Facing the Holy Roman Empire's encirclement and suppression tactics, the Qing army did not have no countermeasures. Of course, it was not to run away, which would be tantamount to violating His Majesty the Sultan's orders in advance.
Retreating is definitely not possible, but even if the Qing army has a strength of 400,000, it will be difficult to defeat the enemy with fighter planes and tanks.
The only way is to go back to the past
The "thousands of arrows fired at once" tactic originally used Jia La as the largest combat unit and attacked from multiple directions. After being blocked by the opponent in multiple ways, the Qing army's many Jia La again changed from more than two hundred Jia La to thousands of Niu Lu as a unit of three hundred people.
Of course, there are also those who have not been attacked by pursuers for the time being, but still continue to fight on this scale. Most of the Jia La that were attacked were decomposed into Niu Lu with fewer troops under their control.
This means that the number of enemies that originally needed to be destroyed by one Holy Roman Empire cavalry battalion suddenly became five!
If you want to destroy five enemies at the same time, you must also divide yourself into five! Otherwise, if you want to eat one-fifth, you will let the remaining four-fifths escape... It is not enough to divide the troops. The Qing army, which is at a disadvantage with heavy weapons, has a second trick, which is to use the power of central and southern Germany. Fight in many forests.
These woodlands can well block enemy tank advances, reducing their level of firepower output and forcing them to fight with their own infantry.
The forest area on the north bank of the Danube River is far larger than that on the south bank, and the distance between the forest lands is very close, and some are even connected to each other, which provides a convenient door for the Qing army.
According to the military map provided by the Ming Empire, there are more than 20 large-scale forests south of Kassel alone. This is a good battlefield.
This move is also an established tactic given by His Majesty the Sultan. I heard that the enemy used the numerous forests in the territory to deal with the infantry legions of the Roman Empire.
Now the enemy's name has become the Holy Roman Empire, and our side has to use the same tactics they used before. It has to be said that fate is playing tricks on people!
"Damn yellow-skinned monkeys!" After Crown Prince Joseph heard that the Tatar cavalry troops were attacked by his own troops, they broke into pieces and began to flee in all directions. He was quite happy at first, thinking that his targeted tactics had worked. .
However, it didn't take long before they launched an attack and looted the countryside and towns. And it is more difficult to stop the enemy than before, because the number of enemy troops has become larger.
There were only two to three hundred enemies per unit, but they were all cavalry, so it was still difficult to deal with them. If you see a place with a small population, you will directly loot it. If not, you will transfer it to his brother.
Unable to escape from the thick pursuit, he plunged into the woods and never came out. The tanks could not enter the forest, so we could only continue the attack with cavalry and infantry, with the cooperation of aircraft.
But without the fire support of tanks, the combat effectiveness of the offensive troops is greatly reduced. The opponent does not seem to be afraid of this mode of fighting.
The Tatar cavalry are also equipped with mortars and small rapid-fire cannons, plus machine guns and grenades, and they are not at a disadvantage in the exchange of fire with the invading troops.
Due to the vegetation cover, the effects of bombing and strafing by fighter planes were not ideal. What's even more irritating is that the forest area is too large, and our side cannot complete the encirclement, and the opponent can easily slip away from other directions.
Usually, the troops fought hard for two or three days, but the Tatar cavalry could still slip from the palm of their hands into the river like a loach... After fighting like this two or three times, the soldiers were exhausted because the enemy had not been eliminated. When he was exhausted, his physical strength was exhausted, and his morale plummeted.
The more fatal problem is yet to come. The time when the Tatar cavalry harms the hinterland happens to be the spring plowing season, and the enemy has been refusing to leave, which will inevitably affect this year's spring plowing.
If this situation continues for two months, then Joseph will not have to count on how much food he can get from the autumn harvest, because Nong Min dare not go to the fields in the spring... The Tatar cavalry seems to be very aware of its own capabilities, and will not attack or defend at all. Very large cities have at most a dozen towns, and the ones they frequent are villages in the countryside.
But for the Holy Roman Empire, this behavior was even more deadly to itself. Even if the epidemic breaks out in summer and the yellow-skinned monkeys and the Ottoman army can retreat, what will happen when winter comes?
Should Louis XIV and William III be asked to use their own food to feed most of the empire's population?
? ? Considering that the empire is in trouble, the other party can provide some food for free, but it will never reach the point where millions of people can survive.
Once the unfavorable factors of spring plowing gradually affect the direction of the war, even if the empire wins the second war, its own war potential will be greatly weakened.
When the third war breaks out, I am afraid that the ability to resist the yellow-skinned monkey will be far less than it is now... Joseph had a premonition that the yellow-skinned monkey emperor's attempt to eliminate the Holy Roman Empire would not disappear until his army suffered a disastrous defeat.
It may be the most terrifying thing to attempt to launch multiple aggressive wars to achieve the ultimate goal.
There is no doubt about the national and military power of the Yellow-skinned Monkey Empire, and it is even more terrifying to have all of these on one's own side.
Joseph hoped that a country in the world that could not bear to be squeezed by the Yellow-skinned Monkey Empire would stand up at this time, fight side by side with the Holy Roman Empire, open up a second battlefield, and share the strong pressure faced by his own side.
But what makes him even more disappointed is that to this day, no country is willing to do this. Even France and other countries only secretly assist the empire, nothing more.
Joseph believes that the cowardice of these countries will eventually encourage the Yellow-skinned Monkey Emperor's aggressive ambitions, and will also make them puppets at the Yellow-skinned Monkey Emperor's feet!
But his father Leopold has repeatedly suggested that many European countries form a military alliance to deal with the invasion of the Yellow-skinned Monkey Empire, but other countries seem to be indifferent.
Even the Principality of Brandenburg-Prussia, which was originally closest to the Holy Roman Empire, has been renamed the Principality of Prussia in order to draw a clear line with the Holy Roman Empire.
Little Frederick, that short-sighted guy, after accepting the benefits of the yellow-skinned monkey emperor, became a pure spectator, not feeling ashamed at all for his decision.
Joseph even wondered whether the gap in thinking and IQ between the Austrians and the Prussians was so big?
Little Frederick's performance was not even as good as that of King Christian VI of Denmark, who at least fought alongside him.
This guy doesn't have the foresight of his father at all, he is a completely greedy and stubborn man!
As long as he can give him enough benefits, he can recognize the thief as his father! It seems that King Carl XI of Sweden, who first surrendered to the yellow-skinned monkey, is his biological father!
If Karl XI could allow tens of thousands of Swedish troops to launch a surprise attack from the flanks of the yellow-skinned monkey, the situation of the battle would be completely different.
It's a pity that that guy was more than twice as shameless as little Frederick. First he and the yellow-skinned monkey destroyed Tsarist Russia, and then he destroyed Polly in this way. What he did was enough to send him to hell after death!
Imagine that if the Holy Roman Empire could work with allies such as Sweden, Poland, Tsarist Russia, and Prussia to fight against the invasion of yellow-skinned monkeys, then it would not be a problem to severely damage or even defeat the enemy.
The yellow-skinned monkeys do not dare to invade the united Europe. The most they can do is huddle in the area east of the Ural Mountains and survive, that's all!
If that's the case, the European coalition forces will recreate the glorious victory they had when they defeated the Menggu Empire! As the birthplace of world civilization, Europe must not be conquered by barbaric and cruel yellow-skinned monkeys!
It is a pity that many heads of state in European countries cannot see this. They are still afraid of the power of the yellow-skinned monkey, and their eyes are blinded by the boxes of silver coins.
Joseph can guarantee that if the Holy Roman Empire falls, the yellow-skinned monkey's next target will definitely be them!
The yellow-skinned monkey emperor's ambition is to dominate the world. Otherwise, why would he invade the Holy Roman Empire when his control area is so large?
Those self-righteous guys, together with their country, will eventually become sacrifices to yellow-skinned monkeys, that's all!
The Tatars had been a scourge to Central Europe for many years, and the yellow-skinned monkeys were even more ferocious than the Tatars. The Tatar cavalry is now back, and many people seem to have forgotten the tragic experience that happened... In Joseph's eyes, those heads of state who were watching from the sidelines were just a group of livestock that refused to eat and beat!
The yellow-skinned monkey emperor gave them a little benefit, and they completely forgot who they were! There will eventually be a war between the East and the West, and now the war has begun.
They actually think that they will not be affected, and naively think that they can reap benefits. Louis XIV, William III, Karl XI and others seemed to be extremely shrewd, but in fact they were incompetent.
It was these people who teamed up to ruin Western civilization! This is a shame for the Western world and a disaster for mankind!
If the yellow-skinned monkey is finally allowed to dominate the entire world, the consequences will be disastrous! For now, the area south of Kassel is already full of Tatar cavalry.
I am afraid that in another month, even the areas around Hanover in the north will be looted by the enemy.
Compared with the regular army, those Tatar cavalry are more like a group of bloodthirsty bandits and madmen! The regular army will at least be like the Ottoman Guards, and will basically not do anything that goes against human nature.
This is not the case with robbers and lunatics. Not only do they kill people and steal goods, they do not consider the consequences. Even if it has angered the Holy Roman Empire, it will not withdraw its troops. Instead, it plans to continue to grab it.
This made Joseph even more depressed and angry. If he was not severely damaged as soon as possible, the opponent would not stop and retreat at all.
But now it is impossible to even severely damage the Tatar cavalry, because the number of the opponent's troops has increased and there are more targets to attack.
It can attack at least 800 to 1,000 targets at the same time, which means that the 100 cavalry battalions reinforced by tanks that he released before are completely insufficient.
At least one hundred more such cavalry battalions would be needed, and since battalion-sized combat units could no longer be maintained, they would have to be split.
When necessary, cavalry companies should be used as units to suppress the Tatar cavalry. Each cavalry company should be equipped with two vehicles.
The "Paladin" tank might still be able to complete the mission. The army can be expanded as soon as possible, but those who join are all minions. The reserve troops have long been absorbed into the main force to resist the invasion of the yellow-skinned monkeys and the Ottomans.
This caused the combat effectiveness of the Holy Roman Empire's combat units that encircled and suppressed the Tatar cavalry to decline rapidly, which was equivalent to watering down the inside.
The cavalry units rely more on tanks and aircraft for help. If they rely on themselves alone, they will often be repelled by the Tatar cavalry in front of them.
However, officers on the front lines of the suppression campaign also complained that their troops were insufficient, that the quality of their soldiers simply did not meet the requirements, and that they lacked heavy firepower.
Crown Prince Joseph ordered that each cavalry company be equipped with two tanks, but considering the overall number, it was known that that was impossible.
In this case, many cavalry units can only obtain armored vehicles modified from trucks or off-road vehicles, with machine guns or a small cannon mounted on them.
Of course, the combat effectiveness of this improvised product cannot be compared with that of tanks. There have even been incidents where armored vehicles were destroyed by Tatar cavalry with cannons...Fighters can only use fragile bodies.
"Albatross", expensive
After the "Eagle" heavy fighter was shot down by the Tatar cavalry, Crown Prince Joseph had ordered him to stop participating in the suppression operation.
The cavalrymen who were drawn to participate in the suppression operations believed that they had only received a total of nine months of training in three years. Just because they could ride horses, they were now cavalrymen.
It's okay to let them deal with some bandits, but if they want to fight the Tatar cavalry who kill people without blinking an eye, it will be too difficult for them to do anything!
If I really have that ability, I would have gone to work as a mercenary a long time ago. Do I still have to work hard at home and farm the land? There is only one exception in the south-central region of Germany, and that is the Principality of Hesse!
It was the birthplace of German mercenaries, and mercenaries are still the first way for local men to make a living.
His Majesty the Sultan once told two Qing chiefs not to attack the Principality of Hesse.
However, the consequences can be imagined. The Qing cavalry encountered unprecedented fierce resistance locally.
This kind of resistance is not only volitional, but also turns into real results! Back then, Emperor Haojing allowed Hessian mercenaries to return home with light weapons for personal use. This order is still in effect today.
This resulted in all the men of the age and over age of the Hessian Principality becoming soldiers, and they did not lag behind in terms of light weapons. The Qing cavalry who could defeat the invading Qing cavalry complained endlessly.
The Duke of Hesse has been on good terms with the Ming Emperor for generations, because his title was originally an earl. He relied on his mercenary business to buy the title of duke with money!
Because of this, the County of Hesse-Kassel became the Principality of Hesse today, and it is still doing its job. Many Hessian men are making a living in the African grasslands, Indian plains, and Southeast Asian rainforests... Hesse Local women have two main jobs, giving birth and taking care of children!
Boys grow up to become mercenaries, and girls grow up to bear children for men! So much so that the Emperor of the Ming Empire praised this model - what a simple and efficient virtuous cycle~!
