War Palace and Knee Pillow, Austria’s Destiny

In Mazzini's imagination, people in Rome should be full of vitality at this time, the streets are filled with golden light, flowers are flying all over the sky, the sound of silk and bamboo orchestras is endless, and there is no pain or sadness.

His mistress Mrs. Sang and adopted daughter Idali (Italian homonym) also had high expectations for Rome at this time, but the huge contrast in reality poured cold water on them.

Hunger and despair were like lingering clouds hanging over the city of Rome, and people were sitting or lying aimlessly like puddles of mud.

This is completely different from Mazzini's narrative along the way. In fact, he was also very wronged. At first Mazzini only regarded 1848 as an ordinary year, with at most only a few disasters.

When the gunfire rang out in Sicily, Mazzini still didn't think the world would change much.

However, the world was changing much faster than he imagined. It took less than a month for that insignificant flame to burn across the entire European continent.

Everything caught him by surprise. At first Pius IX was still the target they wanted to defeat, but then he became the leader of the Italian nation and launched a holy war to regain the lost territory.

This was actually very much in line with Mazzini's ideals, because he felt that the Pope was the most suitable person to carry this banner. He had even personally written to the Pope before, but he did not receive a reply.

When Mazzini heard that the Pope personally pardoned him and his followers, Mazzini immediately got rid of the British surveillance and decided to return home immediately.

However, he received the news on the ship that Pius IX had become a prisoner and was kicked out, and the Roman Republican government was established.

This news shocked Mazzini, but even more shocking, because he had always thought that the unwise people needed the pope's banner to unite the people.

But Mazzini never expected that the Romans would succeed. There is no doubt that they will once again take up the banner of leading the world.

At this time, Italy's million-strong coalition will surely be able to restore the glory of the Roman Empire, and the Fourth Roman Republic will be unstoppable.

The First Roman Republic (Latin: Res publica Romana): Founded in the 6th century BC.

According to Roman history, in 511 BC the Romans expelled the last king Lucius Tarquin Superb, ending the Roman monarchy and establishing the Roman Republic. The country was divided into three powers: the Senate, the Consuls, and the Tribal Council. .

The Second Roman Republic (Italian: Comune di Roma): Founded in the 12th century around 1144 AD, under Giordano Pierleoni, who led a rebellion against the power of the pope and secular nobles.

They tried to establish a republic in Rome similar to the ancient Roman Republic. Then the Roman Commune (sometimes called the Second Roman Republic) was founded.

The Third Roman Republic (Italian: Repubblica Romana): Founded in the 18th century.

On March 7, 1798, France invaded the Papal States in Rome and established the new Roman Republic. Pope Pius VI was taken to France and died in 1799.

In 1799, the Tiberina Republic was incorporated into the Roman Republic. In June 1800, the Papal States were re-established.

So what was established at this time was the Fourth Roman Republic.

As a result, the Kingdom of Sardinia suddenly withdrew from the war and took sides with Austria, and the millions of Italian coalition forces became hesitant rebels.

The British Mediterranean fleet was destroyed, and the French Provisional Government refused to recognize the Roman Fourth Republic.

Although Vienna was attacked from both sides by the Czechs and Hungarians, it sent all its main forces to the Italian battlefield.

The situation in the Roman Fourth Republic instantly became precarious, but Mazzini felt that there was still room for recovery.

After all, the situation in the Austrian Empire was also in danger at this time, and perhaps some kind of agreement could be negotiated to preserve the existence of the Fourth Roman Republic.

The millions of soldiers on the Sino-Italian front are not vegetarians. The Austrians are just making gestures. In the end, the two sides will definitely reach a deal.

Although Mazzini is unwilling to admit it, politics is such a mess.

But the ideal is full, and the reality is bizarre.

Pius IX actually sided with the Austrians again, and it took the Austrians only three days to eliminate the million-strong Italian coalition entrenched in the mountains of Central Italy.

At this time, the current situation in the city of Rome was almost to the point of breaking his moral heart. The so-called Fourth Roman Republic only controlled a small piece of land around the city of Rome.

After the fall of Pius IX, the political regimes in the Papal States sprung up like mushrooms after a spring rain, with dozens of large and small ones springing up at once.

Now let alone the whole country working together to fight against foreign enemies, he would be thankful as long as a civil war does not break out. In fact, more than one state in the original papal country issued a declaration of rebellion against Rome.

At this time, the situation in Rome was very pessimistic. Politics, economy, and diplomacy were all in a mess. Parliament only knew how to hold meetings, but could not come up with a solution to the problem.

At present, the Austrians have almost recovered the entire Central Italy region, and the warlords in the papal country are definitely vulnerable.

How long can a Roman city be defended? But if he, the last national leader, escapes like he did in 1834, the backbone of the Italian nation will really be broken.

But even if he doesn't run away, what can he do?

Mazzini originally thought that the Fourth Republic of Rome needed an adviser and guidance as they said, but now it seems that he is more like a scapegoat.

Garibaldi on the other side was also very distressed. The battle between the three cities of Feltre, Malestica and Verona was worthy of being recorded in history.

But then his team encountered an Austrian advance force near Venice. Due to the small number of the opponent, Garibaldi did not take it seriously at first.

Because Garibaldi fought a good battle when he led his Sequoia Army to land in Venetia. The Sequoia Army attacked the Austrian Chasseur Camp with less than 300 people and took only prisoners. More than six hundred people attended.

The Austrian Chasseurs have always been the benchmark for combat power in the Austrian army. However, in Garibaldi's view, this combat power is not worth mentioning at all.

If the combat effectiveness of the Brazilian government army is 1, then the combat effectiveness of the Austrian elite is at most three, and the combat effectiveness of his Redwood Army is at least ten.

At this time, Garibaldi had at least a thousand people under his command, and the Austrian advance team seemed to only have one company.

So this time Garibaldi did not listen to Riberio's advice. His previous victory made him confident, and he decided to attack head-on.

However, this time Garibaldi hit a wall. He had never seen such a powerful force, let alone an Austrian army that did not surrender.

The Austrians encountered before could capture them at any time as long as they could defeat their front row.

But in this battle, two-thirds of the freedom fighters brought by Garibaldi from South America were lost, and the newly joined Italians suffered even more heavy losses.

In the end, the entire team lost one-third of its strength, but it failed to capture the Austrian vanguard.

Garibaldi himself was shot, but fortunately he had always been very lucky and only had a piece of flesh shot off his shoulder.

Note: Garibaldi's wife is an Indian named Adani Liberio Garibaldi (she took her husband's surname after marriage).

In this battle, the Indian warriors Riberio brought from his hometown also suffered heavy losses. Riberio was not as impulsive as Garibaldi. In fact, she was very calm, even when she lost her relatives.

At that time, Riberio suggested that her husband leave Venetia immediately because she knew very well that this army was different from any army she had seen before.

And Riberio had a very strong hunch that this kind of force would not appear alone.

However, Garibaldi, who was full of enthusiasm, wanted to return to Verona to mobilize reinforcements. As a result, when they returned to Verona, the city returned to the hands of the Austrians again.

This put them into an extremely passive situation, but what was even more terrifying than this was that the name Garibaldi had become widely known for some reason.

The Austrian government even offered a huge reward of 100,000 florins for him. You must know that Garibaldi was only worth 500 pounds (5,000 florins) to the Brazilian government forces.

But this wasn't the craziest thing. Soon the Austrian government's personal reward for Garibaldi was increased to 200,000, and then 500,000.

Driven by this extremely exaggerated interest, soldiers within the Redwood Army even focused on Garibaldi's head, including many veterans who had followed Garibaldi through life and death.

Although he fled back to Rome at this time, Garibaldi did not dare to slack off at all because his head was too valuable.

Fortunately, I had been assassinated for a period of time in Garibaldi, Brazil, so I could barely cope with it at this time, but fatigue and embarrassment were inevitable.

However, they encountered a new crisis before they could recover. The Austrian army was already approaching the city of Rome.

Moreover, rumors about the Austrian army are flying all over the sky this time. Some people say that it was not the Austrians who defeated La Boer, but the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

At that time, the sky was filled with those kind of winged monsters, and they blocked out the sun in groups. Fire rained down from the sky, and then they swallowed up the army of millions of demons.

This is the only explanation that makes sense at this time. As for the Austrians using 50,000 troops to break through a million troops, no one would believe it.

It would be better to believe that there are really four horsemen of the apocalypse coming to help. However, although the Bereny Valley is not a natural danger, such a big and small place is indeed easy to defend and difficult to attack.

It was unexpected that the Austrians could break through the Bereni Valley in such a short period of time, but Garibaldi was not in the mood to think about the causes and consequences of this battle at this time.

Because now he and Mazzini are facing the same problem at this time, should they escape? Stay?

Those who stay will probably be able to become martyrs, but if they all die, who will inherit the great cause of the Italian nation?

Those liberals in power at this time? Since Garibaldi arrived before Mazzini, he knew more about what these people were doing, and he felt disgusted from the bottom of his heart.

But he was helpless. The changes in Garibaldi were seen by Riberio. She was a smart woman and did not have so many so-called hero complexes, so she strongly advocated leaving this place of right and wrong.

Compared to the tense and depressing atmosphere in Rome, the Austrian side seemed much more relaxed.

The only one who was a little melancholy was Archduke Albrecht. He was arranging tactics at this time. The most difficult thing was how to capture Rome without destroying the city as much as possible.

What made him even more unhappy was that this request was not made by Pius IX, but by Franz.

How can anyone not die in a war? So how could a siege not destroy the city?

Fortunately, Franz was mainly referring to some of the more important monuments and churches near the Vatican and the Colosseum.

Albrecht received a very detailed map, but he was more curious about what was going on in Franz's mind.

If you have this time, it is better to learn how to get more benefits from the Papal State like a politician. Albrecht is not a greedy person, but he feels that this is what war should be like, conquering cities and territories, eating big chunks of meat, and big bowls drink wine.

Franz accepted the peace agreement that did not annex the Papal States, which puzzled Albrecht. Why were they fighting?

As for the negative return theory mentioned by Franz, Albrecht could not accept it. After all, Russia and Britain were so big, and they had not stopped expanding. There was no emperor throughout the ages who did not want to expand their territory.

Everything seemed to have changed when Franz arrived. He opposed the annexation of Serbia and even opposed excessive suppression of the Ottomans. This is now the case in Central Italy.

In Albrecht's memory, the toughest time Franz was against France was, however, France was the toughest among these countries.

He really couldn't understand why a man who dared to steal food from France and poke the anus of the British did not dare to annex the Papal States or venture into the Balkans.

Franz really couldn't explain it to him. Who dared to touch that time bomb or a powder keg?

Fortunately, Albrecht had the qualities of a soldier. As long as Franz spoke it in the form of an order, the former would execute it without hesitation.

Regarding the capture of Rome, Franz felt that the priority was to attack the heart and the city as the second priority, not to mention how the history books would criticize him if he really destroyed Rome.

The impact on the international situation alone is unimaginable, because this behavior is so egregious. War is a continuation of politics, and things that are detrimental to politics should naturally not be done.

Although Vienna said it was extremely urgent, Franz had already left a backup plan. He was not afraid that those people would not make trouble, but that those people would not dare to make trouble and would not give Franz a chance to deal with them in a legitimate manner.

As the privileged class, the big nobles, big businessmen, bankers, and the Jewish financial groups still don't know how to take sides.

These people once penetrated into all aspects of the Austrian Empire's politics, economy, military, and people's livelihood. But due to the emergence of Franz, the economic rise of the Austrian Empire caused them to lose what they felt was the most fundamental thing.

The war at this time is the best opportunity for both sides. They are preparing to tame the emperor and the government, and Franz also intends to solve them once and for all.

The funniest thing is that at this time the capitalists and factory owners in the Austrian Empire actually considered siding with the privileged class.

It seems that only capital has the ability to gather, but capitalists do not.

Because the largest capitalist in the entire Austrian Empire at this time was Franz or the Austrian Imperial Family. Their command included but was not limited to industry, commerce, railways, land, oceans, and maybe the sky at this time.