I became a witch, but I started the industrial revolution

Alesia can occupy part of the disputed area when the two sides are busy fighting, and can even sell weapons and supplies at a high price.

He believed that King Ovinia had no choice but to accept their actions at a time of life and death.

If Queen Seris does not want to make enemies with them and wants them to join the arms of the Kingdom of Ovinia, she will most likely adopt similar policies and even try to please them.

But he thought about a lot, but he didn't have a clear understanding of the military strength of his own kingdom, nor did he expect that the Kingdom of Ovinia would collapse so quickly.

No one expected that the Seris Federation would start a second war just after completing its unification.

Medea would have laughed if she could have heard their thoughts.

The reason why Ovinia is so powerful is that from the very beginning Ovinia has paid great attention to this independent regime.

During the Astar period, the gap between the enemy's and our forces in terms of population and military was extremely large. Many people were pessimistic about whether Astar could defeat the Kingdom of Ovinia.

Due to this, Astell's internal situation has always been unstable, and King III always finds a way to detect changes in Astell through spies, undercover agents, and traitors.

Even if the core technology cannot be stolen, the operating principles of firearms and artillery displayed externally and the reform of the military can still be applied to other situations.

If you don't communicate, you will be beaten. When Astar completed its external expansion and established the Seris Federation, King III and the nobles' vigilance against it soared again.

In other words, while Medea was accumulating strength, the Kingdom of Ovinia was also forced to follow her in updating and iterating its military armament.

Otherwise, they would not be able to withstand her endless attacks of new weapons. Unfortunately, under the feudal system, the subjective initiative is still too low and they have not kept up with Seris's pace.

What is the Kingdom of Alesia in comparison?

Just relying on the old-fashioned muskets that Seris had traded before, and the imitation muskets and smoothbore cannons he had tinkered with, he thought he could compete with the two great powers.

Even if Seris is eventually destroyed, the Kingdom of Ovinia, which has received the crystallization of Seris's technology, will also be able to annex the Kingdom of Alesia.

The two sides are no longer opponents of the same level.

However, when the opponent changed from Ovinia to the Seris Federation, Seris could make him lose more thoroughly.

She does not conquer your land, but destroys you from body to mind and spirit.

There is no obvious racial tendency, fair laws and regulations, equal distribution of land and work, and class consistency is emphasized instead of birth and bloodline. Even the Queen herself has no noble title or obvious privileges.

When a regime formed by common people launches a war against a feudal aristocratic autocratic regime, you can never describe it as aggression, or you can say that it is an aggression that only the aristocracy can enjoy.

As soon as the army of Seris arrived, they hung the bodies of the high-ranking nobles and manor owners on trees and took away their sinful souls.

At the same time, it brought land, jobs, and food to the common people, which was the liberation of the mind and body for the working people at the bottom.

Of course, technological advantages are the prerequisite for achieving all this~

After capturing Lower Tallian, the workers and peasants' army in the direction of Stark continued to advance, occupying various villages and large and small manor castles along the way.

Naturally, there will be sporadic resistance.

"Hurry, hurry, hurry! ......"

In a private barracks in a noble territory, officers and supervisors kept urging the soldiers to make quick preparations for war.

The door of the armory was opened, and under the guidance of the supervision team, the soldiers picked up the weapons on the shelves and went to the warehouse to get gunpowder bags and projectiles.

Doing so can effectively prevent soldiers from escaping with weapons and causing additional losses due to improper maintenance, but it will result in some loss of combat response capabilities.

The soldiers who received the guns and ammunition quickly lined up and took out the paper bags from the gunpowder bags, poured most of them into the gun barrels, stuffed in gaskets, took out cleaning rods to compact the gunpowder, and stuffed in a lead shot.

Then the gun was tilted and the remaining gunpowder in the paper bag was poured into the powder pool. At the same time, the fuse was quickly lit and the flame was extinguished, and then clamped on the hammer.

When they finished all this, the enemy had already appeared in the distance. They immediately reorganized their formation and raised their guns, waiting for the commander's order.

Because of the upcoming war, many soldiers were breathing heavily and swallowing saliva constantly.

However, the enemy stopped before they came within their firing range and started shooting at them.

Many soldiers in the queue were hit by bullets and fell to the ground. At this time, the commander ordered: "Damn it, the whole army marches forward! Close the distance with the enemy."

But when they saw them moving, the enemies also retreated, and the fighting distance between the two sides did not shorten. Finally, the commander had no choice but to order shooting.

The bolt with the matchlock dropped and ignited the powder pool. After a burst of gunshots, white smoke floated above the positions of the soldiers in formation. Many soldiers couldn't help coughing.

Before they could start reloading their ammunition, the enemy soldiers who had been retreating suddenly began to accelerate towards them. In less than ten seconds, they launched a second round of shooting.

Many soldiers who had just squatted down to clean the residue in the gun barrel and had just started reloading were hit by bullets and fell to the ground in disbelief.

At this time, a series of strange noises were heard in the sky. Several artillery shells and explosive packs flew into the camp, causing a series of violent explosions.

In the distance, many of the soldiers with red star emblems on their hats had relaxed smiles on their faces.

The rows of soldiers in this formation were so neat that they were perfect targets. They didn't even need to aim.

Chapter 99 Postwar Reconstruction

It didn't take them much effort to capture the barracks, but the noble lord who lost his military support would naturally not have a good ending.

Many dusty poor people were watching the battle nearby. When they saw the noble lord's barracks being taken down, everyone had a strange expression on their face.

"You say, are the things they said before true?"

"Will someone really give us land and food? This is the first time I've heard of such a thing in my life."

"It should be... true. We are worthless. Those soldiers don't have time to fool us."

As the armed forces were eliminated, the large army arrived at the gate of the manor. After a gunshot, the iron gate was violently kicked open and a group of people rushed in in a mighty manner.

If they encountered resistance, they would be shot on the spot. If they encountered non-resistance, they would be temporarily detained. At the same time, some villagers would be brought in to identify the nobles and their subordinates who had been domineering in the past.

After the initial screening, the innocent group of servants were dismissed, and the remaining people were tied up with hemp ropes and moved to the back of the team.

Many civilians on the road stopped to watch, pointing and marveling at the scene.

In the past, groups of able-bodied men were tied up and sent away like this by the manor owners. They never expected that one day they would receive the same treatment.

This made many people who were skeptical about what the soldiers said start to believe their claims. If they were in the same group, they would definitely not treat each other like this.

Such a scene is happening all the time in the Kingdom of Alesia.

The small kingdom army could not cause much splash. The backwardness of weapons had caused an imbalance in the combat effectiveness of both sides. Not to mention the same number of people, even if the kingdom army had three times more, they would not gain any advantage in a head-on battle.

It was even worse when they encountered a detachment of Seris regular army. By the time they formed up their formation and fired two rounds of shots, the enemy would have used up at least two magazines of ten bullets each.

What's worse, there was no one in sight. Every now and then, a soldier was knocked down, and only after they knelt down and surrendered did three or five people come out...

After hearing about Tina's brilliant achievements, Anna ran to the front line excitedly at first, but ran back within two days.

The generation gap in industrial technology is there, and the way of fighting is often that rifle soldiers fire a few rounds, or even a few shots from small mortars, and the opponent surrenders in an organized manner.

A larger-scale battle would be nothing more than the Seris side deploying more heavy weapons, causing greater casualties and then surrendering. There would be no fancy and passionate fighting.

As for the artillery of the Kingdom of Alesia...

It is certainly lethal, but its range and power are very average. Often, after the first round of shells are fired, the front-line squad carrying mortars will immediately fire back with three bursts of fire.

Your destiny depends on luck, mine depends on technology. You close your eyes and guess, while I use a pen to calculate coordinates and trajectory. How do you rely on to win?

At this point in the war, what limited the Seris army was not the counterattack of the Kingdom Army, but the deteriorating road environment and the problem of how to accommodate the large number of prisoners.

On the battlefield today, a squad of ten Seres infantrymen often has to guard about three thousand prisoners of war.

Therefore, Seris's vanguard mechanized corps had to stop its offensive and wait for the troops in the rear to catch up and help them take away these prisoners who were asking for food and drink all day long!

After finally getting a chance to catch its breath, the Kingdom of Alesia desperately mobilized troops from all over the country and transformed several main cities into important military cities.

The king's idea was simple. The Seris Federation troops had penetrated deep into their territory. At such a long distance, supply would definitely be a problem. They would definitely not stay for too long.

In other words, as long as they can survive one round of attack and drag it into a war of attrition, they may be able to drive the enemy out.

This idea sounds good at first, but they forgot that the food reserves of the nobles and manor owners in the major territories are more than enough for the garrisoning of troops.

That is, artillery shells, bullets and other ammunition need to wait to be transported up from the rear, otherwise it will not be possible to continue launching large-scale artillery bombardments.

In fact, people in the Kingdom of Alesia have begun to feel uneasy, and many nobles have secretly contacted the Seris army or the federal government in order to get some guarantees.

As long as Seris promises not to hold them accountable and let them go, they can cooperate with the Seris Federation in its attack.

Unfortunately, all these demands were rejected. Either they surrendered unconditionally and could retain a distant branch, or they would perish along with the kingdom.

In addition to external wars, the federation also welcomed a round of disaster relief grain distribution.

The unification was successful, but what was left to Media was a huge mess with numerous holes and a lot of work to be done.

In order to withstand the tremendous pressure from Astar during the winter offensive, the Kingdom of Ovinia exerted tremendous pressure internally.

Not to mention the high taxes, how to transport food in the snow and ice without many transportation tools? Use people to carry it!

What to do if the food on the road is too much to digest? Then they change from one meal a day to two meals a day. In order to hurry up, they were whipped, and countless people died of freezing, starvation, and exhaustion on the road.

There were riots, but they were quickly suppressed. Later, it was introduced that those who reported or informed on others could be rewarded and could become supervisors responsible for monitoring the workers.

Most of the riots were quelled, and everyone looked at others with caution, fearing that they would be reported.

King III saw clearly that since he could not give the people what they wanted and maintain his rule, there was nothing wrong with using intimidation and threats to control them.

I can't give you a good life, but I can still afford a bullet.

She escorted supplies to the front line in the winter, and was later conscripted into the army. The uprising also destroyed part of the infrastructure, and the treasury of the Kingdom of Ovinia was extremely empty when it came to her.

No money, no food, no arable land, looking at Medea for one more second makes her want to explode on the spot.

In order to prevent possible corruption and interception of the relief grain that is about to be distributed, the distribution of grain will be universal. The only difference is that the reconstruction areas will be the first to receive it, while other areas will be delayed.

The government will centrally transport them to the territory and then escort them by local troops. They will be dispersed to various villages and distributed according to the number of people, with fixed amounts and quantities.

Minimize the emergence of various standards and do not allow room for the operation of ambiguous policies.

The occupied areas were in dire need of reconstruction, and with previous examples it was easy to plan.

First, various factories for the people's livelihood were newly built through the method of work-for-relief, roads were paved and bridges were repaired. The trade unions organized night schools for workers, and new factories were established to absorb new workers.

A large amount of wasteland was reclaimed in rural areas for growing crops.

The previous literacy classes will continue to be held, and the non-commissioned officers and logistics support troops who come from Seris will be responsible for security patrols while also teaching the villagers new knowledge.

After Mediah reorganized the army, the troops themselves helped the villagers with sowing and farming during the busy farming season. The military and the people are like one family, and they are also very professional in agricultural knowledge.

Chapter 100 Queen-class Biplane Fighter

Another year is about to pass. At the end of the year, Mitia, accompanied by several scientists, inspected the aircraft laboratory. Prime Minister Golitsyn kept reporting to her on the important achievements of the year.

"My Queen, our army is unstoppable. I assure you that in three months at most we will be able to completely liberate the kingdom, and by then all the soldiers will be able to return to celebrate the Goddess' Birthday!"