In the entire Western European continent, especially in the central and eastern regions of Western Europe, the internal public opinion and political situation quickly completed two flips.
After the nuclear explosion in Constantinople, driven by speculative forces from all sides, continuous riots and mutinies broke out in many places, and then they prepared to surrender to the Ming Dynasty independently.
After the Ming Dynasty made public its plan of surrender and atonement, a large number of rioting forces quickly made peace with the original imperial courts in various places.
They even began to issue collective appeals, asking the current national court and royal family to fight with them to the end on behalf of their own ethnic groups.
The riots in Warsaw were jointly suppressed by Lucia and Germany, and all the rebels were directly executed.
However, what Wilhelm Ludwig considered began to happen in fact.
After the nobility, bureaucracy, and business class decided to resist, or refused to surrender directly, riots by ordinary citizens broke out in many places.
Most of them didn't have much assets to begin with, and they didn't care about the Ming Dynasty's penalty of confiscating assets of more than one hundred silver notes.
Ming Dynasty did not say that everyone would be exiled to Mozhou.
The governments and militaries of various countries in Europe and the West, of course, used all the forces at hand to suppress it, mainly the army that was constantly recruiting and expanding.
The suppression was of course effective, and large-scale desertions soon began again.
The Ming Dynasty wants to exile its soldiers to Mozhou, so can I just stop being a soldier?
At the same time, the news of William Ludwig's defection to England quickly spread among the middle and upper class people.
Many people thus discovered a way to escape and ascend to heaven.
Britain is already a de facto vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, and is currently out of the state of war.
If I exchanged my assets for gold, silver and jewelry, and smuggled myself to the UK or even the United States under my name, wouldn’t I have a chance to escape Ming Dynasty’s property confiscation penalty?
It’s not that the upper-class people of the three Roman kingdoms don’t know that they will definitely lose.
I just don't want to accept the future of losing wealth.
They knew that even if they resisted desperately now, they would still lose everything in the end, just a little later.
This little time is actually the time for many people to think of solutions.
Now they think they have found a way.
As a result, since late March, German and Lucian nobles and businessmen continued to disappear.
Shipping routes on the Baltic and North Seas and the English Channel are starting to get busy.
Some of them went directly to France and crossed the sea from France to southern England.
Some cross the sea from Norway to northern England.
Some people were lucky enough to make it ashore, while others encountered patrols from the British Navy of the Ming Dynasty and had their property confiscated and taken into custody.
But there are still many people running out.
With this route in place, upper-class people across Europe and the West have no idea of surrender.
To surrender is to directly confiscate most of the property and exile to Mozhou.
By smuggling into the UK, you have the opportunity to keep most of your property, and you have the opportunity to live directly in the UK or to live in the United States.
In any case, it is much better than surrendering directly.
In this situation of internal chaos and reintegration, the war on the front line has not stopped.
The Ming army under the city of Constantinople quickly completed the task of crossing the sea and landing, and established a new base outside the ruins of Constantinople on the other side of the strait.
The advancing army quickly occupied the entire strait connecting the Black Sea and the Great Qin Sea.
Then quickly sent the main army across the strait and began to expand the occupied area in two directions.
One way went north, attacking the interior of Lucia, and the other way went west, occupying Macedonia, Greece and other areas.
After the Ming army took control of the Black Sea Strait, the occupying forces in the interior began to perform another management and transformation task.
The Emperor of the Ming Dynasty first formally issued an edict to establish the Roman Kingdom of the Ming Dynasty and the Golden Horde Kingdom of the Ming Dynasty.
The capital of the Roman Kingdom of the Ming Dynasty was placed opposite the disappeared Constantinople on this side of the Anatolian Plateau and named New Rome City.
Responsible for the management of the indigenous people in the original Ottoman territory and to the west, within the scope of the Eastern Roman Empire in the classical era.
The capital of the Ming Dynasty's Golden Horde was placed in the city of Moscow, which was completely taken over by the Ming Dynasty.
Responsible for the management of the indigenous people in the original territory of Lucia.
Referring to the system once implemented in the Dashi Kingdom, all Ming soldiers and residents in the two countries have a quota of foreign concubines by default.
Officers of any rank, bureaucrats, managers of government-owned manufacturers, and all technicians with craftsman certificates are entitled to two foreign concubines.
Both countries temporarily retained the slave system, but no individual was allowed to sell himself into slavery. Only the Yamen had the right to demote criminals and their relatives into slaves.
At present, the two countries do not have direct kings, and there are no complete local yamen for the time being. Instead, they are implemented by the garrison under military control.
The nobles, officials, soldiers, merchants, manufacturers and owners of Lucia and other countries in the two countries were sent to the western part of Mozhou in batches to work as laborers from now on.
The Ming Dynasty originally planned to exile these people to Mozhou to engage in development and construction.
Of course, the destination is not the big food country on the east coast of Mozhou. The eastern part of Mozhou is a good place now.
Only the people of the Ming Dynasty and the ethnic groups in the Ming Dynasty cultural circle near the mainland of the Ming Dynasty have the opportunity to directly immigrate to the East Mozhou area of the great food country.
The Ming Dynasty also had a colony in the western part of Mozhou. In the westernmost part of the entire Mozhou continent, there were Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone and other places in Zhu Jingyuan's previous life.
It was originally used to house the Mo people and Taixi people who were repatriated from Yinzhou.
There is still a large amount of undeveloped land in the area, as well as a large amount of dense virgin tropical rainforest.
To the east of this land is the French Cote d'Ivoire, and further east are the colonies of the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Lucia and other countries.
The intensity of war in the colonies was very low, with most areas defending each other.
However, the Ming Dynasty will definitely occupy these colonies in the future, and it is impossible to allow the three Roman countries to retain these colonies after the war is over.
Today's Thai and Western criminals will be sent to these places to work.
Before the Ming army controlled the Black Sea Strait, it was too troublesome to send these people to the west of Mozhou, and they had to go around the Caucasus and the Dashi mainland.
The military government in the occupied areas also needs time to build institutions, select personnel who need to be deported, and arrange manpower for the Asian Games.
That’s why we waited until we had control of the strait before we started implementing it.
For these personnel, their origins are different, their attitudes during the war are different, and their current treatment methods are also different.
Any city or settlement voluntarily surrendered before the Ming Dynasty attacked.
Then all the local nobles, officials, officers, soldiers, and bosses themselves will be sent to Mozhou as indentured laborers to work for twenty years to atone for their sins.
Others in the family can continue to live locally as civilians.
Any city that refused to surrender before the Ming army attacked, the Ming army took the initiative to attack and occupied the city with force, as well as the troops captured after the war began.
Then all the local nobles, officers, officials, and businessmen were shot on the spot.
In fact, most of these people had been directly killed by the occupying forces on the battlefield.
Now it's the family they left behind to deal with.
All the men in their family were exiled to Mozhou as criminals and slaves to work for life to atone for their sins.
All women in the family will be demoted as slaves, rewarded to meritorious Ming soldiers as slaves or concubines, or sold to Ming residents who immigrated there.
This is a typical punishment of "implicating others and depriving their family members of slavery", which has not happened in the Ming Dynasty for many years.
Yang Yuchun basically didn't think much about it and implemented this order in Rome and the Golden Horde.
Soon, men from the wealthy classes such as nobles, officials, and merchants from both countries began to be escorted from various cities to several ports along the Black Sea coast.
Just like the slave trade in the past, they were packed into the cabins of various transport ships by the thousands.
Then, under the escort of the Ming Dynasty Navy, it crossed the Black Sea Strait and entered the Great Qin Sea, sailed out of the Great Qin Sea from Gibraltar, entered the Atlantic Ocean and sailed south.
Finally, they went ashore in Guinea and other places in the southwest of Mexico, and began their career of labor atonement.
During this process, Ming armies in other areas were also advancing.
With constant riots and repression, and with deserters and defected officers and nobles everywhere, the Western continent was basically unable to resist.
But in this chaos, no one is qualified to surrender directly on behalf of a certain place.
So the war continues in name only.
By the fifteenth day of May in the fourth year of the Grand Duke, the entire territory of Lucia and the Balkans had been occupied by the Ming army.
The battle lines on the western continent advanced to the border between Germany and the Holy Roman Empire.
By this time, how fast the Ming army was advancing was often determined not by the attack speed, but by the actual reception speed.
The interior of Taixi Continent is now in complete chaos.
Although the upper level controlled the court and did not allow surrender, most of the actual combat legions and local officials at the grassroots level would surrender directly when encountering Ming troops.
The difference between surrender and capture after the war was now completely clear.
After surrendering his labor to atone for twenty years, each person in the family will receive one hundred silver notes in cash.
Those who refused to surrender were directly killed on the battlefield. All the men in the family had to work for life, all the women were sold into slavery, and all their property was naturally confiscated.
The key is, even if someone wants to fight, they can't.
There is also the possibility of being killed by riots that may occur at any time, and soldiers may suddenly disappear at any time.
Rich people with a little bit of ability, before the Ming army arrived, tried to escape to the west, looking for opportunities to sneak into England.
Even if I can't go to the UK, I will continue to hide for a while.
If the commander of the Ming Dynasty was greedy for credit, it might only take two to three months to directly bulldoze all the remaining land on the western continent.
But Yang Yuchun still controlled the advancement speed honestly.
If the follow-up occupation troops, reception personnel, and management personnel are not in place, and the transportation and communication lines with the rear are unstable, they will not be able to continue to move forward without restrictions.
Now it is not so much attacking as it is receiving occupied territory.
If the Ming Dynasty is willing to relax some conditions for the existing ruling class in Europe and the West, the rest of the continent can be "decided by communication."
But neither the Ming court nor the combat headquarters were prepared to do this.
Yang Yuchun even felt that the progress was a bit too fast.
Yang Yuchun and most of the staff still did not have enough predictions about the deterrent effect of strategic weapons.
It has not been fully considered that the relevant news will be spread through newspapers, radio and other media, and the effect it will have after it is fermented among the people.
It also underestimated the efficiency of mechanized warfare and the destruction of battlefields.
Yang Yuchun and his staff estimate that it will take at most one year to fully accept the Western European continent, and if it is faster, half a year may be enough.
And it is even possible to give up preparing for large-scale landing operations.
When planning the entire campaign, the staff recommended preparing to launch landing campaigns in three locations: northern France, southern Spain, and southern Italy.
In line with the direction of the land attack, the last remaining forces of the European and Western countries were surrounded and annihilated in the western region of Germany.
Therefore, in the corresponding southern Britain, northern Morocco, and northern Tunisia, we began to raise and prepare combat materials and personnel in advance.
After discussing with the staff, Yang Yuchun decided to continue the landing campaign, but it would start earlier.
In particular, the landing battle in France must be fought.
Before the Ming Dynasty entered the war, the British did not use much force at all. After the Ming Dynasty entered the war, the British had no chance to use force.
The British cannot be allowed to escape so easily.
Therefore, Yang Yuchun ordered the ground troops on the German border to further slow down.
At the same time, the British were asked to speed up and launch a landing campaign before the end of July. The Ming Navy and Air Force were responsible for assisting and escorting.
The landing campaign from Tunisia to Italy will be scheduled before the end of August depending on the situation.
The time soon came to July 20th.
Two hundred thousand British troops, supported by the Ming Dynasty's navy and air force, launched an attack on the Calais coast.
First came the airborne troops delivered by transport aircraft, and then the troops delivered by Ming Dynasty's new "anti-submarine landing aircraft carrier" via helicopters.
Under the supervision of the Ming Dynasty governor, these British people could no longer follow the French to make up the numbers like they did two years ago.
The British's combat effectiveness is not as good as that of the Ming Dynasty. The key is that their opponents know that they do not have divine punishment weapons, so their fighting will is relatively high.
There is no way to be like the Ming Dynasty troops, who can make the defenders surrender wherever they go.
The landing force attacking the shore was itself a relatively weak party, so the British fought a fierce battle.
But after all, they had the cover of the Ming Dynasty's navy and air force, and they also knew that they would definitely win this battle.
Therefore, they persisted in withstanding the German counterattack, successfully climbed to the coast of Calais, and captured the port of Calais.
Then a large number of transport ships from the Ming Dynasty and Britain began to quickly transport a total of one million British troops to the French battlefield.
After the landing force formed a large scale, it began to attack in the southwest and northeast directions.
The British army's march was not as fast as Daming, but overall it was relatively smooth, and the scope of occupation gradually expanded to the surrounding areas.
At the end of August, the Ming Dynasty's main 1st and 2nd legions finally arrived at the gates of Berlin, and the southern 3rd legion entered the northern part of the Apennine Peninsula.
The German royal family and the main nobles, the main officials of the German Kingdom, and a large number of top businessmen and bankers.
Before the Ming Dynasty army came to Berlin, they had already set off in advance and fled to Bonn in western Germany.
They were planning to go to Paris, but the British launched a landing campaign on the Western Front.
The situation around the city of Berlin was already extremely chaotic. After losing the spiritual support of the top leaders headed by the royal family, the remaining defenders of Berlin quickly surrendered directly.
In Italy, the Savoy royal family and a large number of Italian nobles, officials, and military officers also wanted to escape, but there was no place to run.
Italy is a peninsula. The northern part of the peninsula is completely controlled by the Ming Dynasty Army. The Qinhai Sea around the peninsula is also completely controlled by the Ming Dynasty Air Force and Navy.
The key is that the Ming army in the northern part of Mozhou has successfully landed in Sicily and is about to push north along the peninsula.
They have been blocked in the middle of the isolated Apennine Peninsula. They have no way to escape and can only stay in the city of Rome.
At the end of September, the Ming army landed in southern Spain, and the British Legion invaded Paris.
At the end of October, the armies of the northern and southern armies of the Ming Dynasty met under the city of Rome, and then issued an ultimatum to the court of the Kingdom of Italy.
The Italians had the highest intention to surrender. If they had not been coerced by businessmen and nobles, and if Ming Dynasty had not given any conditions at all, they would have surrendered long ago.
Now they are completely desperate, and most of them don't have the courage to die together, so they can only choose to surrender in the end.
Yang Yuchun accepted their surrender, and the fighting on the Italian side was basically over.
The main force in Italy returned to the northern part of the peninsula and entered southern France from the Savoy region, the home of the Kingdom of Sardinia.
In early February of the fifth year of the Grand Duke, the two armies of the Ming Dynasty jointly captured the entire territory of Spain.
On February 8, the royal family of Lucia and the remaining high nobles surrendered in Madrid.
In early May, the Ming Dynasty's main 1st and 2nd legions and the British legions captured the entire territory of Germany and France.
On May 12, the main members of the German royal family, the last high-ranking nobles and officials of Germany, surrendered in the Luxembourg Valley.
The main battle in the western continent is basically over.
On May 25, under the orders of the kings of the three countries who had surrendered, the colonial troops and officials of the three countries in Mozhou surrendered to the Ming army.
The new round of war is completely over.
The author is not very good at writing war scenes, and by this time, there is nothing to write about in the war. The basic data and force are too different. Especially with strategic weapons, the opponent can no longer effectively resist. So let’s finish talking about the war as soon as possible and start finishing the political, cultural, and economic aspects. This book is almost finished and should be finished within this month.
(End of chapter)
