The Ming army's attack on the Balkan Peninsula caused the European monarchs to feel almost a kind of utter despair. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

This enemy is too strong.

It's suffocatingly powerful.

It's not that the weapons of the Ming Army are advanced, nor how terrifying the logistics supply capacity of the Ming Army is, just the number of troops that the Ming Empire can mobilize, this is completely suffocating, the Ming Army has exposed millions of troops in Russia alone, and it still maintains more than 300,000 vigilance forces in Persia and the Anatolian Plateau and the Arabian Peninsula, and then there is a group army of 150,000 people on the Pamir Plateau who is responsible for clearing and suppressing, and there is also a group army in Central Asia that is maintaining vigilance, that is to say, the strength of the troops fighting only on the front line, It has already reached 1.5 million.

Now add the Balkan battlefield.

The sum of the four armies is 400,000 troops.

Two million front-line troops.

This is only the army, if you add the navy, I am afraid it will be even more, more than two million front-line combat troops! How many countries in Europe can have more than two million men? Even France, the most populous country, currently has a population of only 16 million, while Sweden, which dominates Northern Europe, has a population of more than 2 million, plus Poland, Crimea, Bessarabia and a lot of other subject countries under the name of Charles XII, the total population is only more than 10 million, and the Ming army has more than 2 million front-line combat troops alone!

So if you add the rest in the rear, wouldn't it cost five or six million?

Who can fight such an enemy?

However, what those European monarchs didn't know was that at this time, the total strength of the Ming army had rapidly expanded to 10 million, and more than 30 years of industrialization had made the war machine of the Ming Empire reach a level comparable to that of the great powers in World War I. Even the rifle was replaced with a new Type 5 rifle, a copy of Yang Feng's G98, and it was also a pointed bullet, which produced three million units last year alone. With the commissioning of a large number of synthetic ammonia plants, the problem of explosives production that was originally the most restricting for the Ming army has been completely solved, and now the Ming army has all realized explosives, completely bidding farewell to the ancient gunpowder era. And because of the stimulation of the war, coupled with Yang Feng's release of some industrial monopolies, now the entire Ming Dynasty is in a crazy industrial frenzy, and the steel production capacity alone has approached 30 million tons of Daming, almost comparable to Germany before World War I. Countless factories, inexhaustible raw materials on the huge land, countless industrial workers trained in 30 years, coupled with the fanaticism promoted by faith and interests, let the industrial production capacity of the Ming Dynasty soar with the most majestic momentum, one after another warships, cannons, countless machine guns, and even airplanes and automobiles are constantly walking off the production line. In the dock of the Changguo Shipyard, the spectacular scene of building 50 landing ships at the same time made even the people of the Ming Dynasty dumbfounded.

All that's left is to call up some reserves.

Daming now has 400 million people.

Even if a quarter is counted as a man, it is also a hundred million, and only one out of ten, the United States during World War II could produce more than 10 million troops with a population of more than 100 million, and it is nothing at all to draw one out of ten in the Ming Dynasty, not to mention that the main heavy work in the Ming Dynasty is done by nearly 10 million slaves. Especially in the countryside, those young people who usually command a slave have an incomparable enthusiasm for being a soldier all over the world to burn, kill and loot, otherwise it is difficult for them to realize their dream of getting rich and getting ahead, and joining the army is an important way for them to get out of the farmland. The 10 million army has not affected the domestic industrial and agricultural production in the slightest, and even the General Staff plans to expand the army to 15 million, after all, the local defense forces are now being used, and this kind of good thing of going to Europe to grab money and women should still be cheaper for the Chinese people.

However, it doesn't take 10 million, just less than 3 million front-line troops, and it has already made the legs of the monarchs of European countries weak.

"It's to make them tremble."

Yang Feng said with a sneer.

"And make them tremble."

Then he said.

"What does Your Majesty mean?"

Chen Lie asked suspiciously.

"Spread the decree, move to the west port of the town, and also, you don't have to take the chariot with you."

Yang Feng said to the attendant.

The latter hurriedly went to pass the decree, preparing Emperor Yang to transfer to Zhenxi Port, that is, Alexandria in Egypt, it is not a simple matter for him to move, and the accompanying personnel alone have to be thousands, and it is still winter at this time, the Don River has been frozen, so it must go south by land, but because the Sea of Azov is also frozen, it is not possible to go through the Kerch Strait in Azov Port, and it is necessary to continue south from the land route to the newly built Yongfeng Port, that is, the original history of the Russian port of Novorossiysk to board the ship, which has to go thousands of miles.

Of course, it doesn't matter if you don't ride that mobile palace.

"Your Majesty is going to conquer southern Europe?"

Chen Lie said cautiously.

His Majesty the Emperor was in Russia for the purpose of personally conquering Europe, and now he could not continue to march in winter, not only in Russia, but also in Crimea and other places to the west, where the temperature was limited and higher than here, and anyway, with the cold resistance of the Ming army, it was definitely impossible to fight in these places in winter. Even if the Ming army's physique is strong enough at this time, the severe cold of minus ten or twenty degrees is quite terrifying, and this is not something that equipment can solve, in fact, at this time, the Ming army in Russia all wore cold-proof fur coats, but those soldiers were still reluctant to leave the castles burning with fires.

So now the emperor went to Zhenxigang to spend the winter, and he could only prepare to attack southern Europe.

"Send me an edict."

Yang Feng said: "Tell the monarchs of European countries, I have conquered the heavens, swept away the heresy, and the Great Food Cult is about to be wiped out, only the Taixi countries are still ignorant of the heresy of Judaism, confused by the heresy of the Vatican, take the false as the truth, take the truth as the delusion, resist the earnest education of the gods of heaven, I have mercy, and give them the last chance to change, before the end of this year, the monarchs of the Taixi countries must completely abandon the cult and convert to the king, and the gods should bless their generations to enjoy the blessings forever, if they continue to be stubborn, I will personally lead the army to crusade!" ”

Well, he's going to have a showdown with the European monarchs, surrender, or wait for him to come to the door.

Anyway, Russia and the Balkans are like that, the rest is just a gradual sweep, he doesn't need to follow at all, since this is the case, just open up a new battlefield, go to land in southern Europe, and attack directly to Western Europe, he is not saying that there are not enough troops, and there is no problem in transferring two million troops from the country. Since the opening of the Suez Canal, there is no problem with the supply of materials, and over the years, he has built more than 2,000 transport ships similar to free ships, and more than 2,000 landing ships, and this does not include those merchant ships owned by the people, both the ability to transport troops and the ability to transport materials are enough to support the landing in southern Europe. The materials on the Russian battlefield can basically be handed over to the railway to support, the last section of the Central Asian railway has been completed, and there is no war on the Central Asian battlefield, this railway can be used exclusively for the Russian battlefield. Even the railroad from Tehran to the north was about to reach Baku, so that supplies that landed in Basra could go directly to Russia, and he could transfer ships across the Suez Canal to supply the Balkans and southern European theaters. And there was no large-scale battle in the Balkans, the Ottomans were just surviving for a while, and the rest were all clearance operations, where there was a lofty mountain environment, and the vast majority of the Ming army was a small-scale security war, a battalion-level sweep, although it took a long time, but the material consumption and large-scale battles were not a grade, and even in addition to medicines and weapons and ammunition, the vast majority of other things could be raised on the spot.

In this way, under the current circumstances, his transport capacity can support at least 300,000 troops in Italy.

That's enough.

He will have to spend a year or two to solve the Italian battlefield, then in a year or two his railway is estimated to be able to be repaired to Tsaritsyn, and the number of his large transport ships is estimated to increase to 3,000 or even more, at that time it is easy to support a million troops to fight, and a million troops will be enough to bulldoze Austria and the HRE countries, and then attack France and Sweden left and right, and at that time it is estimated that the Balkan and Russian battlefields will be almost finished, so that within five years he will be able to realize his desire to come to the North Sea, All that remains is to sweep Britain and the United States.

By this time, the United States and Britain had ceased war, and the United States had become a dominion similar to that of Australia in later generations.

After all, the British have no time to manage those chaotic ministers and thieves in the Americas, and Hancock and others in the Americas also know very well that they were actually used as guns in the past, and it is impossible for the Ming army to annex Europe not to attack the Americas, in fact, the colonial scope of Xinbocheng has been expanding day by day over the years, especially after the completion of the railway across Central America, more and more Ming colonists began to pour into the east coast of the Americas, and these white colonists have felt the crisis.

So they don't want to fight anymore.

In the end, the two sides chose to compromise with each other.

"Your Honor!"

Chen Lie hurriedly said.

Then the chief of the general staff immediately went down to set it up, and His Majesty the Emperor triumphantly took up the wine glass and drank it all.

Half a month later, the edict covered with the jade seal of His Majesty the Ming Emperor, or an ultimatum, was sent to the main monarchs of Europe at this time, Philip V, Charles VI, Charles XII, George II and others, as for the messy princes of the Holy Ocean, this is represented by Charles VI, after all, he is still the Emperor of the Holy Empire, and other monarchies or republics such as Portugal, Transylvania, Montenegro, Venice, and the Netherlands have also received similar edicts.

As for their reaction......

The Grand Duke of Montenegro and the Grand Duke of Transylvania agreed as quickly as possible, the former knew that after the Ottoman was finished, he would be the next one, and that he could not fight in the whole country to meet the standard of the Ming army. Besides, his broken place has no other value except for sheep grazing, and Yang Feng is not rare.

As for Transylvania......

They border Wallachia, and the situation is similar to Wallachia, the nobles of the vampire's hometown, thinking that they don't look down on their poor ravine tyrants, quickly surrendered, learning from Wallachia to coax His Majesty the Emperor to be happy, maybe they can keep their territory. In fact, it was true that Yang Feng only asked for land equivalent to one-tenth of their total area as a direct royal domain, and the rest of the land was given to their original nobles in addition to the Grand Duke of Transylvania himself, and these traditional European monarchies were also full of nobles anyway.

As for Montenegro, he didn't even ask for the direct territory, and he was directly given to the king of Montenegro.

In this way, the Ming Dynasty added two vassal states and seven small foreign vassals, and then the Ming army officially crossed the Carpathians and marched to Hungary.

As for the remaining monarchs......

None of them responded.

They can't respond, their agreement means letting Yang Feng slaughter them, neither the two Charles nor Philip can surrender in such humiliation, at least not just with Yang Feng's ultimatum, if they refuse directly, then needless to say, the Daming Mediterranean fleet will drive to their doorstep and start bombarding, so the only option is to delay, and when to delay.

Since this is the case, there is no need for Yang Feng to be polite.

His Majesty the Emperor, riding in more than 500 of the latest automobiles, spent four days driving more than 1,000 miles along the frozen military highway in winter, and then boarded a warship to meet him in Yongfeng Port, and then sailed out of the Black Sea into the Mediterranean Sea to reach Zhenxi Port, from minus 20 degrees Celsius cold, quickly in the warmth of minus 20 degrees, and stayed in the palace built for him by the king of Anhua and began to bask in the sun on the Mediterranean Sea.

Just when he was basking in the sun, the Ming army began to prepare for a large-scale landing operation, a huge ship full of supplies of 10,000 tons sailed from the distant mainland, and then continued to sail west to Malta Island, the same from the latest transfer of a boatload of soldiers, is also concentrating on this small island, coupled with the transfer of a large number of landing ships, this total of only fifty miles long and twenty miles wide of the small island soon became extremely crowded, to the approach of the Ming New Year, this island has gathered a Marine Corps and an army army, In addition, there are four hundred ships of various types.

In fact, by this time, Yang Feng's next goal was already very clear.

He was going to land in Sicily.

And the owner of this island, Philip V, who is also the king of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, is also constantly transporting troops to the island, and not only him, but also the Knights Templar controlled by the Holy See, the Swiss mercenary army hired by the Church, the Republic of Venice, and the Duchy of Savoy are also moving south. They all knew very well that once the Ming army landed in Sicily, then the next step was to land in the Apennines, and then push all the way north along the Apennine Peninsula, all the way to the Alps, and did not want to face the Ming army in their homeland, so the best way was to have a decisive battle with the Ming army in Sicily.

In this way, the two sides gradually completed their pre-war preparations, and on the second day of the Ming New Year, Emperor Yang boarded the battleship Hongwu bound for Malta Island.