Chapter 52: Sending Troops
The self-proclaimed "Sardinian general" who "fought alongside Napoleon" soon succeeded Dufort as commander-in-chief of the Free Alliance.
The latter was imprisoned pending post-war trial on charges of delaying a fighter plane, among other charges, which was the result of Joseph Lowy's struggle.
Because there were too many deserters executed by Dufort in the previous war, there were naturally some people with backgrounds, and they naturally would not let go of this opportunity to fall into the ground.
Among the deserters here were officers who were afraid of the enemy.
However, Joseph Lowy knew that Dufort was innocent, and that the latter did not want to participate in the war himself, and that the former had invited the latter to come out of the mountain.
So Joseph Loy did his best to save Dufour, but the death penalty could not be avoided, and a life imprisonment or exile was indispensable.
On the other hand, the surrendered cantons of Fribourg and Zug are no longer able to hold out, the property of the Church and the Orthodox is almost scraped, and the civilian population has been squeezed to the limit.
Josef Loy knew it had to be open source, so he pointed the finger at the cantons of Allgäu and St. Gallen.
Although these two states chose to side with the Liberal Alliance before the war, they were not free states and had a lot of oil to scrape.
The cantons of Aargau and St. Gallen were strongly opposed, because the upper echelons of St. Gallen were ecclesiastical forces, but the opposition was ineffective, and St. Gallen and Aargau were liberalized, and they had to bear the heavy burden of war with the cantons of Zug and Fribourg.
However, where there is oppression, there is resistance, especially the people of Zug, who have somehow become traitors, not only have to bear the huge costs of the war, provide materials and labor for the war, but even their homeland has become a battlefield for the free cantons and the orthodox cantons.
The people of the canton of Zug spontaneously organized partisans and began to rebel against the rule of the Freedom Alliance, purging the top leaders who had turned them into firewood.
The canton of Fribourg was also overwhelmed, with almost all of its young people being retained, valuable goods and food being robbed, and the townspeople fleeing deep into the mountains, successfully starting a process of counter-urbanization.
The situation in the canton of Aargau was the worst, because Frei Hollot didn't take them seriously at all. Frey Holoc couldn't beat the guerrillas, but he wouldn't admit it.
So the Catholics of the Aargau canton became the best scapegoats, and at the behest of Joseph Loy, they were repeatedly sacked.
As for the foreign mercenaries, it is even more impossible to save the people of the hostile forces, the desperate people of Allgäu want to resist but have no weapons, and the collective rebellion at the top makes them lack leadership.
The uprising could only usher in more ferocious revenge, and if they wanted to survive, they could only serve as soldiers for Frey Holose, or go to the mountains to find guerrillas, but neither side treated them as their own, and most of these people still could not escape the fate of cannon fodder.
As soon as the new commander-in-chief of the Free State Federation, Offie Lanno, decided to launch a general attack on the Lucerne region, the war was still carried out in a calm manner, with no suspense, no twists and turns, and no tactics to speak of, and the two sides competed in courage and endurance.
Both sides of the civil war clearly lacked courage and stamina, and the fighting was always on and off, and the scenes were even somewhat comical.
However, after all, the defending side is condescending to occupy the geographical advantage, so it is always the besieging side that suffers.
There is a decisive gap in the level of the generals on both sides, and compared to Ofie Lanno, who only knows how to charge with the tactics of the sea of people, Archduke Karl's strategy is obviously more reasonable.
After more than ten days of onslaught, Offie Lanno finally discovered that the soldiers of the Free State were not suitable for fighting a fortified battle, their morale was too low, and they often fled after losing a small number of men, and it would take a long time to get them back together.
So Offie Lanno chose the same tactics as Dufour, and the soldiers of the Free State dug the trenches again.
The situation throughout Switzerland is deteriorating over time. Offie Lanno was also imprisoned, and Joseph Loy had to compromise with Frey Holosey.
Although the latter had gained the power and position he coveted, he was not at all happy, because the war had exhausted the states, and the states were unwilling to pay any more money, and Aargau, St. Gallen, Fribourg, and Zug, which had defected to the side of the Free Alliance, were already in civil revolt.
It was only then that Frey Holosey realized the importance of ending the war quickly, but in order not to repeat the mistakes of the past, he decided to attack the relatively weak state of Schwyz, only to suffer an even more painful defeat.
Or rather, it was a failure before it even began, because when the Free Canton troops withdrew, the Orthodox coalition troops quickly attacked from all sides, and Vaud, Bern, Solothurn, Basel, Allgäu, and the whole of western Switzerland were engulfed in the flames of war.
A few months of war were enough to turn the peasants into butchers, and one can imagine the state of the Orthodox Union soldiers who had been in a few months under the clouds of death.
The home was stolen, and a fierce conflict broke out between factions in the Swiss army, far larger and more intense than the conflict between the Free States and the Orthodox Union.
Frey Holoc is just a big warlord, he can't bridge the tensions between the factions, and his lair is under attack, leaving the other factions to "defend" their lair?
Frey Hollot couldn't do it, he didn't trust those guys, and he didn't trust each other. As a result, the foundation that supported the entire alliance collapsed, and hundreds of thousands of troops scattered into warlords fighting on their own.
These warlords were naturally vulnerable to the Archduke Karl, so the Orthodox alliance began to counterattack, starting with Berne, the strongest of the Free Cantons.
Before the start of the war, the commander of the Bern region, Guise Chard, told the governor Yusotlov.
"It will take at least ten years for the Orthodox army to enter Berne."
Ten days later Bern fell
In fact, Dufour's strategy was right, attacking head-on and outflanking him. It's just that the appearance of the hot air balloon was detected, and his actions were exposed.
And the elite troops led by Sigismund are beyond the odds of the patchwork "shepherds" of the Free State.
In fact, Archduke Karl is better at attacking cities than defending cities, but the quality of Austrian soldiers, weapons, and even troops in history cannot be compared with France, so there is a stereotype that Archduke Karl will only defend cities.
The war shook the whole of Switzerland, and indeed the whole of Europe, but it was not the Swiss who shocked the most, but the French.
The French cabinet held a meeting overnight, and Louis Philippe also attended with a rare high profile.
Although the army of the Swiss Confederation is vulnerable to the French, it is human instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, and no one wants to gnaw this hard bone first.
However, at this time, the situation of the Swiss civil war was taking a turn for the worse, and if the orthodox faction was allowed to win, would they create a pro-Austrian state?
Not to mention the partition of Switzerland, I am afraid that in turn it will be held back by the small country of Switzerland.
Even Marshal Sirte, who was bent on retiring, was dressed in military uniform, and for the first time since the establishment of the July Dynasty, the whole of France was so united that night that Louis Philippe signed the order.
[France announces its dispatch to Switzerland]
And almost at the same time, the German Confederation announced its intervention in the Swiss Civil War.