I Am the Crown Prince in France

Chapter 471 The Bored Leopold II (monthly votes requested at the end of the month!)

The cold wind of early spring bent the weeds outside the village of Gyulai, revealing the huge crowd below the slope.

The leading Austrian officer pointed to the French camp in the distance and shouted to boost morale: "Let the French know how powerful we are!"

The seven or eight hundred Austrian soldiers behind him immediately responded: "Teach those bastards a lesson!"

"Let them pay the price!"

However, when they walked to the top of the slope with great momentum, they all stopped.

On the open space outside the French camp, there were twice as many Frenchmen standing in a semi-arc, looking at them with a sneer.

"You..." The Austrian officer swallowed his saliva and pointed at the French battalion commander who had made an appointment with him, "You actually came with so many people, it's simply despicable!"

The battalion commander stepped forward a few steps and said with a smile: "If you are afraid, go back."

His words immediately attracted laughter from the French soldiers.

The Austrian officer said stubbornly: "Who is afraid of you? If you have the guts, use the same number of people as us to fight!"

"It's my ability to find so many people." The French battalion commander looked behind him, "You can also go back and call for help, but I'm afraid the timid Austrians don't dare to come at all."

"Humph, isn't it just a lot of people? There are so many Austrian warriors!"

The French battalion commander took out his pocket watch and opened the cover: "Okay, I'll wait for you for two hours and see how many people you can find."

Several Austrian legions returned to their respective garrisons and described the arrogant appearance of the French. The Austrian soldiers who were originally unwilling to fight for fear of being punished suddenly became angry and rushed to the open space outside the French camp regardless of anything.

Two hours later.

Nearly two thousand Austrian soldiers looked at the French who were obviously getting nervous with pride, and at the command of the officer, they rushed up in a black crowd.

Seeing this, the French battalion commander smiled and turned to shout to the soldiers: "There are too many of them, retreat!"

The French immediately ran towards the camp in a mess, but many of them were caught up by the Austrian soldiers and inevitably suffered a few blows.

The news of the victory in the fight was quickly passed back to the Austrian camp, and more soldiers were encouraged to come and watch the fun or participate in it.

Nearly an hour later, more than 3,000 Austrians blocked the French camp, watching the opponents who were bruised and swollen and dared not come out, laughing wantonly, and venting their previous grievances.

At this moment, there was a dense sound of horse hooves in the distance. Before the Austrian soldiers could react, they saw Marshal Lacy with his guards and a large number of cavalry roaring in.

Lacy received a "report" in the early morning, saying that some soldiers wanted to retaliate against the French because of the punishment for the previous fight.

He had just been reprimanded by Leopold II for this a few days ago, and immediately led people back from the Breslau front. Then he saw the scene in front of him.

Soon, both sides of the fight were gathered together with their heads down. Then, Berthier also came and quickly asked his men to count the number of French soldiers injured - a total of more than 420 people were injured.

Marshal Lacy looked at the fighting French suspiciously, feeling that they seemed to be fine.

Berthier said with a gloomy face: "The injured have been sent to the field hospital. Marshal, this time your people came to our camp to make trouble and injured so many people, you must punish them severely!"

Lacy's face was also black, staring at the soldiers who made trouble, and nodded: "Please rest assured, I will not tolerate it!"

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Leopold II, who was busy with the voting of the Elector, frowned and looked at the report on the fight between French and Austrian soldiers, and couldn't help but feel annoyed.

The number of people involved on both sides actually reached tens of thousands - according to the precedent of the French army last time, as long as someone in the company participated in the fight, all officers would be punished, so the number of people involved was extremely large.

The report said that all the punished French soldiers had been transferred back to their country for rectification. In addition to those who were transferred back last time because of the fight, the Kellermann Corps left in Silesia had only half of its troops left.

He remembered the report submitted by the Minister of Finance a few days ago. The French army in Silesia consumed almost twice as much supplies as the Austrian army of the same number.

The Hungarian troops who had just arrived in Liegnitz had their logistics supplies compressed as a result.

"These spoiled French people are still so restless..."

Leopold II rubbed his forehead. Not long ago, he heard that French soldiers had to boil water before drinking.

At this time, his attendant handed him the letter that had just been sent from Paris.

Leopold II opened it and saw that it was sent by the French Crown Prince. The main content was a strong protest against the Austrian army beating French soldiers.

Yes, the incident took place in the French camp, and the French soldiers were beaten unilaterally, so this was the evidence that the Austrian soldiers came to make trouble and beat people!

The artillery battalion commander who went to anger the Austrians was arranged by Berthier at the instruction of Joseph.

Before the fight, he had already told the soldiers to run away as soon as the fight started and not to fight back.

Because they ran fast, less than 50 French soldiers were beaten, and they were all slightly injured. However, it was Berthier's men who counted the number of injured, and the location was in the French camp. In such a chaotic situation, naturally, what he said was what he counted.

In the letter, the French crown prince expressed his dissatisfaction with the military discipline of the Austrian soldiers, and proposed that the French and Austrian armies should be temporarily separated to rectify their military discipline.

In the afternoon, the anti-French ministers gathered by Walter also began to create public opinion. Of course, what they said was that the French army's military discipline was corrupt, which seriously affected the combat effectiveness of the coalition.

In the end, Leopold II, who was upset by a series of troubles, wrote back to Joseph and agreed to let the French army temporarily leave Silesia for reorganization.

This also happened to free up supplies for the newly transferred Hungarian Corps.

On April 19, 1790, the last French army withdrew from Silesia and embarked on the journey home.

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Paris.

In the carriage, Joseph looked at Berthier's itinerary for the French army to evacuate Silesia, and couldn't help but smile comfortably.

He originally thought that it would take a few more troubles before Leopold II agreed to "send away the plague god", but he didn't expect to send the French army away so quickly.

It should be because the Hungarian nobles provided a lot of support to the emperor for canceling the reform, which gave him confidence.

At present, Silesia has become a "personal feud" between Prussia and Austria, and France can easily eat melons and then sell supplies to both sides.

As long as this international situation can be maintained for a few years, it is not a fantasy for France to catch up with Britain's national strength.

Joseph thought of Perna's contribution in this incident again, and was thinking about whether he could give her a medal or something, but he didn't notice that Camelia, who was sitting opposite, was preparing something with blushing cheeks.