Chapter 469: Battle of Gorlitse (Additional Chapter 13)
The Gallipoli Landing Campaign began in late February of the New God Calendar 315 and lasted for several months until June.
As a battle to prove the Kingdom of Sardinia, you really can't say they didn't try hard!
The number of troops continued to increase, and the fortifications built after landing became more and more rigorous. In order to seize the positions, the extraordinary strong men took the lead and acted as vanguards.
Even the mage group seized the opportunity and threw out magic scrolls as if they were free.
But no matter how hard they tried, they couldn't take the position. Or, even if they did take it, it would be taken back!
To say that the Sardinian Kingdom's army did not work hard is to say that many of their men died in battle, but at times, they just lacked a little bit of determination.
On the Ottoman side, they put everything they could into the mix, and the nobles and royal families brought out all the knights and strong men they could.
The Kingdom of Sardinia wanted to prove itself, and the Ottoman Empire also seemed to be proving that although they were weak, they were not hopeless!
The result was that the two sides fought back and forth, on and off, for several months without a clear winner.
This result shocked countless people, who just felt it was incredible!
To be honest, at this point in the war, the coalition's counterattack plan had failed.
They failed to take over the Ottoman Empire in the first place. The empire was prepared, and even the southern provinces were not so easy to conquer.
But the Kingdom of Sardinia has some shame!
They claimed to be invincible at sea, and when they saw that the Bonaparte Empire was showing signs of weakness, they wanted to replace it and become the recognized overlord and leader.
In the end, it was blocked by a small Ottoman Empire. If this gets out, will they still have any face left?
Therefore, they just don't want to admit defeat, and they just don't want it to end. The worst that can happen is that if they are defeated, they can retreat for a distance.
Relying on the absolute advantage at sea, we can regroup and land to fight again.
Anyway, as long as I don't admit defeat and end the war, no one will dare to say that the counterattack plan has failed.
This is probably what Her Majesty the Queen of Sardinia thinks, and it is also the reason why the Gallipoli landing battle is still going on, and even, it will last longer as far as the naked eye can see!
It is worth mentioning that the Ottoman Empire formally formed an alliance with the Habsburg Empire.
Not to mention the issue of faith, other aspects are all about cooperation.
The Ottoman Empire will fully learn the Empire's system, education and economic model.
The Empire also provided a large amount of technology and machinery, preparing to support the Ottoman Empire in embarking on the path of magical industry.
This was also the empire's first formal ally. Flower Territory also emphasized its role as an intermediary, while the Ottoman Empire fully turned to the empire.
This seemed to have set a very bad precedent. Countless countries were eager to restore diplomatic relations with the Habsburg Empire!
On the other hand, the Empire's counterattack against the Slavic Empire also began in mid-May.
The Empire organized three magical legions, with nearly 400,000 people, and directly attacked the Slavic Empire from the left and right directions of East Prussia Province.
On the left is the Caucasus region of the Slavic Empire, which is mountainous, forested, with complex terrain and high altitude.
To the right, you enter the Slavic Empire's Galicia province, where the land is flat and vast.
Such a large-scale mobilization could not be concealed at all, and the Slavic Empire naturally knew about it.
They had already gathered most of the troops and trained for a long time, so at this moment, they naturally charged forward directly.
The Slavs still showed their bravery and were fearless in battle. Many of them had bloodshot eyes and charged forward directly when facing artillery fire and heavy machine gun fire.
The violence and bellicosity in their bones make them fearless.
In fact, the wars launched by the Slavic Empire were notoriously crude, and many times, tactics and strategies did not work for them.
They don't have much skill themselves, they just rush forward in a wave. Once they get close, their heads become filled with blood and they go into pseudo-madness. They either kill me or get killed by me!
It can be said that they are true masters of chaotic combat, and the more chaotic the situation is, the more advantageous it is for them.
Going to war with them feels like they are lowering your IQ to the same level as them, and then defeating you with their rich experience!
This trick is actually very useful in cold weapon warfare.
The infinite morale buff can cover up most of the flaws and shortcomings.
But this is not the case in today's magical war.
The Empire unleashed its magical cannons and launched a barrage of bombardment, leaving a group of farmers who had just put down their farm tools and picked up their weapons completely disoriented.
No matter how brave and senseless you are, if even the enemy cannot see it, it will all be in vain.
Then it was the turn of the infantry to clear the battlefield. The heavy machine guns swept across the area, and basically, when they got close, almost everyone was dead.
The Slavic army was almost on the verge of collapse, it was so weak that the imperial legions kept pursuing and attacking it relentlessly.
If the Slavic Empire had not built a lot of trenches, they would have been able to barely establish a defensive position. Otherwise, they would have been defeated long ago.
Or, to be more precise, it had already collapsed.
It's just that it collapsed and then gathered again, gathered together and then collapsed again, resisting step by step and retreating step by step.
Especially in the Caucasus region in the north, the empire's offensive was like a tide and extremely fierce.
This battle truly shows what a dimensionality reduction attack is!
It was also in this battle that the Slavic Empire's underwear was almost stripped off, and everyone realized that they were so weak!
This even gave a country to the south of the Slavic Empire an opportunity, and they also tried to attack and regain the land that had been ceded.
Unfortunately, they regretted it after they actually took action.
Because the incident happened suddenly, they took advantage of it at the beginning, but the Slavs who reacted launched the most ferocious counterattack.
Then, this elite army of the kingdom was gone.
Only three or four out of ten people escaped, and the losses were truly heavy.
But even such a Slavic army was still crushed by the empire.
At this time, everyone realized that it was not that the Slavs were weak, but that the empire was too strong.
It’s not that traditional knight tactics are no longer effective, it’s just that magical weapons are more powerful.
After this incident, countless countries have become more interested in the magic energy industry.
It is worth mentioning that in order to relieve the pressure on the Slavic Empire, the coalition forces unanimously decided to intensify the offensive against the Ottoman Empire.
Around late May, the landing battles in the Gallipoli region intensified, with even a dozen Scourges taking action, clearing out an area and allowing the coalition forces to achieve tremendous results.
This also gave the empire a shock.
The importance of the southern provinces is self-evident, and they did not dare to gamble. As a last resort, they slowed down their offensive in the Caucasus region.
He also transferred a part of the main army corps to garrison in the south of the empire.
From this perspective, the coalition's strategy was successful. Even though the subsequent positions were recaptured by the Ottoman Empire, it still solved the problem in the distance.
It’s a pity that the troops on the left and right had no choice but to stay on the battlefield, but the troops on the right didn’t stop!
The Empire's Eighth Main Battle Legion was here, launching a surprise attack on the small formation called "Gorlitze".
In just one day, the defense line was breached, the imperial army took advantage of the victory and launched a fierce attack, and the Slavic army retreated.
Three days later, the Slavic army retreated to the San River and fought fiercely with the empire again. After three days of fierce fighting, they were defeated again.
The imperial army crossed the Sang River and marched eastward.
After another six days, the imperial army launched a fierce attack, and the Slavic army was defeated step by step, until ten days later, the city called Lviv was lost.
By this point, in late June of the 315th year of the New Divine Calendar, the Empire had won a great victory on the Eastern Front, the counterattack plan was successfully completed, and a large amount of territory was gained.
This battle is also known as the Battle of Gorlitse.
In this battle, the imperial army regained its might and told all the countries in the Old World that if the Bonaparte Empire had not committed shameless "fouls", it would have been taken down long ago.
Of course, Luo Yi just watched the fun.
He no longer had much sense of reality about this ongoing war. Although it was cruel and had killed at least millions of people,
But what does that have to do with him?
The sky is high and the emperor is far away. As long as it does not affect the flowers, it does not matter.
Of course, it is not right to say that there is no connection at all, because war is a fortune.
As the largest arms dealer in the Old Continent, Luo Yi did arms business across the entire continent without leaving his home.
The more intense the war, the more prosperous his business became. If it weren't for the support of the empire's huge industrial system, he would have been busy for several years with the existing orders.
This doesn’t seem very realistic, so let’s take the simplest example.
Just based on the revenue from arms sales, in the first half of the year, Loy's profit has exceeded the total revenue from Flower Collar last year.
This data is so exaggerated that even Roy can't believe it.
However, what Luo Yi did not expect was that he wanted to live a happy life with his wife and children, but in the end, he was still being remembered by someone.
(End of this chapter)
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