Since the fall of Leopold I of Austria and the total destruction of the Bavarian royal family, Venice, a small and wealthy country, has become a sentinel against the Axis military blocs.

Fortunately, Venice and Genoa have always been very wealthy after the Renaissance, relying on the prosperity of the Mediterranean trade circle.

The famous giant shield crossbowmen in history are the specialties of Venice and Genoa, and the giant shields and crossbows were smashed out of gold coins at that time!

By the 17th century, due to the success of the Age of Discovery, the European continent's trade circle was no longer limited to the Mediterranean coast, and the new colonial empire gradually relied on global trade to make a fortune, which made the profits of Mediterranean trade fall a lot.

However, relying on the background of acting as a 'second-hand dealer' and a former merchant, Venice Genoa, a coastal country on the Italian peninsula, still maintains a wealthy situation.

Of course, this is also related to the small population of these countries, and the environment of the rich and small countries of the Italian Peninsula has given birth to a large number of mercenary organizations, these mercenaries may be average in combat, but the number of people is definitely the largest in Europe, and even the regular army of many small countries is itself in peacetime to continue the mercenary work.

As a result, Venice still had a lot of war potential, and after the arrival of large numbers of troops and mercenaries from Tuscany, the Papal States, the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, Genoa, Savoy, Milan, etc., Venice showed a deformed prosperity.

The large number of ships made the sea supply the main means of supply, and the port of Venice seemed to have a second spring, because of the arrival of a large number of garrisons, making a lot of profits!

A soldier is a mouth, eating, drinking, and Lazar all need to be consumed, and these consumption are reimbursed by the country and the aristocracy behind it, Venice is naturally making a lot of money, even if he himself needs to bear part of the military expenses, it is enough for Venice's economy to take off.

If they could, the Venetian merchants preferred that the confrontation between the anti-Han alliance and the Axis military bloc be maintained forever, so that they could sit at home and count their money until they relented.

However, the good thing did not last long, in the middle of 1667, the Taiping Army's 9th and 10th Heavenly Guards Division declared war on Venice, and at the same time, it was also against the anti-Han League!

Thanks to the previous achievements of the Taiping army, the anti-Han alliance forces stationed in the Italian Peninsula countries stationed on the border did not put up any resistance, and directly withdrew from the town, giving up large areas of land for the Taiping army to occupy......

The 9th and 10th Guards Infantry Divisions of the King of Heaven occupied Venice more than ordinary towns without damage!

The strange performance of the anti-Han alliance made Hong Tiancheng feel a bad feeling in his heart, obviously, the anti-Han alliance retreated so confidently, which can only show that they want more!

Sure enough, after the Heavenly King's Guard with two infantry divisions penetrated deep into Venice, the anti-Han alliance two armies, totaling more than 300,000 people, with the Kingdom of Switzerland as the starting point and the Spanish Netherlands (later Belgium) as the starting point, launched an attack on the German federal territories!

At the same time, the allied forces of the Italian Peninsula countries that had retreated before, together with a large number of mercenaries, made a large detour to outflank the two infantry divisions of the Taiping Army that had penetrated deep into Venice.

With nearly 200,000 troops, the countries of the Italian Peninsula this time took out their real foundations, in addition to their own regular army, they swept away almost all the mercenaries that could be fought on the continent, and even loaned large sums of gold to the Jews.

In the fight against the Axis military blocs, which provoked public outrage, these Jewish merchant groups, which had a large amount of money and started by lending usury, rarely lowered the interest rate on their loans, and provided large amounts of cash support to the anti-Han alliance countries at 'cabbage prices'.

Naturally, the Jewish merchant groups did not gain any benefits, and many Jewish merchant groups have obtained real aristocratic titles for their contributions under this 'Yellow Peril Crisis', and have entered the upper class of various countries from their status, instead of being excluded nouveau riche and money vampires.

I have to say that in terms of fighting against the Han people of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the contradictions between the various ethnic groups in Europe have fallen to the lowest point in history, and they are more united than when they resisted the invasion of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, the reason is very simple, the Ottoman Turkish Empire is only a religious war invasion, but Hong Tiancheng of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is going to lift the table of the entire aristocratic group!

You must know that in those European countries occupied by the Ottoman Turkish Empire, many nobles retained their privileges after submission, the difference is just that the king who served changed a person and changed his beliefs, anyway, for the helmsman of the aristocratic family, there are few real devout disciples, for the sake of privilege and survival, it is nothing to cater on the surface.

Of course, there were also die-hard aristocrats who were unwilling to cater and were then bulldozed by the Ottoman Turkish Empire......

Originally, the behavior of the Ottoman Turkish Empire was already very barbaric and brutal in the eyes of the European high society, and it was not until the rise of Hong Tiancheng's Taiping Heavenly Kingdom that the European high society did not know what it meant to be the most ruthless!

What frightened the European upper-class aristocratic group the most was that the army under Hong Tiancheng seemed to be endless, destroying wave after wave, and as long as it was the main army of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom composed of Han Chinese, the soldiers were all fierce and not afraid of death!

Such a 'devil' who seems to have crawled out of hell is naturally on the opposite side of the white aristocratic group in Europe, which will of course attract a group of attackers.

Due to the backward transportation conditions in this era, the marching army basically relied on feet, and the communication basically relied on roaring, so the two major armies of the Anti-Han League, the first route (from the Spanish Netherlands) and the second route (from Switzerland), did not advance fast.

The first to engage the Taiping Army was the Third Route Coalition Army of the Italian Peninsula that fought deep inland and encircled and suppressed the Taiping Army, two infantry divisions that took the initiative to enter.

Because the coalition forces of the Italian Peninsula countries of the Third Route Anti-Han Alliance tried to outflank the main force of the Taiping Army that had eaten these two infantry divisions, and divided nearly half of their forces to outflank them on a large scale, the 9th and 10th Infantry Divisions of the Taiping Army were still in a state of attack at the beginning.

The battle plan of the 9th and 10th Taiping Army's Heavenly King's Guards was very simple, to take the city of Venice, a well-developed port city that not only had abundant supplies so that the Taiping army of two infantry divisions could barely maintain itself even if the logistics were cut off, but also captured the developed trading port in the Adriatic Sea.

At that time, the Venetian anti-Han alliance would lose a large port with extremely efficient unloading, and the Taiping army would be able to transport the necessary Minnie ammunition from Austria through this port.