Start 1861: I Just Inherited the Dutch Throne Chapter 216

On December 5, 1865, the international situation continued to evolve rapidly in the form of war, overwhelming all countries.

North America's North American Commonwealth of America PK South of the United States of America and the United Kingdom, Austria.

On the Balkans, the Russian Empire PKed the Ottoman Empire, Britain, and Austria.

In Central Europe, just after the German Confederation ended the Pudan War, Prussia invaded the Kingdom of Hanover and Austria invaded Saxony.

Austria has been engaged in four wars of different sizes in just two years in a row, and public grievances have begun to appear in the country.

Especially with the Balkan wars and the North American war still going on.

Under the onslaught of Romania, the Russian Empire deployed Austrian troops in Bulgaria and Serbia. Since the start of the war, more than 20,000 people have been killed or injured, and more than half of them have been damaged.

When Austria faced a Prussian raid and successfully occupied the northern town of Sadova, the Austrian homeland, everyone in Vienna panicked.

At this time, how can they understand the so-called national strategic significance of Joseph I, they only think about their own security needs to be guaranteed, not from the military threat of Prussia.

As a result, Austria faced dissatisfaction from all over the country, especially when Austria's domestic security was not guaranteed, it even sent troops to fight abroad.

The streets of Austria are full of anti-war demonstrations. In Vienna alone, one of the largest cities in Europe, more than 500,000 people took to the streets.

In other places combined, the march exceeded tens of millions, making it the largest anti-war march in European history.

The Austrian government could not bear the pressure in the end, and Joseph I was even afraid that it would become a derivative of anti-war into anti-royal rule and anti-Austrian cabinet.

Therefore, with his consent, the Austrian Empire officially announced that it would soon withdraw its troops from North America to visit the mainland.

On the Balkans, Vienna also sent missions to St. Petersburg, London, and Constantinople in the Tsarist Russian Empire to illustrate Austria's position.

But without waiting for countries to express their opinions, Austria acted on its own.

On December 12, 1865, the Austrian Empire officially withdrew its troops from Bulgaria and Serbia. An army of 20,000 people was deployed to the southern border with Italy.

The 3,000 Austrian troops in North America have also crossed the Atlantic and are about to enter the Mediterranean.

So far, Austria's two foreign wars ended in failure. Joseph I's ambition was not only unsatisfied, but he wanted to strengthen the relationship with the United Kingdom, but in the end it was unsuccessful. Instead, he quit halfway, which made the British heart dissatisfied.

Therefore, in the current situation of Prussia's invasion of Austria, the United Kingdom did not express its support for Austria again, and expressed its dissatisfaction with Austria's halfway withdrawal with silence.

This is naturally what the Bis government wants to see most.

As a result, Prussia intensified its offensive and crossed the source of the Elbe River at the northern end of Vienna. When Mao Qi came to Sadova, he began to attack Prague, the big city north of Vienna, from the north.

The Austro-Prussian War actually broke out, and after shrinking back from those two wars, Joseph I began to focus on dealing with the Prussian invasion.

December 17, 1865

Austrian Prime Minister Rainer Ferdinand, in order to maintain Austria's image as a moral high ground, peace-loving, not an intruder and a victim of aggression, he said at the German Confederation Parliament in Frankfurt that Austria would still try its best to exercise restraint, and at the meeting, Prussia's affection for the plan was expressed only by a complaint to the German Federal Assembly in Frankfurt.

Since Prussia has chosen to be the emperor with Austria, it no longer recognizes the authority of the pro-Austrian parliament of Frankfurt, so when the parliament denounced the Prussian invasion and supported Austria to fight back, the representatives of Prussia in the parliament were indignant leave.

The Prussian government officially issued a declaration of war to Austrian Power on December 20, 1865, and immediately dispatched a large number of troops to more upright and openly occupied the previously occupied Schleswig from Holstein, and Prussia announced Schleswig to the outside world. Yiger is the territory of the Kingdom of Prussia.

Denmark's Christian IX said this has nothing to do with Denmark, he did not make no comment.

Countries did not want to offend the powerful Prussia, so they also acquiesced to Prussia's approach.

Although Austria strongly opposed it, in the face of the fait accompli, and seeing the attitudes of other countries, only the dumb eat the berberine, especially the attitude of the United Kingdom, which makes Vienna feel miserable.

The successive losses of Holstein, Bohemia and Sadova in northern Austria made Austria only capable of the reality that the official war had come, so Austria transferred the main combat force to Prague, and formed a blocking Prussian army around there The first line of defense going south.

On this line of defense, the Austrian Empire kept recruiting and mobilizing a large number of troops northward.

Moreover, after the domestic public announced that Prussia had invaded Prague, Vienna would attack the city with all kinds of propaganda. In the end, under the strong resistance of the Austrians, in the Battle of Prague, Austria successfully blocked the first wave of the Prussian attack, but it also suffered to heavy downsizing.

Both sides invested a lot of troops in this battle

Prussia surpassed 200,000, and Austria eventually surpassed 250,000.

Although only a part of them went to the battlefield, the scale was more than 50,000, forming a scale of 100,000 people.

In the end, more than 16,000 people were killed and injured in Prussia, and 21,000 in Austria.

When Austria was preparing for the next attack of the Prussian army led by Moltke, Joseph I received bad news.

On December 23, the Prussian army made sporadic attacks in the east of Prague for cover-up purposes. General Mao Qi divided his troops into two groups and opened a new front in the east.

Krakow, on the northeastern side of Austria near the Grand Duchy of Poland, was occupied by Prussia.

Telegrams from there showed that the Prussian army numbered more than 50,000 people.

At present, after occupying Krakow, it has gone southwest to the city of Olomouc in the southeast rear of Prague. If it is captured by the Prussian army, it will be even more dangerous for Vienna than Prague, because Olomouc can support Prague or stop Vienna, and at the same time, it can go directly southeast to Slovakia, the hinterland of Hungary. It is also possible to invade Galicia all the way east.

Therefore, Austria hurriedly sent a large army to Olomouc.

But unfortunately, when the Austrian army arrived there, Prussia couldn't help but take Olomouc, and even carried out an ambush. Town retreat.

Seeing this, Vienna could only plan to organize its army in the north, prepare for a battle with the Prussian army, and use the superiority of the force to realize the desire to reverse the occupation.

However, in the face of such a rough strategic situation, Mao Qi, the chief of the general staff of the Prussian army, used three legions, adopted two-wing detour tactics, and pretended to deploy a large army in Olomouc. to the south of Prague.

However, Olomouc bombarded the Austrian positions with a bluff, so that the other party did not know.

So when Austria thought that the Prussian army wanted to occupy this key position forever.

On December 27, 1865, the Prussian army stabbed in like a sharp knife in the southern direction of Prague, causing chaos in the rear of Prague, and the Prussian army in the north naturally linked.

Under the combined attack of the north and the south, without knowing the number of the Prussian troops in their rear, the Austrian army was distracted, and the 250,000 army was defeated by the intentional and unintentional attack of the same size of the Prussian army.

The Great Battle of Prague was one of the largest battles in European history. Although the war was short, the number of troops involved was almost 500,000. In just two days, the Prussian army was killed and wounded more than 39,000 people, and the Austrian army was more than 500,000. 64,000 people.

The death toll on both sides exceeded 100,000, which means that one person died in almost 2 seconds, which made all European countries suddenly discolored, especially the small countries such as Denmark and Belgium with the total number of troops and this size. It can be said that after the First World War, the national defense almost stopped.

Therefore, it is more neutral and unwilling to intervene in the war between Aopu.

The West German Confederation, led by the Kingdom of Bavaria, once again stated that it did not take a stand against Opp and expressed its willingness to promote reconciliation negotiations between the two countries.

Unfortunately, there was no response from both countries.

However, after this battle, Prussia was also somewhat exhausted, obviously hoping to get a breathing time to digest the results.

With Prague and Olomouc taken by Prussia, the Czech Republic is gone.

Austria lost nearly 100,000 people before and after.

Territory is even more lost to the Czech Republic on the northern front of Vienna.

At this time, Joseph I had to admit that Austria was much worse than Prussia in combat effectiveness.

"I really regret that I started with Saxony"

Joseph I looked at the kingdom of Bavaria and the other small principalities in the west of the map with remorse on his face.

Archduke Reina Ferdinand also regretted it.

At this moment, Austria actually found itself alone and helpless~www.mtlnovel.com~ Bismarck was this planned long ago? "

Although it seems to be visiting, Lenovo's recent frequent actions in Prussia, in fact, everyone knows that this is the answer.

Berlin.

Looking at the enlarged map of Prussia drawn by Bismarck's pen on the map, William I's pride rose sharply.

He thought about Bismarck and said, "Are we going to attack Galicia in the east or Vienna in the west?"

"No," Bismarck shook his head mysteriously and said, "We should attack Central Hungary, because in this way, Joseph I will be hurt."

Hit Hungary? Wouldn't it be more painful to play Vienna?

Joseph I looked at Bismarck in confusion.

The latter slowly explained the reason...

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