"What about you, Mr. Major?"

"I will live and die with this place! Take my saber, soldiers, and tell them how the 2nd Infantry Regiment of Udine fought heroically! ”

"Mr. Major, your hands are shaking."

"Drink too much, it's fine."

"But I drank all the wine the day before yesterday."

"Don't you know that there is a place called Jiuquan?"

"Report sir, I haven't heard of it in three years."

"Five years!"

"Eight years!"

The other soldiers chattered.

"Humph! If I can go back alive, I will definitely take you to see it next time. ”

"Major, don't do it next time, we're all going to die. You see, the Italian coalition is on the offensive again. ”

"Hurry up! I've blown up the gates, and I'll be able to delay a little longer. ”

Major Brening said eagerly, but the others did not react. The soldiers all picked up their weapons and walked to the city.

"What are you doing here? Do you know how many of them there are? ”

"I don't know, but I've beaten them off many times, and this time it will work."

A veteran spat out the hard bread in his mouth, and since the cook ran away, they had to make their own bread.

These soldiers used to eat mushy porridge (a mushy substance formed by mixing what they could eat into a pot of cooking). ）

The rest of the soldiers also looked indifferent.

"We're gone now, and we won't be paid."

"Yes, and let those religious priests rule, and the world will be a worse place. I fled from the Papal States, and I think life is pretty good now. ”

"We are all like you, we are all unwanted people. Only this fortress needs us, and now we are willing to live and die with you. ”

"Good Brother"

Before he could finish his sentence, he was smashed down by a soldier with the butt of a gun.

"Carry him away! A fake nobleman works harder than those real nobles. We've been fighting for so many days, and we're worthy of those military salaries. ”

Just then the sentry Jano ran back.

"No, no, no, no. Oh no."

"Why are you stumbling again!" The veteran oilman was furious.

"I don't have time to mess around with you, the brothers are still busy running for their lives!"

"There are more people behind!"

Sentinel Jeno finally got it all said.

It's just that as soon as these words came out, the soldiers were in an uproar, they thought they could escape, but they didn't expect to be outflanked by the other party.

"! them! ”

At this time, Sentinel Jeno spoke again, "I can't do it."

"Why?"

"It's your own people."

Albrecht was not a defensive general, in fact, he was the opposite of his father, he pursued an offensive doctrine, that is, the best defense is the offense.

When he learned that the soldiers of the fortress in the Berene Valley were still resisting, Albrecht immediately decided to rush to the rescue.

In fact, no officer would give up the opportunity to block the road, but judging from previous intelligence and experience, the Italian coalition would get out of the valley before they did.

That's why Albrecht built the Po River defense, but at this time he will not let go of the opportunity to fight the dogs.

So this time the Italian coalition army was completely unable to fight, because Albrecht brought all the regular Austrian troops.

In addition to some of the elite who were already equipped with lever rifles, other units were also equipped with new rifled guns, which greatly improved the accuracy of shooting.

For the first time, the Italian coalition suffered more than four digits in casualties in one day, and more than two or three hundred corpses were abandoned directly under the walls of the fortress of Berenne.

The gap between the firepower of the equipment and the training is too great, and the advantage of the fortress puts the two sides in a completely unequal position.

If it weren't for the fact that the terrain of the valley was not very convenient for pursuit, Albrecht would have even wanted to extend his victory a little more.

It's just that this crazy behavior was stopped by his officers, not that they couldn't win the battle, but that the soldiers of the continuous rapid march needed too much rest.

Moreover, this kind of valley terrain, once the Austrian army pursues it, then its own side will be at a disadvantage, and it is better to spend it here.

Anyway, there were fortresses on the Austrian side to shelter from the wind and rain, and the Italians had to pitch tents in the mountains.

At this time, Pollard was already stunned, he didn't expect so many people to die in one day, but fortunately, this is not his descendant.

Although the Austrians won a big victory, they did not chase it out, what does this prove? Prove that the Austrians are not capable of chasing it out.

After figuring it out, Boral no longer panicked, he thought it was very good, after all, now the military power was in his hands, and whoever disobeyed him, he would send whoever was sent to death.

As a result, the Italian coalition was in no hurry to attack, which made Albrecht very puzzled.

"Are they well supplied?"

The mountain roads are difficult to travel and the disaster years are naturally not enough, but these will certainly not be short for the officers, so Pollard does not have too deep feelings about this.

But now an even bigger disaster awaits them

Papal States, Rome.

"As long as Italy remained defenseless, the Austrian government would commit violence, loot, rape, and these savage soldiers would set fires, kill people, and reduce them everywhere to ruins.

I saw Radetzky go to war with the cross of Christ, tear down the doors of monasteries, desecrate altars with horses, and encroach on the remains of our priests

The Holy See has blessed your hand sword, and with the army of Carlo Alberto, march north!

Destroy these enemies of God and Italy, as well as those who insult Pius IX, those who desecrate the churches of Mantua, those who kill the monks of Lombardy.

Such a civilizational war to exterminate the barbarians is not only for the country, but for all Christians. ”

I don't know how many times the Holy See Secretary of State Jotel has spoken, and the people are tired of hearing it, and they only care about when their families will be able to return and when they will have enough to eat.

No one knew that the Kingdom of Sardinia had declared its neutrality and was negotiating an alliance with the Austrians.

The Mediterranean Naval War may seem to the rest of the world as the work of the French, but Carlo Alberto was well aware that it was the Austrian Navy.

Almost at the same time as the Battle of the Mediterranean ended, the Kingdom of Sardinia once again announced that it would change its position and support the Austrian Empire in the following war.

Pius IX was still dreaming of a religious victory to unify Italy, but the Papal government never imagined that the war would cost so much, and in fact they were already in debt from the first day of the campaign.

Now they have emptied all the surplus grain from the treasury, so they can only raise the war tax.

At this time, it was a disaster year, and ordinary people had no surplus food at home, and the war tax was tantamount to forcing people to rebel.

And those liberals are even more ridiculous, they still want to make money and come up with a bunch of temporary laws.

As a result, under the impetus of this freedom, prices in the Papal States skyrocketed and popular resentment boiled.

At this time, the liberal government pointed the finger at Pius IX himself.

(End of chapter)