I'm the Dauphin in France

Chapter 1275 The Avengers' Journey
Warrennovie also quickly received a set of military uniform.

The collar and cuffs have wear marks, so it's obviously not brand new, but it's been washed very clean.

Then the sergeant led his group to a row of carriages, where someone took out Charleville flintlock muskets from the carriages and forcefully shoved them into their hands.

Zlatopen suppressed his excitement and looked at the officer beside him: "Sir, what are we going to do?"

"Fight a war," the latter said succinctly. "First, we'll conduct three weeks of recovery training, and then we'll teach those invaders a lesson."

For the next 20 days, Warrenovich and thousands of others trained at the Zalesna estate, and none of them returned home during that time.

But they had no complaints whatsoever, and everyone practiced extremely diligently.

They thought Poland had accepted its fate of being partitioned and would only be able to live a numb and humiliating life from then on, but they never expected that God would give them another chance for revenge.

Of course, the Warsaw government also assigned people to take care of their families, and each family received 22 francs per month to make a living.

The Polish government's finances collapsed shortly after its defeat, and it is currently barely surviving on loans from France. However, in accordance with the plan previously devised by Joseph, Prince Poniatowski has settled most of the Polish veterans in wealthy cities such as Warsaw or Derosicz, assigning them positions such as civil servants, police officers, and road construction workers, dispersing them into civilian life, and supporting them with government funds.

Although this saddled Poland with a debt of 15 million francs, it saved more than 35,000 experienced veterans right under the noses of Russia, Prussia, and Austria.

The register that recorded the soldiers' information consisted of the Bibles that Prince Poniatovsky carefully kept.

In addition to the 30,000 troops allowed Poland to retain under the Treaty of Prague, when Siez arrived in Warsaw, the Poles almost instantly mustered an army of 65,000.

Furthermore, behind the dilapidated church in the remote town of Otvodsk, there were enough uniforms, weapons, and ammunition to arm 50,000 to 60,000 soldiers.

In fact, in the preceding months, Denmark had been sending fleets to smuggle military supplies to Lassenia in northern Poland, where they were then handed over to local smugglers and sent to Warsaw via the Russian-occupied zone.

Of course, most of these supplies were provided by France.

This was the huge surprise Joseph left for the Allied forces.

In an unassuming villa on the outskirts of Warsaw, Polish Chief of the General Staff General Karol Knianawi first briefed West Eisl on the country's war preparations, then pointed to a map and began to explain the operational plan to the Polish generals:

"According to our intelligence, the Austrian army has less than two thousand troops stationed in Krakow. If nothing unexpected happens, we can retake it within a day."

Lieutenant General Niezevaska, who was in charge of logistics, breathed a sigh of relief: "After that, we can resume mining the silver mines in the Tarnovsk Mountains. I can finally get the soldiers' bread to have less sawdust in it."

Yes, thanks to the Polish government's extreme cooperation, the Austrians were able to confidently retain most of the Polish miners, even the deputy general manager was Polish. The Austrian nobleman who was in charge of the general manager only needed to submit the mine's revenue reports to Vienna each month.

General Knyanavic continued, "Next, we will march rapidly from northern Slovakia to Erzgebirge. The most troublesome part during this period is the Olomouc fortress..."

“Wait a minute,” Lieutenant General Yuzev Wilczek exclaimed in surprise, “You mean Erzgebirge? Shouldn’t we be heading straight for Vienna?”

Oerz is a city in northwestern Austria, more than 400 kilometers from Krakow, while Vienna is only 320 kilometers from southwestern Poland.

Marshal Koschusko chimed in, “We alone cannot defeat the Austrians. Vienna has at least 15,000 troops stationed there, and they are constantly recruiting new soldiers. We might even be blocked at Neuhauser. By the time the Austrians send reinforcements from Passau, we will have lost this precious opportunity.”

"What we need to do is cooperate with the French army. According to the plan, they will be waiting for us north of Ore."

Wilczek's eyes lit up immediately.

If we break through the Erzgebirge fortress from the rear, hundreds of thousands of French troops will flood into Austria like a tidal wave. At that time, no matter how many troops are stationed in Vienna, they will be quickly defeated.

The Polish Chief of the General Staff added, "However, we will also send an army to Vienna, at the request of the French General Staff. This will reduce the resistance we encounter at the Olomouc fortress."

Lieutenant General Zawonchik frowned and said, "But this would lead to insufficient domestic defense forces, what if the Russians..."

Marshal Koschusko's eyes blazed with a fierce determination to consume everything: "Even if Warsaw falls into hell, we will at least make Vienna taste the same suffering!"

He had previously followed the French battle plan, risking a deep dive into Russian territory to save Poland from annihilation, which gave him unwavering confidence in the French plan.

General Knyanavich continued, "The Russians have committed over 100,000 troops to Austria, and it should be very difficult for them to launch a large-scale attack on our country now."

"Moreover, I believe that we kept this operation strictly secret, and the Russians probably didn't react so quickly."

The battle preparations continued until late at night, and finally the Polish General Staff decided that Marshal Koscuszko would personally lead 45,000 soldiers to attack Erzgebirge.

General Zawonczyk led 1 troops in a feint attack on Vienna.

Four thousand troops were left in the country to maintain order, while only about six thousand troops were stationed on the eastern front.

1799 4 Month 21 Day.

Led by 4 elite winged hussars dressed in red uniforms, more than 5 Polish troops quietly began their southward march.

Because the entire preparation process strictly controlled the soldiers from contacting the outside world, the Allied forces received no information at all.

Koschusko judged that the Polish army should not encounter much resistance before reaching Olomouc, but he did not expect that the actual battle would go much more smoothly than he had imagined.

Due to the issue of emancipating serfs, resistance organizations were always active in Austrian-occupied territories such as Krakow and Neusund.

Upon receiving news that their homeland had sent troops to reclaim lost territory, they immediately rallied together and launched a desperate attack on the Austrian army in Krakow.

Although these resistance fighters numbered only six or seven hundred, they killed over a hundred Austrian soldiers within three days. This enraged the Austrian commander, who led his troops away from their post and into the countryside to wipe them out.

They had barely left Krakow when they encountered Polish winged hussars.

(End of this chapter)