In October of the 33rd year of the Ming Dynasty, Austria and the Manchu Qing Dynasty completed the exchange of their new gunpowder technology and primer technology.

With these two technologies at the same time, the two countries have been able to start manufacturing powerful firing rifles and firing cannons, truly completing the qualitative transformation of their own ** teams and becoming a real thermal weapon army with strong combat effectiveness.

Austrian side.

The Austrian Emperor excitedly blocked all news about the primer and ordered the munitions factories to produce as many new guns as possible to equip the Austrian army.

Since each country has strengthened its own intelligence security, Austria's actions did not arouse anyone's suspicion at first. However, as time passed, it was impossible for Austria to really hide from Britain and France, especially the Holy Roman Empire, which was the same origin as Austria.

Sure enough, in the middle of the second month, the Holy Roman Imperial Family sensed something and began to wonder if Austria had obtained primer technology, but the Austrian Emperor was very tightly blocked, and no one was allowed to enter and leave the military factory at will, even if the workers in the military factory could not contact the outside world for a period of time, so the Holy Roman Imperial Family could not be sure.

In the third month, intelligence from Britain and France began to detect that something was wrong with Austria.

Although it is not certain what Austria is doing, Austria is so tightly blockaded that countries must find out what is going on. Immediately, spies from all over the world gathered in Austria, just as they had gathered in France.

Unfortunately, although the countries have already begun to act, it is believed that as long as it takes a certain amount of time, it will be possible to find out that Austria has obtained the primer technology through the exchange with the Manchus, but when they do find out, it is believed that it will be too late.

Sure enough, at the end of the third month, the Holy Roman Royalty, which was the same origin as the Austrian royal family, was the first to learn of the deal between Austria and the Manchus, and soon after, Britain and France also knew about it.

Immediately, the kings of various countries were shaken, and they ordered spies from all countries to steal Austria's primer technology at all costs, and even some countries even sent spies to infiltrate the Manchu Qing Dynasty, with the idea of getting the primer technology under the pretense of double attack.

The countries of Europe were married to each other, and the forces were intertwined, and France could not completely protect itself from spies from other countries, and Austria could not necessarily do it.

There are countless spies in various countries, and the spies of one country may not be comprehensive, until the spies of all countries are targeting the same target, it is really pervasive, and even an old man who has worked for the Austrian royal family for decades may be a spy of any country.

In this pervasive situation, in the middle of the fourth month, the Austrian intelligence services really could not be defended, and it was not the first to be stolen by the Holy Roman royal family of the same origin, but England!

England again!

It was England that acquired some of the technology for the new gunpowder from France, and it was England who was the first to develop the new gunpowder after France, and it was also England who was the first to steal the technology of the second type of gunpowder from Austria.

The Emperor of Austria was furious, and the other kings were also a little strange in their hearts!

Once it was a fluke, and twice no one would take it as a fluke, what does this mean, this shows that England has the strongest intelligence force in various countries, and what do the English people want to do to establish such a powerful intelligence force in the countries of the mainland? The ambition is indeed not small!

With England being the first to steal the primer technology, other countries have followed the vine, and even traded directly from England, and they have also obtained the primer technology one by one, and they also have the ability to change the quality of their own team.

Countries began to use new gunpowder and primer technologies to develop and produce their own firing rifles and firing cannons, bullets, shells, etc.

However, by the time the countries actually began to produce their own guns, Austria had been producing them for six months, which was a full six months ahead of the rest of the country.

Through the frenzied production of his own new guns in these six months, in April of the 34th year of the Ming Dynasty, a new army of 30,000 people was formed.

The 30,000-strong Austrian new army was all equipped with the new guns and cannons that Austria had produced with all its might in the past six months, and its combat effectiveness was extremely strong.

In May, for the sake of his hegemony, the Austrian emperor could not wait to order the Austrian army to enter the Italian peninsula and begin to conquer the countries on the Italian peninsula to expand Austria's national strength.

The Italian Peninsula is home to the Holy See and the Pope, and is the core of the former glorious Roman Empire, with a large population and rich economy, not only Austria, France, Spain, etc. have long been interested in it.

However, although the Italian peninsula is only an alliance composed of many small countries, it has more than 200,000 alliance troops, which is definitely a hard bone, and if it cannot be defeated quickly, once the surrounding countries react, they will immediately intervene, resulting in failure.

This time, the Austrian Emperor took the Austrian Emperor by surprise and sent a powerful new army of 30,000 new equipment, and another 150,000 other Austrian troops, a total of 180,000 Austrian troops into the Italian peninsula.

The flames of war on the Italian peninsula ignited as the Austrian army was dominated by 30,000 new Austrian troops armed with powerful new rifles and cannons, and the Austrian army was unstoppable, advancing rapidly and capturing one city-state after another.

In just ten days, three small countries have been wiped out, shocking the European continent!

"Boom! Rumble! Seventy kilometers north -----of the city of Rome, 200,000 allied troops hastily assembled from the countries of the Italian peninsula fought with the Austrian army, and were heavily bombarded by dozens of new Austrian cannons.

"Bang Bang Bang -----" The Austrian soldiers charged, and the rifles in their hands continued to kill and wound the dense coalition troops in front.

Austria's gun industry may not be as good as that of Britain and France, but it is much stronger than the countries of the Italian peninsula, not to mention the fact that Austria has a powerful 30,000 Austrian army equipped with new rifles and cannons.

Although the number of 30,000 Austrian New Army does not seem to be much, according to the power of the new rifles and artillery, the combat effectiveness of 30,000 Austrian New Army is definitely no less than that of about 150,000 flintlock muskets.

An army of 150,000 flintlock pistols, what a great strength! At least that's what European countries think.

Without any surprise, in this great battle, the allied forces of the countries on the Italian peninsula suffered a crushing defeat and were routed by the Austrian army.

After the victory of the Austrian army, they approached the city of Rome, the core of the Italian peninsula.

This was the imperial capital of the glorious Roman Empire, even if the Roman Empire has long since fallen, but the economy and population of Rome are also among the top few on the European continent, once it is taken by Austria, Austria's national strength will inevitably be greatly enhanced.

The Austrian army advanced so quickly that in less than a month it was on the outskirts of Rome, and it was expected that more than half of the Italian peninsula would be captured, and if Rome fell, the Italian peninsula would no longer be annexed by Austria without any surprise.

And if the entire Italian peninsula were to be annexed by Austria, Austria's national power would far surpass that of France, the Holy Roman Empire, Spain and other traditional continental European powers.

Even if England overseas may still be the strongest at sea, it will inevitably be crushed by Austria after the annexation of the entire Italian peninsula. At that time, it remains to be seen whether England will be able to barely maintain its position as the number one power in Europe.

"Hahahaha, God forbid, my great Austria will be the strongest in Europe, reigning on the continent!" When the Austrian Emperor heard the news that the Austrian army was on the outskirts of Rome, he laughed excitedly, as if he had seen the day when Austria would become the most powerful country on the European continent and dominate the continent.

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