During the offensive, the Empire's enemies continued to use traditional horizontal tactics. www.biquge.info One by one, the companies beat drums, blew military trumpets, held flags in their hands, and walked in a dense phalanx, attacking the array of the Russian Gothic Empire with a fearless attitude.

Then, there was the scene of the musket queuing to be shot with a musket that William was very, very familiar with. Although it is different from the scene that Willian is most familiar with, that is, the two sides are relatively very happy to arrange in a complete formation.

Or half of it is different, that is, with the wretched fellows - yes, the wretched Visigothic army. They were bombarded by artillery, swept away by the shrapnel of small artillery, and then popped by a large number of organ cannons......

For the time being, however, William intends to replace this weapon with a newer type of hand-cranked Gatling gun - yes, thanks to the efforts of William and the military scientists of the Russian Gothic Empire, the first generation of hand-cranked Gatling guns has already come out of the weapons laboratory, and it is only one step away from mass production and equipping the army.

It has to be said that this is a very pleasant thing - although William would have been happier if the MG general-purpose machine gun had been produced. However, at present, the industrial strength of the empire is helpless without that ability. Things have to come one step at a time. This is especially true of materials science, which is closer to metaphysics than science.

All in all, William is renewing his army little by little. Several legions that are about to be formed and upgraded to the "Guards Legion" have already begun to upgrade their equipment.

Those flintlock pistols of great quality produced by the Russian Gothic Empire, which are currently being wanted by the whole world with a black face. They will be armed with rifled, state-of-the-art rifles. And it has the armament of a 75-mm Krupp camp gun and a hand-cranked Gatling gun. Such weapons and equipment have completely transcended the Napoleonic era and gone to the level before the First World War.

Of course, the price of these new weapons and equipment is very high, even in a military empire as aggressive as the Gothic Empire in Russia, and with the magnanimity and generosity of Wilhelm von Hereford's military spending. For now, maintaining three legions is already the limit of the Empire's expenses.

In fact, although His Majesty the Emperor easily abolished the position of "Imperial Prime Minister", which posed the greatest threat to imperial power, and replaced it with various cabinet ministers and the system of acting regents. But on these key issues, whether it was the recently started Imperial Diet or the cabinet members who actually held power, the so-called close ministers of the Son of Heaven all thought that William had gone too far.

The current economic situation of the empire is indeed unacceptably good.

In all the big and important ways, the Empire's initiatives are satisfactory.

Whether it is public transport, the construction of the vital railway network, scientific research and military industry, and most importantly industry and agriculture, of course, there is also commerce, overseas trade and domestic trade. All, all, everything.

The Russian Gothic Empire was unimaginably powerful. The bureaucracy of the empire, the legal system of the empire was constantly improving. Even the most unpleasant public welfare of the world's ruling class is constantly being promoted.

Even so, however, the Empire spent an unimaginable amount on military costs.

The Empire's ironclad fleet is still growing, and each of them is stronger than the last.

When it was thought that the steam paddlewheel, the eighty-gun steam ironclad, was already the most powerful force in the world, William had already begun to demand propellers and dome armor, rotating turrets for the former World War I-class battleships.

Even the dreadnought-class battleships are constantly evolving.

The discovery of electricity, the development of electricity and electricity, and the establishment of various power stations gave more power to the industrial machinery of the empire, and at the same time made the large-scale smelting of the metal "aluminum" a reality.

Other words...... Flying wooden frame or something......

Of course, the manufacture of the internal combustion engine was also a top priority for the Empire. At present, William controls almost the entire Central Asia and West Asian regions, which is equivalent to monopolizing the vast majority of the world's oil output. Don't say that such a pleasant thing is done, just thinking about it can make people can't help but show a black face.

And now, this kind of thing has been done easily by William, and even taken for granted.

Of course, after something like oil really reveals his true abilities, the world will surely go crazy with this black liquid. And in this case, the Russian Gothic Empire will definitely be on the cusp.

Even with the strength of the Russian Gothic Empire, there must have been people who would have gone crazy for unimaginably huge benefits.

Therefore, those regions of the Gothic Empire in Russia are still the weak link under the rule of the empire.

William could even imagine that the empire would have to devote the vast majority of its forces to maintaining stability in the region hundreds of years later. And it is only natural that military operations in that area will be carried out in large numbers in that area.

That's basically it. William now encourages childbearing, and encourages immigration. At the same time, the local aborigines were more or less suppressed and assimilated. However, even so, in the next few hundred years, William was still a little worried about the strategic goal of killing all these bastards or something—of course, of course.

Now it's just William himself who worries about these things that will happen for decades, hundreds or even hundreds of years. At least that's not what Freya is worried about now, it's worrying. Or rather, hesitating, thinking about the next strategy.

Of course, the defenses of the Russian Gothic Empire remained impregnable. It's a little different from a few years ago. In the era of the New World War, although the White Legion, the predecessor of the Imperial Army, was also a strong force, the dedicated Visigothic army and the native insurgent army still had a great chance of killing them in front of them and beating the bastards to the point that his mother could not even see them.

But now it's different. From the very beginning of "defeat the enemy and win a big victory" to "be able to inflict heavy damage on the opponent" and then reduced to "can seize one of the opponent's defenses".

However, even such a diminishing goal now seems too far away to be achieved.

Especially after a large number of artillery pieces and concentrated artillery positions were bombarded to scum by the artillery of the Russian Gothic Empire, without artillery cover, the possibility of an infantry breakthrough became even more slim.

"A little ......," Freya shook her head in her heart. The opposing army went forward and followed - after the makeshift legion was almost exhausted, the other side formed another improvised legion.

In fact, this is already a rather dangerous thing.

If one legion is exhausted, although it is also a bad thing, but at worst, other legions can still retain the structure, as long as they use some "what" means, they can quickly restore morale in a short time.

When the time comes, you can continue to fight.

However, if this is the case, if each legion draws part of the army, then their own strength will decrease...... Moreover, seeing the casualties of their own legions, their own morale naturally decreased a lot.

Although there is a saying that it is better to cut off one of its ten fingers than to hurt it. However, that should also be said on an occasion-by-occasion basis.

As if in the current situation, it is indeed a good idea to lose the enemy's various legions or something.

As a result, their overall combat effectiveness decreases. It is quite difficult to restore the formation and strength of the various legions.

If in this case, the Russian Gothic Empire army launched a counteroffensive, then the Visigothic army, whose morale, formation, strength and artillery were all damaged, could not be defeated.

In fact, one of the options for Freya's distress right now is this. Whether to launch a counterattack.

Of course, there are other options.

For example, keep defending, or keep defending. Or reluctantly send a few troops to the rescue of the Western Front or something.

Yes, on the second day of the battle, Lady Mary once again lowered her discipline and sent messengers, in all sorts of earnest hopes that Freya would send some troops to the rescue of their rubbish Britons.

"So, how far do these Britons want to be rubbish?" Freya sighed.

Even Freya couldn't understand why the Britons, who had a fortress, had enough supplies and enough military pay, and of course had enough weapons and equipment, and the artillery support of the Britons couldn't hold out for even three days.

Why?

Of course, Freya didn't know that the quality of these fortresses was so rubbish......

In fact, Freya is a bit of a stretch to say that they are "garbage".

Even if it were in the field, they might have been slower to collapse.

This is mainly due to the fact that morale has been greatly affected. In the beginning, the Bretons used these fortresses as barriers, but after discovering that they could not actually protect them at all, the deviation between ideals and reality disappointed them to the extreme.

Naturally, this led to a sharp drop in their morale and even panic.

That's it, all kinds of tragedies for the Britons......

(To be continued.) )