294 I Can't Fight Anymore
The destruction of the Austrian Empire gave the Ottoman Empire a shot of heart-warming agent. Even when facing the Russian Empire fighting on both sides, the Russian Empire still lost more than wins on the battlefield. Not to mention taking back its hinterland, if the Russian Empire had not devoted one-third of its energy to the French Empire, the Russian-Turkish war initiated by the Ottoman Empire would probably have to ced the territory to end...
The Russian Empire's energy does not mean that it will be deployed. Due to the poor road conditions and the corrupt financial system in the Russian Empire, it is easy to recruit gray animals, but it is difficult to assemble (because you need to be responsible for the food, clothing, housing and transportation of gray animals. Without military pay, you must not be hungry). It is even more difficult to transport them to the front line!
There are many reasons, but it comes down to one thing that is money.
Even if the British are funded, it will be in vain. After all, the supplies provided by the British have to be swept around the noble bureaucrats of the Russian Empire, and there is not even half of them that are truly implemented!
This is a war period!
If it were peacetime, the noble bureaucrats of the Russian Empire could even make 100% of the funds, and only 100% or 20% of the terrifying state of the grassroots level...
It is not difficult to understand why the current Tsar Paul I hated the corruption of the aristocratic class. If it were not for the greed of these Russian aristocratic bureaucrats, with the size of the Russian Empire, the entire Europe would have surrendered to the feet of the Russian Empire!
By the standards of this era, the Russian Empire's population, agricultural economy, gray animal mobilization ability, and strategic depth of territory are well-deserved first in the continental region.
The Russian Empire's population advantage was enough to make up for the productivity gap brought about by the first industrial revolution from the 18th to the early 19th century.
In the era of queuing and shooting, the requirements for military weapons are relatively low. With enough food, weapons and ammunition, war can be maintained.
Moreover, due to the loading time of front-mounted weapons, the amount of ammunition consumption on the battlefield has always been low. Even the Russian Empire, which relies on handicraft workshops as the main body, can withstand the ammunition consumption on the frontline.
As for the pillar industry of the Russian Empire, the agricultural economy, it can provide the Russian Empire with sufficient and cheap food and maintain more troops!
The strict serf system saved a lot of recruitment procedures for the Russian Empire's army, allowing the noble lords to directly recruit strong serfs from their fiefdoms to join the army, so the mobilization ability is also good.
Even in a sense, if the Russian Empire disregards agricultural production, it can arm all the young and strong serfs for combat!
The Russian Empire's territorial strategic depth advantage made the Russian Empire invincible no matter who launched a war with.
After all, Eastern European countries have been almost weakened. Without the ability of the Eastern European race to resist cold, no matter how strong the army of Central and Western Europe is, after entering the heartland of the Russian Empire, they will be covered in wounds by the winter of the Russian Empire.
You should know that even during World War II when the Second Industrial Revolution was completed, the German army, which was recognized as the strongest in the army in Europe, was defeated in the winter of the Russian Empire.
In that era, there was already a developed railway transportation network, and the material supply was many times faster than this era, and it still could not make up for the winter advantages of the Russian Empire. This shows how lethal the Russian Empire was to the people of Central and Western Europe in winter.
This is actually easy to understand. In Li Wei's previous life, people from the south arrived in the Northeast. In winter, no matter how thick they were worn, they didn't feel warm enough...
If it is a colder Russian in the north, it will be even more terrible. The strong Russian brothers can roll naked in the snow, but friends from the south dare not do that in thick down jackets...
People in different living environments have very different drought resistance and heat resistance. Unless they are soldiers who are strengthened after brainwashing training in Li Wei’s military camp, their physical fitness has risen to the peak of ordinary people, and they can ignore the factors brought by the environment.
Even so, it would be a problem to let the current French Wehrmacht soldiers roll in the snow of the Russian Empire in vests and shorts!
The Russian Empire, which has so many advantages, has been firmly blocked in the land of Eastern Europe, and even small countries like the Swedish Kingdom dare not invade. The main problem is the corrupt system of the Russian Empire.
Therefore, after learning about the disintegration of the Austrian Empire, even though they had hundreds of thousands of troops on the surface, the Duma Parliament in St. Petersburg (the aristocratic authority of the Russian Empire) still made a peaceful resolution.
Even Paul I became hesitant.
Of course, peace is not the only way to truce between the Russian Empire and the French Empire. If there is a truce, everyone will cease fire together. Otherwise, if the Prussian Kingdom is destroyed again, the Russian Empire will have to face Li Wei's hypnotic terrifying monster alone.
So, while dealing with the "incompetent attack" of the Ottoman Empire, the Russian Empire sent diplomatic ambassadors to Berlin.
It is obvious that the Prussian Kingdom is more eager for peace than the Russian Empire at this time!
Without the Austrian Empire, the army of the Kingdom of Prussia and the Russian Empire seemed to be able to compete with the French Empire, but it was only a 50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50-50
Faced with the fearless French Defense Forces, fighting a 55-5 war, it was obviously something that the Prussian Kingdom and the Russian Empire were unwilling to see.
Most importantly, too many people have died on both sides of this war.
Not to mention the destruction of the Austrian Empire, the French Empire launched several offensives against the Prussian Kingdom after destroying the Austrian Empire. Although the Prussian Empire and the Russian Empire led a group of small-state coalition forces, relying on their superiority of military strength and fortifications to barely block the French Empire's attack, the troops lost far more than the French Empire.
After all, the French Defense Forces not only have self-destructive tactics, but also have very strong individual combat capabilities.
Whether it is against guns or bayonets, the anti-French allies are no match for them. The army of those small countries is filled with a large number of new recruits, and once they collapse, they will be a large number!
Since the London government is unwilling to negotiate, those small continental countries have no weight to speak. The Russian Empire and the Prussian Kingdom also intend to use those small countries as bargaining chips for peace, so naturally they will not attract many states in the German region.
After the St. Petersburg and the Berlin government reached an agreement, Levi, who was far away in Paris, soon received news of the peace talks from the anti-French alliance.
As before, diplomatic envoys of the anti-French alliance were unwilling to enter Paris, so Li Wei had to send the administratively enlightened foreign ministers to Munich to negotiate with the Prussian Kingdom of the anti-French alliance and the Russian Empire's diplomatic envoys.
Since the war has been underway, the French National Wehrmacht has killed more than 34,000 guard infantrymen, more than 2,000 sharpshooters and more than 1,000 guard cavalrymen.
This has not calculated the losses of those Servant Army!
Calculate the military forces placed on the front line by the Kingdom of Prussia and the Russian Empire and the reinforcements from the rear that were continuously moving upward, in order to destroy the Kingdom of Prussia, the best situation would also require more than 100,000 brainwashing troops!
Because the deeper it goes into the Prussian Kingdom, the stronger the resistance of the Prussian army. Now the Prussian Kingdom has not yet launched a national mobilization order. Once the Prussian Kingdom mobilizes all the young and strong men onto the battlefield, only the necessary production departments in the rear can be retained, and at least hundreds of thousands of troops can be exploded.
Even if these hundreds of thousands of Prussian troops are only trained for one to three months, they can still shoot and kill the French Wehrmacht Guards infantry.
This is the era of queuing and shooting.
Human resources are still competing in this era.
Because the front-mounted smoothbore gun has very low requirements for industrial standards, the impact of industrial development on the production of weapons and ammunition is far less than that of generation difference.
When the two sides held peace talks in Munich, the London government became anxious and quickly instigated the Madrid government of the Kingdom of Spain to launch an offensive.
Then it was harshly rejected by the Madrid government of the Kingdom of Spain and joined the Munich armistice negotiations.
Faced with the joining of the Kingdom of Spain, the Levi government naturally would not refuse. What can be obtained from the negotiating table naturally does not need to die too many of its own people on the battlefield.
The collapse of the Austrian Empire has made the Levi government a big profit, not to mention that President Aren of the Austrian Republic is still his own people!
The supreme leader of a country is his own spy. Of course, there must be a ceasefire and a good situation.
As long as the Austrian Republic is allowed to complete centralization, the Levi government will be able to bring in a decent cannon fodder in the next continental war.
Instead of the current minion army, they can only follow behind to do some work to maintain logistics and public order in the occupied areas.
Seeing that the Munich peace talks had already taken shape, the London government had no choice but to give up the third anti-French alliance and instead focus on expanding the colony.
The successive victory of the French Empire made the London government realize that the navy alone could never defeat the Levi regime, and Great Britain must get rid of the dilemma of the "pocket army"!
The size of the Great Britain's army is not large, and the main reason is that it is financial problems. The treatment of British army soldiers is significantly higher than that of other countries in the continent. In addition, the navy is eyeing it, which has prevented the London government from expanding its local army on a large scale.
Moreover, the population base in Great Britain is not very large...
In this case, the London government naturally needs to solve two major problems - cheap military sources and more fiscal revenue.
Therefore, the London government set its sights on the Indian subcontinent without surprise.
With the decline of the French Empire's navy, the French Empire's colonial stronghold in India had long been occupied by the British. When the British wanted to embezzle Louisiana, the American colony of France, it was sold to the Americans at a low price by the Paris government.
No matter how cheap it is to sell it to the Americans, it will be rewarding, and it is much better than British and Canadians.
Moreover, after the Americans got Louisiana, their territory increased dramatically, and they could be considered as having the ability to compete with British and Canadians.
However, no matter how abundant the resources in the Americas are and the insufficient population base is a huge flaw. No matter how the London government develops in the American colonies, it will not be possible to get a quick return.
Only the Indian subcontinent is the easiest place to make money quickly.
Today, almost all coastal areas of the Indian subcontinent are controlled by the British and have deep colonial roots. In addition, due to the deep-rooted caste system, the Shudra and Dalit, which occupy the majority of the population, are very obedient. They will not resist the conquest of the invaders at all.
The British East India Company only needs to defeat the Kshatrititus states of the Indian subcontinent to complete the conquest.
India in this era was not a unified country. The Mughals, the most powerful Indian dynasty in the north, had declined, and were bothered with internal and external troubles and could not resist the invasion of the British.
The London government has conducted a strategic assessment that as long as they deploy tens of thousands of troops to the Indian subcontinent, they can conquer this rich and easy-to-rule territory.
By then, the London government will have a steady stream of cheap troops and a large amount of wealth created by the lower-level untouchable labor force in India.
As a result, the London government also came up with the idea of a temporary truce with the French Empire.
In this way, the London government also sent people to the Munich peace talks halfway!
The armistice negotiations lasted for a whole month. During this month, the French Empire's army had been replenishing troops, transporting logistics supplies, and preparing for a new war. This was not only a threat to the anti-French alliance, but also an attack immediately after the negotiations failed.
It is naturally best to get what Li Wei wants at the negotiating table. However, if you can't get it, Li Wei can only continue to maintain a state of war.
The bottom line of the Levi government in this peace talks was to let the Prussian Kingdom expel the occupied Bohemia region and hand it over to the French Empire and incorporate it into the Rhine Alliance.
Moreover, all German states in the western part of Central and Europe must be incorporated into the Rhine Alliance, and there will be no buffer zone between the Rhine Alliance and the Prussian Kingdom.
Of course, the French Empire was also willing to support the Prussian Kingdom annexing the German states in other directions. Anyway, the war continued until now, and most of the troops of those German states were crippled and had no ability to resist.
Even Saxony, which has the strongest combat power, now faces the Kingdom of Prussia with eggs to hit stones.
As for the Austrian Republic, of course, it is necessary to ensure all territorial integrity today. Interestingly, this Munich Armistice Conference eliminated the Ottoman Empire, and the Levi government seemed to have completely forgotten the strategic alliance with the Ottoman Empire.
This made the Russian Empire very satisfied and indirectly led to the smooth progress of negotiations.
However, the demands made by the Levi government for the Kingdom of Spain were difficult for the Madrid government to accept, and Levi demanded that Carlos IV of the Kingdom of Spain be restored!
The Levi government claims that the current Spanish Kingdom regime is an illegal government that has been rebelled and must be restored to its original state of Carlos IV!
In this regard, the Levi government's attitude is very firm.
I have something to do today. In order not to ask for leave, I finally squeezed out time to code a chapter, so today I only have one update. However, the chapters I updated are all two-in-one chapters, and one chapter is equivalent to two chapters from Qidian's other books.
Chapter completed!