From Soldier To Emperor

Chapter 481 European countries on the sidelines

Richard did not expect that his cleaning work in Afghanistan would even detonate the European crisis!

Obviously, the Ottoman Empire reached a secret agreement with the veteran Kingdom of France and the Kingdom of Bavaria and Prussia in the Holy Roman Empire. The Kingdom of Hungary, the Duchy of Transylvania, the Duchy of Moldova, and the Duchy of Wallachia became vassals of the Ottoman Empire. In China, these countries still stood still and watched the Habsburg dynasty fight alone!

Except for the little brother of the United Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, the most influential Habsburg family, the other small states of the Holy Roman Empire did not have any expressions about this Ottoman invasion of the West. practice.

This undoubtedly plunged the Kingdom of Austria into a huge military crisis.

This battle was regarded by the Habsburgs as a prelude to the unification of the German region. As long as the Balkans of the Ottoman Empire could be swallowed, the power of the Habsburgs would rapidly expand. If the Ottoman Empire fell, the Habsburgs The threat to the east of the dynasty was once abolished!

In this way, the real unification of the Holy Roman Empire becomes a breeze.

After all, most of the small states of the Holy Roman Empire are oriented towards the Habsburg dynasty. Who said that the territory, population, and military strength of the Kingdom of Austria are the strongest?

After swallowing the Balkans and even the four Eastern European countries headed by Hungary, the Kingdom of Austria has a volume far surpassing the Kingdom of Prussia and the Kingdom of Bavaria, and it will be able to unify the Holy Roman Empire by pushing it flat.

Even if other European countries send troops to block, the Habsburg family has a great chance of winning!

However, the Habsburg family did not expect that the states in the Holy Roman Empire and other European countries would rather watch the reduction of the sphere of influence of mankind in the continent than help in the war between the Kingdom of Austria and the Ottoman Empire!

Don’t they worry that after the Ottoman Empire defeated the Habsburgs, it would enter Central Europe and threaten the entire continent?

You know, the Austrian Kingdom has the most advanced arsenal of mankind today. Once the Ottoman Empire takes over here, it will be able to obtain the ready-made achievements of the Industrial Revolution and upgrade its weapons to the same level as the European powers!

At that time, the most powerful advantage of the Ottoman Empire will be lost to all European nations!

With the size of the Ottoman Empire, millions of troops can be armed at will. If the weapons and equipment are the same, it is not impossible to submerge the European nations of humanity!

The deceptive nature of jihad is still very powerful.

Nowadays, the advantage of the breech rifle against the front-loaded rifle is not too great, because the Ottoman Empire can completely fight with the Austrian army equipped with the breech gun with twice or three times the force.

There are no old gray cattle in this world, but there are Ottoman human jihadist cannon fodder!

The hundreds of thousands of Ottoman troops that pressed on the border of the Kingdom of Austria immediately put tremendous pressure on the defense of the Kingdom of Austria.

Especially when the Ottoman Empire launched a full-scale offensive, the border defenses of the Kingdom of Austria were in a hurry!

The Ottoman Empire recruited a large amount of cannon fodder from the surrendered Kingdom of Hungary, the Principality of Transylvania, the Principality of Moldova, and the Principality of Wallachia. A shotgun or even a matchlock drove them to attack!

Coupled with the unique heavy artillery of the Ottoman Empire, even if the Austrian Kingdom has advanced breech guns, it has been retreated steadily!

There are tens of thousands of casualties on both sides of the battlefield every day!

Nearly one-third of the casualties were turned into corpses!

And because of the backward medical conditions in this era, most of the wounded were either reduced to the disabled or died of various infections after the injury…

Even one-third of the wounded soldiers who can heal and return to the battlefield cannot reach…

Of course, the Austrian Kingdom’s weapon superiority compared with the casualties of the Ottoman Empire is still pretty good.

On average, it can reach a casualty ratio of 1:2 to 1:3.

In other words, it takes 2 to 3 Ottoman soldiers to get the life of an Austrian soldier!

This is mainly because the Ottoman Empire’s artillery is superior in number and caliber. Although the artillery of the Kingdom of Austria is more advanced, but the volume is placed there, it is impossible to compare the war potential with the vast Ottoman Empire.

The Ottoman Empire also knew that its own artillery could not be shot at long distances with the same caliber than a human country.

In this case, the Ottoman Empire used quantity to make up for the lack of accuracy, and increased the caliber at no cost to make up for the lack of range!

Therefore, the number of artillery in the Ottoman Empire far exceeded that of European countries, and at the same time heavier.

The heavy artillery is not a good thing, which will make the transportation cost of the artillery rise sharply, and the transportation efficiency will also drop drastically.

However, the most indispensable thing in the Ottoman Empire is the human coolies like cattle.

The transportation cost of the Ottoman Empire did not pay anything except for one bite. Many times even the rations required the young and strong locals to provide for themselves!

Therefore The Ottoman Empire can pull up hundreds of human youths to transport a heavy artillery anytime and anywhere at a low cost!

Coupled with the vast territory of the Ottoman Empire, there are many horse-producing areas, and a large number of excellent horses can be cultivated for dragging heavy artillery.

In this way, under the high-pressure policy of the Ottoman Empire regardless of cost, they transported artillery at the fastest speed!

Of course, labor injuries and deaths caused by high-intensity work during transportation were an irrelevant issue for the Ottoman Empire.

Every time the Ottoman Empire launched a war, the number of coolies who died on the logistics line is an unmentioned number, because once this number is made public, it is estimated that the next round of human uprising will erupt…

It can be said that the dark elves did not treat humans as humans at all!

In addition to the various levels of Pasha who work for the dark elves, ordinary human civilians are animals that can communicate with two legs in the eyes of the dark elves!

Although the dark elves live a sluggish life, they are a war fanatic race, and their attitude is much higher than that of the Ottoman Empire of the same name in the history of Richard’s previous life.

After all, the people who supervise and manage are the dark elves, and human officials must consider whether their brains are hard enough before they become corrupt…

The cost for humans to bribe the dark elves is very high, because the dark elves have always regarded themselves as a race higher than humans, and they are ashamed of having dirty trades with humans!

At the same time, the dark elves have a sense of crisis, always guarding against humans, and naturally they will not be bought easily!

In other words, the dark elves love their motherland even more, because the education that every dark elves received from childhood tells them that the Ottoman Empire is the foundation for their survival in this world!

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