Chapter 5: "Holiness, Justice, and Redemption"
The Spaniards, open the door to "God".
The British, open the door to send "civilization".
Americans, open the door to send "freedom".
Franz's slogan is: Open the door to deliver "justice".
Franz looked at the battlefield filled with gunpowder and was a little stunned, and to be honest, he didn't expect this battle to be so fierce.
After all, the battle reports I have seen before are basically that if you destroy about 10% of the troops, the enemy will collapse and surrender, and then the other side will start to clean up the battlefield and take prisoners.
In the battle just now, the Austrians fired more than 500 new rodless spin rockets in just ten minutes, and they dealt a great blow to the morale of the indigenous soldiers in a short period of time.
What's even more terrifying is that it happened to be the dry season at this time, and the hay on the ground was ignited, and the fire quickly spread, and many indigenous soldiers had a chance to escape.
But the sudden cavalry charge of the opposing side also dashed this hope, and the final result was that the 5,000 soldiers barely survived, and what was even more terrible was that they were all surrounded and killed in a small area.
The thick smell of burnt corpses around was disgusting, and Franz felt that the steak in his hand suddenly became unfragrant.
Archduke Friedrich on the side showed a fanatical expression.
"Franz, what a genius you are! I've never seen such a beautiful siege, and I'm going to record it. I think my dad and big brother will be more than willing to discuss this new tactic with you. β
Franz felt ashamed of this compliment, in fact, this is not a new tactic at all, but just a copy of the doctrine of superiority in firepower, simply put, it is to wash the ground with rockets smashed with money, and then take advantage of the collapse of the enemy's morale, and then send cavalry to pursue decisively and harvest heads.
However, due to the advantages of terrain and timing (favorable factors), the results of the battle were greatly expanded.
The battle just now made Franz start to think about the question, can the infantry really maintain morale under such firepower? And even if the morale of the army does not collapse, how can the flesh and blood resist the bombardment of the sea of fire?
What is even more of a concern is whether the secret of the successful use of these new weapons will be used by other countries to be used against the Austrian army in the event of a war.
"Uncle Friedrich, this is an unequal battle, and our purpose remains the same."
"I know, we're talking about business. Don't worry, I'm not a butcher, and I don't want to exterminate these natives, although I think it would be easier. β
The chiefs and messengers of the surrounding tribes were already frightened, and watched Franz and Friedrich talking and laughing beside them.
Although they didn't know what these two were talking about, they knew that the two teenagers in front of them could easily decide their life and death.
It was Franz's decision to invite the natives to visit, because he did not have time to convince the tribes one by one, so he wanted to show them the pros and cons in the simplest and most direct way.
Franz reminded the interpreter that he should once again remind the tribal leaders to consider signing the protection agreement, and at the same time ask them to talk about their grievances with the Akan tribe.
It's actually funny to say that there are hundreds of languages spoken in CΓ΄te d'Ivoire, but the lingua franca is Portuguese and French.
Of course, from now on they will have to learn one more language, and that is German.
Seeing that the chiefs had signed the protection agreement, Franz couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief that their purpose had been achieved, as for their grievances with the Akan tribe, it was simply too many to write, even for seven days and seven nights.
What is robbing water, grabbing livestock, robbing women, from the fact that they don't use straw paper to go to the toilet, and they have trampled on ants to death, to the Akan tribe has launched several wars, plundered how much land, population, and so on.
People have the psychology of comparison, you say that the Akan tribe robbed me of five sheep, I said that they robbed me of ten sheep, and even the formation of the Hazara Desert was also the ghost of the Akan tribe.
Although they were a group of natives, they were able to mix into the top and knew how to flatter and steer the rudder, and after seeing Franz's powerful force, these chiefs and messengers slapped Franz's sycophants.
Franz knew that they were forced to survive in order to survive, so he did not expose them, but directly gave them a big gift, that is, all the population and land of the Akan tribe.
In fact, those tribal chieftains had long had the intention of taking advantage of the fire to rob, but they were intimidated by the strength of the Austrian army. Now with Franz's permission, the usually high tribal chiefs immediately prostrate themselves on the ground.
The big salt shirt sound may be due to the fact that she grew up in a shrine and has been cultivated as a shrine maiden, she always gives people a feeling of being superior, coupled with her cold eyes and cold appearance, it will make people mistakenly think that she is a fairy who does not eat fireworks in the world.
After that, all her behavior was up to standard and very polite, but it just gave people a feeling of rejection.
At this time, Franz looked at the big salt shirt again, and the two eyes met, and she inadvertently showed a flattering smile.
Franz nodded in satisfaction, and it seemed that the scene had shocked her.
In fact, it was not only shocking, it simply refreshed her three views, and the shogunate samurai that Da Shioyin had seen before seemed to be inferior to those African natives with flintlock pistols.
At the same time, the shogunate army was still equipped with a large number of cold weapons, and there were even samurai masters who showed off their strength on the streets with swords.
In the suppression of the Osaka Rebellion, the Iron Artillery Brigade only appeared once, and that was especially used to deal with the main force of Heihachiro Shio.
Other times, the rebels were mainly armed with spears, ashigaru wearing haori, and only the officers leading the group had katanas. (During the 200 years of Japan's feudal statehood, the renewal of weapons almost stopped.)
Even then the rebels were overwhelmed, and this time Franz exterminated thousands of natives, who were barbarians but armed with advanced muskets.
Oshioshanin felt that the official army of the shogunate, in front of Franz's army, might not perform much better than those African tribes. She was even sure that as soon as Franz's army set foot on Japanese soil, it would be a matter of time before he conquered it.
Although she was Japanese, she wanted someone to conquer the land, not just for revenge, but also for redemption.
Of course, this was all instilled in her by Franz, after all, the Yankees of later generations did this, under the banner of "freedom and democracy", and cultivated a large number of spiritual Americans.
The earliest Spaniards, under the banner of "holy war", sent Catholicism and robbed gold and silver. After the British, they seized colonies all over the world under the guise of sending "civilization".
Later, under the banner of "freedom, democracy, and human rights," the Americans stirred and stole oil everywhere.
The banner of religion is too old and outdated; Sending civilization is a British and French practice, which has no characteristics; The flag of the Americans, Austria is not appropriate.
If Franz had used it, he would have either been put in an insane asylum, or Austria would have been broken into a dozen pieces in minutes.
So Franz tailor-made a new banner for the Austrian Empire at that time, "Sanctity, Justice and Redemption".
He defined the character of the Great Salt Shanyin as a "holy avenger", who seeks justice for the weak and redeems the ignorant.
The same set of theories can explain the present war, and any war in the future.
At this time, Miss Sugi was thinking that Franz had exterminated the Akan tribe in order to seek justice, and that the treaty of protection was signed to protect the weak natives from the foreign powers, and that the colony was established to redeem the ignorant local people
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