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

Franz could see that the little girl in front of him was thinking wildly, but he still cared about one thing.

"Did you hear crying?"

It is not uncommon for aristocratic manors to have dungeons, especially those powerful families, who are no different from the local emperors in terms of place.

But along the way, although Franz dealt with many nobles, he didn't find anything like a dungeon.

If a medieval remnant like a dungeon can be found in Vikhliu Yasuski's estate, then rescue some people from it.

The effect of the propaganda was so good that the Polish nobles, especially the nobles who were related to Yasuski, would never even think about raising their heads in this life.Although he can also direct and act on his own, but after all, he is inferior.

"It's very faint.. like a sobbing sound, intermittent, and there are many. Occasionally, there is a chewing sound"

"You sound so intrusive, why does it feel like a group of ghouls live there?"

After hearing this, Franz sighed with emotion. Lakshmi Payi shrank her neck in fright and said timidly.

"Are there really werewolves in this world?"

The little girl obviously remembered the plots in the horror stories she had heard.

"If you are so timid, don't argue all day long to listen to horror stories. What if you wet the bed at night?"

Lakshmi Payi was obviously terrified. She didn't notice Franz's ridicule, but asked stubbornly with a crying tone.

"Are there any werewolves!?"

This thinking was a bit divergent for Franz, and he just replied bluntly.

"No. It's just a trick to trick children."

After all, Franz came from an atheist country in the East and was completely indifferent to the story of the werewolf, but the legend of the werewolf in the West lasted until the 80s, and its influence gradually faded away.

At this moment, Lakshmi Payi was completely stunned, and he no longer looked like a demon king in the usual world.

So Franz didn't continue to scare her, but chose to divert her attention.

After all, Lakshmi Payi was quite proud. She didn't want to admit that she was afraid, let alone admit that she was cheated. She looked quite funny.

"I knew I didn't, I just wanted to test you"

Franz suddenly restrained his smile and asked.

"Where did you hear that?"

"In my room."

"take me."

On the other side, Krakow's army has already left the city, and the Poles can almost be regarded as the whole army attacking this time.

Because it was a desperate attempt, the top leaders of the Polish Restoration Army and all the soldiers who could fight were all gathered and sent to Dorobichi, and at the same time they recruited the whole city's mules and horses to pay for the journey.

General Bem, who opposed sending troops, and the remaining old, weak, sick and disabled were responsible for slowing down the pace of the Austrian Imperial Army.

This task is relatively arduous, because Bem has no cavalry troops, and it is impossible to delay it by cavalry maneuvers.

And Earl Stadion's barracks is fifteen kilometers away from Krakow. If you send infantry to this distance, you won't be able to run back.

What's more, there are no more soldiers in hand, and the rest are some forced militiamen.That kind of one-touch-and-leave tactic simply won't work, especially when retreating can easily turn into a rout.

However, the conscientious General Bem thought of other ways. He decided to expand the defensive area and build fortifications outside the city to stop the Austrian army from advancing.

Although this increases the difficulty of defense and disperses the troops, at least the trench fortifications give the militia a sense of security.

General Bem knew very well that the key to this battle was not whether the Krakow army could stop the Austrian interception force, but whether the surprise attack on Dorobichi's team could be successful.

There are more than 3 people in the surprise attack force, while the Austrian army in Yasuski Manor has only 3000 people.But General Bem is not optimistic about this attack because there are too many variables.

But the bounden duty of a soldier is to obey. He will defend until the moment the surprise attack fails, but that's all. Poland still needs him.

Earl Stadion didn't know the righteousness of General Bem, he just looked at Krakow's fortifications and felt a little funny.

The five-kilometer-long defense line connected to the city has only a thin layer.Earl Stadion couldn't even think of such a weird way of fighting.

To be honest, he was still a little disappointed, because according to legend, General Bem was a famous Polish general who once defeated twice as many Russians as himself.

It's just that when I saw him today, Count Stadion felt that the other party's military thinking was still stuck in the eighteenth century.

Such a loose line of defense can easily be divided and surrounded, not to mention that it is completely possible to directly attack the city and force the opponent to come back, or directly make a big detour to invalidate this line of defense.

It's just that his task is only to besiege the city of Krakow, and does not include pursuit or annihilation.Because someone else was in charge of this task, Julius Jakob von Hainau came to the battlefield with his Salzburg army.

To be honest, General Heinau was the general who most supported the construction of railways, but he still underestimated the military use of this brand new mode of transportation.

It takes only one week to transport 580 troops, their equipment and supplies from Salzburg to Krakow, a distance of [-] kilometers, which used to take at least a month.

Moreover, after a month of high-intensity marching, it is hard to say how much combat power the troops will have left, and there may not even be much left for the soldiers themselves.

The day after the Polish army left Krakow, Heinau's troops cut off their rear.

"The speed of the Austrians is so fast, our retreat is cut off. We can't go back."

Tisovsky said sadly, but Dembowski thought it was a good thing. After all, there were many deserters on the first day, which he couldn't think of even if he broke his brain.

Deserters are almost inevitable in this era, but it is too exaggerated to lose 3000% of the total troop strength after just walking for a day.

If this situation continues, then after ten days they will become bare commanders.

"There's nothing to be afraid of, it's a good thing for us, otherwise we won't be able to stop those bastards from running.

Now the Austrians have become our supervising team, one step back is death!Do those hams still dare to escape?Ha ha! "

Tisovsky was not as optimistic as Dembowski, but he was right when he thought about it. Anyway, he had already bet his life, but was let go by Landry Promi, and he simply broke the can. He picked up a bottle of red wine .

"cheers!"

"That's right, cheers!"

The two interim secretaries of state toasted and drank in the carriage, and most of the soldiers in the team were temporarily recruited militiamen. They walked for two days and felt that their legs were about to break.

At first they would laugh at and despise those who deserted, but now they hate themselves for not deserting.

Although there were chasing soldiers behind, they couldn't see it.The chiefs said there was glory and spoils ahead, and they couldn't see it.

They can only hear the growling stomach, they can only see the blisters on their feet, and they only know the exhaustion all over their bodies.

On the third day, some people couldn't walk anymore. They asked for food, rest, and rewards.