Chapter 1187 The Day the City Was Defeaten

Chapter 1187 The Day the City Was Defeaten

Tyutkalai was quickly pulled away from the city by several of his confidants. Although the remaining Hungarian army did not collapse immediately, most of them also lost their will to fight.

In fact, even if they wanted to fight, they did not have enough firepower to stop everything in front of them. After all, the cannons had been destroyed by the Austrians long ago, and they did not even have shells left.

Most people stared blankly at what was happening in front of them. Heinau and his troops had already practiced many times for today's battle.

The Austrian army's attack was like a storm, and Budapest's defense was already riddled with holes. The moment the two collided, the latter collapsed.

The Magyars in the city were following their instincts, either running away or hiding, and of course some were inspired by fear.

A burly bald man tore open his collar. Once upon a time, he was also a passionate young man inspired by the Hungarian philosophy.

However, during these days in Budapest, he could only hide in the ruins to avoid the bombardment, and survived until today by eating corpses and smelly water.

He had had enough of such days, so he picked up his gun and rushed towards the gap in the city wall.

"All men, follow me! Let them see the courage of us Huns!"

"Yes! Our ancestors were able to beat the Europeans into fleeing in panic, and we can do it today!"

"Charge!"

However, the times have changed, and personal bravery alone cannot change the entire collapsed situation.

Whether it is the steel behemoth throwing grenades in the sky, the steam tank equipped with vehicle-mounted air guns, or the Austrian soldiers approaching like a black cloud, they are not something they can resist.

These people are like drops of water falling into the ocean, and they can't cause any waves at all, let alone keep the torrent out.

The bald man was unfortunately hit by a white phosphorus bomb, and was instantly refined, which scared the people around him to death.

It didn't take long for the periphery of Budapest to fall, and most of the remaining enemy troops hid in the ruins.

Street fighting was the situation Franz least wanted to face, because once entering street fighting, the so-called equipment advantages and the quality of soldiers would be greatly reduced, and it would eventually become a battle of wills between the two sides.

Franz prepared a lot for this, from continuous destructive bombardment to the development of related equipment, and even prepared special tactics for this.

However, the imagined fierce street fighting did not happen. Wherever the Magyars went, they were defeated. Many people gathered together with dull eyes and did not care about the outcome of the war, let alone becoming prisoners of the Austrian army.

A small number of remnants of the enemy who resisted stubbornly were first baptized by heavy weapons, and then the Austrian soldiers would shout for the other side to surrender.

If the other side did not surrender, they would use grenades to clear the way. Grenades are particularly deadly to remnants of enemies in small spaces, especially those hiding in basements.

Only a few people would rather die than surrender, and most Magyars did not even put up a symbolic resistance.

The battle ended in less than a day, and the Austrian army did not suffer many casualties. This is closely related to the collapse of the Hungarian army's command system. After all, scattered soldiers can't accomplish anything.

The commander of the Hungarian garrison, Čutkale, was known as "the bravest man in Hungary".

When he was captured, he stayed in a dim basement. There was an unloaded pistol and a bottle of poison on the table. There was a rope loop hanging on the beam and a chair underneath.

Everything was so calm, but the miserable situation in the city was shocking. Almost all Hungarians in the city were severely malnourished, and nearly one-third of them could not communicate normally.

However, what was even more horrifying was what the Hungarian army did in the city.

Those soldiers who survived were worse than beasts. They robbed civilians of their supplies and then kept them in captivity. What they did was beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

Some of the Austrian military reporters were scared crazy just by recording the facts. Some of the rescued civilians were missing hands and feet, some were missing eyes and ears, and some even lost half of their faces.

The women had even more unspeakable pain and humiliation, and there was not even a child in the whole city.

The miserable situation in the city made people feel uncomfortable, and the behavior of the Magyars was even more disgusting.

A temporary court was set up in the city. They would interrogate the Magyar soldiers and civilians in the city one by one, collect evidence to judge their crimes, and finally detain or directly execute them.

All of this would be recorded and bound into a book for future generations to explore.

However, it was harder than climbing to the sky to find an innocent person in this city at this time.

Even those who were locked in the cage were not necessarily innocent. Maybe they were just one step away from being able to bully outside the cage.

In the face of the mountain of iron evidence, most people chose to confess, but a few still had a fluke mentality and refused to admit it.

Fortunately, the people in the court had already had experience, and the combination of "leniency for confession, strictness for resistance", "mutual exposure", and "question and answer with prizes" often made those people doubt their lives.

Austrian soldiers were used to the form of public trials, but they were still surprised by the dense appearance of scum like in Budapest.

Some people were not even qualified to be called scum. Even being a jury was uncomfortable, combined with the tragic situation in the city.

Most soldiers strengthened their faith in the Austrian Empire and believed more in the justice of their actions.

Is justice important? Very important!

But for most European and American countries throughout history, interests are more important.

According to tradition and these theories, Franz should not have conducted a formalistic public trial. He should have immediately started to redistribute benefits, and then resumed production, or even directly found a guide who was familiar with the local situation to entrust him with important tasks, so that everyone could happily conspire to exploit the lower classes.

However, for the Austrian Empire, a freak in history, justice, at least to make people believe that they are just, is really important.

For Franz personally, he did not want to repeat the old ways of the past and let the world reincarnate again, and he did not want a group of rats to stay on his map.

The number one felon in the public trial was Tyutkale, an extreme Magyar nationalist.

Before the outbreak of the Hungarian rebellion, he sneaked into the student dormitory alone with a scimitar in the middle of the night and stabbed four German students to death. He was called "the bravest man in Hungary."

After the outbreak of the Hungarian Revolution, he was released. Because of his ruthless and unyielding behavior, he soon became Kossuth's right-hand man.

At this time, as the defender of Budapest, he was entrusted with important tasks by Kossuth.

The heads of the four German students who were stabbed to death are still hung in front of the oldest university in Budapest, Eötvös Loránd University, as a symbol of his achievements.

In addition, in order to eliminate dissidents, Tyutkare also organized actions against pro-Austrian forces in Budapest.

At the same time, he organized many massacres in Hungary, killing 50,000 civilians in the royal estate alone, and a total of more than 600,000 civilians of all ethnic groups.