Crossing the Continent in the Eighteenth Century

"Then I'll take my leave first." Penny Weiss took a step forward tactfully.

Alexander came up from behind and told everything that happened in the Grand Palace today.

The Russians brought their letter from the King of Poland, asking us to terminate all business dealings with the rebellious Kingdom of Poland. If we do not follow the requirements, they will impose sanctions on the empire.

"This is arrogance!" The Russians obviously came to find fault, and they wanted to sanction the empire. What a joke.

Alexander said disdainfully: "Isn't that right? In the Grand Palace, the two sides soon ridiculed each other."

"Then the Russians became angry and declared war on us?" I wondered, this was obviously a temptation, why did they start fighting?

"Of course the Russian envoy doesn't have this ability, but our father does."

It was our father Caesar who declared war on the Russians.He showed the lowlands on the Black Sea coast, the treaty given by the remnants of Poland protected by the Empire.The enclave, nominally subordinate to the Kingdom, claimed to have separated from the Kingdom of Poland and joined the Roman Empire as an inviolable territory of the Empire, and demanded that the Russians return the city of Kiev.These two demands immediately blocked the Russians' retreat, leaving no room for negotiation.

What was supposed to be a test of the empire's attitude turned out to be a declaration of war.

It’s too unexpected!

The entire empire was caught off guard!

The Russians were also caught off guard!

But the war between the empire and the Russians is inevitable.Whether it is the former Turkish Ottomans or the current Rome, because it is located in Constantinople and guards the road of Russia's southward expansion, it will directly face the rising Russian soldiers.

As soon as the announcement of the declaration of war came out, the reactions of all walks of life were basically the same, that is, their enthusiasm for participating in the war was very high!

Polish leader Shui Dongyin's behavior of trying to join the empire has greatly improved the face of the people of the empire. Secondly, fighting means that the empire will expand its army. Many young people who are unwilling to be lonely and not smart enough to make a fortune can only make money by joining the army. Take military merit.This is the same for soldiers, fighting means military merit, and military merit means leading to noble titles and wealth, and getting ahead!

The feelings of ordinary merchants are more complicated. War will destroy peace. Without peace, business cannot be established. Therefore, the empire wants to declare war on the Russians, but the Russians allow the Cossacks to gallop on the Polish plains. The merchants of the empire are often harassed. If wars can disperse those guys It is also a good choice.So they feel a little worried about gain and loss, but their attitude is still inclined to support this war.

The arms dealers, the oligarchs of the industry, are actually the nobles of the empire, they are the most enthusiastic about war!

Whose family does not have an acre of perfume and fragrance manors in the Carpathian Mountains. The expansion of Russia to the south will first threaten their interests.Since the tide of the Mongols' westward expedition has receded, the Lower Danube Plain has become the territory of the empire.100 years after its conquest, the Lower Danube Plain, the territory of the former Kingdom of Bulgaria, has a new name, the Empire's cash cow.This vast land is divided into two parts by the Danube River. The north is the raw material for high-yield perfume, and the south is the perfume processing factory. All kinds of beautiful petals are turned into perfume and flowed into European countries through here, and then turned into money and flowed back to the empire.Secondly, the empire will expand its territory to the north. If it succeeds, more land will be purchased by them to expand the raw materials of the workshop and increase wealth. Finally, it is the thing that all imperial people care about the most, military exploits!Only military merit is the capital for ordinary small and medium nobles to squeeze into Constantinople!

The disadvantages of sending troops are also obvious.

Not to mention the destruction of the cheap old man's policy of health and well-being, the lowland area along the Black Sea alone covers more than [-] square kilometers. In this way, the imperial army also walked out of the Carpathian Mountains.The area to be defended expanded from the Black Sea estuary of the Transnistria to the entire Bordeaux highlands and the highlands along the Dnieper River. However, the mobilized army for this war must not exceed [-], and the march will cost more than [-] million.

Take the initiative to attack the lowland area along the Black Sea coast, and let the imperial army fight the Russian army in the lowland plain area along the Black Sea coast.Shock Xiao Xiao with a truly fierce collision. If he wins, the empire will expand by more than [-] square kilometers, and the prestige of the Theofano family will greatly increase.

As for the issue of losing.Since there are huge benefits in winning, the price paid for losing is also quite high. The loss of a few ace legions is cheap enough to make Dad cry, and a blow of failure can even make us The Theofano family is disgraced.You know, our name is not justified now, and the cultivation and rest these years are definitely not for the purpose of maintaining the dominant position of our Theofano family in the empire.If the war fails, it will inevitably hurt the empire, and it will be the same for the Theofano family.If someone took advantage of the opportunity of Theophano family's prestige to fall to the ground to conspire secretly... it would inevitably be another bloodbath.

Will Rome lose?

That's what worries me!

The empire is now considered to have a vast territory. The west is bounded by the Tisza River and the Habsburg of Austria divides the middle reaches of the Danube plain equally, and it also occupies southern Naples and Sicily. The territory expanded to Damascus, the Black Sea, and half of the Mediterranean Sea were included, which was larger than the heyday of Basil II after the Hellenization of Rome.However, the empire has not fought a major war for more than 20 years, and the generals like the old guy died. Even if you want to find them, they have both status and wealth, and the ghosts go to the north to suffer from the war.On the Russian side, their territory is not much worse than that of Rome. Although they have not defeated the Swedes so far, and their territory is not as large as the expansion of Peter I's territory before the death of Peter I in memory, they fought hard every three years. With a small fight a year, they can fight inseparably with the Swedish Kingdom, which was so powerful that it dominated the entire Baltic Sea in the past, and even have the upper hand. Their strength cannot be underestimated.

"Hahahaha! Hahaha! Ahhahahaha!"

Ever since Morris heard that the empire was at war with Russia, every time he saw me, he would subconsciously laugh like this.For a war madman like him, as long as there is a war, nothing is a problem.And there are many such people in the imperial army.I don't know which family's genes are so perverted, so full of expansion, it has occupied more than half of the military headquarters in hundreds of years.

“Serve Rome!”

In addition to these war fanaticism, there are more Romans in the empire who regard war as their mission.

"Glory to Rome!"

Almost every moment, the entire military headquarters resounded with such cries.

"Long live Rome!"

All in all, because of the provocation of the Russians, the huge war machine of Rome has been immersed for more than ten years and started its operation again!

The transfer of legions, the appointment of generals, the transportation of food, the storage of ammunition and artillery, and the dispatch of fleets, everything keeps the entire military department busy.

And I, because of the impact of the Russian declaration of war, was left behind, and I will be sent to the army with Alexander.

The military department also specially held a small meeting to discuss which regiment is suitable for me and Alexander. The final discussion was that Alexander and I will enter two cavalry battalions from the Anatolian region as cavalry majors. .

The cavalry battalion, with a standard allocation of 380 people, is the second largest organized cavalry unit tactically and the penultimate cavalry unit strategically.

When conducting battles, the smallest tactical cavalry unit in the empire is the cavalry squad, followed by squadrons, brigades, battalions, and regiments.

The largest strategic organization is the Byzantine Empire Holy Cavalry, which is organized separately at special times.However, the Iron Armored Paladin Army of the Byzantine Empire is just a distant legend. It was the medieval period, and the predecessor played too much in the empire era.Recently, the huge number of more than [-] cavalry gathered into one army has only existed in the overwhelming cavalry offensive against the Green Sect.

Now after the military reform, the more flexible cavalry battalions are the main force of the empire in various places. When the cavalry battalions in each legion are merged into one, the legion commander will organize the cavalry regiment according to the situation.

I was kind of looking forward to which cavalry battalion in Anatolia I would be assigned to.

A little later, the all-night imperial headquarters announced our appointment.

In addition to the title of son of the Theofano family, I have two more titles, one is the commander of the cavalry battalion of the second Byzantine legion, and the major of the imperial cavalry is expected.The other is the first batch of observation students at the West Point Military Academy in Constantinople.Meaning, I couldn't get my diploma from that West Point Military Academy until I was 24, and during that period, I had to go back to the military academy every year to write a thesis.

In line with the principle that one basket cannot hold two eggs, Alexander stayed in the second echelon, and a group of thousands of cadets in the military academy would be selected to serve as trainees in my legion.

In just a few days, a series of orders were conveyed and executed, and all the legions, officers, and supplies were heading to the front. So, who will be the commander in chief of the three armies?

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