Chapter 276: Recuperation (44/102) (Page 1/1)

In the middle of the night, Eugen and his family arrived at Graz Castle along the way, where they took a short break in the city.

The whole team has been connected and run for hundreds of kilometers, and now it is time for people to be tired and tired, and it is time to rest.

There were no garrisons in the city, which was already under the control of the Habsburgs of Vienna, and had been requisitioned into the Habsburg coalition with their lords long before the war began.

At present, some law and order in the city are only maintained by more than 100 city guards, all of whom are old, weak, sick and disabled, and their combat effectiveness is very limited.

But fortunately, the folk customs here are simple, even in the war period, there are not many people in the city to make trouble, and they still live their lives conscientiously.

For these people, the replacement of noble lords seemed to be a very distant thing. No matter which viscount or earl is in command of them, life will still go on anyway, and the only visible impact is probably the change in the tax rate.

Graz is a medium-sized city with a permanent population of about 20,000, and the great war has not affected the city these days, so the city in general does not seem to have changed much.

Due to its proximity to the cotton-producing areas, the textile industry here was relatively developed, producing a variety of cotton and linen products, as well as a small amount of velvet and silk cloth, with poor cotton and linen cloth for the use of the common people, and valuable velvet being purchased in large quantities by the government and sent to the nobles everywhere.

In the middle of the night, Eugen was worried that he couldn't sleep, so he went for a walk in the street alone.

The moonlight shrouded the city, and the stone-paved streets were deserted, and the brick houses on either side cut off the moonlight, creating jagged shadows on the ground.

The early spring night was still a little chilly, the cool breeze blew on his face, Eugen narrowed his eyes slightly, and his originally anxious mood gradually calmed down.

The situation in Vienna was completely more than Eugen had expected, and he greatly underestimated the determination of the two great families of Vetina and Hohenzollern.

Originally, Eugen thought that his capture of the Lebor region would create some deterrence for the two large families, curb their offensive in the Vienna area, and delay some time.

When the sowing season comes, the two big families will be fighting outside for too long, and the supply of materials will inevitably become a big problem, and at that time, their war situation will be self-defeating.

As a result, the two big families didn't take him seriously at all, they seemed to see through Eugen's foreign strength and middle strength, and the troops were gathered on the Po River defense line and could not be withdrawn, so they brazenly launched an attack and directly cut through the first line of defense in Vienna.

After that, as Charles VI regained his senses, the two great families jumped over the wall in a hurry, pressed all their forces up, and wanted to storm Vienna and capture the palace of the Habsburgs in one fell swoop.

It only took a very short time for the situation to develop from a stalemate to this point, and the situation continued to turn one after another, and people couldn't react quickly.

Eugen was able to gather his soldiers in such a short period of time and rush to the Vienna area, which was already a miracle speed, and the reason for this urgency was partly because of his loyalty to the royal family, and partly because of Princess Maria.

After all, it was now besieged in Vienna, but Princess Maria's biological father, Maria, hearing that her father had regained her senses, burst into tears of excitement and almost fainted with joy.

As a result, before she could be happy, she suddenly got the news that Vienna was under siege and the royal family was in crisis, and then Maria really fainted, but she was frightened.

When she woke up, she cried and shouted that she would rush back to Vienna to rescue her father, and ordered Alan to immediately reorganize the army.

Maria was the princess and half of the lord of the city of Leber, and Alan did not dare to disobey, so he gathered his army in advance and was ready to set off at any time.

At this time, Eugen also rushed back to the city of Lebber with Simon and the army of Long Xiang from the Po River defense line, and at this moment, Eugen's main forces were all concentrated together, and he directly led the team towards Vienna.

Maria had said that she would go with the team, but in the end, Eugen and the others moved out of the reason given by the prince and asked Maria to take care of the overall situation, which persuaded her to continue.

Thinking of Maria's sad and hopeful expression before parting, Eugen felt his heart tugging together, and if he couldn't save Charles VI this time, he didn't know how to go back to face Maria.

Thinking about it, Eugen let out a long sigh and sat down on a stone pier in the corner of the wall in front of him, his strength was still too weak after all, and in that kind of battlefield of 100,000 people, whether he participated in it or not did not matter at all.

"Alas, fuck, if Lao Tzu had an atomic bomb, throw him in Hohenzollern's army, and see if he dares to come and pretend to me again."

Eugen grumbled helplessly, and leaned against the stone wall behind him, and the chill spread from the stone wall to his body, cooling his mind that had become groggy from anxiety.

The situation is already very clear, in fact, now he has an atomic bomb, even a few Italian guns, plus a few hundred shells, can send those Prussian troops back to their homeland.

It's a pity that he didn't, and with the five hundred new muskets under his hand, even if each of them had unlimited bullets, it would be impossible to stop Hohenzollern's army.

What's more, in order to speed up the journey, everyone in the Long Xiang Army only brought fifty rounds of spare ammunition.

All of them are counted, there are only 25,000 rounds of ammunition, even if his troops are all sharpshooters and can achieve gun hits, they can only kill a quarter of the enemy, and the remaining enemies are still far more than them, and they can easily break through the walls of Vienna.

Eugen looked up tiredly, wanting to admire the moonlight overhead, but a small flag from a tailor's shop happened to be planted on the stone wall above his head, and the flag fluttered in the night wind, disturbing the quiet moon.

"Damn, break the flag, I'll tear you down sooner or later!" Eugen cursed softly, but did not get up to do anything, he was now physically and mentally exhausted, and he had no strength to fight a flag.

He understood that the most critical point now was not with him, but with the reinforcements who could not arrive in time.

As long as the reinforcements of the Wittelsbach family, the reinforcements of the Welf family, and the combined army of the southwest region arrived, the crisis in Vienna was immediately resolved, and no matter how strong the two families were, they could not defeat such a large army.

At the end of the day, it's about finding a way to get all those reinforcements here.

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