364 Anti-Han League
Hong Tiancheng's reorganization of the Axis bloc and the dominance of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in Central Europe greatly accelerated the process of the anti-Han alliance in Western Europe, and even the Spanish Habsburgs openly joined the anti-Han alliance formed by the Kingdom of France, regardless of the face of their Austrian relatives!
The Republic of the United Provinces (later the Netherlands) was the most active member of the anti-Han alliance, as its territory was already directly bordered by the German Confederation controlled by Hong Tiancheng!
With the consolidation of the Axis bloc and the establishment of Hong Tiancheng's authority in Central Europe, the countries surrounding the German Confederation joined the anti-Han alliance led by the Kingdom of France and the Spanish Habsburgs in the face of the extremely aggressive Axis bloc.
Franscomte, Switzerland, Venice, Savoy, Genoa, Tuscany, the Papal States, the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, Milan, the Netherlands, the Kingdom of Portugal, Denmark and the United Kingdom of Norway all threw themselves into the arms of the anti-Han alliance......
Even the Ottoman Turkish Empire tried to join the anti-Han alliance, but the Kingdom of France and the Spanish Habsburgs did not want to divide the dominant part of the alliance and refused to join the Ottomans, the old enemy of Christendom.
The sultan of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, who had been shut out, was furious, and canceled his plan to declare war on the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and sat firmly on the Diaoyu Tai and waited for the Europeans to turn their brains into dogs......
However, the large-scale war between the Ottoman Turkish Empire and the Axis bloc did not break out, and the war confined to the Crimean Khanate never stopped, and under the offensive of the Cossack United Emirate, the Crimean Khanate, which had fallen behind the times, relied on the extremely limited support of the Ottoman Turkish Empire to survive, and the Cossack United Emirate was limited by the number of people and was never able to completely occupy the Crimean Khanate.
The Crimean peninsula became a meat grinder for the Turks of the Cossacks and the Crimean Khanate, and blood flowed every day.
Almost all countries in Europe, except for the Ottoman Turkish Empire, joined the anti-Han alliance, but on that big island, the first country to step into the industrial revolution, had no interest in joining the anti-Han alliance!
Britain is still divided, and there are three countries on the island, the Kingdom of England, the Kingdom of Scotland, and the Kingdom of Ireland.
After the death of Cromwell's usurper, the royal family of England was restored and tried to re-suppress the bourgeoisie, and the two sides were in a 'cold war' in the Kingdom of England for power.
Although the rise of Hung Tiancheng accelerated this process, the bourgeoisie and the restored English crown had a tendency to cooperate, and the Kingdom of Scotland and the Irish were no longer hostile to each other, but the Kingdom of England had no energy to join the anti-Han alliance.
They thought they had the English Channel moat, and no matter how powerful a country like Hong Tiancheng had a navy equal to zero, he would never want to go to England.
The construction of the navy is not an overnight thing, and the army training may be able to pull into the battlefield in a year, but the construction of the navy has not been built for decades, and it is simply impossible to confront the naval powers, so the Kingdom of England, the Kingdom of Scotland and the Irish do not care about the threat of the Axis bloc.
What's more, now the Axis group is not a monopoly in the European continent, and the main military force is just supported by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the Han Association army raised by those countries controlled by Hong Tiancheng has little combat effectiveness at all, and the morale value is also very low, and few people are willing to really work for Hong Tiancheng, the alien dictator and tyrant!
In the eyes of the white upper class in Europe, the Axis group relied on the tens of thousands of powerful Han Chinese legions, on the other hand, the anti-Han alliance included the vast majority of countries in the European continent.
In terms of national strength, the anti-Han alliance far exceeded that of the Axis bloc, so the English, Scots, and Irish were not worried that Hong Tiancheng would dominate the continent.
The Kingdom of France and the Habsburg Dynasty of Spain, as the two overlords of the current European continent, one large and one small, are not vegetarians!
By this time, the Kingdom of France had mobilized nearly 200,000 regular troops, all of whom were trained in line tactics and equipped with flintlock muskets and bayonets.
The Spanish Habsburgs also squandered their money, recruited a large number of veteran mercenaries, plus their own standing army, and also provided more than 100,000 regular troops, and some people from other countries contributed to pull out more than 300,000 troops in a short time!
This is only the active army and the mercenaries who can be directly drawn to the battlefield, not counting the militia armed forces recruited by the boot camps and mobilization orders in various countries, and the army will only grow more and more as time goes by, and the reason why the anti-Han alliance did not launch an offensive is only to train the army in line tactics and equip them with flintlock pistols and bayonets.
In Europe, as long as there is money, the army is still easy to pull out, and the perennial war has made the continent full of mercenaries and retired veterans, who can take up arms and go to the battlefield with just a call-up order and salary guarantee!
Of course, the total army of 600,000 troops of the Anti-Han League is only paper data, and it cannot all be used against Hong Tiancheng, for example, Denmark, the United Kingdom of Norway and the Kingdom of Sweden, all the national and military strength was smashed into the war with the Russian Empire, not to mention people, and even the money was only symbolically financed......
The only available ones are the naval fleets of Denmark, the United Kingdom of Norway and the Kingdom of Sweden.
The Baltic sea supremacy has always been in the hands of the fleets of the two countries.
However, even so, the anti-Han alliance expected that after completing the army's bayonet flintlock training, it would be able to pull out at least 500,000 troops and launch an attack on the Axis bloc at the same time!
In the strategic planning, the anti-Han alliance foresaw an attack on the Axis bloc from three directions, one with the armies of the Kingdom of France, the Republic of the United Provinces, and the Spanish Netherlands, and from the direction of Mainz into the German Confederation proper.
All the way is the army of Switzerland, Savoy, the Kingdom of Portugal, the Kingdom of Spain, Milan, Savoy and other countries, entering the German Confederation from the direction of Bavaria, and the autonomous faction led by Bavaria has secretly reached an agreement with the anti-Han alliance, as soon as the coalition arrives, they will immediately declare their separation from the German Confederation, join the coalition, and jointly fight against Hong Tiancheng's Axis bloc!
The last way is the alliance of the countries of the Italian peninsula, which directly attacks the Kingdom of Austria, a vassal state of Hong Tiancheng, and the first line of the army of France, the first of which is the first to attack, and so on, the countries of the Italian peninsula attack last, because the anti-Han alliance is trying to persuade Leopold I of the Kingdom of Austria to break away from the Axis bloc!