Chapter 240: Sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight
Due to Frederick's quick attack on Austria, in the Battle of Kolin, he was defeated by the superior Austrian army, this defeat dealt a huge blow to Frederick's prestige, after Frederick gathered the defeated army, his generals openly refused Frederick's order to continue the attack, Frederick was greatly disappointed and became silent, and his generals left tens of thousands of wounded soldiers and prisoners on their own, and retreated back to Saxony alone!
After this, 100,000 French troops, led by Madame de Pompadour's close generals, entered Germany and attacked Hanover!
Hanover's army loyal to the British, after being heavily defeated by the French army, was pursued by the persevering French army, there was no way into the sky, and finally the Duke of Hanover was forced to sign a humiliating surrender treaty, disbanding all the Hanover army, and promising no more hostilities with the French army!
Frederick's only ally on the European continent was knocked out......
Immediately afterwards, a Swedish army landed in Pomerania, and a 100,000-strong Russian army, led by Marshal Apraksin the Younger, invaded East Prussia and routed a 30,000-strong Prussian army at the Battle of Veliky Jagelsdorf!
The Austrian army even recovered most of Silesia, intending to march on Berlin!
Frederick's enemies were so numerous and well-equipped that Frederick almost had a nervous breakdown, and he even wanted to commit suicide at one point!
All signs are on the surface, and the war in Europe seems to be coming to an end?
Of course, these achievements will not be able to cross the Atlantic into North America for a while, and the British were not idle when Prussia was beaten, they had already started a vast colonial war in India and the Americas!
Spread the flames of war to almost half the world!
George Macartney naturally approached Zhao Dutian and asked him to fulfill his duty as an ally and march to the French colonies in Canada in order to disperse the French forces and cooperate with the attack of the British colonial army!
At this time, the Kingdom of Spain did not declare war on Prussia and Britain, the Kingdom of Spain's poor economy and finances, and could not organize a large-scale war, on the European battlefield, Prussia seemed to have reached the stage of exhaustion, and the old nature of France did not need the help of the Spanish little brother very much!
Therefore, the envoy of Georges Macartney only asked the Han Empire to march into the French colonies, and did not mean to send troops to the Kingdom of Spain!
Envoy George Macartney knew very well that the current Kingdom of Spain had been reduced to a third-rate country after two wars for the throne, and it might be possible for him to declare war with Prussia, but if the Kingdom of Spain had ten dares, they would not dare to declare war on Britain!
No matter how strong the Prussian army is, it can't hit the Spanish Peninsula, but Britain's navy all over the world can completely end the already declining maritime trade of the Spanish Kingdom in minutes!
Britain and the Kingdom of Spain are the kind of opponents who don't need to go to war to know whether they are winning or losing......
No suspense!
Don't look at the successive defeats of Prussia on land now, but the battle between the French Navy and the British Navy on the other side was fought by the British pressing the French!
However, Zhao Dutian's Han Empire, under the repeated instigation of Georges Macartney's special envoys, used a procrastination trick, either because the supplies were not fully equipped and reached out to ask for money, or that the Japanese troops were being pulled back and had not yet reached the mainland......
Envoy George Macartney naturally knew that the Han Empire had lost a lot of people and had almost half of Japan's land in ruins, and that the impoverished island country he had conquered had tens of thousands of Japanese servants under the direct control of the Han Empire. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
In the eyes of Georges Macartney's envoy, the Han Empire paid so much, but only harvested some Japanese labor and tens of thousands of servant army cannon fodder with questionable combat morale, and felt that this was what a dictator like Zhao Dutian could do......
Of course, the envoy of Georges Macartney did not care whether the Han Empire could recover its costs in Japan, but he was repeatedly blocked by Zhao Dutian with Japanese cannon fodder, and he felt very depressed......
However, it didn't take long for the envoy of Georges Macartney to bother Zhao Dutian anymore, because in a main encounter between the French Navy and the British Navy in the Atlantic, the British Navy completely defeated the French Navy with the absolute numerical superiority of ships!
After learning the news that the British native army was about to reinforce the North American colonies, the envoy George Macartney lukewarmly reminded Zhao Dutian, and after seeing Zhao Dutian's indifferent look, the envoy George Macartney left four words with some anger - so do it yourself!
At this point, after the special envoy of George Macartney fed back to the British government that Zhao Dutian had made up his mind to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, it basically announced the end of the honeymoon period between the British Empire and the Han Empire!
The attitude of the special envoy George Macartney towards Zhao Dutian also became cold, but Zhao Dutian didn't care about the attitude of the British, even if the Japanese standing army of 5 divisions had arrived on the American continent, and the Tiger Wolf Marines were subsequently transported to San Francisco, Zhao Dutian had no intention of sending troops to Canada!
Of course, after the envoy George Macartney saw that the Han Empire was fully armed, he did not consult Zhao Dutian about sending troops again!
Without the protection of the French Navy, the British Continental Army successfully landed in North America and attacked the French fortresses in Canada!
In the early days, under the siege of British naval guns and superior forces, the Canadian fortress of Louis was quickly broken, and the energy of the French mainland was used to deal with Prussia, so that the number of French troops in Canada was far less than that of the British army!
It's just that when Zhao Dutian dispatched troops and sorted out armaments, he unexpectedly got a special envoy from George Macartney, whom he hadn't seen for months, to see!
After talking with the British envoy, Zhao Dutian learned that the British landing force had been defeated by French General Louis Joseph de Montcalm with less than 4,000 men and 15,000 men!
Even George Brown, who led the colonial militia troops. In Washington, the French general Louis Joseph de Moncalm was forced to land and sent back to his hometown......
After these battles, more than half of the army transported by the British mainland was lost at once, and the envoy of George Macartney came to plead with Zhao Dutian of the Han Empire for fear that the situation of the Canadian war would be reversed by the French general Louis Joseph de Montcalm!
This time, the envoy of George Macartney came with full sincerity, as long as Zhao Dutian agreed to send troops, gold, land, minerals, etc.
The British tyrant atmosphere made Zhao Dutian speechless...... (To be continued.) )