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

Chapter 1334 Turin! Turin!
Joseph the Cripple was on vacation in Genoa with his Indian wife. He was not obsessed with power and had no attachment to the position of commander of the Po River Guard.

Garibaldi didn't want to be a running dog or accomplice of the Austrians, so he took advantage of his position and went to Genoa for vacation.

Although Garibaldi did not like Austria as a country, he had to admit that the Austrians were much better at governing the country than other regimes in Italy.

It took the Austrian Empire less than a year to bring Genoa back to life, and the port's area was almost tripled and still increasing.

The city was rebuilt, connected by rail, people's income increased exponentially, and even homelessness was eliminated.

Various factories and enterprises emerged like mushrooms after a rain, and even the banking industry ushered in spring.

Only the Venetians seemed unhappy and often hired gangsters to cause trouble.

Garibaldi didn't want to get involved in these disputes, but sometimes when the two sides quarreled too much, he would step in to stop it.

The title of Commander of the Po River Guard is still very useful. At least both sides have to exercise restraint on the surface, and no one dares to directly threaten the hero of the Italian War.

Garibaldi has lived by the sea since he was a child, but his fishing skills are not very good. After all, fishing is usually a leisure activity for gentlemen, and as a civilian, he obviously would not do such an inefficient thing.

It is obviously more efficient to scoop or catch fish than to fish, but Garibaldi is already a middle-aged man at this time, and it may be inappropriate to go fishing in the sea wearing only a pair of shorts.

He also needed to maintain his dignity as much as possible, after all, Garibaldi was the commander of the Po River Guard at this time.

Such leisurely time made him drowsy, and suddenly a spear fell into the water, splashing water on Garibaldi's face.

He looked over his shoulder and saw his wife poking fish with a homemade spear.

"Sylvia, come on, I'm fishing. You scared all my fish away!"

"You've been fishing all day! We haven't got dinner yet. If this continues we'll go hungry!"

After saying this, Silvia Garibaldi dived into the sea and began searching for prey.

Now that Garibaldi was an officer of the Austrian Empire, he naturally could not use his past name, so he could only be Joseph the Lame.

Garibaldi's wife naturally had to have an Italianized name, Silvia, which means "forest goddess".

Sylvia was nearly twenty years older than Garibaldi. Her wheat-colored skin exuded a healthy glow, and the way she emerged from the water with her back left the latter stunned.

So when the adjutant of the Po River Guard found Garibaldi, he discovered that he was playing in the water with his wife in just a pair of shorts.

"Your Excellency Commander!"

Garibaldi shuddered with fear, walked ashore solemnly, and stood in front of his adjutant.

"What can I do for you, sir?"

"I'm sorry to bother you and your wife, Commander, but something really important has happened."

Garibaldi was also helpless.

"Tell me. Let me hear it. Are there bandits again? Or are there people dumping bodies in the river again?"

"Neither! Commander, the French have invaded the Kingdom of Sardinia, and the Empire has not given us any instructions yet.

We want to ask you, what should we do? "

80% of the members of the Po River Guard were citizens of the Austrian Empire, but more than 90% of them were Italians, and most of them had participated in the war of 1848, so they knew what the French did. The news of the French invasion of the Kingdom of Sardinia exploded in Garibaldi's mind, and he couldn't figure out why the French did this. As a senior officer, he knew that there was an agreement between Austria and France not to spread the war in Spain to Italy, so he came to vacation.

"Damn the French! We were deceived by them! Tell the brothers to fully support the Kingdom of Sardinia, and send someone to tell Marshal Radetzky that we have taken the lead and ask the brothers of the Italian Corps to support us as soon as possible."

"Yes, Commander."

The adjutant ran out quickly.

Sylvia asked worriedly as she helped Garibaldi put on his coat.

"Is there going to be another war?"

Garibaldi said, grabbing Sylvia's hand.

"You don't have to go this time. Take the train to Vienna tomorrow."

"I'm not going anywhere. I've been fighting with you since I was sixteen. I'm not afraid of anything."

Garibaldi kissed his wife's hand and made no further effort to dissuade her.

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After the Italian Legion was restructured, many people became half farmers and half soldiers. They were soldiers during normal times and farmers during the busy farming season.

It was the autumn harvest season. The Po River Guard had a full strength of 20,000 people, but now it couldn't even get 8,000 people together. The situation of the Italian Corps should be similar.

However, Garibaldi decided to support the Kingdom of Sardinia as soon as possible, and there were many passionate young people among his men. In fact, due to Garibaldi's influence, many of the people who joined the Po River Guard were Italian nationalists.

They did not want to see Italy being ravaged by the French again, so they set foot on the battlefield in Piedmont without hesitation.

When Garibaldi's troops arrived outside Turin, Vittorio Emanuele II had already surrendered, and the confused Sardinian militia became prisoners of the French.

The current situation makes the entire Po River Guard feel confused. They don’t know why they are here?
Garibaldi also saw the confusion of the crowd and that something in their hearts was collapsing.

"Brothers! We are all Italians! We must let the French see our blood! We can't let the French look down on us!
Follow me! "

So the Po River Guard, which consisted of less than 8,000 people, launched a charge at the French vanguard of more than 20,000 troops. Cavaignac, who thought he was in a safe position, was about to enter the city when he heard someone shouting.

"The Austrians are coming!"

Cavaignac was first surprised, then ecstatic.

Cavaignac was surprised that the Austrians arrived so quickly, far beyond his expectations, and once again proved the incompetence of the French intelligence agencies.

The good news is that the Austrian army does not seem to be large, and does not seem to have any heavy firepower. If this Austrian army can be defeated outside Turin, it will greatly undermine the Sardinians' confidence in the Austrian Empire and reshape the image of the French army.

"Come on! We are going to break the myth of the Austrian army's invincibility here today!"

"Line up! Get ready to meet the enemy!"

The French army's elite troops quickly recovered from their initial panic, with rows of infantrymen turning their guns to prepare to meet the enemy.

"Don't be afraid! The enemy only has two brigades of troops! Our strength is at least three times theirs!"

The officers shouted about the difference in strength between the two sides to boost morale, and the French soldiers breathed a sigh of relief. They had heard that Bellevue's expeditionary force was surrounded by an Austrian army that was ten times larger than theirs, but was able to break out. So the Austrian army before them was only one-third of theirs, so it must be easy to deal with.