361 Swedish War

While Hong Tiancheng was busy with the war to annex Central Europe, the Russian-Swedish war was going on, and after a winter had passed, the combined forces of the Kingdom of Sweden and the United Kingdom of Denmark and Norway, which had once again gathered strength, were locked in a tug-of-war with the new army of the Russian Empire.

Although the new army of the Russian Empire had an advantage in strength and weapons, the morale of the soldiers was low, and the large number of casualties and foreign aggression made the Russian soldiers not want to continue to shed blood.

This phenomenon is also common among Danish and Norwegian soldiers, this is the disadvantage of fighting on foreign soil, if you win repeatedly, it is okay, once you encounter setbacks, there are a large number of casualties, the soldiers do not see the hope of victory, and the morale value will drop significantly.

This is the opposite of the Swedish army, which defended the country, and as the Russian army advanced, the Swedish soldiers' will to resist became stronger and stronger, because they had not much place to retreat!

When the Russian army advanced to the capital of the Kingdom of Sweden, Stockholm, a fierce decisive offensive and defensive battle broke out, and even the Kingdom of Denmark and Norway used all their strength, because the king of the United Kingdom of Denmark and Norway realized that the Kingdom of Sweden was exhausted by the war at this time, and once the capital was occupied, the spiritual pillar that finally maintained morale would be dissolved in an instant.

With the full support of Denmark and the United Kingdom of Norway, the siege and defense of Stockholm were fought from summer to autumn, and the new army of the Russian Empire, after paying the price of a sea of corpses and blood, gained nothing, and the negative emotions accumulated before immediately exploded, and after the First World War, the new army of the Russian Empire collapsed.

The Kingdom of Sweden and the United Kingdom of Denmark and Norway took the opportunity to regain lost territory and completely drive the new army of the Russian Empire out of Sweden proper!

If it weren't for the Puppet Tsar of a Thousand Faces urgently mobilizing new forces to establish a solid line of defense on the border between Finland and Sweden proper, and approaching the onset of winter, I am afraid that the Russian Empire would have returned Finland to which it belonged.

However, although the Russian Empire stabilized its position, the new army of the Russian Empire, which was greatly damaged, was no longer able to launch an offensive.

The Swedish army was also greatly injured, and at the most difficult moment of the Stockholm offensive and defensive battle, even the city walls were lost, and it was the Swedish soldiers and militia who fought with the Russian new army street by alley, and the Russian new army was driven back.

However, the Swedish army, which had paid a huge price, was unable to pursue even if it routed the new army of the Russian Empire, and only symbolically sent some troops to follow the reinforcements of Denmark and the United Kingdom of Norway to hunt down the Russians.

At this moment, in Sweden, the army of the United Kingdom of Denmark and Norway surpassed the native army of Sweden, and even many local towns fell into the actual control of the Danish-Norwegian army, and Gothenburg, which belonged to the Kingdom of Sweden, became the logistics barracks of the United Kingdom of Denmark and Norway.

Denmark and Norway are not just contributing without food, they are not raising the strength of the whole country, but not so that the Kingdom of Sweden can break free from the minions of the Russian Empire, under the propaganda offensive of the United Kingdom of Denmark and Norway fighting side by side, many Swedish people have silently accepted the rule of the Danish and Norwegian armies, who calls the Swedish government incompetent?

The Russian Empire was driven away, but Jobs fell into a deep chagrin.

Sitting in the palace of Stockholm, Jobs reflected on his life, he was able to sit in this position, it was completely accompanied by the rise of Hong Tiancheng, without the bloody slaughter of the Taiping Army, it would be impossible for anyone to accept Jobs's own simple religious army, let alone obey his orders to fight in the north and south.

However, after Jobs ascended to the throne of the king of the Kingdom of Sweden, he finally attracted evil consequences, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom did not target him only because he still belonged to the inconsequential rogue army, and there were not many stable base areas, so it was not a big deal.

But after Jobs ascended to the throne of the Swedish king, the political significance for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was different, such a guy who was against the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to the end could become the king, wouldn't it tell those careerists to rise up against the rule of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom?

Therefore, even if the location of the Kingdom of Sweden is purely chicken for Hong Tiancheng, Hong Tiancheng still ordered the Thousand-faced False Tsar to attack the Kingdom of Sweden with the strength of the whole country, and even accept the surrender of the Russian nobles who rebelled in Siberia to maintain a certain degree of autonomy!

Today, although Siberia is nominally part of the Russian Empire, it is in fact an autonomous region, which is distributed with small and large aristocratic forces that have fled after the defeat of the Russian rebellion, and the only thing the Russian Empire can get is the 'taxes' paid by the rulers of the Siberian region on a regular basis.

The decrees of the Russian Empire could not reach Siberia.

The barren and barren environment of Siberia has become their best protective barrier, and the autonomous nobles of Siberia do not have many armies, but if they want to push through, they have to spend a lot of national strength to maintain the logistics line.

It's a pity that the war between Jobs and the Russian Empire, not to mention the defeat of both sides, also cheapened Denmark and the United Kingdom of Norway, Jobs has faintly felt that the Danish royal family intends to annex Sweden, just like the original annexation of Norway!

After thinking about it for a few days, Jobs made a helpless determination and completely surrendered to Hong Tiancheng, this time he didn't want any power, he also knew that he couldn't keep it, the longer the Russian-Swedish war lasted, the more powerful he, the Swedish king, was set aside!

Before he banned the Swedish parliament, but he offended many of the native nobles of the Swedish kingdom, and after the loyal army was almost exhausted, Jobs could only be killed......

The time when Jobs made up his mind happened to be the peak moment when Hong Tiancheng established the German Confederation, subdued the Kingdom of Austria, and subdued the Kingdom of Czechoslovakia and the Kingdom of Hungary.

When Jobs' messenger arrived in Poznan, where Hong Tiancheng was located, the hint of the all-out war system had not yet arrived.

However, Hong Tiancheng was not interested in Jobs' surrender, he knew that the Russian Empire was already at a disadvantage in this war, but he was not in a hurry, and after he sorted out Central Europe and got the phased reward, it would inevitably be another qualitative leap, how could he take Jobs's request?

Hong Tiancheng had no good impression of this opportunist who relied on the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to make his fortune, and Jobs had already entered the list of mortals.

And Jobs sent a messenger to see Hong Tiancheng, in fact, it was also to test Hong Tiancheng's attitude, if even unconditional surrender was not accepted, Jobs would have only one way to go......

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