401 The Role of the Church
After the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom regained the Italian Peninsula, because it was a reconquest war, Hong Tiancheng did not receive a phased reward, only 10,000 personal prestige points, which was still a bonus after occupying the Duchy of Savoy.
Today, Hong Tiancheng's personal reputation has reached 60,000 points, which is still a huge gap from the 100,000 personal reputation points that will be upgraded to the next authority.
The further the Total War system opens, the greater the technological barrier advantage, but the personal prestige gap required gradually widens.
In addition, the all-out war system rewards for recovering lost land are much lower than those for capturing new land, and a part of the phased rewards will be deducted from the phased rewards after losing land.
This is the reason why Hong Tiancheng would rather implement the 'three lights' policy in the occupied areas and scorch the earth to consolidate his rule than lose his land.
used the Italian peninsula as bait before, but the situation was stronger than people, and the anti-Han alliance had the advantage.
Now that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has shifted from strategic defense to strategic offensive, it is natural that there will be no similar 'minced meat plan'.
After driving the anti-Han alliance from the Duchy of Savoy, for Hong Tiancheng, it was not only the benefit of occupying a piece of territory, but also the human resources support of the Duchy of Savoy!
Since the Duke of Savoy took the initiative to defect to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Hong Tiancheng did not need to station security troops in the Duchy of Savoy, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom could use all the field troops for the offensive, and could also use the human resources of the Duchy of Savoy to transport logistics materials.
This is the purpose of the vassals, saving the forces of occupation and providing human resources.
On the one hand, Hong Tiancheng wanted to set an example of surrender, and on the other hand, in order to concentrate more main field troops to launch an offensive against the Kingdom of France, so that the Duchy of Savoy participated in the security of the entire Italian peninsula.
Under the strong occupation of the Taiping army, the political territory of the Italian peninsula with many small countries has long been bulldozed, and the Pope's family has already fled to the Kingdom of Spain and France with the core cardinal, and the city of Rome has become the main garrison of the Taiping army.
In addition to the continued implementation of the 'white traitor feudal system', there are also a large number of armed guards of the Duchy of Savoy.
The soldiers of the Duchy of Savoy could not fight, but law and order was still fine, and the laws of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom were implemented in the Italian peninsula, and a ban on guns was enforced.
Even if the soldiers of the Duchy of Savoy were only armed with bayonets and flintlock muskets, they were not something that ordinary mobs could resist, not to mention that the Italian peninsula had lost a large number of young and strong men in the war with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the organized and large-scale massacres planned by the Tuoc of Europe, it was no longer capable of continuing to launch riots.
The forces of the Duchy of Savoy were almost entirely led by die-hard supporters of the Dukes of Savoy and members of the Duke's family, and there was no problem in terms of loyalty, and these militias of the Duchy of Savoy penetrated deep into the Italian peninsula to take over the occupied areas occupied by the Taipings, and collected taxes for the Taipings.
The accession of the Duchy of Savoy made Hong Tiancheng save a whole division of garrison troops!
Thanks to the weakness of the Duchy of Savoy's army and its weak combat effectiveness, Hong Tiancheng was very relieved to hand over the entire Italian peninsula to the Duke of Savoy's family, but the Duke of Savoy himself was thrown in the city of Turin and supervised by the Taiping Army.
It can be said that although the Italian peninsula was nominally occupied by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, it was in fact a territory ruled by the family of the Duke of Savoy, who only had to pay regular taxes to the Taiping army.
Of course, the family of the Duke of Savoy, who occupied the Italian peninsula, also made a great contribution to the logistics of the main force of the Taiping army, providing a large amount of free labor.
In 1673, four Taiping breech-loading rifle infantry divisions were once again replenished with supplies and ammunition and gathered on the south-western border of France, while one Taiping breech-loading rifle infantry division was stationed in northwestern France, far away from the anti-Han alliance in the direction of Verdun.
Nowadays, the anti-Han alliance coalition forces no longer dare to fight field battles with the Taiping army, and the battle loss ratio of more than 1 to 10 makes the anti-Han alliance coalition forces, which have suffered a large loss of human resources, feel unbearable, and all their energy is spent on defense.
In addition, the anti-Han alliance coalition absorbed the weakness of the previous field fortifications against the Taiping army, and began to gradually arrange the defense line based on large cities and towns, and dense buildings could shorten the combat distance between the two sides as much as possible, instead of being like field fortifications, the Taiping army could easily suppress the firepower of the anti-Han alliance coalition army with Hanyang-made rifles from a few hundred meters away.
Although the gap in weapons and morale made the Allied forces feel uncomfortable, in the war of the Lost Country, the countries of the Anti-Han Alliance had to devote all their energy to deal with the war.
In the anti-Han allies, except for the Kingdom of Great Britain across the ocean, the rest of the major member states have begun to implement the wartime ration system, the Taiping army can rely on the slaughter of Europe and looting to support the war, the anti-Han alliance can not do this, years of war have already drained the treasury, the governments have to raise foreign debts, increase the burden of the people, to continue the war.
Fortunately, the war with the Taiping Army had risen to the point of national survival under the propaganda tongue of the Anti-Han League, and even nationalist and racist ideas gradually became popular, so that the civilians of the Anti-Han League countries did not riot under the heavier burden of war.
Hong Tiancheng's plan to slaughter Europe solved the logistical problems of the Taiping army, but at the same time, it also completely pushed the people of the anti-Han alliance countries to the opposite side, and the white civilians who had heard the tragedy of the Tu Ou plan would rather be hungry than unconditionally support the government's anti-war behavior.
The 'Yellow Peril' has spread among the countries of the Anti-Han Alliance, and even many remote rural areas have described the Han people of the Taiping Army as cannibalistic devils, raising the War of Resistance to the realm of life and death of the people......
Among them, the Christian church has the greatest influence, and in the European countries with low education rates, the church has played a very huge role in encouraging the low-level civilians to participate in the war.
It has to be said that the advance of the Taiping army has greatly increased the power of the church in the secular world, and in order to increase the number of troops and appease public opinion, governments have to give up more political interests to gain the full support of the church.
Many missionaries even became leaders of the anti-Japanese guerrillas of the civilian class, causing trouble for the Taiping army at all costs! ()
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