The War Court and Lap Pillow, Austria's Mandate of Heaven

Chapter 1110 Poland? Poland!
In fact, Britain has a trump card, and that is the Poles. The British government spent a lot of money on the Poles back then.

However, the strength of the Poles could not keep up with the development of the times. Coupled with Franz's actions, they could not even hold back Austria.

But what about bringing the Poles and Hungarians together? Is there any hope?

At least Prince Albert himself was looking forward to it, after all, he didn't have much to look forward to. Apart from the Poles and Hungarians, there was only the Royal Navy left.

Baron Brooke's previous protests had confirmed the effectiveness of the Royal Navy's tactics, but it remained unknown how much impact maritime plunder would have on the Austrian Empire.

After all, Austria is not Spain. Its main taxes and supplies still come from local sources, and even Spain would need several years to weaken it.

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

Moreover, the profession of pirate has existed since ancient times, so it doesn’t matter even if they are caught by the Austrians.

It would be better to say that the British Navy was hoping that the Austrians would take the initiative to attack, because as long as the Austrians took the initiative to attack, there would be a higher chance of revealing flaws, and then the British Royal Navy would be able to seize the opportunity to defeat them in one fell swoop.

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

However, it is not easy to provide assistance to Hungary. In the past, the British Navy could enter the Mediterranean openly, or directly purchase supplies from its allies and then send them to Hungary.

But this is simply impossible now. The Austrian navy has blockaded the Mediterranean, and Britain's ally, the Ottoman Empire, is already in trouble, and the Greeks have directly jumped to the Austrian side.

Fortunately, Britain had Prussia, which was not an ally but better than an ally. The Prussians were willing to help the British send the Polish Restoration Army into Austria.

In fact, many people within the Prussian government opposed this approach. After all, the Austrians were eliminating dissidents, and doing so at this time would be tantamount to going against the wind and was too risky.

At that time, Prussia's national strength and reputation were completely unable to compete with Austria. Although some small countries within the Confederation were dissatisfied, the major powerful countries all supported Austria.

Although Franz swept the National Assembly to pieces, his support among nationalists increased instead of decreasing.

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

What’s even worse is that these people have never received any so-called loyalty education, and are not even Austrians at all.

William IV felt unprecedented pressure, but as senior Prussian government officials said, Prussia at that time had no ability to fight against Austria, even with the help of the British.

In fact, there were also pro-British factions within Prussia, and their number was not small, but the previous civil war in the German Confederation had left too deep an 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 was impossible for the British to fight the Austrians on the European continent. If Prussia insisted on its own way, it would probably follow in Poland's footsteps.

The Russians would certainly be very happy to divide Prussia with Austria. In fact, Saxony had been eyeing Prussia since its merger with the Austrian Empire. Once a war broke out, Saxony would certainly be the first to send troops.

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

(Prussian Wall, see the previous article on the cholera period and the influx of refugees.)
It has to be said that there was a reason why the Poles were able to restore their country more than a hundred years after its destruction. Although the Polish restoration organization suffered a devastating blow in 1847, several large Polish restoration groups emerged in the blink of an eye.

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

Their desire to restore their country was so strong that, in a sense, they were also frightened by the French. The former beacon of civilization was now in ruins, with different factions attacking each other, foreign wars failing, and the old dynasty watching covetously.

The wonderful life of the Poles in exile in France is gone forever. Previous French governments have chosen to give preferential treatment to Polish exiles, but now the French are struggling to protect themselves, so how can 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 and balance the Holy Alliance, so naturally they would not treat the latter unfairly.

Finally, with the operation of Britain and Prussia, about 8,000 Polish restorationists and 3,000 mercenaries entered the Prussian-Austrian border.

The reason why these people were willing to take the risk was naturally because of the profits. Kossuth's envoys promised them that as long as Hungary won the war, Galicia would be ceded to the Poles.

If we fail to defeat Austria but keep Hungary, then we will give Vojvodina to the Poles.

(The largest royal domain in the Hungarian region of Vojvodina.)
Whether it is Galicia or Vojvodina, the temptation is too great for the long-exiled Poles.

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

Their supplies will be managed by Anglophiles in Russia, with supplies delivered directly to the war zone in Transylvania.

At this time, Russia and Austria were still allies. Even if the pro-British faction in Russia was bold, they would not dare to send equipment to Hungary openly. After all, Nicholas I was not an easy person to deal with. If he really wanted to kill people, it would 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 Galicia region has been withdrawn, the number of local militia is too large.

The Galician militia mainly came from refugees during the cholera period, but Franz trained them into militia not to let them fight, but because it was easier to manage.

The Galicia region was run like an iron barrel by Count Stadion, but fortunately, a woman who called herself Celestina Jasuski found them and claimed that she had a way to bring them into Hungary.