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After a year or so of secret planning, the newly established Union of Christ in France, the German Peasant Army, the Polish Army, and the Eastern Roman Army were no longer as vulnerable as they were in the early days, and were almost always overwhelmed in the face of the regularized armed forces, and often had no mobile superiority.

Relying on the support and funding of the remnants of Catholicism or Protestantism, as well as the changes in the policies of the various occupied areas in the past year or so, from winning over the local people to minimize the losses in the expeditionary operations to treating the local areas as new colonies, and even implementing the policy of regional population migration, and even establishing various "Oriental Cities", the rebel armies in various places that had been gradually suppressed in the course of the expedition were gradually suppressed after more than a year of preparations. With a lot of arquebuses and even field guns of acceptable quality, the encirclement and suppression army, which is fast and mobile with cavalry, is also facing more and more casualties and losses.

"I think we have to give up some places first, concentrate our forces, first break the coalition forces in France, and then find a way to flank the rebels in Eastern Europe with domestic reinforcements. As for the possible temporary reversal of some forces in rich countries, it does not matter, only by letting those forces really jump out can it be convenient for us to carry out another purge. ”

Faced with the situation of being overstretched, Chen Xin, the commander of the 11th Army of the Revolutionary Army, one of the governors who remained in the vicinity of Paris, finally made up his mind to propose. However, this proposal was opposed by many of the nine consuls in the Governor's Council.

"If our army withdraws from Eastern and Central Europe and concentrates its forces in Western Europe, and many places are gained and lost, have you ever thought about how much trouble they will cause us when they have gained sufficient manpower and material resources? The reason why our army was able to achieve victory in a short period of time during the expedition was largely because they were not accustomed to our army's methods of warfare because of the new methods of warfare, and if those people were allowed to have a lot of manpower and material resources in this rich and vast area and prepare for war, it would be a very dangerous enemy for us, and we could not just save trouble for a while and let the whole situation fall into passivity... ”

"But now we have a way to stop those people from gradually regaining their vitality and strength?"

"A lot of artisans in Europe have already moved east, and even if they recover, they shouldn't have much of a climate...

While the Governor's Council in Paris was at loggerheads over what strategy to adopt throughout the Ctesy area, a telegram was finally delivered in less than a month by relay as best they could.

Xiao Xuan's will was very simple: "Everything is carried out in the most convenient way to attack the enemy's living forces, and if necessary, the temporary resurgence of forces in Eastern Europe can be allowed, but the main routes from Central Europe to Eastern Europe must be effectively controlled, and at the same time, the resistance forces in France must not be allowed to fight in the eastern region." ”

At the beginning of the New Year of the ninth year of Chongzhen, a new round of volunteer expeditionary reinforcements were assembled, and this time Xiao Xuan had no intention of personally leading the army again. Because at this time, the wealth and talents gathered in the Nanjing area were too thick. In the past, he was able to take a lot of risks, but now it is difficult to take them, and the task of reinforcing the foreign troops was also handed over to the combat force of about 150,000 people in the ten armies of the revolutionary army led by Zhou Dayong and tested in the war of quelling chaos.

After the return of the army, many of the captured craftsmen and technical resources were used, and the traditional armaments in the central arsenal also changed significantly from before. Of course, the main force of the most elite volunteer troops has no intention of going out this time.

Regarding the strategy and strategy of the western expedition, Xiao Xuan also finalized it, in order to prevent the recurrence of problems after the withdrawal of the army just after the rebellion was put down, Xiao Xuan finally decided to determine the standing army left in Europe to be about 300,000 people, and also to achieve cavalry or rearmament as much as possible, and only this size of military force can have a decent consolidation of rule in a large civilized strategic area. Almost at the same time, there will also be a large number of women of childbearing age or near-childbearing age, especially after the suppression of the rebellion.

Only in this way can we make the greatest use of the not very abundant capacity of the Hexi Corridor, and in a relatively short period of time, or a period of time or so for the whole of Europe to have a core upper layer with a population of about one or two million, and it is best to expand to a scale of several million, so as to completely consolidate the effective control of that area, in this process, of course, everything is unlikely to be calm, I don't know how many wars to go through, and how much to reduce the population west of the river in order to completely consolidate the results of the westward expedition.

However, according to Xiao Xuan's estimates, I am afraid that these 300,000 may not really be enough to achieve a more thorough notice in such a place, and the expedition accompanying the army may have a few more waves in the tenth to twelfth year of Chongzhen, and increase the total number of young and middle-aged people to one million, so that it is possible to form a barely enough "colonial layer" in a relatively short period of time

In terms of extraterritorial policies, Xiao Xuan also has some different ideas from the past. According to his own view in the past, the interests of the local public must be protected to the greatest extent, and only in this way can it be possible to avoid the "colonial effect" that the British or Spaniards once faced, but now Xiao Xuan has adjusted his views to a certain extent. After all, the hinterland of the East is still too far away from the West in this era, not to mention that it is not possible to seize the real control of the ocean and the sea from the remnants of Europe in a few years. This goal now seems a bit ambitious, and although it alleviates a lot of resistance during the expedition, it is contradictory to the real digestion of the locality. If the two ends of the world island are temporarily regarded as isolated from each other, then the so-called concern that European colonial interests will affect the progress of the East may not be as great as they previously thought.

When estimating the movement of the army, Xiao Xuan also began to understand what it meant to rule across more than 20,000 li, which meant that it would take at least half a year or so for the army to reach the target area and effectively carry out operations while maintaining its combat effectiveness, and more than half a year or so was enough for the local rebel forces to use enough material resources to train themselves and have a certain strength.

However, at this time, Xiao Xuan still believed that this new battle should still be able to win after weighing it.