In such a situation within Chen Han, there are really not many people who look to the West.

Little did they know that at the beginning of the year, Louis XVI and his queen Marie Antoinette, the royal couple of the Bourbon dynasty of France, had been beheaded by the revolutionaries in Paris with a guillotine.

I don't know, France has officially declared war on the Netherlands, Britain, Austria, Prussia. Of course, this is in chronological order, first Prussia and Austria, then England and the Great Windmill. The latter two obstructed France's 'contact' with the outside colonies, and its unfriendly attitude towards France was undoubtedly revealed.

Shortly after the beheadings of Louis XVI and his wife, another revolution broke out in Paris, when the ruling Girondists were overthrown by the radical Jacobins, and for the first time, terrible radicalism completely ruled France.

One by one, the former Girondist leaders were sent to the guillotine. Among them was Madame Roland.

Maybe many people don't know her, but one of her famous words has been well known by thousands of people in the information age of later generations: freedom and freedom, there are many evils in the world, ancient and modern, and you can do it in the name of you!

Just a few days before the Girondists were overthrown, the French Revolutionary Army had defeated a 100,000-strong intervention army consisting of Prussia and Austria and many minor principalities at the Battle of Valmy near Sedan .

It is a pity that this glorious victory cannot be counted on the Girondists, on the contrary, it is a shame for the Girondists, and it may be the trigger for their downfall.

At the critical moment when Verdun was occupied by the intervention forces, the doors of France were opened, and the Paris crisis was at a critical moment, the Girondists in power advocated moving the capital to the provinces, they were afraid, and they wanted to retreat. The Jacobins, on the other hand, fought to the end, and one of their leaders, Georges Jacques Danton, called in Parliament: "To defeat the enemy, we must be brave, brave, and courageous!" So that France could be saved. So the Jacobins conscripted tens of thousands of troops to the front, and thousands of patriots spontaneously organized themselves into battle.

During the Valmyl Ten-Day War, most of the time it was artillery and rockets from both sides, but at the critical moment, the high morale of the French soldiers, played a decisive role in the final victory of the battle, which proved that in the new era of firepower, the tenacity and high morale of the stationmaster, combined with wise and correct command, can sometimes be the decisive factor in the victory of the war, which is even more important than daily training or weapons.

The day after Valmy, the First French Republic was officially proclaimed.

The main significance of this is to give all the French people who are devoted to the revolution a strong and incomparable confidence, to make them believe that their revolutionary cause can be triumphed, and to make them believe that France is still strong and invincible under the leadership of the revolution.

After this battle, the French army changed its defensive situation and began to expand outward. Take Northern Italy, for example!

Massenbach, the commander-in-chief of the intervention forces and a staff member of the famous Prussian general Braunschweig, said: "You can see that the little roosters are standing so proudly. They have been baptized by fire, and we have lost more than a battle. ”

And in the far East, when millions of people did not know it, in the west of the 'world', from here and now, a new era has begun!

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"The first anti-French alliance!"

Emperor Chen in the Qianqing Palace looked at the fold in his hand and sighed, when he saw this letter, the time had reached the late autumn of the nineteenth year of Chengtian. On February 1, 1793, Britain, Prussia, Austria, the Netherlands, Spain, Sardinia, Naples and other countries formed the first anti-French alliance.

And in the summer of that year, under the instigation and support of foreign forces, the royal party elements in France planned and launched a series of rebellions in an attempt to overthrow the revolutionary regime led by the Jacobins and restore the Bourbon dynasty. The rebellion spread like a plague within the 83 departments of France at the time, and soon spread to more than 60 departments.

Emperor Chen turned his brain, trying to squeeze useful information out of the old memory gap, combined with his own early records, and then he thought of an event and a name.

—The Battle of Toulon and Napoleon Bonaparte.

This must have happened in the second half of 1793.

The news from the EEU did not mention Toulon, and it is clear that the events of the early stages of the Battle of Toulon had not yet broken out.

Chen Ming remembered that it was a surrender planned by the royal party, and in order to prevent the revolutionary army from entering Toulon, they not only gave the fortress of Toulon to the British, but also dozens of warships of the French Mediterranean Fleet stationed in the port of Toulon.

The British really made a fortune.

Of course, it is unimaginable that Napoleon Bonaparte, who had been unknown before this, would also become famous and rise to prominence because of this sudden outbreak of war, and since then he has stepped onto the world stage.

Emperor Chen still did not know that Napoleon was living under him, and he could not have ordered the European Office to investigate a nobody named Napoleon.

Even after the end of the war against Russia, Chen Ming could only watch the changes in Europe, and could only play soy sauce in India.

He also did not know whether Napoleon would be able to rise like a comet in history.

His butterfly stirred its wings, and thus caused a storm that was too violent.

As long as Napoleon can still appear in Toulon, as long as he can continue to rise as in history, Chen Ming dares to take a gamble and let the Mini rifle flow. Of course, he also hoped that this thing would bring him a lot of scourge.

The previous rocket leak, how long did it take to find out some clues afterwards? Judging by the final summary, it was not at all that the enemy was bad, nor did it leak from one place.

So, it's not like there's no bad bug in the empire. But these little bugs are like bacteria, and they can't be seen without a microscope.

The Mini rifle definitely has the strength to become a microscope, a weapon that can change the pulse of the times, and with this musket, the deterrent power of rockets fades by half in an instant. This is truly a heavyweight 'invention' that can change the course of the world.

However, the secrecy of this weapon is not as good as that of rockets. No matter how the rockets are revealed, as long as rotten eggs do not appear and are in the hands of the enemy, the possibility of leaking secrets is very small. But the Mini rifle is different.

One of the biggest changes in this thing is the warhead, and the warhead is about to hit a person, even if it is deformed, it can give a rough look. It's easy to leak secrets.

Although this thing has the power to change the world, it does not have foolproof secrecy. Once used, it's hard to keep it a secret.

The only thing that China can earn in the war is to prepare one step earlier, and the largest rifle units in European countries, including the British, are a few rifle regiments in England, which is too small and too small compared to the overall number of troops.

Although Chen Ming had already finalized the location of the news release - Xihai.

The latter has not been dealt with cleanly, and the Russians have always insisted on letting the Chinese leave. Although he did not dare to blatantly obstruct the construction of the city in the West Sea, there were still some shady tricks and tricks.

So, until now, this Xihai City has not been completely built.

The place was surrounded on both sides by Russian troops. The communication channel with the Baku Khanate is also faintly restricted, and Lao Maozi wants to make it bad, but there will really be a lot of trouble.

Now on the border of Xihai City, the camps of the Chinese and Russian armies are eager to be pasted together, in this case, China's most advanced rifle has been stolen and stolen by the Russians, this is a very normal and normal thing, isn't it?

Now serving as governor in Astrakhan is Lepnin, who had been captured in a ravine in Eastern Siberia, a smiling tiger who is very good at getting things done. Whether it is the reaction and impression of the senior officials of the remnants of the Qing Dynasty who were captured before, or those Wehrmacht officers stationed in the West Sea, this is confirmed. If this is born in the 21st century, it will definitely be a good hand at public relations.

If Chen Han's most advanced individual weapon, the Mini rifle, was stolen by the Russians, then does Russia still have the face to be entangled in the issue of the West Sea?

It is reported that Russia now has a new target, and they are preparing a second use of force against Poland.

You must know that as early as ten years ago, after the partition of Poland, the representatives of the small and medium-sized aristocracy and the emerging bourgeoisie set off a patriotic reform movement. When the French Revolution broke out, Polish patriots were influenced by the revolution to regain their lost territory and wash away their shame, so they carried out a series of reforms in the country, and in 1791 passed the May 3rd Constitution. These reform movements in Poland have been met with hostility from neighboring countries, especially Russia.

Now that Russia has just finished its wars with the Ottoman Empire and China, it is ready to vent its frustration at losing the war on Poland.

In the war that just ended, in addition to the great defeat in the East, Russia did not take advantage of the Ottoman Empire.

Naturally, the Crimean peninsula could not be recaptured by the Ottoman Empire, and Russia and the Ottoman Empire divided this vital geographical point equally.

Perhaps many people do not understand what special strategic significance can such a peninsula in the closed sea [Black Sea] have?

But it's so crucial, especially for Russia.

When we unfold a map of the world and look at the location of Russia, and add the extent of the sea ice, it is not difficult to see that this huge country in the core of the "world island" is facing a serious "maritime dilemma". Its long, open coastline facing the Arctic Ocean is surrounded by sea ice all year round, and only a few ports in the northwestern Baltic Sea, such as St. Petersburg, can be used; In later generations, Russia had a certain value in the Pacific Ocean and Vladivostok in the southeast, but now Russia's eagle head stretching out to the east has been cut off by Chen Ming's knife.

The only port on the territory of Russia facing directly to the warm sea is the Black Sea coast.

The Black Sea is a closed sea area with a narrow Turkish strait at the exit. The Crimean peninsula is located in the northern middle of the Black Sea. It is only 1,000 kilometres from Moscow, the heart of Russia, and less than 500 kilometres from Sochi, which later hosted the 22nd Winter Olympics. Crimea is to the Black Sea what Hainan Island is to the South China Sea – it is even more important than Hainan Island, because the South China Sea is not a closed sea like the Black Sea. Perhaps we can imagine that there is a Hainan Island in the location of Thitu Island, so whoever controls this island will be whose South China Sea is his.

If you look further, it is not even difficult to see the value of the Black Sea. From here, Russia has access to the Mediterranean, and then to the open waters of the Indian and Atlantic Oceans.

With such a concept, the importance of Crimea for Russia is no longer puzzling. This is the "window" of the ocean in Russia.

Looking back at the history of Russia, since the birth of the Grand Duchy of Moscow in the extremely cold northern land with no coastline, the country has always shed blood in pursuit of the sea.

The famous quote of Peter the Great says it all: "What Russia needs is water." ”

For this simple sentence, his empire was mobilized for years of bloody war with Sweden, the northern rival Sweden, for the small outlet to the sea at the eastern end of the Baltic Sea. And Peter the Great's father, Alexey, before him, took half of Ukraine from Poland. After Catherine stepped onto the stage of history, her gaze continued to the south and saw the Crimea, where the warm sea of Sevastopol was clearly much more attractive than the cold Petersburg. 【The peninsula has a Mediterranean climate】

Chen's sons and generals have questioned the importance of Crimea.

But Chen Ming knows the importance of Crimea to Russia.

After Russia gained Ukraine and Crimea, the invaders from the West were consumed by the bloody battles in the Ukrainian and Belarusian steppes on their way to Moscow, and Sevastopol, in the south of Ukraine, prevented the invaders from going all the way down the Black Sea into the Caucasus.

The most effective effect of this strategic layout is that in the Napoleonic Wars, a generation of war god Napoleon broke his sword and halberd here. The once-glorious Napoleonic Empire also came to an end.

In the history of time and space, Russia has since struggled to expand its territory to the south, and the declining Ottoman Empire has been unable to prevent Russia from moving further south to seize the Turkish Strait, the last key to the Black Sea. Russia looks like it is on the verge of achieving its century-old dream of navigating the Mediterranean Sea with freedom.

And so a war aimed at containing Russia began.

Britain and France, rivals for centuries, eventually united to wage war against Russia. - This is the Crimean War.

In the Crimean War, Britain and France faced Tsarist Russia, and after paying the price of hundreds of thousands of casualties and the death of both the commander-in-chief, the Anglo-French forces finally took Sevastopol, but the war still failed to take Crimea from Russia.

Now that the Ottomans have once again set foot in Crimea and the local Tatars have welcomed it, Sevastopol at the southern tip of the peninsula remains under Russian control.

The Russians did not cede the flat south to the Ottoman Empire, but divided the Crimean peninsula in half from south to north, with the Dnieper River as the dividing line, with Russia in the west and the Ottoman Empire in the east.

Although this was a fuse, neither Russia nor the Ottoman Empire would be satisfied with the current state of affairs, and the Seventh Russo-Turkish War would break out sooner or later, but at this stage, both countries are stable.

The Ottoman Empire was discussing further reforms, not only in the military, but also in politics. But now Abdul Hamid I has a physical lesion, and he is almost seventy years old.

Fortunately, Selim bin Mustafa bin Ahmed, who succeeded him, was also a staunch reformist supporter, and the young prince was the nephew of Abdul Hamid I, who lived until he was forty-three years old to be freed from imprisonment, and now has only two young sons, so the position of sultan must pass to his nephew, the son of the former Sultan Mustafa III.

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"Does the second uncle know the news from Europe?"

On a cruise ship in Xuanwu Lake, Chen Ming sat opposite Chen Cong, who had gray hair but a good complexion. Drinking tea, looking at the scenery, and listening to people singing small songs in their ears.

Chen Cong is also in his sixties, and Chen Hui is going to be seventy.

But in addition to Chen Cong's gray hair, the whole person looks like a fifty-year-old complexion, while Chen Hui is really drooping and decrepit.

"What do I think of Europe? It's too far. "Chen Cong, who has left the political arena, will not bother to be in Europe. In recent years, there has been an endless stream of domestic royal affairs.

"yes, it's too far. But no matter how far you go, you have to see it. If you don't look at Europe, I don't know when Spain will fall into the war, and how the next war in the Americas will go......"

Spain is about to declare war on France, remember that in the Battle of Toulon there was a kick in Spain. Their land in the Americas is fat.

There was also a revolution in Haiti in the Caribbean, where the French and Spanish were divided into French and Spanish islands, and the British were eyeing the island, which was the second largest island in the Caribbean.

The Americas also had new fluctuations due to the revolution in Europe.