Chapter Ninety-Eight: War or something

"So, if I could, I really wanted to get this done as soon as possible and go home. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info "William thought to himself.

Things are still going in a bad direction.

At the time of today, more than a dozen patrols were attacked. The enemy, as a matter of course, are partisan units made up of civilians.

Although generally speaking, according to the rules, such guerrillas do not need to be treated as prisoners of war, they can be killed directly. But William decided to give them a chance anyway.

It's just that in the end, these guys don't seem to want to take this opportunity at all. All the people said patriotism, patriotism, democracy and freedom, and then generously went to their deaths. Let William feel very unhappy to see this scene.

But it's a matter of course to be unhappy. In this way, it would seem like William, they were like bad guys. It's unpleasant.

"Ahh Yes. It's true. William muttered in his heart: "If you can, it's not impossible to kill all these guys......

Of course, this is just a little thought, and it is not really done.

Although, if William was really ruthless, it was not impossible to use the concentration camp system originally created by the British to turn the whole Visigothic into a hell on earth or something. However, it still doesn't work.

William didn't just have to occupy the land, and Visigoths weren't like South Africa in the Boer War, where all they had to do was get the gold mines and diamonds. As for the people there or something, it doesn't matter at all.

Even after such perverse and crazy deeds, Visigoths still have a population of more than eight million. These people were to become part of the empire in William's plan, contributing to his empire.

It's just that, at the moment, it's very, very difficult.

"Wouldn't I look like a bad person? ”

As soon as he thought of this, William felt very unhappy.

Yes, the people here are the same, and the army here is the same. This is not a place that can be conquered casually.

At present, the occupation zone of the Russian Gothic Empire will produce rebellion at the slightest disturbance. The tricks that worked so well in the past are completely useless here.

If the land in the occupied areas is left alone, more pests called guerrillas will soon grow.

However, if a large number of troops were to be sent to suppress it like this, even with the current strength of the empire, it would be very difficult.

The cost of repression is getting higher. The cost of repression is also increasing. If this continues, then even with the national strength of the empire, it will eventually be dragged down by the endless law and order war.

That's it. It's very unpleasant to think about. It's unpleasant in every sense of the word.

William thought so in his heart. Growing irritability.

This is true in the management of occupied areas - of course, there are not no people who kneel and lick the king's master. But the vast majority of people are useless speculators. This group of bastards has no deep effect other than giving Visigoths a term "Visigothic rape".

Of course, of course, there are guys who really have a role. Some naïve guys, some scholars, some Machiavellians, and some guys who really identify with Gothicism, and Gothic unificationism. These guys are all objects that can be used to buy horse bones for money.

It's just that it's still too little. Still, there was no way to change their stereotype of the Russian Gothic Empire for some time.

In addition, William recently reviewed the Empire's public opinion system, as well as the staff of the Empire's propaganda department that was urgently dispatched. It was found that this group of guys was completely unsuccessful. No matter how good these guys are, they can see that they are idiots. They still have contempt for everyone but the Russian Gothic Empire. Even the Visigoths.

They did not consider the Visigoths to be part of the Russian Gothic Empire, or rather, part of the new Gothic Empire.

Now the chain of contempt is like this.

The more William got up early, the more he despised other places. Visigoths were despised by all. The peoples of Frisia, Lotternia and Franconia in the Ostrogothic Empire were despised by all nations except the Lombards. At the same time they despised the Lombards.

Several countries in the East of the Ostrogothic Empire, Austrian Bohemia despised the Ostrogothic Empire in the West, and at the same time were despised by the inhabitants of the original Russian Gothic Empire, and finally, finally, the inhabitants of the original Wende Kingdom despised everyone else.

That's pretty much it. Although this chain of contempt is a bit absolutely a bit extreme. At the same time, the Russian Gothic Empire, very happy with the great nation, the great nationalism, was doing its best to eliminate these barriers. However, this is not the case with the Visigothic side.

Yes, as it was said before.

In any case, even if it is constantly divided, it is constantly being weakened. But for at least hundreds of thousands of years, the Ostrogothic Empire was still barely able to exist as a whole state. This is somewhat reluctantly given to the citizens of this country what is called patriotism.

And then there's the fact that this kind of thing doesn't exist in Visigothic.

After the division of the classical Gothic Empire, East and West Gothic were two independent states that did not belong to each other, and only in a very short period of time did there be a short-lived unification, or at least a tendency towards unification. Although this trend has never really materialized.

In this case, it is necessary to make the citizens of the current Russian Gothic Empire, as well as the citizens of Visigoth, admit that they are the same people. It's a bit of a family that they're a bit of, no, it should be said to be very difficult.

Although a lot of money was allocated, the behavior of these bastards only made William feel that they were wasting food. There were times when William really wanted to ask this group of bastards in the propaganda department. Are they disguised as enemy spies? Why do you make such a super unpleasant behavior? Could it be that these bastards grew up eating feed?

Of course, it's just a matter of thinking about it, not really about it.

All in all, it's a long way to go.

And then there's the military aspect. The Empire still had a long way to go in terms of propaganda and the administration of the occupied territories. And in terms of frontal combat, it is not much better.

William was a little skeptical that the other party had added something that would increase his combat effectiveness in his own territory or something. Why did such a powerful combat power break out in such a situation.

All in all, the morale of the other party was so high that William found it unbelievable. It also made William feel that this group of bastards was not an easy opponent to mess with.

The army of the Russian Gothic Empire, unprepared, launched a tentative assault on the Strasbourg fortresses. The result was a well-deserved defeat. One of the corps of the vanguard of the Russian Gothic Empire suffered heavy losses. Morale was also a little bit depressed.

For this reason, this group of Visigoths was very arrogant and very happy to proclaim that they had "defeated the Empire" and that their determination to defend their homeland from invasion could not be shaken. Declare that they will win the war in the end......

Something like that makes people feel uncomfortable.

All in all, occupy the geographical advantage and people. At the same time, the Visigoths, who have a stubborn defense system, do seem to have the intention of fighting a good battle.

Is.

In other words, in this case, if you send troops to attack even a little, it will become a refueling tactic. It does nothing other than give the enemy more merit.

"In other words, just wait a bit. ”

William had to make such a decision.

In a place that is very unsuitable for waiting, doing something that is very inappropriate. The result in the group was absolutely very unpleasant, with a large army in front and a quasi-enemy with ill intentions in the north. In such a situation, I was forced to waste time, and it was really a laughable thing to think about. But again, this is also a helpless thing. The Russian Gothic Empire was thus in a dilemma.

Of course.

Perhaps, this embarrassment is not unique to the Empire. And not everyone thinks that the empire looks tough right now. It looks like he's going to be defeated.

At least that's the case with the current Visigothic Republic.

They saw that the Russian Gothic Empire had easily and effortlessly occupied large swathes of territory that they had painstakingly occupied. Almost all of the land they had occupied was taken away.

Then they crossed the Rhine, and their army set foot on the land of the Republic with ease. The number of their armies is constantly increasing. The area of their control is also constantly increasing. At the same time, they could not be driven away.

In addition to the Russian Gothic Empire's tentative attack on the Strasbourg defense group, the Strasbourg army also launched a counterattack, trying to drive the Imperial army away.

But of course it failed. The Russian Gothic Empire was weak in attack. But when it comes to defense, there is probably no more powerful force in this world than the Imperial Army.

In other words, it is not only the Imperial army that cannot be relieved of the stalemate, but also the army of the Republic. Despite their possession, they claim to be the strongest defensive line in the world, as well as hundreds of thousands of troops. However, they still have no way to take the empire. I can only watch as the empire increases in power.

That way, eventually. Someday, the empire will save enough strength to attack.

And when that time comes, even the most optimistic people will think that the republic is more than lucky.