Chapter 1039: Disbelief

"This is Hungarian land! You are the ones who deserve to die!" Tiutkalai cursed.

He was answered by a bullet, but it did not hit Tiutkalai himself, but hit the warhorse under his crotch.

Tiutkalai, who fell off his horse in panic, lost his arrogance immediately, but still stared at Itamar arrogantly.

The latter naturally knew what to do, and he was also a little angry, but the source of his anger was not that the Germans shot at the Hungarians, but that the serfs dared to defy the army.

Generally speaking, both serfs and peasants dared not to provoke the army.

But the subjects in the royal manor were a little different. Many of them had seen the "freedom of the Magyars", and the battle between them and the bandits had never really stopped over the years.

Countless simple tombstones constantly reminded people of the harm of bandits. Around 1840, those were the most arrogant days of bandits.

Groups of bandits killed and set fires everywhere, and even dared to kill the deacons and advisers of the royal industry.

For these appalling and vicious incidents, the Hungarian government simply used the phrase "it has existed since ancient times" to evade the issue.

In the end, it was Archduke Albrecht who led the royal troops to enter the manor to suppress the arrogance of the horse bandits.

(mentioned in Chapter 20 and Chapter 25 of Volume 4, and Chapters 21 to 28 of Volume 5.)

In addition, the Hungarian refugees who were rescued in the manor also constantly told about the Hungarian government's dishonesty, cunning and cruelty.

(Hungarian refugee incident in 1836 in Volume 4.)

The loyalty education of the church and the royal family also gave most people a basic sense of right and wrong, and they would not be easily tempted and shaken.

Franz's loyalty education lasted for more than ten years, and it was still effective, at least there was no large-scale surrender to the enemy.

In addition to the above measures, Franz also set up multiple insurances, such as guards, mercenaries, secret police, special clauses implemented in the royal manor, etc.

Each manor has three managers, one is the manor manager, the second is the bishop of the church in the manor, and the third is the royal deacon.

The selection of these people first requires that there is no record of rebellion or surrender within five generations, and secondly, they must have attended university, received loyalty education, and have a positive view of the Austrian Empire.

Only with these conditions can they be qualified to serve as stewards in the royal estates, and there is also a relatively complete monitoring and reporting mechanism.

Franz's actions in the royal estates are not restricted by the Regency Committee, so he has carried out many reforms and taken many new measures, the purpose of which is naturally to simulate and find the most suitable political system for this era.

Of course, the political system and economic system, as well as the compulsory military service system.

In fact, at this time, the millions of people distributed in dozens of large and small royal estates are all soldiers. They will participate in military training every year during the slack season, and each estate has enough weapons and gunpowder.

Franz will not really abandon these people on the Great Plains of Hungary. His original intention has never changed. He wants to eradicate this cancer and welcome the true unification and future of this country.

Just now, with a burst of gunfire, Itamar also fell off his horse, but he was scared.

After falling off his horse, Itamar crawled to the back in a panic, and only started shouting loudly when he reached a place where he felt safe.

"Attack! Attack! Kill them all!"

The chaotic crowd could not hear clearly, but firing a gun was a signal, meaning that the negotiations had broken down and the battle had begun.

Since New Silesia was the largest royal estate on the entire Hungarian Plain, Itamar brought more than 10,000 people.

However, these people did not think they were here to fight, they thought they were here to rob. They could barely maintain discipline during the march, but once the gunshots rang out, they turned into beasts.

After hearing the gunshots, Itamar's soldiers rushed forward with a roar, and Tyutka couldn't help but praise them when he saw this scene.

"As expected of me, you are the descendants of the Huns, so brave!"

The latter immediately thought of the poet again. If he were here, he would definitely write a poem. And the latter thought that as expected of my team, I would teach these damn serfs a lesson!

However, the weakness of the Hungarian army was exposed as soon as the battle began. Although the scattered formation avoided the fate of being shot one by one, the originally very loose organization was destroyed in an instant.

The main difference between the army and the bandits lies in their discipline and organization. An unorganized and undisciplined army is just a large group of bandits.

The militia and reserve forces in the royal manor are good at dealing with this. The positions of the seemingly ordinary canals, parapets, and other man-made structures outside the manor seem random, but in fact they are carefully designed.

The first batch of Hungarians who rushed into the manor soon received this surprise that had been prepared for more than ten years. The shooting accuracy of those farmers who had just put down their hoes was amazing.

However, it was difficult for the Hungarians to notice this in the melee. One group of Hungarians after another rushed in. The scene was very lively and fighting was everywhere. There were corpses all over the ground and screams were endless.

It was not until the scorching sun that the two sides stopped fighting.

As a result, Itamar was shocked when he counted the number of casualties. The total number of casualties was more than 2,000, and one-fifth of his troops were gone.

He couldn't believe his ears and even thought he had heard it wrong.

"Adjutant, please repeat it again."

Lord Tamor, as an adjutant, was also confused. He did not expect that the losses in the battle with the serfs in the royal manor would be so heavy.

Lord Tamor was an eyewitness of the bandit suppression. He knew how powerful the royal guards were. The private soldiers (horse bandits) raised by these country nobles were no match at all.

If the high-level officials in Vienna had not been persuaded at that time, it would be unknown how many nobles would be removed from the Great Plains. After all, who doesn't have some private soldiers to do private work?

However, intelligence said that the royal guards had left the manor long ago and went to the battlefields in France and Italy. There were indeed only a group of serfs left in the manor.

Most of the manors in Hungary still adopted serfdom, so they believed that the royal manor should also adopt serfdom, especially after Franz took in the serfs sold to the United States.

Before 1848, the Hungarian government and nobles had a very tough attitude towards the Hungarian serfs who defected to the royal manor.

They asked the serfs to return to their masters' manors to fulfill their obligations, which was a joke in a sense, because it was the so-called masters who turned them into refugees and sold them.

In fact, the Hungarian nobles had no good feelings towards the returning serfs. On the contrary, they hoped that these people would die in various accidents.

At that time, it had become a consensus among the Hungarian nobles that serfdom restricted the development of Hungary's agriculture. Compared with using serfs, they preferred professional brokers from Germany or Poland to use hired workers to run farms.

Although it costs money to hire managers and farmers, the benefits of land output are far higher than the cost of hiring people, and serfs are only free in theory.

In fact, there are many hidden expenses. For example, if the villages where serfs live can rent out the land or develop it into arable land, it will also be a very substantial income.

At that time, there were so many Polish hired workers in Hungary that they could form an army, which shows the development of hired agriculture at that time.

The Hungarian refugees who were taken in by the royal manor around 1838 had long given up their Hungarian identity after ten years of education by the Hungarian government and nobles.

After the adjutant carefully checked the intelligence in his hand, he was sure that he had read it correctly.

Itamar was a little annoyed at first, but soon turned his anger into joy and accepted the number.

Because he felt that if his own losses were so great, then the enemy's losses must be even greater.

"Lord Motar, how are our results?"

Itamar looked at the adjutant with expectation. The latter was a little overwhelmed. He took a deep breath and gritted his teeth and said.

"General, we pushed down their fence wall."

Itamar nodded and said with a pleasant face.

"Well, good job. What else?"

The adjutant's face became more embarrassed, and he whispered.

"No more, sir."

"No more?!" Itamar's voice suddenly rose eight degrees.

"Yes, sir. There are no confirmed results."

Lord Motar was not a fool. He didn't want to bear the wrath of the earl, so he said that there were no other results instead of no other results that could be confirmed.

This way of speaking can leave some room. If his colleagues are smart enough, they will definitely make some achievements before the general confirms the results of the battle.

However, he underestimated Itamar's anger. He saw a fat body slamming the table and roaring.

"*** (vulgar language), *** (vulgar language to greet someone's family).

Lost two thousand people! Two thousand people! Now you tell me that you only knocked down a fence?!

Pigs are more useful than you! I put two thousand pigs in and they can eat up all the crops of the Austrians, and at least advance two kilometers!"

Itamar's veins bulged, and he paced back and forth in the makeshift tent angrily.

Qiu Tekalai on the side sneered.

"Why haven't I heard of serfs defeating Magyar warriors? Losing two thousand people in one battle is an unprecedented defeat.

Count Itamar, I heard that you have two lovers who are not from your own ethnic group.

They won't have any deals with those guys in the royal estate behind your back, right?"

Tyutkalai's words were very vicious, and he embarrassed Itamar and implied that he was a traitor, but the former was known as "the bravest man in Hungary" after all, and with his status as a special envoy of the parliament, the latter really didn't dare to do anything.

Itamar just frowned and said.

"Mr. Tyutkalai, to be honest, I don't believe that our compatriots would lose more than two thousand in one battle, but the facts are here.

Why don't we go to the battlefield together to take a look."

The purpose of Itamar's doing this was naturally to shut Tyutkalai's mouth. After all, he didn't want to get into any trouble in this troubled time.

And he really didn't believe it. He didn't believe that two thousand people would go in at once and there would be no movement at all!