441 Troops in the Balkans

After integrating the European occupation zone, Hong Tiancheng transferred three main infantry divisions of the Taiping Army.

Because Hong Tiancheng once occupied most of Europe, so when integrating Europe this time, the all-out war system did not immediately give rewards, but cumulated, according to the all-out war, at this time Europe has lost its resistance, as long as the whole of Europe is recovered, you can get the accumulated gift package.

At this time, Hong Tiancheng was still short of the Balkans not recovered, and Istanbul of the Ottoman Turkish Empire did not belong to Europe in the system of total war, that is, as long as the Taiping army occupied the Balkan Peninsula and extended its territory to the eastern border of Bulgaria, it could complete the cumulative task of unifying Europe.

It is precisely for this reason that Hong Tiancheng has only deployed the strength of one division and regiment in the occupied areas of Europe, although a large number of patrol officers help to assist in management, but the strength of one division only plays a deterrent role, if a large-scale uprising really breaks out in the occupied areas, even if the Taiping army can fight again, it will not be able to suppress it by relying on one division.

Fortunately, the areas occupied by the Taiping Army have been ravaged by the war for more than ten years, and both the social elite and the low-level civilians are tired of the war.

Only a small group of guerrillas resembling bandits, under the banner of rebelling against the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom or robbing the rich and helping the poor, engaged in raiding houses and houses, and had a lot of fun with the patrol police......

The three infantry divisions of the Taiping Army, which were ready to go, carried 20 75-mm rapid-fire guns, more than 100 grenadiers, more than 100 Makqin heavy machine guns, and enough ammunition and supplies to fight several large-scale battles, and advanced to the Balkans.

Behind the three divisions of the Taiping Army is a logistics and material transportation line composed of hundreds of trucks, which can extend as far as the Kiev industrial zone!

Of course, in addition to trucks, the Taiping army also recruited a large number of mules, horses and four-wheeled carriages to transport logistics materials, which were mainly transported by local conscripted men and guarded by Taiping soldiers.

Although Hong Tiancheng led three divisions of the Taiping Army to the south, in fact, the troops fighting on the front line were only two divisions, and the long logistics line shared the fortune of the Taiping Army of an entire division.

Those ammunition and materials are all 'out of print' in this era, the occupied areas of the Taiping Army are not a stable environment where they do not close their doors at night, large and small bandit guerrillas are everywhere, the anti-Han League and even the Ottoman Turkish Empire have already bought all the weapons and ammunition of the Taiping Army at a high price on the black market, even if it is a grenadier shell, it can be sold at a high price when it is shipped to Britain or Istanbul, and those bandits and guerrillas and even the local government team are not angry!

Therefore, Hong Tiancheng did not dare to use the Han Association Army, which was reorganized on a voluntary basis, to watch the logistics materials, but let the main soldiers of the Taiping Army watch the transportation.

As for the Han Concord Army, which reached more than 30,000 after voluntary reorganization, it followed the main force of the Taiping Army of the two divisions to the south as an auxiliary force.

Every time the Taiping army captured a city or region, the Han army would stay behind to assist the Taiping officials to select local traitors who wanted to form a local city council.

During the formation of the municipal council, a strict military control system would be implemented, and it would not have been possible to defend it without troops.

This was the main role of the Han Concordia, and of course, if necessary, they had to contend with the small Ottoman army and other haphazard armed forces.

The weapons of the Han Association Army are still good, and they all use Mini rifles that were eliminated and captured by the Taiping Army.

Thanks to the contribution of the anti-Han alliance, the Taiping army captured a large number of useful Mini rifles, and even obtained several Mini rifle production lines and fixed ammunition production lines in the Kingdom of France and Spain.

These production lines were naturally not wasted by the Taiping Army, but they were not produced in full force, but were used by the Han Army.

In any case, the technology of the Mini rifle has long been spread everywhere by the anti-Han League, and the French Bourbon royal family, who fled to the coastal areas of the Indian Peninsula, has expanded the Mini rifle to Asia.

In order to compete for hegemony in the North American colonies, the British and French have begun to build mini rifle production factories in the North American colonies.

Therefore, Hong Tiancheng equipped the Han Association Army with a Mini rifle, without worrying about the problem of technology leakage, if it were not for the Hanyang-made rifle is a breech gun, the performance is not much different from the 98K rifle used by the main force of the Taiping Army, Hong Tiancheng wants to equip the Han Association Army with Hanyang.

Anyway, Hanyang-made rifles have been imitated by the British for many years, and it is said that the prototypes are almost made, but they are limited by the raw materials of the firing agent, and cannot be mass-produced.

Originally, the French and Spaniards also copied Hanyang-made rifles at the same time, but because the invasion of the Taiping Army was interrupted, after the mainland was occupied by the Taiping Army, even the government team was changed, and naturally they did not have the energy to invest a lot of money in imitating Hanyang-made rifles.

As for the French Bourbon royal family, they took away the research materials of Hanyang-made rifles, but the Mini rifle was enough to deal with the indigenous Indians and Southeast Asian monkeys, and the Bourbon dynasty was in the early stage of expansion and had no energy to engage in research and development.

Well, the Ottoman Turkish Empire is also copying Hanyang-made rifles, it's just that progress...... Don't mention it......

The main force of the Taiping army used 98k rifles, the Han army used mini rifles, and the patrol officers used cold weapons and flintlock smoothbore guns, which was the configuration of all the armed forces in the occupied areas of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

From a legal point of view, only these three armed forces are allowed in the territory of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, of course, the law is the law, to what extent it is enforced, that is, the eight immortals have crossed the sea to show their magical powers......

Even in the 21st century, there are countless illegal and criminal things, and people who are at large are like crossing the river, let alone the 17th century?

As for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's gun ban law, it was properly enforced among the common people, but for the families of those who were members of the municipal council, it was a null and void.

If the gun ban is really fully implemented, it will be impossible for bandits and guerrillas to confront the patrol police!

Of course, the bandits and guerrillas could not get a few Minnie rifles, but the flintlock pistol was relatively easy, as long as there was money.

Projectiles or something can be directly melted out of lead metal creation, gunpowder can also be made by soil methods, the cost of flintlock pistols and the simple ammunition production process are destined to be completely banned.

It is difficult for private workshops to produce only relatively complex Minnie rifles, and it is difficult to imitate even the national industrial strength of Hanyang-made rifles in large quantities!

As for the 98k rifle...... Well, now the anti-Han alliance and the Ottomans have not yet realized the difference between the 98k rifle and the Hanyang-made rifle......