Crossing the Continent in the Eighteenth Century

"Pfft!"

I couldn't help laughing.

"Why are you laughing? I'm serious! What's wrong with elopement! You just talk about it!" Felicia felt that her ideas were underestimated.

"It's nothing bad, I just thought about the scene where we go crazy with you when we go to the New World in the future, and I thought you would say it's a big deal, we won't get married."

"Don't get married? Crazy, a ghost would say such a thing. I just want to get married! If I don't get married, what am I doing with so many things? Why don't you go crazy with me?"

"There's nothing wrong with that, but Ferretlia, sometimes you have to understand that a man's life cannot only be love."

Felicia wrinkled her nose: "Then you don't want to elope with me?"

"My opinion is that elopement is reserved as a last resort to deal with all matters, but before that, I still have to try those options that can be tried."

"That means you have a solution to the problem at hand?" Feretlia asked happily, the rapid change of expression on her face made me speechless.

"Did I say I have no solution?"

"Damn it, then what do you mean by showing that expression on my face that I can't solve, causing people to even say such embarrassing things like eloping?"

"Aren't I gnashing my teeth at the French who caused so much trouble!"

The French ministers responsible for spreading such rumors have always been those in the French Ministry of Defense. After a while, Leon and the others found out the mastermind behind it.Everything is a good thing that the Minister of the French Ministry of Public Security, Roy, did.

Facing this guy who put eye drops on me several times, I think it's really necessary to show him some color, otherwise he would really be one after another, punching shit on my forehead again and again.

Send an urgent letter to Sachs again, asking him to make preparations.For the next two full weeks, I gave no other order except to order the army to carry food around, as if to carry out a siege in the Duchy of Hesse.

On December 12th, the Austrian defense line was about to fall. The Prince of Baden, who had always been regarded as a gold medal fighter in Austria, was unfortunately killed by stray bullets during the offensive and defensive battle.

When we received the news, it was already two days later on December 12th.

The red king was indeed bleeding, and when there was no more blood to bleed, he died.

It is said that Vienna, Austria is now in chaos, and the royal family seems to be discussing a retreat to Bohemia in the northeast.

As for the Roman legions that I and Austria hoped for the stars and the moon, they still did not appear.

It is estimated that Louis' facial paralysis is already dreaming of the dream of leading the German princes to become the lord of the European continent.

Colbert and Roy, the two French conspirators, can also relax.

This is really strange. Could it be that Daddy Cheap is going to sit back and watch the French conquer Vienna?

Then force Vienna to sign an unequal treaty before taking action?

ask Leon.He said that he didn't know, but it seems that heretics are making trouble in the east of the empire again, but there is no order from above, so as long as I continue to perform the task of ensuring the smooth road from Poland to Germany.

Carrying out orders to keep the road clear from Poland to Germany?

Considering that the defenses of Austria and Bavaria are going to be taken, I start to make my layout.

On December 12th.Nearly 28 soldiers of the Prussian Legion of Freitlia left the Duchy of Hesse and returned to Saxony.The Prince of Dessau and Schwerin took over the task of besieging Dresden Prussia and besieged Dresden.only.The Prussian cavalry was left behind by me.

On the night of the 29th, there were 500 members of the Fifth Spartan Army, 500 members of the Mustache Scum Regiment, 4000 members of the Hessian Regiment, and 2000 members of the Saxon Regiment, plus 3000 Prussian cavalry. Ten thousand and 9000 people, leaving the multinational coalition forces pieced together by Hannover and Brunswick.Get on the carriage driven by the groom and all go in one direction!

Ardennes!

Ardennes region!

How to go?

Use horses and supply wagons to build troop buses and let soldiers sit on them. Each two-horse cart pulls ten to twenty soldiers.We were collecting food in name, but we were actually collecting carriages!Plus the carriages we got from Prussia and Mecklen.Enough for us to transport this team of nearly 2 people!

On this day, we went from Rothenburg in the Principality of Hesse, which is the fortress held by the main force of the Principality of Hesse [-] kilometers below Kassel, to the area where the Principality of Luxembourg is located, the Ardennes region.

"go ahead!"

"Go ahead!"

"Even if the soles of your feet are bleeding from rubbing, you still have to move forward!!"

Although the ideal is full, the reality is rather skeletal. There are still some carriages that cannot withstand the bumps and rot on the road. As a result, some soldiers have to use their legs to keep up with the troops.At least 1000 people were left behind.

After the new year, on January 1th, we received definite news that the French army broke through the gates of Vienna after more than a month of onslaught, and the defense lines built by Austria and Bavaria before Vienna were inevitably destroyed. breach.After three months of bloody battle, the French finally opened the gate to Vienna. Nearly 5 troops from Bavaria and Austria were defeated. The Elector of Bavaria and his brother disappeared together. Several other messy princes and a dozen or so dukes, but those war dead who have been around for more than ten years and haven't made a name for themselves at most got an "oh" reply from me.

On the 8th day of the new year, we finally arrived in the Ardennes!

Last time, this area was used by me as an obstacle to prevent the French army from attacking the Netherlands, but now it has become an obstacle for me to conquer.

In the First World War in the parallel world, because the Germans could not conquer the marching and supply problems of the Ardennes Plateau, they could only go to France from the lowlands and the Alsace region. Attack on France.What is the consequence of choosing a route that the enemy already knows to launch an attack? As a general, I know very well that it is a head-on blow.And as a commander, isn't the so-called art of war the most important thing to cover up by surprise?

The mustache Hitler conquered France in less than half a year at the beginning of World War II because he managed to catch him by surprise and cross the Ardennes Plateau, which everyone thought was the most impossible to cross.

Well, although during the Second World War, the aircraft had become an indispensable military force, but during the First World War, the use of the aircraft was still in the skies of both sides. But it is undeniable that Hitler with a mustache succeeded, and during the First World War, millions of Germans shed blood in order to break through the French defense line and still could not step into Paris.

However, to be honest, according to my point of view, the reason why the Ardennes Plateau area cannot be used as a line of communication for marching is that apart from the fact that there are many swamps and limited roads, there is also the disadvantage of supply.

It is understandable that the warring German and French sides in the First World War regarded the Ardennes Plateau as impassable. After all, their main means of transportation at that time was trains. The Ardennes Plateau was not suitable for laying railroad tracks, and the cannons were heavy. If you die, you can't break through the line of defense without a cannon, and you can't transport the cannon and ammunition up without a train, so it is a wise choice not to go to the Ardennes Plateau.But when it came to World War II, let alone tanks, even handguns and special forces came out, and the French still regarded the Ardennes Plateau as the natural danger of the Yangtze River. It really deserved France to be blown up by the Germans. Could it be that the leisurely French really Do you think that if they don't roll around in the hills of the Ardennes, others won't?

The Ardennes area is not impossible to cross. Didn't the French just do it some time ago, as long as they move forward lightly and abandon supplies.Then they can go around behind us to join the Duke of Luxembourg.

But this time, what we are going to challenge is almost the same, give up most of the supplies, and move forward lightly. In addition, there may be a few small French fortresses that need to be conquered on the way, that's all.

But why are we crossing the Ardennes?

The answer is very simple, cross the Ardennes, enter the French, and then head to Versailles! (To be continued..)

ps: Thanks for the support of the lost life path, I am really grateful... In other words, I only found out today that I have a leader... Logically speaking, I should have a few more chapters, but considering the next two The month may be a bit busy, and after June 6, I will have a few more chapters for the workload.