"Oh, I've already won, and I'm still not satisfied..."
Zhu Yaofei shook his head while looking at it! Did Louis XIV squander all the intelligence of the Bourbon dynasty? His great-grandson Louis XV (Louis II of Rome) was also too stupid, right? Philip II even knelt down, why didn't he stop before he got better?
This time it’s good, it’s just stoked a hornet’s nest! Austria has Count Daun, Prussia has Frederick II, Russia has Fermor and Saltykov, Hungary has Count Lacy... These enemies who fought with each other in the Seven Years' War are now They all stood under the command of King Philip II of Serbia to fight against the Western Roman army of Louis II (Louis XV)!
And the Republic of England, which has adhered to neutrality for nearly a hundred years, also entered the battlefield! Not only did they dispatch their navy to fight against the Dutch-Roman combined fleet, they also sent expeditionary forces to New France and India to seize the overseas provinces and colonies of the Roman Empire.
Although Louis II enlisted Sweden, Poland, the Netherlands, Bavaria and other countries to help in the war, the armies of these countries were not very capable of fighting. The era when the Swedes were kings and hegemons has long passed, and they are no match for the Prussian and Russian coalition forces. The Poles have lost their temper since the death of Jan. Bessowski. How can they defeat the Russian, Prussian and Hungarian Allied Forces? Although the Netherlands' navy is powerful, their army is not good. There is no unified Netherlands army, only a temporary coalition of seven provinces...
As a result, Louis II's coalition forces got worse and worse, losing troops and generals on every battlefield! First, they suffered a disastrous defeat in the siege of Vienna, and then were beaten to a bloody head by the Austrian, Hungarian, and Prussian allied forces commanded by Frederick II in Brno and Prague in Bohemia!
After Louis II lost all the occupied areas of Bohemia and Austria, the war in Europe spread to the lands of the Western Roman Empire and the Republic of Poland!
On the western front, the Austro-Hungarian-Polish (Bohemian) forces commanded by Earl Daun and Earl Lacy invaded Bavaria and the Roman Austrian province...and by the end of June 176o, occupied the entire Austrian provinces and most of Bavaria.
On the center line, King Frederick II of Prussia commanded hundreds of thousands of well-trained Prussian troops to march eastward and westward, and captured Silesia, an enclave belonging to the Roman emperor, and the Principality of Saxony (both the Duke of Saxony and the King of Poland) who supported Louis II. It was August III) who repelled many attacks by the Roman army-Swedish-Netherlands coalition!
On the Eastern Front, the initiative rested entirely with the Prussian, Hungarian, and Russian coalition forces. After August III fled from Saxony to Poland, although he immediately summoned a group of Polish noble troops, the times were completely different!
The temporarily summoned army of Polish nobles was no match for Frederick II's Prussian army and the Russian army that had been baptized by the civil war. It could not defeat the Hungarians who had just defeated the Western Roman army in Austria and Bohemia.
As a result, the territory of the Republic of Poland was quickly divided among Prussia, Hungary and Russia!
When Zhu Yaofei saw the partition of Poland, he couldn't help but sigh: "Why do the Poles always have their lives divided up wherever they go?"
After sighing with emotion, Zhu Yaofei continued to look down.
After suffering successive defeats, Louis II was not willing to admit defeat, and actually contacted the Ottoman Empire, which had been struggling for several years.
He, the backstage boss of the Roman Pope, actually contacted the Ottoman Sultan, who was also Harry, to kill his Christian brothers together!
At the time, Mustafa III, the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, was really confused. After obtaining Egypt ceded by the Roman Empire, he rolled up his sleeves and launched an attack on Greece and Bulgaria on the Balkan Peninsula. He also incited Albania, where Tianfang Christians were the majority, to launch an uprising against the rule of the Mancini dynasty.
But the four countries of Greece, Albania, Bulgaria and Wallachia, ruled by the Mancini dynasty, had long been wary of the Ottoman Empire. Therefore, as soon as the Ottoman Empire sent troops, it was besieged by the coalition forces of the four Balkan countries. Philip II, who had always coveted Istanbul, immediately joined the battle with his Serbian army.
The Russian Empire, which had obtained a large area of Polish land, immediately joined the war against the Ottoman Empire and launched an attack in the direction of the Caucasus Mountains.
Faced with the siege of so many European countries, the already weakened Ottoman Empire could not reach it at all. After struggling for two years, it had no choice but to ask the Ming Empire to mediate, hoping to cede land in the Transcaucasus and some Balkans and pay huge compensation. end the war at a price.
However, Philip II was determined to seize Constantinople, and the Russian Emperor Constantine I also wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to seize the Caucasus, so they were unwilling to accept mediation. Hungary and Austria were also invited to join the siege of Constantinople, so the focus of the Twelve Years War shifted to the southern front around Constantinople.
This change saved Louis II who was in danger.
Beginning in 1765, Louis II carried out frequent diplomatic activities. First, he drew the Republic of England to the side of Rome at the expense of ceding New France and French India.
Then he reached an agreement with these two countries on the condition of recognizing the partition of Poland by Prussia and Russia, and the annexation of Saxony and Silesia by Prussia.
After paying a high price in exchange for British support and Prussia and Russia withdrawing from the war. In October 1766, Louis II, who had recovered from his illness, once again gathered troops to invade Austria and launched a decisive battle with the allied forces of Austria, Hungary, and Bohemia.
The result of the decisive battle once again disappointed Louis II.
Because the people of the half of Austria previously ruled by the Roman Empire had longed for the Grand Duchy of Austria, they joined Henry III's Austrian army after Louis II's army entered the country again. As a result, the strength of the Austrian army increased greatly, and they won victories in several consecutive battles!
However, after the victory, the allied forces of Austria, Hungary, and Bohemia also suffered heavy losses and were unable to expand their results, so the war on the Western Front reached a stalemate.
The stalemate lasted until 1768. Istanbul, which had been besieged by Philip II for nearly three years, finally fell in August 1768!
The Ottoman Empire, which withdrew to Asia Minor, immediately fell into civil strife and was unable to maintain the war, so it had no choice but to seek peace from Philip II.
On the sixth day after entering Istanbul, Philip II wore a purple robe at Hagia Sophia and was crowned Emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire!
When the news reached Paris, Louis II had to accept the reality and signed a peace treaty with Philip of East Rome in December 1768... The Roman Empire was officially divided into two!
And this tragic defeat inevitably brought a huge governance crisis to the Western Roman Empire!
The crisis of the Western Roman Empire came from three aspects. First, the defeat seriously affected the emperor's prestige!
Second, the twelve-year war brought a heavy economic burden to Western Rome and severely damaged the already underdeveloped economy of Western Rome.
Third, the patriotic spirit displayed by the Austrians and Bohemians during the Twelve Years' War made some Western Roman officers and soldiers, especially French officers and soldiers, begin to doubt the legitimacy of the empire.
What these officers and soldiers from all over France saw was a scene of prosperity, wealth and equality in the Grand Duchy of Austria and the Kingdom of Bohemia - serfdom in these two countries had long ended with the disintegration of the Habsburg dynasty. collapsed. Moreover, the ruling groups in these two countries are all foreign monks, so they have to follow the bright line. Under their leadership, these two countries successively embarked on the path of constitutional monarchy (real monarch) and capitalism. And because the country has few affairs, it is relatively rich in resources, the land is relatively fertile, and the population is not too large or too small. Therefore, they were governed quite well, and everything seemed affluent and civilized, which made a group of French soldiers with unyielding conscience feel extremely ashamed...
