18th century total war

Chapter 46
Li Wei sighed inwardly. He knew that Lesarite betrayed him so easily, in the final analysis, his weight in the Kingdom of France was too low.

Even if he wins the Battle of Vannes, it is estimated that in the Constituent Assembly of the Kingdom of France, he will only be an insignificant small group of rebels.

It can be seen from the fact that the team that suppresses itself is only the army of the Brittany region itself. It is not that the Constituent Assembly of the Kingdom of France cannot mobilize the main force of the regular army to suppress itself, but that they do not take themselves seriously and feel that it is unnecessary!

In Lesarite's eyes, he was a doomed situation, and even if he defeated Wallace, the result would not change much. Levi felt that he was thinking too simply when he recruited mercenaries.

How could mercenaries work hard for money, so they wouldn't judge the situation?

"Conquering the Quartet, you can rest assured that your own army can use it. It doesn't matter if you don't want this mercenary."

Lesarite didn't know about his behavior, which made Levi drive the mercenaries into the dark room. Of course, even if he knew, Lesarite wouldn't care.

He also figured it out now, if he was really killed by Li Wei, maybe he could gain the reputation of a "hero" in the Principality of Bavaria after his death.

On the contrary, it was Li Wei who spared his life. Even if Lesarit returned to China, he would have to eat and wait for death for the rest of his life.

People tend to be very tolerant of the dead.

"Come here, take Lesarit down, take good care of him, and don't let him die."

Lesarite heard Li Wei's order, and suddenly raised his head to stare at Li Wei, his eyes were strange and he said: "I will lead troops against you during the war, will you not kill me?"

Levi didn't pay attention to Lesarit, he already knew what he wanted to know, and now Lesarit was just a useful tool in his eyes.

After all, Lesarite is also an experienced veteran officer. After being thrown into the training camp for brainwashing for a month, Li Wei's Black Dragon Army will add another general.

Moreover, when the news that Lesarite served Li Wei came back to the Principality of Bavaria, the family behind Lesarite would be ashamed!

For noble children, it doesn't matter if they die in battle or become deserters, even if they are captured by the enemy and then redeemed, it doesn't matter. The only thing they can do is help the evildoers, which is really putting their family to death.

Li Wei didn't kill Lesarit, but made Lesarit and the family behind him pay more. This is the fate of betraying him!

Of course, Lesarit acted very bachelorly when he was taken away. He never thought that he would work for Levi. If he didn't agree with Levi, how could he force him to do such a thing?
Of course, Lesarite would not have thought that he would become a family disgrace in the future!
Li Wei didn't kill Lesarite, which also made Lesarite feel more relaxed. Even if his future is hopeless after returning to the Principality of Bavaria, at least he can spend more time with his family, maybe have a few more children, and enjoy his old age.

With no hope for his career, Resarit's only hope was his family.

"Bolcha has made great achievements this time. After this battle, in the next round of military expansion, Bolcha will be placed in the promotion sequence."

Li Wei gave instructions to the secretary of the Black Dragon Legion beside him.

At this time, the basic line infantry under his command has dropped from more than 4400 to more than 3800, and they are still confident of victory.

After all, the army under the command of Li Wei's opponent Wallace can't compare with the Bavarian Corps in terms of combat effectiveness.

"My lord, how do you deal with the prisoners of the Bavarian regiment?"

"Kill them all and bury them alive, don't shoot them to waste bullets, and then arrange a few typical hangings to hang on the roadside trees, and put up a sign next to tell everyone, this is the fate of betraying me!"

Li Wei is now not far from Wallace's main force, so it is naturally impossible to divide his troops to see the prisoners of the Bavarian Corps. These prisoners of war are all veterans, and once they see an opportunity to make trouble, it is not a trivial matter!

Therefore, Li Wei simply did not do anything, and dealt with all these prisoners of war to reduce his burden. At the same time, he also warned the world that betraying Li Wei would only end in death.

It is not the same to betray Li Wei and be Li Wei's enemy. A traitor is more hateful than an enemy everywhere.

This is human nature.

Therefore, it is not a big problem for Li Wei to kill the prisoners of war who betrayed him, but if he also executes all the defeated enemy prisoners of war, how many of the enemy troops who confront him in the future will dare to surrender?

So far, there have been no reports of Li Wei mistreating prisoners, because most of the prisoners he captured entered the Charles town training camp and became his own people. This treatment is actually quite good.

After all, few forces dare to directly treat prisoners of war as their own soldiers to reorganize and expand the army.

Of course, now that Li Wei is fighting a civil war, this kind of behavior is not too abrupt.

It was precisely because Li Wei directly trained the defeated captives as soldiers of the Black Dragon Legion that Wallace and his party believed that Li Wei's Black Dragon Legion was a group of rabble. For Li Wei's explosive fighting power on the battlefield.

On this day, Li Wei's main force did not move on, and had been dealing with the prisoners of the Bavarian Corps.

First let these prisoners of war dig big pits by themselves, then blindfold them, push them into the pits in batches, and then let people bury the pits...

Then a few surrendering officers of the Bavarian Corps were selected, hanged on a tree by the side of the official road, and a sign was erected below.

After doing all this, the day is almost over.

And Li Wei also lost the last chance to lead his troops to escape.

Of course, this is Wallace's opinion. Wallace felt that Li Wei stopped advancing, most likely because he was frightened by his own army and wanted to flee.

In fact, Li Wei wanted to fight a serious battle with Wallace, defeat him, and take advantage of the trend to attack the city of Rennes.

Complete system tasks!

After the forwards of the two sides came into contact, the main force then set up the battle line, and the artillery was pushed to the front line to deploy.

The number of artillery under Wallace's command is equivalent to the number of artillery captured from Vannes under Levi's command, and the quality is similar, all of which are old goods.

Both direct-firing field guns and curved-firing mortars are available.

Mortar artillery was still relatively popular in this era. This kind of artillery was relatively easy to use in both field battles and sieges.

Especially when attacking the diamond-shaped fortress, under the calculation of mathematical and geometric knowledge, the mortar can easily cut into the shooting blind spot of the rhombus-shaped fortress, and then approach and shoot by digging trenches and other methods, blowing up the defenders in the rhombus-shaped fortress to the sky.

The reason why siege warfare is not popular in this era is simply because, with the 'power of knowledge', the diamond-shaped fortress can be easily breached by mortars, making it meaningless to defend the city.

As a result, field encounters and field offensive and defensive warfare have become mainstream.

(End of this chapter)