The defeat of the Austrian Habsburgs forced Hong Tiancheng to abandon the idea of completely purging the German region and turning it into a native country.

He suddenly discovered that with the widespread spread of muskets, any civilian could carry a gun on the battlefield in a decent manner after training for a month, resulting in a great increase in the threat of guerrilla warfare.

The defeat of the two attacks completely wiped out the old foundation of the Austrian Habsburgs, and Leopold I could only retreat in Vienna to survive.

The mud-legged armed forces are still mud-legged after all, although they have won several battles with morale, but their background is still too poor, and they have no ability to attack the city at all.

However, the Czechoslovaks and the Hungarians were already satisfied with this result, and the Czechs and Slovaks formed a deep friendship during the war, and in order to cope with the pressure of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom on the border, they put the joint establishment of the kingdom on the agenda, and intended to form the Kingdom of Czechoslovakia.

In this era, the idea of democracy was not yet popular, so even an independent nation-state was hung with the sign of a kingdom, but the power of the king was very small, and the major affairs of the state were mainly decided by the National Assembly.

Equivalent to an early constitutional monarchy.

I still learned this from the British......

The Hungarians, on the other hand, established the Kingdom of Hungary on their own, completely breaking away from the rule of the Kingdom of Austria.

With the independence of the Czechoslovak and Hungarian kingdoms, Leopold I's prestige was lost, and the German nobles who had followed him turned away from Germany.

Hong Tiancheng, on the other hand, took advantage of the situation and frequently contacted the nobles of the German states, trying to put the lands of these German states in his sphere of influence.

Hong Tiancheng's plan was very simple, to merge the German states that were once loyal to the Habsburg dynasty and the German states that were defeated and occupied by himself into a vassal state headed by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom - the German Confederation!

The nobles of the states with real power in the German Confederation would form a noble parliament, and Hong Tiancheng would assume the post of chairman of the federal parliament and bring the German Confederation under his rule.

Hong Tiancheng also figured out that every annexation was accompanied by a bloody 'three-light' policy, killing the local whites to the ground, rather than this, it is better to let them set up a country by themselves, and when the time comes, it will be enough to respect themselves as the head.

Hong Tiancheng planned to operate in the German Confederation for a while, and then strive to turn it into a German kingdom, and then put an extra crown on his head.

For he found that white Europeans seemed to prefer to accept this domination rather than complete annexation......

Leopold I, who had lost the strength to turn the tables, watched Hong Tiancheng kick the Kingdom of Austria out of Germany, but he was helpless, and even begged the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to continue to suppress the Kingdom of Czechoslovakia and the Kingdom of Hungary.

During this period, when Hong Tiancheng formed the German Confederation, there was a small trouble, Bavaria, the strongest of the German states, did not want to let Hong Tiancheng's hand come in, and shouted the slogan "The Germans themselves form the German Confederation, and there is no need for the Han people to intervene".

Then, 5 divisions of the Heavenly King's Guards Army, with 10 12-pounder mountain howitzers, drove into Bavaria......

Bavaria was not a nation-state in which all soldiers were armed, and in less than a month, the Kingdom of Bavaria surrendered......

Since then, the progress of the German Confederation has been unhindered, and Hong Tiancheng has joined the German Confederation of Prague and Silesia, which he occupied, which originally belonged to the Kingdom of Austria, and the area of the German Confederation has been extended to the Rhine Valley!

When writing the establishment of the limits of the German Confederation, Hong Tiancheng overrode public opinion and included the United Provincial Republic (later the Netherlands) and the Spanish Netherlands within the boundaries of the German Confederation, which caused severe warnings from the Kingdom of France and the Kingdom of Spain.

Of course, Hong Tiancheng only farts the French and Spaniards......

When Leopold I saw Hong Tiancheng's actions, he knew that the former Axis alliance had been completely broken, and Hong Tiancheng did not talk about the Axis alliance.

However, Hong Tiancheng finally made a move against the Kingdom of Czechoslovakia!

With the march of five divisions of the Heavenly King's Guards into Czechoslovakia, bloody massacres and law and order battles began again.

The Taiping Army's 'Three Lights' policy once again worked wonders, but it also inspired the Czechoslovaks to resist and fight, and the law and order war was fought for more than 40 days, and Hong Tiancheng paid the price of two Heavenly King Guards divisions to obtain the crown of Czechoslovakia.

The National Assembly of Czechoslovakia was also forcibly dissolved, and the preservation of its own state was the only interest that the two Czechoslovak peoples had sought.

The biggest difference between Czechoslovakia and the fact that it was not incorporated into the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was that Czechoslovaks were no longer forced to learn Chinese......

This is very important to the Czechoslovaks, because they don't want their children to grow up with white skins but Chinese hearts!

Leopold I saw that the general situation was gone, and the Habsburg Dynasty of Spain and the Kingdom of France were still preparing for war, and he would not be able to support him for a while, so he had to lead the Kingdom of Austria to surrender to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and become a vassal state of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

The vassal state can directly carry the crown than Hong Tiancheng, and can have more political rights.

The first task assigned to Leopold I after his surrender was to help Hong Tiancheng 'recover' the Kingdom of Hungary.

The Kingdom of Hungary fought a head-on decisive battle with the Taiping army, and after being beaten so that he could not find the north, he decisively surrendered to Hong Tiancheng and let Hong Tiancheng wear the crown of the Hungarian king.

In 1664, a series of wars in Central Europe, the ultimate beneficiary was Hong Tiancheng, although the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom did not simply and rudely annex the territory due to the stubbornness of the local national resistance, but Hong Tiancheng played a series of crowns, and even the ancient Austrian Habsburg Dynasty became Hong Tiancheng's vassal!

Today, Hong Tiancheng's official titles have changed to the King of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, King of the Kingdom of Czechoslovakia, President of the German Federal Parliament, King of the Kingdom of Hungary, and Protector of the Kingdom of Austria.

After the war, Hong Tiancheng reorganized the remaining four dissatisfied Heavenly King Guards divisions and reduced them to three full Heavenly King Guards divisions.

It's just that what Hong Tiancheng didn't know after a series of victories was that a few shrapnel that did not explode on the battlefield flowed into the hands of the Kingdom of France through the underground black market in Europe, and thus spread to the entire European continent!

The weapon of front-loading howitzer has officially entered the field of vision of the European powers, and a new round of arms scientific research competition has been quietly launched.

Of course, Hong Tiancheng didn't know about these little things, and he was immersed in the wonderful reward prompt sound of the all-out war system at this time.