"Your Majesty, although the main force of our army has successfully invaded the territory of France, attacked the city all the way, and destroyed dozens of French towns, it has fallen into the quagmire of never-ending war, and every time our army advances to a place, it has to face the desperate resistance of the locals, and a lot of time is spent on slaughtering cities and burning villages, which makes the progress of our army very slow.

Moreover, although our army has an extremely advantageous battle loss ratio in the war, the vast majority of the people killed are French civilians and recruits, and the number of the main forces of our army is always in decline!

By August 1763, more than 14,000 of the four breech-loading rifle infantry divisions that our army had entered France, and a full infantry division had disappeared.

If we continue to fight like this, after taking the city of Paris, I am afraid that our army will lose the ability to continue the attack......"

Xue Taishen reported with a melancholy face.

"With so many Taiping soldiers dead, where did we advance and how many French troops did we annihilate?" Hong Tiancheng asked casually.

"Our army has advanced from south to north, and now it has advanced to the Fransconde area, and it will soon be able to join forces with the Taiping army on the Verdun line, and join forces to attack the last French elite on the Verdun line.

In addition to the French Army, the troops of other countries in the anti-Han alliance have been completely defeated by our army, and the remnants have withdrawn to their own countries, at this time the anti-Han alliance has existed in name only, and the countries have lost most of the main field forces, lost the potential to continue the expedition, and can only barely protect themselves.

However, almost all the field units of the regular army formed in the Kingdom of France have been wiped out, and the newly formed recruit divisions are not comparable to the Taiping Army, and the Kingdom of France also knows that the combat effectiveness of the recruit divisions is weak, so they are just stationed in one city after another.

In the field, it was mainly the militia and guerrilla forces composed of the local French mob that blocked the Taiping army's attack, but fortunately, everywhere we went, we would slaughter and burn all the places inhabited by people in the area, so the attack on our army's logistics lines was very low.

The Kingdom of France had lost all offensive capabilities, and they had even lost direct command of the local armed forces, and now the troops directly under the orders of King Louis XIV were gathered in the city of Paris to fight a battle with our army for the defense of the capital district.

This is also the reason why Louis XIV has so far refused to surrender, believing that after our army has been pushed through according to the current situation, there will not be many more men left in the outskirts of Paris. ”

"According to the current assessment, how many more people will be able to continue fighting when the four main divisions advance to Paris?" Hong Tiancheng frowned and asked.

"According to the current battle loss ratio and the strength of local resistance, it is conservatively estimated that by the outskirts of Paris, there will be more than 20,000 people left in our army's four dissatisfied field infantry divisions at most, after all, we are fighting against all the French."

"Why did those resisting French go to war with us at the cost of their lives? They could have fled to other countries. Hong Tiancheng asked with some puzzlement, after fighting the war in Europe for so long, the French are definitely the most stubborn resistance, even in the face of the complete three-light policy, they still insist on resisting the war!

At the speed at which the Taiping army advanced, the French had time to leave their homeland and flee abroad.

"According to our intelligence, propaganda in France has been instilling a 'fact' in the French people, claiming that the Taiping army has suffered heavy losses in the long war, and as long as they persist in resisting, they will definitely achieve a final victory, and they also preach that the Taiping soldiers have suffered too many casualties and will soon have no one to fight.

It is this insistence on the concept of resistance to the war that has led to many angry French youths still insisting on fighting, and of course, there are many French people who are inseparable from their homeland and take up arms in order to survive.

However, when our army takes the capital of Paris, the lies of the French will naturally be self-defeating, but after taking Paris, our army's reserve forces will be seriously insufficient, and it is likely to lose the strength to continue the offensive against the Han alliance. ”

"Don't worry about this, the current Ottoman Turkish Empire hasn't launched an offensive yet." Hong Tiancheng continued to ask.

"No, but the Ottoman Turkish Empire has amassed hundreds of thousands of troops in the border area, and has directly intervened in the war of the Crimean Khanate, and the Cossack United Emirate has been expelled from the Crimean Khanate, and the Cossack strength has suffered very heavy losses, if it were not for the timely help of the Russian Empire, the Cossack United Emirate may have been destroyed."

Xue Taishen took out another document and reported.

"So, what happened to the union of the Republic of the United Provinces and the Spanish Netherlands?"

"The two places have negotiated a surrender agreement, the Kingdom of Heaven has ceased the war under the agreement guaranteeing their independence and sovereignty, the Spanish Netherlands has officially become independent as the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Republic of the United Provinces has been renamed the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and with our support, the capitulationists have successfully staged a coup d'état and seized power.

The Kingdom of Norway also surrendered to the Kingdom of Heaven, promising to be a vassal state of the Kingdom of Heaven, and the whole of Central Europe had already given up resistance when the Kingdom of France had lost its offensive ability and the anti-Han alliance had collapsed internally. ”

"I finally heard a good news, it seems that these small countries in Central Europe have also been frightened by the tragic war situation in France, how good it is, we can continue to maintain power after surrendering, our Great Heavenly Kingdom is still relatively merciful.

However, an enemy like Louis XIV who resists to the end must be uprooted and not give the other party any chance to turn the tables!

Passing on my orders, the Kingdom of Heaven then devoted all its energy to attacking the Kingdom of France, and the three divisions of the Heavenly King's Guards and the Central European Town Guard Infantry Division were merged into the Central European Field Army, which was subordinate to the border line of the Ottoman Turkish Empire.

With more than 37,000 people there, the Ottoman Turks would have had enough time to react even if they did it. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!

It's just that for the attack on France itself, do we still want to continue to implement the three-light policy? ”

"Of course, I want to make the Kingdom of France a deterrent to the Kingdom of Heaven, so that the rest of the European continent can see the fate of fighting against the Kingdom of Heaven, and those who follow me will prosper and those who disobey me will perish!

After all, we Han people are a minority in the European continent, and we can only kill Liwei, just right, the Kingdom of France is a vivid example, and the national war of resistance has to pay the price of blood! ”

Xue Taishen's eyes wandered, and he stepped forward and saluted: "Understood, Your Majesty the Heavenly King!" ”