Chapter 116 Montenegro Rebellion
No matter how powerful the army is, it will always face complex situations in land warfare, such as terrain, weather, and logistics. Therefore, if you want to compete with the army's strong country, you must be very careful, otherwise you will repeat the mistakes of the East India Company and have a large amount of military expenditure. The former East India Company was commanded by the British Empire to expand its territory everywhere. It was very honorable on the surface, but it failed financially. 50 million pounds, I am so sad that the rich man felt sorry for him. He has not been working hard to do charity recently.
In this situation, Tangning was even more reluctant to compete with Russia directly. On the issue of Alaska, the Russians collected money but did not do anything. The Japanese people were very angry. Seeing that the Grand Duke of Luxembourg trained the mercenaries of the Satsuma clerks to be able to be opposed to the top European powers, Shimazu Kibin strongly demanded to give Japanese troops weapons and fight a battle with the Russians, but the Grand Duke of Luxembourg politely declined and said that he would have the chance to deal with the Russians in the future.
The opportunity is coming soon.
The European sick man Ottoman won the Crimean War with the help of Britain and France, but now Britain and France are about to start working, and the Russians finally found an opportunity. Mirco, the Ottoman vassal state, rebelled, and the Ottoman sent troops to quell the rebellion. Unexpectedly, the Russians who were resentful because of the Crimean War were bad waters. The European sick man quickly asked Britain for help. Britain was unable to spare time because of the French invasion. The Grand Duke of Luxembourg, who was looking for opportunities to be right against the Russians, was preparing to aid the Ottoman Empire.
However, the Grand Duke of Luxembourg did not send troops directly. According to the professional terms of online games, the one responsible for damaging is called damage output. For example, the mage is usually a magical long-range damage output, the hunter is a physical long-range damage output, and the one responsible for anti-damage is called a meat shield or a tank, such as: warriors, bear druids. The one responsible for treatment is the healing output, such as: priests, shamans and priests. The Grand Duke of Luxembourg is most capable of improving the combat effectiveness of friendly troops through healing output, and not harming himself.
Their strength and medicines are mostly produced by themselves, and they are cheap. Doctors and nurses are all hiding behind their backs safely. Even if they are caught by the enemy, it doesn’t matter. The other party needs medical care and will not kill the doctors and nurses. The Grand Duke of Luxembourg’s support for the Ottoman Empire was through the Windsor Army Hospital. When the Ottoman army was beaten to the point of being thrown away, there were always doctors and nurses from Windsor Hospital who warmly increased the recovery rate of the wounded so that they would not lose too badly.
In return, the Grand Duke of Luxembourg asked to build toll highways in Greater Syria, saying that this was for the purpose of exporting agricultural products produced by the Suez Canal Company to Greater Syria in the future. This was a country including Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan and other countries. It has a long history, a large population, and rich resources. Damascus, Baghdad, Jerusalem, etc. are all historical cities of Arab civilizations.
The Greater Syria region is also known as Revant. It is located in the southeast of the Mediterranean Sea. It is the gateway to the Arabian Peninsula. If it is occupied by this place, the entire Arabian Peninsula can be taken into account. The Ottoman Empire is weak and was occupied by Egypt's Pasha (Governor-General). Not long ago, it was occupied by the Pasha (Governor-General) of Egypt. If the British and French powers were not willing to change the Ottoman territory and forced Mohammed to withdraw? Ali Pasha would have withdrawn, I am afraid that Greater Syria would have long been ruled by the Ottoman Sultan.
Because it is a toll road, the road police naturally need to carry pistols. When necessary, they will become an army. There are hundreds of people in normal times, and only a thousand people in wartime. With the advanced equipment of the Grand Duke of Luxembourg, it is enough to fight against any military force in the greater Syrian region. When Egypt's Ali Pasha was alive, he was the most radical industrialist and reformer in the entire Arab region. His army could defeat the Ottoman Empire. Now he was bound by the great powers and was only an army of 18,000 people.
Speaking of pistols, now the Grand Duke of Luxembourg is finally going to improve this weapon. He is preparing to launch two types of pistols at once. One is code-named "Desert Fox", which imitates the Swiss SIG-P250 in real history. It mainly deals with bandits, thieves and other stragglers. It has a range of only 50 meters and a small caliber of 9 mm. It weighs only 830 grams after loading, but it has a large-capacity magazine of 17 rounds.
The second type is code-named "Desert Eagle", so there is no need to introduce the imitation object? This powerful pistol can have a range of 200 meters, which is comparable to the army rifles of some countries today. Its pneumatic device is more like a rifle. The gun weighs 2 kilograms, which is half the empty weight of the FN-1855, and can only stuff 7 powerful bullets of zero point 5 inches. It will even be equipped with a guide rail of a scope. If you don't have time to change the rifle when fighting against the army, the road police who use the Desert Eagle can basically carry it.
The small-powered police pistol of the Desert Fox can be exported to make money, and it is probably also welcomed by police and officers from all countries. The Desert Eagle is not a product. The plan to "take the emperor to command the princes" is likely to be unable to bring the rifle to the rear of the Qing Dynasty. At that time, the Desert Eagle could be replaced by it. Tangning was also preparing to make a bullet called "Cosmos". The cosmos is an eight-petal flower. The bullet's warhead imitates the petals of the cosmos and is one with the heart of the flower in the middle.
There were nine shrapnels in total. The rifle of the Desert Eagle shot out this bullet at a high speed. When hitting the ice, you can clearly see the consequences of it hitting the target. Nine shrapnels dispersed, like a vortex distributed in the ice. If this is a human body, the entire internal organs will be scattered by the "cosmos". When dealing with the guards of the Qing emperors, if the resistance encountered was surprisingly powerful, the guild would have no choice but to replace them with such bad bullets and massacre all the guards.
Switzerland's "permanent neutral country" was not very peaceful. One or two years ago, it was almost invaded by Prussia due to territorial disputes. Fortunately, it was mediated by Britain and France. After the Swiss military learned that the Belgian arsenal of the Grand Duke of Luxembourg had built a rifle that scared the Prussians, they finally prepared to purchase such rifles from the Grand Duke of Luxembourg. The Grand Duke happily agreed to deliver this self-defense weapon of democratic countries to the second country after the Belgian army and handed it over to SIG for production.
The Russians were good at rebelling in favor of the Ottoman Empire. Reuters, who was well-informed, also discovered a rebellion in Russia-ruled Estonia. Estonia was a territory stolen from Sweden more than a hundred years ago. This place was dominated by the Germans in the Baltic Sea, and their language was close to Finland. Finland was also stolen from Sweden in 1808.
Russia has long been legally responsible for serfdom, but in fact Estonia still did not obtain land, which led to the serf uprising. The Grand Duke of Luxembourg hurriedly wanted to send the Satsuma regiment, who wanted to fight with the Russians, to help the Estonian uprising. However, before the "volunteer army" set out from Luxembourg set out, it was reported that the rebellion was quelled by the regular Russian army. Only 7 peasants were killed and 14 were injured. After that, the Russians handled it relatively leniently. Those who should have been sentenced to death were sentenced to exile in Siberia and accelerated the reform of serfdom. According to conscience, Alexander II handled this matter well. However, political matters are often not something that can be done by conscience.
After studying the political situation in Estonia, Downing began to use the BBC's unique position in the media to promote Estonia's autonomy and independence. He invited John Jensen, a well-known Estonian musician, to do a program to promote the just-invasive Estonian national awakening movement and create potential crises for the Russian Empire.
The Grand Duchy of Finland, which had just been conquered by Russia for less than 50 years, cannot be spared (the Russian Tsar was appointed as the Grand Duke). In 1835, the Finnish national epic "Kalevara" was published. This is an anthology of traditional myths and legends of the Karelians (the Eastern Orthodox Finns, living around Lake Ladoga, and now in eastern Finland and northwest Russia.) The work aroused the national sentiment that later made Finland independent from Russia. The awakening of Finnish national consciousness was because the upper class who spoke Swedish deliberately promoted Finnish culture and language as a means of national construction, that is, to create a sense of identity among all Finns, including the elites who were ruled and the ruled civilians.
The Baltic region is too far from the "sphere of influence" of Britain, Belgium, Switzerland and other major Duke of Luxembourg. In order to win over the anti-Russian forces in the Scandinavian region, Sweden should not miss it. Sweden is now a poor agricultural country, and its industrialization level should not be as good as the United Kingdom, Belgium, and even the surrounding Denmark, or it would not be bullied by Russia.
Sweden is an agricultural country, but agriculture is not developed. Every year, one percent of farmers immigrate to places mainly in the United States to make a living due to poverty. Reuters estimates that according to this trend, Swedes in some American cities will even surpass its second largest city, Gothenburg.
Chapter completed!