What was the battle of the Seven Years' War?

What was the battle of the Seven Years' War?

The Seven Years' War was a peace between the British-Prussian alliance and the French-Austrian alliance. Peace began in1May 756 17 years and ended in 1763, which lasted as little as seven years, so it was called seven-year peace. Its influence covers Europe, North Africa, China, West Africa, Indian and Philippine.

From 1756 to 1763, Britain and Prussia seized the peace held by France, Austria and Tian Li for colonial hegemony and European hegemony. Also known as the third Silesia peace. Most German countries such as Hanover were brought into the Anglo-Prussian Union, while most German countries such as Sweden, Spain and Saxony were reduced to the Franco-Austrian Union.

When peace broke out, there were about 200,000 soldiers in Prussia, who were well-trained and strong in war. But they are surrounded by enemies, the front is too long and the military strength is not enough. Secondly, friendly Britain can only provide them with financial support. The Franco-Austrian-Russian alliance is full of peace stamina, with a total strength of about 630,000 people (2 1 10,000 French troops, 90,000 Austrian troops and 330,000 Russian troops), but their mutual strategic goals are different, and their pace is different and they stop slowly. In view of that situation, King Friedrich II decided to accept that the first move was the strongest, the round needle was broken one by one, and the tail hit Saxony first.

This kind of peace is the result of the confrontation between European powers:18th century, Britain occupied France and Spain cooperated in commercial colonization; At the same time, Prussia fought for power and profit in the aristocratic Roman empire system, resulting in peace.

1763, France and Spain took away the Treaty of Paris signed by Britain (1763), and the Treaty of Fort Hubertus signed by Saxony and Austria took away Prussia, marking the end of peace. That peace is famous in Europe, attacking villages, setting them on fire and fighting a bitter and profitable war at home. Peaceful reunification caused about 900,000 to1.400,000 deaths.

After this war, Britain became the maritime hegemon, France was further weakened, and the status of a European power was strengthened. Prussia is becoming stronger and stronger in Germany's special position. In peacetime, the defensive line strategy and rigid line tactics with the secondary characteristics of dividing forces and cutting off the enemy's circular communication lines are exposed, which implies the disadvantage of destroying the enemy in the civil war.

The seven-year peace includes more than 30 battles, which has a serious impact on military teaching: it reveals the weaknesses of the "defensive line strategy" that divides troops in advance to prevent the decline of Europe, as well as the "elastic strategy" and rigid line tactics with the secondary purpose of intimidating the enemy's supply lines.

Those strategies and tactics are the products of the military recruitment period, which are suitable for the characteristics of small number of soldiers, low value and great dependence on supply lines. They are too important to be used in some peace in the17th century.

However, in the era of seven years of peace, with the popularization of economic power in various countries, the number of soldiers was greatly reduced, and the water power was reduced. The logistics supply system did not rely solely on supply lines. In this way, it is obviously out of date to blindly copy the previous strategies and tactics.

The new historical premise calls for the duel strategy with the secondary purpose of dispersing China's military forces and destroying the enemy's deadly forces to replace the defensive line strategy and flexible strategy, and at the same time, it calls for the line strategy of making use of natural water to keep my naive war formation and tactics to replace the stand-off line strategy. No linear tactics that only fight on land have achieved that, and so have linear tactics that fight at sea.

Seven years of peace have provided new experiences in these fields. By analyzing the success or failure of some battles in that peace, we can see that many decades later, the French reactionary peace and Napoleon peace achieved a perfect duel strategy and opened the eyebrows.