That's pretty much it, there were no naval forces, so after the entire Jutland peninsula was occupied, the Emperor's army could only be separated from the remnants of the defeated army of Christian, Grand Duke of Jutland. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info stared at each other with big eyes, scolding each other, and they faced each other like this for more than a day. Kalman IV could only sigh - under the threat of Jutland gunboats cruising on the sea, Kalman IV, who had no navy, had no choice but hehe.

Kalman IV did not have access to the sea in the North Sea region...... At least until the beginning of this war, Kalman IV did not have access to the North Sea or the Bolotsk Sea. This is tantamount to saying that he does not have any naval fleet that can be mobilized...... But then again. If he really had a naval fleet deployed in the North Sea or the Bolotsk Sea, then I am afraid that at the beginning of the war, he would be bombarded to smithereens by the overwhelming superiority of the Briton fleet.

"It can't be helped. Kalman IV looked at the West Island region, which was only a hundred meters away from the sea. In addition to being unwilling, I am still unwilling. With a strip of water, he was trapped like this. It's just, it's just ......

Despite the victory, Kalman IV was not happy. On the contrary, his heart was filled with frustration. Frustration in the face of the ocean.

The idea arose in his mind that he could win ten, hundred, or even a thousand wars on the human continent. But in any case, no matter how many wars he won, he could not really defeat the Britons. Even if he annexed Frisia, and then Normandy with Brittany and Aquitaine—and even if he could annex the Visigothic kingdom, he would have achieved a great feat that no one had done before.

Because that didn't give him victory over Briton. Isolated overseas, with a fleet and the sea as walls and moats, Britun is located.

"Is this war really meaningful, or can it continue?" said Kalman IV, who began to ponder the question. Today, he has conquered all of the empire's territories except Frisia and Wende. He has become one of the few powerful emperors in modern times. So what should we do next?

To take the army to touch the line of the fortress in Frisia, or to turn around and attack the Wende?

Either choice is bad, and the probability of failure is very high regardless of which option is made.

Thinking of this, Kariman IV's hatred for William reached its peak - in his mind, if it weren't for William's efforts to make the Hereford family completely change their attitude towards him, he would never be so passive.

"They have the shipbuilding industry of Bolotsk and Livonia, and they have a stronger navy - at least much stronger than the Jutlanders. If the Herefords really support me, I can get the support of their full naval power. That way, even if I can't attack Briton, I won't be so passive!!!"

And so, at the end of 1741, after conquering the whole of Jutland, the main forces of the Imperial army returned to the mainland.

It was at this moment that Jutland stretched from Jutland in the north, to Lombardy in the south, to Brandenburg in the east, and to Franconia in the west. The vast majority of the Ostrogothic Empire was brought under the control of Emperor Kallman IV - at least nominally, the emperor had largely unified the entire empire.

Kalman IV, both in terms of the number of armies, the number of dominions and the number of people, reached the maximum in history. And at the moment, at least "on the surface", the empire under Kalman IV is simply in full swing. There have been quite a few people who have been carried away by successive victories, or who want to flatter Kalman IV, who have called Kalman IV the Great, the great monarch. Ruler of humanity, revivalist of the Gothic Empire...... Or something like that.

And so, at the end of 1741, the Swabian family reached its maximum power. And after that, the Swabian family is also a matter of course, and will be in decline......

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"It's good, it's really good. "The Emperor withdrew his troops, plundered Jutland, and forced the inhabitants of Jutland to relocate. Breaking dams, destroying fields, slaughtering livestock...... It will destroy almost the entire peninsula, all economic and agricultural bases.

The reason why Kalman IV did such a hurtful thing was because he also understood that he could occupy Jutland, but he could not effectively rule and defend Jutland.

Because there are so many ports on the peninsula that can be landed. And before, the strategy that William gave Victoria to block the entrance to the peninsula was actually not impossible...... With the massive mobilization of the Britons, they were soon able to dispatch a large army that could carry out this strategy. At that time, the peninsula will not be effectively defended on all sides. The peninsula's access to the mainland was cut off again. In addition, the inhabitants of Jutland were quite satisfied with the rule of the Grand Duke Christian, but they were very dissatisfied with the Imperial Army, which was the occupying army, burning and looting.

Therefore, when the Protestant coalition had absolute naval superiority, as long as the coalition counterattacked, Jutland would most likely collapse. No number of defenders are enough here. So, he simply went to the other extreme.

Since Jutland can't hold it, don't hold it. All he had to do was control Jutland's line to the mainland.

At the same time, in order to prevent Jutland from becoming a bridgehead for attacks on the mainland and a hub for the enemy's naval and transport fleets, he had to destroy the island's economic and agricultural foundations and drive millions of Jutlanders away. As a result, the whole of Jutland is completely useless and has no strategic function. This will be beneficial to him in his next war with the Britons.

After hearing about these things, William's mood was quite pleasant, and it could even be said that he was as happy as he wanted.

After this catastrophe, it will take decades or even hundreds of years for Jutland people to recover. And in this process, the Hereford family has already swelled, expanding to dozens or even hundreds of times now.

For the first time, William felt how endearing the stubborn old man Kalman IV was. He quietly solved such a big problem for William.

Well, although, even if this is the case, William will never join the emperor's camp.

In this way, the fall of the Grand Duchy of Jutland, the destruction of Jutland, the expulsion and even the massacre became the last major event of 1741. The Imperial Army, which had been in the past two months, had returned with a full load. They looted the centuries-old wealth of Jutlanders. The country, which had become rich on the toll of the Øresund, on the seafaring trade, on the fishing industry, on the whaling industry, eventually became a barren land.

Millions of Jutland were either driven away, refugees, or simply killed. After becoming refugees, Jutland died of hunger and cold. The rest sink to the bottom of society, reduced to the role of serfs, beggars, prostitutes, etc.

William was originally quite greedy for this group of victims.

Hereford's territory is notoriously vast and sparsely populated. With a population of more than a million, the Upper Hereford family controlled one-tenth of the population, was quite attractive to William.

William even licked his face for this, and sent a messenger to ask Kalman IV to see if he could "buy" some refugees from him.

It's just that Kalman IV is very hehe.

Believing that William was an enemy and a traitor, he had no intention of doing business with William at all. Even if William offered to exchange a series of supplies such as weapons, gunpowder, food, and cloth, which he desperately needed, it would not work.

William was very angry about this—muttering about the damn old stubbornness, not at all flexible. Therefore, there is a reason why the aristocracy can't beat the shameless capitalist if it is too shameful...... Instead, he switched his goals and began to do business with the various nobles and mercenaries under Kalman IV.

Sure enough, the nobles and mercenaries were much less disciplined than Kalman IV. With the exception of a handful of die-hard Kalman IV loyalists, the vast majority of others agreed to engage in this "human trafficking" with William, believing that they were making extra money.

Although this is a lot more troublesome than the direct transaction with Kalman IV, it is very cumbersome and the number of people who need to be dispatched is also quite large. But William still enjoyed it. In addition to transporting most of the population back to the Russian kingdom to continue to expand the local Goths' numerical advantage, a small part of the population could also be transported to the Novo-Gothic colony in the New World to contribute to the construction of overseas territories.

In the midst of such a pleasant process, Kalman IV also sensed that something was wrong several times. It's just that he can't do anything about it - like most contemporary armies, his army is overwhelmingly made up of mercenaries. And for mercenaries, getting rich, making money comes first. They can fight for the emperor, conquer cities and even die on the battlefield. But at the same time, they also asked the emperor not to prevent them from getting rich.

For mercenaries, it is not a big deal to make money and sell the population, prisoners of war, or anything to a country that has not yet clearly declared war on their side.

Kalman IV had no way to manage the mercenaries, and therefore the nobles and the Praetorian Guard.

Everything in the world suffers from inequality. The other nobles and the Praetorian Guard officers, seeing those mercenaries they looked down on make a lot of money, but they couldn't get any of them, it was absolutely impossible. If Kalman IV really wanted to give orders, he had to treat them equally, otherwise this kind of two-handed approach would be very demoralizing......

In this way, with Kalman IV unable to do anything, the Hereford family happily took over the population of Jutland and laid the foundation. It was as if William had calculated, a couple had six children, and six children were eighteen grandchildren. In thirty or forty years, the population of one million will increase to 10 million. As long as the food can keep up, doubling the population or something is very pleasant and very simple.

In 1741, the curtain came to an end in the process of desperately killing people while doing business. The Grand Duchy of Jutland became another disqualified out.