Chapter 1054 Guerrilla Warfare

At this time, the Austrian Empire's military strength can definitely besiege the Bellevue Corps to death as long as there is no accident, but this may take one to two years. ׺°”˜˜`”°º×

Franz does not have so much time to waste with them, and Franz does not really want to wipe out the Sardinians from this world.

So Franz thought he should help them, and organizing guerrillas to blast from the inside is undoubtedly the best choice at this time.

Garibaldi and Riberio were the first to join the Volunteer Army, not only because they were Italian nationalists, but they also wanted to see everything that happened in Piedmont with their own eyes.

The propaganda department of the Austrian Empire still took it for granted. Although Franz almost replaced the old people, their propaganda methods and content still lacked novelty.

It's nothing more than the French destroying the original order of the world, violating common beliefs, and posing a threat to our country and life.

Franz was speechless looking at these empty propaganda. He might as well let a group of tabloid reporters write it.

What Franz didn't expect was that such empty words could still resonate with many people. The number of volunteers who signed up on the first day exceeded the actual number required.

After all, this was an attack behind enemy lines, not a frontal battle. Too many people would easily expose them and make it inconvenient to act.

The primary task of these volunteers was to save their lives. According to the official statement: "As long as we are still here, the French will not dare to act rashly, so please cherish your lives, so that you can save more people."

The second is to liberate villages and towns as much as possible and strive for more people to join. After all, there is strength in numbers. If these people are unwilling to join, they can also be sent to Austria, which can also save them from the suffering of war.

Finally, Franz gave the occupation policy, which is "When the enemy advances, we retreat; when the enemy stays, we harass; when the enemy is tired, we attack; when the enemy retreats, we chase."

This is absolutely applicable to the Kingdom of Sardinia at this time. After all, there are more Italians in the Italian Corps of the Austrian Empire than Germans. It is not an exaggeration to say that they are fighting at home.

The French are the real invaders. Most of them can't speak or understand Italian. The heavy taxes and extortions also made the Sardinians resentful. The Austrian army not only had more Italians, but also could fly the banner of the Holy Alliance and the Church.

The mountains and ridges may be natural barriers for large armies, but they are colanders for small-scale volunteers.

They do not need too much supplies or equipment, and with the blessing of faith and spiritual power, crossing mountains and ridges is simply a piece of cake for them.

The French army's greater loophole came from the sea. Since the Austrian Empire had complete control of the sea at this time, the volunteers could land wherever they wanted.

The long coastline made the French exhausted, and the landing time and place of the volunteers were not fixed, so the French coast patrol soon collapsed.

In addition to the sixteen-character policy for guerrilla warfare, the one of surrounding cities with rural areas also applies.

The urbanization level of the Kingdom of Sardinia in 1848 was quite low, and Bellevue had to spread out his troops in order to control the entire territory of Sardinia.

But the French army was unpopular, and was unfamiliar with the Kingdom of Sardinia. Most of them didn't even speak Italian, which resulted in the dispersion of the troops and made it very easy to be defeated one by one.

Once they retreated to the city, they would fall into a greater predicament and be easily divided and surrounded.

At that time, whether Franz wanted to surround the reinforcements, defeat them one by one, or starve them to death, it would be out of their control.

This tactic was only applicable to Europe in the 19th century, and it would not be so useful in a few decades.

In addition to dealing with the French, Franz also wanted to provide them and later generations with a new idea.

Under the cover of night, Garibaldi and his team landed in Arasiau in southern Piedmont. As the first volunteer army to enter the Kingdom of Sardinia, he saw the most real scene.

Everywhere he passed was desolate, and all the villages implemented a strict curfew policy. There were corpses hanging on the trees at the head of the village, and signs were hung on the corpses, and the crimes were written on the signs.

"Opposition."

The church door was closed, no light came out from it, and there were obviously many new graves in the nearby public cemetery.

Garibaldi's team spent a long night outside the village, and he learned the next day that there were only three French soldiers stationed in the village.

With the guidance of the villagers, they easily found and killed the three French soldiers who were domineering in the village, as well as several lackeys.

Garibaldi's team opened the warehouse and shared the spoils with the villagers, and then rushed to the next village.

Countless volunteer teams turned the Kingdom of Sardinia upside down. They attacked the lone French army everywhere based on the intelligence of the people.

Since most of them can speak Italian, or even are Italians themselves, they can easily infiltrate the French army's tightly defended cities to carry out assassinations and sabotage.

Countless reports of attacks were piled up in front of Bellvi like a mountain. He angrily overturned the table and stepped hard on those damn reports.

"This group of two-faced idiots! They invited us here in the first place! We have to shed blood and sacrifice for them, so shouldn't they pay a price?"

Faced with Bellevue's questioning, his officers and Saint-Cyr's staff chose to remain silent, and only Sako, the commander of the auxiliary army he appointed, nodded repeatedly.

"Marshal Bellevue, you should let those ungrateful guys know how powerful you are, so that they can face reality."

Belvet thought it made sense, but still pretended to be reluctant.

"Mr. Sacco, you know. Our enemies are the Austrians, but those poor people have been bewitched by our enemies.

For our bright future, bloodshed and sacrifice are indispensable."

"I understand, all this is for freedom and for the republic!"

"Okay, Mr. Sacco. I will now appoint you as the President of the Republic of Sardinia, and I will also send Mr. Kilian to lead the gendarmerie to cooperate with you to guard our territory."

In the next two weeks, Sacco led more than 30,000 Sardinian troops and more than 8,000 French troops to start the elimination of rebels in the country.

Soon Sacco found that this 38,000-man army was simply a drop in the bucket for the prairie fire in front of him, and he repeatedly asked Belle for help.

But the answer he got was only two words "no", on the other hand, Belle also doubted Sacco and repeatedly asked him to show his achievements to prove his loyalty.

In desperation, Sacco chose to attack from all sides, but he encountered obstacles everywhere, and the area just recovered was occupied the next day.

In the end, he could only shrink his troops in the city and tremble in fear as Franz expected, and he also met his final fate.

Furious, Bellevue executed Sarco, the first president of the Republic of Sardinia, for treason.