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

I saw a team slowly appearing on the flanking hill. They were flying the tricolor flag of the German Confederation (Empire).

"Break through the darkness of slavery (black), experience the bloody massacre (red), and win the dawn of freedom (gold)."

This is the meaning of the tricolor flag, but generally speaking the tricolor flag symbolizes "liberty", "equality", "fraternity", and the Great Revolution.
In short, this flag has nothing to do with the empire. After Luxembourg returned to the German Confederation, in order to show that it did not want to revolutionize everyone's lives, it deliberately painted a lion symbolizing the Kingdom of the Netherlands on its flag.

Without further ado, a third party suddenly appeared on the battlefield, which surprised and angered Oudinot.

Needless to say, I was surprised. The overall situation was already decided, but Cheng Yaojin suddenly appeared. Can you not be surprised?

The anger was because such a large army suddenly appeared on the battlefield, and there was no scout to report the news before.

In fact, this is really not the fault of the reconnaissance troops, but that there was a heavy rain just before. Not long after the rain stopped, Oudinot led his troops to fight in a hurry. They were also helpless.

On the other hand, the morale of the Belgians was greatly boosted. It was not that they knew that German reinforcements were coming, but that the German Confederate (Empire) flag was too similar to the Belgian flag.

The Belgians knew at a glance that it was one of their own who was coming, and they didn't want to care who it was.

"The reinforcements are here!"

"Reinforcements are coming!" (Belgian French dialect.)
Generally speaking, enemy reinforcements can only affect the generals first, and the soldiers will see changes in the officers' faces and emotions.

Because the soldiers were in the center of the battlefield, they were unable to see the entire battlefield.Only those officers have the means to know the changes on the battlefield.

However, it is different at this time. The French can completely understand the Belgian dialect.

As a result, the originally powerful French army suddenly fell into chaos, while the Belgians became more and more courageous as they fought.

Under the circumstances, the battle line was really pushed back. Seeing that the battle situation was developing in a direction that was not conducive to his own side, Oudinot's adjutant could no longer stand the old man in front of him.

At this time, he had decided from the bottom of his heart that the era of Grouchi and Oudinot had passed.

"Blow the trumpet! Send out the flanking cavalry! Block enemy reinforcements at all costs!"

"Idiot! What are you going to do!"

Oudinot immediately roared, but immediately stopped, because the reformist adjutant had pulled out a gun and put it on Oudinot's forehead.

At this moment, the rear of the French army exploded.

Although Oudinot is old, he is not without prestige in the army.On the other side, the adjutant from the reform newspaper came even more prepared, and the two sides were at war with each other for a while.

The soldiers all pointed their guns at their own people, and a civil war seemed inevitable.
"What do you want?"

"What do I want? I want to save France! I want to save this crisis! France is where it is today because of you old antiques!
The Provisional Government should be like Robert Peel and send Louis Philippe to the guillotine along with you bastards!
Now I have the final say here!If you don't want to die, just shut up! "

Oudinot looked into the eyes of the young adjutant. He finally looked away. He was no longer the brave and fearless Oudinot. He felt that going to England to retire would be a good choice.
"I'm tired. I'm going back to Paris to recuperate, and I'll leave this place to you. Major Compaore!"

Oudinot deliberately emphasized the opponent's military rank, because the adjutant was only a major before, but now he took the position of a general, and even threatened Oudinot, the marshal.

This is undoubtedly an insult to Major Compaore, but the latter does not want to argue with the former old guy at this time. After all, if internal strife does occur, it will definitely be a lose-lose outcome.
As a member of the reformist faction, he knew better than anyone that the French Provisional Government was more fragile than ever at this time.In fact, the French Provisional Government will announce a major event in the near future, which is the establishment of the Second French Republic. They have decided to completely abandon the monarchy.

It was no secret that they planned to do this after expelling the Duke of Paris, grandson of Louis Philippe.

However, due to Franz's butterfly effect, quite a few people within the provisional government hated Austria.

Historically, the establishment of the Second French Republic was actually inseparable from its peace-oriented foreign policy, and its previous rash declaration of war on Austria led to a great deterioration in its international environment.

If it hadn't been for the sudden victory in the Mediterranean naval battle, the interim government might have passed away by this time.

At this time, the preparation of the French Provisional Government is naturally inseparable from our world's number one troublemaker.

At the same time as the decision was made to continue the war against the Austrian Empire, Viscount Stratford was sent to Paris.

It was impossible for the British to send their own troops to fight a land war with Austria, and Nicholas I of Russia was still dreaming of the coexistence of Eastern and Western Rome.

As for Prussia, it is difficult to protect itself at this time, and there are considerable differences with Britain on the Schleswig issue, so France is Britain's only choice at this time.

I have to say that the British intelligence work was very good at this time, and they knew exactly what the French needed at this time.

Viscount Stratford happened to be good at exchanging the maximum benefits at the minimum cost. Britain promised to support France and recognize the legitimacy of the Second French Republic.

Just two bad checks captured the French. In fact, Franz was not unaware of this information.

But as an empire, Austria went to recognize the Second French Republic, which was very inappropriate.

The UK, which is alone overseas and is a constitutional monarchy, is completely unfettered by this. The French will give them as many blank checks as they want.

Back on the battlefield, it was certainly not the troops of the German Confederacy who came to rescue Brussels. After all, the quarrel in the Frankfurt National Assembly had not yet come to a conclusion.

In fact, even if there is a result, the National Assembly will have no troops to send at this time.In fact, the National Assembly does not have its own real army. They can only coordinate with various states.

The reason why Prussia attacked Denmark was entirely the result of compromise among many parties. It was not because they really had the energy to order a big country like Prussia.

Among the entire German Confederation, the only ones that could confront the French were Austria and Prussia. The latter was stuck in the quagmire of Schleswig, while the former was busy fighting a civil war.

And who are the reinforcements under the banner of the German Confederacy at this time?

The answer is Luxembourg.

This small country once again jumped into the center of the storm. Due to historical reasons, Luxembourgers at this time were extremely fanatical about nationalism.

However, they still had internal differences about helping Belgium. After all, they were fighting against the Belgians during the Luxembourg crisis.

Now the Belgians want to join the German Confederation and help their former enemies, which is emotionally difficult for them to accept.

However, under the wave of fanatical nationalism, there are still some pure or ignorant people who resolutely choose to die.