Holy Roman Empire

In particular, London was still trembling under the enemy's bombing, which attracted the attention of the public, and the firepower was attracted by the gangsters in the country.

Without the cooperation of his colleagues, according to past practice, Lieutenant General Stad, who has lost a series of battles, is either in court-martial or on his way to court-martial.

It's different now. Unless the Cape of Good Hope falls, it is impossible for the London government to change people.

On the one hand, there is a shortage of British officers, and on the other hand, no one is willing to jump into this huge pit.

The absolute power gap cannot be changed by individual strength.Even with the replacement of Jeffrey Amherst, the result still cannot be changed.

Moments of tranquility are always short.With the sound of the alarm, the Cape of Good Hope once again entered the state of "aircraft suspended in the air and artillery roaring".

The flames of war ignited again, and without waiting for a domestic reply, Lieutenant General Stad turned around and walked towards the headquarters.

After a series of defeats, the morale of the defenders has fallen to the bottom.As for the source of the Indian colonial army, it has never had morale, so naturally it cannot be said that it will not fall or fall.

Panic, hostility, hatred, pessimism... and other negative emotions spread among the defenders.

The Cape of Good Hope at this moment is like a dynamite bag, it only needs a little spark, and it will explode with a "boom".

It's hard for the top management, and it's even worse for the officers and soldiers on the front line.Fighting for days had long exhausted them physically and mentally.

War is full of dangers, but also full of opportunities.For example, Berlant, after the outbreak of the war, he changed from a big soldier to a captain and company commander.

Although not yet formally commissioned, the appointments have been announced.Rules are meant to be broken, special handling in special times, and simplicity in times of war.

Berrand is not an isolated case in the British Army, there are many similar front-line promotions.It is not that the promotion system of the British Army has changed, mainly because the death rate of company and platoon officers is too high.

Due to the emergency military expansion, there is a severe shortage of grassroots officers, so they can only promote "talents" from veterans.

It's just that Berlant doesn't want this kind of promotion at all.There is no way, as an officer, you have to take the lead in the charge, and the supervisory team is watching from behind, and there is nowhere to hide.

In just two months, Berrant's company has changed five company commanders, and it is impossible for the sixth company commander to be without pressure.

Perhaps they were cursed. Of the five seniors in front, one was promoted during the military expansion, two were still lying in the rear hospital, and the other two had already seen God.

Such a horrible casualty rate is simply "death company commander".It's a pity that the appointment is mandatory, and there is no room for Brandt to refuse.

Facing the hail of bullets and continuing to guard the position, Captain Berlant no longer panicked, only numbness remained.

To the east, there were extremely violent explosions, to the south, bullets flying across the sky, and on the zenith, there were rows of flower bombs, like a volcano without a foot.

Lying in the temporarily dug trench, Captain Berlant buried his head deeply, showing no intention of looking out.

The ground had already begun to tremble. Based on his own experience, Captain Berlant knew that the enemy's tank troops were coming up.

"The enemy is coming up, prepare to fight!"

Regardless, duties still have to be fulfilled.Although I don't think the mob I brought can play much against the enemy's tanks, resistance is still necessary.

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Compared with the nervousness of the defenders, being the offensive side is much more relaxed.Shinra implements the national reserve system, and the noble private army has returned to the team according to the reserve system.

The battle has progressed to the present, and it is not only the private army of the nobles who participated in the battle, the regular army stationed in Africa also appeared on the battlefield.

The tank unit launching the attack in front of them is the best of them.Since participating in the war, it has been "gods block and kill gods, Buddhas block and kill Buddhas", and they have been rivaled on the battlefield.

The bullying is that the British army lacks anti-tank weapons and does not have enough armored troops.With tanks to cooperate with the enemy's infantry, it is difficult to think about it.

After all, it is a colony. No matter how important the strategic position is, it is impossible for the British to put two tank divisions in the Cape of Good Hope, but the Holy Roman Empire can.

On the huge African continent, let alone put two tank divisions, even if there are a few more, no one will object.

The British army is different. A pocket version of the army naturally has not much armored troops.

The same is the tank division, and the establishment of each country is also very different. One Shinra tank division can almost equal two British tank divisions.

However, there are not many tank divisions in the British Army in such a shrinking version.It's not that I don't want to do it, but the military budget is limited and I can't afford such expensive toys.

Although the armored force also belongs to the army, in terms of expenditure, it is directly on par with the navy and air force.

If it is infantry, the expenses of a battleship can support a division; but when it comes to the armor department, even the most advanced battleships, the daily expenses cannot keep up with a tank regiment. (According to the three-three-four system, a regiment of 108 tanks)

They are all forced out by reality. If the British Army does not save, how can the Royal Navy dominate the world.

If the land, sea and air were to play an arms race together, no matter how rich the British Empire was, it would be impossible to withstand it.

This is determined by the size of the economy. The upper limit of the British Isles is stuck there, and it will not explode if you want to explode.

The command cannot keep up, the equipment cannot keep up, the training cannot keep up, and the morale cannot keep up. It is an asymmetrical war, and the battlefield is not one-sided.

The enemy's front headquarters, Baron von Reuter, who is the highest commander on the front line, is no longer on the battlefield.

British South Africa is too small. Although the Cape of Good Hope is famous, it is the same for the Holy Roman Empire, which sits on the Suez Canal.

The economic value is average, and the strategic value is also average. "Important" is only for the British. If you control this place, you can not be stuck by Shen Luo.

Perhaps with the continuous development of economy and technology, the tonnage of merchant ships will gradually increase, and the importance of the Cape of Good Hope in the future will be highlighted.

But that is only a possibility, and the current Suez Canal route is sufficient to meet the needs of commercial trade.

Even in the Holy Roman Empire, when calculating military merit, it is also unavoidable to be affected by economic and strategic value.

Generally speaking, the higher the economic strategic value of winning a place, the greater the credit for conquering the city and land, and vice versa.

The Cape of Good Hope is not very important to the Holy Roman Empire, which does not mean that everyone is not investing much.For this war, the African nobles really contributed money and power.

Even now that the war has progressed, many strategic materials on the South African battlefield have been raised and paid in advance by private individuals.

Although the government will pay for these expenses in the future, it also needs to be converted into military merit.If there is no benefit, who is so warm-hearted?

According to the practice of the Holy Roman Empire, everyone worked together to seize the British South Africa, so after the war, the land and property of the British South Africa should be divided.

The problem now is that everyone has contributed to this war. There are too many people who are eligible to share the cake, but the cake in British South Africa is not big enough.

Unequal distribution of spoils has always been a taboo.If you put in a lot of effort and don't get the corresponding rewards, then everyone will have to weigh the pros and cons when participating in the war in the future.

In the end, it will appear: everyone who has meat will flock to it, but no one will care about the bones.Then, it was the turn of the military merit title system to collapse.

Similar cases have also occurred in history.The most typical example is the farming and warfare system of the Great Qin Empire, which collapsed because the latecomers had no land to divide.

Right now, the Holy Roman Empire has also come to this crossroads.The only difference is that now that we have entered the industrial age, there is still a chance to choose again.

Of course, this issue needs to be considered by the top government.As the supreme commander on the front line, Baron von Reuter hadn't thought that much about it yet.

Right now, the problem he faces is: how to distribute the spoils to satisfy most people when the spoils are not enough.

Although titles and fiefdoms are ultimately determined by the emperor, it is Baron von Reuter who is responsible for the approval of military exploits, which also includes giving detailed disposal plans.

Generally speaking, as long as the front-line combat achievements are confirmed to be accurate, the opinions of the front-line commanders will be considered in the division of fiefdoms and the award of titles.

Of course, this is only a part, and there are more issues to be considered in the actual operation, for example: the wishes of the rewarded individual should be taken care of as much as possible.

Relatively speaking, nobles have less choice in fiefdoms, and the larger the fiefdom, the less choice they have.

On the contrary, ordinary soldiers, those who obtained more than a dozen hectares or dozens of hectares of land, basically respected their personal wishes.

Even if they cannot be accommodated, they will be arranged in surrounding areas, and the distance will not be too far away.

Baron von Reuter has carefully calculated that the total number of all armed forces involved in this war is as high as 23.

According to the statistics of military exploits on the battlefield, it would be nice to be able to place ordinary soldiers who have earned military exploits in a place as big as a palm in British South Africa.

There is no way, a total of [-] to [-] square kilometers, and cities, forests, and land unsuitable for farming and grazing are deducted. The land that can be used to build farms is really limited.

Soldiers are actually easy to deal with. There is not enough land in British South Africa, so they just need to be resettled in another area.The war was so exciting that the Vienna government would certainly not lack land after the war.

The real trouble is the nobles. According to the tradition in the past, whoever conquered the land is given priority to whom. Those who did not participate in the war are naturally not eligible to reach out.

In the previous anti-French war, the entire African continent was considered a battlefield, so naturally there was no such trouble.

But this Battle of the Cape of Good Hope is independent and not connected to any other battlefield.If the heroes are entrusted to other regions, it will violate the unspoken rules of the game, and they may be boycotted.

1Chapter 17 Kamikaze

After the artillery fire, only the wreckage remained in Tokyo Bay. The Japanese people were busy cleaning up the ruins, and the scene looked particularly miserable.

As the saying goes: "Revenge doesn't last overnight."With the failure of the Malacca naval battle, the Japanese navy lost its sea power, and the Spanish navy immediately killed it.

Intercepting merchant ships and bombarding ports have now become the daily work of the Spanish Navy.It seems that if you don't come to do things for a day, you will feel uncomfortable.

Perhaps it was because of hatred, or perhaps it was to solve the security problem of the Philippines once and for all. In the process of fighting against Japan, the Spaniards were particularly eye-catching.

In this context, the Japanese are naturally out of luck.The Japanese people, who were already in panic, are panicking now.

It's just that the imaginary Shinra's liquidation did not wait, but the Spaniard's revenge came first.

If you can save your life by "strike the Russians" between Shinra and Shinra, then the Tokyo government and the Spaniards have nothing to talk about.

One in the east, one in the west, with a series of countries in between.Whether the Russian Empire is doing well or doing poorly, it has nothing to do with Spain.

Not only are the spheres of influence of the two sides not bordering each other, even in international trade, conflicts of interest rarely occur.

The days of Emperor Meiji have been very difficult recently. How to get rid of Spain's entanglement has become the biggest problem for the Japanese government right now.

Xiyuan Temple Gongwang: "In the past two weeks, we have successively lost hundreds of ships, large and small. Now even fishing boats dare not leave the port, and foreign trade lines are almost completely interrupted.

Affected by this, domestic prices have risen sharply, and some industrial raw materials have even been out of stock.

Especially since the frontline is still fighting, without local material support, the frontline troops may not last long.

If no action is taken and the Spaniards are allowed to plunder like this, I am afraid that the empire will..."

The word "collapse" was still not uttered.However, it can be seen from everyone's nervous expressions that the smart people present have already completed their brains.

Everyone is aware of the danger, but how to solve the problem is a big problem.

The navy is hopeless, and the Malacca naval battle has broken the backbone of the Japanese navy.The lucky ones who escaped the catastrophe have not come out of the panic yet.

What's more, now that the entire capital ship has been wiped out, with only a bunch of subsidiary warships, leaving port now is to contribute to the enemy's record.

Foreign Minister Kaoru Inoue: "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has tried its best. We have contacted the Spaniards, but they don't talk to us at all.

In order to solve the problem, we even communicated with the Vienna government, and they acquiesced in our continuing to attack the Russian Empire, but this did not include restraining Spain.

The Vienna government made it clear that war had broken out.As a major member of the Continental Union, Spain has the right to attack any country in the hostile powers. "

The rules of the game are so ruthless. Although the Vienna government can solve the problem with a single call, the Japanese are not enough.

The smoke of the naval battle in Malacca has just cleared, and they were stained with each other's blood. It is impossible not to be jealous.

The Vienna government did not retaliate immediately, it was out of consideration for the overall situation, how could it be possible to ask Spain about the trivial matter of retaliating against the Japanese.

If you can't stand it, it's because you don't have the ability. You can't even pass the test of Spain. It may not be realistic to suppress Russia.

If it cannot help the Holy Roman Empire to suppress the Russian Empire, Japan will lose its value of existence.Once a chess piece loses its use value, it is a discarded piece.

In order to keep Japan and its own prosperity, the Japanese government must solve the current troubles and prove that its existence is valuable.

"It is not impossible to deal with the Spanish warships. In the Malacca naval battle, the enemy used air force bombing, and we can also follow suit.

If it really doesn't work, the death squads are recruited, bombs are strapped to the plane, and they directly hit the enemy warship.

Spain is already decayed, and it is very difficult to maintain the current size of the navy, and they cannot afford to lose. "

Although Shanxian Youpeng's proposal was cruel, it was basically true.If you don't take human lives to fight, the current Japanese navy is no match for the enemy at all.

Although playing the Death Squad, it is impossible to defeat the Spanish Navy in the same way, but at least it can dare the Spaniards to leave and restore the trade lines in the Far East.

It is impossible to object. In Japan these days, the most worthless thing is human life.As long as the problem can be solved, no matter how many people die, there is no pressure on everyone.

This kind of resolution that needs to bear infamy in the future naturally cannot involve the emperor.Prime Minister Katsura Katsura, a professional backer, immediately made a decision: "Okay, let's do it!

I don't care what method you use, as long as the Spanish navy is driven out of the Japanese waters, it is the greatest victory!

Inheriting the crisis of life and death, I hope that you will let go of your prejudices and work together to tide over the difficulties. "

Obviously, the last sentence was for the military.Although the government also has internal fighting, it is far less intense than the fighting between the army and the navy.

After the Malacca naval battle, the Japanese navy, which originally had the upper hand in the struggle, was directly stepped on by the army.

Most of the jokes circulating among the people insulting the navy are arranged by the army, and the main purpose is to discredit the navy.

Katsura Katsura, who was originally from the army, should also contribute to the flames, but as the prime minister of Japan, he must consider the overall situation.

After all, Japan is an island country.Since it is an island country, it is destined to be inseparable from the navy.

Especially the arrival of the Spanish navy made Katsura realize the importance of the navy.If you continue to suppress the navy, I am afraid that Japan will have no future.

As for the effect, it depends on whether everyone's brains are clear.But anyone who realizes the importance of sea power will not kill the navy.

Militarism is not completely without advantages, not only in terms of efficiency, it surpasses democracies by a large margin; it even catches a lot of dead soldiers.

As soon as the news of recruiting pilots to hit the warship spread, there was a long queue at the recruitment site.It's a pity that there are thresholds for pilots, and not everyone can be a pilot. We can only live up to everyone's enthusiasm.

The more you are persuaded to quit, the more motivated you are to sign up.Just like the late World War II, many pilots were forced by public opinion and had to sign up to join the Death Squad.