Text: The Battle of Great Powers_Chapter 375 The autumn wind sweeps away the leaves
The war between Xia and Prussia ended shortly before the Beacon Era, and the final winner of this war was the Xia State with the help of the Beichen Army. The war, which lasted for eight or nine months, ended the chapter with an incredible ending.
From the beginning of the war, the three million elite troops of Prussia frantically poured into the territory of Xia. In less than half a month, no less than 300,000 elites of the Xia Kingdom were annihilated, and dozens of cities were captured. It can be said that with the power of great victory, the world will be determined. Just watching the lively foreign people on the side, sighing at the victory of the Prussian national army, when it approached the Beichen country. The whole situation of the war has changed against the sky, making the outcome of the war even more confusing.
With less than 500,000 troops, General Xia gave three attacks to the Prussian army in one day and one night. Moreover, each attack yielded considerable success. The original overwhelming attack of Prussia came to an end, and millions of troops failed to defeat Zhuge Liang even for nearly a month, and continued to penetrate deep into the hinterland of Xia.
Later, Han Xin led the 1.8 million elite army of Xia to the northwest front, plus Lin Hu's 500,000 Beichen Army soldiers, the strength of the coalition army was not weaker than that of Prussia. The successive victories that followed made outsiders look like the war had led to the Xia Kingdom. Who knows, within ten months, the Prussian army actually increased by 5 million. And, at the same time, attack the northwest, west, and north of the Xia Kingdom.
By that time, the two sides had already invested nearly 11 million troops, a figure that had only appeared a few years earlier when the Beichen Kingdom was expanding northward. After such a long time, everyone is disturbed by food, where can anyone dare to organize an army of eight million?
The large and bloated number of troops did not give the Prussian state a chance to redeem its defeat. The increasing consumption of grain and grass by the army of seven or eight million is an astronomical amount, but the army is blocked by the coalition forces that are rushing to the battlefield, and cannot advance an inch. Millions of mouths are waiting for a while, but the military rations have to be collected from the rear, and there is no need for time to transport them in a centralized manner.
Forced by military rations, the Prussian army began to retreat, in an attempt to end the war, which had been fought for half a year but had lost its troops. However, what people never expected was that the largest encirclement between the two countries on the Beacon Fire Continent appeared.
Nearly two million elites of the Xia Kingdom slipped under the noses of the elites of the Prussian State, and no one in the entire Prussian army noticed it. Until 18,900,000 soldiers of the allied army, from the northwest of the war situation, directly cut off the retreat routes of the Prussian army in the west and the north, and cooperated with the two allied forces to ambush the Prussian army.
It was not until the remnants of the Prussian army that there were only more than 2 million remnants of the army who fled back to the northwest camp that the senior generals of the Prussian army knew that the Xia camp in front was empty. Later, with nearly five million Allied troops coming together, the Prussian army had to withdraw overnight.
The war that followed was already far from the territory of the Xia State, and the allied forces began to invade the Prussian State. After experiencing the war, the country soon began to recover after the war under the care of Wen Tianxiang.
It was very difficult for Xia Guo to face the post-war recovery alone, and it was not a simple matter to support millions of troops for several months. Moreover, since the Prussian army entered the territory of Xia State, it has completely sabotaged again. Especially the grain, almost all of which was directly snatched by the GIs. The millions of victims of the Eastern Jin Dynasty once again made it more difficult for the Xia Kingdom to recover after the war.
The only one who can support the Xia Kingdom is the Beichen Kingdom. For next year's war against the Kingdom of the Undead, Xiao Chen naturally wouldn't mind that little bit of food and money. After two years of cultivation in Beichen Kingdom, although the money has not been saved, the food is piled up.
Xiao Chen gave an order, mobilized all over the storage of grain from Jiangzhou, Beizhou, and Xizhou, and urgently transported it to Xia Kingdom. With the support of a large amount of grain and grass, Xia not only temporarily solved the problem of the victims, but also reserved a lot of grain and grass for future army operations.
Naturally, the war could not end like this, and Prussia's army of eight million had now been beaten to only about three million. The elite troops, even more out of ten, could not stop the attack of the coalition forces at all. In such a situation, Prussia has no power to return to the sky, even if its Xia Kingdom does not destroy Prussia, it will have to cut off a piece of meat from Prussia. Otherwise, how can the Xia Kingdom recover quickly, and how can it return the grain and grass supported by the Beichen Kingdom.
The attack of the Allied Army's 5 million troops doubled the pressure on the demoralized Prussian army. In just a few days, more than 100 cities were captured by the Five-Way Coalition Army, which was divided into troops, and it can be said that the army was defeated like a mountain.
Field Marshal Ludendorff, the boss of the Prussian state, was naturally well aware of the form of the battlefield, and this adventure could be described as a complete failure. More than three million recruits either died on the battlefield or surrendered to the Beichen Army. Even the original 3 million elite troops have lost more than 2 million in the past few months. It can be said that the battle of Prussia has been crippled.
The remnants of the more than 3 million troops on the front line have completely lost their morale, and in the face of the attack of the coalition forces, they can only be slaughtered. After all, a month ago, there were nearly eight million troops on his side, and the momentum was like a rainbow. But as a result, it was only a short time before the army was defeated, with losses of up to 5 million, and even more lost the city and land. In this case, it is impossible to keep the morale of the army high.
Excluding the three million troops at the front, there was only one million garrisons left in Prussia. And the men of the whole country are no longer enough for the Prussian state to recruit 200,000 men. The problem of strength is not the most critical, the key is that now the army on the front line has begun to face the crisis of food shortage.
Previously, Prussia swallowed more than 500 cities in the southeast in one go, but the newly occupied land that had experienced the war not only did not become the help of Prussia, but also consumed a lot of national strength in the early stage. After that, it was followed by the war against the Xia Kingdom, during which the army requisitioned a lot of grain from the newly occupied land due to the lack of military rations.
Today, most people in that area are already facing the problem of eating and drinking, and in some places there are even peasant riots. For the mob, the Prussian state naturally killed them all in one go. Anyway, there were no Germanic people, most of them were Gallic roosters and John Bulls, and the second was a small country that didn't know what race.
It was this generational hatred that made the Prussian army feel no mercy at all. More and more mobs are killed, and then more mobs rise up. The situation of internal and external troubles forced Marshal Ludendorff to make a decision now.
In the end, it is to withdraw the large army to the country, lengthen the transportation lines of the coalition forces, and continue the war. Or start negotiations with the coalition forces and cede land for peace. Marshal Ludendorff can still see the form clearly, even if he gives up those chicken-ribbed cities and retreats the army to the original territory for defense, he may not be able to defeat Xia Guo.
Needless to say, the strength of the Xia State is not to mention, it is easy to defeat itself, especially the now weakened Prussian State. As for why the Xia Kingdom still needs to support a large amount of food from the Beichen Kingdom, the main reason is because Long Ye has to prepare for the war of tens of thousands of people in the future.
Even if the grain reserves in the Xia Kingdom were small, it was enough to sustain the country's post-war recovery. Looking for Beichen to borrow grain, the main thing is to hope that it can recover faster. After all, Xiao Chen had already discussed the country with him before, and when attacking the more powerful undead realm, if the Xia kingdom did not fully recover, it would not be of much use at all.
The war came quickly, and the night ended quickly. After only eight or nine months, the war, in which nearly 14 million troops participated, came to an end. Marshal Ludendorff felt that even if he withdrew his army, he might not be able to stop the attack of the coalition forces. In addition, Xia Guo's request was not too much, so he agreed to negotiate like this.
The 500 cities ceded were exactly the 500 cities that Prussia had previously occupied without much effort. The indemnity was 20 million taels of silver, and the compensation was 500,000 sets of iron armor and 200,000 war horses to the Xia Kingdom.
That's it? When the Prussian negotiators heard Xia's demand for war reparations, they were very surprised, and then agreed without saying a word.
With more than 500 cities, there was nothing to lose for the Prussian state. The more than 500 cities have never developed much, and now there are mobs everywhere, and the country has long stopped wanting those cities. And two million taels of silver, that's nothing, at most it's just two years of taxes, besides, the silver in the treasury is not bad for that money.
According to Marshal Ludendao's previous predictions, it is very likely that Xia will claim the original territory of Prussia. And the compensation is estimated to be about 50 million. But now it's directly less than half, so what else is there to say. As for 500,000 sets of iron armor and 200,000 war horses, it is not a big deal, and one year in the country is enough to make up for it.
In fact, even Xiao Chen felt that he wanted too little after hearing Long Ye's request. The annual tax revenue of the Beichen Kingdom is as high as 42 million taels of silver, but there are many places where the Beichen Kingdom spends a lot of money. But Prussia can compare with Beichen, with only a few hundred cities, they can't spend a lot of money on local construction. And the annual tax revenue of Prussia must be about fifteen million taels of silver, or even more.
No way, who made the Germans always have the best armament. It's like now, if Beichen's weapons and equipment are sold, they are still not as good as Prussia. A good brand built from the real world has made the arms business of German players very hot.
And the world's drunken money business is undoubtedly arms. A set of armor costs no more than one or two taels of silver, but you can buy twenty or thirty taels when you change hands. Who let the Beacon Continent be full of wars, and if there is war, there will be a loss of armaments.
When a country is faced with war, no matter how strong its domestic production capacity is, it is not as good as consumption, so the arms business is very popular on the mainland. However, all the weapons and equipment made in Germany are known for their sophistication, and the arms business of the rest of the countries is all very profitable.
But fortunately, Beichen Kingdom is not mainly engaged in the arms business, in Xiao Chen's eyes, the reserve of weapons and armor is as important as military rations. I don't know when the war will come, and without a large reserve of weapons and armor, the potential for continuous war in the Beichen Kingdom will be greatly reduced. Only with a large amount of military rations, weapons and armor can the huge population advantage of Beichen Kingdom be transformed into a more powerful war potential.
If you want to say that Prussia has no money, you are not willing to kill Xiao Chen. However, Long Ye was the leader of the Xia Kingdom, and this war was the war of the Xia Kingdom, Xiao Chen didn't say anything.
However, didn't Tatsuno know that the Prussian state was rich? Of course he knew, so he thought more. Xiao Chen is not the boss of Xia Guo, so naturally he doesn't understand his own hardships.
If the war can end as soon as possible, it will be the best for Xia Guo. With 500 cities in the land, Tatsuno had only one idea, and that was to leave a buffer zone for the two countries. And the demand for only 20 million taels of silver was only to express friendly relations to the Prussian state.
According to Xiao Chen, in less than half a year, Xia Guo will unite with Beichen State and jointly attack Prussia. There are no powerful countries around Beichen Kingdom, so naturally there is no need to worry about the safety of the nest. But I'm different, I just had a big war with Prussia, if my main army goes south to the country of the undead, the back nest is likely to be taken advantage of by Prussia.
In general, Xia should demand more money at the negotiating table in order to suppress the recovery of Prussia. But Long Ye did the opposite, and if he thought Long Ye was stupid, it would be really wrong.
With the land of more than 500 cities, he has achieved his original goal. With such a vast area that can be used as a buffer zone, it is definitely a blessing for Xia Guo. Moreover, there are many people living in those five hundred cities. I just need to make them the autonomous prefecture of the Xia State or not at all, and help them build the country. Those hundreds of thousands of mobs are still not grateful to themselves, at that time, will it be so easy for Prussia to attack Xia State?
As for the money, it was just the military expenses demanded by the two million Beichen troops of the Tatsuno Gang. Ten taels of silver per person, why is it not less at night?
The war between Xia and Prussia ended in this way, and both countries began to silently add wounds and regain their strength. And in the center of the world, thousands of miles away from the Beichen Kingdom, in the west, a super-large battle has just begun.
After a year or two of mobilization, the China, Japan, and British regions are fully prepared, and the three countries, with nearly 10 million player countries, each dispatching a large army to attack each other. On the thousand-mile-long front, there were battles everywhere, and there were black oppressive armies everywhere.
This is no longer a war that human beings can command, and on a thousand-mile-long front, we can only rely on the quality of the generals of each army. The war broke off, and the sea of blood was in the sky.
However, these are not in the way of anything in the Beichen Kingdom. Xiao Chen's anti-summer team had returned to China and began to prepare for the war against the undead realm.