Don't look at the Duke of Savoy who looks unbearable, he has been silently enduring all these years. However, 15,000 of the 25,000 troops of the Kingdom of Sardinia were his direct troops. After all, the Duchy of Savoy is the core of the entire Kingdom of Sardinia, and it is the richest place in the entire kingdom, of course, this may be the main reason why he is jealous of his brother!

But if it weren't for the fact that he was the Duke of Savoy and held half the strength of the country, enough to compete with his brother, he would definitely not have encountered just verbal humiliation and ridicule, but a steel knife around his neck!

In fact, helpfulness and generosity are his heaven (xìng), so although the entire aristocratic class treats the Duke as a fool and an idiot, no (qíng) sarcastically mocks him. He has the support of the people as always, after all, the common people don't care if you are handsome or not, they only care if you let them eat their stomachs and live a happy life.

Moreover, the discrimination and ridicule that the Duke of Savoy received from the nobility made his image elevated in the eyes of the commoners, as if he were a hero among the nobility who defended the rights of the people, and that the people shared him, admired him, and wore him. So, in fact, it's not that this Duke of Savoy doesn't have the strength to resist his brother, it's just that he doesn't want to!

Even the palace guards had an inner line that he had inserted, and with the use of his fame to incite the populace, the French easily stormed the city of Turin, not as a despised invader, but as an ally and liberator (shēn).

The inhabitants of Turin, who had just feared the French army like tigers, actually welcomed the group of enemies who had just bombed them. It can only be said that the battlefield is really changing rapidly! Of course, they may have just welcomed their new King, the hero who single-handedly ended the war and defended the city of Turin, His Majesty King Julio Savoy, and the French were merely foils!

In this way, the supreme power of the Kingdom of Sardinia "peacefully" passed into the hands of the Duke of Savoy, and his royal brother chose to abdicate because of his "advanced age and (shēn) weakness", because he did not give birth to offspring (which is also the reason why the Duke of Sardinia had the opportunity to cultivate his power, he was not only rich, but also the current first in line to the throne), so as the first in line to the throne, the Duke of Savoy was successfully promoted to the king of Sardinia.

When the 25,000 army of the Kingdom of Sardinia finally hurried back to Turin the next day, they were waiting for news that the sky had changed, but now the situation was decided, and more than half of them were King Giulio's men. The remaining 10,000 people can only pinch their noses and obediently accept their fate! After all, King Julio's succession to the throne was superficially flawless.

Napoleon thus got everything he wanted! And successfully disintegrated the coalition of the anti-French alliance, and the original number of more than 60,000 coalition troops directly lost 25,000 troops due to the change of course of the Kingdom of Sardinia! On the contrary, with the addition of the Kingdom of Sardinia on the French side, it instantly rose to 30,000 people. Under the advantages of the other, the French army finally had the capital to fight the Austrian army!

Therefore, "The Art of War" says, "The first army is to attack and strategize, the second is to attack the enemy, the next is to attack the heart, and the last is to attack the city." "Napoleon's simple diplomatic move succeeded in striking a blow at the arrogance of the Italian regional anti-French alliance, and the brilliant results of this war without gunpowder were unattainable in an epic war! That's the greatness of diplomatic strategy!

With the accession of the Kingdom of Sardinia, the Italian theater of operations was in great shape, and Napoleon drove towards Milan with food supplies sponsored by King Julio, as well as 100 cannons, 5,000 horses, and 20,000 soldiers, totaling 30,000 dàng.

This time, King Giulio put all his chips on Napoleon! After all, if France were to lose in the Italian theater, the Kingdom of Sardinia would bear the brunt of the Austrian advance. So he took out almost all his old capital, leaving only a mere 5,000 men to defend Turin and suppress a possible rebellion.

Today, the great Milan, one of the most famous cities in Renaissance Italy and the city of modern fashion, is about to prostrate at the feet of Napoleon. Funnily enough, this is not the first time that Milan's walls have been destroyed by French cannons!

As early as about 300 years ago, Charles VIII, the ambitious French king who tried to incorporate Naples into the French territory (in fact, he didn't know much, Naples is located in southern Italy, 108,000 miles away from France, and it is also an enclave), he once led the French army and bombarded Milan with artillery·········

But the Sforza family doesn't need to accept his destruction anymore! Because the Sforza family had finished playing, the great Habstamburg had now succeeded in bringing Milan into their hands using their "shēn" politics. However, although the Duke of Milan was a member of the Habstamburg family, due to the separation of the Habstamburg family, he was relatively estranged from Austria, and the two sides were not subordinate relations, but only loose alliances linked by blood ties.

The story also originates in the late 15th century (1490), when King Charles I of Spain was a member of the House of Habstanburg. Later, his grandfather - Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I hung up! So he succeeded in inheriting the Holy Roman Empire and became Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire!

Confused? How did Charles I become Charles V? It's actually quite simple, in Spain he was the first king named Charles, so he was Charles I! In the Holy Roman Empire, he is not the only one, there have been four guys named Charlie before, so for the sake of difference, he can only be called "the fifth Charlie"! For example, Louis XVI was France, where there were fifteen kings named Louis before it. (How the French love the name Louie!) ）

What does this mean?

This means that the most powerful monarch of the unprecedented flow of marriages in the history of Europe was born! At that time, Spain was in its heyday, controlling large swaths of the Americas, and the wealth of its colonies was flowing into its treasury. And the Holy Roman Empire is the largest feudal power in Europe, and in this wave, he has directly become a veritable European hegemon, even Britain and France may not have done it together!

It can be said that this Charles I is simply the chosen son! If you play well, he can rule the whole of Europe directly! It is worth mentioning that he was at the same time as the divorce madman Henry VIII, whose first wife, Catherine of Aragon, was his aunt, so Henry VIII was his uncle.

He certainly lived up to his high starting point, pacifying France during his reign and capturing François I alive (the knight king, the same buddy who wrestled with Henry VIII and tripped him over)! And with the detention of his two sons, it can be said that he succeeded in pushing the Habstamburg dynasty to the real peak!

Unfortunately, in his later years he made a foolish decision that destroyed the Habsburgs' hopes of unifying Europe - he gave the Spanish throne to his son Philip II, and the Holy Roman Empire to his brother Ferdinand. Thus, the great Habsburgs, at their peak, went downhill because of this stupid decision.

This means that the Habsburgs split up after him! In the end, the last Habsburg King of Spain is the Spanish god king at the beginning of "Imperial Total War", who can be called the "inner demon" Carlos II, who is said to have been plagued by various genetic diseases since he was a child, and he does not look like a normal person at all, and the most terrifying thing is that he once dug up the body of his deceased wife (rè). (Vomit, if it is not (ài) deep, hateful, it is not light!) ）

In the ensuing War of the Spanish Succession, Louis XIV, the "Sun King" of France, successfully put his son on the throne of Spain, and the rule of the Habstamburg family in Spain was "GameOver"!

This is also the main reason why the Duke of Milan and the Austrian Habstamburg family are not close, with the separation of the Habstanburg family, (shēn) is the son of Charles I, Philip II simply looks down on his uncle, and he thinks that he deserves to inherit both Spain and the Holy Roman Empire! Of course he doesn't show any respect for his uncle Ferdinand!

It is worth mentioning that this genius once married the sister of Elizabeth I of England "Bloody Mary", if he hadn't run away from marriage because he disliked Mary for being too ugly, he would probably have brought Britain into his own hands! In that way, he can dominate the seas, and maybe he can cover the whole of America! Later, he tried to propose to Elizabeth I, his sister-in-law········ (What a joke!) Just endure it, so that the Armada doesn't have to be destroyed! ）

Obviously, the Duke of Milan knew very well that in the troubled times, the most important thing was his military strength, so he protected himself closely, Milan has a strong, thick fortress fortifications, and tens of thousands of troops are stationed in it.

It's a pity that if Napoleon had had the opportunity to say one thing to him, it would be "Brother, times have changed!" "That's right, times have changed, the fortifications are no longer popular, and what is the difference between the towering walls and the castles built of sand by the sea by the naughty boys, ravaged by artillery?

The fortifications that defended Milan were a type of early star fortress, with a four-cornered diamond shape and cannons arranged on all four walls, making it look heavily guarded and impeccable.

It's a pity that his enemy is a mathematician! Napoleon's way of dealing with him was to place artillery positions at the opposite corner, which led to the fact that the artillery in Milan could not threaten the French artillery positions at all, and completely fell into a miserable situation of passive beating. Destroyed by Napoleon's hundreds of cannons, the fortress did not manage to hold out for hours.

By noon, several gaps had crumbled into the fortress's otherwise smooth exterior walls, and smoke was billowing everywhere, not to mention how heartwarming the Milanese army was in it!

Faced with this grim situation, the Duke of Milan chose to flee! Went to Austria to join his relatives in Habstamburg! After all, "the territory is precious, and the price of life is higher", and sooner or later you can still fight back with the help of the Austrian army!

Napoleon himself came to Milan under the white flag, "Soldiers stationed in Milan! I am not your enemy, I am here to save you! That shameless Duke of Milan, the slave master who enslaved you has escaped! Are you going to stay here and guard the family business for that coward? I am your friend, a messenger of the revolution, a liberator who breaks the shackles! No one is born to be enslaved, have you heard the news of the French Revolution? We have defeated the kings, overthrown their dark reigns, and slain the vampires who oppressed us! You are free, open the door! Join me, I bring you nothing but gifts and peace! ”

Napoleon spoke in Italian, he was an Italian, and these Milanese people sounded cordial, and they were already in a hurry, and they were most worried about whether the French army was cheating. When they saw that the commander of the French army was actually Italian, they immediately let down their guard and cheered for the continuation of life and the arrival of peace.

This was the first time that Napoleon showed astonishing courage and impressed his enemies with a short but gripping speech, and when the next hundred (rì) dynasties were restored, Napoleon would also rely on his charisma to impress tens of thousands of troops with a mere hundreds. For no other reason, because he is the living classical hero, the successor of Caesar and Alexander the Great, the "eccentric" from that distant heroic age!