However, with the example of the German coalition, the inhabitants of Celesta suddenly demanded more from the army.

Crowds of demonstrators stood in front of the town hall every day, and Mayor Blanqui clearly did not want to suppress his partners who had resisted the invasion with him.

Fanny Curt is also annoyed by the disturbing soldiers, and she tries to find a few culprits to punish them, but she soon discovers that almost everyone in the army is committing crimes.

And those people have their own reasons, after all, the Orleans dynasty did treat them badly, and they did shed blood for the dynasty and for the city of Celesta.

Fanny Curt, an idealist with only the most simple emotions, couldn't think of a solution, so she tried to copy Franz's method to make money.

But she didn't have money at all, her money had long been used to buy weapons and ammunition.

The destruction of the Franco-Swiss expeditionary force had been expected by Franz, but he did not expect the Shotgun Prince to intervene.

Franz originally wanted to strengthen the prestige of the Count of Chambord, after all, it would be a bit of a favoritism to only help the Orleans family occupy the field.

The dominance of either side was not good news for Franz, because whoever took control of France would march on Italy and North Africa, which was clearly not in the national interest of Austria.

In fact, what Franz wanted most was for France to march into the lowlands, but the French did not dare to bite this bait, and the development of German nationalism was too rapid, so Franz had to temporarily abandon this plan.

Successive defeats and rising prices have brought the rule of the Second French Republic to the brink of collapse.

In June, the Kafenac had already suppressed two uprisings at the behest of Dan Guila, but this had little effect, with signs of a major uprising in Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Bordeaux, Toulouse, and even Toulon.

Franz naturally didn't mind adding another fire, donating money and materials, and even sending mercenaries and gangsters directly into France was acceptable.

The fact that the Shotgun Prince bought the body of the French commander and sent it to Berlin was a matter of tying Prussia to death in a German chariot, and it is no wonder that his brother was so angry that he suffered a stroke.

Wilhelm IV should be regarded as the most cowardly of the Prussian kings, he was afraid that the church, the Archbishop of Cologne would engage in dualism in the Rhine region, and he did not dare to send troops to suppress it.

Wilhelm IV was afraid of the people, forced to accept liberal reforms, convened a constituent assembly, and was forced to go to war with Denmark under the pressure of popular opinion.

But he was also afraid of Denmark, of Sweden, of England and, even more, of Russia.

Fear of losing the support of the German states, and fear of Austria. He wanted to exclude Austria from Germany, but did not dare to go to war with Austria, so in the end he went mad (in 1858, in history, he fell into complete madness).

Thanks to Franz, Wilhelm IV's condition progressed much faster than in history.

As for Prince Shotball, it's not surprising that he did such a thing, after all, he wasn't raised as an heir at all.

Prince Shotgun was never educated in the royal family, and was thrown into the barracks by his father, William III, at the age of ten, and sent to the battlefield at the age of seventeen to face real battles.

Compared to the army commanded by Napoleon, Pellisier's expeditionary force was a joke at all, so in Switzerland he was completely unintimidated, and even wanted to ride a war horse and have a "fair" one-on-one duel with Pellisier.

William III hoped that Prince Shotgun would become a loyal, brave warrior who could sacrifice everything for the sake of his family and country, and he succeeded, but William IV was numb.

In fact, due to William III's education problems, William IV's remaining two younger brothers also had this problem, and often became inexplicably brave, and the latter was also heartbroken in order to hold down the three younger brothers who took turns to be sick.

Franz did not choose to go on the offensive after the liberation of Celesta, and although some in the coalition advocated continuing the attack on France, no one dared to actually take that step without Franz's consent and the permission of the Confederates.

After all, the hammer of France has been hanging over the heads of the Germans for hundreds of years, and these hundreds of years of coercion will not disappear with a few victories.

Franz, on the other hand, received a large number of letters expressing his willingness to surrender, and in addition to some declining aristocrats and politicians, some of them were close to each other, and even advocated democracy and freedom in the Austrian Empire.

In addition, Franz received dozens of gifts ranging in value from tens of thousands of francs to hundreds of thousands of francs, as well as more than a dozen hostages, most of whom were young and beautiful girls and young women.

Although Franz had no intention of occupying French territory, he could not chill the hearts of these French friends. He returned the money, and the money went directly to the start-up capital of the local secret intelligence network.

At the same time, in order to appease these people, Franz also sent an Austrian flag to these families one by one, ostensibly meaning that one day the Austrian army arrived, and they only had to hang this flag to prove that they were their own people.

As for the deeper meaning, it is up to their personal imagination.

According to the latest intelligence on the battlefield, Albrecht will also complete the encirclement of the French defenders of Saalburg in the near future.

The French troops on the Italian battlefield were still standing still, and they seemed to be waiting for the Austrians to make their own mistakes, but both Austria and Marshal Radetzky had time and time to wear them out.

The only thing that didn't open up as planned at this time was the Belgian battlefield, where Henri Arsène was much more cunning than expected.

No matter how much Archduke Karl lured, Henri Arsène was not fooled, and even though he had already won more than a dozen victories over the German Confederation, he showed no signs of making a rash move, but instead laid out a large number of defenses around Brussels, and collected supplies throughout Belgium and sent them to major cities.

In fact, the French commander also sent troops into Dutch territory, but not to conquer cities, but simply to plunder.

When the Allied Staff Headquarters was full of the belief that Henri Arsène would finally be unable to hold back and step into a trap that had been laid out long ago, he chose to retreat again.

After grabbing it, it will run, and even some cities that do not have a lot of troops and whose city defenses are not strong will not fight for it. At one time, the staff officers of the coalition army felt that there was a traitor in the coalition army, so the other side was able to avoid all the traps so accurately.

However, Henri Arsène was not independent of the French army's intelligence network, he simply felt the crisis.

The news of the subsequent naval battle in the Mediterranean convinced him that the Austrian Empire was far from being as incompetent as the newspaper had written, and that although he had defeated many German coalition forces that had come to Belgium's aid, none of them had an Austrian army.

According to the confessions of the captives, the Austrians were unable to reach the battlefield in the first place due to transportation problems.

Henri Arsène did not believe that it was no fluke to defeat the British twice, and that the Austrians might have planned this war for a long time, so they did not dare to be careless, and even prepared for the worst.

(End of chapter)

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