The preset battlefield of the decisive battle in the mind of the Grand Duke Karl has always been the canton of Lucerne, first of all, it is the core of the Orthodox Alliance, and secondly, except for the canton of Zug, all other states have natural obstacles.

In particular, the St. Goda Pass in the south requires only a small number of troops to seal off the road completely. Although Heinrich Belaim's personal ability is a little worse, it should not be a big problem to just stick to it.

In fact, this is also a kind of helplessness, because there is a great shortage of officers within the Swiss Confederation, especially in the Orthodox Union.

It was fortunate that the Colonel Charles Duchat had gone to Ticeno, otherwise Archduke Karl would have assigned a qualified officer to exterminate the rebels in this state.

In the end, the fastest way for the Liberty Alliance to end the war was to take Lucerne, which was also the most suitable area for large armies to fight.

However, the preset battlefield that Archduke Karl came to was not a wide plain area, but a narrow mountain road.

Konstantin Sigwater and Ulrich Salis began another round of conscription and rationing.

There is no way, the situation in Fribourg is unknown, coupled with the rebellion of the three states, which directly overstretched the forces of the Orthodox Alliance.

While Karl was arranging his troops, Dufour's main forces moved, and the latter decided to launch a general attack on Fribourg.

This didn't seem like a wise move, as the Fribourg side also had a strong fortress at the mouth of the valley.

These fortresses were not easy to take because of the limited width of the entire mountain road, and the number of troops that could participate in the attack was even more limited.

Therefore, no matter how many troops there are, they will not be able to show their superiority.

And when it really comes to the point where it can't be defended, as long as the road is blown up, it will take a few days to a few weeks for the other party to clear the obstacles.

Bishop Minofel was so confident that he decided to go to the front line and take command of the defense.

Before the war, the two sides routinely exchanged letters of persuasion, and the contents were almost the same:

"'Those who follow the heavens prosper, and those who go against the heavens perish'. Now I have a million armor and a thousand soldiers; the public can turn against him and surrender his armor with courtesy, so as not to lose the position of the marquis. Isn't it beautiful to have national security and folk music?"

However, Bishop Minofel's letter is still more distinctive.

"Dear General Dufour.

I sincerely hope that you will seriously consider my words before making decisions that are so stupid that they might cost your warrior their lives.

Your opponent is me, the first warrior under the Holy See, 'Undefeated' Minofel. As generals, you and I know that war brings only pain, destruction and untold sorrow.

If you can stop this wrong act, I assure you that we are willing to offer lenient terms, protect your people and property, and ensure their safety and dignity.

As long as you can recognize the right faith, then we are still brothers. ”

Henri Dufoure read the letter and knew that it was the Pope who was playing tricks, but Minofel was wrong, this was not the religious war that Pius IX had thought.

Rather, it was a war of unification, eleven units of length, eighty-two units of grain measurement, fifty units of weight, and more than ten currencies.

It's not a religious war, but the Pope and the Papal States are definitely a very good target.

"We don't need third countries to intervene in our wars. We are brothers! You have all been deceived by the papal lackeys! ”

The soldiers of the Freedom Alliance chanted under the command of the officer, and the soldiers of the Orthodox Alliance, who had no fighting spirit, began to hesitate, and even looked at the Jesuit priests.

As soon as Minofel saw this posture, he was afraid that there would be a mutiny here, and the group of Swiss directly tied him up and sent him to the Free Alliance.

So he roared, "Fire! Fire! Fire!!! ”

The Jesuit priest took the opportunity to grab the gunner's torch and lit the fuse, and a cannonball was fired, but because the angle was not adjusted, it hit the positions in front of the two armies.

However, this also became the signal for war between the two sides, and Dufort brought sixty four-pounder guns, as well as twelve French-made heavy guns.

Before Dufour's artillery was deployed, the Jesuit priests in the fortress could fire several rounds, but the distance between the two sides was too far for the shells to be accurate.

Finally, after three rounds of firing from the Orthodox Union, the first round of shelling by the Liberal Union arrived.

The dense accumulation of fire was naturally more powerful than the sporadic artillery fire, and after a single round of shelling, the Orthodox Union soldiers and Jesuit priests in the fortress began to flee in all directions, and even some officers joined the panicked crowd.

Minofel patted the dust off his head and angrily snatched the torch.

"Reload! I'm going to shoot! ”

"But Your Excellency." The artilleryman on the side wiped his blackened face.

"But what? Are you a Protestant spy? ”

"Nope! No! No! But the chamber of the cannon is already very hot, and I am afraid that it will explode if I fight again. ”

"Nonsense! Just three shots to blow up? Hurry up and reload! Otherwise, I'll shoot you first! ”

"Yes, yes.." The artilleryman hurriedly replied.

Two minutes later, a dull explosion sounded in the fortress.

"Blown up? These guys are so stupid, eighty percent of them have broken their brains by chanting scriptures. Dufour's aide-de-camp, Augustin Keller, laughed.

Dufort put down his binoculars and nodded, but his face was sad, because the shelling of 72 cannons did not do much to the fortress built on the hill.

However, after several hours of shelling, General Dufort discovered a problem, and that was that the fortress no longer returned fire.

Dufour, who didn't know why, planned to send people to persuade him to surrender again, after all, the cost of a strong attack was too great.

Then he got the unexpected good news that the fortress was empty, and he won the battle.

Dufort decided to take advantage of the victory, and by the time he reached Fribourg, the city had already raised its white flag.

It turned out that the previous bombing incident directly led to the death of the supreme commander of Fribourg, Bishop Minofel, so the Jesuit priests scattered in all directions, and the Valais troops that had been planning to support Fribourg also retreated to Valais.

A total of 41 members of the Orthodox Alliance and three of the Freedom Alliance were killed in this battle. The war was more brutal than the most brutal battle of Gisicon in the history of the Swiss Civil War (38 men were killed on both sides).

Dufort ordered the disbandment of the Orthodox Union forces in the canton of Fribourg, and although he did not continue to hold the canton of Fribourg responsible, he also demanded that they bear the military expenses and that they need to be conscripted to help the Free Union deliver supplies.

However, this result was considered very magnanimous by the parliamentarians of the canton of Fribourg, and the Freedom Alliance took the lead in the Swiss Civil War.

Henri Dufoure and Augustin Keller did not stop, but arrived in the canton of Aargau at the first time.

Their plan was to divide their forces and send a small number of troops to attack the canton of Zug, and then take the opportunity to lead the main force to attack the canton of Lucerne.

Because the canton of Zug is open, and at this time the army of the Free Union has an absolute advantage over the Orthodox Union.

130,000 against 40,000, at this time in the eyes of the top brass of the Freedom Alliance, there is no possibility of losing this war at all, and they all dream of ending the war in two weeks, because they have already wiped out more than half of the opponent's forces in the first four days of the war.

This war is outrageous in history, and the entire war lasted only 27 days. The Swiss federal army lost 78 killed and 260 wounded; The Orthodox Union army lost 26 killed and 114 wounded.