Rudolph, as a commissioner in the General Staff, was transferred to the XVII Regiment in Crain. The regiment was stationed in Klagenfurt and was a force of Slovaks. Rudolph's task was to lead this force, along with other units loyal to the royal family, and to keep an eye on the Hungarian troops stationed in the southwest. Orders have been issued from the War Department and the General Staff to have access to the rebels' armed forces if necessary.

Klagenfurt was the capital of Carinthia, and Rudolf's father, Otto, was the Duke of Carinthia. In this political conflict, the Duke took a firm stand, openly declaring that "I will not forget that I am an Austrian because I have married a Hungarian wife." ”

The Hungarians' supremacy was already in jeopardy, and they searched the world for allies, but after losing the support of the Germans, the old emperor also collapsed on the sickbed of Hofburg. They are arrogant and arrogant on weekdays, but now they do not have a strong supporter.

Hungary was in an embattled situation, they did not want to accept these conditions, which seemed to them harsh, and they did not have the strength to fight.

This agricultural region has always been based on the ancient relations of production of the Middle Ages, where the rulers only squeeze surplus value. There is no innovation, no pioneering, only the decay of the past.

The Hungarian aristocracy will only blindly collect money, they are rich, they are extremely stingy.

At this time, these imperial moths were helpless, and they were surprised to find that they had nothing to do but be captured. Most of them are sober, they know that they are rebels, and that even their so-called compatriots will not fight for the privileges of these rulers. Rudolph felt that the reform was moderate enough. The only thing that hurt the feelings of the Hungarians during the reform was the stripping of the Slavs from the Hungarian Crown of St. Stephen. At the same time, Austria also granted rights to the bohemians in its territory, which, in all fairness, was entirely fair. The position of the Austrians and Hungarians has never been so weakened as it is today. Rudolph was about to be moved by the crown prince's righteous annihilation, if it weren't for Ferdinand being the descendant of the family, Rudolph felt that this was completely an international person, a national liberator. There should be no reason for such a reform to be in conflict, Rudolph thought.

The reality often produced many unthinkables, very different from what Rudolph had in mind, and rebellions broke out throughout the empire.

In such a traditional monarchy, rebellion is a rebellion against the ruler and is intolerable to all. But there are always arrogant people who want to challenge the authority and dignity of the Habsburgs.

A rebellion broke out in Hungary, led by some radical nationalists, and some Hungarian troops launched an independence movement, while other Hungarian troops were either captured or coerced into joining the suicidal movement. The Hungarians really overestimate their own abilities, these hot-blooded young people have no regard for reality, not to mention that Hungary is already weak, and half of the Hungarian local defense forces have been guarded and monitored in other areas. The remaining 40,000 people are not monolithic, Rudolph believes that there are not a few Hungarians loyal to the royal family, and as for those Slavic troops, it can be regarded as God forbid if they do not immediately defect on the battlefield.

But even so, the army has quickly entered a state of war. It was the consensus of all, even the scheming Hungarian aristocracy, to put down the civil strife quickly, and the fear was whether the war would cause damage to their estates and how they could use the young men for greater gain, as they had done in 1866.

The rabble of the Hungarians had sailed to the border, and the men they were defending were merely watching the Austrian jokes while awaiting the demise of the rebels.

War inevitably broke out.

Archduke Ferdinand took over as Inspector General of the Armed Forces, and he gradually usurped the old emperor's last remaining power. He and Conrad planned to gradually remove the commanders of the sixteen armies, pull out the old forces, and replace them with their own people.

The city of Shopron on the Hungarian border was heavily armed, and the imperial army was massed on the west bank of the Leta River, and a decisive battle was imminent. Although the Hungarian rebels were desperate and determined, they also understood that if they lost this crucial first battle, the army would collapse immediately.

The General Staff also came up with the preparation of the lion and the rabbit, if it did not immediately defeat these rebels, they would fall into the quagmire of civil war. Perhaps the Russians, under pressure, did not dare to fish in the troubled waters of the Balkans, but no one will forget that their "ally" Italy, has been snooping on the provinces of South Tyrol for a long time.

The two seemingly inseparable allies had been bitter since the Italian War of Independence, and later in 1866, whether it was the outnumbering of the Archduke Albrecht at the Battle of Custoza or the hasty retreat at the Battle of Lisa, they left Italy with deep humiliation. The heart is higher than the sky, the life is thinner than paper, and many fiascos have not woken them up, perhaps in the hearts of Italy, they are still the invincible Roman legions.

The general mobilization of Austria-Hungary had begun, and Rudolph was ordered to take the post of acting commander of the 23 Infantry Regiment. It was a mixed national defense corps, half of which was Hungarian, and the other two battalions, one Austrian and one Slovenian.

Rudolph's task was to assemble the two battalions as the second batch of troops and go to the front.

The forces in the Reich were already in full swing, and the General Staff planned to assemble 45 of the 62 Austrian regiments of the Wehrmacht, as well as 12 regiments of the Local Defence Forces, totaling 150,000 men, to launch an operation against Hungary.

Their opponents were mainly the Hungarian Local Defense Army, a dozen brigades, plus two hussar divisions. There were less than 80,000 men at full capacity, and excluding the Slavic troops, who had no fighting spirit, there were only more than 40,000 real combatable soldiers.

Rudolph, after retraining his two battalions, left behind the bronze artillery attached to them, and got on the train to the front. In order to better cope with this decisive battle, Rudolph collected the heavy machine guns of the whole regiment, but it was only nine, which was only enough for eight infantry companies and 1,200 people.

The nearly one-day journey was a leisurely ride for Rudolph, sitting in the comfort of an officer's car and enjoying the pleasant scenery along the way, but for the soldiers, the day was dark. A platoon of forty people crammed into a closed carriage, with their rucksacks and Manlicia rifles, only half of them were able to have a place to sit, the spacious tempered glass was a luxury, and there were only a few narrow vents in this stuffy tanker. The cloudy air, the dim sunlight, the tired legs, made up the journey of these soldiers.