Chapter 594 Heading North
Wave after wave of Hungarian soldiers advanced towards the city wall, and the defenders also repelled many people. At this time, they had only one belief in their hearts: for their glory.
Vienna is indeed a reinforced city. It not only absorbed advanced fortress technology from all over the world, but also had a certain counterattack capability. On the first day of the siege, the Hungarians suffered more than 4,000 casualties.
"It seems that this will take a long time." Alexander said to Lajos after seeing the siege.
"It doesn't matter, we still have reinforcements."
Hearing the other party say this, Alexander would not understand that this must be his father's move.
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In southern Austria, the Romanian army began to march north. Passing through the Salzburg area and entering the southern Austria area.
The citizens of Klagenfurt were surprised to see that the original road was filled with densely packed soldiers, and the whole road was crowded with people. How many soldiers are there? !
The shock in their hearts was beyond words. The last time Rome attacked Austria, they had seen tens of thousands of Romanian troops and deeply felt the huge gap in numbers. They didn't expect that this time there would be more soldiers, and they were definitely not just for show.
Some merchants who had been to Rome looked at the bustling road. Although they had seen the prosperity of the center of the empire, they were also very upset when they witnessed the strength of the Romanian army at this moment.
The citizens closed the city gates and were forced to pick up weapons. After climbing the city wall, they saw the Romanian army rushing in like a tide and trembled all over.
But they did not attack here. They bypassed the small town and went straight to the valley pass.
Before this operation, the army commander Martino mobilized all the legion soldiers for battle and said passionately: "This operation is an unprecedented major military operation, which will be recorded in the history of the empire and remembered by future generations. It is precisely because the Military Affairs Department believes that we are the best among the participating armies that we are given the most important task in this operation.
Watching this mobilization, the soldiers have been full of energy, and finally they saw a camp.
But in the eyes of the soldiers, this camp is too simple: there is no trench in front of the camp, and there may be no traps. The wall of the camp is a wooden fence, no more than three meters high, and there are only two sentry towers in the camp... The most important thing is that there are only a few defenders on the wooden wall, and they shouted in panic after seeing their arrival.
The defenders shot The sparse arrows did not cause any damage to the soldiers. Instead, they were met with a rain of arrows that covered the sky. Amid the screams of the defenders, the Roman army put wooden ladders on the wooden wall and quickly captured the camp.
The army rested here for a day, and then continued to the north to the important town of Graz.
From the time the Romanian soldiers arrived here to now, the number of enemies frightened the people of Graz, not to mention that there were no young and middle-aged people in the city as the main force to fight. They had already lost their fighting spirit, and surrender was expected.
When the officials of Graz sincerely asked the Romanian army not to harm the people in the city, Martino said with a smile: "Don't worry, as long as you cooperate with all your strength and do not have any hostile behavior, we will definitely guarantee the safety of your lives'' and property! "
The officials were terrified, fearing that they would neglect this group of uncles. All kinds of food replenished their logistics, while the other army came to Liezen and enjoyed different treatment.
The Austrians here began to resist the invaders, because the Hungarians massacred more than half of the people here, and the city had a blood feud with them.
Rome had no choice but to use artillery to attack and occupy the entire city after blasting a gap. No one surrendered, and all died in battle.
The Romanian army entered Austria and had conquered various cities. The news that people everywhere were eager for the army to return home safely spread quickly among the Austrian soldiers, which had a great impact on the morale of the Linz army. The soldiers were eager to discuss the matter of going home, and the army in Linz had begun to show a trend of disintegration.
Some soldiers who were preparing to reinforce Vienna left directly, and those who had originally planned to go also stopped their journey. After all, once the Roman army came, they had no choice.
However, some mercenaries went to Vienna without fear of death, including in Captain Sforza of Milan led 9,000 troops to set out quickly from Milan, passing Linz and heading to Vienna.
He was fast, but the Roman army was faster. The Roman army continued to clear the obstacles ahead. The people in some small towns had no time to escape and had to make desperate resistance. Their resistance was not in vain. They won a little time for the Austrian soldiers and mercenaries defending in the south. Seeing this, Sforza went directly south to stop the Roman soldiers from going north, because he thought Vienna would not be broken for a while. As long as Romania was defeated, the alliance could be encouraged.
Sforza's mercenaries were experienced in combat. Seeing the Romanian army was powerful, they had no hope for Austria's plan to defend the enemy outside the country. He had long been thinking of "retreating immediately at the slightest sign of trouble", so he ran away after the two sides fought once.
At this time, the army in Vienna also knew the news of the arrival of the Romanian army. They felt desperate, and heard that the army had left from the Linz direction, which made them even more desperate.
"Bavarians, Palatinates, Bohemians... they are simply stupid! They should understand that it is meaningless to rush home at this time. Only by uniting and defeating the two powerful enemies of Romania and Hungary can the safety of their own territories be guaranteed!" Someone said angrily.
"Alas... when the danger really comes, these narrow-minded people can only see the danger of their own territories, how can they share the same hatred and fight against the powerful enemy together! In the final analysis, this alliance is doomed to be short-lived!"
Everyone was silent.
Seeing their disappointment that was difficult to conceal, Albrecht said with an unprecedented solemn expression: "From the situation of my battles with the Hungarian army during this period, it is indeed as rumored that they are very strong and have a large number of soldiers. But we still have a chance. Sigismund will soon lead troops to rescue, and we just need to hold on a little longer.
In addition, the number of Hungarian and Romanian troops is indeed huge, but because of their huge size, they will consume a lot of supplies. Can they support such a huge consumption for a long time?!"