Holy Roman Empire

"Intercept the fart, tell Captain Hashipi to let him figure it out. Order the troops to assemble immediately and prepare to attack Persia."

Not to mention whether it can be stopped, without domestic orders, if a conflict breaks out during the interception, Colonel Seacrest cannot bear the responsibility.

Of course, it also needs to bear responsibility for letting the Austrian army enter the country without authorization and attacking Persia.

It's just that the bureaucrats in the country and the middle and high-level Russian army on the front line all want to make military exploits now.

I took the initiative to stand up and take responsibility, at least I followed everyone's wishes. When the responsibility is pursued in the future, at least someone will help to speak up.

In any case, the face of the Russia-Austria alliance still needs to be taken care of.The charge of cooperating with the Austrian army in combat cannot be brought to the table at all.Settle accounts after autumn, and only wear small shoes.

If there is some military exploits on the battlefield, it is estimated that even the small shoes cannot be worn clearly, otherwise it will damage the morale of the army, at least until the end of the war.

The troubles after the war, that's nothing at all.The high-level government has been stable for so long, and it's time for a replacement.

"High meritorious deeds" is a taboo in any country.Being able to tolerate a group of veterans for so long, Nicholas II can be regarded as a good tempered.

If the war is won beautifully and the government's prestige is further improved, it will inevitably arouse the tsar's fear; if the war is performed poorly, the government needs to take the blame and still have to replace people.

There were so many domestic troubles, and there were still a lot of international troubles. Colonel Seacrest did not think that the Tsar would miss such a small person like him.

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On the battlefield, the enemy's machine guns were firing wildly.Many pillars of black smoke from the explosion rolled into the air like a whirlwind on the uneven sandy land with a diameter of more than a mile. Spread out from the side of the crater.

Crawling, crawling... The black fireworks of shell explosions swept the earth more and more tightly, and the piercing screams of shrapnel shells flying obliquely were more and more densely splashed on the attackers' bodies, sticking to the ground. The machine gun fire on the ground was strafing more and more brutally.

Major General Chris roared: "Urge the air force, we need fire reinforcements!"

There is no way to attack by means of attack, and the heavy artillery is still on the way.

I thought that the artillery of the Russian army could suppress the enemy's firepower, but the reality is cruel.The tsarist government did not attach importance to Persia at all, and did not deploy enough heavy artillery at all.

The Russian officers on the side, including Colonel Seacrest, were all blushing at the moment. Even the Persian firepower could not be suppressed, which really made them unable to lift up in front of their allies.

"attack!"

"attack!"

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In order to change his face and prove his strength, after the arrival of the Shinra Air Force, the Russian general had to urge the troops to speed up the attack.

Now is not the time to preserve your strength. If you can't prove your strength in front of your allies, you will have nothing to talk about in the future.

Everyone joined the war to get promoted and get rich, not to fight for soy sauce.The battlefield is always the stage for the strong, and the right to speak and the distribution of benefits are all based on strength.

At the same time, the two empires of Shenluo and Russia were attacked, and the defense line stood firm. The Persian defenders were already proud enough.

It's just that this kind of arrogance can't last, any line of defense has its limit, and the long front keeps squeezing the limits of the Persian Empire.

The British ally, who had high hopes, did not play its due role at all. The Indian colonial army sent was doing nothing, adding chaos No. 1.

Accompanied by the sound of fierce artillery fire and shouts of killing, the Persian defenders, who endured heavy pressure, finally collapsed.

Morale is such a thing, once it collapses, it will plummet.Facing the attacks of the two empires at the same time, the Persians were heartbroken.

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Victory always brings people a good mood. As the war progresses smoothly, Franz's mood is getting better and better.

For the entire world war, the breakthrough in the Persian battlefield can only be regarded as an episode.But for the British who regard India as their lifeblood, it is definitely a blow.

In particular, the Russian army appeared on the battlefield. Although it meant being coerced, the Russians did participate in the war.

Regardless of whether the Russians will attack India from Afghanistan next, the British government is under great pressure now.

When the enemy is uncomfortable, Franz naturally feels comfortable.In my spare time, I played "art" again.

Not only playing by myself, but also playing with a bunch of grandchildren.Franz is too lazy to get used to what kind of influence the art of the combination of East and West will have on future generations when it spreads.

It may be criticized by experts and scholars, and it may also open up a new art genre. Anyway, the future is full of uncertainties.

What determines all this is not art, but politics.The essence of art is mass acceptance, but the premise of mass acceptance requires a social background.

If you open the history books, you will find that in the course of human development, the art and culture popular in different periods are different.

Xia Liba people and Yangchun Baixue are both part of art, and there is no distinction between superior and inferior in essence.It is nothing more than that in different periods, the social status is different.

Today's low class may become upper class tomorrow; today's upper class art may become marginal culture tomorrow.

If the hegemony of the Holy Roman Empire can last for a hundred years, it will be an immortal feat to promote the integration of Eastern and Western cultures and the process of human integration.

On the contrary, the hegemony of the Holy Roman Empire was short-lived, and then it disappeared in the long river of history.

As an emperor, especially an emperor who leads a declining empire to its peak again, it is bound to be deeply interpreted by later generations.

Time makes people old, and looking at his grandchildren who can form a football team, Franz realizes that he is really old.

At Franz's age, if it weren't for the European royal family's habit of marrying late, the fourth generation would have come out now, and maybe the fifth generation would be on its way.

Fortunately, the family has a rich family background. If it is placed in an ordinary family, it would not be a blessing to have so many children.

Although many families have more than a dozen in their lifetime, half of them can really raise adults, which proves that the family can live on.

"Father, the Russians have sent troops to India!"

Frederick's voice sounded, pulling Franz out of the mood.

"Oh, it seems that Nicholas II's energy-raising skills are still not good enough, and we haven't agreed to their conditions yet!"

Franz, who survived three generations of tsars and became an antique of the European royal family, is now qualified to ridicule the juniors.

It seems to be an understatement, but Franz has actually begun to meditate.Russia sent troops to India, and the impact it brought was not a little bit.

In the short term, it does help speed up the pace of winning the war, but Russians also want to eat meat.

With the style of a bear, he ate it in his stomach and didn't spit it out again.If it was elsewhere, Franz would have agreed.

But India is different. Maybe it will be a burden in the future, but right now it is a rare and rich place.

If you let it go, who knows how many territories the Russian army can occupy before the end of the war?

Although the Vienna government is not planning to colonize India, it does not mean giving up the Indian market, especially not allowing this market to fall into the hands of the Russians.

Otherwise, the tsarist government could rely on the wealth looted from India to get rid of its financial difficulties, and at the same time rely on the Indian market to improve its industrialization system and grow stronger.

The Russian Empire without shortcomings is really terrible.Although he said "born in sorrow and died in peace", Franz still does not intend to leave a huge hole for future generations.

After wandering for a few steps, he seemed to think of something, and Franz looked at Frederick and asked, "How are you going to deal with it?"

It is obviously impossible to prevent the Russians from sending troops to seize the territory.The Russian Empire is just an ally of Shinra, not a younger brother, and is not so obedient.

Attacking the enemy as an ally is beyond reproach on the surface.Even if there are restrictive means, for the stability of the Continental Union, the Vienna government cannot use them indiscriminately now.

If allies are disobedient, the overlord will also worry, especially the quasi-hegemon with competitors, and he must think twice before acting.

If one operation is not good, it violates the rules of the game and angers the public, the Vienna government will also be unable to bear it.

If no action is taken and the Russians are allowed to grow bigger, it will be even worse.

It is not easy to deal with, but it must be dealt with.Franz threw the question to Frederick because he wanted to see how far his successor had grown in resilience.

"Speed ​​up the pace of the war, end the war before the Russians occupy India, and talk to the British if necessary.

In the long run, the British were far less of a threat than the Russians.As long as their colonies are taken away, the British Isles will at most support a second-rate country. "

After a pause, Frederick added: "In order to avoid directly confronting the Russians and affecting the current war against Britain, we can also form a European Union Army and advance from Persia to India under the banner of the alliance.

In the future, India's interests will be shared with European countries, and when there are disputes and disputes, Europe will be encouraged.

When necessary, we stir up conflicts between the European world and the Russians, and draw European countries together to limit the Russian Empire. "

The previous operation can only be regarded as quite satisfactory, while the subsequent plan is the essence of Franz-style diplomacy.

Many people in the outside world only see the diplomatic skills of the Vienna government, but ignore how much the Vienna government has shared with its allies along the way.

It doesn't matter whether there is a pit in it or not, but the benefits are taken out after all.Indigestion after eating it is your own problem, and you can't blame the Vienna government for giving too much.

If it weren't for being willing to share, there wouldn't be the current Holy Roman Empire.It's just that the biggest feature of this sharing is to grasp the "degree" of it.

For this "speed", many things that seem silly often have to be done.

But this operation is very complicated. If the pit is not dug in the right place, and other people do not fall, but jump into it by yourself, it will be really a crime.

Franz nodded: "Sharing is not enough, if you want European countries to make great efforts, you must spend a lot of money.

They can be clearly told that the empire will not seek colonies in the Indian region.After the war, we will rebuild the international order, clarify the spheres of influence of various countries, and ensure that our colonies are not threatened by foreign forces.

The distribution of spoils is still the old rule. According to the contribution in the war, those who are interested in India can now use their own means. "

Ambition is stimulated. If Shinra wants to rob India, no other country will have any chance except the Russians.

Just promising to share benefits is too illusory, and it can't mobilize everyone's enthusiasm at all.

Throwing the whole of India is different. Even if European countries go to eat such a big cake, everyone can be full.

Just look at the wealth that the British plunder from India every year, which is more than the sum of the fiscal revenues of the governments of continental Europe except Russia and Austria.

With such a big interest, the Vienna government is still willing to provide security protection, and if it can't stimulate everyone's ambitions, then it is really a salty fish.

Of course, salted fish in a small country is also understandable.For example, the small country of Monaco, even though it was taken care of by the Vienna government after the European War, still has only a few towns.

Apart from chanting slogans, if you want to go up to make soy sauce, you are not qualified, so there is really no way.

1Chapter 16 Crossroads

The Cape of Good Hope, as the fuse of this world war, the battle has now come to an end.

Witnessing with his own eyes that the defense lines were constantly broken by the enemy, but he was powerless, Lieutenant General Stad, who had suffered so much, was haggard.

Unlike the last South African War, the British had naval fire support, and now the Cape of Good Hope is an isolated island.

Every time the Royal Navy came over, the enemy's air force followed one after another, and there was simply no room for them to play.

In order to reinforce the Cape of Good Hope, in just two months, Britain has paid a heavy price for the sinking of 3 warships and 18 merchant ships.

It's not how powerful the enemy's air force is, the key is how powerful the enemy's assists are.Of the many ships sunk in Britain, not one was sunk directly by the enemy.

Including the three warships that sank, they all died under the waves after being wounded by the enemy.

There is no way, the wind and waves in the Cape of Despair exceed two meters all the year round, and the waves of six to seven meters are commonplace, and there are typhoons exceeding level [-] from time to time.

It is dangerous to drive a ship intact, not to mention if the hull is injured. Whether you can save your life depends on God's blessing.

In order to avoid the attack of the Shinra Air Force, logistical supplies were forced to be carried out at night, and the waves during the day were dangerous, let alone at night.

Fortunately, the southern hemisphere is now in summer. If it catches up with winter, the monsoon that blows in Bobo and the "killing wave" that eludes people, the scene will be suffocating even if you think about it.

Rubbing his forehead, the tired Lieutenant General Stad ordered to the guards: "Send a message to the country again, when will the reinforcements arrive?"

The war has progressed to the present, and the Cape of Good Hope has received three waves of reinforcements, with a total strength of more than 20 at one point.

It is a pity that most of these reinforcements are Indian colonial troops. It is okay to use them as cannon fodder, regardless of their combat effectiveness.

The only ones with any combat effectiveness are the two ANZAC divisions. Unfortunately, this combat effectiveness is also very limited.

Anyway, they were suppressed and beaten by a group of private nobles, and they were completely desperate for the Colonial Lieutenant General Stade. Now the only hope is to send reinforcements from the mainland.

Telegrams for help have been sent many times, but they have all been rejected by the country under the pretext of "army expansion".

Lieutenant General Stad understands the domestic difficulties very well.The size of the army is so large. After the expansion of the army, it will directly expand by more than ten times. There is a serious shortage of officers at the grassroots level. Basically, all veterans have become officers.

All of them are newly formed troops. Without running-in training, there is no way to enter the battlefield.

Comprehensible is understood, time waits for no one on the battlefield.Only relying on a group of colonial troops to face the enemy, there is no way to fight back.

Although the combat effectiveness of the newly formed troops in the country is also worrying, the officers are veterans anyway, and they are better than the temporary colonial cannon fodder.

There is no way, most of the British colonial army came from India, but now India is also the front line.

The colonial army with a little combat effectiveness was left in the local area by the governor of India, and those sent to reinforce other areas were pulled out temporarily to make up the number.

These troops are used to do odd jobs, and they must be watched by someone. When they are put into the battlefield, they are killing the enemy.

Lieutenant General Stad is not a master of moral cleanliness. If the Cape of Good Hope can be kept by sending only the heads, he doesn't mind filling the hole with cannon fodder troops.

It can't be said that it has no effect at all. The cannon fodder troops still slowed down the enemy's attack speed, but unfortunately they failed to stop the enemy's attack pace.

Looking at the ever-shrinking defense line, Lieutenant General Stad "sees it in his eyes and is anxious in his heart", for fear that he will lose this strategic location in his own hands and become a sinner of Britain.

The only consolation is that there is more than one unlucky one, and there are even worse ones behind.

The Far East Fleet lost Malacca, and Cam Ranh Bay was also in jeopardy; the British East Africa next door was also trapped in an isolated city, and reinforcements could not get in. It is estimated that the fall was just a few days ago.

Everyone is losing battles, and the people's psychological endurance has been tempered. As long as they perform better than their colleagues, it is estimated that the possibility of escaping disaster is very high.