But even such a financial turmoil did not cause a huge shock in Europe, and ordinary people in Europe did not seem to take this rubber stock incident to heart at all, but only limited to those who were directly involved in the purchase of stocks or those who were deeply implicated in it and caused heavy losses.

It stands to reason that such a big matter, even if it is not involved, as a spectator, should become a topic of discussion after dinner, but at this time, the eyes of the European people were attracted by another major event: a battle that swept Europe and even the world, because the Chinese Empire united Persia with the Kingdom of Prussia to openly form an alliance, and publicly declared war on the Ottoman Turkish Empire, and fully broke out!

Originally, the whole of Europe was in turmoil around dealing with the Kingdom of Prussia:

To the north, Prussia's 150,000 troops were defeated by the Russian army and the 20,000 Lithuanian rebels who had returned to Russia, leaving only 110,000 men, who remained in the Pskov area, relying on the natural dangers of Lake Pskov and the Velykaya River; The rebels in Finland had already adopted a policy of neutrality because Tsarist Russia had promised them independence, and had withdrawn their troops and gone back to build their Grand Duchy of Finland; And Britain's 2 powerful fleets blockaded the entire Baltic Sea, and helped the 50,000 Danish army to capture most of Jutland, and was sharpening its knives to prepare to recover the entire Jutland, while the Prussian army retreated step by step, adopting a delaying policy of exchanging territory for time, it is obvious that even if the Prussian army is numerous, there are so many well-trained core standing armies, and the other reserves are gathered for too short a time after all, and the Prussian War Department would rather have insufficient troops, but also train many first, and then send out, It is precisely because of this that they will adopt the method of delaying time, and strive to train for an extra month to count as a month. The British fleet, which had taken advantage of the opportunity to control the entire Baltic Sea, continued to attack the interior of the Baltic Sea under the leadership of three or five small warships reorganized by Denmark, first occupying the Gulf of Riga, then continuing to advance, and finally came to the Gulf of Finland, blocking the Prussian Royal Fleet, which had only a dozen warships, in the port of St. Petersburg.

The British fleet launched an attack on the Prussian fleet, but did not expect that although the Prussian fleet only had more than ten warships, the artillery fire was sharp, and each shell was ruthless and accurate, and although the number of artillery doors on each warship was not much, the firing speed and accuracy of the shells were much higher than that of the British warships, and the destructive power of the guns after hitting them seemed to be different. In addition, the Prussian fleet hid in the harbor of St. Petersburg, the deepest part of the Baltic Sea, and was in a position not moving, relying on the cover of the coast, and turned into fixed batteries.

Moreover, on both sides of the harbor in St. Petersburg, the original Tsarist Russia built a total of 5 artillery battery groups, at this time, there were more than 4,000 Prussian troops left in St. Petersburg, and they were already ready on the batteries at the pier, and the artillery fire of the batteries and the sharp artillery fire on the Prussian warships opened fire on the incoming British warships at the same time, and the British fleet thought that the more than ten Prussian warships were forced to surrender was just a matter of hand-to-hand capture, but they did not expect this negligence, and suffered a big loss, even if they lost three warships. Fortunately, the British fleet was very large and the navy had rich combat experience, and under the calm and calm command of the fleet commander, the British warships did not retreat but advanced, and bravely took advantage of the advantages of movement and intensive artillery fire to bombard the batteries and Prussian warships in St. Petersburg.

However, the batteries built by Tsarist Russia to defend the capital were unusually strong, and the firepower of Prussian warships was also very strong, so the British fleet had no choice but to shoot at Prussian warships that could not be evaded. All at once, both sides were wounded to each other, and, because of the double blow of the batteries and the Prussian warships, the British fleet suffered heavier losses.

The commander of the British fleet judged the situation and knew that even if he wiped out the Prussian fleet, he would suffer a heavy price and lose more British warships, and it was really too difficult for the batteries in St. Petersburg to attack. Therefore, he resolutely decided to retreat first, and instead asked the Russian army to attack from the land behind, wait for St. Petersburg and the batteries on the shore to be occupied, and then destroy the Prussian fleet in the harbor, which would take a longer time, but his own losses would be much smaller.

Not long after, in the northeast of St. Petersburg, the Russian army that climbed along the canal from Moscow and made a detour, after successively collecting the remnants of the original St. Petersburg Tsarist government, the army increased greatly and attacked St. Petersburg, defending St. Petersburg with only 4,000 Prussian troops, knowing that it could not be resisted, did not hesitate, directly abandoned St. Petersburg, and instead retreated to the south in advance, retreating to the direction of Lake Pskov to join the main force of the Prussian army stationed there.

At this time, the Prussian fleet, hiding in the port of St. Petersburg, knew that it was about to lose the protection of the shore batteries, so it simply broke through directly to the outside of the port, ready to fight to the death. However, the British fleet had already prepared, and a fierce naval battle took place outside the port of St. Petersburg. Although the Prussian fleet was under heavy artillery fire, after all, the number of warships was too small, and the level protection and size of the warships were not in the same order of magnitude as those of the British fleet, so the Prussian fleet suffered heavy losses. However, these brave and fearless soldiers of the Prussian navy, who were worthy of being selected from the army, did not hesitate to launch a suicidal attack on the British warships, and without the slightest defense, they actually launched a wave of decent attacks, and with the support of fierce artillery, the British fleet sank many ships and damaged ten. However, the British army was not an idiot, quickly adjusted their tactics, and then evaded and opened fire, and three hours later, only four of the more than ten warships of the Prussian fleet were completely incapacitated and could only accept the fate of being captured.

This is only the northern battlefield of Europe.

In the east of Europe, Austria not only pressed its army to the area around Prague, the central city of Bohemia occupied by Prussia, but also sent a large army from Krakow to prepare to occupy the Silesian region, which had long belonged to the Kingdom of Prussia. In addition to this, Austrian armies were approaching the Kingdom of Bavaria in the west, preparing to bring Bavaria back under its wing.

However, after all, Austria was also of the same clan as Prussia, and had only been defeated by the Prussian army a few years earlier, and did not want to really go to war, and their posture was only to take advantage of the fact that Prussia was being attacked on all sides, to threaten it, force the Kingdom of Prussia to submit, and hand over to the Austrian Empire the Bohemia and Silesia regions that the Austrian Empire had already fancied. And, preferably, Prussia would have been struck and admitted defeat and withdrawn from the German Confederation, while the other members of the Confederation abandoned Prussia and the Austrian Empire re-established itself to form a new German Confederation to dominate the German world.

Therefore, the Austrian army marched not too fiercely, and it was this sense of pressure that forced Prussia to submit voluntarily.

And the battlefield in the west of Europe is completely different from the war between Austria and Prussia in the east, this is the main battlefield in Europe!

After the French Charon Corps, the Royal Guards and the 6th Army, a total of 170,000 people, met and rested in the Luxembourg area, they waited for the opportunity for other European anti-Prussian coalition forces to launch an attack on the Kingdom of Prussia, but after resting here for nearly a month and a half, the Kingdom of Prussia was not affected at all, nor did they transfer troops from the Western Front at all, which made Napoleon III very depressed. Although during this period, I heard that the Russian army seemed to have engaged the Prussian army not far from St. Petersburg and won a great victory, it seems that the Prussians on the opposite side did not panic too much, not only did not retreat, but also mobilized war supplies everywhere, as if they were preparing for the upcoming war.

Moreover, the British side only seemed to send a navy to attack Prussia's coastal ports, but Prussia had not developed much coastal ports and navy, strictly speaking, it was a typical army power, and such an attack did not have much impact on Prussia.

Even Austria's vow to recover the kingdoms of Saxony and Bavaria and to cut off the two right-hand men of the German Confederation, which now became the leaders of the Kingdom of Prussia, has not been heard of at all.

All of this made Napoleon III a little uneasy.

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