"This group ...... Bastard!"

When she thought she could destroy the city and become the conqueror of the Visigoths, she encountered this terrible thing. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

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It was blocked.

It's just a bunch of garbage mobilizers who can't be garbage anymore. After carrying the gun, most of them did not even complete the basic training for three months, and they went directly to the garbage on the battlefield.

Garbage troops like this are usually dismissed by her.

Yes, such a large-scale mobilization or something, it sounds like a great thing. But in reality, it is not.

If you really want to make them powerful, then in addition to the soldiers brought by large-scale mobilization, there must be more supporting elements.

There must be an idea for them to fight, an industrial system for equipping them with weapons and equipment - you can't just give them a musket and put them on the battlefield. Legion-level units must have artillery and cavalry as supporting forces. Otherwise, there will not be much combat effectiveness at all, and even if it is used as cannon fodder, there are not many qualifications.

However, according to information received by Freya, the Visigoths had significantly increased their industrial capacity after swallowing the lands. However, at the same time, because of the change in the tide of war, more troops are needed. As a result, the labor gap has become very large.

There is no such thing as a women's liberation movement in this era.

That is to say, the working class is still made up of men. Women do most of all that work in textile mills.

In this case, the manpower gap in the Visigothic Republic is naturally very large. At the same time, there is a huge shortage of peasants for arable land, and even fewer men in the tertiary industry and children at home.

In this case, even if this group of mobilized soldiers is pulled out or something. It is just a group of anti-gun, lacking training, and at the same time lacking qualified organizational discipline, lacking a large number of qualified officers, lacking heavy artillery and war horses, and lacking cavalry garbage cannon fodder troops.

In this case, Freya felt that a regiment of Imperial cavalry under her command could defeat and even crush an opposing legion on its own, without artillery support.

Logically so, yes.

It stands to reason that all she needs to worry about is the main force of the other party. The Republican Guard, who fought the old battles, and the Guardsmen of the Archons.

In addition to this there was the standing army of the republic.

Although the number of such troops is quite large. And they were adequate—by their standards, of course, not by the standards of the Russian Gothic Empire, with enough artillery and cavalry support. At the same time, there is also the support of baggage troops and engineering units. However, even so, even so, the enemy is not invincible.

What's more important is this, the non-cannon fodder that can be pulled into the battlefield, the enemy is only 200,000 at most. Or even a little less.

If they had been smarter, they would not have put these main elite units on such a secondary battlefield.

For at present, Freya has turned from offensive to defensive, and has entered a defensive posture - in addition to assisting the two armies on the northern route, a total of four legions for the attack on Frisya, it is to silhouette the meeting of the two armies on the southern route.

As long as you can hold the territory of Lotternia, you can happily declare a strategic victory.

Of course, if she has the chance, she will of course try to continue attacking.

Normally, in such cases, they would not send troops to attack an Imperial army that was already ready, had sufficient troops, and had initially built fortifications.

Of course, they could also understand the difference between their rubbish army and the regular army of the Russian Gothic Empire. In terms of combat effectiveness, there is also a huge difference in terms of professionalism, of course, in terms of weapons and equipment.

Unless they really want to die, they won't attack at the cost of four to one, five to one, or even higher battle losses in this situation.

And yet, they did it anyway.

What's more, they actually played really well.

Their weapons are better than Freya had imagined. This is true both in terms of the number of artillery pieces and the number of technical equipment.

After scolding the innocent Cheka for a while, Freya quickly understood something, the source of the weaponry - all kinds of cannons, howitzers, and of course, a lot of the latest rifled rifles -

That is, the Bretons.

They simply unscrupulously pushed up these weapons that were still shiny and had no inscriptions erased on them.

On that day, more than 400 heavy artillery guns of a caliber of more than 12 pounds, using new explosives and flowering shells, were concentrated. Bombarded the front-line positions of the Russian Gothic Empire. After this, more than four regiments of infantry, armed with the latest rifles, launched an attack on the Imperial lines.

Despite artillery cover, deployed trigger mines, new grenades, and the support of riflemen who were no less than the opposing side, the Imperial forces managed to repel the attack.

But the damage caused is difficult to compensate.

In addition, the protective fence and the extensive damage to the breastwork also made this old-fashioned line of defense lose most of its usefulness.

In this situation, Freya had to choose to retreat, giving up a line of defense only twenty kilometers from the capital of Lotternia to the enemy.

This made her enemies rejoice. And there is a lot of hope, hope, and desire for this war.

There is still a fight in this war. They will not be defeated. The empire is also not as powerful as it seems.

Of course, further, the empire is all weak chickens, dismissive of the idea that the great republics would be able to crush them if they were a little more serious. It was lost in the following night raid by the Imperial cavalry.

A total of four regiments of Imperial cavalry attacked after nightfall. While easily recapturing the defensive line, he also annihilated at least three regiments of infantry, and defeated the same number of infantry, and incidentally captured the same number of infantry.

A makeshift cannon fodder regiment was easily crushed in this way.

After receiving the news, the faces of all the generals of the republics were not good-looking.

Especially their consul, of course, Leopold, who was also the president of the whole army.

If it was lost to William, forget it. After all, he is now known as the world's number one military god-level commander, and it is not a shame to lose to him. However, it was not William in front of them, it was just a woman, and she couldn't even beat a woman. Then there is no need to say anything about defeating the Empire. Hurry up and surrender.

With this in mind, Leopold gave the order as quickly as possible to launch a second round of attacks.

In the farmland that has long been abandoned, on the land that looks a little muddy, under the sunlight that seems a little dazzling in late spring. The great consul divided his concentrated army of 300,000 into two routes.

One of them went north, supporting Frisia and hoping to defend his flanks. The main force of 200,000 troops opened up in Lotternia. Outside Lorraine, the capital of Lotyrnia, a confrontation began with an army of 60,000 led by Freya.

More reinforcements, more small quantities equipped with Visigothic weapons and equipment of their own production, and more armies with weapons and equipment produced by the Britons of the north, were gathering here as fast as they could.

Yes, war. The war is about to begin. The war that decided the ownership of the Old Continent.

Hundreds of thousands of troops, tens of thousands of horses, and thousands of artillery pieces were gathered under the trembling earth.

"In other words, we have won this war. ”

This was the smile that the great, wise ruler, Commander Leopold, had on his face when he saw the "latest" weaponry shown to them by the emissaries from Briton.

-- Originally, these weapons and equipment were used on them, but they didn't care at all, or they simply subconsciously ignored them.

-- That's it.

When tens of thousands of troops were thrown into the two sides, and the entire line of defense was destroyed in a murderous manner, when Leopold's army moved further towards the city of Lorraine. Freya finally used all her strength.

A total of three corps, more than sixty thousand soldiers, were all pulled out.

The female commander decided to fight a battle. It's up to her to deal a fatal blow to the pretentious Archon. End this ridiculous war.

If there were enough Britons among the enemy to allow her to kill them properly, then it would be even more enjoyable.

Even though there were three times as many enemies as hers, it didn't matter. Freya felt that her army was at least twice as effective as the enemy.

That's it - when the more than 200,000 troops on the opposite side surrounded her from three sides, Freya could still smile confidently, convinced that she was the only one who would bring victory to William.

She didn't even pay attention to the more cautious tactics expected of the staff officers. Instead, the decision to take the initiative to attack was made as soon as it came up - the artillery units of the Russian Gothic Empire, which were so proud, immediately began to roar.

A total of three corps, more than five hundred heavy guns, and two hundred reinforced super-heavy siege guns, close to a thousand light infantry guns, three artillery positions opened fire almost at the same time. Rain down a flood of red-hot metal and explosives on your enemies' heads. At the same time, it also silently endured the artillery bombardment of the other side that was not inferior to its own......

With the mutual bombardment of artillery as a "etiquette", this war finally began.