The monarchs of Germany, Lucia, and Italy, as well as the main staff officers accompanying them, took off from the Paris airport on their own special planes to the city of Rome-Constantinople, when the signal for the great war was just given.

According to past habits, even if the new tactics they have implemented in the past three years, relying on the mechanized rapid offensive plan of air-ground coordination, it will take some time to brew between the start of the war and the official start of the war.

Even the fully prepared German army, attacking the weakly defended Danish mainland, fought for two days and did not reach the end of the opponent's territory, but only captured the opponent's king and forced the opponent to surrender as a whole.

Now that the entire Europa is facing a behemoth like Daming, the simple start of the brewing time has to be calculated according to the day.

So they naturally subconsciously believe that the latest battlefield news will not be received until a few hours, or even tomorrow.

And most of the time it was only a definite report of a skirmish.

But when their plane flew for four hours and landed at the airport of Constantinople, they received a shocking message.

Wittgenstein, the commander of the Eastern Roman theater of operations, who was in charge of operations in the direction of the Great Eclipse, reported that all seven large bases in the east and southeast had lost contact.

Emperor Nicholas of Lucia, as the host, immediately asked Wittgenstein loudly with some annoyance:

"What do you say? Lost contact? That's not seven small military camps, it can even be said to be seven cities, how could there be such a thing as losing contact? ”

Wittgenstein was also full of astonishment and puzzlement as he reported what he knew:

"Your Majesty, we also understood, but soon after the declaration of war, neither radio, nor wired telephone, nor telegraph, could be reached.

"We believe that at the beginning of the war, the Ming people used special methods to cut off our communication lines with the forward bases and block the radio."

Nikolai immediately continued to ask:

"Then have you contacted the nearby yamen and garrisons? Confirm the exact location and extent of the communication outage?

"Have you asked the nearest garrison to arrange planes and vehicles to confirm the situation of these seven bases?"

Wittgenstein immediately replied:

"The subordinates immediately arranged it at that time, and now the area where the communication was interrupted has been basically determined, that is, the seven bases in the east themselves.

"The subordinates have given an order to the nearest garrison base, asking them to immediately send reconnaissance planes and convoys to confirm the situation.

"The people below are contacting and confirming, it is estimated that there will be news soon, Your Majesty can take a little rest......"

Confused and annoyed, Nikolai resisted the urge to lash out and waited for about half an hour.

Finally, a correspondent came in, delivered a stack of printed papers, and handed it to Jean Wittgenstein, the chief commander of operations.

Wittgenstein glanced at the news above, his eyes immediately widened, and then he shouted directly in an extraordinarily exaggerated manner:

"It can't be! When pigs fly! Here's what happened to the investigating soldiers! ”

Under normal circumstances, Wittgenstein, as the commander, should read the message as soon as possible, and then hand the document to Nikolai and explain the situation at the same time.

But now he seemed to be greatly stimulated, and he did not believe what he saw in the report at all.

Seeing this, Nikolai couldn't help but ask:

"Why are you so out of shape? What's really going on ahead? Show me the report......"

Wittgenstein heard the voice, seemed to regain some sense, and transferred the document in his hand to Nikolai, while still glaring and said:

"Your Majesty, the personnel who went to the camp to investigate said that our Caspian base at the foot of the Caucasus Mountains has been completely bombed into ruins.

"With a garrison of 300,000 troops, it can be called a large base of a militarized city, but all of them are directly in ruins.

"Investigators said they didn't see the full building, and it was estimated that it would be difficult to find survivors.

"There's definitely something wrong with this news.

"I'll immediately rearrange the personnel and go around the base again to confirm the situation......"

Nikolai was also stunned after reading it, and instinctively muttered with anger:

"Of course this is impossible, it must be that the soldiers below are lazy, or even want to defect, so they make up impossible information.

"Go, immediately contact the officers of the regiment where these scouts belong, and ask them to get back a few soldiers who are responsible for reconnaissance and reporting."

Nikolai, of course, was furious, and he subconsciously believed that something was wrong with the management of the army.

Before Nikolai could finish his sentence, another messenger ran to the command room and handed over a new report to Wittgenstein.

Wittgenstein glanced at it, his eyes widened again, and then he roared with obvious rage:

"How can this be—impossible—"

Nikolai glared at Wittgenstein with the same anger on his face, and the other party immediately handed over the report:

"Your Majesty, this is a reconnaissance report on the forward base in the upper reaches of the two river basins, and the reported situation is basically the same as that of the Caspian base.

"But this is absolutely impossible to happen, those bases were fine before the declaration of war.

"There is no force in the world that can turn an entire city into ruins in a matter of hours.

"If our enemies have this power in their hands, then there is no point in war now.

"They can directly destroy any of our cities and facilities......"

Nikolai read the report and listened to Wittgenstein's words, and the anger in his heart was slowly extinguishing.

Nikolai thought of some news that he had seen, which was considered by both the intelligence officers and himself to be the intelligence of the Ming Dynasty, which was completely impossible.

Nikolai fell silent, and then received several reports one after another, all of which were investigation reports on the forward bases.

The content of all the reports is very similar, the fortress and the forward base on the front line have been directly blown into ruins by incomprehensible forces.

Two or three million soldiers in these fortresses went to God before the war began.

By the end, someone had sent in a couple of fax photos.

The photographs taken by the reconnaissance planes over the ruins of those bases eventually turned these unfigurative text messages into real scenes.

Both Nikolai and Wittgenstein were utterly silent.

William of Germany and Vittorio of Italy were also silent after reading the news that Nikolai had read.

It's hard to believe, but it's happening.

Da Ming held a power in his hands that was beyond his own cognition, and directly destroyed the seven military bases on which he had high hopes.

wiped out three million soldiers and hundreds of thousands of military equipment that they had prepared for a long time.

They all remembered that the intelligence system had appeared with a new bomb that was ten thousand times more powerful than the unit weight.

At the time, everyone thought it was impossible, and even a hundredfold report was hard to believe.

But if the situation we see now is true, this 10,000-fold figure is not an exaggeration, but a clear conservative trend.

Even if the power is increased by 10,000 times, it is difficult to destroy a city directly.

There must be more than ten times more powerful energy.

As time passed, new messages were sent one after another.

Among the residents of the demilitarized zone and the free trade zone, some private photographers took photos of the mushroom cloud at the time of the nuclear explosion, which were found by the investigative force.

The photographs were sent to Nikolai by fax.

After reading it, Nikolai and Wittgenstein instinctively uttered a phrase:

"Divine punishment—"

In the afternoon, the monarchs of the three kingdoms of Lucia received news from the navy one after another.

The first news was that he reported that he had been attacked and entered a large-scale air defense operation, and the opponent should be the fleet of the Ming Dynasty.

And then there was the report a few hours later, which directly said that the Roman combined fleet was completely annihilated.

Then, several monarchs and staff officers all subconsciously asked:

"Annihilation?"

"How did the navy wipe out?"

"Are all the battleships injured?"

In this era, it is difficult for anyone who knows a little about the navy to imagine that the naval fleet is truly completely annihilated.

Just like in the era of smoothbore guns, it was difficult for army generals to imagine a situation in which all enemies were directly eliminated on the battlefield.

The shells of naval artillery warships and the aerial bombs of carrier-based aircraft are all outrageously low weapons, and they all need to rely on the number of piled up hit rates.

Two evenly matched fleets, one of which did not fight back at all, fled with the opponent's artillery and bombs.

At least half of the warships can run back to the military port intact.

So it is impossible to really "wipe out the whole army".

King Vittorio of Italy asked in a trembling voice:

"Could it be...... The Ming Navy also used that kind of weapon comparable to divine punishment......"

Nikolai looked at the detailed report document and explained the more desperate situation with a blank face:

"He didn't use a divine punishment weapon, at least before the naval fleet was completely lost, Da Ming didn't use a divine punishment weapon.

However, after two hours of bombardment with conventional weapons, most of the warships were disabled or sank.

"After that, the navy lost contact, and the last communication warship was also destroyed.

"In that case, it's clear that there is no need to use the Divine Punishment weapon anymore.

"However, the kind of bombs dropped by the Ming naval aviation will track the warships on the sea.

"In the process of falling, they will change the trajectory of the fall according to the situation, always towards the position of the battleship.

"So the hits reached more than sixty percent of the horrors......

The final report said that the people on the battlefield suspected that Daming had dropped more than 2,000 bombs.

"All the battleships were hit, and all the battleships ate more than twenty bombs, bombs weighing more than two tons.

"No ship can resist, no ship can leave intact—

"The final reward...... Full of despair ......"

Vittorio was stunned for a long time, then folded his hands and closed his eyes and said:

"The bomb chased the battleship and blew it up...... This is also another form of divine punishment ......"

Nikolai was silent.

After reading the report, Germany's Gneisenau said:

"This should be the direction of the fall that is adjusted by radio remote control and electric motors, controlling the rudder surface of the tail of the bomb.

"It's a weapon we can make, and we're even already researching and testing, but it's still very unreliable, and it's not a divine punishment."

King Wilhelm of Germany with his forehead in his hands:

"We don't have any real divine punishment until we don't have any real divine punishment—

"But Da Ming's super bomb, coupled with the technology to control the direction, is a de facto divine punishment for us.

"Our troops...... There is no way to resist it.

"Now that the battlefield in the east is no longer sustainable, perhaps tomorrow morning we will receive the news that the Ming Dynasty has occupied the entire demilitarized zone.

"The British campaign is also de facto over......

"After this, Daming's attack is simply unstoppable, as long as it encounters a position that is difficult to penetrate, it can be handled with navigation and super bombs."

At this moment, the surrounding staff officers were also silent.

Indeed, most of them know very well in their hearts that there are no gods in this world.

Of course, there is no such thing as divine punishment in the religious concept.

But the technologies and weapons that the Ming Dynasty now has in their hands are physical "divine punishment".

The alliance of these three Romes on the spot is simply not able to contend with it.

There is no point in war anymore.

Vittorio was the first to shout out a proposal in another direction:

"There is no way to continue the war, and it is impossible for us to defeat the current Ming.

"I think it's time to try to contact Daming and discuss a truce that Daming can accept."

Nikolai glared at Vittorio again:

"After Da Ming issued an ultimatum yesterday, he never paid attention to our contact.

"Do you think Da Ming will pay attention to us now?

"If I were the Ming Emperor, I would only accept a complete surrender without any conditions.

"Otherwise, the entire continent of Europa will be completely occupied by force."

Vittorio also understood this reality in an instant.

After staring and thinking for a minute, it seems that he has found another straw:

"That'...... We can try to contact the military commander-in-chief who is directly fighting with us......"

This time the other two monarchs didn't speak, and Gneisenau gave Vittorio a slap in the face:

"According to the information we have obtained, the commander-in-chief of the Europa battlefield appointed by the Ming side this time is Yang Yuchun."

Then the monarchs of the Three Kingdoms at the scene, as well as other staff officers who didn't understand the information, almost collapsed on the spot when they heard Yang Yuchun's name.

Yang Yuchun may not have an overwhelming advantage in the current Ming Dynasty compared with other generals.

But he has a very high reputation in Taixi.

In the world war more than 20 years ago, Yang Yuchun directly commanded the battle with Taixi.

The Taixi generals opposite him knew that there were only two options to fight against Yang Yuchun's troops.

Either surrender before you open fire, or fight until you die.

Yang Yuchun did not accept prisoners who had shot at their troops.

The strategy on the battlefield will be exaggerated after it is transmitted to the people, so that Yang Yuchun's name has the effect of making children stop crying.

After the scene sank for a while, Vittorio looked at Nikolai:

"Your brother and niece...... His Royal Highness Luo Yashan, Grand Duke of Xianbei, and his daughter, His Royal Highness Luo Feiya, the beloved concubine of His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty......"

Nikolai closed his eyes and said:

"They had already contacted me in advance before the war began, and they would not have any personal contact with me again in the future.

"If you want to find them for anything, you can only contact them through the diplomatic channels of the Daming Honglu Temple."

The atmosphere at the scene was solemn to the extreme, and most people had only despair left in their hearts.

Weapons that directly destroy a city, and bombs that can track targets, these two things are too powerful as a deterrent.

Wilhelm of Germany was silent for a long time, and then suddenly spoke:

"Have you ever considered how difficult and expensive it is to produce a weapon that can destroy a city?

"Can the Ming produce a lot of these weapons?

"Perhaps...... Daming has run out?

"Otherwise, in the naval battle of the North Atlantic, why didn't Da Ming destroy our fleet with that kind of weapon?"

Nikolai's mood fluctuated a little, but only a little:

"Even if Da Ming only has so many divine punishment weapons, even if Da Ming has really used up all of them and can't produce them anymore.

"However, all of our elite troops have also been wiped out by the Ming Dynasty.

"Even if the Ming continues to attack with conventional weapons, it is only a matter of time before the whole of Europa is completely occupied."

William immediately said:

"Yes, it's a matter of time, that is, we won't fail right away.

"The Ming Dynasty has that kind of weapon, but it did not directly blow up Moscow, Berlin and Paris, and directly eliminate us monarchs and ministers.

"It's just used to dispose of ordinary soldiers in the camp closest to their homeland.

"It shows that Da Ming either doesn't have the ability to do that, and that kind of super weapon can't be projected farther.

"Either that, or the Ming still cares about the value and significance of our orthodox monarchs.

"As long as the war continues, as long as we can exert greater combat effectiveness, we will be contacted again tomorrow sooner or later.

"We continue to mobilize more troops and reorganize our defenses along the lines of Constantinople and the Balkans, which may not be able to resist for longer.

"We haven't lost yet, we're far from defeating, the war isn't over yet."

King Vittorio of Italy subconsciously wanted to say:

I'd rather the war was over.

Following the two of you who wanted to rebuild Rome without choosing to join the French system is really the most wrong choice in my life.

However, considering the status of Italy and the current situation, Vittorio still forcibly resisted the urge to spray and taunt.

Continue to watch William try to re-boost morale.

William's speech seems to have worked.

In other words, everyone already knows their end, and there is no other choice.

Before officially declaring war, the Ming Dynasty proposed mediation three times in the past three years, and finally gave an ultimatum.

They were all rejected by no one on their side because of the victory in front of them.

Now that the Ming Dynasty has refused to contact his own party, the Ming Emperor has already made his attitude clear by choosing Yang Yuchun as the commander-in-chief.

"Since you don't have a shame on your face, let's try the taste of being beaten."

Now he can only mobilize all the forces at his disposal to resist, and then delay the time of his final defeat and even death.

In the world of traditional monarchs or rulers, they really have to do that now.

As for the speculation that William mentioned, Da Ming may not have the ability to deliver the super bomb directly to the rear city where he is located.

and speculation that the Ming Emperor needed the legitimacy of his own traditional monarchs to manage the people of Taixi after the war.

It's the straw of their last life that they can grasp in their hands now.

It is true that the Ming Emperor did not execute an orthodox monarch.

This is the only way to go on and on.

As for the soldiers and civilians who could die directly in the war, they did not have much sense of existence in the minds of these monarchs.

And so the war went.