"Lt. General Polcha's second army will be transferred to the southern border. Once the situation in the Kingdom of Spain changes, we will immediately join forces with the forces of the Kingdom of Catalonia to march into Madrid.

The best situation is to help Carlos IV sit firmly on the throne. If time cannot catch up, save Carlos IV and find a way to regain the throne of the Spanish Kingdom!

Of course, if Carlos IV falls into our hands, let him come to Paris first to meet me.

I believe that the forces of the fourth division of the Second Army are sufficient to stabilize the situation in the Kingdom of Spain.

What's more, we have the thug Aragon.

The Catalans now have a deep feud with the Spaniards, and they are sure to be very happy to help us fight the Spaniards."

"Your Majesty, if the situation in the Kingdom of Spain collapses and the Kingdom of Portugal is restored, will we attack the Kingdom of Portugal?"

"The Kingdom of Portugal does not need to attack. It is far away from the French Empire. If we want to attack the Kingdom of Portugal, our army must continue to penetrate the Ilibi Peninsula, and it is easy to fall into the dilemma of public security war.

We only need to maintain the situation in Madrid, even if we put the Spanish Kingdom into a civil war, it is OK.

Remember, our strategic goal is not to help Carlos IV to quell the rebels in the Kingdom of Spain, but to stabilize the security of our southern border!

In this way, even if the London government sends their redshirts to land, it will be difficult to threaten the southern border of the empire."

Li Wei made a strong decision.

"The First Army is still the main force of this battle, but the main attack direction of the First Army is no longer the Piedmont region of the Kingdom of Sardinia, where I will hand it over to the Sardinian Legion and the Italian Legion.

This time our annexation of the Piedmont region of the Kingdom of Sardinia is one of the established goals.

The strategic location of this area is very important to the empire, and the Kingdom of Sardinia has a Sardinia in the Mediterranean that can serve as a solid rear base camp. We cannot make the Kingdom of Sardinia completely surrender through war. It is better to swallow the Piedmont area directly and weaken the strength of the Kingdom of Sardinia.

Without the Piedmont region, the Kingdom of Sardinia cannot even be considered a last-rate country in the continent, and will no longer be a threat to us in the future.

After the Sardinian Legion and the Italian Legion took down the Piedmont region and established direct rule, they attacked the Italian region according to the situation.

It is best to take over the Lombardy and Venice regions and sweep away many states in the rich northern Italian Peninsula.

It is impossible for the states in the Italian region to return to the level before the last war in such a short time, so the Italian state army is not worth worrying, and our main opponent is still the Austrians.

The attack along the way can disperse the main forces of the Austrians in Central and Europe, helping the First Army to open up the situation faster on the Sino-Europe battlefield.

Carl's first army's strategic goal was to send troops from one or two divisions, and together with the army of the Kingdom of Belgium, to attack the United Provincial Republic of the Netherlands.

After defeating the United Republic of the Netherlands, there is no need to forcibly occupy the place to disperse troops, and support a Dutch governor as a puppet.

Leave the occupation mission to the Belgian army.

The Belgian army is not strong in combat, so don’t let them be on the front line. If the Belgian army loses too much, even if the Belgian king is ours, it may cause bad unexpected factors.

While the First Army attacked the United Republic of the Netherlands, it sent its main force across the Rhine.

As long as the Holy Roman Empire states on the south bank of the Rhine River are unwilling to surrender, they will all be wiped out, especially the powerful states in the Holy Roman Empire such as Hesse, Baden, Württemberg, and Bavaria, which must be completely defeated!

After defeating them, we will form the Rhine Alliance on the spot and support the new government. The leadership of the new government needs to come to Paris to report to me."

"Your Majesty, what should the Kingdom of Switzerland do?"

"The Kingdom of Switzerland is a mountainous country and has no oil and water. If the attack is strong, it will take a lot of time and military strength. If the Kingdom of Switzerland does not participate in the anti-French alliance, they will be allowed to remain neutral.

If the Swiss Kingdom's army joins the anti-French alliance to attack the empire's land, two or three divisions of troops will be arranged to block them, and there will be no need to go deep into the Swiss mountains before the end of the Central and European War.

After fighting against the powerful China-Europe, we will concentrate our main force to destroy the Kingdom of Switzerland.”

Li Wei's strategic plan is actually too ideal, and only his army, who was brainwashed by the comprehensive war system, could complete this plan.

After all, Li Wei’s plan is equivalent to going to war with the powerful countries in Europe!

After the top leaders of the French Empire formulated a strategic plan, orders began to spread throughout the French Empire from the capital of Paris. The French Empire initially digested the wealth from Italy and the Piedmont region of the Kingdom of Sardinia, and once again started the war machine.

As the scale of the war grew larger and more troops were mobilized, the preparation time for war began to extend. It was no longer the era when people could go to the battlefield with one gun...

Good logistics supply is an important factor in ensuring the combat effectiveness of the army, especially basic ammunition and food!

The French Empire's war mobilization could not be concealed by neighboring countries. Under the rumor of the London government, even Tsarist Russia, far away in Eastern Europe, knew that the French Empire was mobilizing troops on a large scale and gathering war materials!

The wealth plundered from Italy and Piedmont began to shrink at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The materials produced in the French Empire alone could not meet the war consumption of hundreds of thousands of troops. A large number of smuggling merchants from various countries began to harvest wealth in the French Empire.

Li Wei was helpless after receiving the report. It is easy to arrest these smuggling merchants now, but once they start, who dares to do smuggling business in the French Empire?

Under the blockade of the Royal Navy of the British, it was almost impossible for the French Empire to purchase a large amount of raw materials for the production of military materials from overseas through formal trade channels. Although countries around the French Empire such as the Holy Roman Empire had stopped war with the French Empire, the trade blockade was still maintained.

The foreign ministries of the French Empire came to protest and condemn them, and the governments of those countries rude that this was the businessman's own behavior and played the rogue routine.

Fortunately, the surveillance technology in this era is not good, and smuggling trade is prevalent. The French Empire could meet its war needs through smuggling merchants, which means that the money spent is several times higher than normal trade!

Among them, Jewish merchants were the most active. The original base camp was a state city in northern Italy. However, these Jewish merchants had a very keen sense of political aura. After studying Li Wei's history of making a fortune, they ran away with money before the French Defense Force arrived.

These Jewish merchants are not ordinary vendors, they are all top Jewish financiers and bankers. They have a large amount of gold and silver in their hands and other hard currency of this era!

The rich Jewish merchants could only use a second dealer to extract a lot of wealth from the French Empire. The Jewish merchants also inferred from the actions of the French Empire that the Livi government would inevitably launch a war and continuously raise the prices of raw materials for producing strategic materials!

These shrewd Jewish merchants knew that Levi was a tyrant who could do anything and their price raising behavior would definitely cause Levi to be furious. So the Jewish merchants sent to the French Empire to do business were insignificant endorsements, and they all stayed in safe Central European cities.

Although Europe generally discriminated against Jews in this era, the real Jewish businessmen were more popular among European countries except Tsarist Russia because they had a lot of wealth.

It was not that Tsarist Russia did not welcome Jewish merchants, but that the greedy Tsarist Russian bureaucracy liked to slaughter Jewish merchants without backgrounds as fat sheep. Over time, few foreign Jewish wealthy merchants came to Tsarist Russia to do business...

This is actually a loss for Tsarist Russia. Jewish merchants are very deceptive, but the wealth they brought in and the economic and trade activities they promoted often bring huge tax growth to the country.

It can be said that European countries hate and love Jewish merchants.

I hate these Jewish merchants without patriotism, which truly interprets the concept of businessmen without borders...

As long as the money is given in place, Jewish merchants dare to sell anything!

Naturally, no country would have a favorable impression of such businessmen.

However, the top small group of Jewish merchants have a lot of wealth. The countries they live in will inevitably bring about rapid economic development and tax growth, making the national government happy, and cannot refuse these rich Jewish merchants...

The result is that on the one hand, European countries promoted the insidiousness of Jewish merchants and reduced the public's impression of Jewish people. On the other hand, they opened their doors to Jewish wealthy merchants, and even provided political refuges to Jewish merchants just to attract them to do business.

Before Levi's expedition to Italy, the commercial republic in northern Italy was the favorite national system of Jewish merchants, and a large number of wealthy Jewish merchants were gathered there.

It’s a pity that these wealthy Jewish businessmen ran faster than rats and were not harvested by the French Wehrmacht...

The real unlucky ones were the local nobles in the Italian region who were reluctant to run away, and even the ordinary wealthy businessmen who rely on them were also in trouble...

Although the Levi government has no choice but to deal with the Jewish second-door dealer group, this does not prevent Levi from recording Jewish merchants in his small notebook, waiting for the opportunity in the future to take revenge!

With the price raised by Jewish merchants, the wealth plundered by the French Empire shrank significantly, and finally prepared for war.

Of course, the opponents of the French Empire were not fools. Seeing that the French Empire was preparing for war, the plan for expansion was in advance, but due to the finances, the plan for expansion was not successfully completed.

On the occasion of the autumn harvest in 1798, the French Empire declared war on the Holy Roman Empire on the grounds that the Holy Roman Empire violated the peace treaty and controlled domestic merchants not to trade with the French Empire!

Now, even if the Holy Roman Empire is neither sacred nor Roman nor empire, on the official level, the Holy Roman Empire is a whole, declaring war on the Holy Roman Empire, and in law it is to declare war on all the countries in the Holy Roman Empire.

The Berlin government of the Prussian Kingdom, who had no plans to participate in the war, was furious when he heard the news and felt that he had been underestimated by the tyrant Li Wei.

So, he agreed to the olive branch submitted by the London government.

The second London Conference was held with very high efficiency. Just one day after the convening, the second anti-French alliance was established!

The number and quality of the member states of the anti-French alliance this time exceeded the first time, and the front-line powers include Britain and the United Kingdom of Ireland, the Holy Roman Empire, and the Tsarist Russia!

Other countries include the Kingdom of Switzerland, the United Provincial Republic of the Netherlands, the Kingdom of Denmark, the Kingdom of Sardinia, many states in Italy, and the Kingdom of Portugal.

It can be said that all countries in Central and Western Europe participated in the Second Anti-French Alliance!

Only a few countries such as Sweden, which were far away from France, did not participate in the Second Anti-French Alliance.

Because the Ottoman Empire was still hoping to join forces with the French Empire, it did not participate in the second anti-French alliance.

However, when the French Empire's Foreign Ministry wanted to pull the Ottoman Empire into the alliance, it was rejected by the Ottoman Empire, because the Ottoman Empire was not ready for a full-scale war with Tsarist Russia.

However, in order to make the French Empire fight with the anti-French alliance, the Ottoman Empire provided the French Empire with tens of thousands of free muskets and dozens of old-fashioned artillery, and also thoughtfully organized ships to transport them!

However, when these arms entered Hong Kong, the people of the Li Wei government were disappointed to find that these muskets and cannons were all eliminated products of the Ottoman New Army, and all muskets were messile guns. The age of the cannons was estimated to be one hundred years...

However, no matter how bad the arms are, they are still weapons. At least these weapons can be used, which is already very good. After all, the Ottoman army did not reach the point where they were flintlock rifles.

This does not mean that the Ottoman Empire was too backward in this era. It was mainly because the territory of the Ottoman Empire was too large and its military size was large. Moreover, the troops stationed in different regions were different. Except for the Ottoman New Army that fully realized the firearm-based armed forces, the armed forces in other places had not completed the firearm-based armed forces.

The Ottoman Empire's army on the books in this era was more than one million!

Millions of muskets, not to mention the Ottoman Empire, even the richest United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland, would not be able to produce them for a while.

Firearms are not produced and placed in the warehouse, and can be used when needed. The maintenance costs on weekdays are quite valuable, so the Ottoman Empire provides so many firearms, which can save itself a lot of maintenance costs...

The Ottoman Empire was still under the feudal system, and the central court of the Ottoman Empire did not like to fully arm the local army.

For example, Mamluk in Egypt!

After the Levi government assigned the "friendship" of the Ottoman Empire to local police, the main force of the First Army led by Carl took the lead in starting the Battle of the Rhine.
Chapter completed!