Crossing the Continent in the Eighteenth Century

There are many nobles in France, and there are more useless nobles in France. When I heard that the nobles who flanked the French army captured the highest title, it was an earl. I felt that my previous thoughts were correct.After asking a few more French nobles, I can confirm that, obviously, most of the nobles in the court of Versailles who have neither connections nor much wealth are in the east side position this morning.Those who really have a background, and are of great aristocrats, are all in the main position of Prince Condé.

Then today we used a knife to chop up a large group of scumbags waiting to die for free with a knife for Louis. That guy should be smiling happily in Versailles now.

Aristocrats with neither too many connections nor too much wealth died as soon as they died. Anyway, they couldn't go anywhere, and after they died, these people could make greater contributions than when they were alive.The positions they vacated would soon be bought by rich men eager for title and social recognition.

After coming and going, France is engaged in income generation again.

No matter how you look at this method, it looks like Colbert is playing tricks!

Anyway, it was all about the defeat of Prince Kong Dai, because the great prince had already won too many victories, so he put some of them, big and small, all under the prince's hands.At the critical moment, let a group of nobles who basically have no judgment rush out to die.In short, Prince Conde lost very wrongly.

As a token of respect for this man of the hour, I asked my captives to bring me the gauntlet, and I will fight him in a real duel in the next battle at Versailles.

However, am I not going to retreat?

It's true that I want to retreat, but I still have to talk about the situation, and I have to find an opportunity to retreat.

Like now, I took a break for two hours at five o'clock in the afternoon.After defeating the Prince of Condé, I led the remaining soldiers to the next battlefield, preparing to face this enemy and his soldiers who had retreated once again. As long as this line of defense is broken, Versailles and Paris will come to us Wide open, such a moment full of historical significance, I was assassinated.

At dusk, Leon played the role of an assassin and fired an empty gun at me while I was riding fast.Then, in full view, I was thrown out.fell to the ground.Constance next to me hurriedly cooperated with my guards to carry me away, and then gave an order to the army that was still marching to stop advancing.

After a few minutes, the front team changed to the rear team, and the rear team changed to the front team. The whole army quickly withdrew to the northeast according to the route I had planned.

This fall.I fell so badly.However, our retreat went fairly smoothly.It is estimated that our direction and my challenge played a role.in the next few days.While we were on our way non-stop, the French didn't show up. They were still foolishly waiting for us on the defense line on the east side of Paris.

The Duke of Luxembourg was more difficult to deal with. While everyone was rushing to Paris, that guy still had the mind to send cavalry to the northwest of France.Therefore, the army of the Duke of Luxembourg became the closest French army to bite us.But even so.They are still at least sixty or seventy kilometers away from us.

France is as big as a medium-sized province of the Chinese Empire. Facing the harassment of the French army in the French fortress along the way, we fought and ran, and finally on the seventh day.We wandered around in a panic for a few days and entered the predetermined area, the northeast of France bordering the Netherlands, and the west of the Ardennes.

In order to cooperate with me, Sachs launched a recapture offensive against the French army in the lowland area of ​​the Netherlands as agreed.

The Dutch recapture offensive is not a good idea at this time, but Karl XII has always been the one who fights when there is a battle, he doesn't care what the meaning of this attack is, he probably thinks he is dead Enemies are good enemies, so it is the same for him to fight early or late.Orange William is different. This guy can only continue to gain the support of the people by demonstrating to others the superiority of his Orange family being elected as the regime through continuous victories.Therefore, it is good for him to launch an offense, and more importantly, Orange William is a layman.Sachs is another guy who can talk.

As a result, a series of battles that were completely unfavorable to the Netherlands, but to my ability to escape from France, took place on the border between the Netherlands and France.The two sides have been fighting back and forth here for only about a month.

According to the deployment of troops in this era, all the prelude offensives and tentative attacks were basically completed within a month. That is to say, the time when we broke into the border area between France and the Netherlands in embarrassment was just when the two sides were about to break out. Fight to the death.

And what does it mean to a commander that an unexpected enemy army suddenly appeared behind him?

Dilemma.

It was with such a mind that I arrived near Liege, the fortress in the northeast of France, with the intention of reversing the situation in the south of the Netherlands, and at the worst, severely injuring the main force of the French army.But soon, through the investigation and Assassin's intelligence, I found that my thinking was still a little too naive.The certain French viscount, who was equally famous in strategy and tactics as the Prince of Condé, built the northern defense line like an iron barrel.

If you want to severely damage the French Army of the Netherlands, there is no problem, then wait for the Duke of Luxembourg to rush up and kill me.

There is no problem in escaping.The terrain of France is plain in the west and northwest, unlike the terrain in the east, which is highland and hilly.

Marching in open terrain, if you don't go to attack the city, you don't have to worry about the dangerous checkpoints that can't be opened by one man. You can also turn a blind eye to the large and small fortresses with a large number of French troops along the way. After all, the French fortresses have the most defenders. It is only one or two thousand, the number cannot be compared with ours, and those fortresses have only one function, which is to provide regional defense functions for defending specific important cities in the plain area.

The reason why I chose the secession area here is very simple. There are Sax, the Dutch, and Karl XII here, while the other areas are all French troops.Moreover, the terrain in the north is flat. Although the French army has many fortresses, they are all built for the purpose of defending the city. If we break away from France instead of attacking the cities in the north of France, we don't need to attack these fortresses.In addition, since the war is going on here, our arrival can provide a lot of variables for Sachs' recapture attack.Maybe it can hit the main force of the French Army of the Netherlands when it retreats again.

However, considering the Duke of Luxembourg who was chasing after him all the way, and the French Netherlands Army's meticulous defense, I gave up the idea of ​​​​giving the French Netherlands Army behind my back.After simply destroying several French fortresses, they ran towards the army stationed by Sachs.

Originally, I thought we would be intercepted by the French army, or even double-flanked by the army of the Duke of Luxembourg and the French Netherlands Legion, but unexpectedly we arrived in the Netherlands almost without any danger.

The reason for this situation is the cooperation between Sachs and Karl XII. Karl XII is a strategist who can only attack the capitals of other countries. No wonder Karl XII in another parallel world will go to Russia to capture Moscow.But what the guy lacked in strategy he made up for in tactics.Sachs, on the other hand, is a nymphomaniac whose tactics and strategy are not far behind.It just so happened that what they were facing was another Viscount Turenne who was very strong in strategy but only excellent in tactics.

Generals like the Viscount Turenne had nothing to say when they abused low-level generals, but when they encountered the combination of Sachs and Karl XII, most of the troops on hand were new recruits.Facing the strategy of the Dutch who were blooming on all sides and pressing at every step, he retained his main force and chose to focus on defending key cities, defending the city with fortresses, avoiding a frontal decisive battle and consuming the enemy's supplies, which dragged on for a month.Although he changed his method later, he was still repelled by the Great Swedish Infantry Regiment led by Karl XII in a battle.However, the Dutch Legion of the French army is still undefeated, firmly holding on to the results they have achieved in the past.But in order to keep these victories, the Dutch Army of the French Army can only watch me break through a few fortresses and join forces with Sachs in victory. (To be continued..)