The Tizuno River front.

The Austrian Empire's airship forces were slow, but they were unstoppable.

The shadow cast by the huge airship hung over the French position, and the soldiers looked with horror and fear at the approaching beast of war.

The Austrian airboaters dropped the fuse-lit grenades off the airship, and it took a single explosion to bring the French back to reality, and they began to flee frantically to avoid the deadly explosives.

It was the first time that most of the French soldiers had seen the beast of war such as airships, and although they did not collapse directly like the original Italian coalition army, most of them were incapacitated by fear.

The commanders of the French front tried to reorganize the defensive line, but their command was of no avail, some broke down and screamed, others kept fighting back in vain against the sky, and many more ran around like headless flies.

In fact, the shock of these airboats to the Austrian soldiers was no less than that of the French army, because most of them saw these flying behemoths for the first time.

But fortunately, it was their own combat unit, and it did not make the soldiers fearful. This, coupled with the boasting of the chaplains and officers, only made them more fanatical.

Heavy artillery, rockets, and airboats tore apart the carefully arranged defense line of the Tienaut River, and in fact the French launched several counterattacks, but the results were not ideal.

Because the French soldiers could do nothing about all this, and there was no point in filling the battle line with flesh and blood.

If the opponent is only a person, even if it is several times the strength of their own side, these proud French soldiers may not dare to fight.

However, they were first confronted by cold weapons of war and monstrous beasts never seen in the sky, and then by the influx of Austrian soldiers.

There was no suspense in the battle, the French line of the river beach was completely lost, and the Austrian army advanced on all fronts.

However, Marshal Radetzky did not completely wipe out the heavy French army in one fell swoop, as the staff had imagined, but drove them into the nearby cities.

This was only the first step in the plan, at which point Benedek was recalled to the army by Marshal Radetzky, who was to continue the siege of the French army as the commander of the front, while the latter was to lead an elite force of 50,000 men straight to Turin.

On the other hand, the rear battlefield that Bellevue was personally responsible for had already been turned into a mess at this time.

Bellevue has a very bad habit of commanding the first momentum of the battle, so he often makes several situations at the same time.

Bellevue wanted to split up and strike together, so that the enemy could not take care of each other, but the reality was that his tactics had once again put the French army in a quagmire. In order to completely annihilate the rebels entrenched between Savillano and Turin, Belvi decided to send troops to all the cities occupied by the French army to Savigliano.

In this way, all guerrilla and local armed forces along the way will be wiped out, leaving the enemy with nothing to hide.

And he did, fighting all the guerrillas, the volunteers, and the local armed forces throughout the kingdom of Sardinia.

The desperate forces were forced to go to war with the French army and its servants, and for a time the entire kingdom of Sardinia was in a pot of porridge.

When the news of the loss of the Tiseno front arrived, the Republican Army of Sardinia mutinied, and some French troops lost the will to resist.

Bellevue didn't have time to get angry, and along with this bad news came another bad news, that is, Radetzky's main force had made a beeline for the city of Turin.

Bellevie's first thought was to evacuate immediately, because he knew that he could not win against Radetzky, although the opponent was only an old man, but this was Austria's home field, and the enemy would only fight more and more.

Immediately evacuate the city of Turin, leaving a part of his forces to block the Austrian pursuers, and he could indeed escape alive.

However, he had been in Sardinia for so long that even if he returned to France, he would have to take responsibility for the entire war.

If it was during the Orleans dynasty, he was forced to resign, but now it is the Second French Republic, and with such a major defeat, he will have to be guillotined if he cannot become Caesar.

So it's up to Bell

With his heart set on his mind, he immediately sent an envoy to prepare for an alliance with Radetzky.

Up to this point, Belvey still felt that he was qualified to negotiate with the Austrian Empire, and he sought out his Countess Judith in order to negotiate secretly with Radetzky on his behalf.

The Countess of Judith is 36 years old, but she is still one of the most active socialites in the high society of the Kingdom of Sardinia.

Bellevie's theory was still to divide the Kingdom of Sardinia on an equal footing with the Austrian Empire, and at the same time to be willing to pay for peace, and even to support Austria for the unification of Germany.

Countess Judith complied, but her heart was full of resentment and resentment.

Countess Judith was once a staunch republican, but also an Italian nationalist.

She had been looking forward to the arrival of the French and full of yearning for the Sardinian Republic.

At first, she was able to reduce what the French had done to the price that had to be paid to get to the republic, but now she finally understood that the Republic of Sardinia was nothing more than a pawn in the great power game that could be divided and discarded at will. But Countess Judith, who had boarded the ship of thieves, had no choice but to curry favor with her new master so that she could take her with her when she left Sardinia, or she would be torn to pieces by the angry populace and nationalists.

Countess Judith procured more than a dozen wagons of goods, and then rented dozens of carriages and took the city's ladies and *** to the military camp of the Austrian Empire under the escort of the French army.

This time, the Austrian army did not turn away the negotiators, and she couldn't help but smile as she looked at the soldiers who were carrying goods and peeking at the ladies.

Just this smile stunned the officers and soldiers around them, causing some to lose their minds and fail to catch the goods thrown by their companions and be knocked over on the spot.

The adjutant who came to contact him raised his voice with some displeasure and said.

"Gentlemen, if you can take Turin by tonight, I can promise you a drink on behalf of the marshal."

"Really?"

"Red, yellow?"

"Can I use my own cup if I want?"

One soldier raised his flask, causing a burst of laughter.

Soldiers, you said a word to me, and this broke the embarrassment just now.

"Ma'am, please come here, please."

Countess Judith took off her gloves, revealing her slender hands.

The adjutant at Marshal Radetzky's side was clearly not like the uninformed soldiers, and he simply invited the lady into the marshal's room according to the standard etiquette of the nobility.

When Countess Judith entered the room, it was covered with clouds and mist, and there was a huge sand table in the middle of the house.

The officers seemed to have just finished a meeting, and few of them looked at her twice, but a few of the young men snorted disdainfully.

In the end, only the adjutant and two tall guards were left, and an old man who seemed to be very shrewd and competent.

"Hello, ma'am. How can I help you?"

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