410 The quagmire of war

[Congratulations to the host for successfully occupying Paris and Versailles, the capital of the Kingdom of France, destroying the last large-scale elite of the Kingdom of France, killing King Louis XIV, your name shocked the entire continent, and gained 10,000 points of personal prestige!]

The host took control of the United Province Republic and was restructured into the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Spanish Netherlands also became the host's sphere of influence, and was restructured into the Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom of Norway and the Duchy of Savoy also became vassals of the host, the Kingdom of Sweden was defeated by the host and lost the ability to counterattack, and has not yet been fully occupied, and the Kingdom of France was defeated by the host and lost the ability to counterattack, and has not yet been fully occupied.

To sum up, the host gains 20 points of national prestige, please make persistent efforts to unify the entire European mainland (excluding overseas islands such as the British Isles), the host can get double the additional rewards! 】

"20 points of national prestige, after defeating the Kingdom of France, the reward is really much richer than before!"

Hong Tiancheng looked at the reward tips given by the all-out war system with satisfaction, this time in the phased rewards, don't look at the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to subdue many countries and have a large number of vassal states, but the Taiping Army directly occupied not much territory, only a part of the Kingdom of Switzerland and nearly half of France, although the vassal countries have reduced a lot of pressure on Hong Tiancheng, but also let Hong Tiancheng get less rewards.

Moreover, because the Taiping army directly fought few decisive battles, did not destroy many enemies, and killed most of them were civilians, so the reward value was not much, and Hong Tiancheng was naturally very pleased to get 20 points of national prestige.

He knew that the reward for the prestige of so many countries mainly came from the status and military strength of the Kingdom of France, which was defeated by the Taiping army, in today's world.

The way the Total War system calculates rewards is simple, the stronger the defeated opponent, the richer the rewards.

After Hong Tiancheng received the reward, he opened his personal panel and looked at the strength of the army above, among which 15,000 Taiping soldiers were the native guards of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, 37,000 were Central European legions, which were used to defend against the Ottoman Turkish Empire, and there was also a breech-loading rifle infantry division stationed in the occupied area of the Kingdom of France.

After defeating the Kingdom of France, Hong Tiancheng has only this little army left!

Therefore, if Hong Tiancheng wants to maintain his hegemony, he must inject new vitality into the army.

After all, now the war on the European continent has not stopped, and the subduing of the Kingdom of Spain and the Kingdom of Portugal is also a secret operation, God knows if it is a political trick used to paralyze Hong Tiancheng?

As a result, Hong Tiancheng directly exchanged ten breech-loading rifle infantry divisions with Hanyang-made rifles, more than 130,000 people!

"With these 130,000 troops, the reunification of the European continent is just around the corner." Hong Tiancheng said to himself with a smile.

Then, his gaze shifted to the strategic map of Europe: "French, it's time for you to pay for your actions, and I will let the white people of the entire European continent know that after resisting the Taiping Army, the country will inevitably be wiped out!" ”

With these 10 breech-loading rifle infantry divisions, Hong Tiancheng can confidently and boldly attack the rest of the Kingdom of France and completely cleanse the entire Kingdom of France!

What about the population of more than 10 million?

Not to mention the millions of people who fled France during the war, even those who stayed behind to continue to resist the Taiping army could still use broadswords, spears and backward flintlock pistols against the die-hard Taiping army armed by the advanced Hanyang-made?

The remaining problem is the accumulation of the death number!

Hanyang-made rifles have greatly weakened the advantage of numbers, faster rate of fire and more convenient reloading, and the advantage of charging in the sea of people has been greatly reduced, not to mention, how many ordinary civilian armies are willing to charge with the muzzle of the gun?

If they are unwilling to completely surrender to the Taiping army, they will be poisoned by the three-light policy, and can only flee to the deep mountains and old forests to survive, as long as the local residents help them, they will be severely retaliated by the Taiping army, in this situation, the final victory must be the Taiping army, even if the Taiping army is far less than the local population!

This is the terrible thing about the army, when the army really slaughters with its hands and feet, the guerrillas and resistance groups will lose the soil for survival, which is why the ancient invading army often massacres every time they captured a place.

At that time, there was no humanitarian condemnation, and the aggressor would naturally choose the most direct and effective way to consolidate his rule.

The Mongols relied on a small number of troops to push all the way through.

At that time, I had never heard of the Mongols encountering a recalcitrant guerrilla resistance that caused a major incident in the occupied areas.

In 1675, the eldest Grand Duke of Savoy died of illness, and the new Grand Duke was appointed by Hong Tiancheng, the king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's rule in the Duchy of Savoy was more stable.

In the same year, the Duchy of Savoy was officially renamed the Kingdom of Italy under the instruction of Hong Tiancheng and became the true master of the Italian peninsula, but the Kingdom of Italy also became a complete slave of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and faced the same situation as the German Confederation, the Kingdom of Czechoslovakia, and the Kingdom of Austria, which had been directly controlled by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

After the birth of the Kingdom of Italy, the parliament of the German Confederation, under the guns of the Taiping Army, agreed to the proposal to merge into the Kingdom of Germany, and Hong Tiancheng once again put a crown on himself!

Even the Kingdom of France was defeated, and the German Confederation, which had long lost its autonomy, naturally no one dared to contradict Hong Tiancheng's will.

Democracy can only tremble under the Hanyang-made rifle.

After integrating the occupied areas, Hong Tiancheng, under the natural gaze of the anti-Han allies, once again 'transformed' ten elite infantry divisions into France proper!

The breech-loading rifle infantry division in the French occupation zone was also organized, and the Western European Strategic Army was formed to launch a campaign of total occupation against the entire French mainland!

At the beginning of the battle, there was a devastating trend, and the French militia who had been fooled into taking up arms, many of whom had not even seen Hanyang-made rifles, were knocked down in pieces under the salvo, and as a result, the slogan of Long Live France became a joke, and the whole land fell into the hands of the Taiping army.

However, unlike the one-sided situation on the frontal battlefield, due to the brutal treatment of the Taiping army in the newly occupied areas, a large number of guerrilla resistance groups sprang up, and even if the Taiping army threatened with the three-light policy, it was still unable to suppress the guerrilla momentum in a short period of time.

It seems that the French had already prepared and stored a large amount of food to fight guerrilla warfare with the Taiping army!

Therefore, the Taiping army had to deal with a large number of French militia on the frontal battlefield on the one hand, and on the other hand, it had to leave a large number of troops to clear out the guerrillas, and had to fall into the quagmire of war!

At this moment, the long-dormant Ottoman Turkish Empire struck!