Maximilian I, who was about to rest, was stunned for a moment and said:
"Do you have an idea? Why didn't you say it at the meeting just now?"
Adolf Muller hesitated and lowered his voice:
"I dare not show off in front of all the nobles..."
The emperor was also a personal sensuality. After a moment of thinking, he suddenly realized. Then, he signaled to Adolf Mueller to explain his thoughts...
What did Adolf Muller have any ideas? He is actually relaying Marin's thoughts:
"That's what I think. Our army has the advantage in strength, so it is suitable to fight steadily. As for the way of march, we can adopt the method of 'fortress advancement, step by step'..."
"The fortress is advancing step by step?" Maximilian I obviously didn't understand very much.
Adolf Muller actually didn't understand it very well, but Marin had already explained it in a secret letter. So he introduced to His Majesty the Emperor the tactics of the bald Chiang from the "fifth anti-encirclement and suppression" in later generations. Of course, this was not what the bald Chiang thought of, but what the staff of the Guo army thought of together.
Later, the Japanese also adopted this method when dealing with the Eighth Route Army in North China. However, the Eighth Route Army was too "crawling" and cracked it by night attacks and using puppet troops as internal agents.
However, that was the Eighth Route Army with extremely flexible tactics. How could Europeans in this era think of a cracking method? Moreover, guerrilla warfare did not appear until the "Bole War" period in the late 19th century. How could Swiss mountain people at this time think of a cracking method?
Therefore, this tactic of using fortress blockade was a very restraining Swiss resistance army in this era, which had few means of restraint. As long as there were enough fortresses, it could not only protect transportation lines well, but also suppress the resistance teams in various places.
Moreover, Adolf Muller directly suggested introducing the Beihai Kingdom's "beacon tower" technology and setting up beacon towers on the top of the fortress to warn. In this way, if the Swiss rebels dare to attack a certain fortress, the support of other fortresses will be easily discovered and provided timely support.
After hearing the introduction of Adolf Muller, His Majesty the Emperor nodded repeatedly:
"Very good, very good! With the protection of the fortress, we are not afraid of Swiss rebels attacking the logistics supply line. Some supplies can also be stored in the fortress in case of emergency!"
After thinking about it, Maximilian I asked again:
"By the way, how to build this fortress? Just like the noble castle? That takes a long time, we can't wait!"
Adolf Mueller shook his head and said:
"It is much simpler than a castle, but it has added moats and suspension bridges. When I passed by Beihai Kingdom during my trip, I accepted a servant named Schmidt who had worked as a mason. He had participated in the construction of simple fortresses and beacon towers in Beihai Kingdom. He was commanded by him. His Majesty mobilized thousands of masons and stonemasons to build a bunker! "
In fact, Schmidt was the helper sent by Marin to Adolf Muller, and the craftsman sent to the emperor to help build the fortress.
Unlike the Beihai Kingdom, the Beihai Kingdom uses a lot of cement to build bunkers, which is cheaper and faster. His Majesty the Emperor does not have this condition, so he uses more bricks and stones. In Switzerland, there are many mountainous areas and many stone resources. As long as you bring enough stones, it is easy to obtain enough stones from the Swiss mountainous areas. Then, the masons are responsible for building the stones into bunkers...
As for digging moats around the bunkers, we can directly send troops to force the people from the local area to dig...
Because of the protection of the moat, and the Swiss Resistance Army cannot have large-caliber artillery to bombard the walls, the fortress does not need to be built and strong. At the beginning, it is okay to use the earthen wall to deal with it. Anyway, without a suspension bridge, the Swiss Resistance Army cannot even enter. Even if the other party wants to fill the moat, it will take a long time. Within this time, the smoke of wolf soared into the sky and reinforcements had arrived.
Of course, this is the most economical method and is also very suitable for the Habsburg family with extremely poor finances. If it were replaced by the Beihai Kingdom, every fortress would definitely be built with cement. The fortress built by cement could not be broken for ten days or half a month with the capabilities of a small-scale rebel army in this era.
You should know that the Eighth Route Army, which has guns and medicine packs, has a low success rate in conquering bunkers, let alone the troops that are mainly cold weapons in this era? Therefore, the fortress tactics is really the only magic weapon to occupy the army.
To break through such a fortress, a large number of people must fill the moat, and at the same time, heavy artillery opens the gate or wall. However, this fortress only targets the civil resistance army, and it is impossible to have these conditions. Therefore, this simple fortress is very targeted and is used for professional suppression of resistance. If guerrilla tactics are not available, modern blasting weapons are not available, it will almost be invincible against civil resistance forces. Unless the resistors use the method of internal cooperation to break through.
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His Majesty the Emperor has also heard of such fortresses. When he went to Beihai Kingdom to see Marin, he had seen such fortresses along the way, but he had never seen them.
However, the emperor was not familiar with him, but Schmidt, the subordinate of Adolf Muller, was familiar with him. Therefore, the emperor simply asked Adolf Muller, the attendant, to organize the engineering corps, and his military position was promoted from an ordinary attendant (equivalent to the company captain) to the rank of a phalanx leader. The title of the post was the general manager of the construction battalion. Of course, the title of the attendant was also retained, and one person held two positions.
Adolf Muller was also overjoyed. Although his construction camp was as high as the square formation, the number of people under his jurisdiction could reach several thousand.
In Europe in this era, as usual, the position of the phalanx leader must be at least held by the title knight, and many of them are barons.
The emperor appointed him to build a battalion, which means that the war was over. As long as there was no mistake, he would definitely get the knight title. Moreover, because this war is likely to occupy a large swath of land in western Switzerland, it is very likely to get the fief after the war ends.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! Although the Beihai State's spy department privately gave him a good salary, which is more than the income earned by ordinary knights. However, that is shameful, and Beihai State cannot give him open honors.
Moreover, because the North Sea Kingdom is likely to not turn against the Habsburg family. Therefore, he may have been lurking in the Habsburg family's court. Therefore, the honor on the surface can only be obtained from the Habsburg family.
As for people, most of them are very good at face. Being able to obtain a respected aristocratic title or even obtain a fief is definitely the ultimate goal of the noble children of Europe who had no inheritance rights in this era.
Of course, Adolf Muller dared not betray the Beihai Intelligence Organization. As a member of the intelligence organization, he knew the cruelty of the Beihai Intelligence Organization's treatment of traitors. Even if the emperor protected him, he was not confident that he could escape the pursuit of the Beihai Intelligence Organization. Therefore, he would still serve the Beihai Intelligence Organization. However, the benefits and honors given by the emperor were useless to not take them. Because this did not conflict with his work.
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His Majesty the Emperor's stinginess again. Although he gave the organization and title of the Construction Camp of Adolf Muller, he refused to give the money and grain needed by thousands of people. In the end, the Emperor only gave the money and grain needed by one hundred people in the Construction Camp. As for most of the stonemasons and bricklayers in the Construction Camp, His Majesty the Emperor said that he forced the local mountain people to serve as the local...
Switzerland is mountainous and full of stones, and there are many people who know the skills of stonemasons. Basically, every village has a group of people who know the skills of bricklayers. After all, in this era, ordinary farmers could not afford to hire professional bricklayers and could only do it themselves. Although the skills could not keep up with professional construction craftsmen, it was enough to build simple houses.
The fortress built by Adolf Muller for the Habsburg family was also very simple, and ordinary stonemasons and bricklayers were enough to serve as the people.
What? You ask the masons and masons who forced to recruit how to solve the problem of food? Don’t you know that in ancient times, farmers needed to bring their own food rations? Only by going to far places to perform labor service will the official provide food rations. Because the journey is too far, it is difficult for those who serve labor to carry enough food to catch a long journey.
However, that happened only in countries with a large land area. In Europe, in order to save food, the government often forced the people to perform labor service on the spot. If they were to serve labor near their homes, they would definitely bring their own food.
The reason why His Majesty the Emperor asked Adolf Muller to force the people to serve labor on the spot was that he had the idea of ​​saving food. After all, European food is really expensive these days...
But he also knew that the construction camp needed a group of technical backbones to ensure that there were no mistakes when building the fortress. Therefore, he gave 100 people money and food to ask Adolf Muller to recruit 100 core craftsmen as technical backbones to be responsible for the supervision of the fortress construction, so as to avoid serious quality problems.
Of course, general officers will definitely not recruit 100 core craftsmen, but will recruit 80. The 20 free places will naturally be empty salary. The bad habit of eating empty salary is not found in the East, but in the whole world...
However, some young people who want to improve will often do their job honestly in order to complete their tasks better and promote their goals. Those who are in short service are often old officers.
Adolf Muller is obviously a young man who wants to be ambitious, so he did not intend to get a job for nothing, but did his best to do it. After all, getting a title and fief is much better than getting a job for nothing. Besides, he can now get a high annual salary of up to 300 gold coins from the spy department of the Beihai Kingdom every year, which is more than the salary of many local officials, and he doesn't care about the income from the income for nothing.
Chapter completed!