The War Court and Lap Pillow, Austria's Mandate of Heaven

Chapter 1009 Prince Shotgun
However, with the example of the German Allied Forces, the residents of Celesta suddenly had higher demands on the army.

Demonstrators stood in front of the city hall every day, and Mayor Blanqui obviously did not want to suppress his partners who had resisted the invasion with him.

Fanny Cote was also very annoyed with the soldiers who were disturbing the people. She wanted to find a few culprits to punish them, but soon she discovered that almost everyone in the entire army was committing crimes.

And those people have their own reasons. After all, the Orleans Dynasty did treat them badly, and they did shed blood for the dynasty and the city of Celesta.

Fanny Cote, an idealist with only the simplest emotions, couldn't think of a solution at all, so she tried to copy Franz's method of making money.

But she had no money at all, and her money had long been used to buy weapons and ammunition.

Franz had expected the destruction of the French Swiss Expeditionary Force, but he did not expect that Prince Shotgun would get involved.

Franz originally wanted to build up the reputation of the Count of Chambord, but after all, just helping the Orleans family to occupy a place seemed a bit too partial to others.

Domination by either party is not good news for Franz, because whoever controls France will march towards Italy and North Africa, which is obviously not in Austria's national interest.

In fact, what Franz wanted most was for France to march into the lowlands, but the French did not dare to bite this bait, and German nationalism was developing too rapidly, so Franz could only temporarily abandon this plan.

Continuous defeats and rising prices have brought the rule of the Second French Republic to the brink of collapse.

In June, Cavaignac had suppressed two uprisings under the instruction of Dan Gilat. However, this did not have much effect. Large-scale uprisings were about to occur in Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Bordeaux, Toulouse, and even Toulon. signs.

Franz naturally doesn't mind adding fuel to the fire, donating money and materials, and even directly sending mercenaries and gang members into France are all acceptable.

The fact that Prince Shotgun purchased the body of the French commander and sent it to Berlin was like tying Prussia to death on a German chariot. It is no wonder that his brother was so angry that he had a stroke.

William IV should be regarded as the most cowardly of all Prussian kings. He was afraid of the church. The Archbishop of Cologne established a dual system in the Rhineland, and he did not dare to send troops to suppress it.

William IV was afraid of the people, so he was forced to accept liberal reforms, convene a constituent assembly, and was even forced to go to war with Denmark under the pressure of public opinion.

But he was also afraid of Denmark, afraid of Sweden, afraid of England, and even more afraid of Russia.

Fear of losing the support of the German states and fear of Austria. He wanted to exclude Austria from Germany, but he did not dare to go to war with Austria, so in the end he went crazy (historically, he fell into complete madness in 1858).

Due to the appearance of Franz, William IV's illness progressed much faster than in history.

As for Prince Shotgun doing such a thing, it's not surprising. After all, he was not trained as an heir at all.

Prince Shotgun has not received orthodox royal education since he was a child. He was thrown into the military camp by his father William III at the age of ten. At the age of only seventeen, he was sent to the battlefield to face a real battle.

Compared with the army commanded by Napoleon, Pelissier's expeditionary force was a joke. That's why he didn't give up at all in Switzerland. He even wanted to ride a war horse and have a "fair" one-on-one duel with Pelissier.

William III hoped that Prince Shotgun could become a loyal, brave warrior who could sacrifice everything for his family and country. He succeeded, but William IV was paralyzed. In fact, due to William III's education problems, William IV's two remaining brothers also had this problem, and they often became inexplicably brave. The latter also worried about holding down his three younger brothers who took turns getting sick.

Franz did not choose to continue the attack after liberating Celesta. Although some in the coalition advocated continuing to attack France, no one dared to take that step without Franz's consent and the permission of the Confederacy.

After all, the hammer of France has been hanging over the heads of the Germans for hundreds of years, and the pressure of these hundreds of years will not disappear just because of a few victories.

On the other hand, Franz received a large number of letters expressing willingness to surrender. In addition to some declining nobles and fallen politicians, there were also some relatives who even advocated democracy and freedom in the Austrian Empire.

In addition, Franz also received dozens of gifts worth tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of francs, as well as more than ten hostages, most of whom were young and beautiful girls and young women.

Although Franz had no intention of occupying French territory, he could not chill the hearts of these French friends. He sent everyone back, and the money was used directly as the start-up capital for the local secret intelligence network.

At the same time, in order to appease these people, Franz also gave each of these families an Austrian flag. The apparent meaning was that one day the Austrian army would arrive, and they would only need to hang this flag to prove that they were one of their own.

As for the deeper meaning, it depends on their personal imagination.

According to the latest intelligence from the battlefield, Albrecht will also complete the encirclement of the French Saarburg garrison in the near future.

The French army on the Italian battlefield still stood still. They seemed to be waiting for the Austrians to make mistakes, but both Austria and Marshal Radetzky had plenty of time to waste on them.

At this time, the only thing that did not open up as planned was the Belgian battlefield. Henry Arsène was much more cunning than imagined.

No matter how much Archduke Karl tempted him, Henry Arsène would not be fooled. Even though he had won more than a dozen victories against the German Confederation, he showed no signs of rash advancement. Instead, he deployed a large number of defenses around Brussels, and weapons were deployed throughout Belgium. Collect supplies and send them to major cities.

In fact, the French commander also sent troops into the Netherlands, but not to capture cities and territories, but simply to plunder.

When the Allied General Staff Headquarters fully thought that Henry Arsène would finally lose control and step into the trap that had been laid long ago, he chose to retreat.

They just ran away after grabbing them, and even didn't fight for some cities that didn't have a lot of troops and the city defenses weren't strong. For a time, the coalition staff felt that there was a traitor in the coalition, which was why the other side was able to avoid all traps so accurately.

However, Henry Arsène did not have an intelligence network independent of the French army. He simply felt the crisis.

Later, the news of the naval battle in the Mediterranean made him confirm that the Austrian Empire was far from being as incompetent as the newspaper said. Although he defeated many German coalition forces rushing to aid Belgium, there was no Austrian army among them.

According to the prisoners' confessions, the Austrians were unable to rush to the battlefield immediately due to transportation problems.

Henry Arsène did not believe that defeating the British twice was no fluke. The Austrians might have planned this war for a long time, so they did not dare to be careless and even prepared for the worst.

(End of this chapter)