Not long after Feng Yunshan asked those ministers to retire, Zuo Zongtang and Fan Ruzeng each took a secret letter from a telegram and asked to see them.

But it's news from Europe.

First of all, on the Tsarist side, Mikhail Nikolayevich in St. Petersburg and Alexander Alexandrovich on the Moscow side of the two tsars crusaded against each other, and slowly the Moscow side took the advantage, and the biggest enemy, the Chinese Empire, also stopped the offensive because of the Azov Armistice Treaty, and the Moscow side was ready to completely defeat Mikhail Nikolayevich and recover St. Petersburg, when something unexpected happened, The Kingdom of Prussia united with Austria with more than 250,000 troops to fully invade Tsarist Russia, because the Prussian army was well-equipped, and the Austrian army was not bad, Mikhail Nikolayevich in St. Petersburg had suffered great losses because of the suppression of rebellions in Finland and Poland and other places, and the army suffered heavy casualties, plus the material supplies of Moscow, Kiev and Siberia were cut off, and he was extremely weak, and was defeated by the Prussian army at once, seeing that St. Petersburg was not guaranteed, at this time he realized that it was no longer meaningful to compete with his nephew for the tsar, Immediately appealed to Moscow for help, declaring that he had renounced the Tsar's throne and was loyal to Alexander Alexandrovich, and only waited for the Tsar of Moscow to agree to pardon himself and all the St. Petersburg troops, then led the remnants of the Tsarist army to flee to Moscow, and began to pack up all the wealth of St. Petersburg accumulated by generations of Tsars, and prepared to transport it to Moscow by several trains via the St. Petersburg-Moscow Railway.

But what I didn't expect was that some officers of St. Petersburg led more than 5,000 East Slavic soldiers to revolt blatantly, secretly colluded with the Prussian army, led the Prussian army from Pskov in the south to the north, demolished the St. Petersburg-Moscow railway, and blocked St. Petersburg's eastward escape route in advance.

At the same time, the Austrian army had also reconciled with the Ottoman Turks, and after the interference of the southern battlefield, they had no worries about the future, and sent troops to the east, taking advantage of the chaos to capture Kiev and other important cities, and approaching the Moscow region to the north.

Tsar Alexander Alexandrovich on the Moscow side was taken by surprise and, while organizing troops to resist on both sides, urgently sent ministers to various countries to ask for help from other European countries, of course, mainly Britain and France, but also Italy and the Netherlands.

Moscow's army, although more numerous than St. Petersburg's, was attacked from two or even three sides, and its strength was clearly insufficient. In addition to the 150,000 Prussian troops attacking Moscow from St. Petersburg to the east, the Austrian 120,000 troops attacking Moscow from Kiev in the northwest, nearly 30,000 Finnish rebels attacking northern St. Petersburg, and 50,000 Polish and Lithuanian troops following the Prussian army to attack Smolensk and other places southwest of Moscow.

Presumably, Finland and Poland had reached an agreement with the Kingdom of Prussia and the Austrian Empire, knowing that they must completely destroy Tsarist Russia in order to establish a state, and spared no effort to help Prussia and Austria occupy the territory of Tsarist Russia and expand their own territory at the same time.

When Tsarist Russia was in danger, Alexander Mikhailovich Gorchakov, the former foreign minister of Tsarist Russia who had escaped from St. Petersburg, rushed to London and Paris, lobbied the British Prime Minister and the French Emperor respectively, and successfully persuaded Britain and France to intervene, and Britain and France, together with the Kingdom of Italy and the Netherlands, Denmark, Spain, and Portugal, jointly issued a statement demanding an emergency truce from Prussia and Austria and withdrawing from the original territory of Tsarist Russia.

Britain and France must also understand that Tsarist Russia has now been completely crippled and weakened, and even if it is reunified, it will be a great loss of power. And if Tsarist Russia is completely destroyed, the first to benefit will definitely be the two army powers of Prussia and Austria, the neighboring European continental countries, not to mention the number one strong enemy of the Chinese Empire in the east.

France, in particular, although it had signed a treaty with Prussia, was even more ambitious after occupying Baden and Saarland and Luxembourg in the Kingdom of Prussia. Moreover, the growth of the Kingdom of Prussia was a serious threat to France, which was preparing to dominate the European continent. Therefore, the French Emperor Napoleon III immediately agreed to the request of the Russian envoy Gorchakov, and after hastily asking for some benefits, he issued a solemn statement warning of war together with Britain, demanding that Prussia and Austria immediately cease the war against the invasion of Tsarist Russia.

At the same time, the Russian envoy Gorchakov also rushed to the Ottoman Empire, and did not know what conditions were promised, so that the Ottoman army, which was still an enemy not long ago, also sent troops north to Kiev to attack the Austrian army in Tsarist Russia.

Austria was duplicitous, very jealous of France, but for the greed of territory, and unwilling to stop the attack immediately, and there was a threat from the Ottoman Empire in the back, it suspended the attack on Tsarist Russia and waited for Prussia's decision.

Prussia, however, did not pay any attention to it, and while sending Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Bismarck to Paris to explain and agree on conditions, it stepped up the attack on Moscow with an additional 50,000 troops from East Prussia.

The French emperor Napoleon III, who had always been greedy, also realized the seriousness of the problem this time, and saw that Prussia kept advising, and secretly rejoiced that this was a great opportunity for France, and directly sent 200,000 troops to cross the Rhine River and attack the Kingdom of Prussia from the Rhine Province and Württemberg, and at the same time urged Britain to send troops, and promised not to interfere with Britain's recovery of Ireland, and to help Britain impose an arms and commodity embargo on the Chinese Empire internationally.

But even so, Britain did not send a large army to attack Prussia and Austria directly, only warning one after another. Later, seeing that the warnings were ineffective, he sent the newly restored Mediterranean Fleet and the Atlantic Fleet to harass the southern part of the Austrian Empire and the newly occupied Jutland Peninsula of Prussia respectively, and at the same time financed the weapons and war materials of the Kingdom of Denmark, covering the Kingdom of Denmark to organize an army of 50,000 troops to attack the Prussian-occupied Jutland Peninsula and prepare to recover its homeland.

At the same time, envoys from Britain and France rushed to Constantinople to support the Ottoman recovery of the two principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia, saying that the Ottoman Empire would send an army to the northwestern border of the Ottoman Empire to attack Austria directly and send troops to the two principalities.

Suddenly, the whole of Europe was in chaos, and a war that affected the whole of Europe broke out in an all-round way.

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