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It is often said that "weak countries have no diplomacy", and the performance of weak countries is not only economic, but most importantly, the strength of military power. Nowadays, the reference standard of military strength is mainly manifested in the advantages and disadvantages of high-end weapons, while the traditional army has been gradually eliminated, but it is undeniable that the traditional army has played an irreplaceable role in ancient and modern times.
But marching to fight is a hard and dangerous work, soldiers in the moment of charging the battle, are with the determination to die, and because of this, the words describing the tragedy of war in history abound, such as corpses all over the field, reversing and unloading armor, blood flowing into rivers, etc., not to mention seeing it with their own eyes, it sounds cold.
So, was there a war in which, after months of "fierce" fighting, soldiers not only did not die, but increased?
You don't have to say, there really is, this battle took place in the German War in the 18th century.
German War
As we all know, in the 17th and 18th centuries, wars were frequently launched due to the struggle between European monarchies, but among them, Italy and Liechtenstein, the two countries, showed "harmony", no matter how hot other countries fought, as long as they did not encroach on their interests, they would not intervene.
But this situation was soon broken, because Austria and Prussia fought for Germany, which led to the participation of neighboring countries.
And the choice of camp is not very exquisite, often neighboring countries to make alliances, after all, the principle of lips and teeth dependence everyone understands.
Liechtenstein was close to Austria, and although he did not want to fight, the situation in the alliance was compelling, so he had to join the Austrian camp. Although Italy was adjacent to Austria, he was optimistic about Prussia and joined prussia.
Because Liechtenstein's country is very small, only 160 square kilometers, which is the size of a town on the mainland, it can only symbolically send 80 soldiers to the front, and their enemies are not those countries that can fight a good war, but the same kind Italy.
When the armies of the two countries met, there was no smoke, no bloodshed, and no casualties, because they played cards, drank or chatted in the trenches every day, but this was a battlefield after all, so the soldiers of the two countries fired a few empty guns from time to time to show that they were all in their posts.
One more person?
In this way, they fought the german battle between the whole of Austria and Prussia, and the final result was that Prussia won.
After the war, the soldiers of the two Buddhist countries returned to their homeland happily, and the king of Liechtenstein prepared the ceremony early, and when the army returned to the capital to participate in the ceremony, the king found that there was one more soldier.
It turned out that this soldier was an Austrian deserter who was afraid of war, and on the way he happened to encounter the Liechtenstein army, so he followed him back, and now that Austria was defeated, he had no face to return to China, so he simply joined this army.
References: General History of Europe, History of the German Wars