Chapter 742: Waking up From a Dream

Secondly, in addition to the destruction of the three branches, the situation in Krakow was not optimistic. The newly formed Krakow City Defense Army and the Polish Kingdom Guards were attacked outside the city and suffered heavy losses.

Originally, Landre Promi's Polish Restoration Army was torn apart due to his own tricks.

In fact, the original goal of the uprising was to establish a republic, and it was a republic between merchants and nobles, not a republic between nobles and kings, let alone a kingdom.

But Landre Promi had his own plans. The so-called uprising was just a performance, performed for those gentlemen who wanted to see it, to prove the value of the Polish Restoration Army.

One city against three countries, don't joke, only fools would believe such words.

If you can become a king, then your future exile life will be completely different. And becoming a king is equivalent to having a talisman. After all, according to tradition, the king cannot be executed.

In history, Napoleon turned the whole of Europe upside down, and the final outcome of the two defeats was nothing more than exile.

However, Landre Promi's approach was not understood by many Polish restorationists, because it ran counter to their ideals, so division and infighting were inevitable.

The newly formed Krakow City Defense Army and the Polish Kingdom Guards were just some rookies who had never been on the battlefield, or a group of surrenderists and people who were coerced from inside and outside the city. They could surrender to Poland and Austria.

Theoretically, Landre Promi had 50,000 troops, but in fact, these people couldn't even deal with the serfs outside the city. However, the number of troops dropped from 50,000 to 30,000 in a few days.

It was obviously impossible for the serfs to kill them. After all, even if there were 20,000 pigs, they couldn't eat them all in these few days.

However, the biggest blow to Landre Promi was the priest Peter Szczegeny who was supposed to crown him. He was hung on a tree when he instigated the serfs to rebel, and now he has dried up into a sunny doll.

The Polish Peasant Union was the organization that suffered the most losses in this uprising. Almost all of their leaders were slaughtered, and even the so-called foundation was almost uprooted.

Because it was proved that the serfs and peasants did not listen to them at all, and the so-called influence did not exist at all. They could only drive the believers with the help of the church and the emperor.

So when these people tried to revolt, the lower class sent them to the guillotine first.

Some serfs even thought that the priests were bewitched by the devil. The simple country people decided to save these poor people in their own way, such as feeding them with cow dung and gold juice, or letting the fire purify everything.

In short, there were all kinds of "treatment methods", and the organization was declared dead.

Landrey Promi's dream was also shattered. He could only find a deacon and appoint him as the Archbishop of Krakow.

Then in the historic Wawel Cathedral, only a simple coronation ceremony was hastily held, and even the parade was not held.

At this time, the top leaders of the Polish Restorationists in Krakow were a little confused about what the new king wanted to do.

There were many kings who temporarily ascended the throne when the troops were approaching, but most of them were to boost morale, but Landre Promi didn't even hold a parade.

Then what was the point of his coronation? Although Russia and Prussia are still in a wait-and-see state and have no intention of sending troops to Krakow to quell the rebellion, the Austrian Empire's army is already on the way.

Even if there were no troops from Austria, the garrison in Galicia alone would be enough for the newly born Kingdom of Poland to drink a pot.

At this time, in Krakow, there was anxiety, hesitation, fear, confusion and ambition. Everyone was doing things according to their own wishes, and even the atrocities that happened every moment were considered necessary evils.

The entire newly born Kingdom of Poland was facing the risk of extinction at any time. Austrian newspapers had even arrived in Krakow, but the only capable general of the Restoration Army, Bem, was still imprisoned in a dungeon.

This was not because Poland had no military talents. On the contrary, there were countless Polish Restorers who came from Prussia, but most of them were of the wrong composition. These people did not join the Polish Restoration Army.

Moreover, these people are relatively young, and there are even many German and Polish mixed-race people. They are still ambitious and cannot stand the warlord style of their predecessors. Compared with fighting for power in the city, they want to make achievements on the battlefield.

In addition, there is another problem. The European continent has been peaceful for a long time. The scale of the several wars that have occurred is not small, but the duration is short and the intensity is low.

Therefore, the middle and low-level officers are similar to the soldiers on the battlefield. They are either on a picnic or running away. This leads to the fact that these officers are not convinced by each other at this time.

The senior officials of the new Polish Kingdom do not know how to fight, but even if some people go against the public opinion and give power to the non-commissioned officers from the Prussian Military Academy.

The latter's qualifications are not enough and cannot convince the public. It is wishful thinking to want to make the army as easy as an arm.

At this critical moment, Landre Promi disappeared out of thin air. The Polish people without a leader can only relieve their worries through meetings, but some things become more and more urgent.

For example, the number of Austrian imperial troops far exceeds their expectations and is approaching them step by step.

The most desperate information was that the team sent out to blow up the railway was attacked by serfs halfway, so the railway between Krakow and the Austrian Empire was open until now.

However, the Austrian army still moved very slowly, because they did not know that the team sent by the Poles to destroy the railway had failed.

After all, Franz had already received the news that the Poles had sent people to destroy the railway, but the pigeon letter was not detailed due to the haste.

He could not even judge whether the Poles wanted to blow up the railway or do something centered on the railway.

Because of the fear of an ambush or for safety reasons, every time he arrived at a station, Franz would first send troops to clear the area, and refused all invitations from local nobles and merchants to stay in the heavily protected train carriages.

People would be sent to search the railways on the road, including both sides of the railway.

Although Franz was not idle, he even led people to carry out the Austrian version of "beating the local tyrants and dividing the land" in a safe area, but it would be strange if the marching speed could be faster.

The so-called Austrian version of "beating the local tyrants and dividing the land" was mentioned in the previous article, but it is more appropriate to say that it was plundering or forced nationalization of land.

However, since the Poles knew it, Franz would soon know it. He was not in a hurry at all, and wished that the fire would burn as long as possible.

But Britain and France could no longer sit still. The French wanted to raise a volunteer army to support Poland, and Paris held charity balls one after another.

The kind people of the legendary British Empire were crying every day, and even the natives under its rule wanted to go to the European continent to support the Poles.