On the question of the Italian nationalists, Marshal Radetzky gave the advice that "it is better to ask directly." ”

Although it may sound a little unbelievable, it is still quite efficient.

The Italian soldiers generally said that they were not familiar with the northern Italians, and as for the southern Italians, they were simply bitter enemies.

Of course they prefer to say that those are Sardians, Lombards, Venetians, Luccas, Parma, Modena, Tuscany, Romans (Papal States), Neapolitans, Sicilians.

It seems that the propaganda of the Austrian Empire over the years has not been in vain, but in fact the army is mostly poor people who are not accepted by the local society, and they naturally have little affection for those who abandon them.

All Franz needed was to keep them victorious and have money to buy and drink after the victory.

Relatively speaking, the Illyrians and Hungarians in Italy are a problem, not because they are deeply influenced by Greater Hungarianism, but because these people have long been accustomed to taking money to do things, and have a very weak concept of the state and the nation.

(Illyrian is a general term for Slovenes, Serbs, Croats, and Montenegrins in the Austrian Empire.) ）

The garrison in the Italian region, only half of which were Italians, and the remaining half were made up of Germans, Illyrians, Hungarians, and Czechs.

This is also a characteristic of the Austrian Empire, which has the advantage of preventing a certain people from becoming bigger, and is powerless to prevent it in the event of a rebellion.

However, the disadvantage is that there are many mountains within the army, and the ethnic composition is complex, and it is difficult to unify command.

For a junior officer to effectively command his team, he needs to learn at least three foreign languages and spend a lot of time communicating.

Not to mention the problem of training, sticks and whips are extremely useful compared to verbal communication.

The "Twenty Words of the Battlefield Must Meeting" has been promoted for nine years, in fact, during the Napoleonic Wars, the military reform presided over by the Grand Duke Karl had this one, but the failure of the later reform, coupled with the opposition of the Hungarians, this reform was dusted.

In 1836, Franz proposed this reform again, and the War Secretary, Count Latour, continued it.

Today, "Twenty Words Must Know" has become "Fifty Words Must Know", in fact, there have been "One Hundred Words Must" and "One Hundred and Twenty Words Must" in the middle, but it is too complicated for recruits so they can only give up.

Franz conducted several inspections, and the sampling pass rate of the Italian Legion's "Fifty Words on the Battlefield" was above 90%, which was higher than the national average (60%, and if the Hungarian Military District is excluded, the average can be close to 75%).

The sampling pass rate of "Twenty Words Must Know" is infinitely close to 100%, and they all know and hear it, but a few people can't spell it.

The army as a whole has no revolutionary tendencies, and its combat effectiveness is okay.

It's just that Franz flipped through the officer roster and couldn't help but gasp, the names of the two great gods Fernand Richie and Alois Palfe were impressively listed.

Fernand Richie was the ruthless man who later ceded Venice to the rebels without firing a single shot, and fled all the way from northern Italy to the beaches of Brussels, Belgium.

In his lifetime, he was captured twice, suffered many heavy losses by the rebels, and in his hands the Austrian army had to pay huge losses in every battle.

Knowing the plan of the rebels in advance, he led two full brigades to encircle and suppress the insurrectionists of the Charcoal Burners, with a strength of 10,000 and 800 on both sides.

As a result, almost all important people, including Garibaldi, were released, 26 people were captured, more than 100 enemy soldiers were killed, and their own losses were more than ten times that of the other side.

Another heavyweight, Alois Palfe, a true master of surrender, led three armies in Northern Italy, Bohemia, and Hungary in the stormy year of 1848 without firing a shot.

What is even more bizarre is that there was always a belief within the Austrian Empire that this old man was a genius and would attack.

Franz looked at Alois Palfe's resume, which belonged to the typical roots, entered the military academy at the age of eight, graduated at the age of twelve, and was proficient in all tactics such as artillery, cavalry, and infantry.

After graduation, he directly served as a lecturer at the Teresa Military Academy, the highest military academy of the Austrian Empire, where he was responsible for teaching a series of prominent subjects such as campaign theory, war science, and artillery science.

All kinds of medals, certificates, and honorary titles issued at home and abroad can almost fill two pages, how can such a Long Aotian's performance be so stretched?

Franz then went to ask some professionals, and Friedrich said that he really didn't know this guy, and Archduke Karl replied that he was not impressed.

Albrecht said that the guy was an idiot, that his lessons were a piece of, and that it would be okay if it was just a story.

The Count of Latour sent a copy of Franz Joseph's own biography, which the latter read and roughly understood.

Alois Palfe is completely a product of god-making, an artificial idol created by a large family at the expense of manpower and financial resources in order to support its legitimate heir.

Franz is going to send the pair of sleeping dragons and phoenixes to Hungary and let them fend for themselves, if they can survive in a desperate situation and break out of the small universe and do something, it will be worthy of the wages they have received over the years.

If they died, it would have been bad luck and would have had little effect on the Austrian Empire.

However, it was soon opposed by the Prince of Metternich and the Count of Korolav in the Regency Council, and in fact, it was impossible to know that there was no one behind the Sleeping Dragon and Phoenix Chicks.

And in a place like northern Italy, it is unlikely that the big guys will not come in and get involved. It seems that this plan can only be put on hold for the time being, but Franz is not in a hurry, after all, he still has three years to do.

The local gentry and nationalists in Lombardy were not all idiots, and some people analyzed that the Austrian Empire wanted them to kill each other, but it could not be explained, let alone explained.

As a result, there were people who took the risk to attack the fortress of Verona, but their caravan and death squad were intercepted before they could see the shadow of the fortress of Verona.

Franz still admired this kind of group that dared to carry out assassinations openly, so they had to be uprooted.

Most of the members of the so-called "Brotherhood of Delas" were soon captured with the help of many parties, in addition to their supporters, including several nobles who were very influential in the area.

The family behind these people sent emissaries in the hope of negotiating with the Empire, but Franz didn't mind a "punishment of the Nine Clans".

Torture was not uncommon at the time, and after obtaining "strong evidence", the Lombardy regional government dealt a swift and complete blow to these men who dared to openly assassinate the royal family and commit treason.

Afterwards, nearly 3,000 people embarked on a ship bound for the colony.

(End of chapter)