Finally came April 1, 1857, the month of the scheduled wedding of the Grand Duke and Princess Elizabeth, and to this day, it is not known where the Grand Duke held the wedding, some say it will be in the Duke's Senthofen Castle of Bavaria, some say it will be in London, and there is a rumor that it will be in the British Museum, because Downing said that the British Museum is the church of the atheists.

They were all wrong. Today's BBC headlines are: Grand Duke of Luxembourg has decided to hold a wedding at the Grand Ducal Palace in the heart of Luxembourg. There was even a striking message in the news - the Grand Duke was pleased to see the complete withdrawal of Prussian troops from Luxembourg within 10 days.

After the 10th, 1,000 Satsuma mercenaries will arrive in the Belgian port of Antwerp on a 10,000-ton blue ship, pass through Belgium, and sail to Luxembourg after the state-owned Herstal Arsenal is equipped with enough ammunition.

Little Japan is coming!

Saigo Takamori, who led the Satsuma mercenaries, had already had enough knowledge of Western firearms, although the Prussian army had invented breech rifled guns, and its range could be comparable to that of the FN-1855, but it should not have been equipped with the whole army, and the firing speed was ten times worse, and the Satsuma soldiers were confident that they would surprise the European powers Prussia with one as ten.

Bismarck once muttered in front of Downing that the smart is very powerful after pulling up the trailer, the irony is that Downing really did it, has been replaced with a 20-horsepower hydrogen fuel cell A smart front seat two soldiers, the back tow can pull 8 soldiers or the same amount of supplies, 120 smart personnel carriers are the world's first mechanized troops, and the supply capacity of the Satsuma mercenaries can surprise the Prussians.

Downing was secretly brewing a surprise for the Prussians while waiting for their reaction.

It's finally here! Bismarck thought it was not cost-effective to turn against the Grand Duke of Luxembourg because of his religious views, and tried to persuade the king to abandon his opposition to the Duchess of Luxembourg, but the king seemed to be stubborn and expressed "the hope that the Grand Duke of Luxembourg would give up his anti-Christian position".

Belgium never dreamed that the Grand Duke of Luxembourg would dare to fight against a power like Prussia, and on the eve of the wedding, they borrowed the Satsuma mercenaries with a very relaxed attitude, believing that the small force of a thousand men was not enough to support any hard-line position of the Grand Duke of Windsor. Naturally, the Belgians did not think that the Prussians would object to the Grand Duke of Luxembourg recruiting the 1,000 Asians, and the Belgian military did not even know that the 1,000 men were all new riflemen trained in Singapore for several months, and thought that they were there to prepare for the wedding.

On April 10, when Prussia had not yet withdrawn its troops, the BBC News broadcast that "the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg issued a 24-hour ultimatum to Prussia".

A small state with a population of 200,000 calls a large country with a population of 20 million? British Prime Minister Palmerston quickly called Downing: "What are you playing?" ”

Downing: "Fight! ”

Palmerston: "Are you looking for an excuse to impose an embargo on high-tech products in Prussia?" ”

Downing: "Hehe! ”

Palmerston can only hehe.

King William IV of Prussia laughed at the war ultimatum of the Archduke of Windsor and told it as a joke to his ministers, while Moltke, the newly appointed chief of the Prussian General Staff, was very curious, and only the Frankfurt ambassador Bismarck said to the officials around him: "Everyone can be a joke, except Downing?" Windsor. ”

Many friends were concerned about the diplomatic conflict between the Duchy of Luxembourg and Prussia, among them, Engels and Marx, who were more familiar with the Kingdom of Prussia, were quite concerned, and Downing explained to them his estimation that as long as Prussia did not launch a war of more than tens of thousands of people, he could win it. That's still not going to win! How many troops did Prussia have?

Tang Ning hehe again, who said I was going to win? If you can't win, can you run, can the infantry outrun my smart field army?

The 24-hour countdown is over! BBC hot news, the Principality of Luxembourg officially declared war on Prussia, the Luxembourg ambassador in Berlin nervously handed over the declaration of war to the Prussian foreign minister, and was laughed half to death by the Prussians on the spot, and slipped away in shame.

The 2,500 Hessian mercenaries stationed in Luxembourg were unstable, and Downing decided to test their loyalty first, dividing the 2,500 men into five teams, each marching separately and stationed in a delicate position, and then "inadvertently" revealing that they were likely to attack the Prussian army. In such a desperate battle, even the disciplined Hessian mercenaries deserted, plus their monarch Archduke Hesse did not support the Archduke of Luxembourg, sure enough, two teams with a total of 1,000 people deserted and rebelled, Luxembourg had not yet started a war with Prussia, their own mercenaries fought first, and 1500 mercenaries who were still loyal to their duties received orders to fire on their former teammates, once again brutally testing the loyalty of the mercenaries.

Civilly, Tang Ning longed to abolish the death penalty, but in military law, he was the most ruthless tyrant in the world, and made a provision for mercenaries to be punished with capital punishment if they disobeyed orders, so almost half of the 1,000 rebellious Hessian mercenaries were killed under the siege of 1,500 former teammates and 1,000 Satsuma mercenaries, and nearly half of the rebels who surrendered were imprisoned in the barracks and would be sentenced to death soon! The only preferential treatment is the payment of some pensions to their dependents.

In April, which should have been a beautiful day, blood stained the sky of Luxembourg red, and the BBC announced the "lethal injection" of nearly 500 rebels, which shocked the whole world, and even the iron-blooded Bismarck was shocked, this TMD is too ruthless!

The remaining 1,500 Hessian mercenaries were completely shocked by the idea of rebellion, and now they probably understand what atheists eat, and the rewards and punishments are clear, and these 1,500 loyal soldiers are rewarded with high salaries.

The Archduke of Hesse lashed and rebuked the Archduke of Luxembourg for his "evil deeds" and demanded that his people "no longer obey the orders of the Archduke of Luxembourg", but his appeal was not heeded. After the Archduke of Hesse made his stance, Downing gave the 1,500 soldiers the freedom to leave or stay. Those who leave will receive a small severance pay, and those who will remain, of course, will continue to enjoy the treatment of well-paid mercenaries, directly into their hands, and will no longer be exploited by the Hessian nobles.

Of the 1,500 soldiers, only a small number of those who were wounded in the suppression of the rebellion chose to leave, and they received relatively generous severance pay, and almost no Hessian mercenaries left because of the appeal of the Archduke of Hesse, who were really frightened by the iron-blooded methods of the Archduke of Luxembourg.

In the days that followed, the 500 rebels who had been court-martialed left suicide notes, and those who could not write recorded a vinyl record of their last words, and no matter how repentant and scolded the Grand Duke of Windsor for being inhumane, according to the orders of the Grand Duke of Windsor, all of them were "unabridged" and sent to their relatives as promised.

Because the test of the loyalty of the Hessian mercenaries was very cleverly arranged, both the time and the location were in the hands of Downing, and the weapons in the hands of these people were still old-fashioned front-loading rifled guns, so the Satsuma mercenaries were almost undamaged during the suppression, so now the forces in the hands of the Grand Duke of Luxembourg are still basically unchanged, and after the purge, they are divided into the Hessian regiment and the Satsuma regiment, the former is more than 1,400 people, and the latter is 1,000 people. Once their loyalty was assured, the Hesse began to be stationed on the Belgian-Luxembourg border to train on new rifles, while the Satsuma Regiment set out plans to attack the Prussian army.

Now, the King of Prussia is not amused at all, 1,500 Hessian soldiers have become die-hard loyalists of the Grand Duke of Luxembourg, and the Asian mercenaries have also initially shown their strength, and the Prussian scouts on the edge of the battlefield said that the encirclement and suppression of the rebels by the Asian mercenaries is "overwhelming", judging from the density of the gunfire, the firepower is "very considerable", and the rifle invented by the legendary Grand Duke of Luxembourg seems to be extraordinary and must be guarded against. （http:／／.）。

In 55-56, the Prussian army was completely equipped with new breech-loading rifled guns, which was not even detected by Reuters-based military intelligence agents, and the Prussians were confident that the mercenaries of the Archduke of Luxembourg, who were more ferocious, would pose a threat to Prussia, and Moltke, the chief of the General Staff, still maintained his original judgment that the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg was definitely not an opponent of the Prussian army, or even a decent opponent. The only thing to worry about is to prevent the British from meddling. The Prussian army was slowly increased to 10,000 troops on the border of Loop under Bismarck's repeated warnings, and Moltke was ready to take the opportunity to completely occupy Luxembourg and incorporate it into Prussia's territory, and his opinion was strongly opposed by the king's younger brothers, Prince Wilhelm and Bismarck, do you think Luxembourg is important to the Grand Duke? It doesn't matter at all, but once you get bad with Luxembourg, think about France's predicament.

Fearful of being affected by the war, Luxembourg's citizens began to flee everywhere, leaving even fewer of the already small country of 200,000.

On the 17th, Tangning approved Saigo Takamori's tactics of besieging the city and sending reinforcements. Only 300 men were responsible for blocking the 2,500 Prussian troops stationed in Luxembourg, and another 700 were responsible for blocking the 10,000 Prussian troops who might come to support.

Prussia's GIs were not vegetarians, they were the toughest and most disciplined army in Europe, and they were also radical in terms of weaponry. Whether 300 people can block 2,500 people, even Tang Ning didn't know the bottom in his heart, he anxiously waited for the news of the battlefield, and even the bride forgot about it.