Chapter 1110 Poland? Poland!

Chapter 1110 Poland? Poland!

In fact, Britain has a trump card, that is the Poles. The British government spent a lot of money on the Poles.

However, the strength of the Poles has not kept up with the development of the times. Coupled with Franz's operation, they can't even hold Austria back.

But what about letting the Poles and Hungarians join hands? Is there any point?

At least Prince Albert himself is still looking forward to it, after all, he himself has little to look forward to. In addition to the Poles and Hungarians, now there is only the Royal Navy.

Baron Brooke's protest has confirmed the effectiveness of the Royal Navy's tactics, but it is still unknown how much impact maritime plunder can have on the Austrian Empire.

After all, Austria is not Spain. Its main taxes and supplies still rely on local supplies. Even Spain needs several years to weaken it.

The purpose of the plundering tactic is to fight to support the war and make up for its own losses by weakening Austria. This is indeed a genius idea, and it has been verified by history.

Moreover, the profession of pirates has existed since ancient times, and it doesn't matter even if they are really caught by the Austrians.

It is better to say that the British Navy is eager for the Austrians to take the initiative to attack, because as long as the Austrians take the initiative to attack, there is a higher chance of revealing flaws, and then the British Royal Navy can seize the opportunity to defeat them in one fell swoop.

So Prince Albert had high expectations for it, believing that it could at least ensure that Britain would be invincible.

But it is not easy to help Hungary. If it were in the past, the British Navy could enter the Mediterranean openly, or directly purchase from allies and send them to Hungary.

But now it is impossible to do so. The Austrian Navy has blocked the Mediterranean, and Britain's ally the Ottoman Empire is already in trouble at this time, and the Greeks have jumped directly to the Austrian side.

Fortunately, Britain also has Prussia, which is not an ally but better than an ally. The Prussians are very willing to help the British send the Polish Restoration Army into Austria.

In fact, there are quite a few people in the Prussian government who oppose this approach. After all, the Austrians are eradicating dissidents. Doing so at this time is equivalent to going against the wind and the risk is too great.

At this time, Prussia's national strength and reputation were completely unable to fight against Austria. Although some small countries within the Confederation were dissatisfied, the major powers all supported Austria.

Although Franz swept the National Assembly, the support rate of nationalists for him did not decrease but increased.

Even if they were exiled to America, they could be said to be expanding their territory. This made William IV feel both angry and jealous. Why couldn't Prussia's loyalty education for so many years cultivate such soldiers?

What's more terrible is that these people have never received the so-called loyalty education, and they are not even Austrians at all.

William IV felt unprecedented pressure, but as the senior officials of the Prussian government said, Prussia at this time had no ability to fight Austria, even if there were British.

In fact, there were also pro-British factions in Prussia, and there were quite a few of them, but the previous civil war in the German Confederation left a deep impression on them.

The subsequent German Confederation Monarch Conference completely cut off their thoughts of confronting Austria. After all, at this time, most of the monarchs in the Confederation had been firmly tied up by Franz with the chain of interests.

It is impossible for the British to fight the Austrians on the European continent. If Prussia insists on its own way, it is likely to follow the footsteps of Poland.

The Russians must be very happy to divide Prussia with Austria. In fact, Saxony has been eyeing Prussia after the merger of the same clan. Once the war starts, Saxony will definitely be the first to send troops.

But there are many ways to send the Poles into Austria. It can be said that the Poles entered Austria on their own. It is nothing more than blowing a hole in the border wall.

(Prussian isolation wall, see the previous article about the cholera period and the influx of refugees.)

It must be said that there is a reason why the Poles can restore their country more than a hundred years after their country was destroyed. Although the Polish restoration organization suffered a devastating blow in 1847, several large Polish restoration groups appeared in a blink of an eye.

They are mainly Poles living abroad, two-thirds of whom are from France.

Their strong desire to restore their country was in some sense frightened by the French. The former beacon of civilization was already in ruins, with different factions attacking each other, foreign wars failing, and the old dynasty eyeing them covetously.

The beautiful exile life of the Poles in France in the past is gone forever. In the past, successive French governments chose to treat Polish exiles preferentially, but at this time, the French were already in trouble, so how could they care about the Poles.

The remaining Polish restorers came from Britain. In fact, the British government was also good to the Polish exiles. After all, the former wanted to use the latter to check the Holy Alliance, so naturally they would not treat the latter unfairly.

In the end, under the operation of Britain and Prussia, about 8,000 Polish restorers and 3,000 mercenaries entered the Prussian-Austrian border.

The reason why these people took the risk was naturally profitable. Kossuth's envoy promised them that as long as Hungary won, Galicia would be ceded to the Poles.

If they failed to defeat Austria but saved Hungary, then Vojvodina would be handed over to the Poles.

(Vojvodina is the largest royal territory in Hungary.)

Both Galicia and Vojvodina are too tempting for the long-exiled Poles.

In order to increase their own strength, the Polish Restorationists found veteran Bem, a hero of the Polish Restoration Army. In Galicia, he did not die for Landre Promi's ambition, but chose to escape.

Their supplies will be handled by the pro-British faction in Russia, and the materials will be sent directly to the war zone in Transylvania.

At this time, Russia and Austria are still allies. Even if the pro-British faction in Russia is bold, they dare not send equipment to Hungary blatantly. After all, Nicholas I is not an easy person to deal with. If he really kills people, it will not be a matter of a few lives.

Of course, it is hard to say who instructed the pro-British faction in Russia to agree to the British to send equipment to the Poles.

The most difficult hurdle left is how to enter the Slovakia region through Galicia. Although one-third of the regular army in the Galician region has been withdrawn, the number of local militias is too large.

The militia of Galicia mainly came from refugees during the cholera period, but Franz trained them into militia not to let them fight, but to make them easier to manage.

The Galician region was run by Count Stadion like an iron bucket. Fortunately, there is always a way out. A lady who called herself Celestina Jasuski found them and claimed that she had a way to take them into Hungary.