eastern european eagle

Chapter 596 Attack
Alexander blinked and said slowly, "The armistice agreement you proposed sounds good. It reminds me of the friendship agreement signed between Romania and Poland when Romania returned Wallachia. But at that time, Romania had to compromise with Poland due to its strength. However, as the empire has developed to this day, Your Majesty will not allow such a self-binding agreement to be signed again."

"Relying on force and blindly expanding aggression will only provoke Austria's resistance and ultimately lead to failure!" Blanca advised righteously: "Only friendly exchanges and peaceful trade can make all countries stable and prosperous!"

"Ha, isn't it your constant aggressiveness that caused His Majesty's concern and ultimately led to the war?"

The other party did not argue, but said in a deep voice: "You are right. It is precisely because of the mistakes made by Austria that we should learn lessons today and avoid making the same mistakes again."

Alexander was speechless for a moment, and Martino said bluntly: "Let me tell you clearly, Romania will never agree to the conditions you proposed. If you want to cease fire and negotiate peace with the two countries, I have a ceasefire request personally drafted by His Majesty. Do you want to listen to it?"

"Please tell me."

Martino said: "Vienna must dissolve its alliance and sign a treaty of friendship with Hungary, and then peace will be achieved immediately. It's that simple."

Blanca retorted loudly: "Your demands are too harsh, Austria will never agree! Those allies are very close to Austria and have a closer relationship with the citizens of Vienna than blood ties, they will never agree..."

Martino interrupted him and said firmly: "This is a request made by His Majesty, and it cannot be changed! If you disagree, you can only go back and continue to fight with us. We don't care."

Blanca no longer had the composure he had when they first met. He felt bitter, but still wanted to fight for it: "I cannot agree to the conditions you proposed now. I must return to Vienna and discuss with the generals. Only after reaching an agreement can I give you a positive answer. This process will take about two days... Before giving the final answer, can the Romanian and Hungarian armies suspend their attack on Vienna? This will ensure that your demands can be accepted more smoothly."

"That's impossible!" Martino refused clearly. "If you want Vienna to suffer less damage, you'd better give a reply as soon as possible! Otherwise, you will have no choice but to escape after the city is breached."

Seeing that the other party was unmoved, Blanca stood up and said helplessly: "Okay, I will convey your request to the Grand Duke as soon as possible."

After saying that, he walked out of the tent. After a few steps, he couldn't help but look back and said solemnly: "I think you should be prepared. The Archduke and the generals are likely to oppose your request. For this reason, we will unite and defend Vienna with all our strength! The war between Romania and Austria is bound to be protracted, and by then it will be a disaster for both countries!"

"Thank you for your reminder! Your Majesty dared to put forward such conditions because we have made all kinds of full preparations. We firmly believe that the final victory will belong to Romania! Are you ready for everything? Also, I hope you will not repeat the mistakes of the Ottoman Empire! Otherwise, there will be one less opponent in this world."

Blanca wanted to say something, but found that he had nothing to say, so he could only walk out of the military tent silently. Turning to look at Vienna in front of him, he saw shells hitting the city walls one after another. The booming sound frightened him, and he began to worry whether the walls of Vienna could continue to withstand such attacks: Yes, it's a pity that for a powerful empire that can send out hundreds of thousands of elite troops and thousands of warships, what should Vienna do next?
"They are facing such a difficult situation, but they still don't plan to surrender. Are they going to be destroyed along with Vienna?!" Alexander was surprised and a little regretful, because Vienna is also a "after all, their Duke is the heir of Sigismund, and Austria is now one of the most powerful countries in the southern region. It is understandable that they are unwilling to admit defeat. But now, we must intensify the attack to force them to negotiate."

According to the news he had just received, Brandenburg had completely controlled Silesia, England was also attacking Paris, and the French king had fled. If they could capture Vienna, the Catholic world would be leaking everywhere, and there would be no time to plug the gap.

Blanca brought back Romania's preconditions for peace talks and read them out in front of everyone, which immediately aroused the anger of the generals. Albrecht said, "The vicious pagans want to destroy Vienna!"

The soldiers were therefore full of fighting spirit and unanimously agreed to fight to the death with the heretics who were preparing to destroy Vienna.

Vienna was ready for full defense, and the Romanian and Hungarian coalition forces also intensified their attacks on Vienna.

Just when the Archduke was busy and overwhelmed, another bad news came: the castle built in the north of the Danube finally fell after tenaciously defending several attacks by the Hungarian army.

Since then, the Allied warships have been stationed in the northern ports, allowing them to blockade Vienna's river port tightly 24 hours a day.

On land, the commander issued another order: let the soldiers who had built the camp build a siege platform a hundred meters away from the city. At the same time, he ordered the engineering battalions of each legion to build a super siege tower.

The area outside Vienna had become a construction site, with dust flying everywhere. The transport fleet was also busy, delivering supplies from all over the country to the camp.

Standing on the 10-meter-high city wall, the defenders became more and more nervous day by day, because they saw mounds of earth rising up on the originally flat land outside the city, and they were getting higher and higher day by day, and were about to exceed the city wall.

Albrecht did not passively defend. He led the garrison and mercenaries out of the city for raids several times. At the beginning, he achieved some results, killed and wounded some enemy soldiers, and even broke into a camp in a night raid. However, for fear of alerting the enemy, not many soldiers participated in the night raid, and the Romanian army did not reinforce in time, so he failed to expand the results.

In order to reduce losses, the Romanian soldiers accelerated the construction speed, and finally more than 10-meter-high siege platforms were erected outside Vienna. The soldiers looked up at these mounds that were higher than the city walls and felt panic. But what made them even more panic was that shells whistled from these mounds, crossed the city walls, and landed in the city.

(End of this chapter)