417 Prussia lying on the back of the night
Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia, the last remaining commander of the Prussian Third Army in France, was originally the future Hundred Days Emperor Frederick III of the German Empire.
In the world of Lin Haoda's previous life, Friedrich Wilhelm was not famous, because Frederick III had just ascended the throne and died of illness before he could do anything, but his son who succeeded to the throne was familiar even to Chinese in the 21st century, and Po Zi Wilhelm II launched World War I and sent the whole of Germany into the quagmire!
Friedrich Wilhelm's military and political talents were much stronger than his temperamental son, and his personal relationship with Prime Minister Bismarck was also very good, if the historical Frederick III had been cured and survived in time, perhaps Chancellor Bismarck would not have been forced to resign, and the diplomacy of the German Empire would not have been messed up by the grumpy Wilhelm II, and finally he was beaten to death by Britain and the United States in World War I.
The First World War was undoubtedly the dawn of nationalism, the four years of world war knocked out the crown of the three most powerful and powerful emperors in the whole world, Wilhelm II of the German Empire became a political outcast, the Habsburg royal family of the Austro-Hungarian Empire completely lost all glory, and the Tsar's family had no good death......
Since then, the feudal absolutism has no first-class power in the world, and the only English Empire with a royal family is also a virtual monarchy constitutional system that greatly weakens the rights of the monarch.
You must know that before World War I, the three major European power monarchies, Germany and Austria-Hungary, were all constitutional monarchs, and the cabinet was basically the king's word, and even Bismarck, a prime minister with brilliant achievements, was easily taken off the horse by Wilhelm II, and the tsar was called the 'little father' of the entire Russian nation, and he did not even tear off the skin of the constitutional monarchy, which was an obvious dictatorial hereditary monarchy!
It was these three powerful kings and emperors in Europe who suppressed the national revolution and uprising, and almost all other countries in Europe, except for France, which truly achieved a capitalist class republic, retained the aristocratic feudal system.
At that time, a small number of democratic republics could only hold their tails and be human beings in the face of the imperialist feudal countries that were derogatorily called weak and decadent in later generations, and even the United States, which was known as a beacon of freedom with developed industry, could only become an invincible opponent in the face of the three emperors of Europe.
The First World War turned the world's three strongest feudal absolute monarchies into republics and soviets, and the Second World War turned the remaining small absolute monarchies into nation-states, crushing the world's only remaining feudal states above the middle of the military strength......
It can be said that the feudal system was completely destroyed by the civil strife between the two world wars, and the goals of the European peasant revolution, which had not been achieved for a hundred years, were all realized in just a few years of world wars......
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, Prime Minister Bismarck has sent a letter asking us to lead our troops directly to the Lorraine-Alsace line to build a defensive line and protect the final results of the Franco-Prussian War."
Friedrich Wilhelm, who was riding on a tall horse and continuing to advance with the endless Prussian black torrent, nodded a little dejectedly: "I know, Kirchbach." ”
Kirchbach was the commander of the Fifth Army of the Third Army and the confidant of the Crown Prince of Prussia, and his strength was the best in the Third Army, because most of the combat missions they undertook in the battle against Lin Haoda's Han army were 'raiding the formation'.
The third corps is also the most miscellaneous corps in the Prussian army, which is why Lin Haoda chose the first and second armies of Prussia in order to target the attack, because the composition of the first and second armies is single, the control of the Prussian royal family is also stronger, and the combat effectiveness is also the real elite main force!
For Lin Haoda, who has new weapons but does not have many troops, the first goal is naturally to defeat the enemy's main army and it is more cost-effective.
As a result, by now, only a group of remnants of the Prussian First and Second Army Corps had fled back to the country to replenish new troops and reorganize their equipment, and the third corps had the strongest combat effectiveness.
After Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia saw the Han army flag fluttering in the wind at the edge of the horizon, he asked the generals around him in a somewhat unhappy mood: "Haven't we stepped out of Lin Haoda's encirclement line yet?" Could it be that Lin Haoda's men have taken control of all the provinces on the northeastern border of France? I remember that many local provinces in France did not agree with the provisional government headed by Lin Haoda, and it should be impossible for Lin Haoda to purge the rebellious French in France so quickly. ”
"Your Highness, Lin Haoda signed an armistice treaty with Prime Minister Bismarck, and after our army withdrew from the Paris region, the troops under his command suddenly increased several times out of thin air, and expanded to the northeast of France, we should have encountered a Han army unit with the fastest expansion, and after this area is the French-controlled area, but Your Highness, please rest assured, the armistice treaty has already been signed, and the Han army will not take the initiative to attack us."
When Friedrich Wilhelm, the crown prince of Prussia, heard this, his face suddenly appeared gloomy, and he snorted coldly and retorted: "It should be the Han army that should be worried, our Third Army is more than 100,000 people, is it possible that we are still afraid of a vanguard of the Han Military Region?" If Lin Haoda hadn't relied on the moving steel behemoth and the repeating machine gun, he wouldn't have been able to run rampant until now!
Although we were defeated this time, we captured a lot of rifles, grenades and grenadiers used by the Han army in the war, and even the Maxine heavy machine gun of the Han army we desperately captured a secret and sent it back to Berlin.
It's a pity that the Han army's fast-firing large-caliber howitzer position is too tightly protected, if we can get a 75 mm rapid-fire gun in the mouth of the Han army and let Berlin copy it, our future war pressure will be lighter.
The principle of Lin Haoda's weapons is not complicated, and it is only one line higher than ours, and it will not be long before the industrial strength of the German Empire can be fully put into the production line and popularized. ”
Just when Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia was talking about a bright future, he suddenly heard a strange scream, and the military commander of Kirchbach next to him suddenly changed his face in shock, and shouted to Friedrich Wilhelm, the Crown Prince of Prussia who was riding on a war horse: "There is a shelling, Your Highness, lie down quickly!! ”