Northern Italy, Kingdom of Sardinia.

Carlo Alberto was not a lonely king, and he always wanted to expand his territory with a dynastic war.

At this time, the Swiss Civil War was undoubtedly an opportunity, so Carlo Alberto immediately sent a batch of weapons and supplies to the Orthodox Alliance.

After the supplies were delivered to Ticeno, the soldiers of the Kingdom of Sardinia left, after all, the Freedom Alliance threatened to blow up the mountain road.

It wouldn't do the Kingdom of Sardinia any good idea to really force the guys to jump over the wall, and Carlo Alberto was even more afraid that the two powerful neighbors around him would take advantage of the opportunity.

However, what he didn't know was that all of these things had been withheld by Ticeno, and he didn't know that Ticeno had joined the Freedom Alliance at this time.

That's right! In fact, as long as the money is in place, or enough shameless, the Catholic states can also join the Protestant League to beat the Catholic League together.

Historically, Prince Metternich also did this kind of stupid thing, and at a time when the Austrian Empire's economy was on the verge of collapse, he was stunned to send 30 million florins and 20,000 rifles to Ticeno to support the Orthodox Alliance.

As a result, the Freedom Alliance used the money sent by His Excellency the Prince to recruit troops and horses, and then beat his allies with Austrian weapons.

But by this time Franz had already sent the money and weapons to Galicia, and he could use them to train another army.

The army consisted mainly of former refugees and serfs, who had just been allocated land, who had finally come to a new life, who were most enthusiastic about securing their own means of survival, and who also had a strong sense of belonging and worship for the country of Austria.

Coupled with patriotic education and the brainwashing of the Church, the future will be an important force in the hands of Franz.

In charge of the training were veterans who had retired from the Royal Dragoon Regiment, most of whom had not participated in the previous Galician campaign, and had retired because they were too old or because of previous injuries sustained in Hungary.

Although Franz gave each retired veteran a large pension, these people must not be willing to wear away the skills they have honed all their lives.

So Franz gave them another chance, and the loyalty of these people was very secure, and they would not raise a rebel army for Austria.

To get back to the point, most of the remaining South German countries are weak, after all, Baden and Württemberg are really not powers.

Of course, there are also Bavarians who not only do not sponsor them in friendship, but also ask for benefits from the Orthodox Alliance, and even more excessively, they do not do anything after receiving money.

The Prussian king Frederick William IV, who was far away, was very interested in this, because his family domain of Nachâtar was among them.

Although this territory is often tax-resistant, it is also Brandenburg's property. If the Swiss took the opportunity to rebel, the losses would be great.

So Frederick Wilhelm IV sent his younger brother Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig, the famous Prince of Shotball, William I, with 300 guards to defend the family property.

The Shotgun Prince joined the army at the age of 10 and joined the army at the age of 17 with the rank of captain in the Anti-Napoleonic War, fighting Napoleon's army in a fierce battle with Napoleon's army in Bar-sur-Obe, near Frankfurt.

So I didn't care about this trip to Switzerland, in fact, there was another reason, that is, the general belief of the great powers at that time that the Swiss Confederation did not have as many troops as they boasted.

After all, it is not uncommon for the number of troops in this era to be mixed with water, especially small countries exaggerate in order to protect themselves, such as Belgium before also claimed to have 200,000 troops, but in fact it is still unknown whether there are 20,000.

The new State Delegates, Konstantin Sigwater, and Field Marshal Ulrich Salis had high hopes for such help, but Archduke Karl did not care.

Because the situation of the Swiss Civil War had been discussed with Franz countless times before, it was impossible for the Great Powers to intervene before the civil war expanded.

This is not that the threat of the Liberal Alliance and Britain is really so great, but that France and Austria have a century-old feud with each other.

Theoretically, no country could stop Austria and France from carving up Switzerland, unless Russia and Britain intervened at the same time, but it was questionable whether the news could reach St. Petersburg before the partition was completed.

Despite this, the century-old feud between France and Austria is not so easy to resolve, just like the previous partition of Belgium.

Whenever the French have the chance, they will try to stab the knife. In the same way, the French did not trust the Austrians, so there was no basis for mutual trust, let alone cooperation.

And once the buffer zone of Switzerland is lost, then Austria and France will be in direct contact, and the direct result will be war, endless war, and there will be too many conflicts of interest on both sides.

Therefore, Franz didn't want to carve up Switzerland with France, let alone let Switzerland, the sixth child, fake neutrality every time, really ride the wall, and scold his mother for the benefits.

Either the Orthodox Alliance defeated the Liberal Alliance, or it would give the Great Powers a reason to intervene.

Archduke Karl knew what he had to do, and he knew the key to victory in this war. There are so many mountains in the Swiss Confederation that a one-sided victory would be bogged down in the quagmire of the Spanish War.

Therefore, he did not intend to conquer all regions by force from the beginning, and those excessive miscellaneous soldiers naturally had no use except to waste food.

And Marshal Ulrich Salis did not lie about one thing, that is, Switzerland was far more capable of mobilizing than the Great Powers could have imagined, and that such a universal compulsory military service could exert more energy than a country like Austria, which still practiced conscription.

At first, according to the estimation of Archduke Karl, the Swiss Confederation was able to pull out 100,000 troops at full capacity, which was already the limit, if it was by Austrian standards.

But the reality is that the Orthodox Alliance alone can easily pull out 100,000 troops, and this is not at full capacity.

According to intelligence, the Freedom Alliance had more troops, and he couldn't imagine how many soldiers the country would be able to recruit if it did its best.

However, Archduke Karl understood why Franz had to intervene in the Swiss Civil War, and such a threat should not exist, let alone get out of Austrian control.

While the two sides were in full swing, the Liberal Alliance again extended an invitation to the Orthodox Alliance, requesting that a federal conference be convened to discuss the country's "tax question".

Vienna, Hofburg Palace.

Prince Metternich was depressed because Franz had intercepted his aid supplies to Switzerland.

But what infuriated him even more was that the small state of Switzerland dared to openly challenge the Vienna system and the 1843 Agreement.

This is not the first time that the Swiss Free Alliance has challenged his bottom line, having previously taken in the Charcoal Burners and the Polish Restoration Army to finance rebels in Austria.

If it weren't for the fact that Switzerland was a buffer between Austria and France, he would have let the fanatics know how many guns and artillery there were in the Austrian Empire.

(End of chapter)