Silesia is a historical regional name in Central Europe. The quietly flowing Oder River and its tributaries flow through almost the entire region. Along the Sudeten Mountains, the southern part of Silesia borders Bohemia and Moravia. According to different customs, Silesia is divided into Upper Silesia and Lower Silesia, which are generally equivalent to the upper and middle reaches of the Oder River respectively.

In chronological order, Upper Silesia once belonged to Greater Moravia, the Kingdom of Bohemia, Poland, the Holy Roman Empire, the Habsburg royal family in Austria, and the Kingdom of Prussia. Lower Silesia has been ruled by the Austrians for more than 100 years.

Until 1809, the Austrian army led by Grand Duke Carl fought against the French army commanded by Napoleon and suffered a crushing defeat in the Battle of Wagram. At the same time, another Austrian army invaded the Warsaw Duke also failed, resulting in Austrian Emperor Franz I having to seek peace from Napoleon and sign the "Shawn Bruen Contract".

According to the provisions of the peace, the Principality of Warsaw, a solid ally of the French Empire, recaptured all the Polish territory that the Austrian Kingdom once occupied, including Galicia and Lower Silesia, and Upper Silesia was still in the hands of the Prussians.

Upper Silesia has fertile soil and is rich in cereals, potatoes, hemp and beets. In addition, mineral resources such as coal, iron, copper, lead, and zinc are very rich. Since the beginning of the 19th century, Pursue Silesia has developed into one of the major industrial areas in Europe. The largest city in Silesia is Wroclaw (Breslau), as well as two important towns: Legnica and Waubuzh.

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As Desai expected, in the face of a massive invasion of the Duchy of Warsaw - the army, Prussia, who was isolated and helpless, chose to obey again in humiliatingly. The scene that happened in the Danze Corridor was almost the same as before. After weighing the pros and cons, the Berlin Palace finally gave up the general mobilization order that could destroy the entire Prussia.

The next morning, the Marquis of Hardenburg had a gloomy face. Amid the booing and cursing of the majority of the parliamentarians in the Parliament Building, he only made a so-called statement that seemed tough but actually weak: he solemnly condemns the Grand Duke of Warsaw for leading his troops to invade Silesia, the sacred territory of Prussia.

Before the parliamentary opposition instigated a trial hearing, Prime Minister Hardenburg hurriedly left the parliament building. Two hours later, Hardenburg accompanied King Frederick William III as prime minister and drove him to Paris, France, thousands of miles away.

At the same time, the Earl of Sarenhorst and General Gnezenau, authorized by the Prime Minister and the King, instructed the Military Reorganization Committee to issue a retreat order to Prussian Silesia: to require the 10,000 Prussian troops stationed there and their reserve forces to give up resistance and escort local people who were willing to evacuate together to the north and move to the heart of Prussia; at the same time, the order also implies that the commander and the city hall hand over the city or fortress to the hands of the Austrian army as much as possible.

However, the Prussians' provocation was obviously doomed to fail. Because a full week after the Polish army commanded by Desay was sworn in southern Warsaw, the military boots of Austrian soldiers still hovered on the southern side of the Suted Mountains.

That was the commander of the Ollitian army. Prince Schwarzenberg, Karl Philip, mistakenly believed a false information fabricated by the Military Intelligence Bureau, believing that the stubborn Prussians would launch a national mobilization order to resist the invasion of the Warsaw Alliance army.

The Austrian prince, who had a considerable personal grudge with the Grand Duke of Desai, was naturally happy to see the vulgar Prussians fighting with the arrogant and rude Grand Duke of Warsaw, and therefore deliberately kept his troops in the southern foot of the Sudet Mountains.

It was not until a few days later that a Polish cavalry with the flag of the Duchy of Warsaw occupied the important town on the northern foot of the Sudet Mountains. When Severichenica, Prince Schwarzenberg suddenly realized: the damn Prussians did not fire a single shot and chose to escape shamelessly!

Just when the Oridian army, who received the order to go to the expedition, was preparing to cross the Sudeten Mountains and rush to Upper Silesia to compete for other cities, the Warsaw Knights team stationed in the area of ​​Severicha suddenly increased from the initial two cavalry squadrons to more than 10,000, with a total force comparable to the Oridian army. In addition, the Polish army also carried a large number of villagers to build city defense fortifications at various major traffic roads and intersections. The rash attack of a solid position of an allies was obviously a transaction with too much risk.

Of course, Prince Schwarzenberg, who had been through the battlefield, would not make such a low-level mistake. He had no choice but to order 10,000 Oliti soldiers to march slowly along the tributary of the Oder River, a winding and rugged Nice Valley, and to advance slowly like a snail.

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Starting from the oath to the Warsaw military camp, the Silesian Legion led by Grand Duke Desai sang triumphal songs all the way, stepped out in an orderly line, and followed the flat street where the people threw flowers, and rescued the Silesian compatriots ruled by Prussia with high fighting spirit.

But in fact, after entering Silesia through the province of Rhodes, the soldiers of Desai never fired a shot. Whenever the Polish army slowly arrived in a city or township, the Prussian army stationed in the local area chose to retreat voluntarily, and escorted some of the Silesian people who continued to be loyal to the Prussian king along the way, and evacuated northward to the west bank of the Oder River.

The commander of the Second Army, General Tomash Marousevsky, once advocated following and pursuing, quickly encircling and completely annihilated the Prussian army on the way to escape, and also detaining the stubborn Silesian defectors. However, this move was firmly opposed by General Dongbrovsky, Chief of Staff, and General Stanislaw Mokronovsky, the commander of the First Army, and General Stanislaw Mokronovsky.

In their opinion, it was the best thing to solve the Silesian problem by a peaceful march. Therefore, there is no need to start a large-scale killing and force the Prussian army to take risks and turn back to fight.

In the end, the Grand Duke of Warsaw chose the Chief of Staff and the Commander of the First Army. However, in order to appease Malushevsky, Desai appointed his Second Army and recruited 5,000 volunteer militias in Rhodes Province, and rushed to the important town of Severichi, the northern foothills of the Sudet Mountains, 100 kilometers away, to block the land passage of Austrian troops into Upper Silesia.

Desai even said bluntly: "In the future, the Sudet Mountains will be a natural line of defense and a strong fortress to resist or fight against the Austrians; and you will serve as the highest military and political chief in this area for some time to come. I will grant you and your successors sufficient power, including the cooperation of the intelligence department, secretly support, incite and encourage the national movement of the Bohemian and Gypsies to the south of the Sudet Mountains, to force the Austrian army to withdraw troops from the Oder River Basin before 1813.

Of course, there is another prerequisite, and Vienna must not be able to capture any handle. In addition, occasional or deemed necessary bilateral military friction must also be within a controllable range and must not trigger a full-scale war."

In fact, the above consideration was not the decision made by Desai before going to Warsaw, but the decision that came to mind after learning that one of his old enemies, Prince Schwarzenberg, Karl Philip, actually took over as the commander of the Austrian army.

Obviously, Metternich and Vienna are still secretly guarding against Desai. It is not difficult to imagine that once uncontrollable unrestrained turmoil occurs in Silesia or the power of the Duchy of Warsaw is greatly weakened, the fully armed Austrian soldiers will re-emerge on Polish territory. At this point, Desay and Metternich reached a memorandum of understanding on the non-proliferation of Jacobin revolutionary ideas, which has been declared invalid.

After sharing the Carpathians with the Austrians in the south, it is imperative to occupy the Sudeten Mountains on the southwestern border of Pooro. Of course, simple passive defense is extremely stupid. Therefore, Desai sent a Jacobin faction to serve as the military and political chief of the border. While guarding against Vienna, he also planned to fan the flames in Austria. Once Prince Schwarzenberg wanted to make a bad intention to Poland, he would first let Metternich and the Austrian emperor try the panic of the fire in the backyard.

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At 2 pm on September 13, the gate of Breslau opened, and the city hall officials who had lost the protection of the Prussian army, the local nobles and Protestants lined up in fear, and were welcoming their belated liberator, the Grand Duke of Desay, as a hero who rescued them from Prussia's long-term enslavement.

As a liberator, not a conqueror, the Grand Duke of Desai did not disappoint the expectations and good intentions of the Silesians. The first thing he did when he entered the city was that he promulgated a peace decree as the Grand Duke of Warsaw, allowing the military police to spread on the streets and alleys of the city.

Desai first announced that he had renamed Breslau (German) to Wroclaw (Polish), in order to express that the people living in Silesia and the people living here peacefully returned to Poland's embrace after a hundred years.

In addition, the announcement also announced that the Grand Duke and his army would treat compatriots in the Lower Silesian region well and respect the people's private property, religious beliefs, and freedom of life, but the premise is that the decrees that the Grand Duke Desai have or will be promulgated unconditionally.

During the extraordinary period before the military management was lifted, the military police force would perform the special duties of the urban security police. In any disputes between the people or with the army, the fair ruling of the military commander, Colonel Pochi.

In this peace announcement, people's obedience and military discipline were repeatedly emphasized.

It seemed to be to demonstrate the majesty of the Grand Duke Desai and the law enforcement ability of the military police. On the second day after entering the city, Colonel Pochi executed 18 Polish soldiers who were burned by lust and raped and massacred the unsuspecting Silesian people in the middle of the city square in public.

Of course, those rebels who remain loyal to Prussia and Berlin and tried to fight against the Grand Duke of Desay will end up even more miserable.

The lightest punishment for the brave "traitors" encountered along the way was the 10-year mine labor, and more than 100 other people went to the gallows. The commander of the military police, who was in power, also followed the secret instructions of Grand Duke Desai, listed the economic false charges of the death row prisoners, and forced the local court to confiscate or confiscate all personal property of these "traitors".

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