War Palace and Knee Pillow, Austria’s Destiny

With the military strength of the Austrian Empire at this time, as long as no accident occurs, the Bellevue Army can definitely besieged to death, but this may take one to two years. ׺°”˜˜`”°º×

Franz doesn't have that much time to spend with them, and Franz doesn't really want to wipe the Sardinians from the world.

So Franz felt that he should help them. Organizing guerrillas to blast from the inside was undoubtedly the best choice at this time.

Garibaldi and Riberio were the first people to join the Volunteer Army, not only because they were Italian nationalists, but they also wanted to see with their own eyes what was happening in Piedmont.

The propaganda department of the Austrian Empire still took things for granted. Although Franz replaced almost all the old people, their propaganda methods and content still lacked new ideas.

It is nothing more than the French destroying the original order of the world, violating common beliefs, and posing a threat to our country and life.

Franz was speechless looking at these empty propaganda. He might as well let a group of tabloid reporters write it.

What Franz didn't expect was that such empty words could still resonate with many people. The number of people signing up for the Volunteer Army on the first day exceeded the actual number needed.

After all, this is an attack behind enemy lines, not a frontal battle. If there are too many people, it will be easy to expose and make movement inconvenient.

The first priority of these volunteers is to save lives. According to the official statement: "As long as we are still there, the French will not dare to act rashly, so please cherish your lives so that more people can be saved."

The second is to liberate villages and towns as much as possible and win more people to join. After all, there is strength in numbers. If these people are unwilling to join, they can be sent to Austria, which will also protect them from the suffering of the war.

Finally, the occupation policy given by Franz is "the enemy is advancing and we are retreating, the enemy is stationed and we are harassing, the enemy is tired and we are attacking, and the enemy is retreating and we are pursuing."

This is absolutely applicable to the Kingdom of Sardinia at this time. After all, the Austrian Empire's Italian regiment has more Italians than Germans. It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a home battle.

The French are the real invaders, and most of them cannot speak or understand Italian. The brutal expropriation also made the Sardinians resentful. Not only did the Austrian army have more Italians, they could also use the banner of the Holy Alliance and the Church.

High mountains may be natural dangers for large armies, but they are like colanders for small-scale volunteer armies.

They don't need too many supplies or equipment. Coupled with the blessing of faith and spiritual power, crossing mountains and ridges is simply a piece of cake for them.

The French army's bigger vulnerability came from the sea. Since the Austrian Empire completely controlled the sea at this time, the volunteers could land wherever they wanted.

The long coastline made the French exhausted, and the landing time and location of the volunteers were not fixed, so the French coast patrol soon collapsed.

In addition to the sixteen-character policy against guerrilla warfare, the article about encircling cities from rural areas also applies.

In 1848, the urbanization level of the Kingdom of Sardinia was quite low, and Bellvi had to spread his troops out in order to control the entire territory of Sardinia.

However, the French army was unpopular, and they were not familiar with the Kingdom of Sardinia. Most of them did not even speak Italian. This resulted in scattered troops and extremely easy to be defeated individually.

Once you return to the city, you will fall into a greater dilemma and be easily divided and surrounded.

At that time, whether Franz wants to surround the point for reinforcements, defeat them one by one, or trap them alive, they will no longer be able to do it.

This tactic only worked in Europe in the 19th century, and it would not work so well in a few decades.

In addition to dealing with the French, Franz also wanted to provide them and those who came after them with a new way of thinking.

Under the cover of night, Garibaldi and his team landed at Alassio in southern Piedmont. As the first volunteer army to enter the Kingdom of Sardinia, what he saw was the most realistic scene.

The place he passed was desolate, and all villages implemented a strict curfew policy. There were corpses hanging on the trees at the head of the village, and there were signs on the corpses with crimes written on them.

"Objectors."

The door of the church was closed, no light came out of it, and there were obviously many new graves in the nearby public cemetery.

Garibaldi's team spent a long night outside the village, and the next day he learned that only three French soldiers were stationed in the village.

Through the guidance of the villagers, they easily found and killed the three French soldiers who were domineering in the village, as well as several scoundrels.

Garibaldi's team opened the warehouse and divided the loot equally with the villagers, and then rushed to the next village.

Countless volunteer squads turned the Kingdom of Sardinia upside down. They attacked lone French troops everywhere based on the people's intelligence.

Since most of them can speak Italian and are even Italians themselves, they can easily penetrate into well-defended cities by the French army to carry out assassinations and sabotage.

Countless reports of attacks piled up in front of Bellevue. He angrily overturned the table and stomped on those damn reports.

"These two-faced fools! They were the ones who invited us here in the first place! We are going to bleed and die for them. Don't they deserve to pay a price?"

Facing Bellevue's questioning, his officers and St. Cyr's staff all chose to remain silent. Only the commander of the Accord, Sacco, whom he appointed, nodded repeatedly.

"Marshal Bellevue, you should let those ungrateful guys know how powerful you are, so that they can recognize the reality."

Bellevue thought it was reasonable, but still pretended to be reluctant.

"You know, Mr. Sacco. Our enemies are the Austrians, but those poor people have been bewitched by our enemies.

Bloodshed and sacrifice are necessary for our bright future."

"I understand, this is all for freedom and republic!"

"Okay, Mr. Sako. I will appoint you as President of the Republic of Sardinia now, and I will also send Mr. Kilian to lead the gendarmerie to cooperate with you in guarding our territory."

In the next two weeks, Sacco led more than 30,000 Sardinian troops and more than 8,000 French troops to begin the work of clearing out the rebels in the territory.

Soon Sacco discovered that this army of 38,000 people was of little help to the prairie fire in front of him, and he repeatedly asked Bellevue for help.

But the answer he got was only two words "no". On the other hand, Bellevue also had doubts about Sacco and repeatedly asked him to show his results to prove his loyalty.

In desperation, Sako chose to attack on all sides, but encountered obstacles everywhere. The area he had just recovered was captured the next day.

In the end, he could only shrink his troops and tremble in the city as Franz expected, and he also ushered in his final fate.

Bellevue was furious and had Sardinia's first president, Sarko, executed for treason.