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

Chapter 1188 Backhand
During his defense of the city, Qiu Tekalai's actions were even more outrageous, tearing down houses for heating and feeding people, and all kinds of evil deeds that were beyond belief.

In addition to allowing his soldiers to plunder the city, after Kossuth fled Budapest, he also occupied the palace and transformed it into his own harem.

At first, Qiu Tekale's targets were prostitutes and socialites who attempted to curry favor with the powerful, but he soon got tired of them and extended his clutches to the wives and daughters of his subordinates and his own students.

After the Hungarian rebellion began, Tyutkalé was also given the position of Rector of the University of Hungary, responsible for teaching the course "Courage".

Later, when he saw no hope, Qiu Tekale became even more unscrupulous. The number of his harem exceeded 800 at one point. In order to increase the fun and solve the food crisis, he even came up with some more inhuman ways of playing.

Tiutkale also built a huge underground palace filled with all kinds of gold, silver, jewelry, antiques, and works of art, the value of which was enough for Kossuth to buy a large army from Britain and France.

Another secret underground palace was filled with grain, bacon, and even canned food.

But at this time these riches could only become spoils of the Austrian Empire and added fuel to the destruction of the Hun Empire.

What Tiutkalé did was truly despised by everyone, but at the trial, it was the Hungarians who denounced him most fiercely.

Qiutkal's behavior even made those villains who had long since given up their human identities feel sick. If it weren't for this greedy and stupid guy, Budapest would never have fallen so easily, and they would not have lived a life that was neither human nor ghost.

In fact, the trial of Tiutkale at this time resolved the doubts of Heinau and a group of Austrian generals, because they had not restricted the supply of the Hungarian army.

After all, Franz's plan was only to destroy the Magyars' manpower. This was not out of humanitarian considerations. He was just afraid that the Hungarians would surrender early.

However, the fool Qiutkalái inadvertently helped Franz a lot. Instead of surrendering, he caused public outrage.

Even if Qiu Tekalai was not stupid and evil, many evil things would inevitably happen in a city under siege for a long time. It was just that his actions amplified this effect.

"Death penalty! Death penalty! Death penalty!"

"Can't let him go!"

"The death penalty is too easy for him! Burn at the stake!"

"Impalement!"

The judges of the temporary court did not react much. After all, they had seen a lot of such scum along the way.

Instead, it was Qiu Tekale himself who cried first.

"I don't want to die! I am innocent! They framed me! I know a lot of secrets, and I am willing to be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor!"

After Qiu Tekale shouted like this, the whole situation became even more chaotic, and the angry crowd wanted to rush up and beat him to death immediately.

Now, whether they are loyalists, rebels, or passers-by, they all despise the devil in front of them.

However, as the highest-ranking Hun official captured so far, his symbolic significance is naturally extraordinary, and this person is very likely to hold key intelligence.

For a moment the judges were actually somewhat at a loss, and their choice was to focus on the trial first, then sentence, and use this time to summon Franz to Vienna to let him make the decision personally.

If Franz were here, he would be extremely angry, because before these judges arrived in Hungary, he had already set the tone that all trials must be conducted swiftly and strictly. Even when trying Kossuth, there was no need to ask for permission and he could just be hanged.

The actions of the temporary court at this time clearly went against Franz's original intention, and Qiutkal was locked up amid angry condemnations.

Before leaving, he did not forget to boast that he was a loyal subject of the Austrian Empire, and at the same time cursed the Hungarians present as barbaric traitors. The scene was once very chaotic. The subsequent trial also fully demonstrated the diversity of species, all kinds of scum, all kinds of evil, which made everyone's anger reach its peak.

Everyone was waiting for the execution a week later. People wanted to make sure that the scum got what they deserved and watch how they died.

The main force of the Austrian Empire began to withdraw gradually, preparing for the next attack on Debrecen. Subsequent auxiliary troops entered and began to treat the wounded, resume production, and rebuild the city.
However, at this moment, something unexpected happened. The night sky in the distance was bright red. Some people thought it was beautiful fireworks, but senior officials of the Austrian Empire knew what it meant.

"It's red light! Red light!"

A bodyguard broke into Heinau's tent and shouted, and the latter immediately jumped up from the bed.

"What direction?"

"Northwest!"

"Northwest?"

“North West!”

The guard answered affirmatively, and countless thoughts exploded in Heinau's mind. Northwest? Could it be that the Hungarian army bypassed him and attacked Pressburg directly?

But how is that possible?

Heinau quickly picked up the oil lamp and walked to the map to check, but there were no strategic points on the map, and where did the Hungarians get the troops to threaten such a large army?
Until he saw an area that Franz had marked in red - the Busen Dam.

"Touch! Quick! Get everyone out of the city and onto the high ground outside! Blow the horn! Blow the whistle! Triangle!"

Heinau yelled in a panic.

In fact, many years ago, Heinau had seen this kind of tactics in a military anecdote written by an unknown person. However, this kind of tactics was too horrifying and a bit bizarre, so it did not attract the attention of the Austrian military.

However, Franz had previously marked many red areas on the map, believing that these areas might experience major events that would change the situation of the war at critical moments.

Heinau connected the two together, and combined with his understanding of Hungary's environment and climate, he immediately understood what the red flare was warning about.

Ice floods are the most terrible natural disaster in Hungary, even worse than wildfires.

However, due to Franz's Danube control plan, ice floods have rarely occurred since the construction of the Busen Dam.

Franz had not dug the dam when the war was intense before, so now that he was sure of victory, it was naturally impossible for him to do such a stupid thing.

There is only one possibility: the Hungarians blew up the dam themselves.

In fact, it was the Hungarian secret forces that blew up the Busen Dam at the instruction of Kossuth.

According to Kossuth's idea, he wanted to annihilate the Austrian army in one fell swoop outside the city of Budapest. Even if he could not directly annihilate the main force of the Austrian Empire, he could delay its attack and pave the way for him to defeat it one by one.

What he didn't expect was that Tiutkale's troops were so weak that they lost Budapest in just one day.

What Kossuth had not expected was that Franz had already thought of the possibility of the dam being blown up and had arranged an early warning system.

Red flares rose up one after another, illuminating the sky red.