"Be vigilant, damn the Austrian heretics could come at any moment, and if you want to survive, be vigilant." Affairs

Telavik, an Ottoman-occupied region in Croatia, was put into combat readiness by the Ottoman Army after the Austrians began to mobilize for war.

A large number of provincial armies and border troops were sent to the border towns and outposts to hold on, and the soldiers who were sent to the outposts were tasked with quickly lighting the beacons in the outposts to warn the rear after discovering the enemy, and then they could flee back to the rear on fast horses to avoid losing their lives.

The officers' rebuke lifted the garrison at the small outpost on the Telavik border a little, although they did not think that the Austrians really dared to tear up the armistice and attack blatantly.

After scolding, the officer continued in another direction, trying to check the entire outpost's defenses, but just as he had stepped out a distance, the screams of soldiers suddenly rang out from the top of the watchtower.

He subconsciously felt bad in his heart, and hurriedly looked up, and saw a border soldier leaning out most of his body, he looked frightened, and shouted, "Cavalry! It's the cavalry of the Austrians!"

"What?"

The officer's face changed greatly, and before he could give the order, the soldiers on the watchtower had already taken the first step to pick up the torches and light the beacon fire, which burned quickly with the help of the fire oil, and the fire layer was ignited, and a black smoke that was very conspicuous in the day slowly rose into the sky. Affairs

Seeing the beacon fire lit, the officer breathed a sigh of relief, and he hurriedly shouted at the soldiers who were in chaos at the outpost, ordering the soldiers to leave the outpost.

Soon, the Ottoman soldiers at the post were mounted on their horses, and they did not hesitate to flee as they watched the approaching brigade of cavalry.

A few minutes later, the Austrian cavalry arrived at the outpost, and the aristocratic officer led by him looked coldly at the rising black smoke and said, "We have been discovered, move on!"

"Yes!"

The cavalry continued to ride their horses and head into the distance.

On August 15, 1672, the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I sent an emissary to deliver a declaration of war to the Ottoman Empire, and on the same day, 80,000 Austrian troops, already in a state of war readiness, brazenly crossed the border between the two countries and attacked the lost territory occupied by the Ottomans.

When the news spread, the whole of Central Europe was shaken in an instant, and Emperor Leopold I summoned his allies Bavaria and Spain, as well as all the German states, to join the war. Affairs

A few days later, Bavaria and Spain announced their entry into the war, and together with the German states, they began to mobilize their armies to form a large coalition and march towards Central Europe.

By the time the news of the declaration of war came, Sultan IV had already set out from Constantinniye with the elite Janissaries and the Sipahi cavalry on a westward march.

Along the way, the Sultan summoned provincial and local armies to join the battle, and several of the Transylvanian allies and Tatars joined the army of *** IV, which skyrocketed his military power.

At the same time that the Austrians and the Ottomans were at war, when the news reached Persia, it was already two months later, that is, in October, and Mu Tianbo found that the Ottomans had not mobilized the eastern army, which made him understand that the Ottomans had been guarding against them.

However, this did not make Mu Tianbo dispel the idea of starting a war.

On October 26, the Persian Protectorate of Bactria sent an envoy to the Ottoman Empire to declare war and made public the alliance agreement with the Holy Roman Empire, announcing that it had responded to the agreement and declared war on the Ottoman Empire.

On the same day, the 80,000-strong army of the Persian Protectorate launched a fierce attack on the Ottoman border guards, and although the Ottoman border guards were instructed by their superiors to increase their precautions against the Xia army, they did not think that the Xia would fight against them soon after the conquest of Persia. Affairs

The Xia army bombarded the Ottoman positions with artillery, forcing the latter to scatter and flee in all directions during the shelling, and countless Xia infantry immediately charged the position.

Capture the Ottoman positions after hours of fierce fighting.

Within a few days of the war, with the help of the Persian servants, the Xia army successfully captured the port city of Basra, which stood on the shore of the Persian Gulf, and used this as a breakthrough to sweep through the entire valley of the two rivers.

The Ottoman army was not vegetarian either, and after recovering from the chaos of the initial blows, generals of all ranks began to direct the army to fight back.

The eastern border between the Ottoman Empire and the Persian Protectorate was a complex terrain that stretched from the Caucasus in the north to the Persian Gulf in the south, bounded by Kazanniye east of Baghdad, a hilly region of lofty mountains to the north, and an endless plain of two rivers to the south.

Therefore, the Ottoman army was able to rely on the terrain in the north to block the Xia army's attack, but in the south, the plain became the breakthrough point of the Xia army, and the Xia army took Basra in just a few days, and the Xia cavalry then swept and raged throughout the two rivers plain, and the Ottoman army could only retreat.

When the news of the declaration of war reached the Eastern European Plain, Fu Xinghua also quickly made arrangements to respond, and he personally led the fourth town to advance to the Crimean Khanate, a vassal state of the Ottoman Empire, with the Mongol Turghuts, Don Cossacks and Zaporozhye Cossacks, and the Russians all providing troops to participate in the war.

Daniel Zhang led his 10,000 Anxi Army and the Eighth Town south to the Caucasus, and with the assistance of the Southern Caucasus, he directly climbed the Caucasus Mountains and invaded the northeast of the Ottoman Empire. Affairs

When the news reached Konstantiniye, the Ottomans were shocked to discover that the prophecy made by the Grand Vizier Koprulu had come true, and that the Austrians had joined forces with the Chinese against them.

If there were only these two enemies, the Ottoman Empire would have been able to deal with it, but the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, which had always had friction and conflict with the Ottoman Empire, also declared war on it.

King Mihau I began to mobilize his domestic army, preparing to personally lead his army south to attack the Moldavian vassal state set up by the Ottoman Empire.

The Ottomans did not panic in this three-sided situation, and the Grand Vizier Koprulu quickly responded, and he began to mobilize the Empire's troops in North Africa to support the eastern theater, ordering his younger brother Koprulu Fazal Mustafa Pasha to be the commander of the Rumelia Army and march north against the Polish attack.

However, he himself did not sit in the central government, and under the persuasion of the bureaucrats and nobles, he still chose to personally serve as the commander of the Anatolian legion and lead the army eastward against the Xia army.

The Ottoman war machine began to work rapidly, and the local armies of the vast empire gradually gathered and drove in three directions, which was destined to be a protracted war.