weak, women and children, the entire population is not as large as the Qing army outside...

Therefore, even if the Gurkhas get foreign aid explosives, there will be no accidents in this battle.

The stubborn resistance of the Gurkhas will only arouse the ferocity of the Qing army and slaughter the entire mountain city...

In fact, when the coated slave army rushed in, the Gurkhas, who consumed more than half of their grenade inventory, couldn't stand it a little bit.

When they managed to defeat the coated slave army, and when the more well-equipped and more powerful Han Banner Army rushed in, the Gurkhas were no longer able to organize an effective counterattack.

When the dragon flag of the Qing Dynasty was raised from the commanding heights of the mountain city, earth-shattering cheers erupted from the Qing army. Under the leadership of various Qing army generals, they entered the mountain city in batches to carry out organized robbery and massacres!

As a matter of course, the troops who can get the first-hand oil and water are the forward troops. They have suffered the most and deserve to enjoy the first wave of dividends from the massacre.

Looting the enemy's cities and villages was the source of morale for the Qing army to sweep across Southeast Asian countries.

After all, the Qing court’s finances were not rich, and the bannermen still had hard-core crops to support them, but the coated slaves and sick people were all paid by the army!

That little money is not even enough for them to spend, how can they support their families?

Therefore, the Qing army relied heavily on the wealth obtained from looting to maintain its morale.

This kind of Qing army is naturally like a tiger when facing a weak enemy. Once it encounters a strong enemy, its morale will plummet.

This is also one of the reasons why the dwarves look down on the Qing army.

(End of this chapter)