Chapter 98: False Victory

Factories are hidden in the mountains, with towering chimneys belching black smoke and the roar of machinery.

The black and gold avenues lead to the sky, and the tall buildings on both sides are equally majestic.

At this time, reinforced concrete structures were far from being popularized, and the world's first reinforced concrete structure was completed in New York in 1872.

And the popularity of reinforced concrete structures will not be until mankind enters the twentieth century.

However, reinforced concrete structures were not complicated, and Franz understood them after an explanation with some of the top building engineers and materials experts in the Austrian Empire at the time.

However, they did not fully understand the scientific theories, but were convinced of the saint's words boasted by Archbishop Rauscher.

Seeing is believing, and Franz had no choice but to let the engineers and experts make a simple model by themselves.

It was a scaled down St. Stephen's Cathedral, and then began to create a series of man-made disasters to test the solidity of the building.

These include, but are not limited to, slashing, axe, shooting, shelling, flooding, fire, meteorite falls.

After many tosses, they finally came to a conclusion that the reinforced concrete structure has excellent impact resistance, explosion resistance, fire resistance and moldability, and the building structure is stable and has excellent compressive resistance.

However, they do not mention the main advantage of modern reinforced concrete structures: cheapness!

In fact, at this time, the price of steel was expensive, and the price of cement was cheap, but except for the Portland cement of the British, it was not very useful.

That's why the monarchs were shocked by the reinforced concrete buildings, partly because they had never seen such tall buildings, and partly because they were shocked by Franz's handiwork when they learned that the materials used included steel and cement.

Franz thought his experiment was successful, but the reality was that engineers and materials experts didn't care about how it worked, they just knew it worked.

Instead, physicists and chemists began to study the science behind it, and a few decades later invented a simple expansion bolt.

At this time, don't say that other countries have not mastered the technology of reinforced concrete, and even if they do, the price of steel and Portland cement is unaffordable for them.

However, Austria is different, and due to technological advances, the prices of the two materials have always been kept within an acceptable range.

The reason why Franz built so many reinforced concrete buildings in Tyrol was actually just in case.

In case things really get out of your control, or if that happens, the jungle of reinforced concrete can still be used as the last line of defense.

It was also a reluctant move to expose the military facilities in Tyrol, after all, Franz was well aware of the monstrous waves of 1848, and it would be difficult to convince those monarchs that Franz really had the needle in his hands.

Although it is rumored that the Austrian Empire is in a difficult situation both internally and externally, surrounded by strong enemies outside, and tigers and wolves are in turmoil inside, the building is about to collapse.

However, judging from the Italian battlefield alone, Franz was able to quell the rebellion in such a short time and solve the Italian coalition army, the so-called tiger wolf, a strong enemy, but Erl.

Although the British press was still advocating the Bohemian Revolution at this time, it is said that the so-called "Bohemian Revolution" was confined to the city of Prague, and the rebellion lasted only 38 hours, not even two days.

As for the Hungarians, who were in a good mood before, it seems that they haven't moved for a long time.

It's not that the Hungarians are learning to behave, on the contrary they have always wanted to make big news, after all, the more they make a fuss, the more international support and compromisers in Austria will be.

When the news of Baugjani's attack on Pressburg reached Budapest, the whole city, and indeed the whole of Hungary, was in a state of flux.

Kossuth called it the "Miracle of May", and Pedolfi wrote a series of poems dedicated to it.

The aristocracy and capitalists had already considered how to carve up Austria, and a section of the Hungarian ultra-nationalists had begun to spread the theory of racial selection.

That is, only those who have the blood of the Huns are worthy of life, and the alien peoples without the blood of the Huns can only be citizens of the second class, but they must be completely Hungarianized and transformed into the great Hungary.

More people joined the army in order to participate in the feast of the partition of Austria, and those who signed up were able to line up all the way from Pest to Buda.

Kossuth and Pedolfi climbed from the tower of Buda Castle to see the city, where a steady stream of Hungarian nationalists, volunteers, ethnic minorities supporting the Hungarians, and vast quantities of goods were converging.

"See? The great Hungarian nation has risen again, and we are all in one! And our enemies"

With a wave of his hand, Kossuth threw countless letters written in German into the air.

"They sent us a surrender!"

"Haha!"

"Haha!"

"That's how the lower peoples are! No! All Europeans are like this! Look at those Transylvanians, Croats, Serbs!

Look at their faces! After hearing that we had conquered Pressburg, they rushed to join our cause with all kinds of supplies.

They abandoned even their ancestors and wanted to join the great Hungarian nation. We don't want this garbage! You say yes, right? Mr. Kossuth. ”

It was Tyutkale, an ultra-Hungarian nationalist who spoke.

Before the outbreak of the Hungarian Revolution, he infiltrated the student dormitory in the middle of the night with a machete and stabbed to death four ethnic German students, and was called "the bravest man in Hungary".

He was released after the outbreak of the Hungarian Revolution, and because of his ruthless behavior, he soon became Kossuth's right-hand man.

Kossuth had always admired him, but this time he shook his head.

"No, Tyutkale, my brother. Our great Hungarian motherland still needs some people who do the dirty work.

Are we going to let our warriors dig up dung and dig up food in the fields? Noble Hungarians are inherently fit to rule, and we should follow our gifts.

I believe you are also more suited as a ruler than a servant. My brother, the future of Hungary, every Hungarian will have his or her own place.

This is our future, and this is what we strive for. May we all be like dragons"

Everyone in Hungary was basking in the dream of storming Vienna, but the good news they had been waiting for did not come.

In fact, Bajani also wanted to continue to win, but his strength did not allow it. It was true that he received a large number of reinforcements from within Hungary, but all the cavalry and infantry that came were lacking siege weapons.

Although Baujani could deceive one of the fortresses on the outskirts of Presbourg, it was a bit of a fantasy to try to deceive the gates of each fortress.

Baujani did launch a few assaults, but the result was that the walls were broken up before they could even touch them.

(End of chapter)