But what made Napoleon III even more depressed was that Empress Eugenie, who was in Paris to act as his prisoner, sent another telegram urging him to lead the French army to attack as soon as possible.

And just when Napoleon III was a little impatient and was ready to organize his forces again and launch an attack on the Prussian border, an astonishing news came:

The Chinese Empire in the East claimed to have concluded an offensive and defensive alliance with the Kingdom of Prussia as fraternal and friendly countries, and the Ottoman Empire and the Austrian Empire declared war on Prussia, which was a declaration of war on the Chinese Empire, and in response, directly declared war on the Ottoman Turkey and the Austrian Empire! The Chinese Empire's westward expeditionary army, together with the army of the servant state, totaling 200,000 troops, divided into two routes, one with 120,000 troops, crossed the Caucasus Mountains from the eastern shore of the Black Sea to the northeastern region of the Ottoman Empire; The other 80,000 troops landed in the Gulf of Azov in the Black Sea and attacked the Crimean Peninsula, which had already been occupied by the Ottoman Empire.

And, not just the Chinese Empire side of the East. A cavalry army of 10,000 men formed by Kalmyk herders and a combined cavalry force of 30,000 Kazakh and Cossack men crossed the banks of the Dnieper River to attack the unsuspecting small number of Ottoman Turkish and Austrian troops who were stranded there.

At the same time, to the surprise of the whole of Europe, Nasser al-Din Shah, the fourth monarch of the ancient and decaying Persian Qajar dynasty, directly announced that he would follow the Chinese Empire to declare war on Ottoman Turkey, and from the day of the declaration of war, he ordered the 80,000 Persian army, which had been secretly prepared, to attack the easternmost part of the Ottoman Empire, Baghdad Province and the Kurdistan region, and important cities such as Baghdad and Mosul on the Euphrates River and its tributaries were mortally threatened.

Although these are not the central cities and core areas of Turkey, they have always been large and rich, especially Baghdad as the historical capital of the Arab Empire, and its religious, geographical and strategic position is very important, and the Ottomans will not tolerate the loss of it. Therefore, the Ottoman Empire immediately reacted by gathering 100,000 troops and rushing to the east to stop the Persian army.

However, although the Ottoman Empire has a large number of people, after the Crimean War and the war with Tsarist Russia ten years ago, it was besieged by several European countries some time ago, and there are not many elite troops left, and most of the troops in service today are temporarily pulled in with loose training, and the weapons are relatively backward, 100,000 troops plus local garrisons such as Baghdad Province, although there are 150,000 people, but whether they can defeat the 80,000 Persian army, it is really hard to say. Although the weapons of the Persians have always been not very good, but the difference is that the Persians are brave and fearless of death, and now they have the support of the Chinese Empire, the Ottoman side knows that the Chinese Empire has excellent weapons, and when the Ottoman Empire launched an attack on Tsarist Russia, it bought some from the Chinese Empire, but unfortunately the number is too small, and there is no ammunition.

The Ottoman Empire was also more worried that the European neighbors might suddenly attack it again. Some time ago, several European countries signed a secret agreement, and the Austrian Empire, the independent Kingdom of Greece, and the recently independent Kingdom of Serbia sent troops to attack the Ottoman Empire. There was also the powerful French Empire, which also used the excuse of attacking the Ottoman Ottoman Bey government.

If it weren't for the sudden cessation of the Chinese Empire's offensive and an agreement with Tsarist Russia, I am afraid that these European countries would have divided all the two empires, Tsarist Russia and the Ottomans. The armistice of the Chinese Empire restored a little vitality to Tsarist Russia, and the Ottoman Empire could not attack Tsarist Russia again, so it withdrew its army, and recognized the independence of the Kingdom of Serbia, and brought the two principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia into the arms of the Austrian Empire, plus the recognition of France's most-favored-nation status in Tunisia and another de facto suzerainty, which made Europe pause for a while and did not continue to attack the Ottoman Empire.

Unexpectedly, even if Tsarist Russia ceded huge interests and ceded land to Austria and Prussia, Prussia did not let go, continued to attack Tsarist Russia, and prepared to occupy the entire Eastern European Plain of Tsarist Russia, and, from this aspect, all European countries were aware of the huge military power of the Kingdom of Prussia, and then realized that retaining a weakened Tsarist Russia would benefit them the most, and could resist the threat from the east and the threat of the Prussian Kingdom within Europe, and because of this, the direction of Europe's attack changed, It became a joint attack on the Kingdom of Prussia, and at this time, the Ottoman Empire immediately surrendered to the original old "suzerain" Britain, and then formed the current situation.

Because the Kingdom of Prussia had signed secret agreements with other European powers to divide Tsarist Russia and the Ottoman Empire, the Ottoman Empire had no sympathy for this Prussia at all, and the Ottoman Empire was not worried that the Chinese Empire would help the Prussian Kingdom, which had always had a friendly relationship, because not long ago, the Kingdom of Prussia secretly signed an agreement with the European powers to deal with the Ottomans, which could be regarded as "betraying" the Chinese Empire. The only thing the Ottoman Empire was worried about was that the Chinese Empire would intervene, but after all, that country was too far away from here, and it was forced to be helpless, otherwise it would have been divided up by the European powers even more.

However, the Sultan Abdulaziz of the Ottoman Empire still sent a special letter to Shi Dakai, the commander of the Western Expeditionary Army of the Chinese Empire, explaining that he was still very afraid of this Eastern Empire, after all, to be able to fight all the way from the Far East here, the key is to defeat Tsarist Russia and the British Empire, which have been oppressing on the head of the Ottoman Empire, such a force is something that the Ottoman Empire cannot afford to offend.

But it backfired, and Sultan Abdulaziz did not expect that the Chinese Empire did not consider his feelings at all, and completely disregarded the military strength of the Ottoman Empire, and directly launched aggression against itself under the pretext of attacking the ally Prussia. Moreover, he also persuaded and used Persia to send troops to attack him, and Persia has always been incompatible with him, and has always been an enemy, this move can be described as ruthless.

Abdulaziz couldn't help but secretly feel distressed, the Ottoman Turkey, which was sandwiched between the great powers, was really embarrassed.

But Abdulaziz knew in his heart that the Chinese Empire's troops were definitely not really to defend any ally Prussia, and it can be seen from the direction of their troops that this eastern bandit country was more ferocious and arrogant than the British Empire at the beginning. If they had helped the Kingdom of Prussia, they would not have simply sent troops against themselves as they have now, but would have gone in the direction of Tsarist Russia and the Austrian Empire further north, where direct support would have been given to Prussia.

Therefore, after the Ottoman Sultan Abdulaziz learned the news of the Chinese Empire's troops, his first reaction was to send envoys to Shi Dakai to beg for mercy, and at the same time quickly sent several other groups of envoys to meet with the British and French envoys in Istanbul to urge them to rescue and resist the Yellow Peril from the east!

However, to Abdulaziz's surprise, although the armies of the Chinese Empire did not directly aid Prussia, they helped Prussia indirectly. At least, the Chinese Empire's dispatch of troops means that they will not sit idly by, and because after attacking the Ottoman Empire, the next step is likely to be to attack Austria, which makes it impossible for Austria to send a large number of troops to help France and Britain attack Prussia together, and this gesture also makes the entire European countries a little jealous, after all, the Chinese Empire is now the world's leading power, even Britain and France, do not dare to ignore it. First of all, on the Tsarist side, the original plan to send a large army from the hinterland of Moscow to recover Kiev and other southern regions was cancelled at once, and instead deployed troops in Kazan and Tula and other places, for fear that the Chinese Empire would attack the hinterland of Tsarist Russia again.

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