"The master, Victor Emmanuel II, ruler of the Kingdom of Italy and successor to the Sardinian royal family, has arrived in the city of Genoa with his supporters, where he has called on the people of Piedmont and the entire Italian nation to persist in the war of resistance.

According to the exact information, Victor Emmanuel II has received a large number of arms aided by the Habsburgs, and is reorganizing the Italian Royal Guard, which means that he will fight to the end. ”

Lin Haoda took a sip of wine and replied lightly: "Tell me about the news of the people who are willing to take refuge in us, and tell me if it is useful to pick a leader." ”

"In addition to the Italian capitulationists stranded in the city of Turin, the Vatican's Pope Pius IX sent us to have frequent contact with us privately, and Pius IX showed great goodwill to our march into the Kingdom of Italy, and frequently hinted at his willingness to cooperate with us in overthrowing the Sardinian crown over the Italian peninsula.

That kind of overthrow that cuts the grass and eradicates the roots! ”

"Oh? Didn't the Vatican's pope work happily with Victor Emmanuel II after the unification of the Italian peninsula? ”

Lin Haoda asked with interest.

He originally wanted to find a way to contact the church before entering Rome, whether it was coercion or inducement, to obtain the banner of the church without secular rights, which was still very useful to Lin Haoda, and through the confrontation between religious ideas and nationalist thoughts, it was the only thing Lin Haoda could take now.

Otherwise, he will only be plunged into an endless sea of civil unrest and people's war, and although guerrilla warfare cannot change the overall situation, it will be very disgusting in the end, especially when surrounded by foreign enemies, people's guerrilla warfare will often put the occupying army in a predicament of internal and external difficulties.

Simple guerrillas are not terrible, but guerrillas who are constantly supported by foreign countries are a headache!

To put it bluntly, the bulk of the guerrillas' weapons could not be relied on simply by capturing the enemy, but still by foreign blood transfusions, and if the occupying troops all became transport captains, how could such troops be able to defeat the guerrillas and occupy this area?

The reason why the guerrillas could not defeat the regular army was not only a matter of weapons and equipment, but also a big gap in terms of training and military quality, and even the regular army of a country like Italy, which had a very weak will to fight, had much stronger combat effectiveness than the guerrillas!

The only thing left of the guerrillas is the spirit of hardship and hard work, because if they do not have this spirit, the civilians will not become guerrillas......

This is the reason why the poorer the local guerrillas, the more fierce they are, and they are starving to death anyway, so why don't they copy the guys and fight to the end and die again?

Moreover, the kind of civilian guerrillas who are hungry all day long, their endurance has basically reached the limit of the human body, and it may not be possible to fight, but the skill of drilling ravines and ravines is definitely full......

There are not many mountains in the Italian Peninsula, and Lin Haoda does not want to leave a large number of troops to suppress the local area after occupying the Kingdom of Italy, so it is necessary to support an influential puppet.

It's just that what Lin Haoda didn't expect was that the European church, which had always been hostile to him, would take the initiative to send someone to contact him privately.

"Master, after Victor Emmanuel II unified the Kingdom of Italy, he did not weaken the power of the Pope, although it was widely advertised that the Papal States were incorporated into the Kingdom of Italy without much bloodshed, but that was only because the army of the Papal States was too weak.

After Victor Emmanuel II unified the Italian peninsula, he deprived the Church of a large amount of land wealth through various slogans of "benefiting the people", and also encouraged the propaganda of Italian national ideas, which greatly resisted the influence of the Church's spiritual beliefs.

Victor Emmanuel II worked diligently to lighten the burden on the Church, both mentally and physically, and it is no wonder that Pius IX did not resent.

It's just that Pius IX has always wanted to restore some of his secular rights, instead of being enshrined in the Vatican like a mascot as he is now, which is why Pius IX took the initiative to send someone to contact us. ”

"In that case, Pius IX must have made a lot of promises."

Qin Xue'er smiled: "Yes, master, as long as we can completely bury the foundation of the ruling foundation of the Sardinian royal family headed by Victor Emmanuel II, he is willing to personally crown your master, and will privately give us a large number of the wealth accumulated by the church, and cooperate with our work to stabilize the local people."

Pius IX's demand was for the restoration of the original rights of the local bishops, the restoration of the church's 'due secular rights'.

Pius IX did not dare to claim the secular rights of the Church in the big cities, but only wanted to maintain their original privileges in the countryside, such as tithes and ecclesiastical courts. ”

"Hehe, it seems that this guy Pius IX has studied the style of our Han army, we do not have enough control over the countryside, and there is no need to waste troops to control all regions in simple terms, but if they want these rights, they will not be able to pay some wealth and coronation promises.

Qin Xue'er, you tell the people of Pius IX that I can meet their demands, and even allow them to form their own church guards in rural areas, but they must regularly pay our army the material materials we designate, and all the local institutions of the church must be open and transparent to us, and when the Han army takes the entire Italian peninsula, I will send local inspectors everywhere.

I will not prevent the Church from continuing to sit on the Italian people, but I will never allow them to do something 'stealing and touching dogs' right under my nose.

As long as the church is willing to serve me, I can even help Pius IX restore the glory of the traditional medieval clergy. ”

"I see, master, where are we going next?"

"The main forces of the Kingdom of Italy have been destroyed, and the Austro-Hungarian reinforcements will not dare to confront our army head-on, and I will attack the city of Genoa with cavalry-like mobile troops and destroy the 'new army' of Victor Emmanuel II.

The remaining mobilized troops will be divided into three parts, one is stationed in Turin, the capital of the Kingdom of Italy, one part is in Lombardy, and one is in the Parma region, these two areas have not been incorporated into the Kingdom of Italy by the Kingdom of Sardinia for a long time, the original army is not as good as the regular army of the Kingdom of Sardinia, and no one in the Italian Peninsula can stop our attack until the European countries organize a coalition army! ”