Chapter 782: Mistakenly hitting the wrong side of the car
Chapter 765 – Mistakenly Hitting a Side Car
A mountain of corpses and a sea of blood was the true portrayal of the Near East battlefield at this moment. The war had gotten so far that both sides had already killed each other.
Everyone had only one goal – to kill the enemy. In order to win, everyone had given up the bottom line, and various means of refreshing the bottom line were constantly being staged.
The power that erupted from the combination of religion and war was terrifying. Human bombs became conventional weapons, and some people even used children as young as seven or eight years old as launchers.
Binding bombs to children and waving whips to drive them forward, with cries and explosions ringing out at the same time, there is no greater hell on earth.
When sympathy is exhausted, the consequences are naturally disastrous, and the bloodiest places of the war were turned into no-man’s-land after the war.
Looking at the information transmitted back, around the knowledgeable Franz, but also silent. The only reaction was that the Ottomans were “crazy”.
Defeat is not terrible, as long as the people are still there, there is hope for a comeback, people are gone, then nothing.
Now is the 19th century, international public opinion more or less can play a little role. Everyone knows that a faceless government like Austria’s is not likely to commit genocide.
Prior to this, the Vienna government had already made plans for the relocation of immigrants, and even the place had been chosen.
A scenic Arctic Ocean island with a mild climate, lots of sunshine, little rain, and a good living environment, perfect for tourism.
For this island, the Vienna government also compensated the British Canadian colonial government with a huge sum of 15,000 pounds to obtain sovereignty.
As things stood, Franz felt that the Vienna government would save a great deal of money on the cost of relocating immigrants.
According to the data coming back from the Allied command, the number of Allied troops killed in action had topped 117,000 by Christmas, and the number of casualties was as high as 547,000.
The Austrian army alone had paid a heavy price of 59,000 killed and 287,000 casualties, with the first wave of cannon fodder corps essentially wiped out and the second wave suffering heavy losses.
The allied armies all suffered such heavy losses, and as the side that took the beating, the Ottoman Empire’s troop losses were naturally even more severe.
According to incomplete statistics, up until now, the Ottoman Empire had permanently lost more than one million troops.
There is no way, the Ottoman Empire has not established a perfect battlefield medical care system so far, the medical staff is too few, the battlefield hospital can not even fully guarantee the officers, the ordinary soldiers rely on **** blessing for minor injuries, and serious injuries please comrades in arms to help relieve them.
The army loss is so big, civilian casualties are even more impossible to count, anyway, the number of deaths is certainly more than the army.
The cruelty of the war in the Near East, in the European continent or sparked a furor, anti-war once again became a hot topic.
Even Austria also appeared anti-war thinking, of course, the dominant or the main war faction, mainly to beat the Ottoman too angry.
As long as the history books were opened, everyone was motivated to exterminate the Ottomans. The anti-war faction was only against the war, not against destroying the Ottomans.
Just as the eaters were pointing out the war, on a sunny day, the Kingdom of Prussia and the Kingdom of Hanover completed their merger.
It was really low key, even though everyone knew that Prussia and Hanover had been hooking up, but no one could have imagined that they would be able to form a federal empire.
On February 14, 1883, Emperor George I of the German Federal Empire was crowned Emperor of the United Hampshire Empire, and the European world got another crown.
Prussia and Hanover formed a dualistic empire, and the North German region had been substantially unified.
Numerous smaller states resisted the troublesome entry of Prussia in the Imperial Council, which ended in failure.
Legally Prussia and Hanover shared a state quota, which was the Emperor’s prerogative, and no one could object if they wanted to.
The precedent set by the Habsburgs, where the Hungarian region and the Balkans were able to become part of the Shenroe Empire as part of Austria, was now simply followed by George I.
With the unification of North Germany, the German Federal Reich was now able to call itself the “North German Reich”, theoretically on a par with the Habsburgs’ new Shinra Empire.
In St. Petersburg, Alexander III slammed the table and asked: “Did you not promise me that the government in Vienna would never let the merger of Germany and Prussia go ahead?
Now, as you wished, Prussia and Germany have really merged. But where is the Austrian intervention that you promised?”
Many European countries were pushing for a Prussian-German merger to check Austria, but this definitely did not include the Russian Empire.
The Prussian-Russian War had been fought so bloody that the two sides had long been feuding, and there was no possibility of unraveling it.
After the unification of the North German region, it is true that it can increase the difficulty of Austria’s unification of the German region, but Russia has also added a strong enemy in the west.
This is the volume of the decision. Do not look at the Kingdom of Prussia was split up, a lot of areas merged into Hanover, in this newborn empire in the position of the second, think that the anti-Russian forces weakened.
The reality is that no matter how much the land is split up, the people on it are still the same, and the power of hatred will keep these people on the opposite side of Russia.
Demographically, the number of people who hate Russia makes up a large part of this fledgling empire, and most of the rest don’t have a good feeling about the Russians either.
There is no doubt that Russophobia is the mainstream of this fledgling empire. Don’t expect the two sides to reconcile until this generation is dead.
The Tsar’s government does not care if there is only one more hostile country; there are many countries in the world that are hostile to Russia, and they are still living their lives as usual.
But North Germany was different; it was a powerful fellow. If Prussia had not lost so many of its young men, the Prussian-German merger would not have been in the least weaker than the Prussian-Polish Confederation that preceded it.
Even if Prussia hurt the vitality, the newborn North German Empire also has the strength of the former Pupo Confederation seven or eight points, which is already enough to create pressure on the vitality of Russia.
The inaction of the Vienna government left the Tsarist government confused.
Numbed by Alexander III’s murderous gaze, Foreign Minister Oskar Jimenez, who was directly responsible, could only reply stiffly.
“All of Austria’s attention was focused on the Near Eastern battlefield, ignoring the changing situation in Central Europe to the extent that it allowed the British to take advantage of the situation.
Suddenly struck by a huge change, the Vienna government probably did not react, and that is why it was slow to take action.”
The more he said, the lower his voice got, and cold sweat broke out on Oscar Jimenez’s forehead. There was no way, it was just impossible to make it up.
He was the Russian Foreign Minister, not the Austrian Foreign Minister, it was only normal that he didn’t know what was going on; if he did, he would be the greatest diplomatic strategist of the century.
Analyzing it on the bright side, it didn’t make sense in any way, so how could Oscar Jiménez explain it?
Alexander III sneered, “Nonsense! Things have already happened, and you’re just giving me this, what did you do earlier?
Can you believe that the government of Vienna would neglect Central Europe?”
No wonder Alexander III was so out of sorts, the two Russo-Prussian wars had pitched the Tsarist government into too much of a corner, and he really didn’t want to come back a third time.
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It wasn’t just the Russians who didn’t want to see a Prussian-German merger, as far away as Paris Napoleon IV was equally furious.
Without so much as a reason, simply because it got in the way. The birth of the North German Empire made France’s eastward strategy more difficult.
The recent French Revolution was the result of a number of factors, one of which was the energy crisis.
In the aftermath, all walks of life in France came to the conclusion that there had to be a stable source of raw coal in order to secure the energy supply in the country.
Until a new source of raw coal is found, the eastward strategy is an irreplaceable link.
If France was not still recuperating and the anti-war wave had not yet faded, domestic interest groups would have taken action long ago.
After venting a pass, Napoleon IV calmed down, “If we were to intervene now, what are the chances that we could interrupt the Prussian-German merger?”
Foreign Minister Terence Burgin replied in alarm, “No, that would never do!”
“Your Majesty, the anti-French alliance appears to be dissolved, but in reality the forces hostile to us in the European world are still strong, and a single misstep could ……”
Napoleon IV impatiently waved his hand, “Don’t be alarmist here, the Anti-French Alliance is only Britain, Russia, and Austria that are worth being wary of.
Now the Russians have made their position clear against the merger of Prussia and Germany, and although Austria has not made its position clear, I don’t believe that they will be willing to give up the unification of the German region.
Pulling Russia and Austria together to intervene, even if the remaining European countries oppose it together, they can’t help us.”
There is no problem, France, Russia and Austria happen to be the world’s three continental military powers, and the three countries can sweep the world by joining forces on land.
Foreign Minister Terrence Burgin explained with a bitter smile, “Your Majesty, Russia and Austria will not join forces with us.
Austria wants to unify the German region, it has to focus on its reputation. They will not join forces with anyone when it comes to the internal affairs of the German region.
The Czarist government might want to intervene, their finances are too bad to come up with the military funds to intervene.”
Hearing this explanation, Napoleon IV instantly wimped out.
The situation in France was not so good now, if the tsarist government had no money before the Revolution, Napoleon IV could still be generous, now the Paris government’s pockets were not bulging either.
Can not pull the allies to do it alone, Napoleon IV really do not dare to try, in case of public anger, no one can bear the consequences.
After a few moments of contemplation, Napoleon IV slowly asked: “The Austrians delayed, know what is the reason?”
The more irrational it is, the easier it is to arouse suspicion. The Vienna government did not react to the unification of the North German region, Napoleon IV had to suspect that there was a conspiracy.
Seeing the crowd in deep thought, Minister of War Luskinia Hafiz speculated, “Could the Austrians be letting the unification of the North German region go because they are afraid of us?”
Although a bit narcissistic, the crowd did not object. Even after a civil unrest, France was still the most feared monster in everyone’s eyes.
(End of chapter)