Chapter 147: Gunshots in the Apennines

The invention of the uranium-lead decay geological dating method made Downing's reputation in Europe echo in hundreds of millions of years of time and space, and the invention of the airship made his reputation reach the sky. In Luxembourg, Lombardy, India, Malaya and other countries directly under the jurisdiction of Downing, the people are full of confidence in the future, and in the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Bavaria, Sweden, Japan and other countries that have good relations with the Windsor consortium, the people are also full of hope.

Downing's prestige was so great that when the Kingdom of Naples in Italy was attacked by Garibaldi's expeditionary force, he thought of him, allowing him to intervene once again in the war of Italian unification.

This year, General Garibaldi was 52 years old and married a noble girl from Lombardy, who was 18 years old, which was really the envy of everyone. Just when Garibaldi was like Zhou Gongjin, "Little Qiao got married for the first time, and he was heroic", that is, as soon as the wedding ended, this "Little Qiao" told her husband: "Dear, actually...... I already have someone else's child in my belly. ”

The grief-filled old general left "Little Joe" on the same day and joined the crusade of the Italian states without hesitation and with all his might. His expeditionary force consisted of only a thousand men and traveled thousands of miles to Sicily. The rulers here were the Bourbons, known as the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, with Naples as its capital. The Two Sicilies were a fairly large kingdom, half the size of all of Italy and larger than Sardinia, but the industry was not as developed as Sardinia.

Francesco II of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, destined to be the last monarch, was a prince who had been neglected from an early age, receiving only a strict moral and religious education, lacking the necessary political and military education. He was gentle, kind, and weak, and feared his stepmother, Queen Maria Theresia Isabella, and was influenced by it in everything. The clergy, courtiers, and court opposition also had a great influence on him.

As soon as the monarch fails, the subjects of a kingdom can't, and many soldiers have already been bought, and Garibaldi's 1,000 volunteers swept across Sicily. Garibaldi's decisive victory in Sicily turned out to be a battle similar to the Cold Weapon Age, in which he led 800 volunteers against an enemy army of 1,500 on Mount Calatafimi. At that time, his army charged the hill with bayonets, because he saw that the hill on which the enemy was located was in the form of ladders, and the platforms of these ladders would protect the advancing warriors.

After the seizure of Sicily, Garibaldi became a dictator and enjoyed great prestige in the Apennine Peninsula, and members of the foreign states of Italy wanted to see him continue to triumph and unify the entire Apennine Peninsula.

Francesco II made a last-ditch effort to prepare for the promulgation of the constitution, which brought only chaos in Naples and the dismissal of several cabinet ministers. Garibaldi had crossed the Strait of Messina and continued his march north, and suspicion, confusion, and panic even dominated the court of Naples.

Under these circumstances, Francesco II, in order to protect part of his interests, appealed to Lombardy for help, and was willing to form a federation between the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and Lombardy. The damned capitalists had come to thwart the reunification of the motherland again, and an enraged Garibaldi refused to negotiate a bargain from Lombardy, even though he and Mazzini were fellow countrymen and had been good friends. In his view, Downing was simply trying to permanently divide the foreign powers in Italy, while Mazzini had already betrayed his homeland.

Garibal gathered his supporters on the first side, and by the time of the decisive battle of Voltuno, he had an army of 24,000 against the decaying and backward Neapolitan army of 25,000. However, when the Neapolitan army, which had been generally ineffective, heard the news that the king would abdicate and the two Sicilies would form a federation with Lombardy, they had hope for the future, and Garibaldi's army blocked the news and did not let the soldiers waver in their morale.

Garibaldi's army alone would have been difficult to defeat the Neapolitan army, and the intervention of the Sardinian army would have been the decisive force in the war, if Lombardy had not participated.

In order to avoid the disgust of the Italians, the international forces of Lombard did not directly participate, Mazzini personally ordered an army composed entirely of Lombards, forming Mazzini's thousand-man regiment, which was just trained and equipped with FN-1855 army, and what was even more distinctive was that this thousand-man regiment already had all military smart transportation with tow compartments, and if it could not win, it would run and the enemy could not catch up.

Knowing that the enemy was well armed, Cavour placed 30,000 troops on the defensive, holding back the Lombard army so that the other 20,000 troops could reinforce Garibaldi.

Sardinia's army was highly wire-based with rudimentary encryption, and Downing's team quickly cracked the trick of reversing the letters, and the world's first information war took place, with the telegraph king victorious, of course. Downing specialized in some mechanical computers for cracking this kind of encryption, and usually collected a large number of Italian telegraph samples, as long as some representative character characteristics were extracted, the encryption of the Sardinian army could not be hidden.

Even if there are 1,000 against 30,000, Tangning did not take the opponent in his eyes, just like when Luxembourg played against Prussia, everyone thought that Prussia had an absolute advantage, but in fact, the intelligence system was in Downing's hands, he could cut off the enemy's radio communications, and he could also eavesdrop on the other party's intelligence as he is now. Every move of the army of Sardinia is under the control of the Lombard army, which can be attacked and defended, advanced or retreated, and has military vehicles to travel, which is equivalent to the highest level boasted by Sun Tzu's Art of War.

Analyzing the weapons and tactics again, since the enemy still uses the traditional style of firing in five queues in turn, the firepower of each time does not exceed 6,000 people, and the range, accuracy, and rate of fire of the FN-1855 are superior to the opponent, and the Lombard army can really fight the opponent head-on.

When Sun Wu wrote the art of war, he never expected that there were really things in this world that moved above the nine heavens, and in order to overwhelm the opponent with absolutely accurate intelligence, the Moby Dick airship entered the war.

The beluga whale was at a height of two thousand meters when approaching the enemy camp, and the combination of the airship's hydrogenated fuel cells made the vehicle so quiet that it would not have been noticeable if the enemy had not deliberately looked up. There were three airships involved in the reconnaissance, and due to their high reliability, the attendance rate was 100%, and the troops were divided into three ways to completely see the disposition of the Sardinian army, and marked them with a military-grade radiolocation system with an accuracy of one kilometer.

A generation of Count Jegafour, even if he had seen the fantastic equipment of the Swiss precision instrument factory, still could not dream of what kind of enemy he would face.

Due to Prime Minister Cavour's warning, the front-line generals have been quite cautious, first sending an army of 5,000 people as the vanguard to test the strength of the other party. Milan, the capital of Lombardy, and Turin, the capital of Sardinia, are just over 100 kilometers apart, and the two sides soon met at Novara.

The Lombards, who were mainly Germans, were not ambiguous in the start of the battle, and according to the military training, they quickly found their own hiding places, and when the commander gave the order, they opened fire on the array of the Sardinian army from a distance of 200 meters.

The Sardinian army was neatly arranged, exactly the same target that the Lombard army used in its usual training, and the recruits were still wondering, could this be a war? Isn't it too simple, if that's the case, the Lombard soldiers are eager to fight every day, with allowances, with medals.

Under the incessant roar of FN-1855 gunfire, the array of the Sardinian army fell in rows, like a skilled farmer cutting wheat with a sharp scythe, imagine the scythe of a European peasant. （http：／／.）。

The Sardinian army collapsed before it had time to fire a single shot, because their officers were killed at the beginning, and the officers were attrition faster than they could change commanders, and the 5,000 pioneers cried wolf, leaving behind more than a thousand dead and wounded comrades, and fled back.

Most of these deserters did not return to the barracks because they felt that the enemy was too terrible to fight again, and that it was better to die or die in another battle, while the hundreds of Sardinian soldiers who returned to the barracks tearfully complained about the horror stories of the Lombard army. What "their soldiers don't need to load bullets", "the speed of shooting is shot after shot, and the muzzle of the gun does not smoke", "hide in a hidden place and put a cold gun, you don't even know who killed you".

Having broken through the defenses of Novara, the Lombards excitedly took Turin, while the Sardinian army concentrated its forces in full force, and the troops sent to reinforce Garibaldi immediately turned around and returned to defend the capital. The decision of the Satinian army was extremely correct, because after this battle, Mazzini had already decided to attack with heavy troops, simply defeat Turin, and unify Italy in one fell swoop.

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