Here in Europe, it is already January 1666. The year 1665 that just passed was of great significance across the ages for many countries in the world.
For the Celestial Kingdom of the Oriental Continent, its domestic rebel force, the Dashun Kingdom, officially became a maritime colonial empire in this year, and also invaded the oil-rich India from the sea. This is actually a profound event! However, people at the time, including the far-sighted Zhu Cixiang, did not realize the huge impact that the invasion of India and the subsequent inflow of "Indian gold and silver" would have on Dashun, a feudal military country.
For India, which was invaded by Dashun, 1665 was also a very important turning point.
First of all, Aurangzeb fought a coveted defeat in the river... 30,000 people went out to the river. When they failed, they took away three to four hundred thousand from the river, and also abducted tens of thousands of elite soldiers. Uzbek cavalry and a famous Persian general Khalifa. With this force from the river, Aurangzeb's position in India will be more stable!
Secondly, the Dashun Empire colluded with the Dutch and began to regard India as a treasure land for them to make a fortune! This lucrative business has just begun, and it will give Aurangzeb a headache in the future!
The third event that will profoundly affect the direction of Indian history is, of course, the love story between Zhu Cixiang and Princess Nisha... This story only started in 1665, and there are still many problems waiting for the story. Where is the heroine Princess Nissa!
Dramatic changes also occurred in Central Asia in 1665!
Aurangzebra happily led hundreds of thousands of people to run away to live a better life in India, leaving a mess for Anusha Khan and some of the Turkmen who supported him, as well as his allies, the Kazakhs and Rakshasa people. .
Because of Aurangzeb's escape, the Sengha king who was stationed in Bukhara at that time did not continue to go to the Khwarezm oasis, but turned back and occupied Samarkand.
At the same time, Anusha Khan dived into the Fergana Basin, and then the exit of the basin was blocked by the troops of Anukedun and Hu Zhongyong.
In the Khwarezm Oasis, after receiving the news of the deaths of Anusha Khan and Prince Alim, chaos immediately broke out. The two sons left in the oasis by Anusha Khan immediately started a civil war!
Moreover, the two filial sons of Anusha Khan each invited foreign aid in order to become their father's only son! One asked the Ottoman Empire across the Caspian Sea to help, and the other asked the Ottoman Empire's enemy Persia to take action...
However, the anti-Zhungar alliance still made some gains in 1665, and the Rakshasa and Kazakhs on the northern front still made progress in Zhongyuzi. Because the main force of the Jungar Kingdom is concentrated on the southern front, those who deal with the Rakshasa and Kazakhs on the vast northern front are nomadic households with weak combat capabilities. It is okay for these nomadic households to suppress the Kazakhs, but when encountering It is not enough to look at the shooting corps and Cossacks commanded by Marquis Golovin.
After several contacts between the two sides, the leaders of the six nomadic households of Jungar discovered that even if their own tribes had a large number of matchlocks, they were not from the Rakshasa army whose training and organization levels were significantly higher. adversary.
Therefore, in the autumn of 1665, the six Zhungeer nomadic households responsible for dealing with the Rakshasa-Kazakh coalition forces on the battlefield of Zhongyuzi continued to shrink eastward. By the end of the year, most of Zhongyuzi had been captured. The Rakshasa-Kazakh coalition took it away!
But the good days of the Rakshasa-Cossack coalition are almost over. Because Zhu Cijiong, the acting king of the Ming Dynasty, finally completed his slow journey at the end of the year and arrived at Yining City, the seat of the Beiting Protectorate. One month before he arrived in Yining, 7,500 Young Guards had already entered Chuhe City.
The war in Central Asia is still easy to fight!
In Europe, 1665 was a rare and peaceful year. The second Anglo-Dutch War, which was originally supposed to officially break out in February of this year, was because the naval upgrade campaigns of various countries after the Great War of Kagoshima Bay had not yet ended. The number of new bombardment battleships owned by the British and the Dutch was There were too few, so I was not sure, so there was no fight.
However, on September 17 of this year, a major event occurred that would trigger a series of wars and ultimately lead to earth-shaking changes in the situation across Europe - King Philip IV of Spain died on this day due to appendicitis.
And the monarch of the precarious Spanish world empire became the 4-year-old imbecile Carlos II!
Queen Maria Anna from Austria became the regent of this world empire that was riddled with holes but was still extremely large from the map.
But everyone knows that this woman, whose intelligence is not much better than that of her husband, cannot control the big and broken ship of the Kingdom of Spain at all, let alone resist the ambitious Louis XIV.
So when the wheel of history rolled to January 1666, the whole of Europe held its breath and stared at the French court, seemingly waiting for the French king who was already in power to launch a large-scale European land war!
Among all European countries, the country that is most nervous about this war is actually not Spain, which is about to be attacked, but the Spanish's early enemy, the United Provinces of the Netherlands...
After all, Carlos II was the legitimate monarch of Spain. No matter how ambitious Louis XIV was, he would not be so arrogant as to challenge the order recognized by European monarchies and overthrow the rule of a legitimate monarch.
Moreover, Carlos II was in poor health and might not live for a few years? By then, wouldn’t it be justifiable for Louis XIV to launch another attack?
Therefore, Louis XIV is now unlikely to directly attack the Spanish mainland. The rich Spanish Netherlands is his best target for invasion. Because the Spanish Netherlands is an enclave far away from mainland Spain, and the people living in this land are much closer to France than to Spain - about half of the people in the Spanish Netherlands The population is French speaking! While the other half speak Dutch, the Spanish-speaking population is almost negligible…
Once Louis XIV becomes the master of the Spanish Netherlands, France and the United Provinces of the Netherlands will become neighboring countries!
The Dutch, who had long since lost a decent army, were of course worried about this prospect.
Wei Qingmu, the Ming Dynasty Ambassador to the United Provinces of the Netherlands, who came from afar, also felt that the city was immersed in fear and uneasiness as soon as he arrived in Amsterdam!
"Bruce, will the French really attack the Spanish Netherlands?"
In the Ming Dynasty Embassy in Amsterdam, Wei Qingmu discussed the worrying current situation with Bruce Van Diemen, a representative of the Dutch East India Company.
"There is no doubt!" Bruce Van Diemen said, "Louis XIV now has 150,000 new-style troops who have been rigorously trained by Prince Condé... and Spain cannot even produce 100,000 capable troops. A considerable part of it is still restrained by Portugal, and there are also mainland and Italian territories that need to be defended. The number of troops that can be deployed in the Spanish Netherlands is very limited.
In fact, the main force currently defending the Spanish Netherlands is the British Royal Party... However, their strength is still too weak, and they will not fight the powerful Louis XIV for Spain. "
"What about you?" Wei Qingmu asked, "You won't sit back and ignore it, right?"
Bruce Van Diemen sighed: "It depends on Britain and Sweden...but little Cromwell will not interfere until the French wipe out the British royalists in the Spanish Netherlands." .If little Cromwell doesn’t act, Sweden won’t act.”
He smiled bitterly and said, "The Federal Republic of the Netherlands, which once had the strongest army in the world, is no longer a land-power country that can play a key role on the European continent!"
Wei Qingmu frowned, "Such a situation won't affect the Emperor of China's decision to become a shareholder of an Indian company, right?"
