The lord hunted down by the game

Chapter 290 Wrong Evaluation

The Victorian government's move can be said to kill three birds with one stone.

The first thing is that the French army's combat effectiveness in the Kingdom of Orleans is obviously much stronger than those of small ethnic countries. Their homeland has not been destroyed by war, and their industrial base is still there, which is enough to support the various expenses of military wars.

The second bird is to use this to prevent those small ethnic countries from having to pay for the next war of the Allies. The Victoria government has been promoting the image of the good guy Big Brother. Not surprisingly, those small ethnic countries that have benefited have become European nations. A die-hard fan of the Co-Prosperity Sphere…

The third bird is those small nations that have just become independent and have experienced revenge wars. The consumption of population and various resources has reached the limit, and they cannot fulfill the obligations of the members of the Allied Powers to send troops...

If it is mandatory to send troops, it will only lower the average level of the Allied Forces and let a group of old, weak, sick and disabled make up for it.

So far, the power of the Allied Powers has been so powerful that it has seriously threatened the sovereignty and security of other European countries.

Tsarist Russia and Sweden and Norway in Eastern and Northern Europe formed the Allies to fight against the Entente.

Originally, I wanted to draw Ottoman Turkey, but Tsarist Russia and Ottoman Turkey were feuds, and neither side would deal with it, so naturally it was impossible to become an alliance.

In addition, today's Ottoman Empire has been in serious decline, and the first industrial revolution has not even started. The army is still equipped with muskets and smoothbore guns that have long been behind. With the succession of the sultan!

The declining Ottoman Empire has a huge territory. In the eyes of Tsarist Russia, it is not a qualified ally, but a piece of fat.

Originally, Tsarist Russia was restricted by the Habsburg dynasty and could not make a decisive move against the Ottoman Empire, fearing to face a two-front war.

But now the Habsburg dynasty has been dismembered by the Victoria government. The Entente seems huge, but it is an alliance of small and medium-sized countries. In the eyes of Tsarist Russia, it is far less threatening than a unified great power.

Today, Tsarist Russia has not declared war on the Ottoman Turkish Empire, and is mainly devoting its energy to the Indian battlefield with the British.

And I don't want to be picked up by the Allied Powers.

If the Allied Powers took action against the Ottoman Empire, Tsarist Russia would never mind carve up the Ottoman Empire.

It is not difficult to see from the map that after the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, Tsarist Russia could take advantage of its geographical advantages to occupy the entire Asian part of the Ottoman Empire.

Compared with the European part of the Ottoman Empire, the Asian part is the real richness of the Ottoman Empire!
Therefore, Tsarist Russia was eager for the Entente to declare war on the Ottoman Empire.

Even if there is no declaration of war, as long as the European part of the Ottoman Empire is provoked to launch a national uprising, completely disrupt the European part of the Ottoman Empire, let the Ottoman Empire dispatch large troops into the European region, and weaken the overall strength of the Ottoman Empire, Tsarist Russia will also do it.

Although the Ottoman Empire is decaying, its size is there after all, and it is still possible to form millions of cannon fodder.

Tsarist Russia was in an all-out war with Britain at this time, and it had to guard against the Allied Powers going north. It was impossible to devote all its troops to the Ottoman Empire, so it was naturally unwilling to start the war lightly.

As for the Ottoman Empire, at this time the Sultan's Palace had already been frightened into a good baby by a series of wars and changes in the European continent.

I can't wait to shrink back and become a turtle, so that the Allied Powers can ignore me...

At this time, the Ottoman Empire had lost its former glory, and it was a decaying empire that lived its own life behind closed doors. They never dared to go to war with the European powers.

In the past, the Habsburg Dynasty and the Ottoman Empire were singled out, and the Sultan Court was not sure of victory, let alone the current Allied Powers?

The Ottoman Empire is different from Tsarist Russia. The Ottoman Empire is a country built on a multi-ethnic crater. There are even dozens of languages ​​and characters in the empire!
Moreover, due to the crazy oppression of other ethnic groups by the Turks of the Ottoman Empire, the ethnic conflicts in the Ottoman Empire were very sharp.

It is rumored that the Ottoman Empire formed millions of troops, which is only theoretical data, based on the fact that the Ottoman Empire can mobilize all national power.

But the Ottoman Empire's own family knew their own affairs, and if a battle broke out, it would be considered extraordinary to be able to form an army of millions...

Because of the sharp ethnic conflicts, many areas need to maintain the necessary garrisons, which cannot be withdrawn at all, otherwise national uprisings will break out!

This is the experience summed up by the Ottoman Empire with bloody lessons...

It is a pity that the rulers of Europe do not know much about the religious governance policies of the Ottoman Empire. In the eyes of Europeans, both the Asian and African parts of the Ottoman Empire believe in Crescentism.

Since the religions are all the same, under the slogan of jihad, they should be able to erupt with impressive fighting power.

The impression of the Europeans on the Ottoman Empire is still a hundred years ago. Although they know that the Ottoman Empire is decayed, they are very confused about the extent of the decay...

Tsarist Russia, who knew the Ottoman Empire best, actually overestimated the Ottoman Empire's war mobilization capabilities.

Because under the assessment of Tsarist Russia, the Ottoman Empire can mobilize about 200 million to 300 million troops with all its strength.

Even if they are all troops using muskets, the 200 million army is enough for Tsarist Russia to attract attention!
According to the authoritative assessment of the Victoria government of the Allied Powers, the Ottoman Empire was able to mobilize an army of about 500 million!
The reason is quite sufficient. The Ottoman Empire controlled hundreds of millions of people, and because the medical conditions in the Ottoman Empire were extremely backward and the people lived in hardship, more than 30% of the hundreds of millions of people were under the age of [-]!
Here in Europe, men under the age of 30 are eligible to join the military...

Therefore, even if the organizational capabilities of the Ottoman Empire's decadent bureaucracy are taken into account, as long as a quick victory cannot be achieved, the Ottoman Empire's maximum mobilization capacity should be around 500 million...

Even if the Catholics in Europe are excluded, there should be around 400 million...

It was this wrong judgment that caused the Victorian government not to launch a war against the Ottoman Empire in the first place.

After all, the entire Allied forces combined are less than one-third of the Ottoman Empire's maximum mobilization capacity...

If one hits three, although the Victorian government has a chance of winning, the loss is immeasurable.

If the war damage is too high, and a large number of small countries in the Allied Powers collectively jump back, wouldn't it be necessary to collapse the hard-built Allied Power system?

After all, this is an invasion war, not a defensive war...

Therefore, the Victorian government set its target on Tsarist Russia. After all, Britain and Russia have already beaten their brains into pig brains in northern India...

(End of this chapter)