Chapter 659: Walking Into a Trap

The Port of Boonpal was built by France, the largest colonial empire in the world. At that time, the French built a large number of permanent fortifications on it in order to rule Kalaika forever, and even had rapid-fire turrets specifically designed to deal with speedboats.

However, these antiques from more than 200 years ago were now vulnerable to the attacks of the Austrian Tranquiba Colony Army and the "Anti-Drug" Corps.

The guards that Kilan Wasje was proud of collapsed at the first touch, and the 500 cavalrymen who were the trump card were now riding away, but the direction of advance was just opposite to the battlefield.

"Damn! What's going on?!"

Kieran Wasje also saw the smoke from the port, but he didn't understand what was going on. After all, there were some small states around, and the British had already entered the inland to quell the rebellion.

Now, in theory, only Kalaika State can fight others, and the small states around it should be lucky if they are not beaten.

However, when Kiran Wasje saw soldiers fleeing and civilians panicking everywhere, he grabbed a deserter and asked angrily.

"What's going on?"

At this time, Kiran Wasje's good mood after just negotiating a big deal had disappeared, and was replaced by rage. He wanted to tear the invader into pieces and drink with it immediately.

In fact, Kiran Wasje really did this, but the last time was the day of usurpation.

"The Kshatriya Brahmins are coming!"

The soldier said in a panic.

Kiran Wasje drew out his scimitar and chopped the deserter's head fiercely, then raised his head high.

"This is the fate of those who escape! I, Kiran Wasje, the descendant of the great Morka Wasje, will lead you to recapture our capital, Bunpal!

Brahma is watching us! Kalaika will win!"

The soldiers accompanying Kiran Wasje also drew their swords and raised their guns to stop the runaway posture.

It has to be said that he is worthy of being a warlord who came to power through a coup. He is really good at it. Soon he gathered nearly 5,000 troops around him.

In fact, Kiran Wasje is not a reckless man who can only shout slogans. He made the decision after careful analysis.

The only white force nearby is the Danes in Tranquiba, where there are only 500-600 garrisons at most, and Kalaika can get 30,000 to 50,000 troops as long as Kiran Wasje is given some time.

He had recruited nearly 20,000 troops in his previous campaigns, and there were more than 6,000 troops near Bunpal alone.

Although they were defeated by the enemy's surprise attack, with these remnants and their main force, how could they lose with ten against one? Kiran Wasje didn't believe it.

As a result, when Kalaika's army entered Bhunpal, they found that the enemy had at least 3,000 people, and there were also a large number of artillery.

(In fact, more than ten artillery pieces are considered a lot on the Indian subcontinent, and ordinary princely states only have a few artillery pieces.)

Faced with the Kalaika army that collided head-on with them, the Tranquiba colonial army was actually a little overwhelmed for a while. After all, it was their first time to fight against the Indian army, and according to the Danes, the Indians would only run away and surrender.

Although the military organization of the church on the other side has been in Southeast Asia for many years, it behaved more confused than the comrades of the colonial army on the side, because they were used to chasing and fighting the natives.

Even if the kingdom's army was defeated, it would be difficult to organize it again. It was the first time that they were counterattacked.

Fortunately, Kiran Wasje's army was just like that, and a few shotguns stopped their momentum of charging.

At the same time, the Kalaika army, which mainly used cold weapons, was also vulnerable to modern rifles. The more they charged, the more casualties they suffered.

In just a quarter of an hour, Kiran Vasje's army lost one-fifth of its troops. At this time, the Austrian army also regained its composure and began to kill step by step.

There was no suspense in the battle. The morale of the Kalaika army was about to collapse. At this time, the Kalaika officers who had been fighting on the front line discovered a problem. Their king was missing.

In fact, Kiran Vasje found that the situation was different from what he expected in the first exchange of fire, so he immediately decided to escape with his confidants.

Kiran Vasje did not think this was a shameful act. On the contrary, he felt that Kalaika was so big that he could make a comeback even if the capital was lost.

After all, the other side only had a few thousand people, while Kalaika had a population of millions. I don't believe that the other side can still beat them with a 100,000-strong army.

This idea is not illogical. First of all, India was the most populous country besides the Qing Dynasty. Any small state had millions of people, and a large state even had tens of millions of people. The lowest population in Europe was Prussia.

At this time, the population of Prussia was only a pitiful 17 million. Austria was plundered by Franz everywhere, and with the advancement of medicine, the maternal mortality rate and the neonatal mortality rate both hit a record low.

At the same time, the revitalized empire also gave people hope. After having enough food, they had a certain amount of savings. In an era when civilians did not have much entertainment, making babies became a common entertainment project.

Due to the influence of religion, having children is the obligation of every believer. In fact, most of the ancient religions have such scriptures and obligations. After all, human resources were very important in ancient times, and there was no inheritance without enough people.

Then Franz specifically asked the priests to preach more doctrines in this regard during sermons and mass. For the lower class people in Europe at that time, they might not know the emperor or the mayor, but they must know the priests in their parishes.

In addition, Austria passed an anti-human smuggling agreement at the German Confederation Congress, intercepting a large number of people who were supposed to go to the United States and Britain.

However, the price is that the number of Italians in Austria has exceeded 10 million and is still increasing rapidly. You must know that the population of the Austrian Empire at this time is only 46 million (38 million in the same period of history).

Among them, the German population is about 12 million, and the total population of the German region outside the Austrian Empire is 35 million.

The only thing worth rejoicing about is that the Hungarian population still remains around 6.5 million, and there is even a faint downward trend. After all, with the reduction of external markets, excess labor seems worthless.

(The heavy tariffs between Hungary and Austria caused a sharp decline in trade between the two sides, mainly reflected in Austria's import of agricultural products.)

The population of other major countries in the world (only counting the mainland):

France 35 million, Britain 27 million, Spain 13 million, the United States 21 million.

Due to constant wars (civil war, foreign war, loss of territory), Mexico's population is even smaller than the same period in history, only 5.5 million.

Ottoman 33 million, Brazil 6.6 million, Argentina 1.8 million, Persia 13 million, Serbia 950,000, Denmark 1.5 million, Portugal 3.7 million, Sweden 3.4 million, Egypt 5.3 million, Afghanistan 2.5 million, Sikh Empire 12 million.

Luxembourg's land area increased threefold and its population increased 1.5 times to 470,000 due to the acquisition of Limburg and Western Luxembourg.

There are statements about the population of Russia ranging from 67 million to 83 million, and the average value here is 75 million.