349 Differences between East and West

Lin Haoda's plan is not difficult to analyze, 30,000 elite British troops landed in a relatively rich and stable area along the coast of the French Republic, and the city of Cherbourg is located in the Brittany region set by Lin Haoda, this area has been purged and slaughtered several times under the strong military pressure of Lin Haoda, and is second only to the stable land of the Paris region.

Of course, the stability of Brittany is based on Lin Haoda's strong military power, and if the hatred of the locals is concerned, Brittany is definitely among the best. General Wan's idea of national equality has been 'poisoned', and the seemingly stable political environment is just a military 'big thick leg'.

If the British were to open up the situation in Brittany, and the local French saw Lin Haoda's army retreating, I am afraid that a French rebel army holding high the banner of freedom and equality would rise out of thin air, and with the support and training of the British, this French rebel army would obviously not be as easy to deal with as an ordinary peasant rebel army.

Therefore, Lin Haoda sent the vast majority of the troops in France to encircle and annihilate the elite of the British landing, of course, there is also a reason why the British army is more efficient than the Sardinians, that is, the Italians.

The countries of the Italian peninsula are known on the continent for their variety of arts and cultures, and for their wealth, as well as the power that comes with the location of their religious strongholds, as well as their armies......

The countries of the Italian peninsula were actually equivalent to the younger brothers of the Habsburgs, and when Spain was strong, they followed the Spanish Habsburgs, and after the Holy Roman Empire became strong, they became the hardcore allies of the Austrians.

The Kingdom of Sardinia was very famous for its ability to balance the left and right in continental Europe, but the Italian countries had a large number of ships and a large number of navies, and a well-developed maritime trade to accumulate wealth, and any European overlord was very fond of pulling these rich merchant countries into his camp.

In the eyes of politicians, the political advantage that can be obtained without war, that is not too much, the reason why Napoleon pushed all the way to Europe, not because Napoleon himself was a war maniac, but although Napoleon has an extraordinary genius in military affairs, but in diplomacy is not as good as an ordinary diplomat, since Napoleon came to power, he has offended almost all countries in Europe one after another, coupled with the different ideologies of France at that time, Napoleon had no other way than to use war to shut up the European powers.

The success of the anti-French alliance was not only a victory for the British foreign policy, but also inseparable from Napoleon's arrogance and poor diplomatic skills.

This point is a bit similar to Lin Haoda at this time, Lin Haoda's own identity as a foreign yellow race is naturally on the opposite side of other countries in Europe in terms of politics and diplomacy, Napoleon's era at least European countries are still willing to communicate with him, put it on Lin Haoda, as long as the European countries are not beaten down like the Dutch, basically they don't even want to see Lin Haoda's face!

The mobilization of the army is not something that can be completed with words, and Lin Haoda's main force in the Dutch region will take a lot of time to transfer back to France.

Naturally, Lin Haoda did not have time to waste on the useless work of fully occupying the Dutch region, and accepting the surrender of the Dutch to get a reparation and limited control of the Dutch region became Lin Haoda's first choice.

In Lin Haoda's plan, when he sorted out the affairs of the Dutch, reorganized the Dutch Republic, and left 80,000 Imperial Guards stationed in the Netherlands, the British elite who landed in the Cherbourg area of France should have been driven into the sea by 50,000 Imperial Guards and 10,000 Young Guards, who were twice as numerous as the enemy, and before the 30,000 Young Guards died, they would also limit the coalition led by the Kingdom of Sardinia to the border area of the French Republic to the greatest extent.

At that time, Lin Haoda only needed to take the mighty 100,000 main youth guards to meet the complex coalition forces of the Kingdom of Sardinia, even if Austria and Prussia completed the partition of Poland and turned the spearhead, it would be too late to transfer the army into the Rhine region.

In the era when there were no railroad trains, the movement of troops was basically entirely on the legs, and in the absence of radio contact, the transmission of orders between the army and the national commander was also outrageously inefficient.

Otherwise, Lin Haoda, who was sitting in the city of Paris, issued an order to the Dutch region, I am afraid that the messenger will not be able to reach the front-line theater after the battle......

In modern times, the heads of state and military commanders of various European countries personally led their troops to fight, not because of the so-called courage and bullshit glory, but only because of the difficulty in passing military orders.

After the popularization of radio, the generals and commanders of European countries can naturally sit in the warm office, enjoy the exquisite coffee made by the secretary, or play an office romance or something, and then compare with the map during working hours......

As for the battle reports at the front, it is natural that there will be personnel from the communications office who will write the war reports on a piece of paper by radio and transmit them to the military commander-in-chief or the general staff headquarters, and the military commander-in-chief will be sufficient to make a telephone call or a telegram according to the battle reports that come from time to time.

Of course, the kind of general who is in charge or a general whose rank has not reached the strategic level still needs to move his butt with the army, but at least during World War II, there was no scene of a head of state of Hitler's Churchill coming to the front line in person.

And on the battlefields of the 18th and even 19th centuries, it was not uncommon for the king to personally conquer the truth!

It is also the complacent Celestial Empire, which will uphold the theory that a gentleman does not stand under the wall, basically fighting a war depends on the personal performance of the generals, and there is naturally nothing to say when encountering a famous general, if you meet a mediocre general, it is really watching the defeat of one battle after another but there is nothing to be done......

It is precisely because of the model of the ancient emperor in the East that many emperors do not even have basic military knowledge until death, and if they want the stability of the country, they can only pray for the appearance of famous ministers under their command to assist in the future.

If the kings of those big countries in Europe learn from the hedonistic war model of the ancient Oriental countries, they will be destroyed and deserve to be destroyed......

This is not to say that it is not good for the emperor to sit in the palace and fight, but the king's personal conquest can allow the ruler to see the trend and needs of the war at close range, and constantly strengthen the country's war capacity, and it is easy to cultivate an aggressive country.