In just three days, the Lucians advanced the front by more than two hundred kilometers almost at the speed of a normal march.

All the way to Istanbul, that is, under the city of Constantinople.

Many of the Ottoman troops surrendered without enough personnel to take care of them.

Only a handful of sub-units that followed from the rear, watched as they themselves unloaded their weapons and built their own prisoner camps on the plains.

The Ottoman Sultan was on the verge of complete collapse.

He was completely sure that his troops would not be able to withstand Lucia's attack at all.

As a result, the Sultan prepared to evacuate Istanbul and retreat further inland, while simultaneously contacting Daming and Lucia.

I hope to be able to negotiate peace with Lucia, and at the same time I implore me to take refuge in Daming.

The Ming response soon returned, allowing the Sultan to take refuge in Haifa City, the headquarters of the League of Nations.

Even if the entire Ottoman Empire is gone, it can be avoided by running to Haifa, and the Ming will provide the necessary protection and living facilities.

And suggested that the Ottoman Sultan go to the city of Haifa now, instead of waiting until after the city is broken.

He may not be able to run then.

Lucia's response was a little late, but only a night later.

The Lucians proposed a very exaggerated armistice condition.

Demanding the complete surrender of the Ottoman Sultan, Emperor Lucia canonized him as Duke of Ankara, making a piece of land near Ankara in the Ottoman interior his fief.

The rest of the whole Ottoman territory was incorporated into Lucia's proper.

And especially warned about the Ottoman speed, these conditions are conditions that can be given in the current situation.

This was a condition given to preserve the wealth of the city and its inhabitants of Constantinople.

After Lucia conquered Constantinople, the Ottoman Sultan could only be made the Count of Ping'an, and there would be no actual fief.

Once Lucia occupied all the lands along the Black and Aegean coasts, surrender without any conditions would no longer be accepted, and the Ottoman Sultan would only become civilians.

Lucia will launch a formal offensive in two days, hoping that the Ottoman Sultan will make a decision as soon as possible.

The Ottoman Sultan hesitated for a long time, but finally felt that the Lucians were too deceitful.

People Da Ming said that even if he has nothing, he can be protected and taken care of after running to Da Ming.

You Lucia are just too harsh.

The key is that he and Daming have not had a war, and they have been working together quite happily.

If you bring gold and silver treasures to Daming, most of them will be able to continue to enjoy a prosperous and wealthy life under the protection of Daming.

But if he surrenders to Lucia, even if he has a noble title, he may not be able to keep his private wealth.

There are too many lessons from the Ming Dynasty and history.

The monarch who surrenders to the enemy country will basically not end well.

If you want to die well, you must not only pretend to be stupid, but also pray that the other party's monarch and magnates are not interested in you.

However, the monarch who runs away to a neighboring country usually lives well.

The monarchs of the Persian Empire in history ran to the Tang Empire in Shenzhou, and became a nobleman in the Tang Dynasty.

After several hours of hesitation, the Ottoman Sultan decided to take the advice of the Ming and slip away before Lucia's attack began.

In the past ten years, Ottomans, with the help of the Ming Dynasty, have built a large number of new railways.

The Ottoman Sultan also had its own dedicated trains.

He immediately ordered his men to bring a large amount of gold and silver to the chariot.

This process lasted for a day and a night.

Then, when the Lucians attacked, the Ottoman Sultan got on the train and fled inland.

The Ottoman soldiers, in their own capital, still had some basic combat power when defending against foreign attacks.

Their armament is not particularly bad either.

But once the Sultan ran away, after the news spread, the morale collapsed.

One after another, the officers surrendered directly, and then Lucia directly occupied the city of Constantinople without much effort.

Even, when Lucia's army entered the city, Emperor Lucia learned the news that the Ottoman Sultan had escaped.

When Tsar Nikolai heard the report of the military personnel, the whole person was a little stunned:

"The Sultan ran away?"

Of course, it was a good thing that the Sultan ran away, allowing Lucia to easily recover the former capital of Rome, the former Constantinople.

But the Ottoman Sultan was not caught here, and it may be even more difficult to catch later.

Nikolai can imagine that once the Ottoman Sultan starts to run away, sooner or later he may even go directly to Daming.

After arriving in Daming, Lucia didn't want to ask for it back.

The fall of this orthodox Ottoman sultan into the hands of the Ming Dynasty was a headache for both the present Lucia and the future New Rome.

Nikolai was worried for a moment, and soon realized that there was no point in worrying now.

Just put this matter aside for now and continue to plan the follow-up battle plan.

At the same time, more importantly, he decided to go to Constantinople in person and announce his feat of recovering Constantinople to the entire continent of Ctessi.

At the same time, he couldn't wait to change the name of the country to Rome.

On the other side, the Ottoman Sultan really ran all the way to Daming, and went directly across the border to Haifa City, the headquarters of the League of Nations.

The Ottoman Sultan thought very well, and he stayed in the safe territory of the Ming Dynasty, and controlled the army and civilians in the country to continue to resist Lucia's invaders.

The point is that the Ottomans are the most traditional of all the countries today.

That is, the national consciousness is the weakest.

The country is still dominated by the traditional monarchy.

After the monarch himself took the initiative to run away, there was not much left of the will to resist if it did not collapse.

Therefore, the follow-up offensive momentum of the Lucia people is even more overwhelming.

Advancing rapidly from the east and west, he gradually occupied the entire Ottoman territory, and quickly turned the Ottoman Sultan into a dead king.

At the same time, troops were officially sent to suppress the uprising in Greece, and preparations were made to bring the Greek region under Lucia's rule.

As a result, the rebel army in Greece was unexpectedly tenacious.

Although their heavy weapons were inferior to those of the Ottoman army, their will to resist far exceeded that of the Ottoman army.

After the capture of major cities, guerrilla warfare continued in the suburbs and villages.

It was a great headache for the Lucians.

The Prussians, on the other side, were surprised by the speed of Lucia's attack in Ottoman territory, and were also stimulated by the Lucians.

If, after the Lucians had dealt with the Ottomans, they had returned to attack Austria, wouldn't they have seized the territory they had already predetermined?

After Prussia had been attacking Viana for a long time, it decided to attack Slovakia for the time being.

Although the fighting in these areas was not smooth, the resistance of the local forces in Austria was not very weak after they obtained actual rights.

But the fighting power of these small places was itself weaker than that of Prussia, which was completely militarized.

If the Prussians were really ruthless, they would at most slow down the Prussian advance.

As a result, the Prussians, while besieging Viana, gradually advanced in the western region.

By September of the A.D., the Prussians had penetrated Slovakia, Galicia, and Transylvania as a whole.

Successfully rendezvous with the Lucians of Romania.

By this time, the Lucians had occupied most of the Ottoman territory and began a nationwide campaign against bandits and the Greek rebels.

The Prussians began to turn back and besiege Hungary.

Hungary was one of the most important components of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and its own power could be considered quite strong.

However, the Emperor of Austria was also the king of Hungary.

At the same time, the main forces were transferred to defend Viana, and as a result, Hungary was not strong enough.

By the end of AD, the Prussians had occupied most of Hungary.

The Italians took advantage of Austria's fierce war with Prussia, slowly ate Slovenia and Croatia, and successfully rendezvous with the Prussians.

Italy got the region that Prussia had promised itself.

At this time, the only areas that Austria itself could control were the Archduchy of Austria and the western part of Hungary.

The remaining territory is completely cut off from Lucia.

Prussia doesn't have to worry about Lucia coming over to grab territory for the time being.

But the Prussians were still somewhat worried.

Because at this time, the whole of the Ottomans was completely occupied by Lucia, and now Lucia's battle is only to suppress the uprising in Greece.

Lucia's follow-up offensive direction has only the Netherlands, Britain, and France.

The plan of crossing the sea to attack England was obviously too difficult, and the attack on France and Holland would have to pass through Prussia.

What's more, Prussia saw France and Holland as its own, and did not want to give them to Lucia.

It's not a good thing to have Lucia's territory sandwiched between its own mainland.

So, at the end of the A.D., the Prussians invited Austria to negotiate an armistice.

Prussia demanded the surrender of the Austrian emperor, and the Habsburgs pledged allegiance to Hohenzollern.

After Hohenzollern was crowned Emperor of Germany, he could canonize Habsburg as King of Hungary.

The entire Hungarian region of land and population could be given to Habsburg rule.

But the Habsburgs had to surrender the lands of Austria proper.

All German regions had to be ruled completely and absolutely by the German Emperor.

This condition, in fact, is not very bad for the current Habsburgs.

Prussia was even willing to give up part of the Hungarian lands it had already occupied in exchange with the Habsburgs for Austria proper.

But Austria still bargained instinctively.

The Austrians demanded to keep the Austrian region and continue to be called Emperor of Austria instead of becoming King of Hungary.

This was unacceptable to the Prussians.

Enraged, the Prussians made the negotiation process public through newspapers and radio.

Then the declaration of the need for a complete unification of Germany was made, and a full-scale offensive against Vienna and the Hungarian region was continued.

As a result, the garrisons in these two places began to rout.

The combat effectiveness seems to have dropped a lot compared to before the negotiations, and there are constantly garrisons surrendering without a fight.

In less than a month, the remaining Hungarian regions were occupied by Prussia.

Some of them were captured in battle, but many more were surrendered by the garrison.

In the rest of the Archduchy of Austria, the proportion of garrisons surrendering directly became even higher.

Wilhelm III, who was in the rear, looked at the successive reports, and asked Prime Minister Stein for some doubts and surprises.

After thinking about it, Stein tried to analyze it and said:

The minister thought that it might have been because the Habsburgs rejected the unification of Germany and insisted on continuing to occupy the Austrian mainland alone.

This decision cost them the hearts and minds of the Germans in Austria.

"Our slogan of reunifying Germany, the determination to unite Germany rather than the occupied territories, won the approval of the local people.

"The Germans in Austria don't have much psychological pressure to join our country.

"The main thing is that they were subjects of the Habsburgs before, and direct surrender to us can be regarded as a betrayal after all, so we continue to insist on fighting.

"As for the Hungarian region, they are not very popular with the Hungarian people in the first place.

"Now we are demanding that the whole of Hungary be handed over to them to rule, but they simply refuse to accept this condition.

"They also completely lost the hearts and minds of the Hungarian people.

"The local Hungarian nobility and soldiers already knew that it would be impossible for them to defend themselves against our attack.

"At the same time, for them, allegiance to the Habsburgs or to Hohenzollern does not make much difference.

"So they also stopped fighting without much practical significance."

After hearing this, William III nodded slowly and said:

"It makes sense that in today's world, people's wisdom has gradually opened, and the Habsburgs still adhere to the medieval set, and there is no market anymore.

"The decree was made public, and the Kingdom of Prussia was officially renamed the Kingdom of Germany, and the Holy Roman Empire was re-established.

"The House of Hohenzollern forever served as kings of the Kingdom of Germany and concurrently as Holy Roman Emperor.

"To lead all the German people in the name of the King of Germany, and in the name of the Holy Roman Empire to lead the peoples of other ethnic groups within the borders.

"Hohenzollern will do whatever it takes to achieve a complete, comprehensive and absolute reunification of the German region.

"All Germans are welcome to join the Germans in their own kingdom, and other ethnic groups in Europa are welcome to join the Holy Roman Empire.

"And then launch a never-ending assault on Vienna!"

Stein bowed very solemnly:

"Your will!"

Prussian Army...... Now it should be said that the German army, guided by the orders of the king and the will of the country, launched a much larger offensive.

The situation in Austria on the other side took a sharp turn for the worse.

From the original reluctant resistance, it quickly turned into a one-touch collapse.

On February 7, the second year of the Grand Duke, the last fortress in Austria, the city of Vienna, was finally breached.

The head of the Habsburgs, Emperor of Austria-Hungary, Franz II, fled to France via Switzerland under the escort of his younger brother Karl.

The German region was finally fully reunified.

After the news spread, large-scale celebratory parades took place in major cities in the Kingdom of Germany.

Wilhelm III himself went to Vienna and gave a very rough, but extraordinarily grand coronation.

The former King Wilhelm III of Prussia was officially renamed King Wilhelm I of Germany, Holy Roman Emperor Wilhelm I.

During the coronation procession, the new King Wilhelm, in full uniform, marched through the streets with the troops who had entered Vienna first.

The ordinary Germans of Vienna had no objection to such a thing, and most of them even cheered along the streets.

Wilhelm gave a short but powerful speech after the march, announcing and celebrating the final unification of the German nation.

At the same time, it also pointed out the next goal of the Germans, which was to completely defeat the "invasion" of the French.