369 Austria's Last Struggle
The annihilation of the German autonomiscent led by the Bavarian royal family and the destruction of the main force of 100,000 allied troops of the Italian Peninsula countries in the name of mercenaries greatly shook the anti-Han alliance.
Because it exposes the great problem of combat effectiveness in the anti-Han alliance!
The French, the Spanish Habsburgs, and even small states such as Switzerland, abandoned the idea that they would have an absolute advantage in numbers and would be able to win.
In fact, the performance of the coalition forces of the Italian peninsula is really bad!
They inflicted even more casualties on the Taiping than the Bavarian royal family gathered at the end.
Of course, this is also understandable, the main soldiers of the coalition forces of the Italian Peninsula countries mainly come from the conscription militia, mercenaries and ordinary city defense troops, the merchants of the Italian Peninsula countries, completely brandished gold coin recruited army, many soldiers are not so much to fight, but to make extra money...
The combat effectiveness of this kind of troops can be imagined, after all, among the countries of the Italian Peninsula, there are only so many troops such as the Royal Guards that can really fight, and those are the capital of the small countries on the Italian Peninsula, and naturally they will not be easily sent to foreign countries to fight, not to mention, the countries of the Italian Peninsula generally have an exaggerated atmosphere, and after the strength of the army has become an important factor in judging the standard of military combat effectiveness in this era, the rich countries of the Italian Peninsula naturally desperately recruit troops.
Then, the 100,000 army with quite moisture was formed, and as a result, after the First World War, the prototype was revealed, and the continent was shocked!
The Bavarian royal family was killed by this 'reliable' friendly army......
In addition to the dead Bavarian royal family, another miserable one was the Habsburg dynasty of the Kingdom of Austria, Leopold I, who, after hearing of the 'glorious victory' of the 100,000-strong army, shut himself in his bedroom for a whole day and a night without seeing anyone, and when he came back again, his face was haggard as if he had changed into a different person.
If it had been possible, Leopold I would have liked to have died of 'old age' in time, so that he would not have to worry about this mess!
The fiasco of the 100,000 allied forces of the Italian Peninsula made the anti-Han alliance have to urgently stop the offensive plan, condemn and 'rectify' the allies of the Italian Peninsula, and Louis XIV of France will not allow such an army of pit allies to set foot on the battlefield!
However, the condemnation of the countries of the Italian peninsula soon dissipated under the gold coin offensive of the merchants of the Italian peninsula, and whether it was Louis XIV of France or the Habsburgs of Spain, it suddenly became clear that it was a good thing to have the support of the countries of the Italian peninsula.
At least, the number of naval ships of the countries of the Italian peninsula is quite large......
This is propaganda for the domestic population, in fact, the French and the Spanish Habsburgs mainly value the developed commercial and trade systems and production capabilities of the countries of the Italian peninsula!
In particular, for the imitation and mass production of flowering bombs, the output of the countries of the Italian peninsula even exceeds that of the Kingdom of France, the boss of the European continent!
Even Louis XIV praised the small developed countries of the Italian Peninsula in public, claiming that 'the ability of Italian artificial artillery is still very good', but after Louis XIV's words spread in the upper class of the European continent, those nobles who secretly ridiculed the combat effectiveness of the Italian Peninsula added the second half of the sentence more than once: "Unfortunately, the Italians are not very good at fighting artillery".
Compared with the internal environment of the anti-Han alliance, which once again restored 'harmony', the Kingdom of Austria was completely reduced to an outcast, and the anti-Han alliance led by the Kingdom of France did nothing, and the anti-Han alliance led by the Kingdom of France sent small forces to carry out local attacks on the Taiping army in the countries bordering the German Federation.
Trying to delay the energy of the Taiping army.
Leopold I of the Kingdom of Austria did not try to surrender to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom again this time, because he knew that after a betrayal, and then surrender again, the Kingdom of Austria would still not have the final say, or it would be another matter.
Leopold I, a rare 'man', publicly held a one-day 'Patriotic Declaration of the War of Resistance' in Vienna, listing the 100 and 8 pieces of evidence against the European people of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and then issued a propaganda on the whole people to resist the invasion of the Han people in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and called on the Czechoslovak and Hungarian nations under the control of Hong Tiancheng and other small ethnic groups to take up arms and resist the tyranny of the Han people!
To tell the truth, Leopold I's preaching was really well prepared, and more than two-thirds of the 100 and 8 pieces of incriminating evidence were real, and they were not embellished with any political rhetoric!
It is a pity that Leopold I's preaching only played a role in the Kingdom of Austria, which, under the leadership of the nobility, reluctantly regathered a group of patriotic troops, this time loyal first to the Kingdom of Austria and then to Leopold I personally.
Of course, for the current Leopold I, it makes no difference......
In order to reorganize his forces, Leopold I had already ceded a lot of political interests, including even compromising with the burghers of Vienna!
Before the Habsburgs, the oppression of the people was not clear at all......
The series of political changes that took place in the Kingdom of Austria once again confirmed the truth that the greatest cause of the fall of the empire was always external wars, and that the people's uprising was only the final blow to the empire.
Just like the end of the Tsarist system during the First World War, without the attrition of the First World War, the Tsar's rule would no longer be popular, and it would not have been possible for the working class led by a group of exiled scholars to pry in.
Leopold I's last fight was not just shouting slogans, he took the newly recruited troops, took advantage of the Taiping army had just lost its strength to destroy the German autonomy led by the Bavarian royal family, and the main force of the Taiping army led by Hong Tiancheng had not yet arrived, and launched an offensive to the south.
Leopold I had to open the passage with Venice and connect with the territory of the anti-Han alliance, otherwise the Kingdom of Austria would be like a meat dish wrapped in Hong Tiancheng's sphere of influence, and it would be a matter of time to eat it.
By opening up land communications, Leopold I could get a large amount of military aid from the anti-Han alliance, and even tens of thousands of 'mercenaries', anyway, the anti-Han alliance had troops, and it was still possible to support Leopold I to hold on.
Naturally, Hong Tiancheng would never allow Leopold I to open the way.
Therefore, just after the battle, the two regular troops of the Taiping army, armed with flintlock muskets, stopped in front of Leopold I, and the Hungarian Taiping army launched an attack on Vienna in an attempt to destroy the rule of the Austrian Habsburgs!