Hungary
As news of the Kingdom of Sardinia's defeat spread, more and more Hungarians lost faith in the revolution. Miskolc, Debrecen, Pécs, Szeged, and a string of other cities fell one after another.
By mid-June, the Hungarian Republic had only one last city remaining: Budapest.
Unwilling to accept defeat, the revolutionaries fled into the countryside after losing the major cities, hoping to continue their stubborn resistance through guerrilla warfare.
Unfortunately, the Hungarian public did not buy it. To ordinary people, the House of Habsburg was their guardian deity, while the Hungarian Republican Government was a predatory regime made up of nobles and capitalists.
Before a people's war could even be launched, it was instead suppressed by the people themselves.
It could be said that Franz's land redistribution campaign in Hungary had been highly successful. He had successfully pinned all of Austria's past dark history on the Hungarian autonomous government.
This world was never short of clever people. The Hungarian nobles, whose strength had been badly battered by the civil unrest, quickly put themselves in the proper position and took action one after another to prove their worth to the Vienna Government, preparing to secure favorable positions within the new social order.
That was how the old nobles survived: they understood how to compromise with reality. Those upstarts who had failed to learn that lesson had already met their end during Austria's suppression of the Hungarian rebellion.
Inside an ancient castle outside Ala City, a young man said angrily, "Father, are we really going to do this? Once the Kingdom of Hungary ceases to exist, we'll only be able to..."
The old man waved a hand and said earnestly, "August, do not let profit blind your eyes!
"The Kingdom of Hungary is already gone. From the very moment the Hungarian Revolution