The son of Stunaras is a young man who has just grown up. Faced with this young man who thought that his father had made him embarrassed, I said nothing and gave him the blessing. He will understand his father in the future.

Intent, even if it has no effect.

On the way back, I slowed down my horse and kept the same distance as Leon. I had some things I needed him to do.

"Today's events made me understand that the soldiers are not very confident about going to Newmark. Leon, I need you to go to Newmark with the Fifth Spartan Legion. No, it is you who go to Newmark with the escorts. You compare

Those officers are more proficient in small-scale battles, so I want you to give them more guidance."

"It's no problem to go to Newmark, but what about the guards around you?" Leon asked.

"Anyway, Mustache Scumbag will be back soon, so I'll make a temporary escort team to make do."

Leon hesitated before nodding.

The next day, Leon and the Fifth Spartan Legion went to Newmark and asked Alexei to record the personnel with excellent shooting performance. I was in Berlin to appease the local people, stabilize prices, crack down on speculation, and by the way, provide rifled guns.

When things happen, hold the Buddha's feet.

It is not difficult to cast and assemble muskets. As long as there are sufficient materials, a gun workshop with ten masters and apprentices can cast sixty guns at a rate of two per day, which is nearly the number of a company. However, rifled guns are difficult to

That's not the case at all.

Speaking of rifled guns, people love and hate this thing. What I love is that rifled guns have a long range and high accuracy. Compared with flintlock muskets with tragic effective range, they can shoot farther and more accurately. But what people hate is that rifled guns have a long range and high accuracy.

First, the gun has complex craftsmanship, high cost, and difficulty in loading ammunition.

Everyone knows that the reason why rifled guns can shoot far and accurately is because the bullet must rotate along the rifling before exiting the chamber. The reason why front-loading rifled guns have not become popular is the problem of loading speed. Success is Xiao He, Xiao He is failure.

The advantage of a rifled gun is the rifling of the barrel, and the disadvantage is also caused by this. Unlike a smoothbore gun, which is easy to insert bullets, a rifled gun has to be pushed down with brute force. If you fire a rifled gun once, other people's smoothbore guns will

It has been fired four or five times. In addition, due to the rifling, the gunpowder residue produced after the ammunition is fired is not easy to clean, and the gun can easily hang up.

In addition, the supply problem of rifled guns is very serious. The requirements for barrels of smoothbore gun bullets are very low. As long as the requirements for barrels in the smoothbore gun era can be said to be very low, as long as the bullets can be fired without blowing up the chamber, that is enough.

Because of this, the calibers of hand-made muskets in different countries are different, but the captured bullets can be used. Rifled guns are different. This picky old man must have better bullets produced by the original workshop, otherwise

It will explode.

For these reasons, delicate rifled guns are called "beautiful women", and rifle gunners are unfortunately called "beautiful women's husbands".

Rushing to manufacture rifled guns for one or two infantry battalions is not within the scope of my consideration. Let alone rushing to make it, the logistics pressure is very high. But manufacturing one or two hundred rifled guns. Preferably three hundred rifled guns.

With guns around, it should be possible for all the sharpshooters of the Fifth Spartan Legion to get one.

However, at this moment, I was slightly surprised by the cavalry sent by Eugene, who was leading an army for the first time.

A Saxon army is coming towards Berlin!

A Saxon army determined to attack Berlin is not good news, but it is good news if an unarmed and stupid army comes towards Berlin.

The exact situation is this.

Eugene led the Mustache Regiment to block the Saxon army trying to return south on the east bank of the Elbe River. Now the Saxon army is coming towards us! Visual inspection shows that the enemy has seven infantry battalions with more than 7,000 people and more than 1,000 cavalry.

people!

An infantry force of less than 5,000 people held back an enemy force nearly twice his own size, which was also cavalry. How did Eugene do this?

When I got there, the Saxon army was still running towards Berlin like idiots.

The Saxon army was surrounded and a siege formation was arranged. During this time, Eugene rushed over with the only cavalry on hand. I tried hard to suppress my excitement and asked: "What's going on?

thing?"

Eugene smiled sheepishly and said: "The army over there, how should I say it? I led the Mustache Regiment seventy kilometers northwest of Dresden and blocked this army that wanted to go north but was picked up two days later.

When Dresden was besieged, they immediately returned to the commanding Saxon army. Then, they launched a surprise attack on them the evening before yesterday. After they withdrew from the battlefield, they suffered a lot of losses. Many soldiers had no weapons, and the cavalry had no horses, so

Maybe we felt that we couldn't get through even if we tried to run, and even if we tried to fight, the soldiers probably couldn't beat us, so we ran towards where there were reinforcements."

"So that's it." I nodded to show that I understood. I bet the Saxons were afraid of being scolded when they returned to Dresden in despair. Seeing that Eugene was very powerful and couldn't fight with him, they simply ran north and sent him a message.

It is hoped that the coalition forces under the city of Berlin will defeat Eugene and others so that they can go back and communicate with each other.

I was amused by these cute Saxons who were possessed by Italians: "These Saxons are really talented."

"It would be great if all enemies were like them." Eugene also gave a fair comment.

"Logically speaking, such a support force should be handed over to a capable Saxon general. How could this happen?" I was very puzzled.

"Who knows."

"In this case, we should quickly defeat this panicked Saxon army." I then issued an order to defeat the enemy army by taking turns with infantry columns in hand-to-hand combat.

"If you don't mind, I hope to complete this hunt!" Eugene was eager to take over from me the right to command the three infantry regiments and the Mustache Regiment I brought with me.

This was the time when the Saxons were panicking because they suddenly encountered a larger enemy force. I didn’t think too much and didn’t give the Saxons time to communicate or express their thoughts.

Command of another Prussian infantry regiment was given to Eugene.

Eugene launched the attack with the 1st Infantry Battalion of Mustache Zhazha as the vanguard. After the 1st Infantry Regiment achieved the results, the 2nd Infantry Battalion and the 3rd Infantry Battalion followed closely. Next, seeing the results being one-sided, morale was high.

Prussian Infantry Regiment.

The battle, no, it should be said to be a one-sided massacre, lasted for an hour, and I added a dozen more blood-stained flags to my collection.

At the same time, we also learned that the most powerful marshal of Saxony, the guy who had fought with me once, was left by August to defend the city in Dresden, and he came out to lead the troops this time.

They were August's confidants and the German aristocrats recommended by his mistress. They were probably a group of friends August had contact with on a daily basis. No wonder he was so stupid and cute.

After this massacre, which was not even a battle, was over, I sent the Junkers and the German princes as well as the blood-stained flag of Saxony to the Elector of Saxony. By the way, I made my conditions to August, which was to cede five Saxony states.

There are three in the region, Wittenberg and Lower Lausitz, and Lausitz. In addition to the treaty signed last year, a two-country non-tariff treaty was added to recognize Prussia's occupation of the three Saxon collateral territories.

Of course August vetoed my conditions. I didn't even have troops at the gate. How could they agree to such conditions that had no possibility of compromise?

I don’t expect that this time the lion’s big talk can lead to a deal. Anyway, the original intention was to scare the Elector of Saxony into hiding at home.

The German war in the northeast has barely subsided, and the war on the border between France and Germany has just begun.

During the time when I easily solved the two principalities of Mecklenburg and Saxony, the French army sent troops to Germany for only ten days. When the Prince of Baden barely stayed on the front line, a brilliant victory was won by the French army.

However, the winner of this victory was neither the Duke of Vendôme, who advanced and retreated modestly, nor the Duke of Villeroy, who attacked fiercely, but belonged to a French general named Villars.

At Arenberg, 14,000 French troops, before the Duke of Villeroy had yet arrived, defeated an almost equal number of coalition forces from the Holy Roman Empire, the Palatinate, the Principality of Arenberg, and Wald.

The three-nation coalition forces of the Kubernetes were defeated, and the reinforcements from the northeast of the Prince of Baden were cut off.

Four days later, the four-nation coalition forces of the Principality of Isenberg, the Principality of Baden, the Principality of Weilburg, and the Principality of Uzingen were defeated by the Duke of Villeroy and the Duke of Berwick.

The five-nation coalition forces of Salm, Sigmaringen, Hechingen, Kilburg, and Darmstadt, totaling 30,000 people, were blocked by the French army of 20,000 led by the Duke of Cardinale.

The route made it impossible for the coalition forces of the Holy Roman Empire to converge in Munich.

The French army adopted the method of cutting off the obstructive princes on both wings to ensure logistics and communication lines. Now, after two days of two battles, the two German princes' coalition forces were defeated, and the French army's flanks were completely protected. The defense line led by the Prince of Baden seemed to be

Falling into an isolated situation, once the defense line hosted by the Prince of Baden is breached, the French army can concentrate on attacking Bavaria and the Kingdom of Austria behind it.

On the Italian side, the French army sent 30,000 troops, under the command of the Duke of Marsson, and led by the Holy See, joining the Italian princes to march. A total of 50,000 troops marched into Naples, controlled by Austria.

Except for the pagan Viscount Turenne, who was in charge of the war in the Netherlands, the French army was all elite.

However, in this sudden onslaught, France actually regarded the Duke of Vendôme as the marshal commanding the overall situation. It has to be said that it was a mistake on their part. After all, the Duke of Vendôme always wanted to take care of the overall situation. Like dividing his troops to attack Allen

The two-move chess between Berg and Isenberg is very Duke Vendôme-style layout. If it were Prince Condé, he would not do this at all. The 140,000 troops will most likely push all the way. It is estimated that this will
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