Crossing the Continent in the Eighteenth Century

The son of Stunaras is a young man who has just grown up. Facing this young man who thought his father made him look bad, I didn’t say anything, but gave him the blessing, and he will understand his father’s in the future. Intention, even if it doesn't work.

On the way back, I slowed down the horse and kept the same distance from Leon. I need him to do some things.

"Today's incident made me understand that the soldiers are not very confident about going to Newmark. Leon, I need you to go to Newmark with the Fifth Spartan Army. No, it is you who go to Newmark with the guards. You compare Those officers are more proficient in small-scale combat, so I want you to give them some pointers."

"Going to Newmarket is not a problem, but what about the guards around you?" Leon asked.

"Anyway, the moustache and scumbags will be back soon, so I'll get a temporary guard to make do with it."

Leon hesitated before nodding.

The next day, Leon and the [-]th Spartan Army went to Newmarket and asked Alexei to record the excellent shooting results. I was in Berlin to appease the local people, stabilize prices, and crack down on speculation. Hug Buddha's feet temporarily.

It is not difficult to cast and assemble smoothbore guns. As long as there are sufficient materials, if there are ten masters and apprentices in a gun workshop, sixty can be cast at the rate of two a day, which is nearly the number of a company. That's not the case at all.

Speaking of rifled guns, this thing makes people love and hate. What I love is that the rifled gun has a large range and high accuracy. Compared with the effective range of the flintlock musket, it can shoot farther and more accurately. Gun one is that the process is complex, the cost is too large, and it is difficult to load.

Everyone knows the reason why rifled guns can shoot far.The reason for the accurate shooting is that the bullet must rotate along the rifling line before it exits the chamber, and the reason why front-loading rifles have not been popular is the problem of loading speed.Success and Xiao He defeated Xiao He. The advantage of a rifled gun is the rifling of the barrel, and the disadvantage is also caused by this.Unlike smoothbore guns, which are easy to put in bullets, rifled guns have to be pushed down with brute force.Your rifled gun fired once, while other muskets fired four or five times.Coupled with the rifling reason, the gunpowder residue produced after the ammunition is fired is not easy to clean up, and the gun is easy to hang up.

In addition, the supply problem of rifled guns is very serious.Smoothbore bullets have very low requirements on the barrel. As long as the requirements for the barrel of the smoothbore era can be said to be very low, as long as the bullet can be fired without exploding, that is enough.As a result, the calibers of the hand-made smoothbore guns in various countries are different, but the captured bullets can be used.Rifled guns are different.This picky old man must be the bullet produced by the original workshop, otherwise it will explode.

For these reasons, delicate rifled guns were called "pretty cunts", and the riflers were unfortunate enough to be called "pretty cunts' husbands".

It is not within my consideration to rush to build one or two rifle battalions of infantry battalions, not to mention rushing to make it, but the logistical pressure is very heavy.But one or two hundred rifled guns were produced.It is best to have about [-] rifled guns, so that all the sharpshooters of the Fifth Spartan Legion can get one, which should still be possible.

However, at this moment.The cavalry sent by Eugene, the guy who led the army for the first time, surprised me a little.

A Saxon army is coming towards Berlin!

A Saxon army determined to attack Berlin is not good news, but a disarmed and stupid army coming to Berlin is good news.

That's exactly what happened.

Eugene led the mustache and scumbags to stop the Saxon army trying to return south on the east bank of the Elbe River. Now the Saxon army is coming to our side!Visually, the enemy has seven infantry battalions with more than 7000 soldiers and more than 1000 cavalry!

Less than 5000 infantry stopped an enemy army nearly twice as large as himself, and it was also cavalry. How did Eugene do it?

When I got there, the Saxon army was still running like idiots towards Berlin.

Surrounding the Saxon army and setting up a siege formation, during this time, Eugene rushed over with the only team of cavalry on hand. I tried my best to suppress my excitement before asking: "What happened?" thing?"

Eugene smiled embarrassedly: "The army over there, how should I put it, I led the mustache scumbag group [-] kilometers northwest of Dresden, and blocked this army that wanted to go north but took over two days later. When Dresden was besieged, they immediately returned to the commanded Saxon army. Then they launched a surprise attack on them the evening before yesterday. After they withdrew from the battlefield, they suffered a lot of losses. Many soldiers had no weapons, and the cavalry had no horses, so Maybe I felt that I couldn’t run if I wanted to run, and if I wanted to fight, the soldiers probably couldn’t beat us, so I ran to where there are reinforcements.”

"So that's the case." I nodded to show that I understood. The Saxons were afraid of returning to Dresden in despair and being scolded. Seeing that Eugene was very strong, he couldn't beat him when he went up to fight, so he simply ran north. I hope that the coalition forces under the city of Berlin will defeat Eugene and the others, so that they can go back to work.

I was amused by this group of stupid Saxons possessed by Italians: "The brains of these Saxons are really talented."

"If only all the enemies were like them." Eugene also gave a pertinent evaluation.

"It stands to reason that such a support army should be handed over to a capable Saxon general. How could this be?" I was very puzzled.

"Who knows."

"In this case, let's quickly defeat this panicked Saxon army." I then gave the order to defeat the enemy army by taking turns in infantry columns for hand-to-hand combat.

"If you don't mind, I hope to complete this hunt!" Eugene eagerly wanted to take over from me the right to command the three infantry regiments and the moustache scum regiment I brought.

This time is the time when the Saxons panicked because they suddenly encountered a larger enemy army. Command of another Prussian infantry regiment was given to Eugene.

Eugene launched the attack with the [-]st Battalion of the Mustache and Slag as the vanguard. After the [-]st Infantry achieved results, the [-]nd and [-]rd Infantry Battalions followed closely. Prussian Infantry Regiment.

The battle, no, it should be said that it was a one-sided massacre that lasted for an hour, and I added a dozen blood-stained flags to my collection.

At the same time, we also learned that the most powerful Marshal of Saxony, that is, the guy who once had a fight with me, was left by August in Dresden to defend the city. It was August's confidant and the German nobleman recommended by his mistress, probably a group of friends that August had been in contact with on a daily basis.No wonder it's so stupid.

After this massacre, which was not even a battle, was over, I sent Junkers, the German princes, and the blood-stained flag of Saxony to the Elector of Saxony. The three in the region, Wittenberg and Lower Lausitz, Lausitz, added a two-state non-tariff treaty to the treaty signed last year, recognizing the Prussian occupation of the three Saxon collateral territories.

Of course August vetoed my conditions. I didn't come to the city. How could they agree to such conditions without the possibility of compromise.

I didn't expect the lion's big mouth to be able to negotiate this time. Anyway, the original intention was to scare the Elector of Saxony and let him continue to hide at home.

The German war in the northeast has barely subsided, and the war on the border between France and Germany has just begun at this time.

During the time when I easily solved the two duchies of Mecklenburg and Saxony, the French army sent troops to Germany for only a dozen days. When the Prince of Baden barely stayed on the front line, a brilliant victory was won by the French army. But this time the winner of the victory was neither the Duke of Vendôme, who had the ability to advance and retreat, nor the Duke of Villeroy, who attacked fiercely, but a French general named Villars.

In Arenberg, [-] French troops defeated an almost equal number of allied forces of the princes of the Holy Roman Empire before the Duke of Villeroy arrived. The Allied Forces of the Three Kingdoms of Kebo State were defeated, and Prince Baden's reinforcements to the northeast were cut off.

Four days later, the four-nation coalition forces of the Duchy of Isenburg, Baden, Weilburg, and Usingen were defeated by the Duke of Villeroy and the Duke of Belwick.

A total of 3 coalition forces from the Marquis of Salm, the Marquis of Sigmaringen, the Marquis of Hezingen, the Marquis of Kielburg, and the Earl of Darmstadt were stopped by the [-] French troops led by the Duke of Katina The way out made it impossible for the coalition forces of the princes of the Holy Roman Empire to converge in Munich.

The French army adopted the method of cutting off the princes who were in the way on the two wings to ensure the logistics and communication lines. Now, after two days of two battles, the two coalition forces of the German princes were defeated, and the French army's flanks were completely protected. The defense line of the Prince of Baden seems to be Falling into an isolated situation, once the defense line presided over by the Prince of Baden is breached, the French army can concentrate on attacking Bavaria and the Kingdom of Austria behind it.

On the Italian side, the French army sent 5 troops, with the Duke of Marsin in command, led by the Holy See, and joined the Italian princes to march. A total of [-] troops marched into Naples controlled by Austria.

Except for the pagan Viscount Turenne who was in charge of the battle in the Netherlands, the French army was considered to be the best.

However, in this kind of sudden onslaught, France actually regarded the Duke of Vendome as the marshal commanding the overall situation. It can be said that it was a mistake of theirs. After all, the Duke of Vendome always wanted to take care of the overall situation.It is a two-move game like dividing troops to attack Arenberg and Isenburg. It is a layout of the Duke of Vendôme. If it were the Prince of Condé, he would not do it at all. The 14 army is very likely to push all the way. , it is estimated that a banquet has already been held outside Munich at this moment. (To be continued..)