Versailles is worse than being queen

◎Battle of the Holy Roman Empire◎

In the 18th century, large-scale military operations mainly relied on long-range artillery, medium-range guns, and close combat with swords.

The number of troops, whether they are well-trained, and whether the commander's judgment on the timing of the battlefield and the effectiveness of order transmission determine the combat effectiveness of an army.

But these factors that determine victory or defeat will be overturned one by one in later generations.

More destructive weapons, stronger defense equipment, and more comprehensive and rapid means of understanding the battle situation and deploying troops will completely change the pattern of the battlefield.

When the battle lines were drawn far enough, each army became a disorganized unit.If you can't correctly judge your own position in the entire battle situation and make corresponding tactics, you will face death—like a fleet traveling on the vast ocean.

Just like the fleet on the ocean, to know this information, it is not necessary to use highly sophisticated instruments to determine the angle between the earth and the sun and then calculate the time and location-only someone can tell them.

For example, through real-time communication technology, they can communicate with people on the mainland at any time.

And it was the man standing in front of Antanya who invented the radio.

"Since you know that I'm back in Serbia," Nicholas stepped up to her side, suppressing his angry voice, "why put yourself at risk?"

He left her the first radio communicator, and assembled signal amplifiers in Versailles and Paris in advance.The moment she turned on the machine, he had already contacted her.

"Since you know everything about me," Antanya looked up at him without showing any weakness, "then you should also know that I can no longer trust anyone's promises."

Frederick saw the "Queen's Motorcade" pretending to be her delaying the trip to Alsace, thinking that he had caught her actually wanting to escape back to Vienna, and stopped her on the way.

But he never knew that the things that really needed to break through the Prussian army's defenses and send them to the rear of the Holy Roman Empire's army were sent there without attracting attention under his nose.

The queen herself was nothing more than a bait—a bait that took the bait, and made herself the poison that touched the heart of Prussia.

From the front to the back, in this era of continental Europe, the unit of people's life is still the territory rather than the country or nation, and the war is only the war of the monarch.

For territory and resources, wars are fought at every turn, even among the closest allies.As long as there is a strong mercenary army and a group of obedient and unspoken people, the monarch can use his power to redefine the territory with neighboring countries. * It is precisely because of this tradition that after massacring the Habsburg family, Frederick II dared to directly bring the territories under its management into his sphere of power and ordered the Austrian army to attack France for himself.

But if you look forward from the back, you will find that this era is an era of drastic changes.

Once upon a time, the rulers of all countries shuffled through mutual marriage and war and were almost insulated from the public. Terrible jurisdiction but covert Austria.

At this moment, France will no longer accept a Prussian monarch who conquers its territory through war.

The huge chessboard has been spread across almost the entire continent, and the chess game will begin when all the pieces are in place.

"Even me?" Nicholas raised an eyebrow.

Antanya lifted her chin and said nothing - even you.

"That's a coincidence." Nicholas suddenly smiled and shrugged. "Reaper doesn't make promises in advance—he usually does it directly."

As soon as the words fell, several loud noises penetrated the building, blasting a dull sound in their ears.

Under Antanya's suddenly vigilant gaze, Nicholas reached out and patted off a bit of dirt that fell on her long hair: "Maybe I gave you some illusion before, making you think that I am a person of high moral character— —Well, it’s a bit boastful to say that.”

so aren't you?

Antanya was about to speak, but her eyes suddenly blurred.It all happened in an instant - waking consciousness was suddenly plunged into darkness.

……

When I woke up again, everything around me was too unreal.

Large pieces of black marble and white sculptures surround a solemn and solemn style, which is quite different from the gorgeous and gorgeous temperament of Versailles.

It's the Hofburg Palace in Vienna.

She thought that she would never come back here again in this life, just like in the last life.

"Your Majesty!" Henriette called her.

"You're fine! That's great..." She rushed over tearfully and hugged her hard.

But at this moment, someone pushed the door and entered: "Your Majesty... Uh, Your Majesty the Queen invites you to come over."

Antanya had never seen such an old and frail Queen Theresia.

Whether it was the last life or this life, the last time she saw her mother was when she got married at the age of 14.

In her memory, her mother will always be that omnipotent and powerful existence.She can personally go to the front to command the Austrian army to fight, and she can also call the dentist to let him extract teeth while giving birth, saying that "it is more efficient to solve two painful things at the same time".

But at this moment, the woman wrapped in layers of blankets and thick quilts was panting heavily, staring at her as if she couldn't get enough of it.

"...Your Majesty." Antanya sat down beside her bed and touched the back of her hand.

She can no longer throw herself into her mother's arms and act like a baby to her like she did when she was a child.In fact, that should have happened a long time ago. After all, since she was sensible, she knew that her mother was very strict, and all her brothers and sisters were afraid of her.

Recalling these things, it seems like a lifetime ago.

The hand, wrinkled and blotched with age, held hers tremblingly.

Queen Theresia coughed for a while, opened her mouth as if she wanted to say something, but finally shook her head heavily: "...forget it."

"Go...my boy. Do what you have to do."

Antanya stayed with her silently for a while, and then left the bedroom of the Queen of Austria, and came to the Queen's Chamber that originally belonged to her mother.

"Good afternoon." Nicholas got up gracefully, and pulled out the chair for her. "I'm sorry about what happened before."

Antanya gave him a cold gouging look, walked to the other side by herself, pulled out a chair and sat down.

The surrounding Austrian and French councilors looked at each other subtly, and all lowered their gazes.

But Antanya doesn't care about settling accounts with someone right now.Under the control of the technician, the radio generating equipment quickly dialed through - a moment later, the receiver read the message returned by the other party.

[Serbia receives. ]

[Paris received. ]

"The French general Bonaparte is in contact with us," Kaunitz explained, "but he said he will only take orders from you, and if we can't prove that you are giving orders now, then he will only serve France. Combat—of course, we maintain an intelligence connection at the moment, after all, we have a common enemy."

"Although Serbia's army is not large," Nikolai interjected, "the advantage is that the weapons are qualitatively different."

Antanya glanced at him, and he looked back calmly.

He had been avoiding the improvement of weapons before, not because he couldn't, just because he didn't want to.But when it comes to the real battlefield, kindness to the enemy is cruelty to oneself-Serbia was able to become independent from the brutal rule of Turkey, not by their kindness.

Antanya nodded, then turned to the operator and said, "Then please send it to Paris."

[As you can see, the storm is coming, General. ]

A moment later, the ticker's needle quickly poked holes in the paper.

[France awaits your order, Sire. ]

"In that case..." Antanya took a deep breath and looked around, "Then let's start."

On this incredible winter day, an incredible meeting is going on here.People scattered in all directions of the Prussian army brought together scattered forces through technology that never existed in the world.

"...By the way," she suddenly remembered, "we must not forget our big neighbor to the north."

Antanya said calmly: "Please send a letter to Catherine II... I think she will not refuse my gift."

……

Prussia is a sturdy country, and the history of later generations will record it like this.

In the 18th century alone, it fought against several countries at the same time more than once, the most famous of which was two wars.

It had been cornered during the Seven Years' War, only to be miraculously brought back to life by the succession of the Russian throne.

But in another war more than a decade later, it seemed to have no such good luck.

The battle lasted four months and was later known as the Battle of the Holy Roman Empire.

The original cause was the invasion of France by the newly unified Holy Roman Empire, but in the end it developed into a situation very similar to the Seven Years War-the Austrian army, which was incorporated into Frederick II, defected, and together with the French and Serbian armies, fought against France. Prussia launched a siege.

Most coincidentally and ironically, the end of this war, like the Seven Years' War, is closely related to Russia's role——

It is said that when Frederick's army was forced to withdraw from France and return to the territory of the German Confederation, he sent someone to seek help from Catherine of Russia, asking her to fulfill the alliance treaty signed by the two countries.

The Queen's army finally came to the battlefield.

But they set off from eastern Poland-Lithuania and quickly occupied East Prussia.

"Please tell Your Majesty Frederick II," the female tsarina is said to have replied to the messenger, "I admire him very much, but his territory even more."

Just as Prussia had responded more than a decade earlier when asked to resolve the Polish-Lithuanian dispute between Austria and Russia, she had agreed with the other side of the war to carve up Prussia.

"Please rest in peace. The people in his territory, we will take care of him."

The author says:

*See Harold Turnberry, Frederick the Great and Joseph II: War and Diplomacy in the Eighteenth Century.