Daming 1805

The Ming Dynasty comprehensively used public opinion and intelligence methods, and under the direct deterrence and suppression of nuclear weapons, it used semi-coercive means to peacefully capture Moscow.

When the news reached Berlin, Emperor Nicholas of Lucia almost took action.

Nicholas had made up his mind to take out the capital that Lucia had used for hundreds of years, and to take out the lives of 80 soldiers and millions of people.

I want to confirm whether Ming Dynasty still has the divine punishment weapon, and whether it will use the divine punishment weapon again.

As a result, the price of preparation was indeed spent, but there was no result in testing whether Ming Dynasty had a divine punishment weapon.

"These cowards surrendered!"

Nikolai slapped the telegraph newspaper on the table with some hysterics, and then slammed the things in front of him forward with force:
"How dare they surrender! How dare they betray me! These traitors! They are all traitors!"

The secretaries and servants around him were all silent and frightened.

But some couldn't help but mutter in their hearts:
Your Majesty, you are not in Moscow now, so you don't have to think about whether to be a coward or betray anyone.

King William I of Germany also felt his eyes darkened after receiving the news of Moscow's surrender.

Then I felt like I was holding a breath in my chest and couldn't breathe out for a long time.

Moscow, which he had high hopes for, actually surrendered.

The total 80 soldiers in Moscow are not all Lucia's army, there are hundreds of thousands of volunteers.

Among the 300 million soldiers lost in the previous seven divine punishments, there were also nearly a million Germans.

These elite soldiers were wasted, and he still had no way of knowing whether Ming would continue to use divine punishment weapons.

However, William I's mood, compared with that of the angry Tsar Nicholas, was more about the planned unexpected frustration.

There was no way to determine the matter of the God's Punishment Weapon, and he had no way to make a decision on his attitude towards Daming and Lucia.

This will delay his time to adjust the future direction of the Hohenzollern family and Germany.

After receiving the news, Prince William Ludwig went to his father's room to ask if he wanted to contact Daming directly.

William I thought about it for a long time and still gave a very tangled answer:

"Wait a little longer, wait a little longer, there will be Constantinople after Moscow, which may be even harder to defeat than Moscow with conventional weapons..."

Prince Wilhelm Ludwig did not change much on the surface, but said goodbye to his father very politely.

After leaving his father's office, the prince couldn't help but sigh:
"This can't go on like this. For the Hohenzollern family and all the German people, I must do something..."

Lucia and the German top brass were unable to make a decision, so the war could only continue in such chaos.

The main Second Army, which first set out from Baku and the Ural region on the north coast, also achieved its second big harvest after Tsaritsyn.

On March [-], the fourth year of the Grand Duke, the Second Army captured the last fortress on the Crimean Peninsula, the port of Sevastopol.

So far, the Ming army finally occupied the entire Crimean Peninsula.

Finally, the land connection between the core area of ​​Lucia and the Caucasus was completely cut off, and the Caucasus was completely occupied.

In just one month, Lucia lost nearly half of her territory.

And most of them are local elite areas.

Lucia's total population was originally just over 2000 million.

There are now 4000 million or even 5000 million people in the lands occupied by the Ming Dynasty.

There are only 7000 to 8000 million Lucians left in the land now controlled by the Lucia court.

However, during this process, Ming's front advance speed significantly slowed down further.

The war first broke out on the second day of February. The Second Army quickly advanced more than 600 kilometers in only three days and quickly occupied Tsaritsyn.

The city of Tsaritsyn on the Volga River is almost a thousand kilometers away from the port of Sevastopol on the Crimean Peninsula.

The Second Army Corps, which once marched [-] kilometers in three days, spent a whole month on this road.

Especially the last trip to the Crimean Peninsula, where I spent a full ten days.

After the main force, the First Army, occupied Moscow, it stayed directly in the city for seven days, and did not advance again until the first day of March.

The progress after that was also very slow, covering more than 200 kilometers in five days.

Although it is not slow in conventional warfare, compared with Ming's own previous attack speed, it has indeed slowed down too much.

At the beginning, I could advance two hundred kilometers a day.

The main reason why the Ming army's advance slowed down was not that the Ming army encountered any large-scale resistance.

The first wave of the main force of the Lucians were all wiped out in the seven nuclear explosions at the beginning of the war.

The 80 troops in the city of Moscow and nearby were the second wave of resistance that was barely organized, and they immediately surrendered somewhat unclearly.

After two deployments and conscription, there will no longer be a large-scale regular army in Moscow and the surrounding areas in a short time.

The large and small cities in the interior of Lucia are relatively easy to capture, even if they are unwilling to surrender.

Unless it was a huge city like Moscow, Yang Yuchun didn't have to consider strategic strikes at all.

The real reason why the Ming Dynasty's army's advance slowed down was that the Ming Dynasty's strategy for this war in the West did not require a quick victory.

Instead, they pursue the complete conquest and comprehensive governance of the local area, and reestablish the local ruling order while pursuing conquest.

The early stage of the battle is fast, mainly because the occupied area is small, there are few people in the occupied area, the overall burden is small, the logistics supply is fast, and the strategy execution efficiency is also high.

Now, occupying a city as big as Moscow and simply counting hundreds of thousands of prisoners and 300 million citizens will take a lot of time.

Routine tasks such as confiscating the wealth of the middle and upper-class ruling groups, centralizing management of these people, demolishing Western-style buildings, and building factories also require a lot of time.

In the Ming Dynasty's rear area, the demobilized and conscripted troops in the past three years are being continuously sent to Lucia.

Ming Dynasty's current 2000 million troops, at least half of them will eventually be responsible for the governance of the people.

They will also stay directly on the Thai continent in the future to suppress and control the conquered Thai people.

In the past month, the Ming army has controlled at least 6000 million Lucians and Ottomans.

Clearly counting the number of these people, confirming their jobs and identities, and re-establishing the identity system will require a lot of manpower and time.

Managers from the four major industrial groups of the Ming Dynasty, as well as owners, investors and managers of private manufacturers, are also constantly being sent to the West.

They are responsible for taking over the various industries on the western continent as completely as possible.

The Ming Dynasty treated the ruling class in these conquered areas. Although it cannot be said that they left their homes cleanly, they were almost swept out of their homes.

It would be difficult for the four major industrial groups of the Ming Dynasty to take over all their properties, manors, and shops.

Therefore, many of them have to be resold to private manufacturers and investors.

This process also takes time.

The Ming Dynasty's army was highly mechanized and had very high logistics requirements.

Most of all kinds of military materials and supplies, including military weapons, ammunition, fuel, and daily necessities, have to be transported from the territory of Ming Dynasty.

There are only a limited number of transportation lines from Ming Dynasty to Lucia, whether it is railways or highways.

When the war first started, Lucia's main army was wiped out in an instant. At that time, they had no time to destroy the communication lines near the border.

But after the Ming army penetrated deep into the interior from the border, the garrisons in Lucia had more and more opportunities to destroy the railways and highway lines.

Therefore, there are still enough craftsmen and soldiers to escort the prisoners to the roads in the occupied area urgently.

Now, the personnel and supplies from the Ming Dynasty can be considered a long way, whether they come from the Great Food Country or from the mainland.

After arriving in the interior of Lucia, local resistance began to rise and fall one after another.

Lucian elements can be found throughout Lucia, with the number growing closer to the traditional core.

Although there was no special theoretical guidance, when they were completely unable to resist the Ming Dynasty, they naturally thought of sabotage.

Carry out assassinations and attacks in cities, lurk and link up in villages, and organize and sabotage railways and highways.

While cleaning up Moscow, the servant legions led by Mu Yi and Yi Sai will also send troops to surrounding areas to start continuous anti-bandit operations.

Relatively speaking, the task of suppressing bandits in Lucia itself is slightly easier than the task of suppressing bandits in the Ottoman mountains.

Because the mainland of Lucia is covered with great plains.

They can operate in light armored vehicles equipped with heavy machine guns, and can also call in helicopters and propeller planes to assist in destroying enemies.

At the same time, not all Lucians are die-hard Lucians.Not all Lucian elements have the courage to resist like this.

Therefore, this kind of bandit suppression and security war will not be endless, but can really be fought to completion.

The Tessie Army led by Napoleon also made relatively smooth progress in its anti-bandit operations in the mountains around the Anatolian Plateau.

Historically, places like Afghanistan have been able to trap foreign empires, mainly relying on external support.

These bandits in the Ottoman region now have no support from external forces and have no industrial production capabilities themselves.

They didn't even have many bolt-action rifles from the last world war. Many of them used indigenous guns, or even relied on cold weapons.

Napoleon's troops are well equipped. The main force has basically popularized assault rifles, as well as a large number of light machine guns and shoulder-resistant missiles.

You can also get support from helicopters and propeller aircraft provided by Daming.

In such low-intensity battles, propeller aircraft are more useful than jet aircraft, have longer endurance, and are more suitable for ground attacks.

The size of Napoleon's troops is also getting larger and larger, and they can be cleaned up slowly and carpet-like.

The Ming army's attack speed was slowed down mainly to allow time for the various personnel cooperating with the rear to take over the occupied areas relatively safely.

After the grassroots social institutions in the occupied areas are rebuilt, it will be difficult for these occupied areas to relapse.

To put it bluntly, the logic and principle of the Thai-Spanish war is that there is no rush to occupy the land and population that cannot be controlled temporarily.

Don't pursue a wave of fierce attacks to completely penetrate the enemy's territory.

There is no way to penetrate the entire continent of Western Europe in one wave. The long front will eventually slow down the speed. It is better to actively slow down and pursue stability.

Ming Dynasty is now in the lead in terms of national strength and combat power, and there is no need to take any risky actions.

The main force of the offensive will wait until everyone in the military, political, economic, and social sectors has caught up before it can move forward.

Therefore, although the forward speed of the main army is indeed slowing down, the results of the battle have been firmly achieved.

And this speed will not slow down indefinitely. When the cycle of acceptance and transformation is formed, it will enter a relatively even and forward state.

As for what to do if the enemy reorganizes its resistance after the attacking force slows down on its own initiative?
The strategic weapons Yang Yuchun kept were used at this time.

Being able to concentrate and eliminate the enemy's resistance is what Yang Yuchun desires.

At the same time, the military staff of the three Roman countries on the opposite side have been frantically looking for life-saving straws these days.

Before the war started, they never thought that the war with Ming Dynasty would turn into this situation.

The carefully prepared main force was wiped out in one move, and then began to fall apart.

Moscow was already the second wave of power mobilized by Lucia, and the result was that it disappeared inexplicably.

Now some of them were particularly keen and discovered the slowdown of the Ming army's advance.

They quickly sorted out their findings and guesses, and first handed them over to General Wittgenstein.

After reading it, Wittgenstein felt that these analyzes made sense, so he went to see Nicholas, the Emperor of Lucia.

After reading the report, Nicholas asked in surprise:
"You mean to say that Ming Dynasty is starting to feel a little powerless?"

Wittgenstein echoed:
“The Ming Dynasty’s army is much more mechanized than ours, and the pressure on logistics from military operations is definitely far greater than ours.

“The deeper they go into our homeland of Lucia and the farther away they are from their own local supply base, the greater the logistical pressure will be.

“In addition, we, the people of Lucia, will not be willing to submit to the rule of the Ming Dynasty, and local resistance forces continue.

“They have now occupied millions of square meters of land and tens of millions of people, and the management of these lands and populations will also contain a lot of the Ming Dynasty’s power.

“In general, our local strategic depth will also put pressure on Ming Dynasty, so their attack speed has slowed down.

"And if nothing else happens, it will continue to slow down...

"If we can organize a wave of counterattack at the right time, we may even have a chance to interrupt the Ming army's forward momentum."

After hearing this, Nicholas nodded repeatedly:
"It makes sense. Although we, Lucia, have suffered huge losses now, our size has indeed begun to slow down the Ming Dynasty's forward momentum.

"Come here, invite the kings and ministers of Germany and Italy to discuss the next situation together."

King Wilhelm I of Germany and King Vittorio of Italy soon arrived at the palace where Nicholas lived.

Nicholas explained the analysis of his staff and generals to the two kings.

King William I's eyes lit up after hearing this:
"This shows that the Ming Dynasty's army is not invincible, and their offensive momentum will also weaken due to the distance from the homeland!

"In other words, we still have a chance to stalemate with the Ming Dynasty, and we can't just wait for the final destruction..."

Vittorio couldn't help but frown as he listened to these people's words, instinctively feeling that these people were simply dreaming.

What does it mean that Daming's offensive speed is hindered?Is Ming's current front advance very slow?
They advance more than 1000 kilometers a month——

This can definitely be regarded as unprecedented and truly divine speed.

It's just that compared to the beginning of the war, after Ming Dynasty destroyed the frontline base with divine punishment, the speed of quickly seizing the flying military zone was just a bit slower.

But that was not a normal speed at all. At that time, Ming suffered no actual resistance at all.

At that time, the Ming Dynasty troops were racing.

In fact, Vittorio thought well. Zhu Jingyuan's German blitzkrieg in World War II in his previous life was not as fast as this.

Because Germany has no nuclear weapons, no mature diesel-powered tanks, no smoothbore tank guns equipped with fin-stabilized discarding sabots, and no jet aircraft.

But Vittorio looked at the mental state of his companions and ultimately said nothing.

Italy was originally the weakest among the three Roman countries. Germany and Lucia didn't think much of him, and often didn't ask for his opinions.

So now King Lucia doesn't speak, and they don't feel anything is wrong.

After discussions between the two kings and their staffs, they quickly made a natural decision.

Organize a new army as soon as possible and try to block the offensive momentum of the two main armies of the Ming Dynasty in the two cities of Minsk and Kiev.

The main force this time will be Germans, because although the Lucians can now recruit more troops, there really is no one who can be the main force.

It can be said that all officers and veterans at all levels were wiped out, and the rebuilt troops can only be used as a mixed army.

Therefore, Nicholas decided to try to mobilize civil resistance and distribute the guns and ammunition in stock in the soon-to-be-fallen areas to anyone willing to fight for Lucia.

When the discussion here was quite heated, King Vittorio of Italy couldn't help but mention:
"What if we gather the soldiers together again and Ming uses divine punishment weapons again?"

The scene suddenly became quiet, and many people who had been a little excited suddenly realized that the previous discussion seemed to be meaningless.

Because the Ming Dynasty probably had divine punishment weapons.

Even though Lucia's huge depth held back the offensive momentum of the Ming Dynasty, it could not stop the Ming Dynasty from continuing to advance.

At this moment, Nikolai's special telegraph operator ran in quickly and handed a telegram to Nikolai:

"Your Majesty, the Constantinople garrison received an ultimatum, or announcement, from the Ming Dynasty's Taixi Combat Command.

“While it was sent to the garrison headquarters via telegram, it was also disclosed to civilians and the public via radio and broadcast, as well as newspapers.

“When this message was officially sent out, planes were already dropping leaflets over the city.

“All the contents are the same, requiring the garrison of Constantinople, nobles, and bureaucrats to surrender before noon on March [-], the fourth year of the Ming Dynasty.

"Civilians in the city of Constantinople are asked to leave Constantinople before March [-]th and stay at least twenty kilometers away.

"The Ming Dynasty will launch a strategic bombing of Constantinople on the afternoon of March [-]th.

“This will directly destroy the entire city.

“Refuse to surrender while remaining in the city is a recipe for death.

“The Constantinople garrison staff believed that the strategic bombing that directly destroyed the entire city should be a description of the divine punishment weapon.

"The Ming Dynasty finally formally and directly raised the threat of using divine punishment weapons."

Because the news was public, the telegraph operator said it directly instead of carefully informing Nikolai.

After hearing this, Nicholas felt his eyes go dark and almost fainted.

Many people at the scene had the same reaction.

The venue fell into silence.