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Chapter 89 Three Emperors Alliance
  Dueling is already banned in Russia, but private duels continue to be banned.

George is still underage. Even if others want to challenge George to a duel, they have to wait until George becomes an adult.

However, with George's current strength, Peter and Constantine would only challenge George for a duel unless they were tired of living.

Vasily challenged George to a duel because he was drunk and unethical. Constantine surrendered on his own initiative. The person who suffered the most was not George, but Vasily.

Vasily went through hardships and sacrificed everything in order to win, but he didn't even have a chance to prove himself, and he was even sent to the Warsaw Military District. This was a complete humiliation for Vasily.

Guards officers were rarely transferred unless they retired.

Usually, Guards officers will be retired or transferred only if there are serious mistakes like Ye Luoxin's.

Vasily wanted to prove himself, but was played by Constantine, and he got himself drunk out of desperation.

"You have found the wrong person. You should find a duel with Constantine." When George saw Vasily the next day, Vasily was already sober.

"Is a duel fair~~" Vasily's whole body was decadent, which fully proved the importance of taking sides.

"Life is inherently unfair." George looked indifferent. Only the weak emphasize fairness everywhere, while the strong will continue to strengthen their advantages.

This is like Russian football in the future. There is no use shouting about fair play all day long, and it is even more useless to bother with the referee. If you have the ability to beat the opponent ten to zero in every game, no matter how the referee behaves, he will not be able to score ten goals. Blow it all off.

"What qualifications do you, a superior guy, have to say this!" Vasily was angrily, blaming the defeat more on George's advantage.

"Do you dare to fight with a superior guy like me?" George wanted to hit someone.

"Why don't you dare!" Vasily became energetic.

George didn't brag, it only took ten seconds for George to make Vasily kneel to the ground.

"You can't lead an army, and you can't even fight -" George took off his gloves indifferently, and Andrei looked at Vasily with eyes full of pity.

This guy is so pathetic.

"Why, why--" Vasily burst into tears, not knowing whether it hurt or not.

"If you don't want to go to Warsaw, you can go to St. Petersburg to find me." George was willing to give Vasily a chance, but Vasily had to take the initiative to fight for it.

George needs help from many people if he wants to get a higher status.

Vasily is a descendant of the military god and has a father who is an infantry director. Unfortunately, he met Constantine.

Even Constantine was not without merit.

Constantine quit voluntarily knowing he couldn't win, which was actually not bad.

At least you have self-awareness.

I don’t know how many people died because of their arrogance.

"I'm useless, I'm finished -" Vasily muttered to himself as he lay on the ground.

"If life deceives you -" George hoped that Pushkin could cheer up Vasily: "-don't be sad, don't be impatient, be calm in the melancholy days, believe it, happy days will come!"

Pushkin died in a duel.

But Pushkin's duel was more like murder.

Vasily didn't speak. Except that he was still breathing, he looked like he was dead.

George didn't talk nonsense. If Vasily failed to recover, George would pretend that Vasily never appeared. Constantine’s exit disappointed many people.

Ya San was not in the mood to be disappointed, he was more angry.

"Yesterday, the artillery of the Omsk Military District conducted artillery fire. The artillery shells accidentally hit friendly positions, killing 15 people and injuring dozens of others -" Nikolai was in a low mood, but this was a normal operation for the Russian army.

The Russian army can only become normal at a critical moment of life and death. It performs various kinds of crotch pulling every day. George and Nikolai have become accustomed to it these days.

A few days ago, the cavalry was conducting a short charge, and more than ten people were injured because their horses accidentally fell.

While the infantry was performing a parade, one soldier's rifle accidentally discharged, killing another soldier.

During a long-distance raid the day before yesterday, more than ten soldiers were missing. They have not been found yet, and it is not known whether they ran away or died.

This is only what has been exposed.

Some problems that have not been exposed are even more shocking.

In the past few days, George had heard a lot about people taking empty pay, killing good people while taking credit, and using soldiers as serfs.

These were open secrets, and the Tsar must have known them.

Since the Tsar didn't pursue the case, George didn't do anything.

Probably out of fear that a more serious incident would occur, Yasan ordered that no live ammunition be used in the subsequent exercises, which relieved many people.

Accidents have occurred frequently in the past few days, causing many jokes to be made by observers from various countries.

The confrontation between the Prussian and Russian Regiments was canceled by the Tsar's order. The Guards were the face of the Russian Empire. If a bigger accident occurred during the confrontation exercise between the General and Russian Regiments, resulting in more casualties, the empire would lose its final face. .

George had no time to be angry, and the general regiment received orders to leave Rivne and move towards the border of the Russian Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Russia assembled an army of 5 troops in Rivne. The Austro-Hungarian Empire was extremely nervous and worried that Russia would take advantage of the situation. Therefore, the Austro-Hungarian Empire assembled nearly 4 troops in Lemberg for the same reason.

Rivne is only 150 kilometers away from Lemberg. With nearly 10 troops concentrated in such a large place, the whole of Europe began to become nervous.

The relationship between Russia and the Austro-Hungarian Empire is very complicated. In the 6th Russo-Turkish War, Suvorov led the Russian-Austrian coalition to defeat the Ottoman Empire and became famous in the first battle.

During the European Revolution of 1848, the Austrian Empire, the predecessor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, fell into civil war. The then Tsar Nicholas I sent 14 troops to help Austria quell the civil strife, and Russia became the European military police.

In 1853, the 9th Russo-Turkish War broke out.

Nicholas I thought that Austria would send troops to assist Russia in fighting as before.

Unexpectedly, Austria stood by and watched, Russia was defeated, the Tsar committed suicide in despair, and the relationship between the two countries dropped to a freezing point.

The conflicts between Russia and Austria are mainly concentrated in the Balkan Peninsula. Russia has been expanding into the Slavic areas in the southern Balkan Peninsula under the banner of Great Slavism for many years.

Austria also had ambitions for the Balkans. In 1867, Austria was reorganized into the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and its control over Hungary was significantly reduced. Vienna was worried that the Slavs in the Austro-Hungarian Empire would break away from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and became increasingly wary of Russia.

"There will eventually be a battle between us and Vienna!" Nicholas vowed revenge.

Although the Alliance of Three Emperors was formed for the second time in 1881, it was an expedient measure for the newly ascended to the throne to stabilize the domestic situation in Russia.

Now that the situation in Russia is gradually stabilizing, the Three Emperors Alliance will expire next year. If the Russian Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire do not renew the contract by then, the Three Emperors Alliance will completely collapse.

(End of this chapter)