Headquarters of the Taiping Army in Berlin, the capital of the German Confederation.

"Congratulations to His Majesty, the soldiers of the Taiping Army in Venice made a perfect start in the First World War, annihilating more than 100,000 anti-Han alliance coalition troops, and breaking the encirclement and suppression plan of the main forces of the coalition forces of the Italian peninsula countries against our army.

Now, the rest of the allied forces of the Italian Peninsula in the Venice area have begun to retreat, and it will not be long before the whole of Venice will fall intact into the control of our army! ”

Xue Taishen, who became the director of the intelligence department of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, reported to Hong Tiancheng and his party.

After hearing this, Hong Tiancheng looked at the reward progress bar in the all-out war system, and asked with some dissatisfaction: "What are the Taiping Heavenly Guards who have occupied Venice doing now?"

Why not pursue the remnants of the retreating coalition forces of the Italian peninsula? ”

Xue Taishen was slightly stunned after hearing this, and explained: "Your Majesty, there are still more than 30,000 elite troops and nearly 100,000 ordinary troops in the Italian Peninsula countries stranded in Venice, and after the 9th and 10th divisions take Venice, there are only about 20,000 troops left, and there are 20,000 people to pursue the 130,000 army, is it a little inappropriate?" ”

"There is nothing wrong with it, the intelligence from the battlefield has proved that the Minnie rifle has an unbeatable advantage over the backward flintlock pistol, and the enemy saw this and took the initiative to retreat, and now the enemy is panicked and demoralized, and if you don't chase it to the death, when will you wait?

The opportunity for victory must not be lost, and the fact that we can use advanced weapons to gain war superiority now does not mean that we can do so in the future, and the anti-Han alliance will sooner or later recover from our superiority in weapons, so we must take advantage of the opportunity to gain more strategic superiority!

I have already sent 10,000 Swedish veteran smoothbore infantry to the Venice area to take over the garrison work in Venice and other areas with the Han Army, and the 9th and 10th Divisions have only one task, which is to keep breaking through!

No matter how great the losses are, the main force of the allied forces of the Italian Peninsula must be completely wiped out, so as to lay the foundation for the next military enterprises that will enter the entire Italian Peninsula and control the anti-Han alliance. Hong Tiancheng said with a solemn face.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Xue Taishen commanded.

In addition to being in charge of the intelligence department, Xue Taishen also has an important position, that is, Hong Tiancheng's mouthpiece, and most of the orders directly issued by Hong Tiancheng rely on the departments controlled by Xue Taishen.

Now that the battle situation is so big, and there is no reliable telegraph system for communication, it will inevitably waste a lot of time if orders are issued layer by layer, so Hong Tiancheng simply set up a special department that directly reaches his orders.

Nowadays, Xue Taishen's intelligence department has great power, not only the right to directly convey the supreme instructions, but also the privilege of unimpeded access to all departments in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which is why Xue Taishen can always get battlefield intelligence as soon as possible.

It can be said that Xue Taishen's intelligence department is becoming more and more like an efficient secret police machine.

"How is the situation developing elsewhere?" After deciding on the strategy for Venice, Hong Tiancheng asked Xue Taishen.

At the same time that Xue Taishen's power has increased greatly, Hong Tiancheng has a great personal convenience, as long as there is something, he can ask her directly, and there is nothing she doesn't know about the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

All the regulatory departments have the staff of Xue Taishen.

"The offensive of the first anti-Han alliance coalition was blocked on the Cologne line, and the offensive of the second anti-Han alliance coalition was blocked on the Frankfurt and Nuremberg lines, the battle situation was very tragic, although we have the range advantage of the Mini rifle, we can shoot a large number of anti-Han alliance coalition soldiers from a long distance, but the anti-Han alliance has an absolute number of artillery superiority, and is in an offensive posture, frantically breaking through from all points, our army has to divide the army, can only rely on willpower to barely maintain the integrity of the front, and is not able to counterattack at all.

Your Majesty, the strength of the anti-Han alliance is too strong, every time the war opens, our soldiers see the boundless sea of people, the anti-Han alliance coalition is now using the sea of people to charge more and more skillfully, first the artillery group bombarded our army's position, and then several times the strength of our army launched a wave of charge, although the range of the Mini rifle is long, but compared with the front-loading flintlock pistol, there is not much advantage, each time you can't kill many people, you are forced to have to fall into hand-to-hand combat.

If it weren't for the fact that all the officers and men of our army were not afraid of death, the entire front would have collapsed a long time ago! ”

"Hey, it seems that we were still too optimistic before the war, in the era of pre-loading guns, the war still relied on human resources.

What about those Han Concord Army? I remember, but tens of thousands of Han Association troops were placed on the front line. ”

Hong Tiancheng frowned and asked.

"Your Majesty, the Han Alliance Army is used to guard the place, and it is okay to deal with the guerrillas, after going to the frontal battlefield, they are basically a rout, as long as the soldiers of the anti-Han Alliance coalition rush to the front of the position in close hand-to-hand combat, within 10 minutes, the Han Association Army will ensure that most of the rout, and even affect the soldiers of our army who are fighting in other positions.

Even if the Han Association Army and the Taiping Army soldiers were mixed and matched on the front line, it was useless, and the vast majority of the white soldiers of the Han Association Army were for food and food, and they would not really die for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Willing to fight with the guerrillas, it is only because of the advantage in equipment and numbers that they perform well. ”

Xue Taishen explained solemnly.

"In other words, only the 9th and 10th divisions of our army in the direction of Venice are progressing well, right?"

"Yes, Your Majesty.

On the other two fronts, our army only resisted the offensive of the anti-Han alliance for less than a week, and the strength of one division and regiment was exhausted, and the fighting morale of the anti-Han alliance coalition was very high, and sometimes I did not understand why the coalition forces of the Italian peninsula were also members of the anti-Han alliance, why there was such a big gap between the French soldiers, Swiss soldiers, Dutch soldiers and even Spanish soldiers......

Hong Tiancheng smiled and replied: "The reason is very simple, the people of the Italian Peninsula countries have enjoyed peace for too long, even if there is a war, they basically rely on mercenaries to deal with it, and the countries of the Italian Peninsula rely on Mediterranean trade, and they have always been in a state of prosperity, and the small country and weak government still seem to be very rich, resulting in the countries of the Italian Peninsula in the previous European War, has been in the stage of vacillating and playing soy sauce."

Even if a small Italian country was on the wrong side, it would not have fought a major war at home, the government would soon fall with the interference of the great powers, and most importantly, there was a powerful Papal State on the Italian peninsula, and the European powers did not want to turn it into a tragic battlefield.

Born in euthanasia and dying in sorrow, the people of the Italian peninsula lived in a good place, and they were naturally unwilling to fight hard. ”