Although Switzerland, which had just gained independence from the Holy Roman Empire, had always pursued a neutral policy, when the Ming army was approaching, it had to end the neutral policy and form an alliance with France and Francis to deal with the Ming Dynasty.

Originally, England also wanted to join, but the naive English Stuart dynasty adopted an appeasement policy, fantasizing that the Ming Empire, which had trade and exchanges with it, would not target it, but he was indeed unwilling to see the Ming Empire destroy France, Florence and other empires, so he wanted to be a mediator.

However, the Ming Empire ignored his mediation, and Folangji and other countries were quite disappointed with the Stuart dynasty. In addition, there were already conflicts before, so they ignored English's kindness.

While the Ming Empire was digesting the occupied areas of Europa and resting, France, Francisco, Switzerland and other European alliances were also urgently strengthening their defense lines.

Switzerland is surrounded by the Alps in the south, so it is mountainous in the south. From Innsbrough to Grenoble, there are rolling mountains, so it is easier to build fortifications and can be regarded as easy to defend and difficult to attack.

After occupying the three cities of Varese, Biyala and Bergamo, which were north of Milan, the frontiers of the Ming army had to stop because they had to attack again. In this way, even if they could occupy the entire territory of Switzerland, they would pay higher military costs.

The Western European Union also assembled more than 200,000 troops in this area to prepare for the fight against the Ming army, and was equipped with giant artillery and firearms, as well as chemical weapons. It can be regarded as a stronger army that the Ming Dynasty had to pay attention to since its expansion.

After all, Florence and France were considered relatively advanced countries in this era, especially Florence. Without the agility of Britain to defeat him, he is still the number one maritime power of Europa. Under the rule of Louis XIV, France is also thriving in national strength and can be called the strongest overlord of Europa on land!

However, after learning that the Flangji had added another group of troops to enter Switzerland, Emperor Zhu Youxiao of Ming Dynasty decisively instructed Fu Dahai to consider avoiding the real and attacking the virtual, that is, bypassing the Swiss defense line, selecting other locations to attack, and then circumvent the southern defense line of Switzerland, making more than 200,000 troops of the entire Western European Union a trapped beast.

In response to this, Fu Dahai summoned the assistants of the General Command overnight to formulate a new combat plan.

Fortunately, although it is mountainous throughout southern Switzerland, especially the part bordering Italy, there is a low-lying area in the southeast of France, extending from Marseille as the starting point to Lyon and Dijon, almost traversing the entire low-lying area of ​​France.

In other words, if the Ming army launches an attack from Marseille, it can sweep into central France with one horse, so that it can enter the central plateau of France, which directly threatens the Western European plains, enter the Lorraine Plateau in the east, and attack Switzerland from the northern plains of Switzerland to achieve the effect of central flowering.

Zhu Youxiao thought of this and naturally knew that the lightning attack on France by the German army in later generations was also the reason why the great movement and detours were used to bypass the Maginot line of defense and then gained miraculous results. Now the Ming Dynasty had a powerful navy that could do this.

The generals all admired the Ming Emperor's masterpiece, but therefore, the key to the war situation was placed on the navy.

Of course, here, Fu Dahai still sent some troops to conduct feint attacks on the Swiss defense line, and even every hour that was not expensive, it was like a shelling attack on the Swiss defense line, forcing the Western European Union troops on the Swiss defense line to hide in a cave and mistakenly think that the Ming Dynasty was going to attack with a strong army.

In order to achieve the strategy of exploding France's chrysanthemums and then starting a breakthrough from its center, the Ming Navy sent the most elite fleet under Heiwa to attack the southeastern coastline of France. The landing war in the island of the Horse will be personally responsible for Liu Wenxiu, a famous naval warfare general who has become famous since the 20th year of Apocalypse.

In terms of the Western European Union naval, the strongest ones were Ferron and English. France did not have a strong navy at this time, but now England adopted a policy of appeasement and neutrality. The main force of its naval force has been hiding in the Irish Sea and cannot leave. At this time, Ferron was afraid that the Ming Navy would directly bypass France and go to Corsica and even take the Strait of Gibraltar to attack its headquarters. He did not care about helping protect France, but placed its main force in the defense of the local waters.

France had to face the attacks of the strongest naval fleet on its own.

Marseille, France, the second largest city and largest seaport in France after Paris, is located in the Mediterranean sea area, with deep water and wide water, no rapids and dangerous shoals, and is suitable for anchoring large giant ships. Therefore, the huge fleet of the Ming Dynasty did not have to worry about stranding attacks the Marseille port.

However, after being incorporated into France more than a hundred years ago, it has been France's most important harbor military base. Especially after Louis XIV suppressed the local rebellion, two fortresses, Saint-Jean and Saint-Nicholas, were built here in an attempt to keep the French maritime gate.

Therefore, if Heiwa and Liu Wenxiu want to occupy Marseille Port, they have to conquer the two fortresses, Saint Jean and Saint Nicholas.

According to the information provided by the Jinyiwei, these two fortresses are equipped with a large number of arsenals and ships, and are built with giant cannons on the shore to form an aquatic and land defense facility. The two fortresses rely on left and right, and like upper and lower fangs, the climate and beautiful scenery of Marseille Harbor is guarded inside it.

It was dawn and it was just dawn. The French defenders in Marseille Harbor yawned and stretched to get up early. Because the Ming Navy often harassed the coastal areas, they had to increase their vigilance. After all, no one knows when the navy of the Ming Empire would come.

Several French defenders on night watchmen continued to pull muskets to the coast as usual. While whistling leisurely and unbuttoning their pants and peeing into the sea, a sharp knife quickly smeared at their necks, but their mouths and noses were tightly covered.

In just over a dozen seconds, these French defenders were killed. At this time, a Ming naval special forces whistled. A submarine that was traveling by steam power emerged from the water and jumped into the offshore shallow area. As soon as the hatch opened, dozens of steamboats were released from the submarine's hatch. A total of thousands of Marines drove the steamboat into the Saint-Jean Fortress.

But at this time, violent shelling occurred at the St. Nicholas Fortress.

According to the arrangement of Heiwa and Liu Wenxiu, the Ming Navy's combat plan for the landing war in Marseille was to directly attack the two fortresses of Saint Jean and Saint Nicholas at the same time. However, in terms of specific tactics, Saint Jean was to take a sneak attack on Saint Jean and a bright attack on Saint Jean to achieve the goal of attracting the enemy's firepower to concentrate on Saint Nicholas.

In this way, the French defenders in Marseille will be concentrated in Fortress Saint Nicholas, and the firepower of Fortress Saint Jean will also be concentrated in attacking this area, providing conditions for the Ming submarines and naval special forces to surrender to Fortress Saint Jean.
Chapter completed!