Because Franz could not tell her that a hundred years after the fall of the Austrian Empire, the Tyrolean partisans were still seeking a chance to restore their country on Italian soil, and it was not until the nineties of the twentieth century that the Italians were completely wiped out.

The SS Skeleton Division soldiers of World War II locked themselves to their positions in a madness that made the Allies unbelievable.

However, decades ago, the Tyrolean border guards did the same thing. They locked themselves to the cliffs and stone walls until they died in battle.

During World War I, when facing the Italian army of 800,000, they chose to fight as fiercely as the Battle of Cheorwon.

The Tyrolean soldiers locked themselves to their positions in company and platoon, taking advantage of the terrain to hold off the elite Italian mountain divisions until they were all killed.

As one position after another was conquered, the number of border guards in Tyrol was constantly decreasing. There was only silence on the positions behind, and the soldiers could only watch their comrades die in battle.

And in the ensuing battle, accept his fate.

As the battle progressed, less and less time was left for the Italians, and eventually Austro-Hungarian reinforcements arrived, but the Tyrolean border guards were already less than a quarter of their original number.

In the hellish wars of the First World War, young people from the Tyrolean region were sent to the battlefield one after another. Most of them couldn't come back alive, and even some of the young people in the small town were all dead, so they had to send old people to battle.

According to the laws of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at that time, the Tyroleans had the right to refuse to participate in the war, because the battlefield of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was not in Tyrol. They could use this as a means of refusing the Empire's call-up, but in practice they did not exercise that right until the end of World War I.

(The duty of the Tyrolean Defence Forces is to guard Tyrol and belong to the local army.) ）

And in the year of the coming storm, there were only two regions of the entire Austrian Empire, and there were no major rebellions.

One of them is Tyrol and the other is Galicia.

Adjani is a Polish patriot who, although she is now working for Franz, will still be partial to her people.

When Adjani learned that Austria intended to build a railway to Krakow, she knew that the last vestiges of Polish dignity would be erased.

Adjani can't stop the tide of times, but she can make her compatriots a little better.

So it was natural to hope that Franz could be biased a little towards Galicia.

However, an important reason why Franz could not lean towards Galicia was because of Adjani's Polish compatriots.

It was the Polish aristocracy who held the land in this region, and they were the source of the turmoil in Galicia, the root of backwardness.

These aristocrats were all day long thinking about regaining the country, violating the laws of Austria, and rejecting the agrarian reform, so that the Galician lands were not only not fully developed, but were regressing year by year.

The reason is ridiculous, "slaves do not deserve the same food as their masters".

Galicia was agriculturally developed, and after the annexation of the region, the Austrians gave it considerable preferential treatment, one of which was a free mill.

In fact, this was also a means for the Austrian government to weaken the strength of the Polish aristocracy, after all, the serfs at that time could only send grain to the mill of the landlord, and the lords could harvest the property of the serfs a second time according to the situation of the year.

These free mills, which only served a small number of serfs, still dealt a heavy blow to the interests of the Polish aristocracy, and allowed the serfs to often eat the same food as the landlords.

Not only did the Polish aristocracy not treat the local Jews and Uruks (Ukrainians) as human beings, they did not even treat Polish commoners as human beings, so much so that it was the Polish commoners who were the most supportive of Austrian rule in Galicia.

According to a certain philosopher, "the nobles have everything, and the commoners have nothing, but worse than nothing is the life of serfs." ”

The serfs were also very supportive of Austria, but they did not have enough strength, and the commoners could provide the large number of serfs with weapons and intelligence, as well as legal support, to deal a severe blow to the Polish aristocratic rebellion.

Galicia was one of the few oil-producing areas in the Austrian Empire, but at this time the industrial use of oil was still very limited.

As for agriculture, as mentioned above, most of the land was in the hands of the Polish nobility, many of whom were not very friendly to the Austrian Empire and even refused to reform the agrarians.

The Habsburgs, known for their benevolence, were certainly not in a position to take direct and forceful measures. Franz is still looking for opportunities, and the construction of a railway to Krakow is indeed an opportunity, but it is not the best time.

Franz also tried the strategy of peaceful evolution, but the Polish nation was surprisingly united, preferring not to make money and not to follow the rhythm of Austria, which was surprisingly difficult to tame.

Franz didn't want to mess with corpses, at least he didn't want to do it himself.

Outside the port of Beirut, on the sea.

With the waves, broken boat planks and corpses were washed up on the beach. The bloody breath attracted countless fish to participate in this gluttonous feast.

On the "King", the musicians were still playing the "Nelson Mass".

William Simmons, on the other hand, walked impatiently up and down the deck of the warship, urging the soldiers.

"Hurry up guys! My grandfather's cannons are better than yours, and the girls of Beirut are still waiting for you. I want to eat those grilled meatballs skewered with olive branches in the evening, so don't waste my time! ”

At this time, the battleship "King" of the first rank was in the center of the Egyptian fleet.

However, as its name suggests, the six Egyptian warships around it slowly lowered their heads as if they were paying homage to the emperor.

Looking at the Egyptian warships that were on fire and sinking, the sailors on the "King" did not show a happy expression, but just took care of their own work.

The "King" rushed into the center of the Egyptian fleet, however any Egyptian ship that tried to get close to it was blown to pieces.

And those Egyptian warships that were far away from the "King" did not dare to shoot at them for fear of accidentally injuring friendly troops.

A brig gunboat crossed in front of the King, trying to stop it from continuing its rampage.

However, Simmons did not give the order for an emergency evasion, but ran headlong into the brig in front of him.

The three-hundred-ton brig, in front of the "King", was cut like butter and shattered into two in an instant.

As for the small gunboats and small sampans, they were blown to pieces before they could get close to the "King".

At the very moment when Simmons's flagship was slaughtering in the ranks of the Egyptian Navy, the remaining British warships lined up.

And the commander-in-chief of the Egyptian navy, Aparic Pasha, was surprised to find through the telescope that the British did not intend to support their flagship, but intended to surround and annihilate it with less than half the strength of the Egyptian navy.

Loving Parich Pasha threw the telescope to the ground and smashed it to pieces, he vowed to teach the British a lesson that they would never forget.

The reality, however, is that those Brits do have the right to be proud.

The British warships were far stronger than the Egyptian Navy in terms of rate of fire and protection, and the quality of personnel was even more different. The sailors of the Egyptian Navy, many of whom were farmers half a year ago, or the Army, became sailors for only one reason, and that was that they did not get seasick.

And the sailors of this British fleet are a group of out-and-out veterans, many of whom have been apprentices on ships since the age of twelve or thirteen, and have been sailors all their lives, even when they are drunk, they can walk on the bumpy deck.

The most terrifying thing is the technological generation gap between the two sides, the British army has used the latest high-explosive shells, which are also known as ship killers by later generations, and it can even be said that it is the appearance of this kind of shells that ended the era of wooden sails.

However, the Egyptian navy was always waiting for reinforcements, but the French navy did not arrive as promised.

The battle ended with the Mass of the Emperor of the Sea, and the British navy won a resounding victory, with 127 killed and 503 wounded.

Of the 25 capital ships of the Egyptian Navy, 15 were sunk, 10 were captured, and 4,700 people were killed.

(End of chapter)