War Palace and Knee Pillow, Austria’s Destiny

The Sardinian general who claimed to have "fought alongside Napoleon" soon succeeded Dufour as the commander-in-chief of the Free Alliance.

The latter was imprisoned for many crimes including delaying fighter planes and awaiting post-war trial. This was the result of Joseph Loy's efforts.

Because Dufour executed too many deserters in the previous war, there were naturally many people with backgrounds among them, and they would not let go of this opportunity to add insult to injury.

Among the deserters here were officers who were afraid of the enemy.

However, Joseph Roy knew that Dufour was innocent, and the latter did not want to participate in the war. It was the former who asked the latter to come out.

So Joseph Roy tried his best to keep Dufour, but the death penalty could not be avoided, and a life sentence or exile was indispensable.

On the other hand, the two surrendered states of Friborg and Zug can no longer hold on. The property of the church and the Orthodox has been almost wiped out, and the civilians have been squeezed to the limit.

Joseph Loy knew it had to be open source, so he targeted the cantons of Aargau and St. Gallen.

Although these two states chose to side with the Free Alliance before the war began, they did not belong to the Free States and had a lot to draw from.

The cantons of Aargau and St. Gallen strongly opposed it, because the top leaders of St. Gallen were church forces, but their opposition was ineffective. St. Gallen and Aargau were liberalized, and they had to bear heavy burdens with the cantons of Zug and Friborg. Burden of war.

However, where there is oppression, there is resistance, especially the people of Zug State who have become traitors for no apparent reason. Not only do they have to bear huge war expenses and provide materials and labor for the war, but even their own homeland has become the center of war between the Free State and the Orthodox State. battlefield.

The people of Zug State spontaneously organized guerrillas and began to resist the rule of the Free Alliance, purging those high-level officials who had turned them into firewood.

The state of Friborg was also overwhelmed. Almost all their young people were expropriated, and their valuables and food were also robbed. The residents of the towns began to flee deep into the mountains, successfully starting the process of counter-urbanization.

The situation in Aargau canton is the worst, because Frei Holosei doesn't regard them as human beings at all. Frei Holosei couldn't beat the guerrillas, but he wouldn't admit it.

As a result, the Catholics in Aargau became the best scapegoats, and at the behest of Joseph Loy, they were repeatedly plundered.

As for foreign mercenaries, it is impossible to save the people of the hostile forces. The desperate Allgäu people want to resist but have no weapons. The collective rebellion of the top leaders makes them lack leadership.

The uprising can only usher in more ferocious revenge. If you want to survive, you can only serve as a soldier for Frei Holosei, or go to the mountains to find guerrillas, but neither side regards them as their own, and most of these people still escape. Can't bear the fate of cannon fodder.

The new federal commander-in-chief of the Free State, Aoife Lanno, decided to launch a general attack on the Lucerne State as soon as he took office. The process of the war was still uneventful, with no suspense, no twists and turns, and no tactics to speak of. What the two sides competed for was courage. and endurance.

Both sides of the civil war obviously lacked courage and endurance. The fighting always started and stopped, and the scenes were even a little funny.

However, the defending side is, after all, occupying a condescending geographical advantage, so the attacking side always suffers.

There was a decisive gap in the level of the generals on both sides. Compared to Aoife Lanno, who only knew how to charge with human sea tactics, Archduke Karl's strategy was obviously more reasonable.

After more than ten days of fierce attack, Aoife Lanno finally discovered that the soldiers of the Free State were not suitable for fighting tough battles. Their morale was too low and they would often flee after losing a small number of people, and wanted to regroup them. It takes a long time to come together.

So Aoife Lanno chose the same tactics as Dufour, and the Free State soldiers dug trenches again.

As time goes by, the situation across Switzerland is deteriorating. Aoife Lanno was also imprisoned, and Joseph Loy had to compromise with Frey Holoser.

Although the latter obtained the power and status he dreamed of, he was not happy at all, because the war exhausted the states, and the states were unwilling to provide money and people, and the Aargau and Saint-Germain rebels who defected to the Free Alliance side Ren, Friborg, and Zug are already experiencing civil unrest.

Only then did Frey Holosei realize the importance of ending the war quickly. However, in order not to repeat the same mistakes, he decided to attack the relatively weak Schwyz State, but he only received an even more disastrous defeat.

In other words, it failed before it even started, because after the Free State troops withdrew, the Orthodox Alliance troops quickly attacked in all directions. Vaud, Bern, Solothurn, Basel, Aargau, and the entire western Switzerland were devastated by the flames of war. Devour.

A few months of war is enough to turn farmers into butchers. One can imagine what state the Orthodox Alliance soldiers are in now under the cloud of death for several months.

His hometown was stolen, and fierce conflicts broke out among the factions in the Swiss Army. The scale and intensity of the conflict far exceeded the conflict between the Free State and the Orthodox Union.

Frey Holosei is just a larger warlord. He is unable to bridge the conflicts between the various factions. At the same time, his home base has also been attacked, leaving other factions to "defend" their home base?

Frey Holoser couldn't do it, he didn't trust those guys, and those guys didn't trust each other. As a result, the foundation supporting the entire alliance collapsed, and hundreds of thousands of troops dispersed into warlords fighting on their own.

These warlords were naturally vulnerable to Archduke Karl, so the counterattack of the Orthodox Alliance began, and the first to bear the brunt was Bern, the strongest in the Free State.

Before the start of the war, Bern canton commander Giese Chad told Governor Yusotlov.

"It will take at least ten years for the Orthodox Alliance's army to invade Bern."

Bern fell ten days later

In fact, Dufour's strategy was right, attacking from the front and outflanking. However, the appearance of the reconnaissance hot air balloon exposed his actions.

The elite troops led by Sigismund were unable to compete with the patchwork "sheepherds" of the Free State.

In fact, Archduke Karl was better at attacking cities than defending them. However, the quality of Austrian soldiers, weapons, and even military strength in history could not be compared with France, so there was a stereotype that Archduke Karl could only defend cities.

This battle shocked the whole of Switzerland, and even the whole of Europe, but the most shocked was not the Swiss, but the French.

The French cabinet held a meeting overnight, with Louis Philippe also attending a rare high-profile meeting.

Although the Swiss Confederation's army is vulnerable to the French, it is human instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, and no one wants to bite this hard nut first.

However, the situation in the Swiss Civil War took a turn for the worse at this time. If the orthodox faction were to win, would they establish a pro-Austrian country?

Let alone carving up Switzerland, I am afraid that in turn it will be restrained by the small country of Switzerland.

Even Marshal Soult, who was thinking about retiring, was in uniform. It was the first time since the establishment of the July Dynasty that the whole of France was so united. Louis Philippe signed the order that night.

[France announces sending troops to Switzerland]

Almost at the same time, the German Confederation announced its intervention in the Swiss Civil War.