Twenty minutes may not have attracted much attention in the past, but now it can be called a race against time for both Karl and Alexander.
Fortunately, these Austrian soldiers led by Nuhad still had some combat effectiveness, even if they were severely injured when they exterminated the Hungarian soldiers guarding the city gate, but in the face of the Hungarian soldiers who came from all directions, under the leadership of Nuhad, these Austrian soldiers still tightly controlled the area near the city gate in their own hands.
The sound of horses' hooves became clearer and clearer in Nohad's ears, and the sound of this sound made Nouhad even more excited, and under his leadership, the Hungarian soldiers who had come to suppress him did not please him for a while.
Finally, when the hooves of an Austrian cavalry stepped over the boundary of the city gate, Nohad, who was fighting, breathed a sigh of relief, and then saw that Nouhad kept beckoning his soldiers to move closer to both sides of the city gate, giving up the middle road as much as possible to these rushing Austrian cavalry.
"Quick, don't stop, keep rushing inside!"
A fellow who appeared to be the commander of the Austrian cavalry arrived at the city gate and kept greeting the Austrian cavalry beside him, and under his order, the Austrian cavalry rushed in and rushed towards the Hungarian army besieging Nuhad earlier.
After seeing the cavalry troops rushing into Wagram through the telescope, Karl's heart was filled with joy, and then Karl said to Ferdinand: "Ferdinand, leave here a troop of three thousand.
I will hand over the rest of the army to you, and you must take Wagram before twelve o'clock at noon!
Just take Wagram and you will be the new governor of Hungary!
” At this time.
Karl was not stingy with Ferdinand's rewards.
In fact, in Karl's imagination, it doesn't matter whether Hungary belongs to his command or not, after all, Austria has not yet been pacified, even if Alexander's annihilation is exterminated, even Karl is very nerve-wracking in the face of the gang of people in the Hungarian steppe.
In this case, it is better to generously take Hungary out and reward the generals under his command.
Especially Ferdinand.
Although after Ferdinand took refuge in Karl, Karl seemed to trust Ferdinand at every turn.
But in fact, Karl was still very jealous of Ferdinand, after all, with Franz dead and Alexander about to be defeated, the only one who could threaten his dominance was his second brother Ferdinand.
In that case, it is better to get Ferdinand out of his old nest in Tuscany.
If only Ferdinand had actually gone to Hungary.
Then he is a toothless tiger, and there is no threat to Carl in the future!
Hearing Karl say this, Ferdinand's heart was also vigilant.
Jokes aside, Hungary is not a small country, but compared to the city-states of Tuscany, Hungary is simply an independent kingdom.
But no matter how good things are, they have to be enjoyed in a lifetime.
Ferdinand had been the Grand Duke of Tuscany for several years, and Leopold II had Ferdinand marry the princess of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies in order to stabilize the Habsburg rule in northern Italy.
In this way, there is no doubt that Ferdinand is only in the status of an archduke.
But it has a lot of influence throughout Northern Italy.
And now, although Karl seems to be motivating and promising Hungary to Ferdinand before the war, Ferdinand knows that if he leaves Italy, he will suddenly become Karl's puppet!
However, seeing Karl staring at him, Ferdinand's thoughts were fleeting, and then he pretended to be grateful and said loudly to Karl: "Please rest assured, Your Highness, I will definitely capture Alexander and escort it to you!"
With that, Ferdinand rode his horse and led his army towards Wagram.
"Your Highness, haven't we already made the deployment of the army before?
Why did you decide on the spur of the moment to let His Highness Ferdinand take command of the army?
” A Carl's henchman said to Carl with some puzzlement, and when he heard the words of this henchman, Karl smiled slightly and did not answer.
"Your Excellency Daniel, the enemy has broken through the city gate, our soldiers are almost unable to hold on, the enemy's strength is too much, and now please immediately defend His Royal Highness the Lord Regent to break through!"
A Hungarian officer rushed up to Daniel and said.
Hearing the officer's words, Daniel's heart tightened.
But on his face, Daniel still pretended to be indifferent and said: "At present, the battle situation has not yet reached the final moment, and the victory or defeat has not yet been revealed, won't retreating at this time have all the previous efforts in vain!
Don't say more, if you want to return to Hungary alive, let me go up and stop the Austrian offensive, and as long as we hold on until twelve o'clock, we will survive!
” After saying that, Daniel no longer paid attention to the other officers, but concentrated on urging the troops around him to speed up. ........................................
Henry led the 22nd and 23rd Prussian divisions to the outskirts of the Hannover area, and because of the Prussian ultimatum, Hanover, who had received the news, immediately began to look like a clear field on the orders of the local government officials.
But because of the timing and the fact that many people in Hanover consider themselves Germans, the previous plans of local officials did not materialize.
The inhabitants of Hanover were mostly Germanic, or in other words, they were one people with the Prussians, which was quite different from the British.
After the Hanoverian dynasty came to the United Kingdom, the Hanoverians were also rejoicing, because they thought it was a victory for Hanover, and sure enough, although George I inherited the British throne, he lived in Hanover after the coronation, and even the wealth in the British treasury was brought to Hanover by this king.
This changed during the reign of George III, the first native of the Hanoverian dynasty to be born and raised in England.
Compared to Hanover, George III had a higher sense of identification with England, and this directly affected the rule of Hanover.
And George III to the present.
He had never been to Hanover, which was completely different from his grandfather and his great-grandfather.
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You must know that before that, during the reign of George I and George II, although the Hanover dynasty was the British monarch, their ruling center was still in Hanover, and England was managed by their trusted ministers.
And after George III came to power, the people of Hanover naturally felt that their status had been reduced.
And after George III came to power, his favored ministers were also British, resulting in many British ministers trusted by George III being sent to Hanover as officials.
To know.
Although Hanover and Britain are also considered to be co-hosts, this does not mean that Hanoverians can accept British people to come to Hanover as government officials.
In addition, after the British Expeditionary Force was completely annihilated, George III, who had no troops at his disposal for a while, immediately turned his attention to Hanover, and then successively recruited troops from Hanover.
It took just over two years.
A small Hanover actually provided George III with an army of nearly 20,000 men.
In this way, the call to use the lives of Hanoverians for the benefit of the British can be described as a noisy day in Hanover, which directly led to the gradual dissatisfaction of Hanoverians with the British.
This discontent reached its peak after the Prussian army approached Hanover.
For most Hanoverians, their language and script are not much different from those of Prussia.
This, coupled with the "German nationalist" policy that Wilhelm had touted since coming to power, gave them a sense of identification with Prussia to some extent, and the area around Hanover was ruled by Prussia one after another.
The population movement in Prussia and Hanover can be said to be very large, even to the point where you have me and I have you Two Prussian divisions of 25,000 troops approached Hanover.
And at the moment there was chaos in the city of Hannover.
"What are you kidding, although the Prussians have a large number of troops, how can we just give up Hanover!"
George III's fourth son, Edward, Duke of Kent, stood in Hanover's town hall and yelled at the officials who persuaded him to leave Hanover.
Previously, not only Edward was in Hanover, but even George III's eldest son, Crown Prince Frederick, was also in Hanover, but after the dispute between Prussia and Britain broke out over the Hanover area, especially after Prussia issued an ultimatum, for the safety of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, Frederick was immediately escorted back to England.
Although George III also demanded that Edward return to England immediately, the young and vigorous Edward ignored his father's orders.
The Duke of Kent is a legend, and his daughter is none other than Queen Victoria, who later pioneered the century-old hegemony of the British Empire.
As a young boy, the Duke of Kent and his brother, the Duke of York, traveled to Brandenburg to train with Frederick the Great, and in 1791 he was transferred to Canada, becoming the first member of the British royal family to ascend to the North American continent.
However, because the British Expeditionary Force was completely annihilated by the French, the British Empire began to draw troops from the global colonies, and Edward, who was originally stationed in Canada, was supposed to be sent to the French coalition army, but because of the personality of His Royal Highness the Duke, he did not think that it was suitable to stay at the front, so he was transferred to Hanover.
"Your Royal Highness, now is not the time for you to make a fuss, the Prussian army has approached Hanover, and now Hanover is full of only 3,000 guards, facing the tens of thousands of Prussian troops, it is already possible to hold Hanover, so please be able to leave Hanover immediately, while the Prussians have not yet started a war with us, if you leave now, you will not be intercepted by the Prussians, but after the war, it will be too late to leave!"
A British official stood beside Edward and said anxiously.
The area of Hanover was surrounded by Prussian territory, and once the Prussians started their offensive in Hanover, it would certainly not be so easy for the people in Hanover to leave, after all, wherever they ran was Prussian territory.
"If I don't leave, I won't believe it.
It is simply absurd that Hanover, the dignified British Empire, was given to the Prussians in this way.
Why should those Prussian barbarians scare me into running away!
” Edward was still holding his opinion, but what he didn't notice was that the faces of the several Hanoverian officials standing in the town hall were a little uneasy as he called the Prussians barbarians.
As I have said before, Hanover and Prussia are not only one nation, but at the same time the exchanges between the two sides can be said to be very frequent, especially after the whole area around Hanover became Prussia's territory.
The customs and habits of the Prussians also had a great influence on Hanover.
In particular, the official language of Hanover is German, which is similar to the Prussian language, and George III's mother tongue has changed from the habit of the previous Hanoverian monarchs to use English, which also makes George III's children also use English as their mother tongue.
Edward, who was not a linguistic genius, did not like to learn German from scratch again.
This also led him to live in Hanover and always ask the Hanoverians around him to communicate with him in English.
Even according to a Hanover teacher who taught Edward to learn German, Edward once said in private that the Hanover language is the language of naked birds!
Seeing that Edward's attitude was very resolute, the British officials around him were also very helpless, and then the British official said to several other Hanover officials in the room: "Your Highness means to hold on to Hanover.
But Hanover is currently underwhelmed by the eyes of its forces.
I think it's better to start forcibly recruiting the soldiers defending the city immediately, and you must dare to prepare for defense before the Prussians arrive!
” But what the British official did not expect was that immediately after his words were spoken, there was a backlash from these Hanover officials.
"Are you kidding, Your Excellency?
Where are there still soldiers in Hanover who can be conscripted, from the beginning of the war to the present, Hanover has supplied nearly 20,000 troops to the front, it can be said that the entire Hannover is almost the right age to be conscripted, if it were not for the heavy casualties of your country's army.
How can I, Hanover, have an empty army, and Hanover is not comparable to the British Empire.
So many troops are already our limit" Nima, hearing the words of this Hanover official, the British official's heart was almost vomiting blood.
Look at what these Hanoverians are talking about, what is the conscription almost, what is the limit, the meaning of these words is that they are dissatisfied with the British Empire!
Edward was on the side, although he didn't like to learn German, but it didn't mean that he couldn't understand German, after all, he had lived in Hanover for nearly two years, and he could still understand German.
Hearing the words of this Hanover official, Edward was also dissatisfied and said: "It's my order to stick to Hanover, and you do what you are told, where is all this nonsense!"
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Seeing Edward say this, the Hannover officials became even more dissatisfied, but after all, after Frederick's departure, Hanover should be Edward's most honorable status, so the Hannover officials could only say that they had received the order and then retreated.
Less than two days later, the Prussian army advanced under Hanover, and the Prussian army did not take any hostile posture towards those areas of Hanover that did not resist.
Even on Henry's orders, groups of Prussians arrived in Hanoverian villages and posted slogans such as "Welcome Hanover back to Germany" and "The Germanic nation is one".
"Tell those Hanoverians that we are all Germans, and don't die for those Anglo-Saxon robbers in England!
We are all one people, how can we kill each other, and ask them if they have the blood of our Great Germanic people, or the blood of those robbers!
” As soon as Prince Henry arrived at the foot of Hanover, he had his flamboyant soldiers shout slogans around Hanover.
I have to say that Henry's heart-attacking technique was very successful, at least after the soldiers he arranged shouted, those Hanover defenders were indeed very hesitant.
In recent years, the idea of great nationalism put forward by the Prussians has long penetrated into Hanover, and there are not a few people in Hanover who agree with it, and among them, as a concentration of young and vigorous soldiers, the Hannover army has quite a lot of recognition of this.
However, the battle still has to be fought, after all, the Hannover dynasty is the monarch who has ruled Hanover for a hundred years, and it is obviously unrealistic to expect to be able to take Hanover without bloodshed with nationalist ideas, and that Edward is also bent on holding on to Hanover.
"Give the order to attack!"
Early the next morning, seeing that the gates of Hanover were still closed, Prince Henry gave the order to attack.
Hundreds of Prussian guns were pulled to the front line in a row, and this size caused great psychological pressure on all the defenders of Hanover.
Then, on the orders of Prince Henry, the guns began to aim at the head of Hanover, firing cannonballs.
In an instant, these Prussian shells were splashed on the city of Hanover like hailstones, and for a while, the defenders of Hanover were immediately pressed to the point that they could not raise their heads, although the defenders of Hanover also had a lot of artillery, but these guns were all old models, and all the good artillery had been transferred to the French battlefield by the British.
In the midst of the fire of the Prussian artillery, a gap in the already rudimentary city wall was blown open, and when he saw the gap appear, Prince Henry immediately rejoiced and said: "Let the artillery all fire at the gap and order the army to get ready!"