However, things took a turn for the worse, and before Carlo II could complete the reception of the Duchy of Parma, revolts broke out one after another, and he took over three constitutions and declared war on the Austrian Empire twice.

To make matters worse, the Austrians did not choose to back down this time, and the radicals in Parma were ready to play seriously, and a small country with a population of only a few hundred thousand actually sent 50,000 troops to fight the Austrians.

They also wanted to make their own king, pay the money, and Carlo II could only tearfully contribute his old capital of three million francs.

However, the liberals were apparently not satisfied, and they expropriated the property of the Bourbon-Parma family for military purposes.

At this time, the monarchs of the small countries of Central Italy could not help but realize a problem at the same time, if they continued like this, they would sooner or later play themselves to death, and they invariably began to prepare to run away.

Tyrol, Wiesenstein Castle, also known as the "White Rock City", the Provisional General Staff of the Austrian Empire.

In the face of the news of the attack on northern Italy by 450,000 Italian troops, Franz still seemed very calm, and he was still analyzing the logic of the behavior of the French provisional government.

He could not understand why the French Provisional Government would have made such a stupid and unreasonable decision, since a war with Austria was completely out of their interests and situation.

The Russian ambassador, as soon as he learned of France's imminent declaration of war on Austria, announced that Russia would help Austria in resisting France's evil aggression.

Although the Russian ambassador did not have much power in his hands, there were some things that Nicholas I had long acquiesced to, such as the war against revolutionary France.

Coincidentally, the German Confederation announced its participation in the war against France at about the same time.

Seeing that France was so stupid, the British changed their tactics as soon as they learned the news, and the Diet collectively passed a war agreement against the French Revolution.

Spain also changed its stance and announced that it would join the anti-French coalition to fight France.

At the same time, a large-scale uprising broke out in France, on the grounds that the French temporarily claimed that the declaration of war on Austria was not for the sake of the Pope, and that they were the enemy of all Europe, and the people could not think of why, except for betrayal.

In order to prevent the coming of war, the people of Paris once again erected barricades in the streets, this time to overthrow the provisional government they had just put up.

When faced with this great crisis, the republicans in France could only think of letting one or a few people bear all the blame.

So the republicans found a few substitutes and announced that they would be a "peace-loving France."

Although the butcher's knives of the great powers were put down, this incident greatly damaged the vitality of France and discredited the republicans.

Franz just wanted to know what they were drawing?

Albrecht felt a bit of a pity, because the Swiss militia had already taken all the cantons of Vaud and Geneva, and now the French stopped fighting, and they had to return them.

In fact, Franz was a little lucky, but fortunately he went back, otherwise the French at this time were not so easy to provoke, and they could ask for reparations, but they would be exempted from ceding the land, and they couldn't control it at all.

"Franz, 450,000 Italian coalition troops, you don't seem to be worried at all."

Grand Duke Karl asked with a smile.

"Grandpa Carl, don't laugh, if you're worried, how can you laugh out loud?"

Franz's answer represented the opinion of the majority of the entire war room that the so-called Italian coalition was simply vulnerable.

Before the start of the war, the number of standing troops in the whole of southern Italy would not exceed 100,000, so the origin of these 450,000 troops is clear, almost all of them are recruits.

It is still unknown how much combat strength these people will have, but can the Italian region, which has been plagued by disasters for many years, be able to maintain the supply of these hundreds of thousands?

In fact, not to mention the question of whether the supply is enough, how many people are needed to transport the supplies of the 450,000 army alone? And it's the kind of complex terrain in the mountains of Central Italy.

So this so-called coalition is a joke at all, and the more people there are, the more ridiculous it is. However, the civilian armed forces in northern Italy are a problem.

Neither Archduke Karl nor Albrecht took the so-called street fighting too seriously, and in fact the barricades appeared very rarely in Austria and seemed to be well resolved from a purely military point of view.

But it is impossible to fight so unscrupulously on your own soil, and Northern Italy is still the territory of the Austrian Empire after all.

If, as the father and son had said, they had just rocketed the ground and burned the city, then Austria would have no chance of unifying Italy.

"When is the war with the British? I have nine ways to seize Crete! Nine kinds! The Mediterranean fleet of the British is nothing more than a spectacle! I can sink them to the bottom of the ocean at any moment! ”

Friedrich looked a little irritated at the moment, the British Mediterranean fleet was so annoyed that there was not a single naval commander of any Mediterranean country who did not want to kill them.

However, most people can only think about it, and Friedrich, with the help of Franz, really has the strength to wipe out the enemy.

The reality, however, was that even the total annihilation of the British Mediterranean Fleet would not be able to defeat the British, and would not help the situation except to suffer greater retaliation.

But the port of Durres, the wedge of the British blockade of the Adriatic Sea, is time to be removed.

The British here had only more than 3,000 men and two dozen small boats, and although theoretically it would not bother the Austrian navy much, Franz decided to knock it out from land just in case.

The main thing is that it is impossible to determine whether the British will use these two dozen or so boats to lay mines directly on the water, the power of mines in this era is poor, but the technology of anti-mines is even worse.

Franz really didn't want to add too much variance to the war, and the sneak attack on the port of Durrës could be relied on by the Ottomans to make them suspicious of each other.

If the British did join the war, the target would not have been Austria proper, but most of the Austrian colonies were easy to defend or of little value in the eyes of others.

As for California, which has already developed into a colony, the British will most likely break their front teeth if they want to fight.

Historically, although the British took the opportunity to fall into the trap of Austria and proposed to exchange peace for Italy north of Austria, they did not end up in person.

Franz felt that Britain, which was in deep economic crisis at this time and was plotting to colonize the French, should not declare war on Austria.

However, the news coming back from London was different, and John Russell seemed to be planning to become fat in one bite.

It was a bit unreasonable, but Franz had to plan ahead of time, and another reason to call Friedrich over was that he was too reckless.

Unlike Albrecht, Friedrich was brave and resourceful, and the former was ready to live and die with his flagship.

Moreover, Friedrich's wife, Princess Sneka, was also a little expert at death, and they actually went hand in hand to see the uprising.

Don't you really know who people are going to bring down?

In addition to the British, the Hungarians were also big trouble.

(End of chapter)