Chapter 536: An Invincible Enemy
In less than a month, Klim's Reif rebel army killed more than 30,000 Spanish troops and captured more than 40,000 prisoners. The www.biquge.info of the seizure of a staggering amount of weapons and ammunition has limited casualties (plus the number of guerrillas left behind in their hometowns is only seven or eight thousand, of which less than 2,000 have been permanently reduced). Naturally, the strength of Krim's rebel army was further strengthened, and the total strength swelled to more than 40,000 men, of which more than 20,000 were field troops as the core.
Compared with history, such a force is actually much smaller, but compared with the total strength of 70,000 troops in history, but only six or seven thousand field troops, the actual combat effectiveness of the current Reeve rebel army, especially the ability to fight a war of annihilation, is undoubtedly stronger......
For Spain, whose national strength is declining, although the loss of 780,000 permanent attrition is not enough to completely break its muscles and bones, it will not be able to make a comeback in a short time. The reason is very simple, since Krim can defeat 100,000 troops so easily, then no matter how stupid the Spanish government is, it will have to mobilize at least hundreds of thousands of troops to dare to come again, but this has exceeded the current limit of Spain's strength, either a complete war mobilization, or a strong ally to join forces to strangle, neither of which can be achieved quickly. As a result, Spain could only remain silent for the time being, bowing its head and licking its wounds, and the Rif region ushered in a rare period of peace......
In September 1916, it was the harvest season, Kerim convened a general meeting of all the tribal representatives who participated in the uprising, and the meeting officially announced the establishment of an independent Reif Republic, which adopted a new **** system that became more or less conducive to industrialization and all-out warfare after Kerim's reforms, with Kerim as the "emir" (military commander and head of state) of the Reeve Republic, and also served as the leader of the sect. Through this system of state security, which greatly guaranteed the power of the leader, Kerim greatly consolidated his control over the nascent state. Although they still give the tribal leaders a decent status, at least it is difficult for them to defect or flee with their troops, which is very different from the historical Revolt of the Reeve.
Although Li Hui had warned Kerim not to underestimate the imperialist determination to maintain the old order, France, as the leader of the second-class powers, was too strong, and Kerim still tried his best to avoid provoking France too early, so the Republic of Reve's claim only included the lands of Spanish Morocco, which had now been recovered except for the narrow coastal strip in the north, and it seemed that victory was imminent.
However, Li Hui's prediction was soon confirmed, and the day after the establishment of the Republic of Reve, the French government sent a large force to French Morocco, bringing the total number of troops stationed in French Morocco to more than 150,000. This harsh reality ruthlessly shattered Krim's illusions, and he gritted his teeth and faced his almost invincible foe head-on......
Kerim, who did not want to be restrained, decided to strike first, and with the assistance of the two major tribes of Gezhava and Sanhaja, Kerim personally led the main force of 20,000 lifu south and burned the war to French Morocco. The French governor immediately sent troops to meet the battle, but the Rif army once again shocked the whole West, Kerim flexibly used his own Chinese learning interspersed infiltration and parallel pursuit tactics, the first time not through a preset trap, but the way of active attack, almost completely annihilated the entire French army, the French army killed more than 27,000 people, more than 21,000 captured, and the number of killed, missing and disabled in the Rif army was less than 3,000!
If it is said that when Krem defeated the Spanish army before, the Western society could still think that the Spanish army was too bad, but now even the French army has been beaten to pieces, and the strength of the combat effectiveness of the Rif army has finally been widely recognized. However, Klim was not carried away by the victory, but felt more and more pressure as he fought......
The permanent attrition of more than 2,000 people is really not a very big number, but for the Republic of Klim's Reve, it is already a considerable loss, after all, permanent attrition is generally accompanied by at least several times its temporary attrition, all of which add up to tens of thousands, for Klim, who brought a total of 20,000 people to the south and the total domestic strength is less than 50,000, such a loss can definitely be called a nerve-wracking injury, if it were not for the brilliant victory and his supreme prestige to bring high morale, Coupled with the tenacity of the people of the Rif Mountains, I am afraid that Krim will almost lose his ability to attack after this battle, and he will have to regretfully miss the opportunity to pursue the victory and further expand the results.
Of course, when Krim returned home, he also brought medicines such as penicillin, because the drugs are small in size and the total amount is actually very large, so even if Reeve lacks medical personnel (especially nurses), there is also a seventy or eighty percent hope that the wounded will recover and return to the team, so in the long run, the losses of Reeve's army are not large. However, Crim was worried, fearing that the French would not give the wounded, especially the seriously wounded, time to recover, and that 100,000 dead and wounded (plus the follow-up battles) might be painful enough for Spain, but for France, which could theoretically mobilize millions of troops, it was only a small wound of flesh.
As Kerim feared, the French government, despite its blame for the crushing defeat at the front, did not waver in its resolve, and continued to increase the number of troops in French Morocco, bringing its garrison to more than 300,000 men, supported by more than 500 aircraft and more than 1,000 heavy artillery pieces. Not only that, but the French government also reached an agreement with the Spanish to join forces to strangle the Republic of Rive, and the French navy would help the Spanish transport troops to increase their total strength to more than 200,000 in northern Morocco, and then flank the French from behind in a head-to-head confrontation with Kerim's army, ending their old nest in the mountains of Rif to demoralize the rebels.
Before you know it, the total number of enemy troops faced by the Reif rebel army has increased to more than 500,000, which is even more than the total population of the Rif Mountains......