Chapter 102: The Kingdom of Sardinia (Asking for Votes)

Charlie Albert waved his hand and said, "Just teach them how to use guns, they don't care so much by this time."

Now the focus is on boosting morale and arousing patriotism in them, and if they are not trained enough, they will use courage to make up.

As long as we dare to fight, even if we exchange three soldiers or five soldiers for one soldier of the enemy, we can also drag down the Austrians and create favorable conditions for negotiations! ”

He has long been disillusioned with his combat effectiveness, the regular army of the Kingdom of Sardinia has been beaten, and the cannon fodder troops that have been temporarily formed now can still defy the sky?

If the quality is not good, then use the quantity to make up, and they have people to fight locally.

After a long period of government propaganda, ordinary people have remembered the hardships of life in Austria, and now they have a mass base.

War Minister Li Qi said worriedly: "Your Majesty, our weapons and equipment are seriously insufficient, and many soldiers share a gun with two or three people, and this is the result of us encouraging soldiers to bring their own weapons. ”

If Marshal Badolio hadn't killed himself at the last moment and resisted all the responsibilities, the kingdom of Sardinia might have changed now.

Even so, the pressure on the government has increased dramatically. It can be said that the Austrian army came to the city at this time and saved the Sardinian government to a certain extent.

King Charlie Albert, a political man, took the opportunity to divert the internal contradictions, and under the banner of defending the country, all the factors of instability were arranged into the army, and placed on the front line of the war against Austria.

If the Austrian army could help him get rid of all of them, Charlie-Albert probably wouldn't mind giving them a big medal.

Of course, this is impossible, and Charlie Albert would not be grateful to the Austrians. Unless these men were killed, the Austrian army would have returned home.

It's a pity that now is the weakest time for the Kingdom of Sardinia, and if you don't bite a piece of meat, is Austria embarrassed to call itself a great power?

"Mobilize the people in the country to raise donations, I personally took the lead and donated all the guns in the collection, as much as I could, and if it was not enough, I would equip some cold weapons to make do with it first.

The Foreign Ministry is communicating with Britain and France, and it won't be long before we get enough weapons and equipment. Charlie Albert thought for a moment and said

Richie's heart was broken, he really wanted to greet King Charlie Albert what he thought, what kind of goods is your collection, don't you have a little bit of pressure in your own heart?

The guns that can be used in the country have long been requisitioned, and now the royal family's collection is basically antique guns, and the oldest one is a 14th-century arquebus.

It's okay to use these weapons as decorations, but if you really use them on the battlefield, you're murdering.

As one of the origins of the Renaissance, the nobles of the Kingdom of Sardinia here pursued historical and cultural heritage, and the older the weapons collected, the more historical the better.

At the time of this mobilization, all the young men of the noble children of the Kingdom of Sardinia had entered the army, and they had already brought out the weapons they could use.

That's it, no matter how old the weapon is, as long as it can shoot bullets, it can kill people, and it's a big deal to treat it as a disposable.

The most tragic thing is to use cold weapons to fill up, which is probably to prepare for hand-to-hand combat with the Austrian army, in the face of the unreliable boss, Li Qi finally chose - "Your Majesty is wise." ”

Prime Minister Azeglio couldn't help but speak: "Your Majesty, the French have rejected our request to buy weapons, and they have even learned from the Swiss next door to strictly investigate smuggling and prohibit the flow of weapons and ammunition into our country. ”

It is no secret that the Franco-Austrian Treaty is no longer a secret, but for the Kingdom of Sardinia, one Austria will die, and if there is another France, they will not even have the courage to resist.

The Sardinian government has chosen to play dumb and try to rely on the internal contradictions of the French government to get out of this crisis.

But now it can't be loaded, and the neutral country Switzerland has an arms embargo on them, which is normal operation. Now the French are also playing like this, which is blatant malice.

Don't forget, before the outbreak of this war, the French government encouraged them to send troops and promised a bunch of weapons aid. Now not to mention aid, even normal trade cannot go smoothly.

There was no way, no matter how much they promised benefits to the French, they could not be as simple as Franz did.

Austria could cede half of the Kingdom of Sardinia to the French, which was a generous gesture, and the Sardinian government would never have been able to make such a decision.

In the face of interests, politicians' promises are like farting.

The French had long-standing ambitions for Italy, and because of the Habsburgs, they tried in vain for hundreds of years.

Now the opportunity has come to the door, the politicians need the political prestige that comes with expanding their territories, the capitalists need a larger market, and the aristocratic officers need military merit.

So many people have interests to appeal, naturally it is not the diplomatic efforts of the Kingdom of Sardinia that can be stopped, if it were not for the internal dominance struggle, at this time the French army would have been killed.

"Bang"!

Charlie Albert slammed the table hard and said angrily, "Damn Frenchman, they all deserve to hell." I knew that in the war against France, we shouldn't have let them go so easily! ”

The king's roar, everyone chose not to hear it. What was the situation in the Kingdom of Sardinia in the war against France, does it need to be said?

"Your Majesty, the British have agreed to mediate the war, and by this time the British Foreign Secretary, Mr. Palmerston, has departed from London and is on his way to Vienna." Prime Minister Azeglio hurriedly said a piece of good news

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When the fate of the Kingdom of Sardinia was hanging by a thread, the internationalist people of Paris launched the June Revolt to save the Kingdom of Sardinia.

The June Revolution in Paris is very legendary, and after the French bourgeois government succeeded in seizing power, it successfully colluded with Austria and Russia.

The Prussian liberals sent a note to France, inviting the French government to join in supporting the Polish independence movement, but the French government naturally refused.

In solidarity with the Polish Revolution, 150,000 Parisian workers took to the streets on the morning of June 15, 1848, and occupied the Houses of Parliament to demand that the French government form an expeditionary force to support the Polish independence movement.

Undoubtedly, this spirit of internationalism was rejected by the French government, and the contradictions between the two sides began to intensify, and on June 23 the revolution broke out again in Paris.

France was unstable, and in order to avoid further deterioration of the situation, the Paris government had to cancel its plan to send troops to the Kingdom of Sardinia.