Just as the reinforcements coming ashore in the south of France broke through the resistance and approached the new capital and completed the peace division, the reinforcements from the west fell into a heavy encirclement when they approached the defense line of the West River.

Obviously, from the very beginning, Chen Xin, the president of the Western Governors' Council, had an unobjective judgment on the situation of the entire Taixi, and took it for granted that it would be difficult for the coalition forces in Western Europe and Eastern Europe to effectively coordinate operations, but at this time, more than 200,000 troops of the Polish-Russian coalition army, including the Catholic coalition army and the German rebel army, composed of more than 200,000 troops on the western front, completed the encirclement of a total of 60,000 or 70,000 reinforcements near the Xihe defense line.

Although the coalition forces at this time lacked effective and unified command, and their combat quality was also seriously hit by the previous expeditionary operations, but because after thousands of miles of long-distance marching, the men and horses of the western reinforcement group were not in a very good state, so when the coalition forces captured a lot of gunpowder and artillery from the Xihe defense line and put them into battle, they still quickly fell into passivity, and had to use some local villages and towns to build a temporary defense line as quickly as possible to prepare to resist the attack of a large enemy army.

Fortunately, at the beginning, the coalition attack did not have much discipline and strength, and under the heavy fire of light shotgun fire from the reinforcement group, it quickly repelled the first round of the opponent's attack, buying time for the army to build the most basic field fortifications.

When the Catholic Commander-in-Chief in France became the Temporary Commander of the Catholic Coalition after a series of deliberations, the reinforcements from Moscow to Smolensk began to stabilize their local defenses.

Because of the setbacks they had suffered in previous offensives, and because they were fighting on the ground, many Eastern European coalition forces were not enthusiastic about continuing the hard offensive. It was not until only two days later, when the strong eastern enemy in the area of Xindu joined forces and the main force of 70,000 or 80,000 began to approach the east, that many people felt a lot of pressure and had to agree with the provisional commander's plan to go all out to attack the main force of the new army in the west approaching the Rhine first.

Perhaps it was the previous series of encounters that made both sides very clear about each other's strengths and weaknesses and even when it was best to attack, and when night began to fall, the rumbling of cannons accompanied by the fire of the blasting attack and the neighing of the centaurs entered a climax again, and a new round of large-scale offensive continued.

The first batch of troops from Central Asia recovered slightly after nearly two days of rest, and the combat effectiveness that had not been fully exerted in the previous state of rushing was also fully exerted at this time, and the continuous guns and even black powder grenades still opened fire quickly and accurately even in the night battle, so that the resistance that the Christian coalition had not experienced when attacking the West River Fortress was fully displayed at this moment.

The fierce fighting throughout the night caused the coalition forces to lose nearly 20,000 casualties, although the defenders could not give full play to the advantage of firearms in the confrontation and suffered casualties of as many as thousands of people, but it also made the coalition forces at this time realize that it is impossible to take down this force group of tens of thousands of people in a short period of time. The only possible way to win is to pray that the other side does not carry too much food on the march and relies on siege tactics to achieve victory.

In this way, with the 200,000 allied troops transferred to the defense, and drew out about 50,000 troops to delay the reinforcements from Paris, the decisive battle in Europe gradually kicked off, if the Ming army of the east and west groups finally met and completed the integration, although the recovery of most of Europe still seems to be a foregone conclusion, but the military presence of the eastern forces in Europe will still be retained, bringing too many variables to the future, no one can know whether there will be a new round of reinforcements from the sea in a few months to half a year.

While the battlefield near the Xihe Fortress was temporarily deadlocked, another series of battles broke out fiercely along the line from Xindu to the Xihe. Chen Xinsuo, who was on the march, obtained sufficient supplies outside the army, and almost like most troops in Europe during the Thirty Years' War, he did everything he could in terms of local conquest and plunder, and almost everywhere he went, he used coercive means to extract the local "land power" to the limit with the most undesirable means, and under such circumstances, he soon let the troops of about 70,000 or 80,000 people have tens of thousands of forcibly recruited horses and tens of thousands of carriages, and the supplies for the army began to return to the level of normal scale.

When the enemy forces were again confronted, the strategic initiative seemed to be completely different, and the enemy group that had been reinforced, which had to defend on the spot, was quickly suppressed by the gradually recovering superiority in mobility and combat strength of the troops. However, in order to achieve the fastest possible meeting, after inflicting a blow on the enemy who had come to block the enemy with more than 10,000 casualties, he once again began to advance as quickly as possible in the direction where the information came. The battle to determine the military presence of the Eastern Powers also seemed to be getting closer and closer at this time.

After receiving the news that the reinforcements had failed, the upper echelons of the coalition forces on the battlefield north of the Western River Barrier also began to disagree, and the Catholic coalition at this time believed that the opportunity for a decisive victory had actually been lost, and since the complete elimination of the military presence of the powerful enemy in the east had become an unlikely thing, it was imperative to prepare for war and mobilize as many troops as possible in the following months. There were also many officers and generals who felt that there was still something to be done, and if they launched a few more attacks at night at any cost, perhaps the enemy group near the Rhine would finally face a situation of collapse.

In the end, the coalition forces decided to launch a decisive general offensive in an attempt to achieve a decisive victory before the enemy forces approached.

This time, perhaps because of some lack of family funds, there was no longer a fierce cannon fire as a prelude to the attack, and many newly trained archers and bombardiers in the past two years also threw themselves into the attack at this time. It seems to have been reversed from the previous expeditions.

However, a year or so did not allow the remnants to train enough elite archers to play a sufficient role in the operations of this era, and although the coalition forces that launched a fierce attack in response to the fierce shotgun and the better trained black powder grenades made breakthroughs in some directions, at this time they found that the whole position had also become different in these days.

(End of chapter)