In 1872, Lin Haoda brazenly launched an attack on Austria-Hungary and achieved a very brilliant victory, the more than 200,000 regular troops displayed by Austria-Hungary on the border with Italy completely collapsed in just one week, and the trench warfare that Austria-Hungary learned from the German Empire was so vulnerable in the face of the sudden appearance of hundreds of various combat vehicles, and even the formation of division-sized troops surrendered without firing a shot!

Because many of the first-line division-level troops of the Austro-Hungarian Empire were divided and surrounded by the broken Han armored division before they could react, and they were faced with an embattled situation.

The artillery of the Han army was much more advanced than that of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and the encircled Austro-Hungarian soldiers had no power to fight back except for being bombed, and the logistics line was completely cut off, and the collapse of morale is easy to understand......

Of course, the willingness of the Austro-Hungarian troops to surrender, and a big factor, the example of the Italian Han Entente was erected there.

The Italians set a good precedent for the Austro-Hung soldiers, who could save their lives as long as they obediently laid down their arms and surrendered, which was especially important when the Austro-Hungarian soldiers saw no hope of victory.

The performance of the Italian Independent Regiment on the battlefield was also recognized by the Han Army General Staff, and a large number of Italian Han Allies were sent to the Austro-Hungarian occupied areas to maintain local law and order and assist Han Chinese officials in establishing a military government.

The shortcomings of the multi-ethnic state of the Austro-Hungarian Empire were completely exposed at this moment, and the most elite main force was about to collapse at the touch of a button, which greatly dealt a blow to the prestige of the Habsburg Empire.

This is also an auxiliary way for Lin Haoda to expand his territory in the future, the important and rich areas will be fully occupied by the Han army, and those poor and remote areas will be handed over to the local ethnic minorities to govern, as long as they recognize the dominance of the Han army, but pay taxes according to the regulations.

Lin Haoda's gluttonous principle for the European continent adheres to the principle of first breaking a huge hard bone and breaking it into pieces of scattered ethnic autonomous regions, anyway, there are countless ethnic groups of white Europeans, and under the propaganda of nationalism, one by one is still eager for autonomy, and it is the mentality of most white minorities today to be the head of a chicken rather than a phoenix.

For example, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Austrians and Hungarians enjoyed far greater political and legal rights than other ethnic minorities......

This was the case, even within the German Empire, which spoke the same language, not to mention the minorities in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, whose language and culture were completely different!

Regional discrimination is also a very common phenomenon in Europe, and it is this kind of regional discrimination that makes a large number of different voices always appear within the European powers, which leads to the subsequent world wars, when the major powers lose their military power to restrain ethnic minorities, and after the victorious countries provoke it, the empire of Nuoda is divided into small republics......

World War I and World War II shattered the continent of Europe, which was originally a unified country, very fragmented, and almost returned to the fragmentation of the Middle Ages!

National self-determination is the concept first put forward by Europeans, a measure born after World War I to resolve disputes between local ethnic minorities and racist vendettas, and in fact a political bloc led by the United States and Britain to smash the conspiracy of the great powers of the European continent.

Holding high the banner of national self-determination, the United States and Britain were able to greatly reduce the territorial area of the defeated Austro-Hungarian Empire and the German Empire without spending much military power......

The poor Austrians were left with only one Vienna ......

Fortunately, the German Empire was condensed into a nation under Bismarck's iron and blood, coupled with the natural characteristics of using German, it was not divided badly after the First World War, I have to say that a unified language has a very important role in the cohesion of a country, if you can't even understand what is said, how can you talk about real national unity?

The seemingly huge Austro-Hungarian Empire is facing this kind of problem, and today, when the army is gradually institutionalized, the various armies of the Austro-Hungarian Empire still have the fatal problem of poor language communication!

The Czech Legion and the Hungarian Legion fought in tandem, requiring a large number of translators to join, and in the scene where the artillery was under fire and time was like life on the battlefield, it was necessary to hire a special interpreter to convey military orders, so you can imagine how chaotic the command system was during the war......

This kind of problem is not fatal if it is a small fight, but when Austria-Hungary is faced with a full-scale war, it needs to mobilize an army that can mobilize, and the lethality of this problem begins to expand indefinitely.

This is why, after the collapse of the main army of more than 200,000 Austrians, the Austro-Hungarian Empire had a large number of mobilized troops, but it was never able to establish an effective direction to block the Han army from penetrating deep into Vienna.

While chasing the main force of Austria-Hungary, the Han army preached the idea of national revolution in other regions, supporting Slovenes, Croats, Slovaks, Galicians, Hungarians, Banats, Transylvanians, Moravians, Istrians and other ethnic minorities in Austria-Hungary to establish their own self-government and break away from the control of Austria-Hungary!

Except for the Hungarians, who enjoyed the political status of Austria-Hungary second only to the Austrians, and had little interest in self-reliance, a large number of 'national heroes' emerged from other ethnic minorities.

This is the national independence supported by the Han people with unparalleled combat strength, and even the most uninformed peasants are well aware of the fact that Austria-Hungary cannot defeat the Han army!

Because the vanguard of the armored division of the Han army was about to rush to the city of Vienna.

Relying on a group of 'national heroes' to tear the Austro-Hungarian Empire apart is naturally not an overnight thing, although the Austro-Hungarian soldiers against the Han army have been defeated repeatedly, but even if it is just a group of defeated Austro-Hungarian troops who will be put together, it is quite easy to suppress a group of national autonomous troops......

The reason is simple, those minorities who aspire to independence do not have enough breech guns to arm themselves!

However, although these minorities could not rely on their own strength to become independent from the defeated Austro-Hungarian Empire, it became a fact that the Austro-Hungarian Empire was unable to mobilize new troops from these minority areas, which was enough for Lin Haoda!