Daming 1805

Faced with the Austrians' request to fulfill their commitments, the French and British did not shirk directly.

The British and French royal families directly ordered the two courts to formally declare war on the Kingdom of Prussia through the League of Nations.

However, both countries also unanimously stated that the two countries have not yet completed comprehensive war preparations and cannot fight Prussia immediately.

Therefore, I hope Austria can work hard and persevere to buy enough time for the two countries to prepare.

Although the Austrians are worried that the two countries are all talk but no work, now the two countries really need time to complete comprehensive war preparations.

Britain and France are indeed mobilizing for war, mobilizing troops and raising supplies.

So the Austrians just urged them and continued to work hard to find ways to win over more allies.

Prussia, after receiving the notices from Britain and France, immediately urged the Lucians and Italians to declare war on Britain and France.

The two countries also did not shirk and issued notices the next morning.

However, on the actual battlefield, the Lucians were still fighting against the Norwegians and Swedes, and the Prussians were fighting against the Austrians.

The British mainland is the farthest away from the battlefield, separated by the English Channel and the North Sea.

The British Navy acted as quickly as possible and began to maintain alert patrols in the waters off the mainland.

The mainland is indeed mobilizing the army, but the speed is not fast.

At the same time, we are also raising enough transport ships.

According to the British, it is impossible to participate in the battle on the mainland without transport ships.

On the border between France and Prussia, the alert levels of the garrisons of the two countries have also entered a state of war.

However, neither side took the initiative to launch an attack, but only faced off on the boundary line.

The French even continued to fortify the border fortifications.

The Italians continued to reinforce their western defenses while adding troops to the eastern border with Austria.

In the eyes of the Italians, the Austrians are obviously easier to fight than the French.

The key is that while the Prussians were attacking Austria in the north, the French had not yet directly entered the war.

But Italy did not join the war immediately and was also waiting and watching.

Seven days passed like this, and the Elbe Valley, the most important defensive node on the border of the Kingdom of Bohemia under Austria, was finally breached by Prussia.

The Prussians immediately moved up the Elbe River, and the front began to rapidly advance into Austria.

The Kingdom of Bohemia was approximately located in the central and western region of the Czech Republic, at the border of the Austrian Empire and Prussia.

It is a protrusion in Austria and a depression in Prussia.

This area was surrounded on three sides by Prussia and was generally a huge valley structure.

The largest opening of the valley to the north is the Elbe Valley.

After the Elbe Valley was breached, the entire valley was undefendable.

After the Prussians broke through the border, their advance suddenly accelerated, giving Bohemia little time to organize its defense line again.

In just one week, the entire Kingdom of Bohemia was occupied.

During this time, the Austrians could not help but urge the French and British, especially the French, to join the battlefield.

But the French say they still need to prepare, as do the British.

As time passed, the Moravia region in eastern Bohemia, which later became the eastern Czech Republic, was quickly fully occupied by the Prussian army.

At this time, the front line was less than a hundred kilometers away from Vienna, the capital of the Austrian Empire.

The Austrian Emperor was already a bit broken.

The new war changes were a bit difficult for Austrian Emperor Franz II, who had experienced the world war era, to accept it.

At that time, every inch of land on the battlefield needed to be repeatedly consumed and fought over, but now it is possible to retreat dozens of kilometers in a day.

According to the news sent from the front line, the role of human beings on the battlefield has become very small.

Under the bombardment of thousands of aircraft and artillery, and the impact of armored fighting vehicles traveling at speeds exceeding thirty kilometers per hour, the previous defense lines seemed to have lost their meaning.

Francis II already regretted it a little.

If we could go back to two months ago, Franz might reconsider the Ming Dynasty's Zongfan Agreement and seriously discuss the merger with Prussia.

But now, we can only ask diplomats to come forward again and go to the palaces of France and Britain to urge them to join the war.

King Louis XVII of France received the news and felt that it could no longer be delayed.

Louis XVII officially issued an attack order, and the French frontline troops passed through the Luxembourg Valley and officially launched an attack on the Prussian defense line.

The formal participation of the French in the war attracted the attention of the Prussians and gave the Austrians more courage.

It was at this time that Archduke Karl, together with part of Austria's Central Forbidden Army, finally launched his long-prepared active attack.

Archduke Karl attacked north along the foot of the Alps, trying to push the corner of Austria's western front back to Prussia itself.

This time, the cooperation between Austria and France attracted the attention of the Prussian royal family and court, and also restrained the power of the Prussian military.

The defense line in the Grand Duchy of Austria was successfully built, barely holding back the rapid advance of the Prussian troops.

At the same time, Austria and France arranged for diplomats from the two countries to contact Switzerland and ask the two countries to join the agreement between France, Austria and the United Kingdom.

Switzerland in this world does not have the status of a permanent neutral country. This position was replaced by Morocco designated by the Ming Dynasty.

Switzerland, which is currently sandwiched between Switzerland, Austria, Prussia, and France, and the Netherlands, which is sandwiched between France and Prussia, are the most tense countries now.

The Prussians also arranged for ambassadors from both countries to visit the kings and ministers of both countries and ask them to join the agreement with Italy and Lucia.

Now the time has come when the two countries have to take sides.
The agreement to join France, Britain, and Austria, or the agreement to join Prussia, Lucia, and Italy.

However, unlike Switzerland, the Netherlands currently belongs to the Union, so there is still some room for choice.

Since both sides want to fight for it, neither side dares to immediately threaten it with war.

Otherwise, the Netherlands is likely to fall to the other side immediately, so the Netherlands will have a little delay.

But Switzerland has basically no chance to delay.

Switzerland is important enough to both sides that joining the French and Austrian sides would allow the Austrian and French armies to be connected.

Joining the Prussian side would continue to separate the two fronts, and would also allow Prussia and Italy to communicate across the Alps.

After comprehensively considering the situation, Switzerland finally decided to join the agreement between Britain, France and Austria.

From the overall strength point of view, Switzerland feels that France is not weaker than Prussia, and Austria's current weak performance is enough to fight against Austria.

Britain, standing on the seaside, can also offset Lucia, who is also standing behind Prussia.

Since Ottoman is endangered by Lucia, he will basically join Britain, France, and Austria.

The strength of both sides should be roughly equal, with the British, French and Austrian sides slightly stronger.

Moreover, Switzerland's contribution to the British, French and Austrian side would be significantly greater than that of joining Prussia.

As soon as Switzerland made its decision, French troops immediately entered Switzerland.

Establish a land connection with Austria and cooperate with the Austrians to take the initiative to attack Prussia from the central south.

At the same time, Italy felt that the situation was more appropriate, so it officially launched an attack in the Slovenia region of southwest Austria.

The scale of the war across the entire western continent has further expanded.

The Lucians have basically occupied the entire Scandinavia Peninsula, and have also made territorial claims to the Ottomans through alliances in these days.

The Ottomans were asked to cede all lands in the Europa region, as well as lands on both sides of the Black Sea Strait (Turkish Strait).This is basically the entire Balkan Peninsula including Constantinople (Istanbul).

They also want the land in the Dashi area on the other side of the strait.

The purpose is obviously to completely control the outlet from the Black Sea to the Great Qin Sea (Mediterranean Sea).

Basically taking half of the remaining Ottoman territory, this is definitely not an ordinary lion's mouth-opening behavior.

But Lucia felt that her request was not too much.

The Norwegians and Swedes have been defeated by themselves, so they still care about the Lucians in the south?

It was time to recover Constantinople and officially rebuild Eastern Rome.

The Ottomans also had little fear of the Lucians.

The Ottomans had more than one territorial war with Lucia.

The entire Black Sea coast was originally Ottoman territory, but the north was continuously encroached and annexed by the Lucians.

In the past, the Ottoman Empire often suffered losses on the battlefield due to backward weapons and equipment.

Now the Ottomans felt that they were not at a disadvantage.

With the technical support and actual equipment provided by Ming Dynasty, Osman is definitely capable of defeating Lucia on his own.

So Osman naturally rejected Lucia's request.

Lucia and Osman have also entered a one-month countdown to the war.

The entire Taixi continent has been completely tense.

As for the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Jingyuan, the emperor, had no additional changes.

Just continue to prepare for war step by step.

Raise supplies, update equipment, train reserves, and transport personnel to the front line.

Speed ​​up the production of new weapons and equipment, speed up the missile modification of cruisers, and speed up the construction of aircraft carriers in factories.

In addition, restrictions on the sale of military equipment and supplies to Thai and Western countries have been slightly relaxed.

Ming Dynasty's equipment is being updated. A large number of old propeller aircraft need to be replaced, and the artillery on traditional battleships needs to be replaced with missiles.

However, these equipment are still considered advanced equipment for the regular armies of the European and American countries.

The countries in Thailand and Western countries had trade relations with the Ming Dynasty.

Now that the war is gradually getting into full swing, the demand for various military equipment and supplies is also expanding rapidly.

When domestic suppliers in various countries cannot meet the demand, they will of course try to increase their purchases from Daming.

The Thai and Western countries originally thought that the Ming Dynasty would have greater restrictions on this.

Unexpectedly, it turned out to be wider than before.

Moreover, not only France and Austria can import weapons and equipment from the Ming Dynasty, Lucia and Prussia can also place orders.

In fact, what Prussia got was the best and the delivery was the fastest.

It's just that other countries don't know it.

Time slowly came to May [-]th, and the Lucians officially declared war on the Ottomans.

The all-out war on the western continent has officially begun.

Although the performance of the Ottoman Empire's troops, which was full of confidence, cannot be said to be without merit, it can almost be regarded as collapse at the first touch.

It only took the Lucians ten days to occupy the Romanian region and reach the Bulgarian border.

Only then did Osman realize that times had changed, and he immediately contacted the Austrians with whom he had already dealt with and asked to join their agreement with Britain and France.

Austria, Britain, and France accepted the Ottomans without much thought.

But it was of no use.

The UK is still on the sidelines and can only provide any support other than help.

France fought with all its strength against Prussia.

Although when the French troops faced the Prussian troops, they did not experience the most exaggerated collapse situation that Zhu Jingyuan said.

But the main reason is that Prussia's offensive direction is still south, and the border area between Prussia and France is mainly in a defensive state.

Under such circumstances, the French advanced extremely slowly and never broke out of the Luxembourg valley.

On the southern border with Italy, there was mainly a state of confrontation and no attack was launched.

The French now did not have the strength to cross the sea to support the Ottomans.

Needless to say, Austria can only cope with Prussia's attack with all its strength.

Therefore, Osman really did not receive any effective help. Even the weapons and equipment that Ming Dynasty continued to export did not play an effective role.

By the end of May, Lucia's troops had penetrated Bulgaria and reached the Aegean Sea.

At the same time, an uprising broke out in Greece.

The Lucians temporarily stopped their westward advance and allowed the Greek rebels to quickly capture the city.

The main legions attacked southeast with all their strength, aiming directly at Constantinople, the former capital of Rome.

The journey to Constantinople is only two hundred kilometers away, and the key is that there is no danger to defend along the way.

Only the walls of Constantinople itself could withstand current aircraft and artillery. The Ottomans had no confidence at all.

The Ottoman Sultan was completely panicked.

After scolding France and Austria for their incompetence and the British for their shamelessness, they put aside all worries and asked Ming for help.

Directly expressed his willingness to become a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty.

Overseas was satisfied and wanted to include it. This was of course also very important news, and it was naturally reported directly to the Ming Emperor Zhu Jingyuan.

Zhu Jingyuan refused without much thought:

“At this time, Osman is fighting Lucia. If you accept Osman as a vassal state at this time, you will be directly involved in the war between Osman and Lucia.

"And it will encourage the remaining countries not to come to Ming Dynasty when they are independent, but to wait until the building is about to collapse to come for help.

“This shows that they have no sincerity at all and do not really want to become a vassal of the Ming Dynasty.

“It’s about asking for help only when you have no choice.

"Insincere."

Zhu Jingyuan's words were slightly polished by Honglu Temple and then sent back to the Ottomans.

The Ottoman Sultan despaired after reading this.

What does it mean to be dishonest?
After all, you Ming people don’t find it troublesome?

Or maybe you, the Ming Emperor, simply don’t dare to fight Lucia head-on?

But no matter what, Osman is finished.

In order to capture Constantinople, which they had been dreaming of for hundreds of years, the Romanov dynasty directly mobilized more than a thousand aircraft of various types and more cannons.

Lucia's soldiers, who were already full of status, also showed an unprecedented heroic gesture.