In the face of the Austrians' demand for the fulfillment of their promises, the French and the British did not shirk it directly.

The royal families of England and France both directly ordered the courts of the two countries to formally issue a declaration of war to the Kingdom of Prussia through the channel of the League of Nations.

However, both countries also unanimously stated that they had not yet completed their full-scale preparations for war and could not immediately fight Prussia.

Therefore, it is hoped that Austria will work hard to persevere and buy enough time for the preparation of the two countries.

The Austrians feared that the two countries would only talk and not work, but now they did need time to complete full-scale preparations for war.

Britain and France are indeed mobilizing for war, mobilizing troops, and raising supplies.

So the Austrians just urged and continued to try to find a way to win over more allies.

Prussia, after receiving the notice from England and France, immediately urged Lucia and Italians to declare war on Britain and France.

The two countries also did not shirk it, and issued a notice the next morning.

However, on the actual battlefield, it was still Lucia who fought against the Norwegians and Swedes, and Prussians against the Austrians.

The British mainland was the farthest from the battlefield, separated from the English Channel and the North Sea.

The British Navy sprang into action as fast as it could, and began to maintain alert patrols in the waters off its homeland.

It is true that the army is being mobilized at home, but not at a rapid pace.

At the same time, enough transport ships are being raised.

According to the British, there was no way to participate in the battles on the mainland without transport ships.

On the border between France and Prussia, the alert level of the garrisons of the two countries has also entered a state of war.

But neither side took the initiative to attack, but only confronted each other on the border line.

The French even continued to strengthen the fortress lines on the border.

The Italians continued to strengthen their western defenses, while at the same time increasing their forces on the eastern border with Austria.

In the eyes of the Italians, the Austrians were noticeably a little better than the French.

The point is that the Prussians attacked Austria in the north, but the French did not directly enter the war.

But Italy did not immediately enter the war and was also on the sidelines.

Seven days passed, and the Elbe Valley, the most important defensive node on the borders of the Austrian kingdom of Bohemia, was finally broken by Prussia.

The Prussians immediately went up the Elbe, and the front began to advance rapidly into Austria.

The Kingdom of Bohemia was located in what would become the central western part of the Czech Republic, on the border between the Austrian Empire and Prussia.

In Austria it belongs to the salient and in Prussia it belongs to the depression.

The area is surrounded by Prussia on three sides and is a huge valley structure as a whole.

The largest opening in the valley towards the north is the Elbe River valley.

After the Elbe Valley was breached, the entire valley was no longer in danger.

After the Prussians broke through the border, the pace of their advance increased sharply, and there was little time for Bohemia to organize its defensive line again.

Just a week later, the entire kingdom of Bohemia was occupied.

At this time, of course, the Austrians could not help urging the French and the British, especially the French, to join the battlefield.

But the French said they still needed to prepare, and the British did the same.

Over time, the Moravian region of eastern Bohemia, later known as the eastern part of the Czech Republic, was quickly occupied by the Prussian army.

At this time, the front was less than a hundred kilometers away from Viana, the capital of the Austrian Empire.

The Austrian emperor was already somewhat broken.

The new war changes were a little difficult for Emperor Franz II of Austria, who had experienced the world war era, to accept.

At that time, every inch of land on the battlefield needed to be repeatedly consumed and contested, but now it may directly retreat dozens of kilometers in a day.

According to the news from the front, the role of human beings on the battlefield has become very small.

Under the bombardment of thousands of planes and artillery, and under the onslaught of armored combat vehicles with a speed of more than thirty kilometers per hour, the former line of defense seemed to lose its meaning.

Franz II already regretted it a little.

If he could go back to two months ago, Franz might reconsider the Ming Dynasty's agreement and seriously discuss the merger with Prussia.

But now, diplomats can only be asked again to come forward and urge them to enter the war in the royal palaces of France and England.

King Louis XVII of France received the news and felt that it could not be delayed any longer.

Louis XVII gave the official order to attack, and the French front-line troops officially launched an offensive against the Prussian line through the valley of Luxembourg.

The formal entry of the French into the war attracted the attention of the Prussians and gave the Austrians more courage.

It was at this time that Archduke Karl, with part of the Austrian Central Forbidden Army, finally launched an active attack that he had been preparing for a long time.

Archduke Karl attacked north along the foot of the Alps, trying to push back a corner of the Austrian western front back to Prussia proper.

This cooperation between Austria and France attracted the attention of the Prussian royal family and the imperial court, and also contained the power of the Prussian military.

The defensive line in the area of the Grand Duchy of Austria was successfully constructed, and it barely slowed down the rapid advance of the Prussian troops.

At the same time, Austria and France, together with each other, arranged for diplomatic personnel from both countries to liaise with Switzerland and ask them to join the agreements between France and Austria and Great Britain.

Switzerland in this world does not have the status of a permanently neutral country, and this position was replaced by Morocco, which was appointed by the Ming Dynasty.

Switzerland, now sandwiched between Switzerland, Austria, Prussia, and France, and the Netherlands, sandwiched between France and Prussia, are now the most tense countries.

The Prussians also arranged for ambassadors from both countries to meet with the kings and ministers of both countries and ask them to join the agreements with Italy and Lucia.

The time has come when the two countries have to take sides.

Whether it was to join the agreements of France, Great Britain, Austria, or to Prussia, Lucia, Italy.

However, unlike Switzerland, the Netherlands is currently a member of the Union, so there is still some choice.

Since both sides want to fight for it, neither side dares to immediately threaten it with war.

Otherwise, the Netherlands is likely to fall to the other side immediately, so the Netherlands will have time to delay a little.

But Switzerland has little chance of delaying.

Switzerland was important enough for both sides that if it joined the side of France and Austria, it would be possible to link the armies of Austria and France.

Joining the Prussian side would continue to separate the two fronts and allow Prussia and Italy to connect across the Alps.

After considering the situation, Switzerland finally decided to join the agreement between Britain, France and Austria.

In terms of overall strength, Switzerland felt that France was not weaker than Prussia, and Austria was now weak enough to fight Austria.

England, standing by the sea, could also offset Lucia, who was also standing behind Prussia.

Since the Ottomans were in danger by Lucia, they would almost certainly join the British, French, and Austrian sides.

The forces of the two sides should be roughly equal, and the British, French and Austrian sides are slightly stronger.

Moreover, Switzerland's contribution to joining the British, French, and Austrian sides was significantly stronger than that of Prussia.

No sooner had Switzerland made its decision, and French troops immediately entered the territory of Switzerland.

Establish an overland link with Austria and cooperate with the Austrians to take the initiative to attack Prussia from the central south.

At the same time, Italy felt that the situation was more suitable, and officially launched an attack in the southwestern Slovenian region of Austria.

The scale of the war across the continent of Tessy has expanded further.

The Lucians, who had largely occupied the entire Scandinavian peninsula, had also made territorial claims to the Ottomans through the alliance in these days.

The Ottomans were asked to cede all the land in the Europa region, as well as the lands on both sides of the Black Sea Strait (Turkish Strait).

This is basically the entire Balkan Peninsula, including Constantinople (Istanbul).

I also asked for the land in the Daishoku area on the other side of the strait.

The aim was apparently to fully control the access from the Black Sea to the Great Qin Sea (Mediterranean).

Basically asking for half of the remaining Ottoman territory, this is definitely not your average lion's mouth.

But Lucia felt that she was not asking too much.

Both the Norwegians and the Swedes have been turned over by themselves, and they still care about the Lucians in the south?

It was time to regain Constantinople and officially rebuild Eastern Rome.

The Ottomans were also not very afraid of the Lucians.

The Ottomans had more than one territorial war with Lucia.

The entire Black Sea coast was originally Ottoman territory, but the northern part was constantly encroached upon and annexed by the Lucians.

In the past, the Ottoman Empire often suffered on the battlefield because of its outdated weapons and equipment.

Now the Ottomans feel that they are not at a loss.

With the technical support and actual equipment provided by the Ming Dynasty, the Ottomans must have the ability to defeat Lucia on their own.

So Osman naturally refused Lucia's request.

Lucia and the Ottomans, on the other hand, also entered a month-long countdown to the war.

The tension in the entire Tessie Continent has been completely full.

As for the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Jingyuan, who is the emperor, has no additional changes.

It is to continue to prepare for war step by step.

Raise supplies, update equipment, train reserves, send personnel to the front.

Speed up the production of new weapons and equipment, speed up the missile modification of cruisers, speed up the construction of aircraft carriers at factories.

and, a slight relaxation of restrictions on the sale of military equipment and materiel to the Tessie States.

The equipment of the Ming Dynasty is being updated, a large number of old propeller planes have to be replaced, and the guns on traditional warships have to be dismantled and replaced with missiles.

And these equipment are still considered advanced equipment when put into the regular armies of the Taixi countries.

The Taixi kingdoms originally had trade contacts with the Ming Dynasty.

Now that the war is gradually unfolding in full swing, the demand for all kinds of military equipment and materials is also rapidly expanding.

When domestic suppliers in various countries cannot meet the demand, they will of course try to increase the purchase volume in Daming.

The Taixi kingdoms originally thought that the Ming Society would have greater restrictions on this.

As a result, I didn't expect it to be wider than before.

Moreover, not only France and Austria were able to import weapons and equipment from the Ming Dynasty, but Lucia and Prussia were also able to place orders.

Even, Prussia got the best and the fastest delivery.

It's just that other countries don't know.

Time slowly came to May 15, and the Lucians officially declared war on the Ottomans.

The all-out war on the Tessie continent has officially begun.

The confident performance of the Ottoman Empire troops, although it cannot be said to be useless, can almost be regarded as a one-touch collapse.

It took only ten days for the Lucians to occupy the Romanian region and reach the Bulgarian border.

It was only then that Ottoman realized that times had changed, and immediately contacted the Austrians, who had already dealt with him, and asked to join their agreement with Britain and France.

Austria, along with Britain and France, accepted the Ottomans without much thought.

But it didn't do much.

The UK is still in a state of buzz and can only provide any support other than help.

France fought Prussia with all its might.

Although when the French troops faced the Prussian troops, there was no situation in which Zhu Jingyuan said that they were about to collapse at the touch of a button.

But the main reason was that the direction of the Prussian offensive was still southern, and in the Prussian-French border areas it was mainly defensive.

Under these circumstances, the French advanced at an unusually slow pace, never breaking out of the valley of Luxembourg.

On the southern border with Italy, which was also mainly in a state of confrontation, and no offensive was launched.

The French now also did not have the strength to cross the sea to support the Ottomans.

Not to mention Austria, which at the moment could only cope with the Prussian attack with all its might.

Therefore, the Ottomans really did not receive any effective help, and even the weapons and equipment that the Ming Dynasty continued to export did not play any effective role.

By the end of May, Lucia's troops had penetrated Bulgaria and reached the Aegean Sea.

At the same time, uprisings broke out in the Greek region.

The Lucians temporarily halted their westward advance, allowing the Greek rebels to quickly advance the city.

The main army attacked to the southeast with all its might, aiming directly at Constantinople, the former capital of Rome.

It is only 200 kilometers to Constantinople, and the key is that there is no danger on the way.

Only the walls of Constantinople itself, whether they can withstand the current planes and artillery, the Ottomans simply did not have any confidence.

The Ottoman Sultan was completely panicked.

After scolding France and Austria for being incompetent, and the British were shameless, they put aside all their worries and asked for help from the Ming Dynasty.

Directly expressed his willingness to become a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty.

Overseas satisfaction wants to be attached, of course, this is also very important news, and naturally it was directly reported to Zhu Jingyuan, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Jingyuan basically refused without much thought:

"At this time, the Ottomans are fighting against Lucia, and at this time, the Ottomans will be directly involved in the war between the Ottomans and Lucia.

And will encourage the remaining countries not to come to the Ming when they are independent, but to wait until the building is about to collapse to ask for help.

This shows that they have no sincerity at all, and they don't really want to become a Ming vassal at all.

"Instead, they came to ask for help when they had to.

"Insincere."

Zhu Jingyuan's words were slightly polished by Honglu Temple and sent back to the Ottomans.

The Ottoman Sultan despaired after reading it.

What is insincerity?

After all, it's not that you Ming people are troublesome?

Or is you, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, who don't dare to fight Lucia head-on at all?

But in any case, the Ottomans were finished.

In order to take Constantinople, which had been in mind for hundreds of years, the Romanov dynasty directly mobilized more than 1,000 aircraft of various types and more cannons.

The Lucia soldiers, who were already in full condition, also showed an unprecedented heroic posture.