After the Great War in Europe, the Tang Dynasty forced Austria to give up all its territories in northern Italy, including Trento and Milan. At this time www.biquge.info, the two places have not really decided what direction they should go in the future. And Napoleon, after becoming the lord of Ticino, brazenly led the army into Milan, and even crossed the land of Venice, entered Trento, and declared that two lands that originally belonged to Austria now belonged to Ticino.

Napoleon's actions were unanimously opposed and indignant by the Italian princes, and the Tang Dynasty later issued a brief statement, stating that the Tang Dynasty did not take a position on the territorial ownership of Italy, respected the choice of the Italian people, and would not support Ticino (in fact, everything that should be given was given), and Napoleon's actions had nothing to do with the Tang Dynasty.

This is an obvious distraction, and Bai Nan really has no intention of interfering in Napoleon's mess in Italy, and Datang itself has more things to do. After the war stopped, Datang once again put its energy back on the development of North America, and European affairs were handled by Zhao Xian, the new European affairs officer. At the same time, Datang will focus on the deployment of the Tang Army in Europe.

Garrisoned, the Don Army will be divided mainly into army and naval bases. The army headquarters is in Belgium, with additional troops in the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Estonia and Latvia. In terms of establishment, Datang will directly keep the 3rd Division of the Datang Army in Europe, and at the same time form the 8th Division of the Datang Army in the southeast theater to fill the vacancy of the 3rd Division. The 8th Brigade will gradually complete the mechanization and will be stationed in Estonia and Latvia as the main deterrent to Russia. The 9th Brigade was stationed in Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, controlled the Central European region, and was also a suppression of Austria. The troops directly under the headquarters of the Tang Army in Europe are the independent 330 regiment, which is also newly established.

The European Brigade was mainly stationed in the Netherlands after the full strength, the 50,000 troops of three divisions of the French Volunteer Corps were stationed in Belgium, and the Gurkha Brigade was transferred to the Bahamas after the war, which was regarded as a supplement to the strength of the Southeast Theater.

In terms of the navy, naval bases will be set up in the Netherlands, Germany, Estonia, and Latvia, and in addition to the North Sea Fleet, the Tang Baltic Fleet will be formed at the same time. The Marine Corps will be expanded into the Third Marine Brigade on the basis of the Second Marine Regiment. Its headquarters is located in Szczecin, Germany.

As Napoleon said before, Datang lacks a foothold in the Mediterranean, and joining Napoleon really fulfilled his promise to provide Datang with an anchorage in the Mediterranean Sea by taking Italy, then Datang will inevitably build a Mediterranean fleet and station land troops on the Mediterranean coast.

For the time being, the Tang Dynasty showed no signs of activities in the Mediterranean, and took the initiative to cut off Napoleon, and France and Germany also had no intention of intervening in the situation in Italy, so this made the Italian princes breathe a sigh of relief and looked at Napoleon with hideous faces.

Among the other powers, Britain and Austria wanted to take care of it, but they were afraid that they would take action and affect the Tang Dynasty and other countries, so they could only secretly give little support to the Italian princes.

And Napoleon is Napoleon, the brightest military star of Europe in this era. Even though he had only 30,000 soldiers at his disposal, and even lacked the necessary logistical supplies to cross the mountains into Italy from the Alps, he was still unstoppable.

After capturing Milan and Trento with little resistance, Napoleon led 23,000 soldiers in a fierce battle against the Venetian army in Vicenza. Napoleon skillfully confused the Venetian generals, bypassing the main forces of the Venetian army, and attacked the right/wing army by surprise, defeating the Venetians. Within a week, Napoleon's army had won four successive victories, capturing 10,000 enemy troops, annihilating 15,000 enemy troops, and marching under Venice.

The Italian princes were shocked, and several countries hurriedly prepared to form an alliance against Napoleon, who by this time had completed the occupation of Venice.

With a weak army and little rear support, Napoleon was like a wolf in Italy who was uncontrolled. First in northern Italy, he defeated the combined forces of the Kingdom of Sardinia, Parma, Tuscany and the Papal States, and then marched into Rome to occupy the thousand-year-old city. Although he suffered several defeats against Napoli, he eventually planted the green, white and red tricolor flag he drew on the head of the city of Naples. In the end, it took Napoleon three years to fight from northern Italy to Sicily, and finally collected Neapolitan warships to attack Sardinia, forcing the Sardinian royal family to flee to Spain.

Even the Tang people were amazed by Napoleon's feats, and although the Tang Dynasty secretly used trade to support Napoleon, the key factor in the real brilliant victory was Napoleon and his own army. During the three-year war of Italian unification, Napoleon not only made good use of the army he brought out of France, but also recruited a large number of progressive-minded Italians, especially nationalists with unification tendencies, to form a powerful army.

The more the war was farthered, the more unable the princely armies could defeat this revolutionary army. In fact, compared with the German army, even most of the soldiers in Napoleon's army were equipped with old-fashioned paper shell firing guns, and his artillery could collect whatever cannons they could use, while the army of the Kingdom of Sardinia and Naples were equipped with advanced weapons imported from England.

On June 2, 1797, Napoleon, who had completed the unification, arrived in Rome and dragged out the elderly Pope Pius VI. The Papal States no longer existed, but Napoleon granted the Holy See the autonomy of the Vatican over a small piece of land the size of a school. And Napoleon's real purpose was for Pope Pius VI to crown him.

Yes, Napoleon is no longer a Frenchman, he wants to be the king of Italy!

The domineering young man, who was not even thirty years old, did not let Pius VI put the crown on his head, but put it on himself, and after he crowned Josephine, the two fell in love at first sight, and after Napoleon was expelled from France, the amorous widow gave up everything in Paris and followed him to Italy.

The vast majority of Italians had no objection to Napoleon's coronation, and the French generals who followed him were also full of pride, and they embarked on a path from the dragon.

Of course, the most painful thing is the Tang people - how did the good Napoleon mix up from the emperor of the French to the king of Italy? (To be continued.) )