Chapter 1019: The Battle between the Manchus and Austria (1)

"Do you want to be independent? How can there be such a cheap thing! Dolgon's eyes were filled with chills. Heavenly Sound『『.』 ⒉

The Qing Dynasty worked hard to completely destroy the Ottoman Empire, just to annex all the territories of the Ottoman Empire and expand the territory and strength of the Qing Dynasty.

Not to mention Macedonia and Albania, even Serbia, Romania, etc., which declared their independence from the Ottoman Empire earlier, Dolgon wanted to take it.

So, without saying a word, Dolgon ordered the Qing army to attack Macedonia and Albania.

The Qing army in Greece then moved north and attacked newly independent Macedonia and Albania.

Macedonia and Albania are both small countries with populations of less than one million, and in addition to the fact that the Ottoman Empire had previously drawn a large number of young and strong troops to form an army to fight against the Qing army, although Macedonia and Albania are independent, Macedonia can use less than 20,000 troops, and Albania can use less than 30,000 troops.

Together, the two countries have less than 50,000 troops.

On the other hand, the Qing army has all crossed the Strait of Constantine with 400,000 Qing troops, even if the approximately 30,000 soldiers lost by the Ottoman Empire and the troops used to garrison Constantinople, Greece, Bulgaria and other places to conquer, the Qing army can still use nearly 300,000 troops.

The Qing army in Greece alone had 100,000 troops at its disposal, which was twice as large as the Macedonian and Albanian armies.

100,000 Qing troops in Greece attacked Macedonia and Algeria in two directions at the same time.

Not only the 100,000 Qing troops in Greece, but also the 200,000 Qing troops in Bulgaria were not idle, and they also fought in Romania and Serbia in two ways.

The heart of Macedonia, Skopje.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! "On the battlefield, the artillery of the Qing army roared, and Macedonian soldiers were constantly killed.

"Poof! Burst! "A large number of Macedonian soldiers were hacked and killed by the Qing cavalry.

The Qing soldiers were outnumbered, twice as large as the Macedonian soldiers, and the weapons and armor were so well armoured that the Macedonian soldiers had the desire to defend Macedonia, but they could not defeat the Qing army.

After the Macedonian army was killed by the Qing army with more than half of its casualties, it began to rout.

The Qing army took the opportunity to chase and kill, and the Macedonian soldiers floated for ten miles. In this battle, Macedonia dispatched almost all its soldiers, and after being annihilated by the Qing army in World War I, Macedonia no longer had the strength to resist.

Soon, the entire territory of Macedonia was swept and captured by the Qing army.

The same was true for the Albanian side, where 60,000 Qing troops entered Albania and then penetrated into Tirana, the heart of Albania.

The Qing army had infantry and cavalry, and even thousands of muskets and 50 cannons, while the Albanian army was full of infantry without armor, and even had wax muscles and was obviously malnourished.

No matter how desperately they defend their homeland, such an Albanian army will not be able to defeat a Qing army twice as large as them.

Of course, Albania has an advantage over Macedonia and has a much larger territory than Macedonia.

Although the Qing army quickly captured Tirana, the Albanian king successfully escaped and continued to lead the Albanians to resist the Qing army.

Compared with Serbia and Romania, the war in Macedonia and Albania has been relatively smooth, at least the Qing army quickly annexed these two places, but the war between Serbia and Romania has lasted for more than a month, and it has not even been over.

The reason was the intervention of the Austrian Empire, and the fact that Serbia and Romania had declared independence from the Ottoman Empire three years earlier, and after three years of détente, both Serbia and Romania had established their own relatively stable institutions, basically twisting the country into a line, which alone was not comparable to Macedonia and Albania.

Moreover, Serbia and Romania are also larger than Macedonia and Serbia, and even Romania is larger than Serbia, Macedonia and Albania combined.

The heart of Serbia, Belgrade, shouted war and shook the sky.

80,000 Qing troops besieged Belgrade, the Qing army had already defeated the 50,000 Serbian army, and it was about to attack Belgrade and destroy Serbia, but at this time, 30,000 Austrian imperial ** team suddenly appeared on the outskirts of Belgrade and attacked the Qing army that was fighting fiercely with the Serbian army.

These 30,000 Austrian imperial ** troops are all elite troops of the Austrian Empire, experienced in a hundred battles, well-equipped, 20,000 flint spear troops, 2,000 cavalry, and 8,000 armored and shielded cold weapon infantry.

Under the attack of the Serbian army and the Austrian imperial army, the Qing army besieging Belgrade was caught off guard, suffered heavy casualties, and had to retreat.

This was the first defeat of the Qing army since the ten-year war with the Ottoman Empire.

After the defeat of the Qing army in Belgrade, the Austrian imperial army and the Serbian army pursued the victory, and the Qing army was defeated again and again, and finally could only retreat to Kosovo in southwestern Serbia.

On the Romanian side, the 120,000 Qing troops attacking Romania also did not go well.

Although the Austrian Empire did not directly send troops into Romania, it supported a lot of sophisticated equipment in Romania, and Romania's territory was twice that of Serbia, and the Russian Empire in eastern Romania was ready to move, and the momentum of entering Romania to get a piece of the soup at any time, the Qing army had to be on guard. In addition, no one can guarantee that the Austrian Empire will not directly send troops once Romania really can't hold on.

Several forces are stalemate, and the number of Romanian troops is more than 80,000, and there is a relatively broad territory, it is not easy for the Qing army to quickly attack and destroy Romania, so it has been a stalemate, fortunately, the Qing army with the number of 120,000 troops, in the end can occupy the initiative in Romania, if there is no other force involved, it will be a matter of time before Romania is destroyed.

The stalemate in Romania and the defeat of Serbia greatly annoyed Dolgon.

It is obviously impossible for him to give up Serbia and Romania like this, and the face of the Qing Dynasty will not allow it.

Dolgon drew about 30,000 Qing troops who had just captured Macedonia and Algeria, and 2,000 rifle corps left behind in Constantinople, 2,000 full and eight banners, a total of 34,000 troops, and personally led these troops north to Kosovo to attack the Austrian and Serbian forces.

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