When a newly born regime fractured from within, it basically meant that the regime had reached an extremely dangerous point.
It was precisely amid this crisis that war came to Budapest. Before May had even ended, the German-Austrian coalition divided into three routes. The Northern Front pushed all the way down along the Danube River; the central route set out from Dorog, attempting to seize the western highlands of Buda directly through the mountains; the southern route detoured around Tata Castle, threatening the open terrain south of Budapest while preparing to sever Budapest's ties with the outside world.
The Hungarian government still had roughly two hundred thousand troops, while Budapest had only sixty thousand. Yet this situation was already far better than that of the Hungarian Labor Party in the previous life, when all its forces combined had amounted to merely fifty thousand men.
The additional troops under Kun's government were also the result of some of his earlier agricultural policies, which had won him a degree of support from Hungarian farmers.
As for recruiting more soldiers, it was already meaningless for Hungary. Hungarian industry was too weak. Only Budapest possessed a reasonably large arms factory, and because of the Hungarian Labor Party's early purges, that factory's production capacity had yet to fully recover.
Therefore, even if they recruited more men, the Hungarian Labor Party did not have enough weapons to arm them. At the same time, the Soviet Union's private calculations made matters worse for Hungary, which already lacked sufficient military commanders. In March of this year, the Soviet Union withdrew some of the military personnel it had originally promised.
Apart from its grudge with Kun, the Soviet Union under Yosef also wanted a more stable external environment due to the needs of its own economic development. Although its