Crossing the Continent in the Eighteenth Century

Even if the strategy of the French army made a small mistake, can you expect Austria, which can't even gather [-] troops, to defeat the French army?

Even Austria, which has a genius like Prince Eugen in the parallel world, has to choose the result of a tie. It is definitely impossible to expect the Habsburg, which is worse than the Austrian one in the past.

Felicia, she carried out my order to contain the French army on the flanks very well, and broke Villeroy of the four-nation coalition forces of the Duchy of Isenburg, Baden, Weilburg, and Usingen. The Duke stopped her at the border of the Principality of Hesse, but after that, Felicia retreated to the vicinity of Nuremberg. The 2 people on her side barely contained a French army.

Just when I thought that the defense line presided over by the Prince of Baden would be breached, the Prince of Baden decisively gave up the defense line built in the small town of Göppingen in Württemberg, paying the price of thousands of people covering it, the Prince of Baden Withdrew to Ulm, where there were more than 2 coalition forces from the Electorate of Bavaria and the Kingdom of Austria, plus the original army of Prince Baden, a total of [-].It seems that the Prince of Baden placed the line of defense there to ensure that Munich, the capital of the Bavarian Electorate, would not be attacked by the French army.

Ulm is indeed a good defensive position. On the left is the original Black Forest of Germany, and on the right is the Ka River Valley. If it is operated well, it should be able to block the French army.At that time, the French army would not be able to break through from the front, but could only look for fighter planes from the flanks, and lead the disaster to the flanks.

Although I am worried that such a thing will happen, I am not very optimistic about this defensive team composed of the coalition forces of the two countries, even if their defensive position is good.Who let this coalition have an elector Maximilian, and the Austrian general who withstood the French offensive there was just the Prince of Baden, an ordinary Duke of the German princes.

Everyone also knows the result of an army being commanded by two generals.The most famous one is the Battle of Cannae, where Hannibal beat the Romans violently, and.Ulm is not a defensive city, obviously there is a better Augsburg behind to defend.But who knew that the Bavarian elector wanted to keep the French army out of Bavaria, so he chose to fight in Ulm. Once the French army defeated this army, the French army would be able to sweep all the military forces in South Germany until Munich.

To my surprise, the French army launched a counterattack against the Netherlands at this time. Just when I was confused, at the beginning of October, there was news that the Principality of Hesse was attacking Hanover and Brunswick from China and Germany. It suddenly dawned on me that the French are killing people with a knife.

But it was cheap for me.

I quickly wrote a letter to the Netherlands, asking William Orange.See if it is possible for me to help him clean up the Principality of Hesse.

Naturally, I am not so full of sense of justice.For the cost of saving Hanover and Brunswick, my condition is the Duchy of Mecklenburg.

If the French did not launch an offensive in the Netherlands, nor did they encourage the Duke of Hesse to attack Hanover and Brunswick, they would have to worry about the reaction of the Swedes if they launched an offensive against the Principality of Mecklenburg, but now.We can invade the territory of the Principality of Mecklenburg unscrupulously, let alone worry that the Swedes will land in the Principality of Mecklenburg.

Lewald's campaign in the Duchy of Mecklenburg went smoothly.The Duke of Mecklenburg, who fled back to the Duchy of Mecklenburg, was attacked by Leopold and others on the border.Wounded and defeated, he retreated to a local town, and a few days later it was reported that the duke was dying.The Duke of Mecklenburg, who has no leader and is short of major generals, can't resist the invasion of this main force. In less than a month, except for Mecklen, the capital of the Duchy of Mecklenburg, several major cities have become ours. loot.But my ultimate goal is not the city of Mecklenburg, but their port.

The Duchy of Mecklenburg's offensive was going well, and the Fifth Spartan Army's progress at Newmark was even better.

In the night attack under the city of Berlin, all the Junkers who were determined to resist were blown up.Now the resolute rebels are either ascending to heaven or staying in prison. The rest of them escaped back to their hometown by chance, and they probably lost the will to resist in the face of hopeless victory.In short, in the face of the aggression of the Fifth Spartan Legion, there are many people who intend to change their minds and get rid of their ties, but there are still some people who provide experience points for the Fifth Spartan Legion.

The one who was taken advantage of was Count Leibniz.

Count Leibniz, Grand Junker of the Council of Ten, uncle of Philetia's close friend Hans, great landowner of the Kingdom of Prussia, and senior member of the Junker faction of the Kingdom of Prussia's manor, such an existence has now played a role. The role of leadership Juncker.The Junkers around Count Leibniz put up a desperate resistance, but the area of ​​activity that could be provided to them was getting smaller and smaller.It won't take long for us to put down the Neumark Junkers' rebellion once and for all.

Among the three staple foods, apart from Saxony, the other two are the most delicious. As long as we work harder, we will be able to fix it. In order to expand the authority of the Kingdom of Prussia, I then started to eat the accompanying snacks, the German princes.

Those small German lords don't have much land and titles. If allowed, I really want to annex them all.Although it can't bring much expansion to Prussia's territory, there is still a lot of news about the annexation of more than a dozen principalities and counties in a row. If the territories of those principalities and counties cannot be clearly identified, it may even be misunderstood as Prussia The territory of the kingdom has expanded n times.The reality is that even if all the small German lords are annexed, their territory is not big enough for the Duchy of Mecklenburg.

The small princes, who are close to Prussia, are an eyesore. The best choice is naturally to annex, and use their fate to tell the surrounding lords to be honest and not to be greedy for petty gain.

It's not too close to Prussia, and for those that are so small that even the mother doesn't know them, they end up being annexed.Those with a larger scale and few relatives are still merged.Those with a larger scale and more relatives will transfer their territory to Prussia, and I will throw them the small principality and small uncle state that are far away from Prussia.No, that's off.For those with a larger territory, except that a chicken that was killed for monkeys was annexed by Prussia, I decided to sign a tariff agreement with those guys and talk about currency unification.

On October 25th, after more than 20 days of nonsense with the Netherlands, due to the transit of William Orange and the fact that we had already occupied the Duchy of Mecklenburg, Karl XII acquiesced in our commitment to May The occupation of the coastal areas of the Principality of Kronborg, but in order to guarantee the suzerainty of the Swedes over the Principality of Mecklenburg, we must withdraw from the occupation of Mecklenburg.As the price for us to occupy Mecklenburg, Orange William was forced to borrow from Sweden 50 Dutch guilders per year for five years. In terms of the purchase of timber and iron, the Netherlands canceled the sanctions imposed on Sweden the year before.As a reward, Prussia sent troops to the Principality of Hesse to ensure the territorial integrity of the two principalities of Hanover and Brunswick.

The above are agreements that cannot be made public. They will only come into effect if Prussia successfully suppresses Hesse. If not, the Netherlands will cancel the agreement to aid Sweden. If Sweden is not satisfied, naturally it will not let May The Duchy of Kronborg to be occupied by Prussia.

Orange William's request is very fair. Now that I have obtained the promise and agreement I want, I don't have to stay in Prussia any longer, and give Lewald and Alexei two weeks to collect carriages and grooms. , I asked Leon to send Assassin to collect intelligence about the Principality of Hesse.

As a force that I have always wanted to deal with, most of the information about the Principality of Hesse is in my head, but I still need to grasp their recent movements in order to provide a clear goal for my next strategy.

So it took more than ten days, and it was not until November that I was ready to send troops to the Principality of Hesse.

This time, the army that followed me will be Lewald who returned south from the Principality of Mecklenburg and the Hessian regiment along the way.The Saxon Regiment, four Prussian Infantry Regiments, and accompanying artillery with a total of 5000 troops, plus the Fifth Spartan Army, the Mustache Scum Regiment, and Leopold and other cavalry, sent troops to Hesse with a force of up to 9000 More than 3 people, considered to be the horsemen accompanying the army, totaled [-] people. (To be continued..)