Europe, Netherlands, Rotterdam.

The powers of the anti-Habsburg coalition met again to discuss countermeasures.

At this time, they didn't know that the ironclad warships of the Ming Empire were already on their way to the European continent, and the main reason why they were brought together was because the combined forces of the Ming Empire and the Holy Roman Empire had advanced the railway to the West** region, which was less than two hundred miles away from the Netherlands mainland!

At this time, the anti-Habsburg coalition is really going crazy, the Netherlands is now the core country of the anti-Habsburg coalition, whether it is shipbuilding technology or artillery technology, the Netherlands is the strongest.

More importantly, the Netherlands is also the richest country in the anti-Habsburg coalition at this time, and it can be said that the Netherlands is the financial center of the entire anti-Habsburg coalition, the money bag.

If the Netherlands were occupied by the Ming Empire, the consequences would be unimaginable.

This time, even the old fox Richelieu couldn't sit still and had to rush to Rotterdam to preside over the overall situation.

Now the situation in the entire continent and even the whole world is extremely unfavorable for the anti-Habsburg coalition.

The armies of Tsarist Russia, Sweden, and Denmark were almost all dragged by the Ming Empire on the Wuhe River, and the French Army was also dragged by the Ming Empire and the Spanish coalition in southern France, while the British Army was beaten by the Ming Empire, Spain, and Portugal in North America.

The army of the Ming Empire is too strong, and now they have united with the Holy Roman Empire, intending to break through the German Alliance and attack the Netherlands.

However, no matter how powerful the strategy is, it seems so pale and powerless in the face of absolute strength, and the great powers discuss and discuss, they have no way to deal with the army of the Ming Empire, and fighting a land war with the Ming Empire is purely an act of seeking death!

What to do? The Netherlands must not be lost, if it is lost, then there is no need to fight this battle, and you can only admit defeat and surrender!

In the face of the powerful Ming Empire Army, the great powers really have a feeling that they have nothing to do, even if they unite all the land forces, they are not necessarily the opponents of the Ming Empire's Army, not to mention, now, the Ming Empire has also united the land forces of Spain, Portugal and even the Holy Roman Empire, and on land, there is no way to fight with them.

In the end, Richelieu came up with a solution, which was to make the Netherlands give up most of their territory and stick to the heart of Rotterdam and Amsterdam!

It's not that after shrinking, the Dutch Army will be able to withstand the attack of the Ming Empire and the Holy Roman Empire, mainly because the rivers near Rotterdam and Amsterdam are crisscrossed and the waterways are dense, and the Dutch Navy can completely block the Ming Empire and the Holy Roman Empire to build bridges on the waterways, in this way, even if they are powerful, they are useless, without bridges, their land forces can't fly from the air!

Of course, they can also choose to swim through the water, but in that case, they will be looking for death, because artillery and armored combat vehicles cannot swim over, and if it is a musket alone, the Netherlands are not afraid of many people, and their cannons are no joke.

In this way, the Netherlands was saved, but their territory shrunk by more than half, however, in the absence of other ways, it can only be like this, and the shrinkage of territory is better than being destroyed by the Ming Empire.

The Netherlands had no choice but to accept Richelieu's suggestion and concentrate all the personnel and supplies around Rotterdam and Amsterdam, and as for other places, they could bear the pain and give up first.

The negotiations did not end there, for the situation elsewhere was also quite unfavorable, and if the situation was allowed to continue in this way, it was only a matter of time before the anti-Habsburg coalition was defeated.

As an opponent, the powers of the anti-Habsburg alliance had to admire that the tactics of the Ming Empire were too clever.

After they were ambushed once at sea, they immediately retreated to their defensive positions at the mouth of the Guadiana River and never came out again, and the great powers had a powerful navy in the air, but they had nothing to do with them.

They didn't dare to attack the defensive positions at the mouth of the Guadiana River, where the artillery was so dense that the battleships were left to be beaten, and who would be stupid enough to send them to someone to beat.

They also did not dare to cross the Strait of Gibraltar into the Mediterranean, where the Ming Habsburg Alliance was under the world, Spain, Portugal, the Holy Roman Empire, and the Ottoman Empire were all on the Mediterranean coast, and the Anti-Habsburg Alliance only had a port in France in the Mediterranean, but it has now become a war zone, and the grain, grass, baggage, weapons and ammunition are likely to be intercepted by the Ming Empire and the Spanish coalition before they reach the port!

If the combined fleet of the anti-Habsburg powers ventured into the Mediterranean, as long as the combined fleets of the Ming Empire, Spain, and Portugal held the Strait of Gibraltar, the entire fleet would probably starve to death inside, because they would not be able to get supplies at all.

The combined fleet of the anti-Habsburg alliance powers is now very strong, and they have already exploded nearly 1,600 super battleships, if the combined fleet of the Daming Habsburg alliance dares to come out to fight them, it will definitely be beaten by them and they will not be able to find the north, and the problem people will not come out at all!

What to do, do you just sit and wait for defeat to come?

This was naturally impossible, and in the end, it was Richelieu who came up with a poisonous plan.

That is the reckless force, crazy riot soldiers, and the first explosion of hundreds of thousands of troops.

Then use the sea superiority to attack northern Spain and most of Portugal, and force the combined fleet of the Daming Habsburg Alliance to come to a decisive battle, if they don't come, then take down all the northern Spain and most of Portugal, and see who suffers when the time comes!

It was not very difficult for the anti-Habsburg powers to raise troops at this time, they had never stopped making muskets and artillery, they still managed to assemble weapons to arm hundreds of thousands of people, and the only thing they lacked was well-trained fighters.

However, at this time, there was no need to care so much, and Britain, France, Sweden and Denmark all began to forcibly recruit soldiers, and almost all young adults were forcibly recruited by them to join the army.

Among them, Britain and France each cobbled together 100,000 armies, and Sweden and Denmark also forcibly recruited 50,000 young men each, and they were all sent to the battlefield just to learn how to fire flintlock pistols.

As for artillery, naturally these recruits don't need to open it, there are many people in the navy who can fire artillery, just draw a little bit at will.

At this moment, Spain and Portugal were in bad luck, and the anti-Habsburg coalition suddenly gathered all the warships, bombarded their northern and western coasts, and then began to land on the beach, rushing directly to the hinterland of the two countries!

Spain is better, no matter how bad they are, they can still cobble together tens of thousands of horses to resist, Portugal will be miserable, they only have a total population of more than one million at this time, and those who can be soldiers are basically on the warships, and the army, just such a pitiful tens of thousands of horses, is now almost all sent to the American colonies.

The situation was so critical that Portugal had to turn to the Ming Empire for help.

Fortunately, nearly 200,000 troops of the Ming Empire were stationed at the mouth of the Guadiana River, and Zhu Cijiong directly waved his hand, ordering Mao Wenlong to lead the Dongjiang Army to immediately go to Portugal to support and resist the crazy attack of the anti-Habsburg alliance powers.

Crazy, crazy, this is your last madness, and when the ironclad battleship arrives, you'll be finished!