Chapter 913： influences

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Compared to the wailing in the French army camp, the situation of the coalition forces is quite different.

A meteor shower in the sky, a series of bursts on the ground... The specific results have not yet been counted, but the French corpses on the ground are enough to explain many problems.

Witnessing all these coalition officers and soldiers with their own eyes, there are only two words in their minds-"slaughter".

Whether it is an air battle in the sky or an offensive and defensive battle on the ground, it is the unilateral slaughter of the French by the Austrian army.

The mental outlook of the coalition officers and soldiers who were originally disorganized and unstable in morale, and who were confused about the prospects of the war, had a new look.

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Allied Command

Adrian Adrian eagerly tried to test: "Marshal, the French army suffered heavy losses during the day's battle. It will certainly not be too peaceful tonight. It is a good time for us to fight back."

From the military point of view, this judgment is not wrong, and the heavy casualties have seriously hit the morale of the French army.

In particular, these casualties were caused by the high-level misjudgment and command errors, and even the grassroots officers and soldiers complained to the upper levels.

"No!"

Grand Duke Albrecht refused decisively.

"It is not yet the time to fight back. The French army just suffered heavy losses today. At least five divisions in Udino's hands did not participate in the battle.

We have too little mobile troops in our hands, and the newly reorganized troops are still under recuperation, and there is not much combat power at all.

The troops fighting during the day are exhausted, and no more than six infantry divisions can be put into the offensive, including three infantry divisions that were withdrawn from the Belgian front last week.

The French are not stupid. If they suffer such a big loss, they will definitely strengthen their vigilance. With our current strength, even if we take the opportunity to counterattack, it is difficult to achieve the desired results.

Moreover, the French Third Army is less than fifty kilometers away from the front line unless we can resolve these enemies in one day. "

It is simply impossible to end the battle within one day. No matter how much the advantage was taken during the day, it still did not change the fact that the Austrian army was underpowered, even with the addition of troops from both countries.

Today's battle, although the morale of the coalition forces has been restored, but in addition to the Austrian forces, the combat effectiveness of other troops is still being restored.

Take the Belgian army as an example. Just a few days after losing his hometown, people are crying in sorrow. Unless it is a campaign to regain Belgian territory, it will be difficult for them to exert their peak fighting power.

Not to mention the German troops included, it can only be said that the command system was barely straightened out, the officers and soldiers were in a state of running-in, and they were allowed to do miscellaneous tasks and logistics, and sending them out and the decisive battle of the French army were all giving away.

Time is on the side of the coalition forces, the reinforcements in the rear are coming constantly, Grand Duke Albrecht can wait.

The enemy's airship force has been abolished, and as long as the Rhine defense is maintained, it is a matter of time for the French to fail.

Of course, there is another reason that cannot be said.

In the event of a successful attack, the French army suffered heavy losses and immediately retreated to the homeland, and the subsequent battle was not easy to fight.

Fighting the French in the territories of Derby, Austria can also raise the banner of anti-aggression and gain the support of the local people.

If you enter a decisive battle on the French mainland, not to mention the piles of fortifications, international interference alone is a big trouble.

You know that the international community now supports the anti-French alliance. It seems that it is just shouting slogans. There is no substantive action. In fact, the governments of various countries have secretly caused trouble for the French.

With these small means alone, France has to increase the expenses of hundreds of millions of francs every month. The money is spent, and the supplies may not arrive on time.

If the trend of strength and weakness is reversed, the anti-French alliance is suffering now. At least until the end of the Battle of Egypt, the Government of Vienna cannot ignore the positions of various countries.

If the battle during the day is passed on, it will definitely affect the judgment of governments of the warring parties, and may even affect everyone's foreign policy.

However, Grand Duke Albrecht can be sure that the French cannot report the real situation of the daytime fighting, or even desperately cover up the failure, otherwise they will not be able to explain to the country.

As for the news released by the coalition forces, even if it is the truth, everyone will not help but discount it. It is impossible to believe that the French army has suffered so many casualties.

The reason is naturally the amazing record announced by both parties. According to the number of annihilating the enemy announced by the warring parties, the French have already killed 3.46 million coalition forces, and the coalition forces have also killed 2.47 million French troops.

According to this figure, since the outbreak of war, the warring parties have killed an average of 70,000 each other each day, and the number of casualties in the entire battlefield has reached a staggering 140,000 per day.

There are so many deaths alone. The number of casualties is extrapolated according to a threefold increase in the number of casualties. Then the total number of casualties of the French army is 12.35 million; and the total number of casualties of the coalition forces has reached a staggering 17.3 million.

Such an exaggerated victory, if it really happened, the war would have ended long ago, whoever believed it was a fool.

In fact, at the beginning, the results announced by the two warring parties were not so exaggerated. Even if they were engaged in art processing, everyone also had some convergence, at least not to the point of adding zero.

It won’t work afterwards. For example, after the end of a battle, the French army was going to announce the killing of 8,000 of the Allied Forces. Seeing that the Allied Forces announced that they had killed 12,000 of the French Army, they didn’t have to say that they couldn’t show weakness. It became an enemy of 50,000.

Seeing that the French army announced the annihilation of 50,000 coalition forces, the coalition forces could not suffer any loss, and in a blink of an eye, they tried to find ways to increase the results of annihilating tens of thousands of enemies. Anyway, nobody wanted to weaken the momentum.

If it were not for the loss of the Luxembourg defense line, most of the Belgian territory fell, the cowhide could not be blown down, and the coalition forces would not fall into the disadvantage in destroying the number of enemies.

Even so, the word game continues. And the further back, the more outrageous results announced by everyone will become even more outrageous, and the truth will be further and further away from the people.

It's no surprise that bragging is a common problem in humans. If you look through the history book, you know that the ancients played this way thousands of years ago.

Now that the battle has been going on, the two warring parties have only annihilated millions of enemies. Crossing out a zero is very close to the true number, and it is completely incomparable to those who annihilate hundreds of millions of enemies.

However, according to the current results of the warring parties, if the war continues for a few more months, the number of casualties on paper breaks through a small target, which is not a problem at all.

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Tonight is destined to be an insomnia night. With a telegram, many big men can't sleep.

The coalition side is okay. As the winner, the side received good news.

In addition to being unbelievable at one and a half moments and requiring multiple parties to verify the news, the mental state of politicians is still good.

Some active guys have already decided to come to Hepi overnight to celebrate this hard-won victory.

Of course, Franz is not included in this, and after receiving the telegram, he replied: Got it.

Then, there is no more.

I was prepared in my heart, and this surprise was not so sudden. Naturally, I should go to bed.

There is no accident, Franz's unchanging performance has added a stroke to his emperor's career, leaving a short story for future generations.

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Compared to a quiet Vienna palace, the Palace of Versailles is now brightly lit, and you can still hear the roar from time to time.

Undoubtedly, those who dared not to sleep in the middle of the night and roared in the palace of Versailles could find no second person except Napoleon IV.

Since the Luxembourg line was torn, the French army has been galloping in Central Europe, "fighting the German Federation and lifting Belgian children's shoes".

In the plan of Napoleon IV, this state of the French army should continue, killing Vienna all the way to defeat Austria.

However, the plan hasn't changed fast. This is just preparing to drink the Ma Rhein River, and it has been a hit.

Napoleon IV was difficult to be angry, and no one was in his position. At this moment, there is no guarantee that he will perform better.

First, the bad news of the airship troops on the front line came to a heavy loss, proclaiming the end of the era of airships, marking France's investment in airships over the years, all of which have been water tickets.

Napoleon IV was an emperor who grew up receiving new education. He could barely accept the technological changes.

It’s not just an airplane. With France’s strong family, it will come out in a few months.

Anyway, this year's aircraft has limited power. Apart from restraining the airship, the role it can play on the battlefield is not as great as that of future generations.

Despite the loss of air supremacy, Napoleon IV was still full of confidence in the French Army.

In his view, without the assistance of airship bombing forces, it is nothing more than the cost of winning the war, and there is still time to push back some more.

It is a pity that this branch of the French Army, which has high hopes and has a long history, gave him a single-digit answer sheet.

The number of casualties exceeded 30,000 and the number of casualties was as high as 50,000. This is not a battle, but a day's battle.

After paying such a heavy price, the results were minimal, and the casualties of the Austrian army were conservatively estimated at most three digits.

Most of these were caused by artillery, and a small amount were caused by airship bombing. Although the airship did not throw a few bombs, they flung the street gorgeously, but they fell into a giant bomb.

Of course, after the airship rushed down the street, while scouring the coalition forces, it did not forget to visit the French camp.

In this regard, they are treated equally, and where they fall is entirely determined by the will of God.

As for the infantry who launched the offensive, not to mention their heavy casualties, in fact, they just walked around the battlefield and sent a large wave of heads.

The situation is worse than the original Som and Battle of Time and Space. The British just ignored the threat of the machine gun fire net, and the bureaucrats took a hand.

The French army didn't even know the Makqin machine gun, so they rushed straight up. It’s not a big deal if you just don’t know.

The commanders on the front line will definitely report back to the top when they find the casualties heavy. As long as the offensive tactics are adjusted in time, the loss will not be that great.

Unfortunately, all this is not applicable to the French army. Tell a story.

In the battle against Luxembourg, a French-Italian mixed infantry division was ordered to launch the main attack on the enemy position.

After the battle started, the heroic French soldiers went forward and launched a charge. One of the Italian soldiers formed the infantry regiment, which was particularly brave in the battle.

Nearly two-thirds of the 2146 people in the whole regiment fell halfway through the charge, so that the division chief immediately stopped and replaced them for rest.

As a result, after the soldiers were collected in the evening, when the number of people was finally counted, the 2146 soldiers that the regiment should receive actually had 2101 soldiers.

In the missing platoon, the Corpse Collection Team only found Qiju corpses. Whether the remaining people were dead in the battlefield or ran away on the road has not been determined so far.

Due to the large number of people involved, apart from removing the officers involved and sending them to the military court, the French command did not dispose of the gang of soldiers, but drove them back home.

There is no doubt that such an understatement is undoubtedly a failure. By the time the top French army responded, the situation was out of control.

The power of role models is immense. There is no shortage of people in this world who are afraid of death. Almost all French troops follow suit.

The high-ranking French army naturally took measures to severely punish these guys, but once the Pandora's Box was opened, it could not be solved by closing it.

In order to avoid punishment, all kinds of strange excuses have appeared. Of course, more of them are pretending to be wounded. Many people deliberately get a little injury and then hide in the rear hospital to recuperate.

It was not until Marshal Patrice McMahon came out of the mountain to clear up the military discipline and changed the original punishment mode.

No matter how it changes, the commander's preconceived impression will not change for a while.

All the factors come together and together caused this tragedy.

From the overall situation, the casualties of tens of thousands of people are not worth mentioning to the French Empire.

The problem is that in order to open the gap as quickly as possible, Marshal Patrice McMahon put the main force of the French army on the front line, so now it is precisely the French that are suffering heavy losses.

You can see from the specific number of the army. Generally speaking, the number of the lower number of the troops, or the front troops are all standing troops. They have been established for many years, and the combat effectiveness is not comparable to that of the new troops.

After Napoleon IV had almost vented, Prime Minister Terrence Burgin stepped forward and persuaded: "Your Majesty, this is the end of the matter.

Let’s find a way to get rid of it. Whether it’s an enemy’s plane, or a new machine gun or mortar that has just emerged, it’s worth our possession.

Today’s battles are not all the responsibility of the frontline generals. The Austrians used these new equipment to beat us by surprise and did not represent anything.

Having learned the lesson of this defeat, I believe that in the following battles, our army will exert its fighting power. "

Including Prime Minister Terrence Burgin, many people in the top level of the French government are not convinced by the inexplicable war today.

In their view, the Austrians simply caught them off guard by relying on more advanced equipment. As long as the French responded, the situation would change.

After hearing the Prime Minister's persuasion, Napoleon IV's look did not improve, and immediately rebuked the landing army minister: "What is the Army Department doing, we invest so much military money every year, why is the equipment so much behind the Austrians?"

Don’t tell me this is an accident. Whether it’s an airplane or a machine gun, it was born for decades. Why is our army not equipped? "

After a series of reasons, the Army Secretary buried his head even lower. Nothing wrong, this is it.

Technical innovation in armaments has never been easy. The original space-time Maxim's machine gun was the first to show off its power. It was still used by the British to deal with the indigenous people. As a result, they still jumped into the pit during World War I.

Not to mention this time, Austria hides these things at home, and the outside world knows nothing.

Not before today, in everyone's consciousness: The Makqin machine gun is just an ordinary machine gun, and there is no essential difference from Gatling; the plane is a flashy toy, and it is useless except for flight shows.

This is a broad judgment from all walks of life. The army minister is not a traverser. If he does not hang, he can open it. Naturally, he cannot jump out of this circle of thinking.

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