v3 Chapter 185： Denmark strikes back?

On October 26, 1864, the Austrian army of 30,000 men charged towards Eckenförde, where Austria finally tried to fail.

It turned out that as the public memorial day just ended, when the Danish military and civilians were most united, Prussia did not launch an attack on Husum first. Obviously, they had already expected this result.

However, there was no such scruples on the Austrian side, so on the first day of the war, 30,000 people had just begun to come here. The Danish army dared to ambush a surprise army long ago and attacked them with cavalry. , the Danish army in Ekenförde sent troops to face it, and finally made the Austrian army pay more than 4,000 people before it was able to get rid of the entanglement of the Danish army in the retreat.

This made the Prussian army on Husum's side feel fortunate for a while.

But the Austrian retreat did not mean retreat.

Because just when the Austrian army on the front line was defeated, in Austria and the German Confederation countries, they began to spread the news crazily, creating the illusion that Austria was inferior to Prussia, and joked that the Austrian empire was inferior to Prussia. In the kingdom of Prussia, the imperial hat should be removed, etc.

This made the Viennese officials furious, and even a little dissatisfied with the Austrian troops on the front line.

Franz Joseph I and Archduke Rainer Ferdinand both asked the Austrian army on the front line to hold on, and at the same time to step up their counterattack and capture Eckenverde, in order to maintain Austria's imperial prestige.

It was almost under pressure from Vienna that when Prussia attacked Husum from the west, the Austrian army also launched an attack. This time, the fire was full, but I don't know if it was intentional for Prussia to send a navy. Support Austria in the Baltic, but the Austrian army on the Atlantic cannot enter the Baltic Sea, because the entire country of Denmark is guarding the major straits of the Atlantic Ocean and the Baltic Sea, the Kattegat Strait and the Oresund Strait facing Sweden. , the Langeland Strait and the Great Bell Strait, the Sams Island Strait, etc., surrounded by Denmark itself.

In particular, the Kattegat Strait and the Oresund Strait in front are all guarded by the Danish Navy. The smallest part of the Oresund Strait is less than 4 nautical miles, which are all within the artillery fire on the Danish shore.

With your tragic discovery in Austria, there are top ten world navies stronger than Prussia, but Eckernförde cannot come to support them.

They were resentful about this, because Denmark, under the cover of the navy, had been pushed back again, and again badly.

25,000 people left more than 6,000 corpses, and more than 2,000 soldiers were wounded to varying degrees. In the short two-day offensive battle, even if there were 8,000 people, one third of the combat power was lost.

The remaining 16,000 people could only stare at Eckenverde in a daze.

The Prussian army in the west of Austria was in the first round of the battle, only paying the price of 500 people, but it caused huge losses to the Danes in Husum. The specific data is not known, but it is definitely more than 6,000 soldiers and civilians died. Casualties, the Prussian army sent a telegram to Berlin guessed, conservative at more than 2,000 people.

The completely different results of the wars between the East and the West are exactly the same as the saying that there is no harm if there is no comparison, and the gap is too great.

Vienna was even more furious, and the Austrian front-line army became a mocking target for the Viennese to vent their dissatisfaction.

Compared with them, Berlin is full of pride for everyone.

Other German Confederations came into being because of this; all kinds of strange thoughts fell into the eyes of Bismarck who had already calculated.

"Destroy Austria's defense, damage the Austrian alliance, defeat Austria's reputation, and damage Austria's combat power"

William I looked at Bismarck with a smile on his face, and praised: "Now we are proceeding step by step according to our plan, and Austria will be miserable now."

"Yeah, thinking about coming to Joseph I also has a headache now," Mao Qi also sighed beside him.

Army Minister Ron sighed and said, "What should we do next?"

When several people heard the words, they all looked at Bismarck, Prime Minister of Prussia.

Bismarck enjoys being stared at by the most powerful people in these countries, because that's the sense of accomplishment he wants.

He said: "The Danish side started sending representatives to various countries, and they acted."

Bismarck said to several people: "The population of Denmark is only less than 2 million, which is doomed that they will not be able to pass the protracted war in the face of the war. Therefore, although they resisted us, they have begun to be powerless, and it is impossible to fight all the last. All the men come on stage."

Mao Qi and others nodded in approval. Thinking of this, it is understandable that Denmark sent special envoys to ask for support from various countries at this time.

Mao Qi asked: "Will the countries ignore it this time?"

Bismarck shook his head: "I think they have now discovered our details and consumed the strength of several of our countries. They should think that it can be suspended."

He smiled bitterly and said: "Obviously, our war of attrition has been considered to be over by them, especially when Denmark can't support it, the United Kingdom will not want Opp to accept the Oresund, because that is for them. It's a nightmare, and Alexander II of Tsarist Russia will not agree. The size of Denmark, the strait falls in the hands of a non-threatening country, Denmark, is the safest."

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Tsarist Empire, St. Petersburg.

"Denmark can let the countries decide, but Prussia or Austria cannot. We will not allow the Øresund Strait and the Kattegat Strait to fall into the hands of these two great powers. Therefore, we agreed with Denmark to support them."

Alexander II to Gorchagov.

The latter nodded in understanding.

Watching his departure Alexander II muttered: "Denmark actually made such a request, huh, it's a strange idea, obviously someone has pointed it out."

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On November 1, 1864, Husum in the west of Schleswig was captured by Prussia. After Denmark lost more than 3,000 troops and 5,000 civilians, it retreated to the city of Schleswig.

After another 20,000 troops in Austria, Ekenförde in the east finally won it after 10 days of hot war, but the price was another 9,000 people.

Austria also reached east of Schleswig on 5 November.

It forms an equilateral triangle with Prussia and Schleswig in the west.

At this time, a news came out, which surprised all European countries. Even the news from Tsarist Russia made Schleswig stop the war, because they all received suspension orders from Berlin and Vienna. .

"Denmark actually chose to marry the Russian Empire!"

The news shocked Europe immediately!