Preparing to Make an Entrance

"Madness! You and Landry Promis have both gone mad! Our city is connected to the Austrian Empire. They'll know what's happening here in just a few hours.

"The Austrians can send troops to surround us within a day. Then, just like in 1241, our city and our homes will be reduced to ashes!"

Several activists who had recently joined the Polish Restoration Army ignored the old men's rambling. Instead, they had them driven out of City Hall with clubs, intending to turn it into His Majesty Landry Promis I's temporary palace.

A young man stepped on a former parliamentarian and said,

"The Austrians can't get here! His Majesty Landry Promis I saw it all coming and already sent men to blow up every railway leading to Kraków!"

At that, the old parliamentarians' faces grew even darker. The Free City of Kraków had paid for those railways, and they were the city's lifeline.

The railways around Kraków were hit by a series of bomb attacks. Of course, news of the arsenal's destruction also spread from the city.

But this news was no fatal blow to Landry Promis. He had already purchased large quantities of supplies from various places in the name of the Free City of Kraków. And besides being a commercial hub, Kraków was also a university town.

There were enough experts, scholars, and craftsmen here to organize an arms factory. For now, Landry Promis was most concerned with how many people he could rally to defend Kraków.

Although Landry Promis had ordered the railways destroyed, there was nothing he could do about carrier pigeons.

So Vienna soon received word of the Kraków revolt. Prince Metternich was delighted. After all, annexing a wealthy, storied city was nothing like taking charge of a few poor, backwater Balkan villages.

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