Chapter 394: The Confusion of the Lower Levels
Boom ~ Boom ~ Boom......
One after another, the sound of cannons resounded in the ears of the soldiers, although the Han Empire had begun to have a big killing weapon such as the Maxine heavy machine gun, but the European continent, which was once the world's science and technology center, was still using backward flintlock pistols and queue up shooting tactics!
The defenders of the German Republic, mainly Prussians, after receiving the support of the French Directory and the Austrian Revolutionary Army, directly took action against the nearest secessional republic!
The small Germanic republics that split away from the German Republic were not fools either, and in the face of the revolutionary alliance's aggressive war acts in spite of the uprisings and wars in the occupied territories, these small republics that split from the German Republic came together passively to form a loose military alliance of resistance!
Everyone understands the truth of the cold lips and teeth, and it is not easy to become independent from the revolutionary alliance, and no one wants to be annexed again!
Especially the top brass of the independent republics, who were the initiators of the independent division of the German Republic, knew very well what would happen to them if they were victorious by the Revolutionary League!
The revolutionary army is different from the previous wars of monarchy and aristocracy, and can hang and behead their own people without hesitation, let alone treat the enemy?
The aristocratic forces that have been entrenched in Europe for thousands of years have been killed by the revolutionary army, and their vitality has been greatly damaged!
Although the revolution broke the inherent feudal system, it also broke the shackles of humanistic morality, and the revolutionary army from the bottom no longer followed the benevolent and gentlemanly style, even if they shouted fraternity in their mouths, but their subordinates used revolutionary righteousness to unscrupulously kill dissidents and torture the enemy!
Freedom, equality, fraternity, otherwise die, the first three words are used to agitate the crowd, and only the last four words are the most done by the revolutionary army!
This is the kind of violence that the non-binding revolutionary armed forces advocate!
In Zhao Dutian's previous life, the Soviet power, which successfully carried out the working class revolution for the first time, killed many innocent people in the process of overthrowing the Russian Tsar!
In the civil war between the Soviet Red Army and the White Russian Royalist Army, the Soviet party, which was in a situation of lack of food, greatly expanded its army, but had a special 'machine gun food search team'!
They robbed not only the nobles and big capitalists, but also the rations of the peasants, all for the revolution, for the victory of the civil war!
After all, the aristocracy and the big capitalists belong to the minority, they are all robbed, and it is impossible to maintain millions of Red Army grain, and the wool is still out of the sheep after all, the only difference is that the Red Army won, so these acts of grabbing grain from the peasants with machine guns are covered up by history!
It is precisely because this kind of bottom-up revolutionary war is so cruel that the loser often cannot even save his life, which makes the war behavior of both sides more thorough and extreme!
On the battlefield between the German Republic and the Republic of Hanover, an officer wearing the old Prussian military uniform, drew his Prussian command saber and shouted at the Revolutionary Army of the German Republic, which was still wearing a Prussian military uniform in order to save costs:
"For Germany! Advance!!! ā
The soldiers of the Republic of Hanover on the opposite side were wearing the uniforms of the former Duchy of Hanover, and except that the flags of the two sides were replaced by the unique military flags of the revolutionary army, everything was no different from the armies of the Kingdom of Prussia and the Duchy of Hanover under the former feudal system......
Of course, on the surface, it looks the same, but the soldiers of the revolutionary army are not the original Kingdom soldiers, most of them are volunteers or strong men who have been forcibly pulled!
In the march of soldiers of the German Republic in Prussian uniforms, brothers who joined the army privately chatted about interesting questions. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
"Big brother, aren't we Prussians? Why did the chief have to shout for Germany? ā
Due to the complex composition of the revolutionary army of the German Republic, the military discipline of the former Kingdom of Prussia has long been abandoned, so the soldiers in the marching queue talk in private, and no one will say anything, as long as these soldiers are willing to fight forward!
How much combat effectiveness will the revolutionary army of this element have left after losing the catalyst for fighting the local tyrants and dividing the land and the fanatical revolutionary consciousness?
"Second brother, the country is different now, we are no longer Prussians, but Germans, didn't the chief say everything? We are fighting to preserve the unity of the German Republic! ā
"But aren't all the revolutions already victorious? The nobles in my hometown have died so much, why should the war continue......"
"I don't know much about this~ anyway, Shangguan told us to go to war, and we just did it, otherwise we would be punished by military law! Okay, don't waste your energy thinking about these things, that's what generals should think about, we're just a small soldier, no matter how much we want, no one will listen to us. ā
"Hey, big brother, it's not that I don't want to fight, but my family has just divided a few acres of land, and we are both soldiers of the revolutionary army, in case of an accident, how should my sister-in-law and mother be good......
The Prussian man, who was called the eldest brother, sighed helplessly, the blood and revolutionary passion of the past had long since dissipated, and all that remained was the fear of the military law of the commander and the longing for his hometown......
On the opposite side of the attack of the Revolutionary Army of the German Republic, behind the breastwork of the Revolutionary Army of Hanover, a Hanoverian soldier who looked about the same as the Prussians on the opposite side stretched out his head and looked at the military formation opposite, holding his flintlock pistol and said speechlessly:
"I really don't understand, didn't the previous revolution claim that everyone is a Germanic people? Why did you say that the fight started? And so many people came at once!
What's wrong with the German Republic, aren't everyone all colleagues who cut off the heads of the aristocracy? It's not that they didn't give the land to the poor......"
A veteran soldier next to him who tried to aim with a gun slapped the complaining recruit: "Don't say this to outsiders, if it reaches the ears of the general, be careful to hang you on a tree!"
This is the life of our soldiers, and the general will beat whoever we want, and it is a sin to say too much! ā
The Hannover recruits who were photographed were puzzled: "But, aren't we a revolutionary army?" At the beginning, I came to join the army for freedom, equality and fraternity, but now I want to point my gun at the revolutionary army that once fought together, the noble lord has died, why is the war endless! I don't understand ......."
"Revolution...... Hey, it's no longer the revolutionary war of last year, young man, it's time to wake up, today's generals, I see, are not much different from the kings and nobles of the past! ā
"Then why are we fighting here!"
The recruit was indignant.
The veteran looked at this stunned young man with deep eyes: "Because if you don't shoot, you will be killed, and if you flee the battlefield, you will be killed by the warlords, think about it yourself!" ā