Chapter 64: Riding a Tiger is Hard to Get Down

  Chapter 64 – Riding the Tiger is Difficult

Milan City

Marshal Badorio has been very annoyed lately, ever since April 7th, after the Kingdom of Sardinia announced the annexation of Lombardy, there have been a bunch of democrats running out to protest.

He has no say in the affairs of the country, let alone these people, so he naturally dispersed them with his troops.

Good thing, the Austrian army has suppressed a round, hardcore was killed almost, the provisional government is also bought buy, house arrest of house arrest, the rest of these people are only the king of the mouth cannon.

“Your Excellency Marshal, there’s another group of people outside petitioning for you to send troops to retake Venice!” The valet whispered

This isn’t the first time there have been petitions against the army, petitions for independence, petitions for autonomy, petitions for increased food rations ……

In short, it didn’t matter if Badolio could make the call or not, it was as if the people of Lombardy had identified with him, and when there was something to do, they went to the marshal to petition.

Heroes are not that easy to be, in order to maintain his own glorious image, Badorio had to make an appearance of vainly accepting advice.

In addition to the demand for independence, he sent troops to the expulsion of the other petition to the Wood, he will meet with the petition representatives, and in the process explain their own difficulties.

For example, the military’s non-interference in politics was the reason he used most often.

Said more, now Badorio himself some believe that this is true, recently he rarely intervene in the Lombardy region politics, unless the local government people take the initiative to find him.

“Let them send in a representative!” Badorio said with a frown

There was no way to avoid it this time. Sending troops to the Venice region could not only be a political issue, it was more of a military issue, now that the command of the troops on the frontline of the Sardinian Kingdom were under his command, this time it was the right person.

Soon two students look like people were brought in, Bardolio brow Zou more tightly, the middle two teenagers God horse most headache.

“Honorable Marshal Sir, I’m Reem, he’s Townsend, nice to meet you!”

Looking at the excited two teenagers, Badorio politely returned, “I’m also glad to meet you, can you show me the petition first?”

“Oh, yes!” Reem replied in a hurry

Receiving the petition, Badorio quickly scanned through it. It was a letter of blood, the content inside was hot-blooded, and there were dense signatures at the back, he was almost moved.

“I accept this petition, I will forward it to the king as soon as possible, but when to launch an attack on Venice, this is a military secret I cannot disclose.

Right now we are preparing for a military attack, we all know what happened some time ago, right, because of insufficient preparation, causing everyone to starve together.

This time we have learned our lesson, so the preparation time before the war should be longer, we can’t be forced to stop the military operation again because of the problem of food.

The Austrians have a total force of up to 500,000 to 600,000 troops, and once the Venice war starts, they will definitely send reinforcements, and right now I don’t have enough troops in my hands.

Domestic reinforcements are still on their way, and the recruits just recruited in Lombardy are still in training, all of which will take time.

However, don’t worry, the final victory will definitely belong to us!”

Listening to Badorio’s explanation, the two teenagers kept nodding their heads, they were both military novices, and there was no internet in this era, the domestic situation in Austria was not clear to them.

According to normal thinking, that is, Austria is very powerful, can win the Austrian Marshal Badorio, that is the world’s first general, what he said must be right.

“Victory will definitely belong to us, Your Excellency the Marshal we all believe in you. You are definitely not the cowardly legend out there, they are all jealous of your talent!” Townsend said in a panic

Badorio suddenly felt a bunch of grass mud horses running through his heart, can you not say it so directly, you will have no friends this way.

Attacking Venice? Isn’t this bullshit, do you really think Austria is paper mache?

Now his hands nominally have 150,000 troops, more than the opposite Austrian nearly one-third, but this 150,000 troops of water is too heavy, of which nearly 70,000 people are recruited on the spot.

The Italians have not been trusted by the government of Vienna, so the Austrian army did not engage in local reserves, and now Badolio recruited up soldiers, in fact, are just put down the hoe farmers, or workers in the city.

Even the grass-roots officers have a gap, the Italian region is not the German region, especially the heavily commercialized Lombardy, the local aristocracy’s military literacy that is straight down.

It can be said that this temporary integration of troops, is used to make up the number of people, and now even the manpower of a gun are not fully equipped, used to do logistics, maintenance of the local security is not bad.

If they are sent to the battlefield, they will be sending head to the enemy, the real main force of this war is still the Sardinian Kingdom Army.

The real main force of this war is the Sardinian Army. 80,000 Sardinian Army PK 100,000 Austrian Army, how to see how unreliable, this is the reason why they stopped attacking.

But the people didn’t know that they were simply calculating the total army strength, the Austrian army in the Italian region only totaled 100,000, and because of the suppression of the revolution, it was now reduced by several thousand.

The 150,000 troops of Sardinia, with the cooperation of the people of Venice, could not defeat the 90,000 Austrian troops?

Marshal Badolio’s pressure is not too much, the Lombardy native power has just defected to the Sardinian Kingdom, and does not dare to do things, and now come to the student representatives, a short period of time, he also fooled the past.

King Charles is not the same, a bunch of various groups within the Kingdom of Sardinia, he is just borrowing the war to divert the domestic conflicts, the result is overplayed, and now radical nationalists every day urging him to send troops to Venice.

This is his own pot, in order to ease the domestic political pressure, King Charles made a big fuss about the Sardinian army defeating the Austrians in Lombardy, which made a lot of people mistakenly think that Austria was nothing more than that.

Public opinion is the easiest thing to fall into a frenzy, and Charles Albert forgot that it was too much, or rather he knew it was no use, public opinion was simply out of his control.

Nationalism was now running high in the Italian region, and the Kingdom of Sardinia, which was the most nationalistic in the Italian region, was spurred on by the defeat of the Austrian army, and nationalism was once again on the rise.

By this time, nationalism mixed with patriotism was on the verge of getting out of hand, and again they were being constantly reminded that the Venetian region was still under the rule of the Austrians.

Since the annexation of Lombardy by the Kingdom of Sardinia, all the populace was rejoicing over the further unification of Italy, and the Austrian-controlled Venetian region was an eyesore at this time.

The Kingdom of Sardinia was already on the ropes!

(End of chapter)