In view of the experience and lessons learned last time, Emperor Haojing would naturally not urge Zhang Huangyan to speed up the attack for the second crusade against the Holy Roman Empire, and he would be even more unreasonable to be eager for success.
The speed of the frontline advancement is not important. What is important is to ensure the safety of most of the coalition soldiers, especially not to be infected with the disease, which is much more terrible than the enemy.
It doesn't matter even if it fails again. Time is on the side of the Ming Empire. With its strong military strength, population, natural resources, and industrial production capacity, it can still defeat the opponent to death.
If it doesn’t work twice, then three times; if it doesn’t work three times, then four times!
If it doesn’t work in five years, then ten years; if it doesn’t work in ten years, then twenty years!
The Holy Roman Empire can survive for a while, but it cannot survive for a lifetime. It will face attacks from more and more coalition soldiers, tanks, aircraft, and rocket launchers.
It was the same as the Ming Dynasty's attack on Braid. It was just that Braid had no help from foreign aid and could only desperately tap its internal potential. In the end, both Menggu and Han people had to sacrifice their lives for it.
While the Holy Roman Empire was tapping its internal potential, it also received support from European countries. Although those countries did not dare to blatantly provide assistance, to a certain extent, it also played a role in extending the life of the Holy Roman Empire.
France, the Netherlands, and Switzerland were all secretly supporting Leopold and his son behind the scenes.
The Inca Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the Japanese State fought side by side with the Ming Dynasty with clear-cut flags, which was equivalent to two major military groups confronting each other.
Emperor Hao Jing hoped that Louis XIV and other European heads of state would send troops to participate in the war to show off the outcome with the coalition forces. Unfortunately, the other side would not be stupid enough to team up with Leopold and his son.
As for the problem of poor frontline offense, in Zhu Cixiang's view, it is completely a minor problem.
For example, the Menggu fleet went east to conquer Japan, but was wiped out by a gust of divine wind. That would be a big problem.
It was not easy to conquer North America back then, but now it has become part of the Ming Empire.
The worst thing to look at is Sumatra, which is a veritable hell battlefield that cost tens of millions of silver coins to defeat.
Why should the crusade against the Holy Roman Empire have to go smoothly?
Besides, only hard, fierce, and bloody battles can train the team, increase experience, boost morale, and select elites.
If it really takes a week to be done, then there is a ghost in it!
Therefore, Emperor Haojing told his disciples to do it without worrying about criticism from the government and the public.
Those well-fed guys even commented on the emperor's beauty pageant, as if there was nothing they didn't understand in the world...
This year we can send Zhang Huangyan a thousand "Flamingo" fighter jets, a thousand "Black-footed Albatross" fighter jets, a thousand "Hercules" transport/bombers, and a thousand helicopters.
Due to the good response of the No. 9 tank on the front line, Zhu Cixiang has ordered the factory to supply the European front line offensive on a monthly basis, providing two tank battalions with 80 tanks every month.
There are thousands of No. 9 heavy tanks in a year. These powerful human shields are enough to destroy tens of thousands of enemy tanks.
Another thing that is different from last time is that the scale of the Ottoman Empire's troop dispatch is much larger than before. The other side claimed to have dispatched one million troops.
Among them, the most elite Imperial Guards numbered 50,000, the number of braided troops who had surrendered to the country was as high as 400,000, and the other troops were about 550,000.
Ibrahim originally wanted to increase the number of guards on the front line, but the empire's territory had expanded to its limit, and many important places required guards to garrison.
Baghdad, Basra, Cairo, Athens, Tripoli, Sarajevo, Belgrade, Sofia, and the capital Constantinople all need to station at least one brigade of Janissaries.
The strategic military town of Budapest, close to the border area, could not be lost, and one brigade of Praetorian Guards had to be left behind, while the rest basically went to the front line.
Building the Imperial Guard into an elite division similar to the Ming army's field troops is very expensive. From the rifles to the tanks in hand, they have to be completely replaced, and the logistics supplies must also keep up.
Fortunately, through mining, oil extraction, and the trafficking of war horses and slaves, plus the revenue from the canal, the Ottoman Empire's annual revenue has reached about 200 million silver coins, ranking third in the world.
In particular, maritime trade with the Ming Empire accounted for more than half of the annual income, and there was no need to spend money to buy it, it only needed to be bartered according to international market prices.
The Ming Empire imported more than 10 million barrels of refined oil from the Ottoman Empire every year. Due to the former's wealth, it basically didn't even care about crude oil.
Naturally, the entire Ottoman Empire supports this business, because the entire industry chain of oil extraction, refining, and transportation can create a large number of jobs.
Those idle laborers who have found a job in a certain link of the industrial chain and received a salary will not be looking for work.
Therefore, at that time, the oil industry quickly developed into the pillar industry of the Ottoman Empire, and it was the first pillar.
The top five petroleum refining and chemical plants in the world by output are all located in the Ottoman Empire.
At the same time, the Ottoman Empire also built a transport fleet of five hundred oil tankers of over 5,000 tons.
In addition, there are thousands of sail tankers, which can be regarded as auxiliary transportation force.
However, sail-type ships are no longer allowed to pass through the Sudan Canal at this time because the wind in the canal area is too weak.
Relying on trackers and tractors is more troublesome and time-consuming, which is equivalent to delaying the passage of steam-type ships through the canal.
If a sailing ship has a problem in the canal area, it can paralyze the canal for a day or two.
In view of the problems with canal shipping, Ottoman leaders had decided to dig a second canal after the second war against the Holy Roman Empire.
It is adjacent to the first canal, but wider and deeper than the first canal. It is specially used for ships with more than 10,000 tons to travel, while ships with less than 10,000 tons use the old canal.
Ibrahim considered the current situation and the empire's revenue situation, and thought of the advice of his old friend, so he readily agreed to the plan.
Zhu Cixiang suggested that the sooner he digs a second canal under suitable circumstances, the sooner he can recover the construction costs and achieve profitability as soon as possible, because labor costs will become more and more expensive in the future.
After the victory over the Holy Roman Empire, a large number of prisoners of war can be used to dig canals. Isn't this killing two birds with one stone?
The revenue from the canal is now second only to oil extraction and mining, and ahead of textiles, trafficking of war horses and people.
As the population of the Eastern and Western worlds increases, the volume of maritime trade will also increase.
The profitability of the canal will then depend entirely on the canal's capabilities.
The most important thing is that whether in the Western world or the Eastern world, if you want to take a shortcut, this is the only way.
Don't worry about the Arctic Ocean route. There will be no way to find an absolutely safe route in the summer of two hundred years from now.
The premise of everything is to win on the battlefield, otherwise this economical plan will still be nonsense...
Zhu Cixi could not send more troops to the southern front, but fortunately Ibrahim could tap the potential internally.
The target was the Tatars who had taken refuge in themselves and sought asylum, that is, the Qing army.
After surrendering to the Ottoman Empire, the two emperors, one large and one small, could only downgrade their titles and call themselves Qing kings, but they were actually tribal chiefs.
Ibrahim was also very generous and agreed that they would be kings and could manage their own tribes without interference, and declared to the outside world that they were tribes of the Liangqing Dynasty.
At the beginning, the king of the Eastern Qing Dynasty was Yinzhen, and the king of the Western Qing Dynasty was Hongxi.
Now nearly thirty years have passed since that war, and things have changed.
The title of King of the Eastern Qing Dynasty has been inherited by Yin Zhen's son Hongli. The King of the Western Qing Dynasty is still Hong Xi, but he is also getting older.
The Qing Empire, which once dominated Eastern Europe, had a population of up to 20 million. However, under the heavy blow of the Ming Empire, after the collapse of the empire, the population under its jurisdiction shrank sharply.
After years of recovery, until now, the population of the Qing Emirate is only about seven million, which is only about one-third of what it was back then.
If the surrounding Han tribes, Cossack tribes, and Rakshasa tribes are included, the total population is close to 15 million.
However, these slaves who once served the Qing Empire were no longer willing to look back after embracing their new masters.
Those tribes that had not been able to participate in the first crusade against the Holy Roman Empire came to ask for war this time, and Ibrahim followed suit.
The Qing tribe sent 400,000 troops, all of them cavalry.
The Han tribe sent 300,000 troops as infantry and artillery.
The Cossack tribe sent one hundred thousand troops, all of them cavalry.
The Rakshasa tribe sent out one hundred thousand troops, all of whom were infantry.
The four major tribes' armed forces dispatched a total of 900,000 troops, including 500,000 cavalry, which shows their ability to conduct long-distance attacks.
This also helped Ibrahim solve the problem of insufficient troops to attack the Holy Roman Empire, and it did not cost much money.
Benefits must be given, otherwise there will be no way to motivate these tribal soldiers.
Except for the royal family members, generals, special persons or property of the Holy Roman Empire, such as ordinary people's property, all property can be owned by the party that captured it, and how to distribute it can be decided by each chief.
In other words, how much each department can earn in this operation depends entirely on their efforts and personal luck.
The Qing tribe and the Cossack tribe did not need to participate in the siege of Vienna and Bratislava, and could go to the enemy's hinterland to plunder on their own.
The Han tribe and the Rakshasa tribe need to follow the imperial guards and attack the important towns and capitals of the empire. After destroying the city, they can receive corresponding rewards.
The chiefs of the four major tribes have actually been eager to give it a try, because there are not many mines on their territory, so they only hope to grow food to pay back the money, and their lives will be very miserable.
There had been conflicts with the Holy Roman Empire and Poli before, but the scale was relatively small. A battle of this scale was just about barely enough.
If the Qing army wanted to eat well and ride on the ocean horses, they had to fight against two old enemies. Now they have finally reached this juncture...
Before sending troops, Hongxi and Hongli also agreed that they would not attack each other during the war, let alone rebel.
This is no longer the era when one can dominate the world by being skilled in bows and horses. There are planes above and tanks below.
For example, iron-clad carriages combined with cavalry cannot defeat the opponent's tank fleet.
In this case, there is absolutely no need to betray His Majesty the Sultan.
In order to show their loyalty, Yinzhen and Hongxi added the common names of the Ottomans to their names after their surrender.
Yumit Yinzhen!
Suke Hongxi!
This sounds more Ottoman, but in terms of diet, if there are not enough sheep, some domestic pigs still need to be raised...
Being able to follow the Praetorian Guards to conquer the Holy Roman Empire made everyone in the Qing Dynasty very happy. The crusade meant that they could rob at will.
Although there are some precautions, as long as Austria, the seat of the Habsburg dynasty, is not touched, can the Qing cavalry still be able to do whatever they want when it comes to other enemies?
In early March, the 400,000 Qing troops that had already been assembled followed the Imperial Guards across the border and invaded Austria. However, they parted ways with the larger army.
According to the battle plan, the Qing army must pass through Austria and invade South Germany.
The troops loyal to the Eastern Qing Dynasty King Yumit Hongli were responsible for attacking the Bavaria region, while the troops belonging to the Western Qing Dynasty King Su Ke Hongxi were required to attack the Baden-Württemberg region.
The southern German region was divided into two, just enough to satisfy the appetites of the two Qing kings. How much they could eat depended on their respective abilities, and the loss of troops was naturally borne by the individual.
The troops of all Han tribes followed seven brigades of Praetorian Guards to siege Vienna, and three brigades of Praetorian Guards led Rakshasa troops and Cossack cavalry to attack Bratislava.
In his second crusade against the Holy Roman Empire, Ibrahim used 900,000 tribal armed forces, but there were only 50,000 praetorian guards and only 50,000 non-direct descendants.
The purpose of this arrangement is very clear. It can accomplish great things with less money. All it takes is to provide food, grass and basic wages for the tribal armed forces. The cost is much lower than using imperial field troops.
All twenty brigades, including the Guards, are mechanized, and three of the Guards brigades are veritable armored brigades.
The organization is modeled after the elite of the Ming Empire, with 360 Panzer VIII tanks and 360 infantry fighting vehicles in operation, giving it extremely powerful field assault capabilities.
Those outdated light tanks were assigned to the troops of the Han tribe and the Rakshasa tribe for use, but these servants were very happy.
The Qing tribe's cavalry received second-hand machine guns, submachine guns, brand-new grenades, and some machine guns in order to improve the air defense capabilities of the cavalry.
After the Qing cavalry changed their equipment to Don Hema, their combat effectiveness increased by half.
Before the expedition, both armies received 20,000 Ottoman war horses, which made them even more powerful.
Although there are not many in number, they can be equipped to the elite Bagara and Guards for use.
Without any effort, he received a reward from His Majesty the Sultan, which forced the Qing army to reciprocate the favor.
Their mission is very simple. They just need to stir things up in the enemy's hinterland. The greater the movement, the more successful the operation is.
This is a task that the Qing army is very good at. They were doing this more than thirty years ago.
Now, everyone is following in the footsteps of their fathers and returning to their old careers!
And no longer have to face Man Ming, which eliminates everyone's biggest worry.
There have been orders from above that once the target area is invaded, everything you encounter will be looted, and anything you can't take away will be burned.
If the enemy is not willing to fortify the wall and clear the field, the Qing cavalry will do it for them. It is nothing more than charging some "labor time fees"!
In this operation, the enemy has air superiority. All units must be mobile and flexible to move in at any time. There must be no procrastination or hesitation to delay the fighter plane!
