Chapter 869 Bloodline Awakening
Alois Parffy and his group of officers were soon arrested, and after a brief interrogation they were recruited.
Most of this group of people are second-generation soldiers who have never been on the battlefield. As for why they want to escape?
The answer is that they did not have a supply team at all, and it is unknown where the money that was supposed to be used for supplies went.
The reason for returning to Venice was actually because they got news of Venice's recovery on the way, so they wanted to help Duke Alois Parffy regain his position.
Naturally, it was impossible for them to admit defeat, so they could only blame the cowardice and incompetence of ordinary soldiers. They even prepared a set of excuses to silence Franz.
But now there is no use for it. Franz wants to end this privilege of power and responsibility.
Then more than a hundred noble officers were hanged in the square of Venice without explanation. In fact, they had a lot to say and many people they wanted to find, but Franz didn't want to hear or see them.
Especially the noble Duke Alois Palffy, he wanted to know why Franz, when everyone can obviously live in peace.
More than a hundred corpses were hung neatly in a row on the square. Seeing the tragic deaths of the men who usually dominated them, the soldiers suddenly felt bad in their hearts and their spirits became slack.
After all, Archduke Franz looked so young and didn't look like a bad person.
But they soon changed that view.
"I ask you to immediately rush to the front line of the Po River to support Archduke Albrecht in his fight against the Papal State army."
As soon as these words came out, the soldiers immediately started talking.
"We've been running for several days, so we don't have the strength."
"Yes, and I heard that the Papal State has a million troops. Aren't we going to die?"
"No! No!"
"Archduke Franz, please have mercy on us."
The noisy discussion soon turned into protests, but this was completely within Franz's expectation. After all, Franz was said to be a good man.
There's no burden in saying no to a good person's request, and they don't have to worry about retaliation, so they decide to say no loudly.
"Bang! Bang!" Franz shouted after two gunshots. "Quiet!"
"This is not a request, but an order. I now order you to go to the Po River front line immediately. Those who resist will die."
Franz's tone didn't seem to be fake, and more than a hundred corpses were still watching in the square. The soldiers had no doubt that Franz dared to hang them. After all, he didn't even spare the officials.
But this seems different from the good guys in the minds of the soldiers. Why are his methods so cruel? Why force us?
Franz didn't care what these soldiers thought of him. He only knew that after the Battle of Venice, the entire Venetian region no longer needed so many troops.
The next Battle of the Po River and the battle in Lombardy were the key.
Franz executed more than a hundred officers in Venice, and even executed the future head of the Parfi family.
This incident caused an uproar in the city of Vienna, and various wealthy families began to take action. Regardless of whether this incident was true or false, they must seek an explanation from the Habsburg family and the Austrian Imperial Government.
While the aristocratic Senate was in a state of excitement, the old patriarch of the Parffy family kept a very low profile and did not make the matter public. He kept it secret even to his very close associates, and later even moved out of Vienna.
Vienna, Schönbrunn Palace.
Mrs. Sophie looked at Count Xussel and asked.
"That old man from the Palfi family claims that his grandson died for the country?"
"Yes. Old Duke Palfi had a falling out with the nobles of the Senate and wanted to leave Vienna."
Madame Sophie sneered.
"No wonder he lived so long, forget it. The Palfi family will not be held responsible for this matter. Those who caused trouble will all be arrested and interrogated strictly. Most of them are accomplices of Pius IX."
Count Xussel was in some trouble.
"You mean the leader? Or all of them?"
"Arrest them all! Don't you understand? The secret police don't have enough manpower. You can go to the Bavarian Association to ask someone to help you."
Mrs. Sophie was a little impatient. Count Xussel had followed the former for so many years and naturally knew that Mrs. Sophie found it difficult, so he was very irritable.
However, catching hundreds of respectable nobles at once is a very difficult task, and if you are not careful, you may even lose your life.
Count Xussel would not trust the so-called secret police to do this kind of thing, because most of them are locals, and many are even spies sent by big families.
Let’s not talk about whether they will cooperate inside and outside, just leaking some news will cause an uproar.
So Earl Xussel decided to find people from the Bavarian Association, and left some difficult tasks to the orphans who were adopted more than ten years ago.
But he still wanted to ask under what name those people should be arrested.
"Grand Princess, it's a bit too much to say that they are accomplices of Pius IX. Maybe they were bewitched?"
Madame Sophie waved her hand.
"I'll do as you say, but there's no need to be merciful. Franz is right, these rip-offs will do nothing but hinder us at critical moments."
Earl Xussel spread his hands. After all, he was once a member of a great noble family, but the eldest son of a great noble family fell in love with a woman he shouldn't love.
"I didn't tell you."
"Thanks."
Xussel turned and left to do the most difficult thing at the moment. When he reached the door, Mrs. Sophie spoke.
"Thank you for all these years."
Earl Xussel turned around and bowed respectfully, then turned and went out.
At this time, the Papal State's army was still trudging across the mountains and ridges in Central Italy. None of the Italian countries had experience in organizing large armies to go on expeditions. In addition, some high-level officials of some countries deliberately withheld money, and the Italian coalition forces were in a very difficult situation.
Archbishop Cavaghi, a 93-year-old veteran who once served in Frederick the Great's army, finally completed the final journey of his life.
A week before the Battle of the Po, Archbishop Cavaghi died of old age.
Turin, Royal Palace.
Carlo Alberto looked at the two disgraced generals. He was speechless. What was even more speechless was that the two lieutenant generals Eusebio and Ettore de Sanaz actually boasted at the same time that they had transformed the liberal revolution. The Party has done a terrible job in this matter.
"That's not the point at all, okay? Where's my Lombardy?"
Carlo Alberto struggled and roared, but he couldn't show it, after all, he still had to rely on these two losers.
If the Austrian army really breaks into the Kingdom of Sardinia, then he will really be at a loss. You must know that this time he took the initiative, while the Austrians defended passively.
"How can we not lose?"
At this moment, Carlo Alberto suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and an inspiration flashed rapidly in his mind. At this moment, his Italian blood was completely awakened.
On March 21, 1848, the Kingdom of Sardinia announced its support for Austria against the Italian coalition and at the same time arrested "remnants of the Carbonari" in the Piedmont region.
I went off topic halfway through writing and started writing it again, so I posted it very late, sorry.