Chapter 76: Sick and desperate for help

  Chapter 76: The Sickness of the Sickness of the Sick

“War has to serve politics”, this is the best excuse Franz came up with, can’t say that we are worried about history repeating itself, the Hungarians violently erupted in a wave and pushed back the Bohemian Legion?

This said out no one believe, the Bohemian Legion has 100,000 troops, even if it is a discount of 50 percent, then there are 50,000 regular troops. How many Hungarian troops does Budapest have now?

The Republic of Hungary nominally has quite a lot of troops, but in reality Kossuth is able to support the movement of a very limited number of troops, all levels of local government have national self-defense forces, many of which are empty.

Kossuth government collected part of the front line of the routed soldiers, Budapest nominal total strength reached 80,000, an average of two or three people a gun, and the morale of the troops, can have a few points of combat effectiveness?

Prince Wendischgretz, who was a soldier and a politician at the same time, would naturally not refute this statement.

“Your Highness, could it be that the government has some plans?”

Franz smiled and said, “Your Excellency the Prince, have you forgotten the Italian battlefield?”

Prince Windischgraetz nodded, even though he didn’t think the Sardinian Kingdom was a trouble, he wouldn’t refuse to win the war more easily.

With the Austrian main force out in force, the Republic of Hungary was at stake, and if the Kingdom of Sardinia didn’t attack Venice, then instead of 100,000 Austrian troops, they would have to face 200,000 or 300,000 in the future.

Can not be more, suppressing the Hungarian rebellion this is a homegrown war, the Habsburgs did not make the country angry, there is a popular base in order to be able to support this scale of war.

“Order the troops on the front line, all give me a steady hand, step by step forward, don’t give the enemy an opportunity to take advantage of it!” Franz added

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The territory of the Kingdom of Hungary was substantially not small, amounting to more than 300,000 square kilometers, more than three times the size of the Republic of Hungary in the latter days.

By this time, two-thirds of the area had fallen to the Austrian government, and politically, the previous political offensive by the Vienna government had been very successful.

The nearest Bohemian legion to Budapest was only a few dozen kilometers away, and the farthest away, the Transylvanian legion, was no more than three hundred kilometers from Budapest.

Since the outbreak of the war began, the Hungarian government was in a state of fear and many regretted it.

Austria’s reaction is much bigger than they expected, the normal operation is not always the first to send the police to arrest people, after failing to send a few thousand troops to suppress, and then fail and then continue to increase troops ……

In short, the Republic of Hungary relied on brushing the Austrian copies, constantly winning, and then forcing the Austrian government to recognize their independence, which is what the Kossuth government imagined the Hungarian War of Independence to be, with reference to the American War of Independence.

There may be setbacks in it, they may encounter defeats, and in the end the victory must belong to the Republic of Hungary.

The height of deception is to deceive even oneself.

Well, they may not be cheats, but they did compile such a beautiful dream. If such a dream did not exist, it could not have sustained them to this point.

Unfortunately, the director had taken the wrong script at the beginning, and the novice copy that was clearly sending experience to upgrade suddenly turned into a copy of hell, and they were directly about to fight the big BOSS, but they were only level 0, right?

Budapest.

Forced by the situation, Kosut had to turn to his greatest political opponent, Count Istvan, for help.

Istvan Széchenyi, one of the great Hungarian nobles and the greatest reformer in Hungary, had a high reputation in the country.

Unlike Kossuth, who rose to power through speeches, this was a practical man who had made outstanding contributions in the fields of education, transportation, culture, politics, and economics, and was regarded as Hungary’s greatest man.

It has been proven that a practical man can’t beat a mouthpiece in terms of influence, hence the Hungarian Republic, as Istvan remained loyal to the Emperor and opposed any violent revolution.

Politically, Istvan believed that any economic, political and social reforms must be carried out slowly and carefully to avoid unforeseen consequences.

While Sutt advocated the creation of a rapidly industrializing state, Istvan favored the preservation of a traditionally strong agriculture and the continuation of an agrarian state.

The greatest conflict between the two sides was over the national question, with Istvan arguing that Hungary was a multi-ethnic country where people were divided by language, culture, and religion, and that it was dangerous to pursue nationalism.

He believed that what Hungary needed at the outset was gradual economic, social and cultural progress, and opposed excessive radicalism and nationalism.

Kossuth’s nationalism proved to be unworkable, and the Vienna government easily polarized Hungary internally.

Kossuth had no choice but to seek help from his former political rivals.

“Your Excellency the Count, for the future of the thirteen million people of the Hungarian Republic, I have come to ask you to come forward!”

Istvan shook his head, and only spoke after half a second, “Your Hungarian Republic doesn’t have over thirteen million people, it probably won’t even have half a million people, and the rest of the people are His Majesty Ferdinand’s subjects!”

Invisible pretenses hit the face the most, Istvan directly named the real reason why the Republic of Hungary was in trouble.

Because of the government’s radical ethnic policy, the minorities of the Hungarian Republic, all chose to remain loyal to the Emperor.

The republican government did not solve the land issue, and then the peasants decided to be loyal to the emperor; the republican government did not consider the interests of the working class, and then the workers decided to be loyal to the emperor.

The last ones left were the capitalists and the aristocracy, and there is no doubt that a considerable part of this group was still loyal to the Emperor, and not many people really identified with the Hungarian Republic.

“Your Excellency the Count, now that the Hungarian Republic has been established and the Austrian army is about to kill them, can you bear to just watch Hungary end?” Kossuth questioned with an angry face

Istvan calmly said, “Mr. Kosut, don’t say these useless things. I started in the army at the age of 17, during which I participated in the war against France and stayed in the army for 18 years before retiring.

I know military matters better than you do, and militarily speaking, I don’t see any possibility of winning. You tell me, what can I do now?

Of course, if it is you who are going to give up your independence and prepare to negotiate with the government in Vienna, that is another matter!”

Kosut’s face was terribly grim, and although deep down he approved of Istvan’s statement, with his mouth he could not admit it.

As the head of the Hungarian Republic, he had practically no choice but to fight to the death, and peace talks were tantamount to the end of political life.

It’s not easy, finally reached the conditions for a raise ????!

Thanks to Magic Young Boy’s Hall of Fame and Georgia’s Takeshi Kaneshiro’s helm!

According to the old rule of continuing, it should be added three times, today first add one time, the rest after the shelves also ????????

(End of chapter)