When the war broke out, Franz's nerves were wound tight, and not a single person in the upper echelons of the Austrian Government dared to relax.
Though the speed of the front lines' advance was very fast, even smoother than planned, the Austrian Government still carried out a national mobilization.
Perhaps to many, this seemed like an overreaction—deploying four hundred thousand troops against the Kingdom of Bavaria and mobilizing a million reserve forces domestically.
As a person directly involved, Franz could say very clearly that this was not an overreaction, but a strategic necessity.
Even when a lion fights a rabbit, it uses all its might.
This was precisely the state of Austria; if they were only facing Bavaria, perhaps thirty to fifty thousand troops would have sufficed to accomplish the mission.
