Chapter Ninety-Six: Before the Final Decisive Battle

That's pretty much it. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 Info: His Majesty the Emperor of the Gothic Empire of Russia is not a job where you have a lot of time and leisure, and you can with your favorite girls until dawn every day. The honeymoon period between Willem von Hereford and Freya did not exist.

Aside from sneaking into William's tent every night, or vice versa, there was little progress between the two men. During the day, I still meet with my boss and subordinates. At most, it's a little bit of flirting when no one is around.

William also understands more or less that even so, there will probably be some people who will notice the unusual relationship between himself and Freya, and there will be some guys who are not afraid of death who will spread unusual rumors about William and Freya. This kind of thing cannot be forbidden under any circumstances. Rather, the more forbidden it is, the more likely it is to happen. After all, this kind of thing is what the masses of the people like to see.

So, it doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter if you don't say anything. It doesn't matter if you let others guess.

Anyway, before this, all kinds of gossip between himself and Victoria have been circulating for a long time? William thought this very happily in his heart.

Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh, uh-huh.

Even if it's a little bit of a message or something. At most, it's just the history of barnyard officials. It's amazing to make a TV series a few hundred years later, saying that it's a joke about William, or a history of love in Moscow or something.

For this kind of thing, William didn't care at all, he didn't care about his words.

If it was discovered, it would probably be hundreds of years later, or even longer. When the time comes, I will directly say how to fall in love with different ages. Say it's been hundreds of years. The relationship between us has long gone beyond ordinary family, friendship, love and so on. It's a transcendental, metaphysical thing that you short-lived people don't understand at all.

Well, that would be a very pleasant end.

Under such pleasant thoughts, William maintained a good mood from the beginning to the beginning of the war, and was very happy and very happy.

If the process on the battlefield can be as natural as love, then William may be happier and more happy.

The problem is, no.

Not at all.

It was suppressed.

With the mood that defeating those bastards a day earlier, he would be able to unify the world earlier, and the book would be finished sooner, William easily gave the order to attack.

And in the beginning, the progress of the Imperial army was also quite good. One by one, the enemies were swept down. A number of small strongholds, fortresses, on the east bank of the Rhine were easily destroyed by the Imperial Army.

The sophisticated artillery combined with the sophisticated new gunpowder made the enemy's stronghold fortress look like papier-mâché. It doesn't play any defensive role at all. It was easily destroyed.

And the next battle is very simple.

Although some fortifications were also placed on the other side of the river. But because the control of the sea was in the hands of the Reich - by the way, after the Reich had taken the naval fleet out of the Polotsk Sea and into the North Sea, the Britsons shouted and reluctant. All sorts of things that want to get the empire back or something.

Of course, of course, all of this was ignored by the Empire. This group of bastards said that they would definitely be punished for interfering with the regional strategic balance, and there was no follow-up.

William, of course, did not believe that the Bretons would give up such a good time. In fact, instead of transporting troops, opening up new battlefields from the flanks or something. One of the more important objectives of the Imperial Navy's fleet was to target the Briton fleet.

If it can, then the naval fleet will become the advance force against the Britons and capture the Briton Islands.

This is not a low probability.

All in all, under the cover of fire, destruction, as well as fire from the river gunboats, as well as from the coastal artillery groups on the opposite side. The enemy's positions along the river on the opposite side were almost immediately annihilated. Then the Imperial army began to cross the river with ease.

Because all the several passable bridges on the Rhine were blown up. The Reich had to build pontoon bridges over the Rhine. They even ferried back and forth to transport troops across the river.

Of course, it's a little bit difficult, and the speed and time are a little bit worse.

But for the great empire, the great emperor, and the great imperial army, it was not too difficult to do. As long as you put in the hard work, you can easily do it - of course, if not hard work, you can actually do it.

Mmmmmmmm

Borrowed from the fortress design of the Russian Gothic Empire. Strass Fortress is a rather difficult fortress group to attack.

In addition to the large number of fortresses cast in reinforced concrete, there are thousands of fortress guns of various calibers arranged here, as well as attached artillery groups that also have thousands of guns.

There are more than 100,000 garrisoned legions of the fortress. And around the fortress, more than 200,000 troops were deployed.

Behind the fortress, on the road to Paris, there were still a large number of boot camps, a large number of troops and supplies, both produced and transported from Briton in the north. It is constantly being transported towards the Strass Fortress group.

Just looking at this design, just looking at the fort deployment map, as well as the strength of the troops, the list of various legions, the imperial staff officers below William, the officers and generals felt a burst of scalp tingling.

It's just a ghost animal.

Why, why. How the hell is this group of bastards able to put so many troops, fortifications and artillery in one place. What the hell should I do to defeat them, bastard?

"Really, really. Although his attitude was much more relaxed than that of his subordinates, William still expressed a little bit of me at the first time.

No matter what the world is, this country is very good at building fortifications. He thought so in his heart.

If so, what should the Empire do to defeat them?

Think about it for a moment, think about it seriously.

Sure enough, large-caliber siege artillery is indispensable.

"Ah, of course, I'd prefer to use a lot of bombs, plus four-engine heavy bombers, if I could...... It's very difficult. William thought to himself.

In fact, as hard as he tried, the dwarves tried very hard. But the internal combustion engine that has been invented today still does not meet William's needs. The speed of the car is not even the speed of a horse-drawn carriage. And the fuel consumption is very high......

Of course, having said that, it still has to show that these guys are working very hard.

So, whether it's a car, a motorized infantry, or an airplane—the kind of canvas and wood bookshelf that of the First World War model, William doesn't have it at the moment.

The only substitute is an airship currently under construction......

Although the current airship also has some technical difficulties. But for now, it seems that this is the only one in the Empire that can be manufactured and equipped in the near future. And then bully those SB's secret weapons.

Airships, and then bombs. Then there was the cluster bombardment of the fortress. In this way, it will be effortless to bombard these fortresses that are completely unfetched against the above, the air defense of the fortress that his mother does not recognize.

However, if you really want to do this, you will have to wait at least half a year.

"So, the timing is a little bit unfortunate. William thought to himself, "If only the war could drag on a little longer." It's just that it's unlikely...... Yes. Yes. It's true. Why can't the world work the way I want it to? It's not fair. ”

So, in the end, the old way can only be used to attack.

After all, William had no way to be trapped under the enemy's fortress with an army of hundreds of thousands for half a year, just to wait for a new weapon or something. It's stupid to think about it, isn't it?

So, so the war began.

So, the war made William feel a very huge sense of discomfort.

-- Many of his own troops were still on the east bank of the Rhine. Of course, the same goes for shipping. Although more and more pontoon bridges are being erected, more supplies and troops will be transported every day than yesterday. However, William still had a feeling of discomfort with his hands and feet being tied.

Another uncomfortable feeling is that you can't get any supplies locally.

Most of the time, William would mock his enemies for doing their united front work like idiots. After all, the concept of the country and the nation in modern times is still a very fashionable thing. The vast majority of the enemy did not understand what this was all about. Why, exactly. How exactly it should work.

And although William knew and understood, and the empire he built was also a nation-state. Unfortunately, however, his opponent is not. William was accustomed to going to war with non-national states. Completely incompatible with one thing, and that is all-out war. War for all.

Most of the time, the army enters the enemy's territory and as long as the army discipline is strictly controlled, and then the fair trade is given, and those people are given the opportunity to make money, that is, part of the military economy, then those people will be happy to do business with the empire, and then they can happily accept the rule of the empire.

Not this time, however.

This time, this group of guys, for the rule of the empire, for the "invasion" of the empire, even if the empire did not commit any offense against them, they still showed their hostility.