War Palace and Knee Pillow, Austria’s Destiny

Presburg front.

Heinrich Demme didn't know which commander he was transferred to. He was originally fighting against the Transylvanians in the east.

But because of his outstanding performance, he was valued by Budapest, so he was transferred to Pressburg, which had been slow to make progress.

In fact, Heinrich Demme felt that he didn't do anything. He just burned 61 villages in 34 days and killed more than 50,000 "enemies", that's all.

However, compared with the historical record of burning 108 villages and killing nearly 80,000 people, his performance was indeed a bit worse.

But it was indeed much better than the performance of another of the Big Three, Gergey Artur, who unfortunately encountered the main force of Anton von Puchner.

Although the latter was not an outstanding tactical master, he had many soldiers and good equipment under his command, and with the support of the local people in Transylvania, a third-rate general was actually on par with the strongest general of Hungary in 1848, and even had the upper hand.

Of course, this is also due to the defensive strategy that Puchner has always adopted, which makes Gergey unable to find a breakthrough, because as long as the former does not leave his territory, all the local Transylvanians are his eyes.

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Even if Gergey's tactics are sophisticated, he still needs the cooperation of his opponents. Historically, his best tactic is to lure the enemy deep into the enemy, cut off the enemy's supply, and then divide and annihilate them.

But at this time, due to Franz's order, Puchner only operated in his own territory and did not give Gergey this opportunity at all.

According to Franz's idea, when the comprehensive strength of both sides is close, as long as you don't want to win, it is not easy to lose.

Gergey can't take the area where Puchner is stationed, so he can only go to those areas that are unwilling to follow Hungary or Austrian Empire.

Some people can only see the situation clearly after being beaten by reality. They either choose to join Hungary or choose to ask Puchner for help.

Some Transylvanian Greater Romanianists hope that the surrounding Moldavia and Wallachians can come to support them in their fight against Hungary and the Austrian Empire.

After all, in the eyes of Transylvanian Greater Romanianists, Transylvania is the main body, and Moldavia and Wallachia can be abandoned.

Especially the Moldavians, who can't fight against the domestic warlord Sturza, so why not come to Transylvania to build Greater Romania together.

As for Wallachia, there is no need to insist on it. Anyway, they have betrayed them by electing a provisional government. Instead of continuing this farce, it is better to build a beautiful Greater Romania together.

However, these words are completely bullshit in the eyes of Wallachians and Moldavians.

The most important thing is that the 3,000 mercenaries of Grand Duke Sturza and the 13,000 Ottoman troops invited by Neofit are indeed powerful, but compared with the 300,000 troops of Hungary and the millions of soldiers of the Austrian Empire, they are really not worth mentioning.

In addition, the Hungarians were prone to massacres, and the Austrians were exiled to Africa when they disagreed. It seemed that the local warlords were more civilized.

So the three parties inevitably split.

The uprising in the Moldavia region started the earliest, but it was also the weakest. In March 1848, led by local liberals, more than a thousand people launched a riot at the "Petersburg" Hotel.

However, the main means was to use armed petitions to make the Moldavia Grand Duke Sturza enact some laws that were more favorable to the bourgeoisie.

At first, the power of the liberals developed rapidly, and even frightened Sturza and his lovers to escape from the palace and hide in the barracks.

However, at a time when the situation was very good, the liberals split internally. The radicals Vasily Aksandri and Costa Kerba advocated the complete overthrow of the feudal dynasty and the dethronement of Grand Duke Sturza.

The conservative Archbishop Meleti and the land nobles opposed such radical practices. They hoped to carry out gradual reforms in a moderate way.

Several small factions were formed within the two factions. Vasily Aksandri hoped to make the Principality of Moldavia completely independent and no longer bound by the Ottoman Empire and Russia.

Costa Kerba hoped to establish a Greater Romanian Republic with the Principality of Moldavia to compete with Russia, the Ottoman Empire and Austria.

There were also a few people who thought that the rule of Grand Duke Sturza could be overthrown, but they could not anger the Russians and the Ottomans. They should continue to be grandsons.

However, these people's words were obviously unpleasant to hear in this era of national awakening.

Archbishop Meleti and some land capitalists in the conservative faction hoped to abolish slavery, but the traditional nobles believed that doing so would infringe on their rights and status, so they strongly opposed it.

Several factions attacked each other, and even fought in the streets like gang fights.

Grand Duke Sturza saw the opportunity and returned to the palace to host a banquet for the 1,000 mercenaries he hired.

When the wine was hot, Grand Duke Sturza shouted.

"Rebel! How can you be so hard-hearted!

You have betrayed the right path and brought disaster to the people.

You have ruined the country and ruined the family!

Warriors, take up your weapons!

Restore order to this world!"

The drunken mercenaries rushed out of the palace and headed straight for the liberal base camp. Overnight, corpses were everywhere and all the prisons were overcrowded. The liberal government fell and Grand Duke Sturza regained control of the government.

If the Principality of Moldavia had not disappeared in the long river of history, Grand Duke Sturza's poem and deeds would definitely be sung by people.

After that, Grand Duke Sturza began to liquidate the entire Principality of Moldavia, and the Moldavia nationalists could only start their exile life.

In general, the Moldavia nationalists were few in number and not strong in strength. Even if they wanted to help the Transylvanians complete the great cause of Greater Romania, they were powerless.

The revolution in Wallachia was more like a rebellion by the officials. Wallachia first suffered from drought, then snowstorms in winter, and cholera broke out in the spring of 1848.

However, the Grand Duke of Wallachia, Bescu, and his cronies did not have a disaster relief plan. Instead, they raised prices and made a lot of money.

(Grand Duke Sturza became the Grand Duke of Wallachia after Bescu fell. The Ottoman Empire wanted to stabilize the situation and handed over the two places to Sturza.)

With such a high-level person, the ecology of the lower level can be imagined.

According to records at the time, the price of building a meter of road in Moldavia was 60 lei, while it took nearly 3,000 lei in Wallachia.

This outrageous difference naturally flowed into the hands of contractors and officials. Collusion between officials and businessmen, and even collusion between officials and bandits, was not a new thing in Wallachia at that time.

In fact, even if the matter was reported to the Grand Duke himself, there would be no problem, but local officials might have to pay a sum of money to avoid disaster.

In order not to pay this money, they could do anything.