In 1660, due to the rise of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, there was no large-scale war in Europe, and even the German states within the Holy Roman Empire, which were full of contradictions, were united for the first time, and some people contributed money to form a coalition army of more than 100,000 people, and there was a steady stream of recruits in the rear to keep them as reserves, as if they were going to fight the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to the end.

It can be said that the German states of the Holy Roman Empire attached no less importance to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom than to the westward invasion of the Ottoman Turkish Empire at its peak.

Although the Ottoman Empire still barely maintained this powerful military power, and even had a greedy heart for Central Europe controlled by Vienna, it was ultimately a step behind its peak, and the ruling class of the Ottoman Empire was also anxious about the continuous outbreak of national uprisings and a rotten bureaucracy.

Therefore, the rise of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was a very favorable event for the Ottoman Turkish Empire, because the distraction of the Habsburgs and the German states allowed the Ottoman Turkish Empire to concentrate on suppressing internal rebellions and gather strength for the next outbreak.

In particular, the collapse of the Polish-Lithuanian United Kingdom, an old enemy that resisted the Ottoman Turkish Empire, made the Ottoman Turkish Empire's caliphate much easier, which is why the Ottoman Turkish Empire only instructed the Crimean Khanate to carry out some raids on the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, but never sent troops to attack the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

For the Ottoman Empire, the best option was to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight.

With the arrival of spring and the warming of the climate, the main forces of the Taiping Army and the German Confederate Army began to leave the comfortable barracks and drive to the predetermined battlefield.

The main reason why the European continent has always engaged in main battles in modern times is mainly limited by the backward transportation capacity and communication system of this era, and the basic communication by walking by legs and communication by roaring is basically relied on, which makes it very difficult for the army to provide logistics.

In the era when there were no trains, the army's logistics could only rely on four-wheeled carriage transportation at most, which was still in the case of good roads, in the face of complex war terrain, more often logistics materials were transported by manpower, whether it was livestock or people in the transportation process, they needed to eat and consume, and as a result, no one dared to determine how much of a ton of materials could be left to the front line, and this consumption would expand geometrically with the extension of the army's advance distance.

This leads to a problem that military commanders have to face squarely, the longer the army goes on the expedition, the greater the consumption of national strength and logistics, and even a huge empire can be dragged down financially by a long expedition!

Even the most powerful period of the ancient eastern kingdom is difficult to sustain the consumption of the expeditionary force for a long time, let alone the European continent, which is only equivalent to the territory of a province of the ancient eastern kingdom?

As a result, in the frequent wars of European countries, they will basically choose the way of quick victory, and the best way to achieve a quick victory is to conduct a decisive battle with the main force!

The decisive battle of the main force can not only save the time consumed by supplying the army's logistics, but also keep the enemy abroad, so that the mainland can avoid the burning and looting of the enemy's army as much as possible, of course, if the battle is defeated, it is another matter.

But if it really can't be defeated, will it be possible to avoid the invasion even if the main battle is not carried out?

Obviously, it is impossible, and the final result of the guerrilla tactics of breaking up into pieces is only to put one's own country and people naked under the enemy's butcher's knife, and even if the enemy is driven away by guerrilla tactics, all that is left behind is nothing but scorched earth and ruins.

Therefore, as long as it has the slightest ability to resist the enemy's army, no invaded country will engage in a long guerrilla war, and in this era, it is even more necessary to poison its own homeland.

Only when the opponent is really unable to defeat the opponent on the frontal battlefield and does not want to be conquered and ruled by the enemy, guerrilla warfare will occur, and when it comes to the period of guerrilla warfare, it often means that the nation has reached the moment of its final struggle, and it is just the helpless groan of the weak.

It is true that there are cases of victory in guerrilla tactics, but the losses caused by the own side are definitely greater than the enemy!

However, with the development of weapons and the era of machine guns and artillery, guerrilla tactics have become more meaningful with the development of social productive forces, because the range of rifles has been extended, so that the profession of sniper and sharpshooter can destroy more enemies at a smaller cost, and become more efficient, and guerrilla tactics have naturally become a classic combat idea for weak countries.

In fact, the glorious development of guerrilla tactics is still due to the progress of weapons, cheap bullets have made the cost of sneak attacks and killings drop exponentially, and the harassment of guerrillas has naturally increased significantly, but these can only be expected to be realized after the large-scale popularization of long-range breech guns, and in the 17th century, guerrilla tactics at most created some problems for the occupying forces.

The guerrillas with poor weapons may not even be able to fight the ordinary third-line security forces, and the gap between dung forks and muskets is definitely greater than that between bolt rifles and semi-automatic rifles!

The scale of the German Confederation army of the Holy Roman Empire of more than 100,000 seems to be huge, but the daily consumption of food is also an astronomical amount, and it is natural to be eager to fight with the Taiping Army in the main force, on the other hand, the Taiping Army, the number of six elite grenadier divisions exceeds 70,000, and the logistics consumption is also very terrible, and the most important thing is that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is sparsely populated, and the productivity is far less than that of the densely populated Central European region.

Soldiers and horses go first before they move grain and grass, even in a backward era, fighting a war is a competition for money.

Hong Tiancheng continued to wage wars with reckless force, not only to obtain rewards for the all-out war system, but also because the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom itself had experienced many years of war, the population loss was serious, and the productivity was never improved, so it was necessary to loot enough materials to support the army through foreign wars.

It can be said that Hong Tiancheng lacks everything except ammunition for war, so he naturally has to roll up his sleeves and go out to rob and subsidize his family, and the interests between countries are nothing more than that, even in the 21st century, American imperialism, known as the world's policeman, is not an oil-rich country in the Middle East?

The so-called humanitarianism is all an excuse, and the ultimate goal is to grab oil and support its own puppet regime!

It is a pity that in the 21 st century, there are very few countries of American imperialism that can sanction the United States imperialists who unreasonably wage wars and put their nationals in the fire......

This is authoritarianism, in the history of mankind, power has never been obtained through speech and the influence of 'love', only iron and blood will convince people!

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