The Sun Never Sets In Spain

The results of the first day of the Pau-Austrian battlefield spread quickly, and all countries except France felt a little reassured.

Prussia was better than they thought.

Before that, Britain was ready to take action in person and send a volunteer army to help Prussia stabilize its front.

Although the United Kingdom is not good at the army, but the local army also has more than 200,000, and its combat power is absolutely first-class in Europe. The quality of individual soldiers is probably higher than that of Prussia.

The action route of the Austro-Hungarian Empire on the first day was also carefully analyzed by the military strategists of various countries, and they soon saw their intention to cut off the North and South Germany.

When Spain captured Strasbourg, it didn't cause much turbulence. After being on guard for a while, Prussia didn't see what Prim was trying to do, so they exposed the matter and didn't take it seriously.

Did not expect to wait for them here.

It can be seen that Spain definitely knew the offensive plan of the Austro-Hungarian Empire for a long time.

In all fairness, Prussia did not want to provoke Spain, what if it was upgraded from sending volunteers to officially participating in the war.

But Strasbourg can't take it. With the current situation, the importance of the place is infinitely higher.

It is not an exaggeration to say that it is held in the hands of a foreign country.

Whether the Prim army goes north to cut off supplies, or moves east to reconcile with Austria-Hungary, there is a risk of total collapse.

Although Spain does not intend to get involved too deeply, who would dare to gamble with this.

Even though the troops were short, Prussia still forced four divisions in two days, a total of 110,000 people attacked Strasbourg.

At this time, the defenders of Strasbourg were less than 110,000 people, and the number was slightly smaller.

And Spanish soldiers are much worse than Prussia in terms of individual quality and artillery performance.

The city walls of Strasbourg have long been reduced to decoration, and the artillery above has long been dismantled and transported away by Prussia.

If it starts like this, Spain's chances of winning are extremely small.

Fortunately, Prim had expected it, and requested French reinforcements in advance, successfully repelling the Prussian attack.

However, the Prussian battle was indeed very tenacious. For this strategic point, the two sides could be said to have fought a real fire.

The Spanish soldiers are better, after all, they are only moral assistance, and they will withdraw when they see the situation.

The French soldiers did not want to take a step back. In the second half of the street battle, nearly 20,000 corpses were left behind by the three parties, and the ground of Strasbourg was stained with blood.

When the Battle of Strasbourg temporarily came to an end, almost a week had passed since the Austro-Hungarian Empire declared war on Prussia.

This week, according to the plan of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, all the Wehrmacht soldiers scattered in the country should be transferred to the front.

But at this time their task volume has only completed 1/3 of the scheduled.

There is often a phenomenon in which the soldiers on the original train are thrown away halfway through the journey and then pick up another group of soldiers.

The promised superiority of troops was not realized for a long time. On the contrary, because of the more developed railway transportation in Prussia, and the nearly 50,000 soldiers sent by Prussia to aid Prussia, there were more Prussian soldiers than Austro-Hungarian soldiers.

The military chaos also disrupted the civilian railroad market in Austria-Hungary.

Railways that were originally operating, whether public or private, were basically forcibly requisitioned by the military.

As a result, almost half of Austria-Hungary's transportation capacity was paralyzed.

This act generated enormous bills, which, along with artillery fire, quickly drained the imperial treasury.

In addition to transporting soldiers, the railway also transported logistical materials, but due to the tight train capacity, the logistical supply was often unable to keep up.

The logistical failure directly affected the battle on the front line.

Originally, the army was inferior to others in terms of combat effectiveness, but now the numbers and logistics are both behind, and the war is basically impossible to fight.

Not only did it fail to follow the expected plan, but it was a pincer attack from Strasbourg, Spain, but it was pushed inward by Prussia.

Linz is only 200 kilometers away from Munich, but it is such a short distance that Austria-Hungary cannot push past it.

The unsatisfactory war directly caused the troubles in Hungary to be even more fierce.

It's fine to start a war without us knowing it, and still play like this?

Can't beat a sneak attack?

Fortunately, the Hungarians were quite loyal to the empire at this time, and they didn't say anything about independence, but just let the emperor quickly make peace, so don't be embarrassed.

But Franz didn't want to, for the same reasons he refused to give up Venice.

A traditional and glorious aristocrat must not fail lightly!

So the emperor pacified the domestic unrest while thinking about ways to break the situation.

Within a week, he had already changed a chief of staff and two staff.

The deputy interior minister was also removed.

But these actions have proven to be useless, all the deployment of chaos or chaos.

At this point, Franz no longer expects to have three weeks of "advantage time", as long as there is one week of "advantage time".

Completely defeat Prussia, and don't talk about taking back Saxony, Hesse, etc., just return Bavaria to Ludwig.

But the premise of all this is that the Austro-Hungarian Empire will not be pushed back.

Sources from the front said that Prussia was mobilizing its forces and appeared to be preparing to advance in the direction of Prague.

Franz was not worried that they could advance Prague, but even if Bohemia fell only a small part, it would be a devastating blow to the Habsburg prestige.

Maybe he will be deprived of his right to declare war, turning him into a king with limited powers like the Queen of England...

For this, Franz found sadly that he had to turn to Spain again.

So on March 15, Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister Beuist came to Madrid to visit Alfonso in person, trying to persuade him to let Priem attack east and share the pressure of the empire.

Alfonso didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Austria-Hungary was very ambitious at first to win quickly, but he did not expect the war to be beaten to the point where he could not find the north.

Anyone who sees it will think that Prussia is the hateful aggressor, forcing the Austro-Hungarian Empire to go out to seek reinforcements.

"It's not impossible to help you, but you have also felt the fighting power of Prussia. The blood of Spain can't be shed in vain!"

When he said this, Alfonso's heart twitched. It was really too laborious for the foreign powers to fight, and there were tens of thousands of casualties at every turn.

No one in Spain could stand to die like this.

There are also people in China who propose that Italian refugees form a foreign corps to be cannon fodder. Unfortunately, these people lack military literacy and cannot speak the language of officers, which is really embarrassing.

"Then what do you want, Your Majesty?" Boist asked dryly.

"Money! I want money!" Alfonso said without hesitation.