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Chapter 404: The Hope

The goals of all countries are completely consistent, that is, the Habsburg family in Vienna. In the entire empire, the Habsburg family is dominated by the empire, and Vienna is a symbol of the empire.

Once Vienna is captured by them, the country will face the crisis of destruction. By that time, the Habsburg family will be in danger and all interests will be divided by these terrible empires.

Other nobles in the Holy Roman Empire may still survive, but their status will also decline greatly. Only the five major families in the empire may still retain some power. Among all the families, the Habsburg family must be the worst.

This is the fate that the emperor has to bear. If he is on the throne, the higher his position, the more miserable he will fall.

Other empires will never allow the Habsburg family's direct bloodline to move freely. All members of the Habsburg family will inevitably be captured and placed under house arrest in a foreign country.

And this is only one of the many consequences. In addition, most of the interests of the Habsburg family must be ceased, and there is no possibility of any escape.

And at this time of dilemma, Charles VI in the Vienna Palace was horrified to find that there was no more army under his command.

The Southwest Alliance was defeated by the French Empire. When the French Alliance continued to invade, they encountered the army of the Vettelsbach family, and the two sides were in a stalemate.

Others such as Vetina and the Hohenzollern family could not count on them at all, and the enemy was rushing towards Vienna day after day.

To the south is the army of the Duke of Ji'an, the Medici family, barely able to stop the four-nation coalition forces landing from Venice. This can only be achieved through favorable terrain.

After all, the Duke of Ji'an has too few troops, and it is impossible to fight head-on with the Four-Nation Alliance.

During this war, the Duke of Ji'an had already mobilized all his powers, and the spider web kept collecting various news for the commander to make decisions. The faceless person also dispatched to start some key tasks.

However, during these operations, even powerful special forces such as the Faceless began to die in large numbers, and the extent of their losses was shocking.

Even so, the Duke of Ji'an could only barely delay the army of the Four-Nation Alliance and prevent them from going to Vienna, but he had no way to defeat the Four-Nation Alliance.

Even as time goes by, the Duke of Ji'an's troops may be defeated at any time and be completely defeated by the four-nation coalition forces.

As for the Habsburg family's own army, it suffered heavy losses after experiencing the previous war. Although it recovered later, it only reached about 13,000 people. With this number of people alone, it was impossible to defend the city.

For a moment, people in Vienna were panic, and everyone felt that the future was dark, and even the surrounding air seemed particularly dull.

Charles VI was even more discouraged and sat on the throne. He found sadly that he no longer had the ability to turn the tide. He had previously calculated and defeated the Vetina family, severely damaged the Hohenzollern family, and established a good condition for his children, Princess Maria to take office.

However, I did not expect that it was these calculations that led to the current Holy Roman Empire's national strength being extremely weak and unable to deal with attacks from other countries.

Originally, if there was no Black Death, the situation would not be so bad. Without the Black Death, it would not have caused famine, and the empire could have passed this period of weakness smoothly.

Charles VI has calculated it over and over again, but he still has not calculated the will of God. The unexpected situation like the Black Death is impossible to predict in advance and is difficult to avoid.

In this way, the various conditions combined completely put the Habsburg family in danger, and were completely surrounded from all directions, with despair and darkness all over their eyes.

At such a bad time, Charles VI had no choice but to think of the method of marriage again. As long as Princess Maria is married to the French Empire, she can get peace with the French Empire and may even be protected.

In this way, the crisis of the Habsburg family can be resolved.

However, for Charles VI, unless it was absolutely necessary, he would never be willing to use such a method, using the means of marriage and hiding behind women, which is an insult to all men in the empire.

Besides, Charles VI has been busy for so long, just for Princess Maria's happiness. If he ends up betraying Princess Maria's life's happiness in exchange for peace, then Charles VI would not want to experience such peace at all.

For him, this is not a peace, but a lifelong pain.

But at this time, Prince Eugen, the military god of the Holy Roman Empire and the pillar of the empire, did not survive the torture of illness and finally closed his eyes forever.

For the Holy Roman Empire, this was really a matter of injustice. The collapse of the empire's pillar completely ignored those terrible enemies. Prince Eugen, a man who had defended the empire for the rest of his life and had countless glories, finally closed his eyes completely at this desperate moment, and thus brought deeper despair to everyone.

Everyone felt that the Holy Roman Empire was over and there was no hope. Charles VI was also discouraged and even wanted to let her daughter Princess Maria escape first.

In this case, Princess Maria did not run away, but looked at Charles VI with confidence and said slowly: "Don't worry, father, we have your son-in-law Eugen. With him, the Holy Roman Empire will surely last forever."

Even though the situation was at its extreme disadvantage, Princess Maria still had hope for Eugen, and this hope could even be called a bit blind.

After hearing this, Charles VI sighed helplessly and said, "Oh, daughter, I think you can't count on Marquis Eugen. No matter how powerful he is and how outstanding he commands, he is only an army of about 10,000 people. What can he do with only this little force?"

When Princess Maria heard Charles VI's words, she shook her head, just smiled slightly, and said nothing.

Even so, she was willing to believe Eugen, because Eugen was such a man who could create miracles.

"Eugen, don't he have 50,000 female soldiers?"

Originally, Charles VI was almost about to forget this. When Princess Maria mentioned it, he said angrily: "That is also the 50,000 female soldiers I just accepted. You know, our enemies have a total of 500,000, and we are surrounded from all directions. What should we use to stop the 500,000 enemies?"
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