Besides, after Mustafa returned to Istanbul and told the situation, the Queen Mother and Ahmed were very happy. No matter what, they finally turned enemies into friends and became allies with the Ming Empire. From then on, they were no longer afraid of the coalition forces from European countries.
So, after some discussion, we began to emphasize the positive significance of the Zhennancheng Agreement throughout the country. Anyone who is dissatisfied with and questions this agreement will be treated as a traitor to Europe!
It would be impossible not to do this. After all, after the agreement is signed, the area east of the Black Sea Strait will be delivered to the Ming Dynasty. In addition, such a high-profile propaganda is also to let European countries know and shock them. If you want to attack the Ottoman Empire first, you will have to go to war directly with the Ming Empire. European countries, are you ready?
On the Austrian side, fleets from various countries were gathering here. Suddenly, they received news that the Ottoman Empire had made changes at the border. Later, they heard that the Ottoman Empire was defeated by the Ming Dynasty and ceded a large area of territory. It also served as a Minions of the Ming Dynasty. Suddenly, European countries, especially those neighboring the Ottoman Empire, panicked.
The shadow of the Ottoman Empire has always been hanging over them. Although I saw that the Ottoman Empire was beaten by the Ming army before and was unable to fight back, the Ming Dynasty was a more powerful country, which was not enough to prove that they could defeat the Ottoman Empire if they fought against it.
Suddenly, Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland and the Lithuanian Federation all triggered a chain reaction because of this incident.
While strengthening their war preparations, they sent people to Paris and immediately changed their demands at the meeting and became very tough. The allied armies of European countries must gather to the east to deal with the Ming army on land.
As for Portugal, as long as the combined fleets of various countries can defeat the Ming fleet in Lisbon, the Ming army and the Portuguese army on the land will become rootless and will not be able to achieve anything at all.
In other words, the naval battle can be fought in Lisbon, but the land battle must be fought in eastern Europe. It is to launch another crusade of the largest scale to drive the Ming Dynasty back to the Far East. Otherwise, their eastern European countries will have trouble sleeping and eating.
As for grain and grass supplies, they can be provided by the eastern European countries as much as possible. After entering the enemy's territory, they can also get supplementary supplies from the enemy's country. To this end, they also emphasized how developed agriculture was in the areas occupied by the Ming Dynasty.
At first, the Spaniards were certainly not happy. What they want most is to advance simultaneously by land and sea, and it would be best to solve the Portuguese side at once.
However, it was difficult for Spain to resist Austria, the Czech Republic, and Poland. Later, even Sweden also requested the Eastern Expedition. This greatly changed the situation at the Paris Conference. After the final discussion, Spain was very sorry.
However, what makes Spain a little relieved is that the scouts reported that the Ming fleet in Lisbon only had less than 300 warships. Most of the warships went to the Mediterranean to join the Ming army on the Ottoman side.
Just like that, European countries began to mobilize again. Fleets from various countries began to assemble in France. As for the army, they all gathered in Vienna and Poland.
According to the latest results of the Paris Conference, European countries will assemble two large armies to attack the Ottomans, advance into Persia, and then capture the Mughals to complete the strategic goal of expelling and annihilating the Ming Army in the South.
The other area, that is, the coalition forces assembled in Poland will destroy Tsarist Russia, and then push eastward to attack the Volga River Basin, capture and destroy the Ming army in the Samara Fort area.
Depending on which route goes smoothly, the two armies can go north or south to support the other route, and finally complete the rendezvous. Then we will evaluate based on the results of the battle to see if we can take this opportunity to expedition to the Far East and capture the most prosperous place in the East.
On the sea side, after the combined fleets of various countries captured Lisbon, the fleets entered the Mediterranean Sea, and together with the fleets assembled in Austria, they destroyed the Ming Dynasty fleet in the Mediterranean Sea. Then he returned to the Americas and wiped out the Ming army and the Portuguese in the Americas.
The content of the results of the Paris Conference is quite large and unprecedented in Europe. Europe's greatest war potential must be mobilized. It can be said that this is the largest showdown between East and West.
For this reason, European countries not only demonized the Ming Dynasty at the aristocratic level, but also demonized the Ming army among the poor people. For European countries, religious factors are the best excuse. European countries fought wars with each other for thirty years just because of religious reasons, killing almost one-third of the total population of Europe.
This kind of massive propaganda and collective smear campaign against Ming Dynasty is naturally the most effective. Suddenly, the Ming army became the devil in Europe who could make children stop crying. It was even more terrifying to them than the previous Western Expedition of the Mongol Empire.
Such propaganda, as well as news of recruiting troops and coordinating military supplies from various countries, cannot of course be concealed. News about various countries was constantly delivered to the desks of the monarchs of the Ming Dynasty like snowflakes, and then passed to Hong Chengchou and Lu Xiangsheng. When they were preparing for war urgently, they also urgently urged Lu Xiangsheng and Hong Chengchou to ask for help from the mainland and send additional reinforcements.
On this plane, the first real world war began to brew on the earth.
Through the eavesdropping system, Emperor Chongzhen knew the latest situation at any time, even though it was happening thousands of miles away. Anyway, Daming is almost ready. If we wait any longer, the butchering knife of time will become more and more powerful.
Lu Xiangsheng, Hong Chengchou, and Sun Chuanting, who came to ask for a fight after hearing the news, were all in their 70s and 80s. As for the generals, those from back then are no longer able to fight the war. After all, military generals are no better than civil servants, they have to fight in battle.
There are even military commanders who are too old and have passed away. For example, Qin Liangyu, who was originally seventy-five years old in history, has a lot less worries in this plane. She sees that the Ming Dynasty is getting stronger day by day, and the people's lives are getting better and better year by year, and they are a lot more happy. After all, he lived ten years longer and died at the age of eighty-five.
If it drags on any longer, more old ministers may not be able to withstand the butcher's knife of time and die. In this case, let’s fight as soon as possible!
Based on this idea, Emperor Chongzhen once again announced his personal expedition. Among the civilian and military generals accompanying this time, the civilian officials included Sun Chuanting, and the military generals included He Renlong, Hu Dawei, Zhou Yuji, Huang Degong, Li Guo, Li Laiheng, Ma Xianglin, etc., plus Wu Sangui, Li Dingguo, and Zheng Chenggong who were already in the west. , Zheng Zhilong and others really gathered the original generation.
This time, from the emperor to the generals, they were all middle-aged and elderly people with half-white beards or even completely white hair, which made everyone in the court worried. The younger generation of courtiers petitioned to send them on an expedition.
The common people also think this way. The emperor is getting older, and the generals can no longer charge into the battlefield. If such an army goes out to fight, what will the young people think?
In this regard, Emperor Chongzhen made a clear edict to the world, saying that it was through the efforts of him and many civil servants and generals that the world was rejuvenated. Then the last enemy of this era will be ended by me and the older generation of civil servants and military generals. From now on, the earth will be the earth of the Ming Dynasty, and the earth will enter a new era. The goal of your descendants is to build on the foundation he created, to further develop science and technology, with the goal of reaching the stars and the sea, and allowing human civilization to enter the cosmic era.
Although this is not written in the will, the meaning is this.
In Emperor Chongzhen's view, no matter how united the European countries were, they would not be able to defeat the Ming Dynasty. It was enough to take these old ministers with them. This time's personal expedition is more of a ceremony and the perfect ending of an era.
Feeling the emperor's determination, thinking of the chaos and doomsday situation of the Ming Dynasty decades ago, and then thinking about life today. The people of Ming Dynasty all have the highest respect for the emperor and these veterans.
They could not change the emperor's decision, so they all expressed their determination to express their determination that they would not disappoint the emperor's expectations!
In late March of the thirty-seventh year of Chongzhen, Emperor Chongzhen and his ministers of civil and military affairs led 30,000 troops on the Western Expedition.
All the people stopped what they were doing at this moment and silently bid farewell to the older generation's last expedition. People along the train spontaneously flocked to the edge of the track to see them off, paying high respect to the older generation: They have dedicated their lives for future generations, thank you for your hard work!
Well, that’s what it means.
But they regretted that on the train, they could only see the soldiers who were on the expedition. The emperor and the veterans did not show up. Obviously he is getting older and will be tired from long journeys, so he is probably resting!
In fact, they were mistaken!
In the luxurious carriage, Emperor Chongzhen invented the Three Kingdoms Killing, and his veterans were having a great time!
For others, it must be tiring to march so far in person! However, for Emperor Chongzhen, it was actually just a long journey. The decisive battle with the coalition forces of various European countries was actually just a technological crushing. Winning victory was not difficult at all!
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On the European side, the infantry armies of various countries are still gathering. When at least 200,000 troops have been assembled, the fleet assembly has been completed. The fleets of various countries docked at French ports are densely packed, like a forest on the sea. The flags on the warships are of all kinds, and it can be seen from them that it is definitely not just the Eight-Nation Alliance.
The number of warships has reached more than a thousand. If the 500 ships in the Mediterranean area are added, the scale of warships has reached an unprecedented number of more than 1,500 in Europe. But there are only more than 300 Ming warships in Lisbon!
