Although Switzerland, which had just gained independence from the Holy Roman Empire, had always pursued a policy of neutrality, it had to end its policy of neutrality when the Ming army was pressing, and formed an alliance with France and Francois to deal with the Ming Dynasty.

Originally, England was also going to join, but the naïve English Stuart Dynasty adopted a policy of appeasement, fantasizing that the Ming Empire, which already had trade exchanges with him, would not target him, but he really didn't want to see the Ming Empire destroy the empires of France and Franc Ji, so he wanted to be a mediator.

However, the Ming Empire did not pay attention to his mediation, and the countries such as Francois were also quite disappointed in the Stuart Dynasty, and there were already contradictions before, so they did not pay attention to the good intentions of England.

While the Ming Empire was digesting the occupied areas of Europa and resting, the Europa alliances such as France and Franc and Switzerland were also urgently strengthening their defensive lines.

Switzerland is located near the Alps to the south, so the southern part of the country is mountainous, from Innsbro to Grenoble are rolling hills, so it is also relatively easy to build fortifications, and it can be regarded as easy to defend and difficult to attack.

After the forward troops of the Ming army occupied the three cities of Varese, Bicola and Bergamo north of Milan, they had to stop, because if they advanced further, they would have to attack from the back, and even if they could occupy the whole of Switzerland, they would pay a high military cost.

The Western European Union also gathered more than 200,000 troops in this area to prepare to resist the Ming army, and it was also equipped with huge artillery and firearms, as well as chemical weapons, which can be regarded as a stronger army that the Ming had to pay attention to since its expansion.

After all, Francophone and France are also relatively advanced countries in this era, especially Franco, without Britain to frustrate his sharpness, he is still the number one maritime power in Europa, and France is also thriving under the rule of Louis XIV, which can be called the strongest overlord of Europa on land!

However, after learning that the Franc Machine had added another batch of troops into Switzerland, the Ming Emperor Zhu Youxiao decisively instructed Fu Dahai to consider the strategy of avoiding the real and attacking the weak, that is, bypassing the Swiss defense line, choosing other locations to attack, and then encircling the southern Swiss defense line in a roundabout way, so that the more than 200,000 army forces of the entire Western European Union became a trapped beast.

In this regard, Fu Dahai convened the general headquarters overnight to formulate a new battle plan.

Fortunately, although the whole of southern Switzerland is mountainous, especially on the border with Italy, there is a low-lying area in the south-east of France, which stretches from Marseille to Lyon and Dijon, and almost all of the low-lying area of France.

That is to say, if the Ming army launched an attack from Marseille, it would be able to sweep to the center of France in a flat manner, so that it could enter the central plateau of France and directly threaten the city of Paris in the western European plain, and enter the Lorraine plateau in the east, and attack Switzerland from the plains of northern Switzerland, so as to achieve the effect of central flowering.

Zhu Youxiao thought of this, and naturally he knew that the German army's lightning attack on France in later generations was also the reason why the Great Movement and Great Detour bypassed the Maginot Line and then reaped miraculous results, and now the Ming Dynasty has a powerful navy that can also do the same.

The generals all admired the genius of the Ming Emperor, but because of this, the key to the war situation was placed on the navy.

Of course, here, Fu Dahai still sent part of the army to feint on the Swiss defense line, and even every hour without money, it was like the Swiss defense line launched an artillery bombardment, so that the Western European alliance army in the Swiss defense line had to hide in the cave and mistakenly think that the Ming was going to attack the army.

In order to realize the strategy of exploding the chrysanthemum of France and then starting to break through from its center, the Ming Navy sent the most elite fleet under the command of Heiwa to attack the southeastern coastline of France, and the landing battle on the Falklands will also be personally responsible for Liu Wenxiu, a famous naval general who has been famous since the 20th year of the Apocalypse.

In terms of the navy of the Western European Union, the strongest strength is Franc and England, at this time France did not have a strong navy, but now England adopts a policy of appeasement and neutrality, and its main naval force has been shrinking in the Irish Sea, and Franc is afraid that the Ming Navy will directly bypass France by Corsica or even detour through the Strait of Gibraltar to attack the headquarters, so it will not care about helping to protect France, and put the main force of its own navy on the defense of the local waters.

France also had to face the attack of the strongest naval fleet of the Ming Dynasty alone.

Marseille, the second largest city and the largest seaport in France after Paris, is located in the Mediterranean Sea, with deep water and wide harbors, no rapids and rapids, suitable for mooring large ships, so the huge fleet of the Ming Dynasty does not have to worry about running aground when attacking the port of Marseille.

However, after being incorporated into France more than 100 years ago, it has been the most important seaport military base in France, especially after Louis XIV suppressed the local rebellion, and built the forts of Saint-Jean and Saint-Nicholas here in an attempt to hold the French sea gates.

Therefore, if Heiwa and Liu Wenxiu want to occupy the port of Marseille, they must conquer the two fortresses of Saint-Jean and Saint-Nicholas.

According to the information provided by the Jinyiwei, the two fortresses were equipped with a large number of arsenals and ships, and formed water and land defense facilities based on the huge cannons on the shore.

At dawn on this day, the sky was just dawning, and the French defenders in the port of Marseille yawned early and stretched their waists to get up, because the Ming navy often harassed along the coast, so they also had to strengthen their vigilance, after all, who knows when the navy of the Ming Empire will come.

As usual, several of the French defenders on night guard came to the shore with muskets in their hands, and as they unbuttoned their pants and peed into the sea while whistling leisurely, a sharp knife quickly slashed into their necks, while their mouths and noses were tightly covered.

Only a dozen seconds, these French defenders were killed, and at this time a Ming naval special forces made a whistle, a submarine that relied on steam power came out of the water, and suddenly jumped into the offshore shoal area, the hatch opened, dozens of steam boats were released from the submarine hatch, a total of thousands of marines drove the steam boat into the fortress of Saint-Jean.

But at this time, at the same time there was a heavy shelling of the fortress of St. Nicholas.

According to the arrangement of Heiwa and Liu Wenxiu, the Ming Navy's combat plan for the Marseille landing battle was to directly attack the two fortresses of Saint-Jean and Saint-Nicholas with two fists at the same time, but in terms of specific tactics, a sneak attack on Saint-Jean and an open attack on Saint-Gunillas, in order to achieve the purpose of attracting enemy firepower to concentrate on Saint-Nicholas.

In this way, the French defenders of the entire Marseille will be concentrated in the fortress of Saint-Nicolas, and the firepower of the fortress of Saint-Jean will also be concentrated on this area, so as to provide conditions for the surrender of the fortress of Saint-Jean by the Ming submarine and naval special forces.