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Representatives of the main member states of the anti-Han League, the capital of the Kingdom of France, in Paris, were meeting in the Palace of Versailles of King Louis XIV of France.
"According to the original war situation, we can exhaust the war potential of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom this year and occupy Berlin, but now everyone knows that there are 5 more fully formed divisions of the Heavenly King's Guards into the battlefield, and they are as good at fighting as the previous troops, and they have a fanatical personality cult for Hong Tiancheng!
The strength of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has once again exceeded our expectations, I wonder what you think? King Louis XIV of France said with a solemn expression.
Originally, although the war between the two sides was tragic, the anti-Han alliance relied on more troops to advance steadily, and also succeeded in reducing the battle loss ratio.
According to the usual practice, there is no need to wait for the enemy's field troops to die before victory, but for the enemy of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the heads of the member countries of the Anti-Han League know very well that if the Taiping soldiers do not die, no one will be able to pull Hong Tiancheng down the 'divine seat'!
It's just that when the countries of the Anti-Han Alliance endured a large number of casualties and waited for the moment when the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's military strength was exhausted, the news of a large number of Taiping Heavenly King's Guards joining the battle suddenly came from the front line.
The influx of 5 full-fledged divisions forced the anti-Han allied front to retreat for dozens of miles in just a few days!
In an instant, the results achieved last year were in vain, and the hope of victory for the anti-Han allied forces was completely cut off.
The 500,000 troops before the war with the collapse of the coalition forces of the Italian peninsula, only more than 300,000 remained, although there has been a steady stream of recruits who have been trained and driven into the battlefield, but can not withstand the meat grinder-like consumption on the battlefield, in the case of the filling of fresh forces, the more than 300,000 people on the front line of the anti-Han alliance army have also shrunk to less than 200,000 today......
On the other hand, the Taiping Army on the opposite side has 5 full-fledged divisions and the addition of the Heavenly King's Guards, with more than 60,000 people, and the ratio of troops on both sides has suddenly shrunk to nearly 1 to 2!
According to the feedback from the front-line battlefield, the ratio of battle losses between the two sides is at least more than 1 to 3, and in many cases it can even reach 1 to 5, in other words, if you want to consume the current military strength of the Taiping Army, it is not enough for all the officers and soldiers on the front line to die......
In the era when there were no advanced weapons such as machine guns, artillery, aircraft, and tanks, the consumption of numbers became a crucial factor for the heads of state to judge the war situation......
This kind of war naturally turned the anti-Han allied army into a simple attrition of human life, which is still in the strategic advantageous position of the anti-Han allied army, if the Taiping army is overtaken, the anti-Han allied army is likely to evolve into a big rout, and when the time comes, let alone eliminate the Axis group headed by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, it is a question whether the anti-Han allied forces can still exist.
Thus, there was a scene of the plenipotentiary representatives of the member states of the Anti-Han League gathering in the capital of Paris of the Kingdom of France.
The war, which lasted for more than two years, made a clear contrast in the strength of the armies of various countries, the Spanish Habsburg Dynasty and the Kingdom of France as the strongest poles of national strength, and the combat effectiveness of the Spanish army was far inferior to that of the French army.
Naturally, the Kingdom of France had become the leader of the anti-Han allies.
Of course, it would be very difficult for King Louis XIV of France to really want to command the anti-Han allies, after all, the countries only agreed on the issue of confronting the Axis bloc, and were not really willing to submit to the Kingdom of France.
"Your Majesty, with all due respect, our Kingdom of Spain is very puzzled by the presence of a large number of French soldiers on the battlefield who are dying for Hong Tiancheng, can you give a reasonable explanation?"
Representatives of the Spanish Habsburgs were the first to come out and accuse King Louis XIV of France.
Many of the member states did not feel inappropriate about the Habsburg dynasty of Spain coming out to stir up internal disputes at this time, and they also hoped that King Louis XIV of France would give a logical reason.
Because the defense line in charge of the Spanish Habsburgs was defeated by this sudden French Taiping army, and was almost driven into Switzerland!
The Spanish Habsburgs, who had lost tens of thousands of troops and suffered a big loss, naturally wanted to ask for an explanation.
"We are fighting against the Axis group led by Hong Tiancheng, not a country in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, as we all know, Hong Tiancheng is very keen on training the white people in the occupied areas to surrender to the white people, and throwing them to the front line to supplement the lack of Han troops, and the French are also loyal and traitorous, can it be said that this black cauldron should also be borne by our French nation?"
King Louis XIV of France retorted with a slight dissatisfaction.
"However, those French soldiers who appeared on the front line were fundamentally different from the other Han Concord armies formed by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, they not only had a fanatical will to fight, but also all of them were elite veterans who had experienced a hundred battles, could such a force appear out of thin air?!"
Representatives of the Spanish Habsburgs argued.
This happened to Hong Tiancheng's careful thinking, the old French guard never launched an offensive against the defense line garrisoned by the Kingdom of France, and singled out the defense lines of other allies to attack, which was just a verbal order for Hong Tiancheng, but between the allies, the meaning obviously became unusual.
Any way that can create trouble for the anti-Han allies, Hong Tiancheng is very happy to try.
The war with the anti-Han allies made Hong Tiancheng quite uncomfortable, and the construction of the administrative framework that had already been on the right track to restore the people's livelihood and consolidate the rule was forced to stop, not to mention, in order to supply the war, the Taiping army had to pick up the 'sacred treasury system' that had long been abandoned.
The front-line Taiping soldiers have sufficient supplies, and every piece of bread represents one less life-saving loaf of bread for the white civilians in the occupied areas in the rear!
War is always cruel, not only for the soldiers, but also for the common people, because it is impossible for Hong Tiancheng to conjure up a large amount of food to supply the front line to fight.
It can be said that after more than two years of fighting this war, the image of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has fallen into a trough in Europe, but under the strong Taiping army, white civilians dare not speak out.
The war with the European anti-Han alliance was carried out with the payment of white European civilians, and whether the whites won the war or not, it was actually a defeat for most whites.