His Majesty decided that the only chance of averting this crisis was to defeat at least one of Prussia's enemies before they could act together. Field Marshal Schwering nodded in agreement, and Count Bordewis, a member of the cabinet at the time, requested
Your Majesty does not want to give the enemy the excuse of being an invader. However, His Majesty the King thinks that Count Bordewis is too timid and cowardly. A long time ago, His Majesty the King warned his heirs to conquer Saxony in a "Political Testament" written by himself.
This allowed Brandenburg and Silesia to form a geographical whole, thus giving Prussia a strategic depth. Your Majesty originally thought that it had no chance of achieving this goal. But at that time it seemed to have become a military necessity. Your Majesty
Saxony must be disarmed to ensure the security of the Western Front. The British government at the time informed His Majesty that it understood His Majesty's preemptive strike.
His Majesty the King once tried to get the Elector of Saxony to join his alliance and generously promised to allocate Bohemia under the Habsburg family to him in return. However, the Elector of Saxony August III was not satisfied with His Majesty's generosity.
He scoffed and ordered his generals to resist His Majesty the King's advance. At that time, the Elector himself retreated to Warsaw to continue being his King of Poland. Saxony's strength was too small to resist our powerful Prussian army; it had to retreat to the Pirna Fortress.
His Majesty ignored Pirna's garrison and marched straight into Dresden. He immediately ordered to search for documents that could prove Saxony's participation in the partition of Prussia. The Queen of Poland personally stopped our troops and asked us to respect the inviolability of her royal family.
Sex; His Majesty the King ordered her to be dragged away, and the document fell into the hands of our army. This document proved the fact that Austria, Hungary, and Saxony were trying to carve up our country. After getting the document, His Majesty was furious and announced to the entire army that he would fight with Austria,
The Hungarians fought to the death.
Afterwards, Queen Theresa of Austria mobilized an army from Bohemia to reinforce the Saxon garrison. Her Majesty defeated this army at the Battle of Robsitz on October 1 of that year. The Pirna garrison surrendered half a month later.
, His Majesty incorporated 14,000 Saxon garrison into his own army, because it was more cost-effective than raising them as prisoners. His Majesty also declared Saxony a conquered country, plundered its treasury, and levied taxes. This winter, His Majesty
The files obtained in Saxony were made public. But the shameless Queen Teresa immediately claimed that these documents were forgeries and notified France, Russia and all Christian countries to help her resist this vicious invader, which once again engulfed Europe.
To Prussia and His Majesty the King, it was undoubtedly a thief's cry to catch the thief.
But the European countries at that time were all confused by the Queen of Hungary, and our neighbor German princes were afraid that once His Majesty the King won, they would suffer the same fate as Saxony. In 1757, the princes unanimously agreed to declare war on us at the Imperial Conference.
, and formed an imperial army to conquer us. Those damn princes never know what unity is.
Austrian Prime Minister Kaunitz took the opportunity to remind King Louis XV of France that France had promised to help Austria resist the invasion if it was attacked. The unworthy woman Madame Pompadour accepted a bribe worth 77,278 riels from Austria.
She used her beauty to lure Louis XV to join the war. Under her bewitchment, Louis XV quickly made up his mind and signed a second alliance agreement with Austria on May 1. France promised to pay an annual subsidy of 12 million florins.
We equipped two German armies. We also promised to send a French army of 105,000 men to participate in the war. France also promised that it would never negotiate peace with us unless Austria regained the sovereignty of Silesia.
Once the strategic goal is achieved, France can accept the five border cities of the Austrian Netherlands. The rest of the Austrian Netherlands will be handed over to the Spanish crown as compensation for Spain's cession of the Italian principality. France has calculated that if France gets Belgium,
Even if he lost all his colonies to Britain, it would not be a pity.
Prime Minister Kaunitz of Austria won a major diplomatic victory for his country. On February 2, Russia and Austria promised each other to send 80,000 troops to the war to support the war until Silesia was re-incorporated.
At this time, Kaunitz turned to Sweden and guaranteed that all Pomerania would be given to Sweden after victory. Sweden sent 25,000 troops, with military expenses paid by France and Austria.
Under the auspices of its King August III, Poland also announced that it would join the Russo-Austrian Alliance. At this point, the entire Europe, except for Britain, Denmark, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Turkey, had united to become the enemy of Prussia.
At this time, the damn British discovered that the planned anti-French grand alliance had completely failed due to the bad Anglo-Prussian alliance, and they also attempted to abandon our country. George II was horrified to see that his beloved Hanover was unreservedly exposed to the enemy's advance.
However, our country's distant waters cannot save Hanover's close fire and cannot provide actual assistance. At this time, Austria's Kaunitz sent another fatal temptation. If he did not participate in the European War, Hanover could be guaranteed not to be attacked.
Violate.
It can be said that with the failure of diplomacy, our country is facing the worst situation in history.
The British Secretary of State, Old Pitt, was inclined to abandon our country and Hanover. Britain should concentrate all its efforts on the colonial war. However, soon after, he saw that once France defeated Prussia, it would become the master of the European continent.
At that time, Britain alone could never deal with the French. Old Peter believed that Britain should allocate funds to support our country so that our country could contain the French army and Britain could fight overseas.
Therefore, in January 1757, our country signed the second alliance with Britain, and Britain promised to provide aid to our country and send troops to defend Hanover. However, old Peter was soon dismissed for provoking the king, so Britain's response to our country
The assistance was delayed. For almost a year, His Majesty the King fought alone, with an army of 160,000, resisting an enemy force twice as many as ours, including 105,000 French troops and 20,000 Holy Roman Empire troops.
There are 130,000 Austrian troops, 60,000 Russian troops, and 16,000 Swedish troops.
On the same day that Old Peter stepped down, the husband of the Queen of Hungary, the Holy Roman Emperor Francis I, a man who lived on soft food, announced to the world that His Majesty the King was an outlaw and was not protected by the laws of the empire, and called on all
Good people work together to fight against this scum of mankind. This is a slander against the glorious Prussia and the great King."
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