The brainwashed officer from the Roman Guards looked at Nicholas' fanatical expression with satisfaction. Although the other party was not brainwashed, he had been included in the list of the next batch of promoted officers.

Levi didn't have so much glory to brainwash the army, but the growing territory and endless war consumption made the hundreds of thousands of troops under Livi's command seem to be a lot, but it was stretched. The servant army naturally became an indispensable supplementary force.

Due to the voluntary surrender of the Kingdom of Prussia and the fanaticism of Poland's restoration, the Levi government found a group of cheap cannon fodder with certain combat effectiveness.

At least, in the evaluation report of the Vienna Cabinet Government, these minion cannon fodders have a lot of roles on the Russian battlefield!

The Russian Empire is so big!

It is impossible for Li Wei to use the increasingly precious administrative quota to use the middle and senior officers of the minion army to ensure the loyalty of top generals at most.

After all, with the expansion of territory, although Berlin City has added some administrative quotas, it is a drop in the bucket compared to the number of administrative officials that had just been annexed the entire Prussian Kingdom!

Even Li Wei had to rely on the large-scale surrender of Junke's nobles to help manage, without administrative guidance!

This forced Levi to prepare to tilt the glory value obtained after the war ends towards upgrading the system construction.

After all, internal stability and absolute power can allow Li Wei to use all his strength to expand externally.

Levi's Roman Empire was invincible on the front line. On the surface, it seemed to be the fighting style of the Roman Guards' fearless battle, but in fact it was inseparable from the internal stability.

Otherwise, only a few major cities needed a revolutionary uprising, and Livi's Roman Guards would have to disperse their troops.

At that time, no matter how thorough the suppression of the uprising is won, it will be the national strength of the Roman Empire!

Most of the rebels killed in the suppression must be young and strong men, and young and strong men in this era are almost the standard for measuring a country's national strength!

Not to mention, the economic loss of the ruins created during the repression process.

Therefore, it is completely a loss for Li Wei to defeat the rebels.

First, the internal hidden dangers and losses brought by rebellion are too great, and second, the glory value brought by suppressing rebellion is minimal.

Now Li Wei has only one goal of expansion, to complete the main task given by the total war system and to win all the calibrated capital cities.

The Russian Empire can be immortal, but Moscow must occupy it in full and establish a dictatorship loyal to Livi!

Why did Li Wei even make an iron-clad ship when he was selling his iron?

On the surface, it is aimed at the maritime power against Britain and the United Kingdom of Ireland, but in fact it is to fully occupy London and complete the main task of the total war system.

Li Wei had a premonition that as long as he occupied all the calibrated capitals, it would be like he was leaving the novice period, and the full-scale war system would have a comprehensive upgrade!

This is why Levi has always kept his empire in an expansionary state.

When he came to this parallel world, Li Wei enjoyed the life he once dared not think about, so he was naturally unwilling to grow old. As he grew older, Li Wei's sense of crisis continued to increase.

In fact, at the moment when the Roman Empire was founded, Li Wei had no external threats. The result of the fifth anti-French war was destined in Li Wei's eyes. Hundreds of thousands of loyal and loyal troops who were fearless and powerful in fighting were Li Wei's confidence in being invincible, not to mention the national strength bonus brought by the vast territory and population of the Roman Empire.

However, Levi had an enemy that he had to face - aging.

Just like an ancient emperor, after having the same power as an emperor, Li Wei naturally began to pursue immortality.

Compared with the ancient superstitious emperors, Li Wei had the advantage of the total war system. Unfortunately, the total war system had no prompts for extending its lifespan except for its excellent brainwashing effect.

Therefore, Li Wei can only pin his hopes on the upgrading of the total war system.

If one upgrade fails, Li Wei will continue to upgrade. Even if he ruins the whole world, he will spare no expense!

The outside world calls Li Wei a selfish tyrant, which is worthy of his name. The influence of power has long made Li Wei give up all human limitations. The most terrifying drug in the world is not opium, but power!

Power corrupts people's hearts and so on is not just a metaphor.

The ugly faces of politicians did not appear from the beginning. Before they had power, many politicians maintained great ideals in their hearts, truly wanted to bring their country and nation to prosperity and prosperity, and selflessly devoted everything they had!

However, when power is truly overwhelmed, how many people can still retain their original intentions?

Not to mention power, even money that is one level lower than power can make a person unrecognizable!

Li Wei, who was used to being in power alone, was naturally corrupted by the power desire. In order to protect his power, he was willing to give everything!

When Nicholas returned, he got a mission and a chance to be promoted.

As long as he completes the task, he can be promoted to lieutenant colonel immediately, and he is a real-powered lieutenant colonel, rather than a short rank similar to the logistics department.

In the Roman Empire, military ranks and positions have been clearly distinguished.

Military ranks are no longer the symbol of determining all power. The corresponding ranks and corresponding positions represent how much power this person has.

There is no doubt that among the same military rank or even asymmetric military ranks, the positions of the front-line troops are of the highest value.

Exceptions to the Roman Guards, as Livi's private direct troops, even if there is a small soldier in the Roman Guards, the generals in other troops have no right to punish them.

The promotion of lieutenant colonel Nicholas received was not only a promotion of military rank, but also a promotion of a regiment-level position!

The reason is naturally because of his performance and political review.

The officers of the Roman Guards would not see how much troops a battalion led by Nicholas lost. They would only see whether Nicholas had completed the task. It can even be said that the loss of a large amount of troops can ensure the "stability" of the entire battalion and become part of the assessment.

Obviously, Nicholas' earnest teaching made his soldiers have no interest in rebellion and turn against each other, or dared not have the courage to have a strange intention!

It was not how strong Nicholas felt about belonging to the Roman Empire, but that he did not want his soldiers to lead him into the abyss of death.

Fear is the guarantee of Nicholas' loyalty to Levi.

Originally, getting a mission that is not difficult can be promoted to a regiment-level lieutenant colonel. This is great news for Nicholas, but Nicholas is holding a mission briefing in his hand, but he is not happy at all...

The task Nicholas received was very simple.

Lorraise at least a thousand young and strong workers and supply the army's food and supplies.

To put it bluntly, it is to catch the strong men and grab the grain, in the Smolensk region!

This task was naturally simpler in the eyes of the Roman Guard officers, but Nicholas knew how "poor" the civilians in the Smolensk region are now.

The countryside has long been damaged by the Russian Empire's policy of clearing the countryside, so there is not much population or food. If you want to plunder food and catch the strong men, you must go to those towns and even cities.

Not only was the Roman Empire plundering food and grass in the Russian Empire, but the Russian Empire's troops were also doing this. That is to say, as a town in Smolensk in the war zone, there was actually not much surplus food.

Those Russian civilians will inevitably do some bad things for their own rations.

As an old man who has experienced many battles, Nicholas knew that if he wanted to complete this task, he would have to massacre at least several times the number of "enemy" that was stronger than the number of strong men.

And those enemies are just unarmed civilians.

"After a walk, I will return to the butcher profession, it's ironic."

Nicholas said to himself.

Then, when he walked towards the recruit camp, he needed to replenish his troops in order to better complete the task.

During the war in the Russian Empire, all the tasks of massacre and robbery were handed over to the minions.

The purpose of this is naturally to increase national hatred between the Prussians, Poles and Russians.

Obviously, the effect is quite good.

At the same time, it also solved a lot of logistical pressure for the army. As for how many Russian civilians would be killed or injured, no one would care.

In early 1812, the cold winter gave the Russian Empire a breathing time.

Levi learned from Napoleon's lessons in his previous life and did not continue to attack as winter approached.

Taking the Smolensk region as the frontier, the territory that had been taken down began to consolidate and expand towards rural areas to clear the traces of the Russian Empire.

This gave the Russian Empire several months of recovery.

However, this doesn't seem to be of any use.

The war not only consumed all the financial resources of the Russian Empire, but also made the population advantage they were proud of disappeared.

The vast territory of the country and the snowball-like Roman minions made the comparison of the forces between the enemy and us before the war changed drastically. All of this was based on the desperate attack of the Roman Guards!

In a full year, the Roman Guards swept away all the elite troops of the Russian Empire and two-thirds of the regular troops at the cost of 110,000 deaths!

As for the losses of the vassal army, it was two to three times that of the Roman Guards!

Because the Roman Empire would not spend a lot of money to count the losses of the minions, the specific number was very vague and all the results were conservative estimates.

However, winter brought the fifth anti-French war into a calm period, but the crisis of the Russian Empire was not in contact with at all.

Just last month, the Roman Empire made diplomatic efforts to allow the Kingdom of Sweden, which had no hope of victory, to join the Holy Alliance.

Although the Kingdom of Sweden has not handed over the crown to Li Wei, anyone with a discerning eye knows that this is just a matter of war transition. After the fifth anti-French war is over, what qualifications does the Kingdom of Sweden have to reject Li Wei's ambitions?

As for the protests of the Swedish people?

Sorry, this era is about the aristocratic class!

The Swedish nobles and even kings did not want to be eliminated by the Roman Guards, so they had to choose to accept the new Lord of Europe.

Lord of Europa in various senses!

Sweden's surrender was tantamount to pouring a basin of cold water on top of the Russian Empire. Even Tsar Alexander I no longer had even a glimmer of hope for the victory of the war.

Even the very harsh conditions of the armistice were placed in the hall of the Moscow Palace at this time to discuss.

"His Majesty the Tsar, we have collected 200,000 serfs into the recruit training camp. Before the spring begins, they can enter the battlefield and guard the great Moscow to the death!"

Alexander I looked at the opening of the Army Minister, shook his head and smiled bitterly, "At this time, let's talk to me.

How likely are you to win the battle to defend Moscow?”

As soon as Alexander I said, the hall suddenly fell into a strange silence, and no one spoke, including the Army Minister who had just said he would swear to guard Moscow to the death!
To be continued...