370 Take Northern Europe
In January 1667, even in winter, the war in the Kingdom of Austria continued, during which the Venetian army, supported by the other countries of the Italian peninsula, sent tens of thousands of men to cooperate with Leopold I on both sides, and after a series of heavy defeats, it ceased......
As a result, it was once again Leopold I who led the Austrian Habsburgs to fight alone, and Leopold I was also quite capable of fighting, until the later capital of Vienna fell, and the army he led completely collapsed.
In the last battle, Leopold I refused to retreat and was shot and killed by the Taiping soldiers.
Immediately, the Austrian Habsburg royal family was bloodily purged by Hong Tiancheng, because of the actions of Leopold I, the German, Czechoslovak and Hungarian divisions of the Taiping Army changed by Hong Tiancheng were completely hollow!
The battle damage is more than eighty percent!
The ability to fight independently in the field has almost been lost......
In desperation, Hong Tiancheng had no choice but to reorganize the three Taiping Army divisions and regiments, and according to the number of people, they were organized into the German Independent Regiment, the Czechoslovak Independent Regiment, and the Hungarian Independent Regiment.
Each independent regiment has less than 3,000 people, and the three independent regiments combined, all the personnel, not even 8,000 people......
From then on, the three independent regiments were fully organized into local garrisons, which were used to defend the three regions and maintain the rule of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
However, soon, the German Independent Regiment of the Taiping Army was transferred to Vienna by Hong Tiancheng because it needed to control too much territory, and the border line was too vast, and the troops were seriously insufficient.
Of course, after the fall of the Austrian Habsburg Dynasty, Hong Tiancheng once again put on the Austrian crown for himself.
At the same time, the German Confederation was also geopolitically unified, Bavaria was fully occupied by the Taiping Army, the aristocratic families of the German Autonomous faction were purged on a large scale, and the entire German high society was almost swept away by the Taiping Army!
Of course, there were also many German aristocrats who saw that the situation was not good, and fled to the territory of the anti-Han League with floating wealth in advance, and became exiled aristocrats, relying on relatives and previous connections to support.
If the anti-Han alliance recaptured the German region, they would naturally be able to return to their hometown and become aristocratic lords again, and if Hong Tiancheng continued to maintain the 'undefeated' record, these German exiled aristocrats were destined to be reduced to the ordinary civilian class in a few decades.
After dealing with the Kingdom of Austria and the German Autonomous Faction, Hong Tiancheng wisely stopped the attack, because on the opposite side were hundreds of thousands of anti-Han allied troops who had already been displayed and stayed in the fortifications to wait for them, and there were even many freshly manufactured front-loading howitzers, aimed at the direction of the Taiping Army.
In the comparison of comprehensive military strength, the Axis bloc led by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom naturally fell into the strategic defense side, and the fall of the German autonomy faction and the fall of the Austrian Habsburg dynasty also had many negative effects on Hong Tiancheng.
The most important thing is that the army of the client countries of the Axis bloc can no longer pull out the men and horses that can fight, and the original German Han Allied Army was completely disabled in the battle with the German autonomist, and at this time it is recruiting new recruits to supplement the training, and the occupation of the Kingdom of Austria will also completely distribute the strength of the Lithuanian Han Allied Army, the Polish Han Allied Army, the Czechoslovak Han Allied Army, and the Hungarian Han Allied Army.
The Taiping army was generally only responsible for garrisoning important cities, and the local occupation and maintenance of rule were actually managed by the Han Concord Army, otherwise Hong Tiancheng would not have so many people to occupy the territory.
It's just that Hong Tiancheng was unable to launch an offensive against the anti-Han alliance, which did not mean that he could not break through from other directions, and the fake tsar of the Russian Empire, Qianmian, under the instruction of Hong Tiancheng, remobilized the new Russian army that had been trained for a whole year and launched an offensive against the Kingdom of Sweden again.
This time, Hong Tiancheng lent 10 12-pounder mountain howitzers to the Russian army, and the false tsar with a thousand faces personally led the army to the expedition, and the most elite Moscow Janissary Regiment of the Russian Empire also accompanied the expedition!
Under Hong Tiancheng's strict order, Jobs must die!
The Swedish army, led by the Danish and Norwegian commanders, put up a heroic resistance, and the end was nothing more than the word 'heroic'.
The Swedish people have long been tired of war, and many people have become afraid of the way to fight for national justice and bloodshed, and the tide of war weariness and surrender has begun to gradually rise.
The 12-pounder mountain howitzer has become accustomed to soldiers in Central and even Western Europe, but in Northern Europe, this is still a novelty, and the Danes, Norwegians, and Swedes have not even heard of mountain howitzers, after all, the communications of this era are very backward, not to mention that they are still at war!
As a result, the 12-pounder mountain howitzer, as a new weapon in Northern Europe, achieved miraculous results as soon as it was forced, and under the effect of the Moscow Janissary Corps of the Russian Empire taking the lead in a tough battle, the expeditionary force led by the Thousand-faced False Tsar was like a bamboo, and soon crushed the main force of Denmark and the United Kingdom of Norway, and almost completely annihilated the Swedish Corps.
The city of Stockholm surrendered without waiting for a war, and to the puzzlement of the thousand-faced false tsar, Jobs, the most wanted criminal in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and his cronies and accomplices disappeared without a trace!
After the fall of Stockholm, the Swedish revolt basically stopped, the war between the Swedes and the Russian Empire almost wiped out a whole generation, they are really tired of endless wars, anyway, the Russians came here, and they also paid taxes, why bother to use the blood of their children, brothers and even fathers to fight for power and profit for the superiors?
The war-weariness of the Swedes caused the combat strength of the Swedish corps to plummet, and they surrendered to the Russian army in a systematic manner, and Denmark and the United Kingdom of Norway were driven out of Swedish territory in one fell swoop.
Originally, Denmark and the United Kingdom of Norway wanted to use the long supply lines to slowly drag down the Russian Imperial Expeditionary Force, because they knew that they had the convenience of sea transportation, but the Russians had to rely on land to maintain the logistics routes.
However, a decisive naval battle commanded by Nelson sent the only remaining naval forces of Denmark, the United Kingdom of Norway and the Kingdom of Sweden into the sea world to feed the fish, and the naval strength of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in front of the European continent greatly shocked the anti-Han alliance, and the Baltic Sea control was instantly taken away by the Axis bloc!
After the Taiping Fleet led by Nelson seized the control of the sea, it took advantage of the situation to take a large number of new Russian troops to forcibly land in Copenhagen, and attacked the expeditionary force led by the thousand-faced false tsar himself, the main army of Denmark and the United Kingdom of Norway was quickly defeated, and the entire Norway was almost undefended and fell into the hands of the Russian army!