The Kingdom of Sardinia also announced that it would send troops to Switzerland, but Carlo Alberto had a problem, he wanted to enter Switzerland only through Valais and Ticeno.

However, the roads in Valais were too rough for a large army, and Ticeno was occupied by French generals.

At this time, Charles Duchat had already raised the French flag in Ticeno, and he naturally did not agree to the request of the Kingdom of Sardinia, but ordered the border to be blocked.

So Carlo Alberto fell into a very embarrassing situation, with no way out, let alone a city to occupy.

The French sent troops at an indignant pace, but the French did not attack Switzerland by many routes, either via Lake Geneva or Neuchâtel.

There were not many ships on the lake of the former, and the French had no idea of building warships in the inner lake. But that doesn't mean the Swiss don't.

Vaud attaches great importance to the development of water power, and there are more than 20 large and small warships, although they are all pocket warships of less than 100 tons, and their total tonnage is not as heavy as the flagship of the French Great Eastern Fleet.

But that's not something that civilian fishing boats can deal with, in short, the French are inferior to the Swiss on the water on Lake Geneva.

The latter was also troublesome, as Neuchâtel was effectively a Prussian crown domain, and Wilhelm I, who was in charge of garrisoning the area, was adamant that French troops would not be allowed to enter.

Although he only brought 500 men, Wilhelm I was a member of the Prussian royal family after all, and he still had the appeal, and soon raised a militia of 8,000 people.

Even 18,000 men were not enough in front of the French army, but fighting in the mountains was not necessarily a quick victory with a large number of people, and the identity of William I was too sensitive, and the slightest carelessness would cause a big incident.

So the French army fell into a very embarrassing situation for a while, while on the other hand, the armies of the German Confederation began to advance like chickens.

When a pigeon letter was delivered to Prince William I, he immediately became frantic and immediately announced that the road to France would be blown up, and then the whole army would rush to the Jura.

Note: The canton of Jura, also translated as Jura, is north of Neuchâtel.

The three countries of Baden, Württemberg, and Bavaria sent troops to cross Lake Constance overnight, and even the Grand Duke of Liechtenstein led 300 soldiers from all over the country to attack Graubünden overnight.

The states of North Germany also had the money and strength to contribute, and soldiers and supplies frantically poured into the Swiss theater of operations.

At this time, the Austrian army appeared very calm, and only sent a force of 20,000 men, led by the Grand Duke Franz, to Switzerland.

At this time, the Swiss did not want to fight for a long time, whether it was the warlords at the top or the people at the bottom. As a result, most of the German Confederate troops who had fought like chicken blood chose to surrender.

Since everyone speaks the same language and looks similar, there is no sense of disobedience in accepting it, and there are not too many bloodflow incidents.

A very small number of recalcitrant opponents were attacked from the inside and outside, and no matter how strong the fortress or the dangerous terrain was, they could not protect them.

Soon the Swiss Free States fell almost entirely, and the French were stuck on the shores of Lake Geneva.

It was only at this time that Louis Philippe realized that he had made a mistake, and Baron Pasquière was again sent to Vienna in the hope of negotiating with the Austrian Empire.

At this time, the representative of the Free Canton, Josef Loj, once again proposed to negotiate a solution to the internal problems of Switzerland.

The state representative of the Orthodox League, Konstantin Sigwater, and Field Marshal Ulrich Salis felt that the other party was at the end of their power, and it was a good opportunity to get back the old field.

outcome

Joseph Lowy, looking a little tired, lit a cigar and coughed up blood as soon as he put it in his mouth.

"Gentlemen, you have time for a cigarette, of course you can choose not to sign"

As a result, a third humiliating document appeared in the headquarters of the Orthodox Union, and this time the representatives of the states categorically refused to recognize the legitimacy of this document, but it was legitimate.

So everyone came up with a good way to dissolve the Orthodox Alliance, wouldn't that be good?

Seeing that the tide was turning, Joseph Loy decided to sell the cantons of Vaud and Geneva to Louis Philippe, and the two sides agreed on a price of 20 million francs and a ticket to the New World (USA).

Desperate and anxious, Louis Philippe naturally had no choice but to agree to the deal, and Joseph Loy had some pleasure when he signed the territorial transfer agreement, after all, the heavy burden was finally lifted.

However, the first thing the French did after landing in Geneva was to capture Joseph Loy and send him to Archduke Karl in Berne, naturally for the purpose of courtesy.

With the occupation of the cantons of Geneva and Vaud by the French, the Swiss Civil War came to an end.

The only territories that originally belonged to the Swiss Confederation were Geneva, Vaud, and Ticeno in the hands of the French, and the rest of the cantons were either in the hands of the Orthodox Union or under the occupation of the German Confederation.

Louis Philippe had already suffered two losses in the German Confederation, and he did not want to repeat the same mistakes, but he could not understand why the loose German Confederation had chosen to side with Austria.

It would not be surprising if some of the countries close to Austria had behaved in this way, but it was too unusual for the three South German countries to waver, and Prussia was Austria's opponent.

In fact, it was quite simple, because at the impromptu conference in Vienna, Franz announced that Austria would only take back the state of Aargau, where the ancestral eagle castle was located, and that Switzerland would join the German Confederation.

However, neither of these points is the main one, the most important is the last one, which is that in order to prevent another war, all the free states must choose a German monarch.

In the 19th century, there were not many opportunities for small countries to expand their territory, and Switzerland was dominated by Germans, so it was not difficult to rule.

So the whole German Confederation went crazy, and even Prussia went mad, because they belonged to the water, and the Hohenzollern fiefdom in Neuchâtel was the best springboard.

That's why William I was desperate, after all, except for a few powerful countries on the European continent, it was too difficult to expand the territory.

Moreover, the Austrian Empire had already shown that it would only regain its ancestral lands and would not encroach on too many territories, so how could such generosity not allow these German princes to chant Franz's "British name".

In fact, the resources of the Swiss region are of little value to Austria, so Austria and France have historically used them as buffer zones, but taking back their ancestral land will indeed increase Austria's influence.

As for the population, Franz could draw people from North Germany as well as from Switzerland.

The greatest advantage of this was to use the German Confederation as a shield for themselves, and those states had to seek Austrian support for stability.

To put it simply, it kills two birds with one stone, gaining fame and avoiding real disasters.