Rubik's Cube

The Austrian side's reaction to the British occupation of Albania appeared extremely indifferent. In reality, this was not because everyone shared Archduke Franz's mindset or fully grasped the gravity of the situation in the Balkans.

Rather, the vast majority of the imperial high command felt that the northern mountainous regions of Albania were insignificant, and the British occupation of the south seemed even more meaningless.

Friedrich, for his part, held the forces deployed by the British in southern Albania in utter contempt. Three thousand men and a dozen small boats under a thousand tons could not possibly exert any influence on the Austrian Imperial Navy at this time.

In fact, Friedrich had even studied the possibility of invading Albania by land with his older brother, Archduke Albrecht.

The latter had responsibly informed the former that three thousand men could never hold back the Austrian Army; at this moment, Austria could mobilize tens of thousands of troops in the northern Balkans at any time.

If they waited until the pacification of the north was complete, the number of troops they could mobilize would increase exponentially. Once the railways were finished, projecting one hundred thousand troops and supplies into Albania within one to two weeks would not be a problem at all.

Building railways through the mountains would be somewhat troublesome, but fortunately, Austria was a mountainous country itself and had accumulated a wealth of experience long before this.

The Austrian Empire was currently the most adept nation in the world at building railways in mountainous terrain, and there was no second place.

Of course, Friedrich still knew how to feign weakness; after all, he was no longer a child. The various campaigns he had fought over the years had provided him with a great deal of experience, and Friedrich knew exactly