Second Crusade III

Originally, in the face of the Franco-Spanish War, both the Allies and the Pan-Mediterranean Alliance exercised restraint to prevent the outbreak of a full-scale war between the two major military blocs. However, with the invasion of Algeria, the North African territory of the Turkish Empire, and the involvement of the Turkish Empire, the contradictions between the two major military blocs suddenly became acute.

At the same time, the personnel of the Chinese Imperial Embassies in European countries actively cooperated with Li Yan and others to sow discord in Europe, sow discord between European countries and the Ottoman Turkish Empire, and separated the alliance relations between the members of the Trans-Mediterranean Alliance.

The Pan-Mediterranean Alliance had just been formed, and it was formed by the Spanish Empire and the Turkish Empire, as well as the dependent principalities of the Holy Roman Empire, and this alliance seriously threatened the core interests of the Central Powers, so the actions of the Chinese Empire were recognized and supported by each of the Central Powers, and a large number of social organizations appeared within the Spanish Empire and the Holy Roman Empire to oppose the alliance with the Turkish Empire in various ways.

With the Chinese Empire's covert efforts to cause a serious crisis within the Pan-Mediterranean Alliance, the member states of the alliance understood that there were enemy forces secretly playing tricks, so on the one hand, they strongly suppressed the domestic resistance groups, and on the other hand, pushed the contradictions to the allies.

In this way, the Allies and the Allies were full of gunpowder, and there was a situation of imminent eruption. With the Chinese Empire secretly playing tricks in North Africa and tricking the Turkish Empire, the situation in the Mediterranean took a sharp turn for the worse, and a full-scale war between the two military blocs was on the verge of breaking out.

On February 8, the 14th year of Shenwu, the Allies gathered in London to discuss the situation in Europe and the division of interests among the African colonies.

On the European continent, the main thing is the great contradiction between the Allied bloc and the Pan-Mediterranean Alliance. Broken down into member states, the only thing that is currently the war between France and Spain is the contradictions.

On the African continent, with the exception of Ethiopia, where there were still African kingdoms, the other African colonies were largely partitioned. The invasion of Turkish territory in North Africa by France and the Netherlands became the main flashpoint of conflict between the two major military blocs in Africa.

During the London Conference, France hoped that the Allied member states would support French military operations in North Africa, but opposed the weakening of the Spanish Empire by the Allied powers. Britain had no interest in Europe and only wanted the Allies to take military action against the Allied colonies in Africa. Britain refers to the Congolese colony that belonged to Spain but was under the de facto control of Portugal, which was coveted by the British for its large population and abundant resources.

After the Chinese Empire occupied South Africa, the obstacle to the north was also the Portuguese Kingdom of Kongo, so it supported the British idea, and the Allies focused on Africa and implemented an armed invasion of the Congo.

However, France, which was at war with Spain in Europe and the Ottoman Empire in North Africa, was unable to intervene in the Allied military campaign against the Congo. The Russian Empire was even more out of reach, not even the Baltic Sea, let alone sending troops to Africa. Watching the Chinese Empire and Britain divide the fat of the Congo, it was naturally unwilling, so the Russian Empire, out of consideration of its own interests and jealousy, supported France, demanded the suspension of military action against the Congo, and strongly demanded war against the Ottoman Turkish Empire.

The Russian Empire wanted to occupy all the Ukrainian regions and open up access to the Black Sea, only through the victory of the war against Turkey. Two to two is even, and the situation is somewhat deadlocked. The immediate strategic interests of the Chinese Empire call for the unity of the Allies, the disintegration of the Trans-Mediterranean Alliance, and the division of the entire European states in order to accomplish the strategic purpose of the Chinese Empire's intervention in European affairs. Therefore, after weighing the pros and cons, the Chinese Empire decided to support the opinions of France and Russia and go all out against the Turkish Empire, contributing to the military pattern of the Second Crusade.

The main reason for the decision of the Chinese Empire was that the top leaders of the imperial government listened to the opinions of the African Dispatch Command and the Egyptian Garrison Army Command, who were the eyes and ears of the Chinese Empire near Europe, and their views could basically influence the judgment of the imperial side on the situation in Europe.

The Chinese Empire needed to occupy Egypt and secure the strategic Suez Canal to prevent the Dutch and French from making future decisions about the Suez Canal. The occupation of Egypt would have to start a full-scale war with the Turkish Empire, so among the four countries, the interests of the three countries were linked to the Turkish Empire, so after the London Conference of the Central Powers, the spearhead was directed at the Ottoman Turkish Empire.

Once the Allies had decided on military action against the Ottoman Empire, the thorny question was that the Trans-Mediterranean Alliance might enter the war. The outbreak of an all-out war between the two major military blocs meant the outbreak of World War II. With the exception of the Chinese Empire, none of the other three countries wanted a full-scale war.

France suffered losses, when the combined forces of the Spanish Empire and the Holy Roman Empire almost destroyed France, and now the French have lingering fears. The Russian Empire was pressed by Ukraine and was pinned down by the Turkish army, and if the Holy Roman Empire and the vassal states of the German regions entered the war, the Russian Empire would also be attacked on both sides, so the Russian Empire also wanted to control the scale of the war and only target the Turkish Empire.

But how easy is it to get the Trans-Mediterranean Alliance to stay out of the war of the Central Powers against the Turkish Empire? Unless a common interest is sought to appease Spain and the Holy Roman Empire.

At this time, Li Yan, the headquarters of the Egyptian Zhutun Army of the Chinese Empire, paid attention to the establishment of the Second Crusade, which was the only method against the Ottoman Turkish Empire.

But the religious influence of the Holy Roman Empire was much less than it once was, and religious wars alone could not be relied upon, and the Central Powers needed to promise real benefits to Spain and the Holy Roman Empire. Only practical interests can appease both governments.

On March 9, the 14th year of Shenwu, representatives of the Chinese Empire, Great Britain, France, Russia, Spain, Portugal, the Holy See, and the vassal states of Germany held a closed-door meeting in Rome, which excluded the representatives of the Ottoman Turkish Empire and made it a secret meeting of the Central Powers and the member states of the Trans-Mediterranean Alliance except the Turkish Empire.

At the meeting, governments around the world set their own conditions, asking for a sky-high price, and paying back the money on the ground, which lasted for a week.

A week later, the conditions put forward by the countries were largely accepted. The Chinese Empire and Britain abandoned their plans to attack the Portuguese Congo and won the nod of the Portuguese government. France spit out occupied Spanish Morocco and ended the war with Spain, and the Allies gave up their colonization of Ethiopia, the last African region, to the Spanish Empire to conquer it, and the Spanish Empire acquiesced. The Central Powers jointly loaned 30 million silver dollars to the Holy Roman Empire, promising to help Nuremberg and Prussia recover the Turkish-occupied territories of Austria, the Czech Republic, and Croatia.

The Allies offered generous terms, and in exchange for Spain and the Holy Roman Empire recognizing the Central Powers to divide the Turkish Empire's North Africa, as well as parts of Western Asia and Northern Europe. Do not impeach the movement of anti-Islamist groups in the country, and allow them to participate in military operations against the Turkish Empire.

After the conclusion of the Rome Conference, it left a significant mark in the history of the world. It is also one of the symbols of the collapse of the Pan-Mediterranean Union, which has since existed in name only, and the alliance has collapsed due to differences in religious beliefs and territorial disputes.

After the Conference of Rome, a military campaign against the Ottoman Turkish Empire began, putting unprecedented pressure on the Turkish government.

This conference was called the Conference of Operation to Save the Holy Land in Europe, the Conference of the Invasion of the Dark Forces on the side of the Turkish Empire, and the Conference of the Second Crusade in the Chinese Empire in the East.

Within a month of the meeting, the Russian Empire mobilized 200,000 troops, strengthened the strategic stronghold of Kyiv, and prepared to occupy the regions of Ukraine in one fell swoop, opening access to the Black Sea. At the same time, the Duchy of Nuremberg and Prussia, as well as the Kingdom of Sardinia in Italy, represented the Holy Roman Empire, with 60,000 troops, plus 40,000 troops from the Spanish Empire, to form a coalition of 100,000 troops to march into eastern Austria, northern Croatia, and the Czech Republic controlled by the Ottoman Turkish Empire.

France continued to increase its troops in North Africa, gathered Britain and the Netherlands to form a coalition of 130,000 troops, and fought a large-scale battle with the 200,000 troops of the Ottoman Turkish Empire in Constantine, the provincial capital of Algeria.

The Chinese Empire's Egyptian Garrison Army Command sent 50,000 troops out of the Ismailia fortress and marched into Cairo for the strategic purpose of capturing the entire territory of Egypt.

At sea, the Mediterranean Fleet of the Royal Navy of the Imperial Chinese Empire, together with the French, Spanish and Dutch navies, drove the Turkish Navy out of the Mediterranean Sea and blockaded the Aegean Sea, forcing the Turkish Navy back into the Black Sea.

The British army was too weak to participate in large-scale battles, so the British navy seized some of the Turkish Empire's islands in the Mediterranean.

On 3 May, the Mediterranean Fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy dispatched 1,000 marines to land in the western shoals of Cyprus, destroying the 200 Turkish defenders defending the island and occupying the entire island in three days.

The island of Cyprus was very important to the strategic deployment of the Chinese Empire in the Mediterranean, and the imperial government had long been concerned about it. The island is a natural naval and military base, a natural barrier to the Suez Canal into the Mediterranean, and its strategic location is extremely important.

After the Chinese Imperial Navy took control of Cyprus, it was equivalent to putting a nail under the nose of the Turkish Empire, which could not only ensure the safety of the northern port of the Suez Canal, but also hold the Aegean Sea, and knew the naval operations of the Turkish Empire well.

Due to the rapid military action of the Central Powers against the Ottoman Turkish Empire, coupled with the betrayal and betrayal of the Turkish Empire by the Trans-Mediterranean Alliance, the Turkish Empire was very passive at the beginning of the war, and the territory was lost one after another, and the whole country was panicked. U