Soon Alois Palfe and his group of officers were arrested, and after a brief interrogation they were recruited.

Most of these people are second-generation soldiers who have never been on the battlefield, so why should they run away?

The answer is that they don't have a supply team at all, and it is unknown where the money that should have been used for supplies went.

The reason for returning to Venice was because they got the news of Venice's recovery halfway, so they wanted to help Duke Alois Palfe find his grounds.

Naturally, it was impossible for them to admit defeat, so they could only blame the cowardice and incompetence of ordinary soldiers, and they even prepared a set of rhetoric to silence Franz.

But now there is no need for it, and Franz wants to put an end to this privilege of power and responsibility.

Then more than a hundred aristocratic officers were hanged in the piazza of Venice without saying anything, in fact, they had a lot to say, many people wanted to find, but Franz did not want to hear or see.

Especially the honorable Duke Alois Parffy, he wanted to know why Franz was so that everyone could be safe.

More than a hundred corpses were neatly hung in a row on the square, and watching the tragic death of those old men who usually used to act on their heads, the soldiers suddenly breathed a bad breath in their hearts, and their spirits also slackened.

After all, the Grand Duke Franz looked so young, and he didn't look like a bad guy.

But soon they changed that view.

"I ask you to go immediately to the front line on the Po River to support the Archduke Albrecht against the army of the Papal States."

As soon as these words came out, the soldiers immediately began to discuss.

"We've been running for days, and we've had no strength."

"That's it, and I heard that the Papal States has an army of a million, aren't we going to send it to death?"

"Don't go! Don't go! ”

"Archduke Franz, have mercy on us."

Soon the cacophony of chatter turned into protests, but this was entirely expected by Franz, who was said to be a good man.

And there would be no burden in rejecting the request of a good person, let alone fear retaliation, so they decided to say no loudly.

"Bang! Bang! Two gunshots rang out, and Franz shouted, "Quiet! ”

"This is not a request, but an order, and I now order you to go to the Po front at once. Death to those who resist. ”

Franz's tone did not seem to be fake, and more than a hundred corpses were still watching from the square. The soldiers had no doubt that Franz would dare to hang them, after all, he had not spared even those officials.

It's just that this doesn't seem to be the same as the good guy in the hearts of the soldiers, why is his method so cruel? Why force us?

Franz didn't care what the soldiers thought of him, he just knew that after the first battle of Venice, the whole of Venesia no longer needed so many troops.

The ensuing Battle of the Po River and the battle in Lombardy were the key.

Franz executed more than 100 officers in Venice and even the future head of the Parffy family.

This caused an uproar in the city of Vienna, and the various gate families began to move, whether it was true or not, and they had to ask the Habsburgs and the Austrian Imperial Government for an explanation.

Just when the noble senate was excited, the old patriarch of the Parffy family was very low-key and did not make a public announcement, even for his very close partners, and then moved out of Vienna directly.

Vienna, Schönbrunn Palace.

Mrs. Sophie asked, looking at Count Seossel.

"That old thing from the Palffy family claims that his grandson died for the country?"

"Yes. The old Duke of Parffy fell out with the nobles of the Senate and was about to leave Vienna. ”

Mrs. Sophie sneered.

"No wonder he lived so long, forget it. The Parffy family will not be held accountable for this matter. Those who made trouble were all arrested and interrogated severely. Eighty percent of them were fellow Pius IX. ”

Count Hüssel was a little troubled.

"You mean take the lead? Or all of them? ”

"Grab them all! Don't you understand? The secret police are short on staff, so you can go to the Bavarian Townspeople and ask someone to help you. ”

Mrs. Sophie was a little impatient, and Count Xu Ssell had followed the former for so many years, so he naturally knew that Mrs. Sophie found it very tricky, so she was very irritable.

However, capturing hundreds of nobles with heads and faces at a time is a very difficult task, and if you are not careful, you may even have to take your life.

Count Hüssel would not trust the so-called secret police, because most of them were locals, and many of them were spies sent by big families.

Let's not talk about whether they will cooperate with the outside world, just leaking some rumors will cause an uproar.

So Count Hüssel decided to find someone from the Bavarian Townspeople's Association, and some of the tricky things were handed over to the orphans who had been adopted more than ten years ago.

But he still wanted to ask under what name those people should be arrested.

"Grand Duke, it's a bit too much to say that they are the same party of the Ninth Emperor, maybe they are bewitched?"

Mrs. Sophie waved her hand.

"Just do what you say, but don't show mercy. Franz is right, these things that eat inside and outside will not do anything at the critical moment except to pull their hind legs. ”

Count Hussel spread his hands, after all, he was also a member of the great noble, but the eldest son of the great nobleman fell in love with a woman he should not love.

"I didn't say you."

"Thank you."

Hussel turned away to attend to the most difficult task of the moment, and when he reached the door, Mrs. Sophie spoke.

"Thank you for all these years."

Count Hussel looked back and saluted respectfully, then turned and went out.

At this time, the army of the Papal States was still struggling to cross the mountains and mountains in Central Italy, and the Italian countries had no experience in organizing large armies, and the high-level officials of some countries were deliberately withholding, and the situation of the Italian coalition army was very difficult.

Archbishop Kavaji, the 93-year-old veteran who had served in Frederick the Great's army, had finally completed the final journey of his life.

A week before the start of the Battle of the Po River, Archbishop Kawaji of Kavaji, he died of old age.

Turin, Royal Palace.

Carlo Alberto looked at the two disgraced generals, and he was speechless, and even more speechless was that the two lieutenant generals, Osepio and Ettore de Sannaz, boasted at the same time that they had pitted the liberal revolutionary party in a terrible way.

"That's not the point at all, right? What about my Lombardy? ”

Carlo Alberto struggled and roared, but he couldn't show it, after all, he still had to rely on these two rice buckets.

If the Austrian army did enter the Kingdom of Sardinia, he would really have to stop cooking. You must know that this time he took the initiative, and the Austrians were passive defense.

"How can I not lose?"

At this moment, Carlo Alberto suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and an inspiration flashed through his mind, and at this moment his Italian blood was completely awakened.

On March 21, 1848, the Kingdom of Sardinia declared its support for Austria against the Italian coalition and arrested the "remnants of the Charcoal Burners" in Piedmont.

I digressed halfway through, and I did it all over again, so I posted it late, sorry.

(End of chapter)