(Frederick the Great)
During the War of the Austrian Succession, Frederick of Prussia took advantage of the fire to bully his Austrian cousin Maria Theresa and snatch the fertile and resource-rich industrial region of Silesia from her. Teresa, who was inferior to her skills, hated her cousin to the core, and vowed to recapture Silesia.
Queen Teresa once said: God's mercy has strengthened me and enabled me to wander on the path which He has laid for me full of thorns, pain, and tears; Even if I fight to the end, I would rather sell the last skirt than give up Silesia!
Without real strength, it is useless to talk harshly, and in the two Silesian wars, Austria lost in a mess, exposing the weaknesses of the rulers' poor management, incompetent army, and financial chaos. Teresa learned from the pain and immediately embarked on a series of reforms, which were simply to make money, sharpen knives, and train muscles.
Frederick, who took advantage of the advantage, of course, would not sit idly by, and he continued to deepen reforms, intensify military training, and expand the army on a large scale. On the one hand, he was afraid of his cousin's hateful eyes, which might squash his waist in the future, and more importantly, he couldn't eat enough after swallowing Silesia, and wanted to eat more.
The weather was dry, and the cousins were sharpening their knives, and they accidentally collided with sparks. No, in 1756, ten years after the end of the War of the Austrian Succession, the Third Silesian War, which lasted seven years, broke out. The pattern of this war is very different from the previous two.
(Queen Theresa of Austria)
Austria's traditional allies were Britain and Russia, and in the first two fights, these two guys didn't do anything with their mouths out, and Theresa was beaten by Frederick to sweat and struggle, and two fake allies shouted and cheered on the side: "Austria, come on!" Step up your game! Pull poop, hard! ”
Prussia's former allies were France, the Habsburgs' two-hundred-year-old rivals, and the French helped their allies by stabbing Austria in the back, supporting the Saxony, Bavarian and other opposition within the Holy Roman Empire, and encouraging them to work against Austria.
Britain and France are a thousand-year-old feud, except for the two world wars in modern times, these two brothers have never been on the same side. Now, Britain is firmly in the top spot in the ocean, ready to dominate the martial arts, and has already taken over the Netherlands and Spain, leaving France on the European continent as a stumbling block.
On the other side, Tsarist Russia, the big eater, overthrew its sworn enemy Sweden and prepared to show its strength and continue to push south, the next step was to eat Poland, which was next door to Prussia. It's like a gang of robbers going from house to house and robbing your neighbor's house, can you be indifferent?
Prussia found Britain and said that our brothers are okay, you don't want to be friends with Austria, I promise not to move a finger from your hometown of Hanover. The other identity of the British king is the elector of Hanover under the Holy Roman Emperor, and in order to protect his hometown, the British signed a partnership agreement, of course, ostensibly to maintain peace within the empire.
Britain treacherously hooked up with Prussia, Russia and Austria were so angry that they scolded, the shameless British specialize in betraying friends and seeking glory, the British are reliable, and the old sow can go up the tree. France and Austria have also been enemies for more than 100 years, but compared with Britain, which has a deep hatred of the sea, the relationship is still very hot.
The British are showing off their might and are about to rush out of the earth, and France and Austria, which had fought inextricably before, hugged their heads and cried and released their previous suspicions. In order to deal with Prussia, Tsarist Russia joined the Franco-Austrian camp to stud together, and in the same year, Russia, France and Austria also signed a partnership agreement.
The chairman of the board of directors of Tsarist Russia was Tsar Elizabeth I Petrovna, the behind-the-scenes boss of France was Madame de Pompadour, the mistress of Louis XV, and Theresa, the great boss of Austria, was also the queen. Therefore, the alliance of Russia, France and Austria is also jokingly called the alliance of "three skirts".
(Madame de Pompadour, Royal Mistress of France)
(Madame de Pompadour, Royal Mistress of France)
In the summer of 1756, Prussian lightning struck Saxony by surprise, and the Duke of Saxony ran away overnight in floral trousers. Then came a whirlwind raid on Austria. Frederick liked to do this kind of obscure thing, and one of his famous fans followed suit, kicking open his home in Poland in the middle of the night in 1939.
According to Frederick's idea, kill Saxony in three days, take Austria in three months, and wait for Russia and France to come to support, these two pieces of fat have already eaten into their stomachs. Unexpectedly, Teresa's series of military reforms were fruitful, and Austria's strength has increased greatly in recent years, and the two sides fought for 300 rounds, but Prussia was stunned.
After Russia and France joined the warband, the fierce Frederick was surrounded by three skirts in the middle, one by one. Britain was good at naval warfare, so throughout the war, it had been fighting the French at sea, except for sponsoring some military expenses for Prussia and shouting a few cheers, and never landing to fight.
In 1761, after five years of fighting by two bandit gangs, Britain at sea was victorious, and Prussia on land was miserable. Prussia's capture of Saxony was actually a stupid move, and it made its reputation stink, and the other princes were afraid that Prussia would have too much appetite and swallow themselves, so they hurriedly cobbled together an "imperial coalition" to enter the war.
At first, Prussia won more and lost less, but the enemy fought more and more, and Prussia gradually became exhausted and defeated more than he won. What's worse is that George II, the British uncle who had previously supported Frederick, was gone, and George III's new cabinet was unwilling to fund his Prussian cousin, and Prussia lost its only ally, embattled and alone.
Now, the French skirt in the west, the Russian skirt in the east is like a peach blossom, and the Austrian skirt in the south is swaying, forcing Frederick, who only loves men and not women, into a dead end. There was a knife hidden in each skirt, and what awaited Frederick was doomed.
However, the heavens do not destroy Prussia!
Just as Frederick was about to commit suicide, he saw a figure flash not far away, and the Russian skirt in the east suddenly fell, and a gap appeared in the impermeable encirclement. A young man galloped like a fairy on a fast horse, and in the shadow of his sword and sword, Frederick rushed out of the siege with despair.
(Tsar Elizabeth I of Russia)
Frederick, who had escaped death and seemed to be in the world, wiped his sweat and looked closely: this life-saving benefactor with thin eyes, a collapsed nose, a crooked mouth, a sharp-beaked monkey cheeks, five short and three thick, turned out to be Peter III, the Russian Tsar who was chic and not handsome, and the jade tree was not in the wind, he was dancing there and laughing at Frederick silly!
It turned out that at the critical moment of encircling and suppressing Frederick, Elizabeth I of the Russian skirt died, and the female tsar had countless faces and a life of profligacy, and she was stunned that she did not give birth to a boy and half a girl, so she had to take her sister's son, Peter, a nephew who grew up in Prussia, back to succeed him.
Peter III was only a tsar for half a year before he was killed by his wife, and he was very well-known, not because he did anything great during his reign to benefit the country and the people, the first is because he has a wife who will go down in history - the female tsar Catherine the Great, and the second is because he is a huge fan of Frederick the Great of Prussia.
During the reign of Peter III, he did nothing to govern the country, and the only earth-shattering thing he did was to save Frederick, who almost committed suicide. He was born and raised in Prussia, and his greatest idol was King Frederick, and his lifelong wish was to wear the Prussian uniform and fight for King Frederick.
If he were an ordinary Prussian, it would be patriotic, but he would be the Tsar of Russia. As soon as Peter III came to the throne, he declared that Tsarist Russia would never be an enemy of Prussia, and that he would not only return the Prussian territories he had previously occupied, but also join the Prussian side and fight against Fao. And then...... Prussia turned defeat into victory!
France and Austria were stunned at that time, they had just fought side by side together, and now the guns of the allies turned their heads to themselves, and everyone was dumbfounded, victory was close at hand, and they just gave up? For so many years, the battles were fought in vain, people died in vain, and blood was shed in vain. This thrilling Jedi turnaround in Prussia is known in history as the "miracle of the Brandenburg royal family" (the Hohenzollerns were both Prussian lords and Brandenburg lords).
In recognition of Peter III's heroic patron, Frederick specially made him a lieutenant general of the Prussian army, and the Russian tsar wore a Prussian uniform all day long, and he was chattering everywhere, claiming that he was always on standby to serve "my master" Frederick the Great, and the Russians scolded him.
(Tsar Peter III of Russia)
One dark and windy night, Peter III was knocked on the back of the head by his wife Catherine, and he rattled. The cause of death announced by his wife was that the Tsar's old disease hemorrhoids recurred, and the doctors failed to rescue him, and he ascended to heaven. The Russians wondered: huh? When will hemorrhoids get fatal?
In addition to the huge war reparations, France also lost its vast colonies in India, West Africa and North America, the domestic economy was on the verge of collapse, and the people's resentment was boiling, which indirectly gave birth to the French Revolution that will forever be recorded in history.
Madame de Pompadour famously comforted Louis XV with the words: "After us, the flood will be great." "The year after the end of the Seven Years' War, the famous royal mistress, who had single-handedly pushed France into the quagmire of war, died of tuberculosis.
Although Prussia was beaten into ruins, it finally withstood the group beating and held Silesia, and its status in the rivers and lakes skyrocketed. Fifteen northern states of Germany formed a coalition of princes, recognized Prussia as the eldest brother, and no longer obeyed the orders of the Holy Roman Emperor, which laid the foundation for the later Prussian unification of Germany, and the Holy Roman Empire could not even do the superficial unification.
Teresa's husband, the Holy Roman Emperor Franz I in his later years, was depressed and died in less than two years. The biggest winner, of course, is the United Kingdom, which not only earned the belongings of the French, but also earned the future century-old national fortune. All of this is thanks to Frederick's Russian brainless little fan.
If the Tsar Elizabeth had known about it, she would have to crawl out of the coffin in anger; If she had lived another year and a half, Frederick would have no chance of becoming a big star; Of course, if it weren't for the hemorrhoids of Peter III, we wouldn't have seen Catherine the Great's peerless demeanor.
After that, the hateful Frederick cursed at home every once in a while, "Austrian little ladies", "Louis's stinky mistress", "Russia's dead fat woman", three skirts allied to destroy me, no way!
(Frederick the Great)
I'm afraid Frederick himself didn't expect that the story of his two skirts with Russia and Austria is far from over. It's just that the dead fat woman of Russia has been replaced by another more domineering skirt - Catherine the Great!
