After the Elbe crossing, the Prussians did not know exactly how much ammunition the Germans had consumed and how much stock they had left, and the most obvious thing they could see was their own casualty figures. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 Nearly 8,000 casualties, combined with the previous German capture of the Magdeburg area, made it possible for the Prussian army to pay 10,000 casualties in a week, which was undoubtedly a fiasco, and in previous history, it was rare to have a campaign so short and so many casualties in a situation that was not particularly large.

Although the commander of the Prussian army, Karl I, had a certain prediction of the severity of the war before the war, he still felt extremely cold and terrified when he saw the casualties of 10,000 people. Karl I wrote to Frederick later? Wilhelm II's letter mentions: "...... The contemporary pattern of warfare has changed dramatically with the change of weapons, and the weapons from the Tang people have changed the shape of the battlefield, and the losses of the weaker side have been greatly increased. However, according to my judgment, if we have the same firepower as the rebels, we will definitely be able to inflict a lot of casualties on the rebels. The key to victory or defeat on the battlefield is no longer simply the number of soldiers and tactics, but the strength of firepower has become a more important factor. ”

But Karl I was equally discerning, and in his letter he comforted his king: "...... This does not mean that Prussia does not have a chance of victory, I found in the battle that the rebels will recklessly fire a large amount of ammunition, and there is evidence that the precision weapons used by the rebels are all made by the Tang State, so it will be difficult for them to replenish ammunition in a short time. It is also impossible for the rebels to have a large stock of ammunition, so our attack on the rebels should be focused on the destruction of logistics, as long as the intensity of the war exceeds a certain point, then the rebels who lack ammunition supplies will expose all the disadvantages, and the Prussian elite in the face of our well-trained will only collapse. ”

Karl I spoke with a little cryptography. Although Prussia has gradually possessed the production of bolt-action rifles, coffee mill machine guns, rifled guns and other weapons that fire metal fixed ammunition, this production capacity is still concentrated in the Ruhr area, which is now under the control of the German army, and has gradually begun to produce these weapons for the German army.

Then there is only one feasible solution. That is to use manpower to fight the firepower of the German army, and after overdrawing the firepower of the German army, victory will naturally come. Can either Frederick? Neither Wilhelm II nor Karl I wanted to fight with the lives of the Prussians, and after this war, if Prussia suffered heavy losses, then the right to speak in the future situation in Europe would be reduced, and it would even be coveted by other countries. After all, in this counterinsurgency, Prussia has not lost much of the area. This was mainly for the recapture of land and the re-establishment of the aristocratic feudal system for many small West German states.

Frederick? Wilhelm II was dissatisfied with Karl I's performance at the front, but he also knew that Karl I was equally powerless, and changing generals would not necessarily lead to better fighting, and Karl I had a point. So, His Majesty the King of Prussia began to think of other ideas. First, he urged Leopold II to send the Austrian army to the front as soon as possible, opening a route for the coalition forces from the south.

The Austrian corps would pass through Dresden and appear directly south of Leipzig, without having to cross the Elbe Line. So the threat factor is greater. Once the Austrian army succeeded in holding back the German army, then the Prussian army had a better chance of successfully crossing the river. The two sides can win the war even if they fight for relatively large losses.

Secondly, Frederick? Kaiser Wilhelm II also intended to bring more European allies into the war. He sent successive letters to the King of England, the Consul of the Netherlands, the King of Denmark, and the King of Sweden, but out of distrust of the Russians, he did not go to Tsarist Russia, in which he referred to the rebellion as a great crisis for all the countries of Europe. A joint effort should be made to resolve the issue, and it was hoped that those countries would be able to send troops to help.

Denmark and Sweden in Northern Europe were also worried about the German revolution, but they believed that it would not affect them, but that the revolution would weaken Prussia and other countries. It was still good for them, and both Denmark and Sweden were more worried about Prussia getting bigger. Although the emergence of the German Republic may have posed a greater threat to these two countries, both the King of Denmark and the King of Sweden believed that this was an ordinary rebellion that would eventually be put down.

The attitude of the Netherlands is more ambiguous. The revolution that broke out in the Netherlands three years earlier had ousted the aristocratic ruler Wilhelm V from the throne, and it was the Prussian army that helped him regain power, and the two sides were more intimate by marriage. But the Dutch did not want to simply take advantage of the Prussians, they wanted to gain some advantage from it, and the Netherlands refused to send troops from one direction alone, at least with an ally of similar military strength. This is also because they saw the strength of the German army and felt weak.

The Dutch could count on the British, apparently, across the Channel. The British, like the German Confederation, had the greatest reason to suppress the revolution in this war. King George III of England was also the monarch of Hanover, Hanover was occupied by revolutionaries, the dignity of the king was challenged, and George III naturally had the right to recover the territory that belonged to his crown.

Actually, not necessarily Frederick? At the invitation of Wilhelm II, England also had a strong warlike tendency, and after the outbreak of war, they began to prepare for war. The level of equipment and tactical mode of the German army are extremely similar to the Tang army, and the British military also intends to understand the true strength of their biggest competitor in the world, the Tang Dynasty, through such operations. After all, it has been many years since the Tang Army officially fought against the Tang Army, and the British are also slightly weak-hearted.

After years of industrial development and the progress of national strength, the British people felt that they had achieved outstanding results in the industrial revolution and their strength was greatly improved. Especially in terms of equipment, the degree of the British army can be said to be the best in Europe, but these equipment obviously still have a certain gap with the weapons of the Tang army, and the army does not completely look at the weapons when it fights, and the British need to know whether they can compete with the Tang people now.

In fact, they themselves know that the current Datang has gradually grown into a terrible power, with a population of tens of millions, a huge land and prosperous technology, all of which make Britain envious and fearful. (To be continued.) )