Even Louis XIV was a little surprised when he saw the latest war report.

Louis XIV did not use his heavy weapons when deciding who to settle the rebellion, and even recalled the Viscount of Tyrrenne to oppose Versailles, a contemptuous attitude that was very different from the two Fronde rebellions he encountered as a teenager, but his enemies also had to admit that they had already shown signs of weakness when the king had won a great victory over the Ottoman Turks— Although the kings of Europa were always happy to attack each other, in fact, the centuries-old tradition of holy war is still firmly rooted in the hearts of the people, even the last emperor of Constantinople, Constantine XI, to this day some people would still believe that the angel turned him into a marble statue and buried him in an unknown place, and when the time appointed by God came, he would leap from the dirt, wield his sword, wear a purple robe, and lead the Christians to re-enter the Golden Gate and retake Constantinople - It was still a loser, but Louis XIV was a true winner.

If Louis XIV had been in a hurry and sighed, his enemies would have been proud, but it was a pity that Louis XIV did not take them seriously at all- Why do the kings of Europa always constantly set off a wave of rebellion in the new territories they have acquired, it has something to do with their stubborn princely mentality, the king is also a great prince, if it is only through inheritance and marriage, they may be more tolerant, but for the new territories obtained from war, they will always mistakenly continue to treat the people there as enemies, will you be warm and tolerant and benevolent to the enemy? Of course not, so they always treat new territories with endless exploitation and blackmail, and if anyone is dissatisfied, they will kill them.

But Louis XIV considered from the beginning that since he had bought Lorraine with a lot of money, and then conquered Flanders and Holland with all his might, he did not intend to give them a surname other than Bourbon in fifty or a hundred years, and he did not treat the unruly people as French, nor did he treat them as slaves, in fact, whether it was Flanders, the Netherlands, or Lorraine, as long as the people there were willing to accept Louis XIV's rule, even if it was three times the tax of the French, they had enough money in their hands to survive- Of course, if they still have any complaints, then Louis XIV will not force them to continue to be his people.

Judging from the secret letter sent by Lorraine Alsace before, the Count of Soissons was indeed as he promised the king to do things as usual, but he was also able to use ruthless means when necessary, and the line of numbers on the secret letter was his reward to the king— He was not as gifted as Viscount Tillenne or General Vaubourne, but he was indeed calm and reliable, but he probably did not expect that it was not himself, nor Louis Joseph de Bourbon, who had been in the army for several years and had a veteran grandfather, but Eugen Savoy the Younger.

It would have been a miracle of accident for this boy, who was no more than an adult boy, who seemed to have been born to be present on the battlefield, and if the plot in the village had been discovered by two young men, and had a little surprise, then he had confronted the mercenaries of Austria and Saxony, and it was a miracle of accident - the spies' return, since it was mostly learned from the captives and villagers, with a little distraction and exaggeration, then the reward of the Count of Soissons was with the usual straightforwardness of a soldier.

The Count of Soissons said that on that day when little Eugen led a ten-man patrol to a field outside the King's Town, he was attacked by a group of outcasts, who easily defeated and captured them, but one of the captives caught the attention of little Eugen, and he cursed in Austrian as he fell—because it had long been known that Austrians were buying, directing, and using the Lorraine-Alsatians to start a riot, so this sentence brought little Eugen back to the past— He was sitting on his mother's lap or Leopold I, and the slang-like swearing sounded familiar to him.

When they examined the man closely, they found that his hands and feet, facial skin and teeth did not look like they belonged to an outcast, but that he was an Austrian mercenary, and at first he was lying and pleading, trying to escape death by such clumsy means, perhaps because he saw that the leader of the patrol was a child.

Do you know how quickly Mr. Eugen Jr. obtained his confession? Count Soissons wrote in his letter that the Austrian would die in the manner of the Crimean Tatars of Kamniko.

Seeing this, Louis XIV couldn't help but smile, before the battle of Camnico, the crown prince Louis the little also unexpectedly encountered a group of exiles and Crimean Tatars who were investigating the military situation for the Ottomans, and they intended to attack the crown prince - Louis was not the kind of bloodthirsty and cruel person, but when he was in the midst of the beasts, he would be despised without blood, so at his behest, the Polish Tatars who had taken refuge in him used the method of Vlad III, the former Grand Duke of Wallachia, to stick the captives alive on the stake- It's like roasting a sheep, from the bottom to the top, through the whole body.

"But that will take a lot of time. Louis XIV muttered.

Eugen the Younger, of course, did not waste so much time—and if he did, there would not have been a great victory that followed, and he raised a sleeve musket, the wooden handle partially buried in the earth, and the bayonet was raised upwards, and sure enough, such a terrible torture that the Austrian did not hesitate to sell his companion - he had unfortunately been separated from his own party because he had been chased by a giant bear who had just awakened, and their party of 1,500 men was on its way to King's Town.

The former inhabitants of this place knew a road that the French did not know, but he could not tell where it was. Eugen the Younger fulfilled his promise and gave him a happy death, and Pegasus rewarded the Count of Soissons, who was not afraid to fight the Austrians, and the King's Town was said to be a town, but in fact a new city with walls and fortresses and fortifications, and it was almost impossible for fifteen hundred men to be defeated unless they were taken by surprise.

But little Eugen was not content to hold on, and though the Austrian did not know where the road was, he and Joseph searched the map for a while, and estimated that there might be three or four places known to the Lorraineans as secret passages—but the Count of Soissons did not allow them to leave the King's Town, for according to previous estimates the army should not be far from them, and if the expedition happened to collide with them, they might not have a chance of being captured.

But little Eugen had other ideas, the Sun King had always been kind to his soldiers, and the soldiers in the army had three days a week to eat meat, the other two days were eggs and milk, and one day and fasting day were fish, so that their eyes would not be like the civilians, and they could not see clearly at night— They inquired about the entourage of the Count of Soissons, the older squire had also fought for the Austrians, and in his recollections most of the Austrian mercenaries still had difficulty seeing at night, but they did not know whether it was a mere mercenary or a mixture of Austrian officers, and Leopold I had been following Louis XIV's example for some time to establish his own standing army, and he certainly did not skimp on his own officers.

Joseph consulted with Eugen the Younger (which was later asked by the Count of Soisson), and they felt that these people should be more mercenaries, after all, Louis XIV had only relieved Leopold I, and if the Austrians were caught by the French and doing such a despicable and shameless thing, Leopold I and the Roman Church as an intermediary would not look very good, not to mention the other allies could not help but mutter.

The Count of Soissons had only three daughters, and the youngest son was still in infancy, and he did not have much opportunity to deal with such a young man (and even if he had, he would never dare to disobey him), so he was negligent, and he rejected little Eugen and Joseph, and turned to do the pre-war arrangement work contentedly, who knows, as soon as his eyes were gone, the two older boys slipped out with a few attendants.

Perhaps fate had given them the grace of fate, and the two daring children had found a secret passage—or a secret passage—a narrow valley unknown to the French, and it looked like a torn shirt split, and from the exit to the other end, it looked like a giant date pit, and it was surprisingly close to Kingtown— Now it is necessary to consider whether the people of the neighboring villages know that it is too late to have this secret passage, and beyond the mouth of the valley is a slightly undulating dense forest, and beyond the dense forest is a wide, manicured flat land, on which there are low protective walls and bunkers, and behind them is the wall of King's Town.

Little Eugen was no longer bold at this time, but fearless, and he gave his horse to Joseph, and began to climb up with only his attendants, and in the deep blue night he climbed and fell like a lone goat through the crevices of the rocks, and several times he almost fell off the cliffs (all the frightened attendants said), and sometimes even the faint light disappeared, and they walked as if in a nightmare.

Fortunately they had reached a high place, from which a few fires could be seen, and the mercenary chieftain, who had been entrusted with the task by Leopold I, was not a mediocre man—not to forget that Marshal Schaumberg had also been an Austrian and mercenary chief—the chief had restricted his soldiers from lighting with torches and bonfires, keeping warm, and driving away wild beasts, and more than a thousand people sat and lay together with great discipline, with only the slight snoring and conversation, and little Eugen saw that there was a carriage in their ranks, and though he could not see the depth of the ruts, he also guessed— That's supposed to be artillery.

The walls of King's Town are made of concrete and heavy stone bricks, designed by General Vauban after all, but it is still an industrial town, not a true military fortress, and its walls may not be able to withstand artillery bombardment.

Eugen Jr. may have had an idea at this point, and when he and Joseph returned to King's Town, they were undoubtedly reprimanded by the Count of Soissons, and they were to be punished according to military law, but Eugen Jr. had an idea that frightened him.

That secret passage may have been the killer of the reluctant Lorraine, it was too close to the King's Town, but it was also too close for the French enemies to attack quickly, and the French could attack their enemies - the Count of Soissons, after a short but intense reflection, finally agreed to the suggestion of little Eugen.

Perhaps fate had given them the grace of fate, and the two daring children had found a secret passage—or a secret passage—a narrow valley unknown to the French, and it looked like a torn shirt split, and from the exit to the other end, it looked like a giant date pit, and it was surprisingly close to Kingtown— Now it is necessary to consider whether the people of the neighboring villages know that it is too late to have this secret passage, and beyond the mouth of the valley is a slightly undulating dense forest, and beyond the dense forest is a wide, manicured flat land, on which there are low protective walls and bunkers, and behind them is the wall of King's Town.

Little Eugen was no longer bold at this time, but fearless, and he gave his horse to Joseph, and began to climb up with only his attendants, and in the deep blue night he climbed and fell like a lone goat through the crevices of the rocks, and several times he almost fell off the cliffs (all the frightened attendants said), and sometimes even the faint light disappeared, and they walked as if in a nightmare.

Fortunately they had reached a high place, from which a few fires could be seen, and the mercenary chieftain, who had been entrusted with the task by Leopold I, was not a mediocre man—not to forget that Marshal Schaumberg had also been an Austrian and mercenary chief—the chief had restricted his soldiers from lighting with torches and bonfires, keeping warm, and driving away wild beasts, and more than a thousand people sat and lay together with great discipline, with only the slight snoring and conversation, and little Eugen saw that there was a carriage in their ranks, and though he could not see the depth of the ruts, he also guessed— That's supposed to be artillery.

The walls of King's Town are made of concrete and heavy stone bricks, designed by General Vauban after all, but it is still an industrial town, not a true military fortress, and its walls may not be able to withstand artillery bombardment.

Eugen Jr. may have had an idea at this point, and when he and Joseph returned to King's Town, they were undoubtedly reprimanded by the Count of Soissons, and they were to be punished according to military law, but Eugen Jr. had an idea that frightened him.

That secret passage may have been the killer of the reluctant Lorraine, it was too close to the King's Town, but it was also too close for the French enemies to attack quickly, and the French could attack their enemies - the Count of Soissons, after a short but intense reflection, finally agreed to the suggestion of little Eugen.