What Fang Xiaoyu didn't expect was that before the Cossack Empire and Russia fought, the Habsburg Kingdom first had a civil war.

Although the Kingdom of Habfsburg was one of the traditional powers of the Western Continent, its internal political situation was not stable, mainly because of its ethnic composition. Unlike the Chinese Empire and the Yaman Empire, the Habfsburg Kingdom was composed of three main ethnic groups: the Haranli, the Buviman and the Slo.

Therefore, at the time of the founding of the country, although the Halanli royal family formed a government, they also had a considerable degree of autonomy and freedom in the areas controlled by the Bouvimans, and they could even implement their own economic policies and plans, and have their own militias, so the Habfsburg Kingdom was actually a dual monarchy.

The Habfsburg Kingdom participated in the entire World War, and as a result, its domestic economy was also devastated. In order to recover the economy as soon as possible after the war, the Habfsburg royal family was a little anxious for quick success, not only squeezing the newly acquired colonies of the southern subcontinent, but also imposing heavy taxes on the country.

The royal family's intentions were to mobilize a large amount of money for industrial construction as soon as possible, so that the country could speed up the restoration of its pre-war economic prosperity. However, these measures of rushing for quick success have not yet seen results, and the people in the country have stopped doing it for the first time.

Originally, the broad masses of the people in China suffered a series of hardships such as food rationing and the death of their relatives on the battlefield during the World War, and after the war, they were not able to recuperate, but were taxed heavily.

The Bouvimen had a lot of autonomy over the areas under their control, including the right to set taxes, but they were very upset by the royal family's forced tax hike in violation of the agreement made at the time of the founding of the state. At a time when national contradictions were already like a continuing volcano that could erupt at any time, an unexpected incident became the trigger for the civil war in the Habfsburg Kingdom.

On September 4, 914, Gerry, an official tax collector of the Habfsburg Kingdom, drove his car to the city of Rodris to collect taxes, which had already been collected for the year, and this time he came to collect the new road tax, which had just been set by the royal family.

As the name suggests, the road tax means that people have to charge a fee for walking on the road, and this kind of tax is indeed a bit excessive. Originally, in the past few years, the royal family has thought of all tricks, what poll tax, bath tax, tailoring tax, haircut tax, and the most annoying thing is that even breathing has to be taxed for air, and now it is also taxed for walking, which really makes the majority of residents unbearable.

The imposition of this new tax finally aroused the anger of the local Buviman people, and after learning that the new tax had been added, a large number of Buviman residents gathered around Gerry and beat him violently, even the car was smashed into a pile of scrap metal, but fortunately, the person in charge at that time was calmer and did not beat anyone to death, and Gerry was able to save his life.

Even if there is no death, but the act of beating the tax officer is also a big disaster. This Gerry's brother-in-law is a high-ranking official in the court, and his sister only has such a younger brother, who is usually arrogant and arrogant, and even his position as a tax official was obtained by his brother-in-law.

Gerry's sister cried in front of her husband and told her what happened to Gerry. This high-ranking official was extremely fond of his wife, and when he learned that his brother-in-law had been beaten for collecting taxes, he was also quite angry. At the instigation of his wife, he immediately played right and wrong in the court, slandering the Bouweiman as a tax-resistant mob, hoping that the royal family would punish him severely.

When he heard that the tax collectors he had sent had been beaten and the collection of new taxes had been blocked, King Ferdinand III of the Habfsburg Kingdom was so angry that he did not ask where the tax resistance was, and directly ordered the army to be sent to suppress these tax resistance mobs.

If Ferdinand III had asked if it was the Bouviman who were fighting the taxes, he might have considered what to do, but the king, carried away by his anger, sent an army to exterminate the mob without asking about the situation. The Bouviman people have their own militia, especially in large cities like Rodrise City, where there are more than 10,000 militia and even have heavy weapons, which is one of the privileges that the Bouvimen people received when the country was founded.

When government forces surrounded the city of Rodris, the Bouviman militia in the city immediately organized themselves to dig trenches and build barricades. Soon a fierce clash broke out between the government army and the Buviman militia under the strict orders of the officers, and the people of the city were united in hatred, first annihilating the small number of government garrisons in the city, taking control of the arsenal and distributing a large number of weapons to the common people.

The city of Rodris is a city of the Bouvemen, who have no sense of identity with the Habfsburg Kingdom, and now that it is under attack by government troops, a large number of citizens naturally join the ranks of the militia, and the number of Buviman militia soon reached 80,000 in the case of the whole people resisting the government army. The militia was quite numerous and armed, and had strong barricades, and the government troops entering the city were unprepared, and in a short period of time they were shot and killed by the militia with the barricades, and the casualties rose rapidly but it was difficult to advance.

Ferdinand III gave a death order, asking the army to exterminate the mob within a month, and seeing the fierce resistance of the other side, the army commander was worried that he would not be able to complete the task, so he directly asked the air force for air support. Since the king had the will to exterminate the mob, the air force naturally joined the operation without saying a word, and hundreds of Kunpeng 2 bombers newly purchased from the Chinese Empire flew over the city of Rodris with full bombs, dropping tons of bombs into the city.

It is ironic that the new planes purchased by the Habfsburg Kingdom have not been used to defend the country, but have been used to suppress the domestic population. Under the joint attack of the government army and air force, the Buviman militia held out for ten days, and finally had to withdraw from the city due to the lack of air defense weapons and too many casualties, but the spark had been lit and could no longer be extinguished.

The fierce battle at Rodris City soon spread throughout the country, infuriating the Buvimen throughout the country. A large number of Buviman militias rebelled, took control of local arsenals to distribute weapons to local civilians, and attacked nearby government forces everywhere, and even the Slo, who had been oppressed, took advantage of the situation and joined forces with the Buvimen to fight against the government forces formed by the Harilans, and the two sides fought fiercely throughout the country.

As one of the three main member states of the Central Powers, the importance of the Habsburg Kingdom is self-evident, so the Yaman Empire and the Grand Duchy of Sardinia immediately declared to the allies that they were willing to support the government forces of the Habfsburg Kingdom, and at the same time sent special envoys to negotiate with them to send troops to help counter the rebellion.

Even his allies, Ferdinand III was wary, he was afraid that these countries would use this as a reason to meddle in their own internal affairs after helping to quell the rebellion, and the government army was more well-equipped, outnumbered and well-trained, and had the upper hand in all aspects, so he naturally rejected the kindness of several allies, but this situation gave hope to the Boston Empire.

Last time in the matter of the Moss Kingdom, the Boston Empire was put together by NATO and the Allies, and they have always held a grudge, and this time they have the opportunity to disintegrate the Allies from within, and they will naturally not let it go. As a result, the Boston Empire soon began to operate covertly, sending weapons and war supplies to the rebels through Russia, which bordered the Habfsburg Kingdom, and arming the rebel militias as much as possible.

These latest weapons of the Boston Empire were a relief to the rebels who lacked heavy weapons, and with these weapons, the rebels were emboldened, and they finally stabilized the front and entered a stalemate with the government army.

The civil war in the Habsburg Kingdom also gave hope to the Russians, who knew that this was a great opportunity for them to break out of their international isolation and gain allies, so the Russians not only imported a large number of equipment from the Boston Empire into the territory of the Habsburg Kingdom, but also sent more than 200,000 troops to join the resistance as volunteers. Armed and well-trained enough to have an army, the rebels began plotting to retake the Shar Fort, which had been occupied by government forces two months earlier.

The city of Schalburg is located in the middle of the Habfsburg Kingdom, with two railways and five roads passing through the city, and a large airport outside the city, which is a very important transportation hub, and it has always been one of the several major cities inhabited by the Bouviman people, and it is only more than a hundred kilometers away from the first occupied city of Rodres, so the strategic location is very important.

After the start of the civil war, it also became a very critical node on the front of the government army, so the government army also attached great importance to it, and there were five infantry divisions and one armored division here, in addition to eight air wings stationed in nearby bases, with a total strength of more than 100,000 troops.

In order to capture this important city, the rebels drew most of their elite troops, including eight infantry divisions and only two armored divisions, plus 100,000 Russian volunteers, and six wings of the air force and four wings of the Russian volunteers.

On 1 November, light snow fell in the sky, and despite the gloomy weather, the rebel air pilots forced their Kitty Hawk and B10 Martin bombers into the air towards the government airfield in Schar Fort. Since the Chinese Empire has always been a pioneer in innovation, countries are naturally vying to follow suit, and the new B10 Martin bomber produced by the Boston Empire is naturally no exception, it is a product after referring to the Kunpeng 2 bomber, although the performance is more deficient than the Kunpeng 2, but it is enough in the current situation.