That's pretty much it, uh-huh, chocolate appeared, the most popular candy in the world appeared. William took this invention very seriously www.biquge.info it was a very, very, very pleasant food, and at the same time a food with a lot of calories. It is naturally best to use it as a military ration to replenish the heat needed on the battlefield.

Of course, William should also pay attention to one thing, that is, because the chocolate is so delicious, that the soldiers tend to eat it after they are given it, and then when they really need it to replenish their calories, they don't need it.

Fortunately, William had a tactic from the arsenal of later democracy, which was to make chocolate less tasty.

Although this will make the manufacturer receive countless bad reviews. But it's really for their good.

Thus, the Royal Chocolate Factory opened. Not only a civilian candy factory, but also a military energy bar. No matter what flavor of chocolate can be sold, call the hotline to order!

Okay, that's a long way off.

All in all, the Royal Chocolate Factory was nothing more than an insignificant link in William's war readiness and military production, and there was no need to write too much about it.

Although the milk chocolate, milk almond chocolate, milk hazelnut chocolate and so on developed by William are very delicious, it is really not something to write about.

But one thing can be proven, and that is that war is imminent.

The preparations for war in the Herefords, the Russian-Gothic Empire, were complete, and even something as insignificant as chocolate had been noticed.

That is, when the people of Briton were almost hoarsely shouting that all the monarchs of the Old World should unite and defend the monarchy to the death. The Russian-Gothic Empire focused all its energies and attention on the Indy subcontinent.

This war would determine the future fate of the Russian-Gothic Empire.

Just let the idiots and republican lunatics fight it. The Russian-Gothic Empire was about to reap a wave of profits on the subcontinent of South Asia.

That's it.

The situation on the mainland in 1779 was like this, and it didn't seem to be a treacherous situation, but it was indeed very turbulent and ...... Terrible.

In May, when the Suez Canal was opened. While the Russian-Gothic expeditionary fleet slowly passed through the canal and headed for the South Asian subcontinent, the First Anti-Western Coalition had been formed in the Old Continent.

Its members included the Britons and almost all of the imperial states under the control of the Britons. In addition, because of the atheism and religious freedom policies promoted by the Republic, the Holy See, which had little influence, did not like him. The small state of Lombardy, which is also a monarchy, has an ambiguous attitude.

And then there's the kingdom of Asturias.

The kingdom of Asturias, which was in agreement with the Visigothic kingdom, naturally received quite a few Visigothic refugees - most of them nobles, of course.

With a covetous desire for the Visigothic throne - yes, the two sides were in the same dynasty, and the king of Asturias could theoretically inherit the Visigothic throne, especially when the Visigoths were in such a chaotic situation.

Moreover, in order to imprint the only kingdom of Asturias, which was barely a powerful country and at the same time was not a vassal of its own, but an independent state, the Bretons also said something ambiguous. To the delight of these guys, they mistakenly think that they will be able to support themselves in gaining the country.

And just like that, the nascent Visigothic kingdom faced an attack from three sides.

In the north, Briton's native army crossed the Channel and assembled in the Normandy region. This is an army of more than 100,000 people. And all of them are elite, and their combat effectiveness is very strong.

And in the south, the Lombards formed a coalition with the Asturians. They were going to fight directly to the south of Visigothic via the sea, and then march all the way.

Then there was the east, a large border with the Ostrogothic Empire, all of which were empires - or, more accurately, where the Bretons marched.

There was no Maginot Line in this era. However, the Visigoths still had a strong defensive line of new bastions, and the old marshal Sebastien le Prestri de Vauban, with his genius, built the strongest fortress complex of the last century. This genius sapper, siege soldier, and commander of fortifications may not be the best commander of his time, but he must be the best commander of his time at siege or defense.

Strasbourg, and the large number of smaller fortresses around Strasbourg, defended the Visigothic kingdom from a series of possible attacks from the Ostrogothic Empire.

In fact, in the past hundred years, it is precisely because of this series of fortress groups that they have been garrisoned. Therefore, no matter how unscrupulous the monarchs of the Visigothic kingdom were, and how powerful the kingdom was, they were always able to defend themselves against the attacks of powerful enemies from the east. This is also the point of greatest pride of the Visigoths.

Therefore, the Visigothic Republic, which thought it had a strong defense, did not care too much about the attack from the east. They are more concerned about attacks from the south and from the north.

The original Visigothic kingdom had one of the few elite fleets of its time. The number and quality of their warships, the quality of their sailors, and their morale once caught up with the Britons, a strong enemy in the north. It is known as the second most powerful naval force of this era.

However, in the past 100 years, the level of science and technology and military has been constantly improving. At the same time, these fortresses were also constantly decaying in the wind and rain. Naturally, the masonry as the main structure will not have much of a problem. But those wooden ladders, shelves, and other things will not work.

The press has been renovated several times, but the problem persists. Especially in recent times, to be more precise, after the accession of Louis XVI, this king was a very lenient man with himself and very strict with others, and he was also a scumbag who would not hesitate to embezzle defense funds to build palaces for himself.

In the decades that this guy has been on the throne, the forts have received almost no repairs. The soldiers would tremble and be scared every day when they walked on these wooden shelves. Therefore, it is not for nothing that it has been hung up.

A report was sent in the direction of Paris to tell that these problems were also lost. There was no reply.

Louis XVI thought that he was invincible in the world, and his army could only go out to fight others, so how could he be beaten by others.

Therefore, these fortresses and fortresses, people who have not seen these things will indulge in the reputation of these fortresses and fortresses that are difficult to attack, and think that they are very powerful and will never have an accident. But anyone who knows the actual situation understands that these fortresses are not to mention defense, and even living in them is an irresponsibility for life.

In this case, there is really no way to associate these defenses with "strong" or something like that.

And one thing that is very regrettable, that is, when the republic came to power, the people who knew that these fortresses had become scum had all been revolutionized by them.

And then it's a matter of course, it's self-inflicted, and of course it's actually self-inflicted. The republic instantly mobilized hundreds of thousands of troops to attack his enemy from both the north and south, and even launched a counterattack.

On the southern front, the combined forces of the Asturians and the Lombards were not very large. But on the northern front, in the face of the main army of the Britons, there were nearly 300,000 troops.

Yes, thanks to such an open setting of national mobilization, the maximum mobilization capacity of the republic exceeds two million.

Of course, this is only a theoretical number, and generally speaking, if a million troops collapse, then the republic should be wiped out.

Of course, I don't know.

All in all, the results that followed felt very unbelievable, but they were well deserved. In the eyes of William, who had long understood what the Strasbourg fortress group was like now, it was all commonplace.

There was nothing going on in the north and south directions, and in the end, what happened was the supposedly impregnable Strass Line.

The anti-Western coalition army, with more than 200,000 men, passed through this line with little loss, and then entered the heart of the Visigothic Republic.

This alarmed the Visigoths and took them by surprise.

And after this successful breakthrough, the Bretons and their allies were very happy. Everyone thought that this time, this ridiculous, monkey-crowned, cursed country was finally going to perish.

The Asturians were very pleasant, and they were about to establish a joint rule with the Visigoths. The people of Breton were very pleasant, although there was a slight mistake in the process. But the results are acceptable. They will annex the whole of Visigoth, completely establishing their position as the hegemon of the old world. And the soldiers were equally pleasant.

Although it was a bit unseemly ruined by Louis XVI, the Visigoths were one of the largest and richest states of their time, and they rightfully got the spoils they wanted in this war.

Everyone was happy. Then, all the people were put together.

Nothing at all - or rather, the fighting power of the Visigothic Republic was completely unexpected by them.

These guys originally thought that the Visigoths had already reached the limit by mobilizing an army of 300,000 troops. But it turned out to be unexpected—as it had been said before, that the ultimate mobilization of the Visigothic Republic was not 300,000, nor 500,000, 1 million—but a full 2 million.

A whole army of two million.