Rise of Australia
Chapter 898

Sudetenland Military Coup

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It turned out that the air raid the Germans had meticulously prepared during the night had clearly caught the Austrians completely off guard.

If this had happened at the very beginning of the war, it would have been understandable. Back then, the Austrian Army had been constantly on guard against German attacks, with personnel always stationed at the antiaircraft weapons around the airfields so they could immediately use them to fight back when faced with an assault.

But now, more than half a month had passed since the war began, and the Austrians had gradually relaxed their vigilance toward the German Army.

After all, as mentioned earlier, before this air raid, the German Air Force had never penetrated deep into Austria. Logically speaking, there was no way they could have obtained intelligence on the distribution of Austrian airfields.

This also meant that the Germans must have obtained intelligence from somewhere else before launching this air raid that had caught the Austrians completely unprepared.

Regardless of what the Austrians thought, this attack had caused tremendous losses for Austria, and it had also rendered nearly all the military airfields Austria had deployed in the Czech region useless.

On the afternoon of April 28, at the Cabinet Government of the Austrian Empire.

The Austrian Prime Minister sat heavily in the main seat, his eyes fixed tightly on the Austrian Secretary of State for Air. The questioning in his eyes was impossible to miss.

"Prime Minister, all seven military airfields we deployed in the Czech region were attacked, and nearly every military airfield suffered heavy losses.

"According to our preliminary statistics, nearly forty aircraft were blown up outright, while almost two hundred more sustained varying degrees of damage and would need repairs before they could be put back into service.

"Even worse, the auxiliary

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