At this time, Europe can be described as stormy and difficult:

Tsarist Russia, the largest country in terms of land area and population, after the assassination of the tsar, the forces supported by the two princes within began to attack each other, from the beginning of the secret struggle to the local war on the surface, and slowly transformed into a war for the position of the tsar, the two sides from the original battle of thousands of people to tens of thousands of troops between the fighting; And the two princes rushed to St. Petersburg to succeed to the throne. Unexpectedly, the two were captured by their uncle, Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolayevich, and if it were not for the third prince Alexander Alexandrovich who escaped from St. Petersburg and arrived in Moscow with the help of the Guards, Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolayevich would have ascended the throne as tsar.

But even so, after learning of the arrival of Alexander Alexandrovich in Moscow, Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolayevich declared him a rebel and officially crowned the throne of St. Petersburg as tsar under the coronation of the Orthodox Pope. Alexander Alexandrovich, the third prince, was naturally unwilling, and most of the supporters of the original second prince also fell to the third prince against the new tsar who ascended the throne in St. Petersburg.

The forces of the two sides began to fight each other-for-tat. Annoyed, the new tsar simply declared Moscow a rebel and summoned troops from all over the country to conquest. The 18-year-old third prince, who fled to Moscow, also directly ascended the throne with the support of various forces, and announced his succession to the throne as Tsar Alexander III.

Because Alexander III was rightly named, although he was in Moscow, after all, he was the son of the former Tsar Alexander II, and he was supported by the former generals in the army, and his power was huge, and his forces began to attack St. Petersburg.

Seeing this, Tsar Mikhail Nikolayevich in St. Petersburg was very frightened, and in order to gain the support of the army and the landlord aristocracy, he directly announced the abolition of the serfdom reform, continued to restore serfdom, and allowed a smooth transition in various places, and at the same time to gain the support of the noble landlords everywhere, especially the army. As a result, the whole Tsarist Russia became more and more chaotic.

In many places within Tsarist Russia, such as Poland, Chechnya in Transcaucasia, the Black Sea coast, Finland and other places, national independence riots organized by ethnic elements began to appear, especially in Poland and Finland, and even began to form their own armies to directly confront the Tsarist Russian army, and Poland was as if it had begun to become independent.

Not only that, Bobrovsky also showed his strong ambition, directly leading troops to attack Lithuania and other territories annexed by Tsarist Russia around the Baltic Sea, expanding the Polish territory by most of the Baltic Sea area, and this move naturally attracted the attention of Tsar Mikhail Nikolayevich, who had just usurped the throne in St. Petersburg, and he immediately led the army to attack, and the Polish army on Bobrovsky's side was defeated, just when St. Petersburg was preparing to recover Lithuania and Poland, Tsar Alexander III on the Muscovite side led his army to launch a new assault on St. Petersburg, and the Polish army was able to survive. In desperation, Mikhail Nikolayevich, who was outnumbered, proposed peace to Bobrovsky, recognizing the independence of Poland and the right to possess the general territory of Lithuania on the condition that it would form an alliance with St. Petersburg to resist the offensive of Alexander III's army from Moscow.

At the same time, the Finnish National Army made the same request to St. Petersburg, and offered to become a vassal state with full autonomy to Tsarist Russia, providing more than 30,000 soldiers to help St. Petersburg defend itself against Moscow's attack. Tsar Mikhail Nikolayevich naturally agreed to come down.

As a result, Tsarist Russia, together with independent Poland and semi-independent Finland, evolved into a melee situation between several forces.

Because of the failure of the armistice between the Kingdom of Prussia and the Austrian Empire, both France and England were extremely dissatisfied with both Prussia and Austria, and especially very angry with the Kingdom of Prussia.

The French Emperor Napoleon III, who returned to Paris, directly ordered an army to attack the northeastern border, declaring that according to the previous agreement between France and the Kingdom of Prussia, he would officially take over the Saar region of the Rhine Province, so that Luxembourg except for the border with Belgium, almost the entire Duchy of Luxembourg was completely wrapped in French territory, and Luxembourg, which had originally joined the German Confederation, was annexed by France.

This is the third time that Luxembourg has been annexed by France. This undoubtedly sends a message that France has strengthened its position on the European continent.

The Kingdom of Prussia was simply stunned by this! Bismarck, Prime Minister and Foreign Minister of the Kingdom of Prussia, hurriedly called the French Emperor, who had returned to London, to lodge a solemn protest with him, demanding that the French army withdraw from the Saarland and Luxembourg!

However, France was unmoved, and Emperor Louis simply ignored it, but only asked the foreign minister of the French Empire, Baron Haussmann, to respond that these two places were the former territory of France, and that the Kingdom of Prussia had promised to transfer them to France.

The two sides are intrigued.

And at this time, there was more to a chaotic Europe than that.

After hearing about the chaos in Tsarist Russia, the Ottoman Turkish Empire suddenly had great courage for some reason, and directly attacked north in three ways, all the way from Dalguria on the eastern shore of the Black Sea to attack the Caucasus, and it happened that the local people there also began to rebel against Tsarist Russia, which was extremely chaotic; On the other hand, Turkey sent troops directly from the capital Istanbul, crossed the Black Sea, and attacked Sevastopol on the Crimean peninsula; There was also an attack from the western shore of the Black Sea, directly from the lower Danube plain, to attack the northern part of Bessarabia.

This news stunned the whole of Europe!

Since the outbreak of the Crimean War and the signing of the "Paris Peace Treaty", Tsarist Russia returned southern Bessarabia to Moldova, which was subordinate to the Ottoman Empire, implemented the neutrality of the Black Sea, and because the entire Black Sea Fleet sank itself in the Crimean War, until now, the fleet has not been rebuilt, resulting in a complete naval void for the entire Tsarist Russia in the Black Sea.

The whole of Europe was worried about when the Tsarist Empire would tear up the "Paris Peace Treaty" and attack the declining Ottoman Empire, but what was surprising this time was that the Ottoman Empire took the initiative to attack Tsarist Russia.

But when you think about it, it's a relief: the Black Sea Fleet of Tsarist Russia has completely disappeared, and the army stationed on the Crimean peninsula has been severely weakened, and the few remaining land forces have recently been transferred due to the civil war for the throne in Tsarist Russia. In this way, the Ottomans had an excellent opportunity to attack.

Everyone knows that the Ottoman Empire and the Russian Empire have been fighting each other since 200 years ago, and until now, a total of 9 Russo-Turkish wars have broken out before and after, and this time it broke out again, it is the 10th. It is precisely because of so many wars that Tsarist Russia has gradually seized a large amount of territory from the Ottoman Empire, and now the Ottoman Empire's initiative is not sudden, but a retaliatory move taken advantage of the favorable opportunity of the civil strife in Tsarist Russia.

For a time, the whole of Europe was facing the cloud of war.