War Palace and Knee Pillow, Austria’s Destiny

Franz could see that the little girl in front of him was thinking wildly, but there was one thing that he still cared about.

"Did you hear crying?"

It is not uncommon for noble manors to have dungeons, especially those with very powerful families, who are no different from local emperors.

But along the way, although Franz dealt with many nobles, he never discovered anything like a dungeon.

If we could find remnants of the Middle Ages like a dungeon in Vihliu Yasusky's manor, we could rescue some people from it.

The propaganda effect was so good that the Polish nobles, especially the nobles who were close to Jasuski, would never even think of raising their heads in this life. Although I can direct and act myself, I still fall behind.

"It's very weak... like sobbing, intermittent, and there are a lot of them. Occasionally there is the sound of chewing."

"You sound so creepy. It feels like a bunch of ghouls live here."

After hearing this, Franz sighed with emotion. These words immediately frightened Lakshmi Pai and immediately shrank her neck and said timidly.

"Are there really werewolves in this world?"

The little girl obviously recalled the plot from the horror stories she had heard.

"If you are so timid, don't keep clamoring for scary stories all day long. What if you wet the bed at night?"

Lakshmi Pai was obviously frightened. She didn't notice Franz's taunting and just asked stubbornly with a tearful voice.

"Are there even werewolves!?"

This thought was a bit divergent for Franz, so he simply answered.

"No. It's just a trick for children."

After all, Franz came from an atheistic country in the East and was completely indifferent to the story of werewolves. However, the legend of werewolves in the West lasted until the 1980s before its influence gradually faded.

At this moment, Lakshmi Pai was completely frightened and no longer looked like the devil in the world.

So instead of continuing to scare her, Franz chose to distract her.

After all, Lakshmi Pai is quite proud. She doesn't want to admit that she is scared, let alone that she has been deceived. She looks quite funny.

"I know not, I just want to test you."

Franz suddenly stopped smiling and asked.

"Where did you hear that?"

"In my room."

"take me."

On the other side, Krakow's army has already left the city, and this time the Poles can almost be regarded as a full-scale attack.

Because it was a desperate move, the top brass of the Polish Restoration Army and all combatable soldiers were gathered together and sent to Dorobic. At the same time, mules and horses in the whole city were recruited to make the journey.

General Behm, who opposed sending troops, and the remaining old, weak, sick and disabled were responsible for holding back the Austrian Imperial Army.

Relatively speaking, this task was too difficult, because Bem did not have a cavalry unit, and it was impossible to delay the attack by cavalry maneuvers.

Count Stadion's military camp is fifteen kilometers away from the city of Krakow. If infantry is sent to this distance, it will be impossible to come back.

What's more, there are no more soldiers in hand, and the rest are some forced militiamen. The tactic of breaking away at the first touch is simply unusable, especially when retreating can easily turn into a rout.

However, the conscientious General Behm thought of other methods. He decided to expand the defensive scope and build fortifications outside the city to block the advancement of the Austrian army.

Although this increased the difficulty of defense and dispersed the troops, at least the trench fortifications gave the militiamen a sense of security.

General Behm knew very well that the key to this battle was not whether the Krakow army could block the Austrian intercepting force, but whether the surprise attack on Dorobich's team could succeed.

The surprise attack force apparently numbered more than 30,000 people, but the Austrian army in the Yasuski Manor only had 3,000 people. But General Bem was not optimistic about this attack because there were too many variables.

But a soldier's bounden duty is to obey. He will defend until the moment the surprise attack fails, but that's it. Poland still needs him.

Count Stadion didn't know General Bem's awe-inspiring righteousness. He just felt a little funny looking at Krakow's city fortifications.

There is a five-kilometer-long defense line connected to the city, but it only has a thin layer. Count Stadion could not even think of such a bizarre strategy.

To be honest, he was still a little disappointed, because according to legend, General Bem was a famous Polish general who had defeated Russians twice his size.

Just meeting him today, Count Stadion felt that the other party's military thinking was still in the eighteenth century.

Such a loose defense line can easily be divided and surrounded, not to mention that you can directly attack the city to force the opponent to return reinforcements, or directly make a large detour to render this defense line ineffective.

However, his mission was only to besiege the city of Krakow, and did not include pursuit or annihilation. Because someone else was responsible for the task, Julius Jacob von Hainau came to the battlefield with his Salzburg Army.

To be honest, General Hainaut was the general who supported the construction of railways the most, but he still underestimated the military use of this new mode of transportation.

It only takes one week to transport 100,000 troops, their equipment and supplies from Salzburg to Krakow. A distance of 580 kilometers used to take at least a month.

Moreover, after a month of high-intensity marching, it is difficult to say how much combat effectiveness the troops will have left. There may not even be much left in the soldiers themselves.

The day after the Polish troops left Krakow, Heinau's troops cut off their retreat.

"The Austrians are so fast, our way back is cut off. We can't go back."

Tisovsky said sadly, but Dembovsky thought it was a good thing. After all, there were a lot of deserters on the first day, which he couldn't even think of.

Desertion is almost inevitable in this era, but to lose 3,000 people after just one day's journey, and to lose 10% of the total force, is really an exaggeration.

If this situation continues, they will become mere commanders in ten days.

"There's nothing to be afraid of. This is actually a good thing for us. Otherwise, if those cowards start running away, we won't be able to stop them.

Now the Austrians have become our supervisory team. If you step back, you will die! Look at those Hams, do you still dare to run away? Ha ha! "

Tisovsky was not as optimistic as Dembovsky, but it was right to think about it. Anyway, he had already staked his fortune and life, but was let go by Landry Prome. He simply broke the bottle and picked up a bottle of red wine. .

"cheers!"

"That's true, cheers!"

The two temporary secretaries of state were toasting and drinking in the carriage, and most of the soldiers in the team were temporarily recruited militiamen. After walking for two days, their legs felt like they were about to break.

At first they would laugh at and despise those who deserted, but now they hate themselves for not deserting.

Although there were pursuers behind them, they couldn't see them. The officers said there was glory and loot waiting for them ahead, but they couldn't see it either.

They could only hear the growling stomach, only see the bubbles on their feet, and only know the exhaustion all over their bodies.

On the third day, some people could no longer walk. They wanted food, rest, and rewards.