In fact, the war broke out earlier than Zhao Dutian expected, and Frederick struck first, just to protect himself, the alliance network compiled by the Austrian queen surrounded Prussia's territory on three sides, and once the war started, it would inevitably be a three-front battle for Prussia!

What's worse is that Silesia, which Frederick won in the last war, does not border Prussia proper!

During this period, the territory of Prussia was like a patchwork of smashes, which gave Frederick a sense of crisis at all times, and indirectly contributed to the germination of Prussian nationalism, because their surroundings were so bad!

In order to avoid a three-front battle, Frederick first took Saxony, which was the closest and had always hoped to weaken and divide the territory of Prussia!

The tiny Saxony was no match for the Prussian army that shone in the War for the Austrian Throne, not to mention that Prussia also had a genius military commander, the legendary version of the gay monarch - Frederick the Great!

No matter how much the French hated Frederick's rebellion, his own prestige in Prussia was definitely a well-deserved Emperor!

Because of Frederick II's military reforms, Prussia became a regional military power that all European powers had to pay attention to as a small country!

Since the Queen of Austria has successfully won over almost the entire European power to hostile Prussia, she has naturally been prepared for Frederick and his dog to jump off the wall!

Thus, not long after Frederick sent troops to Saxony, Queen Maria Theresa of Austria, Frederick's sworn enemy, sent a reinforcement from Bohemia to help the Saxon army besieged by the Prussian army, and was defeated unsurprisingly......

More than 30,000 Austrian regular troops were completely defeated by Frederick with a slightly weaker force in the first battle!

Even the commander of the Austrian reinforcements was killed by Prussian soldiers! The entire defeated Austrian reinforcements lost almost all their heavy weapons, which was about the same as a complete loss of combat capability!

Later, after learning that the Austrian reinforcements had been routed, the last army of Saxony surrendered out of the city, and Frederick the Great unceremoniously incorporated the 14,000 Saxon defenders into his own army, plundered its treasury, and collected its taxes!

During this period, Frederick also pointed out from the Saxon documents that the Austrian queen and Saxony had planned to invade Prussia and declared themselves a war of self-defense, but it was useless......

The Queen of Austria naturally denied it and portrayed Frederick as a heinous aggressor, calling on allies the Russian Empire and the Kingdom of France to join forces in a crusade against Frederick's Prussia!

European countries generally agreed with the Hungarian queen's accusation that the Germanic princes, fearing that Frederick II would suffer the same fate as Saxony if he won, unanimously agreed at the Imperial Council to declare war on Prussia and form an imperial army to fight against the Prussian king's actions. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

As the Germanic princes began to prepare for war at the side of the Austrian queen, the talented Austrian diplomat Kaunitz took the opportunity to remind Louis XV that France had promised to help resist the invasion in the event of an attack on Austria.

Madame de Pompadour, out of hatred of Frederick's friendship with the Queen of Austria, agreed to enter the war with France!

Queen Maria Theresa was grateful for her help and presented her with a noble painting with jewels of 77,278 Lear.

The indecisive Louis XV, under the influence of Madame de Pompadour, quickly responded to Prussia's acts of war, and France promised to pay an annual subsidy of 12 million florins to equip two Germanic armies. It also promised to send a French army of 105,000 men into the war, and France promised never to make peace with Prussia unless Austria regained sovereignty over Silesia. Once the strategic objectives were achieved, France accepted the five border cities of the Austrian Netherlands. The rest of the Austrian Netherlands was transferred to the Spanish crown as compensation for Spain's cession of the Duchy of Italy. France calculated that if he got Belgium, it would not be a pity if he lost all his colonies to England.

Kaunitz, a gifted diplomat, has already won a major diplomatic victory for his country. After the French declared war, Russia and Austria also promised each other to send 80,000 troops each to support the war until Silesia was reassigned to Austria. Sweden sent 25,000 troops, which were paid for by France and Austria. Even Poland, under the auspices of its king, August III, announced its accession to the Russian-Austrian alliance.

What Zhao Dutian didn't know was that in less than half a year after Frederick II's move, the whole of Europe, except for Britain, Denmark, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Turkey, united to be the enemy of Frederick II.

It was only then that Britain discovered that the expected Grand Alliance against France had been completely aborted by the bad Anglo-Prussian Alliance, and they also attempted to abandon Frederick II. George II was horrified to see his beloved Hanover unreservedly exposed to the enemy's advance. And Frederick's distant water could not save the near fire of Hanover at all, and could not give practical assistance. At this point, Kaunitz offered a fatal temptation to ensure the inviolability of Hanover if he did not take part in the war in Europe.

Even British Prime Minister Pitt Sr. felt that Prussia had no need to save it, and wanted to concentrate all his forces on the struggle for overseas colonies, however, Old Pitt soon discovered that once Prussia perished, France would become the first power on the European continent and would crush Britain in terms of national strength!

Old Pete had to support Frederick's supplies and let Hanover's army fight with Prussia, but the main force of the British government was inclined to invade the French colonies overseas, so there were only a handful of land forces to support, and Britain's powerful navy did not help Prussia's land enemies on three sides!

With the Holy Roman Emperor Franz I, officially declared Frederick II an outlaw, not protected by imperial law, and called on all good people to join in the crusade against this scum of humanity (the Prussian and Germanic princes were nominally subordinate to the Holy Roman Empire). Frederick was horrified to find that Prussia had to have 160,000 troops alone against a coalition of European forces twice his size!

Frederick did not give up, and immediately after the conquest of Saxony, he sent troops to Austrian territory, intending to defeat Austria as an old enemy first, taking advantage of the fact that the French and Russian armies were not assembled!

Prussia's army, under the leadership of Frederick, fought fiercely with more than 100,000 Austrian troops, although it defeated the Austrian army many times, but with the support of reinforcements sent to the front line by the Austrian queen, Frederick's quick decision was slightly completely bankrupt! (To be continued.) )