A few days later, Moscow received a series of messages that plunged the whole of Moscow and Russia into a huge panic.

First of all, the Kingdom of Prussia, which directly sent more than 120,000 troops from Silesia and East Prussia to attack Poland and Lithuania.

At the same time, the Austrian Empire sent 160,000 troops, 80,000 of whom laid a long front and attacked the Podol Heights directly to the east, with the prospect of including the Podol Heights and the Crimean Peninsula further south; The Principality of Moldavia, with just over 5,000 troops, even sent troops to cooperate with the Austrian army to attack the lowlands along the Black Sea coast to the west.

In other words, it was precisely the two neighbors that had the best relations with the Russian Empire, with a total of 200,000 troops, that began to brazenly invade the territory that was still nominally part of Tsarist Russia. This made both the Tsar in St. Petersburg and the Tsar in Moscow very angry.

Even more angry than them were the National Provisional Government of Poland, which, on the one hand, appealed to Finland and Lithuania, the rebels of Tsarist Russia at the same time, to the two Tsarist governments at the same time, and even to the Austrian Empire next to it. On the other hand, the Polish militia, led by its leader Bobrowski, rose up to resist and quickly organized the Polish militia, which had only 100,000 men, into 150,000 people, without weapons and even armed with knives and forks, to fight a decisive battle with the Prussian army that invaded Poland, of course, this was actually in vain.

But even though the Prussian army had absolute superiority in weapons and army organization, in the face of such a strong Pole and resistance ranks, Field Marshal Karl Schwerf von Biedfeld, who led the Prussian army, ordered the army to attack the area around Poland first, instead of directly encircling Warsaw, he thought of destroying the surrounding area with superior forces, so that the Poles would surrender themselves after despairing. It's not that Marshal Bidfer can't bear it, but the resistance of the Polish national army makes full use of the familiar environment, organizes the local people to make Prussia suffer, and the march is slow, so you can't slaughter civilians who don't take the army, right?

Unlike the difficulties of the Prussian army, the Austrian army entered the Podol Heights as if it were entering a no-man's land, and did not encounter the slightest resistance, and the Russian troops originally stationed there were all withdrawn early due to civil strife. At this time, the Austrian Imperial Army frantically advanced dozens of kilometers a day, and within a few days, it advanced the national border by hundreds of kilometers.

At the same time, the Ottoman army and the army of the Austrian Empire also began to encounter, the Austrian side directly went to war, the Ottoman army was defeated by surprise, the Ottoman authorities immediately protested, demanding that the Austrian Imperial army immediately withdraw from its territory and compensate for all losses, but where will Austria pay attention to it, continue to move forward, the Ottoman helplessly, also declared war on the Austrian Empire, the two sides originally had some territorial disputes, and now the enemies are very red when they see each other, and the war is hot, The Ottomans immediately mobilized their own troops to join the war, but believing that the Ottoman state was too weak and not strong, they could only turn to their ostensible allies in the West, Britain and France, for help, hoping to use the pressure of these two countries to defuse the Austrian attack.

However, Britain was too busy to take care of itself at the moment, and was a little annoyed with the Ottoman Empire's desire for profit, and even teamed up with the Chinese Empire in the East to deal with Tsarist Russia, insisting on refusing to come forward to coordinate, and itself, Britain's own international status was also greatly reduced. And France has long participated in the secret meeting to divide the Ottoman Empire and Tsarist Russia, and it is even more impossible to help the Ottoman Empire, and there are no polite words on the surface.

The Ottoman Turks were wondering when news came that France had sent troops to attack Tunisia, although Tunisia was in fact completely independent, had their own Bey government, and like Egypt, at least nominally, it was still the territory of the Ottoman Empire, but it was directly attacked by the French army. This means that France has declared war on the Ottoman Empire!

France's declaration of war really frightened Ottoman Turkey! He didn't expect France to intervene in this matter, and hurriedly sent a series of envoys to France to mediate, hoping for a truce. But this is doomed to be in vain. How could the Ottomans make sense of a French conspiracy in itself?

In desperation, the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Aziz had to question the Ottoman Prime Minister Ali Pasha and the Ottoman Foreign Minister Fouad Pasha who persuaded him to send troops, Ali Pasha promised him that he would persuade the Chinese Imperial army to help, and Fouad Pasha proposed that the French offensive could be stopped first, and it was better to directly cede Tunisia, which was already nominally in name, to France, and let Tunisian Bey go dog to the French army, and at the same time, he could also gain the favor of France. So that the French could no longer have an excuse to target the Ottoman Empire.

Therefore, the Ottoman Empire immediately struck. While fighting for the rescue of the Chinese Imperial Army, which was stationed in the town of Azov at the mouth of the Don River, he sent Foreign Minister Fouad Pasha to Paris quickly to cede Tunisia and sue for peace. At the same time, the Ottoman Sultan also knew that this was the best opportunity for the declining Ottoman Empire to re-emerge, and he issued a conscription and mobilization order for the Sultan, and at the same time sent someone to urgently contact Guo Songtao, the special envoy of the Chinese Empire to Europe, to ask for loan assistance from the Chinese Empire for military spending.

In fact, after the Crimean War, Ottoman Turkey was on the verge of financial collapse and relied entirely on borrowing from Britain and France to support the normal functioning of the country, especially military spending, which accounted for more than half of the debt. So far, the Ottoman Empire has borrowed a total of more than 1 billion francs, and the Ottoman Empire needs nearly 4 years of fiscal and tax revenue to pay off these debts, but the Ottomans do not pay attention to the depth of the debt, and still borrow from European countries led by France every year, so that the Ottoman finances are almost all used to repay the debt, and the country's economy is almost controlled by Britain and France.

After Guo Songtao learned the news, he immediately rushed to Constantinople to meet with Sultan Abdulaziz and Prime Minister Ali Pasha, and on behalf of the Chinese Empire, agreed to make a loan to the Ottoman Empire to support the other party's continued military dispatch to Tsarist Russia.

However, the cunning Guo Songtao referred to the debt experience of Britain and France at the beginning, and proposed that the debts lent by the Chinese Empire to the Ottoman Empire should be realized in the form of capital injection and acquisition of the Ottoman Imperial Bank.

The Ottoman Imperial Bank was originally funded by British and French capital in the Ottoman Empire, it is almost the central bank of the Ottoman state, has the right to issue currency, does not pay taxes, is the only large bank in the Ottoman Empire, almost monopolizes the Ottoman banking and financial industry, and further monopolizes the domestic and foreign trade of the Ottoman Empire through finance.

By borrowing debts and diluting the shares injected into the capital of the Ottoman Imperial Bank, the Chinese Empire became the largest shareholder of the Ottoman Imperial Bank, which means that in the future, the Ottoman Empire's external trade business will almost be monopolized by the Chinese Empire.

With the support of military spending, the Ottoman Empire immediately carried out the expansion and mobilization, and not only organized the domestic local troops, but also further mobilized various local forces, such as the Ottoman Fifth Army stationed in Damascus, the capital of Syrian Province, assembled and sent to the front line.

At this time, the main force of the Western Expeditionary Army of the Chinese Empire, which remained at the mouth of the Don River in the Sea of Azov, still did not move at all, as if it did not care about the war ahead at all.

Both Austria and the Ottomans understood that the armies of the Chinese Empire did not intervene, but let the two rivals fight each other.