Chapter 76: The Germans are One Family
According to Franz's previous plan, he should now rush to Vienna, crown the victorious army as emperor, and then concentrate on dealing with Hungary.
As for Bohemia, as mentioned earlier, the Bohemian uprising was weak, and the local forces were weak enough to suppress it.
Moreover, in order to prevent accidents, Franz deliberately mobilized heavy troops to carry out saturation strikes.
Franz's holiday strategy also played a very important role, as transportation at this time was quite expensive and inconvenient (compared to later generations), so not many students were willing to go to Prague to spend their lives in Prague.
If it weren't for Palatsky's charisma and charisma as a leader, they wouldn't have been able to make up the hundreds of college students.
The absence of these students leads to a very loose structure of the whole team, after all, the adult world is only about pros and cons.
Without these students charging in front and acting as lubricant, the rebellious ranks would be scattered.
In fact, the fact that the Vienna procession was so weak was also because it lacked this backbone, and it was extremely loose and even vulnerable.
However, this does not mean that the presence of students will have any effect on the outcome, as Franz is a saturation strike, and their participation will not help except increase casualties.
College students in this era were too precious, and Franz didn't want to waste their lives. Relatively speaking, however, the students of the University of Prague who had participated in the rebellion were the main targets of Franz's attack.
In fact, there is no contradiction between the two, because mercy to the enemy is one's greatest cruelty.
The momentum of the Prague uprising at this time was more caused by the French and the British, and the Hungarians also wanted to make the bigger the better.
However, the reality is that they can't afford to stir up a little storm at all, and the rebellious team can barely have a few thousand people, but not to mention the mercenaries sent by Franz, even if there are no reinforcements, Prince Wendy Schgretz has 70,000 or 80,000 troops under him, which is enough to suppress them.
The reality is that Prince Wendy Schretz fell for Franz's agitation, and he didn't want those mercenaries to steal his limelight, and the Bohemian Front couldn't afford to lose face.
Needless to say, the end of the Prague rebellion was not too much to say, Palacky and Hus's military talents were not half a star, let alone pushing back hundreds of thousands of troops, and they couldn't even hold out for a day.
However, it was enough for Prince Wendy Schretz to lose his command due to dereliction of duty.
After all, the battle order was given by Archduke Karl himself, and Archduke Karl was not only Prince Wendy Schretz's old boss, but also represented the royal family and the imperial government.
Prince Wendy Schretz's behavior had crossed the line, and Franz was just taking advantage of him.
There were a number of other reasons, the first of which was that the prince's self-respecting behavior was despicable, and secondly, his military skills were so limited that Franz did not want him to waste the lives of Austrian soldiers.
Prince Wendy Schretz was not actually from a professional background, and his actual command level could not reach the average line, which can only be described as very poor.
The battles he wins are often not bright, but the battles he loses are full of slots.
Most of the wins were crushing games, with tens of thousands of heavily armed regular troops armed with cavalry versus thousands of improvised militiamen.
The loss is outrageous, and it is a fight with the previous General Li Qi in the Venetian region.
In short, compared to ability, he relied more on the shadow of the ancestors and the face of the old man.
But Prince Wendy Schretz was not something that Duke Van Troo and Lieutenant General Morka could match, and the latter, although he might have been considered a great nobleman in Vienna, was still nothing compared to the real local powers.
Franz could only take a more gentle approach to him, after all, there was nothing too serious wrong with the other party.
Later, Franz also thought about the person who would replace him, and that was Prince Felix Schwarzenberg.
In fact, Prince Felix Schwarzenberg was the brother-in-law of Prince Wendy Schretz, and according to the relationship of interests, the position of commander-in-chief of the Bohemian Army was still held by their line.
Doing so minimizes resistance and does not cause the other nobles to be overly alarmed.
But in fact Prince Felix Schwarzenberg was an excellent military strategist, after all, not everyone could do the staff of Marshal Radetzki.
Secondly, Prince Felix Schwarzenberg and Prince Wendy Schretz did not have a good relationship, and the former felt that the latter was too incompetent.
Prince Felix Schwarzenberg was less selfish than Prince Wendy Schgretz, who was a radical reformist and had a very tough attitude.
This kind of person is exactly what Franz needs most at this time, and it is also paving the way for future reforms.
Prince Felix Schwarzenberg was in sufficient status, but due to Franz's intervention that led to the rapid end of the Italian battlefield, the former was actually less meritorious than the same period in history.
Franz handed over the Bohemian Legion to him in order to accumulate military merit as soon as possible.
At this time, Franz encountered a little trouble, but in fact, this should not be a trouble from a certain point of view, but a kind of happiness.
While revolutions broke out in other parts of Europe, the German nationalists in Frankfurt were not idle.
These men intended to put together the entire German nation into an empire, and the conquest of Denmark by the mighty general Frederick William IV of Prussia was only their first step.
They were also ready to further expand the living space of the Germans, and instigated West Germany (the Dutch) to take back their own land.
The gang set their sights on French Belgium, much to the dismay of King Wilhelm II of the Netherlands.
To be honest, it was the principality of Belgium, but it was actually French territory. Netherlands
Wilhelm II's first reaction was repression, but the nationalists in the Netherlands were far more powerful than he thought.
The repressive forces sent by Wilhelm II were instantly joined by the nationalists.
At the same time, bad news came one after another in Germany, and even his most important lover advised him not to act rashly, so Wilhelm II directly became a deflated eggplant.
In fact, Franz is also credited to this, and on the other hand, the former King of Belgium, Leopold I, is planning a big event.
After the fall of the Orleans dynasty, Leopold I's life became extremely difficult, especially since the attitude of the French Provisional Government was too strong and arrogant for him to accept.
The French took it for granted that officials sent by the French Provisional Government demanded the direct reception of the Duchy of Belgium, but this was simply unacceptable to Leopold I.
The English were unreliable, the French were unreliable, and as for the Dutch, Leopold I was emotionally unacceptable, and even more unacceptable in terms of actual rights.
So Leopold I, who was interested in democracy and freedom, naturally approached the Constituent Assembly of Frankfurt.
In fact, Leopold I was a German himself, and he came from the Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld family.