Warlock Royal Family

() "Your Majesty, Earl Skas's troops are less than five hundred. Would you like to meet him?" Earl Horthy said while helping Ladislaus toast his boots.

"Okay, okay, let the Marquis of Kesterbussen or the Marquis of Carsonte Busser, the one with less than 200 troops left, also have dinner with me, and give them five hundred talers each tomorrow, and then send them away." They go back to their own territory." Ladislaus turned over his stinky socks, he used to be His Majesty the King with two new pairs of socks every day, and now he has gotten to this point.

Compared with the soldiers, Ladislaus's quilt is of course very good, at least he still has dry quilts, and the attendants will take them out to tidy up every sunny day.

After marching along the river bank for more than a month, the bedding of many Austrian soldiers has been rotted and disintegrated by being stationed in humid places every day. Coupled with a few autumn rains, the sanitation situation continued to deteriorate, resulting in more and more non-combat attrition.

And [-]% of this downsizing is concentrated on the Hungarians.

This is very natural. Compared with the Austrian army, which has a basic medical system and better supplies, their life is indeed difficult.

The pursuit force, which once swelled to more than 4, has actually recovered to about [-], with [-] Austrian troops and about [-] Hungarian auxiliary troops.

In fact, Ladislaus also did not have much hope for the combat effectiveness of the remaining Hungarian troops.

But these Hungarian nobles did not dare to leave, for fear that retreating at this time would offend Ladislaus. After all, leaving at this time may be considered an action close to betrayal.

Most of the Hungarian nobles were able to delay the mobilization of Louis II.

Perhaps they were not as malicious and ambitious as Federtale and Szabo Rai.But together their actions did destroy their homeland.

Although Ladislaus played the banner of the legal heir of Hungary, his power base obviously lay in Austria.Although Austria has a much closer relationship with Hungary than the Ottoman Empire, not only does it not have to change their beliefs, but more nobles hope to keep their status, at least with less loss.

But this is still a disaster for all Hungarian nobles, and the collapse of the power system will be bad for everyone.

These Hungarian nobles are in a situation where everyone is in danger, trying hard to show their value.

It is ironic that three months ago they refused to meet their obligations on a reasonably limited basis.But now they were so enthusiastic that they put Ladislaus in a difficult situation.

But no matter how big the psychological factor is, it can't solve the practical problem. They are not prepared for such a cruel war at all.

Except for a few big nobles who only came with elites who could persist, those nobles who mobilized their peasants and soldiers to the limit could not persist.

But they didn't dare to leave without confirming that they had received Ladislaus' understanding.

So they all hoped through Duke Horthy to see Ladislaus before retreating to explain their difficulties.

Ladislaus does understand their incompetence and needs to

Therefore, he accepted the "dinner broker" of Duke Horthy.

pity.In addition to wasting time and effort in this business, he also had to pay a breakup fee.

But Ladislaus really didn't want these Hungarians to follow him.

On the one hand, the obvious difference between the Austrian and Hungarian armies is what Ladislaus is unwilling to do, but on the other hand, the Austrian standing army is 3, and the logistics system is also organized according to this number. It can support [-] people in combat, and the current system is already at its limit.

Although Machiavelli has once again mobilized civilians to strengthen land transportation, both the cost and the time limit have determined that this is just a drop in the bucket.

A more important reason was that Ladislaus didn't want his potential taxpayers starving, freezing and dying pointlessly at the same time.

In fact Austria's war potential was deteriorating dramatically.Unlike Ottoman's transportation difficulties, Austria's problems are more serious.

The problem for the Ottomans is that the warehouses in the rear are piled up and cannot be transported to the front line, and the warehouses in Vienna, Austria, are almost empty.

Machiavelli increased the mobilization of civilians and increased the burden on the treasury.

Although the southward movement of the Austrian army caused the big bankers to lower the loan interest rate to Austria slightly, Ladislaus and Machiavelli agreed that the ever-expanding deficit must be controlled to the greatest extent.

Now those bankers are already fighting the doctrine that Hungary has lost a lot of land from its old owners.These territories are the basis for Ladislaus to form a larger standing army, and they cannot all be paid to these guys.This is the most important war bonus.

But Hohenzollern wrote letters every day asking for money and supplies, and winter was coming soon, and Buda really needed to make necessary reserves.

"Duke Horthy, you will also have dinner with me today, and please comfort the two gentlemen who are leaving, and let them know that I am very satisfied with their loyalty." Ladislaus looked the same The Duke Horthy who was next to him decided to give him a sweet date, not for his brokerage business, in which he must have profited from those Hungarian nobles, but because Machiavelli mentioned in today's letter that Horthy Shortly after Duchess Corti arrived in Vienna, she purchased [-] taler of war bonds in one lump sum.

Although the Horthy family is rich and powerful, it is really interesting to be able to spend such a large sum of money after the military disaster just earlier.

Ladislaus decided to give him some reaction.

"It's really my honor." Although Horthy arranged a lot of dinners, he didn't get a few meals himself, and he also calculated that Machiavelli should report to Ladislaus about his purchase of national bonds. It's gone.

As a veteran politician, he knows that buying national debt is best done in a low-key manner, and there is no need to tell the monarch to superficially show loyalty.

But the amount of buying national debt must be large, otherwise it will be a loss if it is really not noticed by the monarch.

The only official job that Ladislaus gave him now is to manage the military treasury. Although this job is very noble in some courts, it cannot be done by the absolute confidant of the monarch, but the poor treasury of Ladislaus has less than Seven thousand talers is purely an honorary title.

At this time, the messenger came to report that Jevich's envoy had arrived, and Horthy left.

The inland river fleet is now the first focus of Ladislaus' attention. The army and the fleet must communicate with each other every day to ensure safety.

Ladislaus insisted on listening to Jevich's logbook every day, which put the upstart from the Principality of Moscow under great pressure every day, and at the same time made his internal market in Austria keep rising.

Even with Dare and the Hohenzollern officers raising their voices.

Ladislaus left many of the general affairs of the army to Frenzberg, but he couldn't sleep until he heard the Inland River Fleet report that he was safe. m. to read. )