Many of the allies felt very strange. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info Just last year, the Allies were still on par with the Ming army. However, in less than a year, the situation suddenly took a sharp turn for the worse, and the entire alliance was in extreme danger.

The defeat of the Russians shook everyone deeply. Russia, which had tens of millions of troops, was defeated again and again under the strong blows of the Ming army, and could not even organize any decent resistance. After losing a large part of the country, now even the whole country is lost.

Although the Tsar had gone to his relatives' house to establish a government in exile, he called on the civilian and military of Tsarist Russia everywhere to continue to resist. But in reality the whole of Russia was now in a state of anarchy and chaos. In most places, the voice of the tsar could not be heard at all, and his orders could not be received. The very few places where the news was received were also in response to the Tsar's orders.

It's already to the extent that the country is ruined now, and you still want to continue to resist? Is it true that all the Ming army is holding in his hands is a burning stick? At this moment, most of Russia's original territory has fallen into the hands of the Ming Dynasty. Only a few of the frontiers were still in the hands of the Allies at the moment.

Most of the tens of millions of Russian troops have entered the prisoner-of-war camps, and the rest have largely taken off their uniforms and fled. And the Ming army also temporarily stopped its steps after defeating Russia. It's not that they don't have the strength to continue their attacks, it's not that the Allies have erupted and begun a fierce counteroffensive. The real reason is that there are so many more people in the occupied area who need to live, which greatly restricts the energy of the Ming army.

Russia had a population of more than 100 million before the war, and even after the brutal baptism of war, a large number of people still lived under the rule of the Ming army. The Ming army is not a deranged locust army, they must let these people live.

Because of the devastation and destruction of the war, it directly led to the collapse of the Russian economy. In addition, it is the beginning of spring, and the most important thing in the green days is to eat. The Russians' own reserves had been largely depleted long ago, not to mention food, and any other good things of little value had been swept away by the fleeing elites. Now Russia is truly poor and white, and there is nothing left except the population.

If you don't have anything to eat, you can do anything. After all, seeing that he was about to be starved to death, what was there to worry about at that time? All kinds of riots and looting are also very normal. The rapid collapse of Russia was largely due to the fact that they could no longer meet the demands of their citizens to survive.

Although Da Ming didn't care about these things, Zhang Cheng was unwilling to waste his time and energy on endless law and order warfare and anti-guerrilla warfare. Instead of mobilizing a large number of troops to continuously exterminate the rebel forces everywhere, thus holding back a large number of energy and troops. It's better to just buy everyone with all kinds of materials.

Compared to Russia, which is impoverished and can only rely on the aid of various countries to survive. With its vast colonies and rich land, the Ming Dynasty was able to dominate the world in terms of food supply. Not much else, at least the local grain production of Daming is enough to meet the needs of the entire country. Of course, on the premise that there will be no large-scale waste.

In addition to the mainland, the Ming also has a large area of extremely fertile land all over the world. Not much else, India, with its abundant cheap labor, was the main grain producer of the Ming Dynasty. Although rubber and other cash crops are cultivated on a large scale in Southeast Asia, the largest cultivation product in these rich lands has been grain for thousands of years.

In addition, in the vast northern steppes, the Siberian Plain and the steppes of Central Asia, the two river basins were the main food and meat supply bases of the Ming army. The nomads who have been endangering the Central Plains for thousands of years can only be reduced to penniless herdsmen after the advent of gunpowder weapons, providing a large amount of meat for the Ming grazing animals all day long.

The unwilling and ambitious people among the nomads were all cleared again and again and turned into food for wild wolves in the steppe. The continuous northward migration of the population of the Central Plains has also greatly squeezed the living space of the nomads. After hundreds of years of killing and suppression, the so-called nomads at this time only had the ability to herd cattle and sheep, even if they rode horses, they were only to drive livestock, and the riding and archery that had been rampant in the world for more than a thousand years had long disappeared in the long river of history.

To put it simply, Daming has sufficient material supply capacity. Moreover, at this time, there was no limited supply of any kind of product in the entire Ming Dynasty except gasoline, and there was no excessive fluctuation in prices. Shops everywhere are well-stocked, and all the shelves are filled with a wide variety of goods. The standard of living of the people was not affected by the war.

When this information was sent back to the allies through a sleeper spy, it is unknown what the reaction of the countries was. However, one only needs to look at the depression on the streets of European countries, only the long queues in front of the grain stores, and the extremely hot black market transactions in the dark, you can see that the balance of power between the two sides is not at the same level at all.

Daming has plenty of food and all kinds of supplies to help the world. And, of course, the hungry Russians. However, this needs to take up a share of logistical transportation. After all, Russia's population is so large that even a small supply of food and clothing is an astronomical amount for its daily needs. At this time, the Ming Dynasty's ability to supply the Russian front line on land had reached its extreme.

However, Zhang Cheng had already taken Turkey and occupied this strategically important place before launching the final campaign to settle Russia. The Ming Navy escorted wave after wave of large convoys of convoys from India into the Mediterranean Sea through the Suez Canal. It then crossed Crete north into the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus into the Black Sea.

These transports loaded with grain were unloading their cargo at various ports along the Black Sea coast, and at this moment the Don and Volga rivers were beginning to enter a period of thaw. Numerous inland waterway vessels carried the grain from India to the occupied territories through the well-developed water system.

These massive convoys are more than just transporting food. A large number of officers and soldiers and various supplies were also sent to various battlefields through this route. Compared with long road and rail transport, a strong maritime capacity can play a decisive role in a large-scale war. Having a large supply capacity meant that the Ming army was able to deploy a much larger number of troops on the front line.

The Allies also carried out large-scale attacks on the Ming army's sea transportation lines. There are basically no fools who can sit in high positions. This sea route of the Ming army was no less important than the North Atlantic route of the allies. If the Allies were able to cut off this route, or even close the Suez Canal, the Ming Army's front-line supply capacity would inevitably suffer a huge blow. Its powerful attack will be useless for a short period of time.

After all, as a highly mechanized Ming army, its dependence on logistics is too high. Once the main logistical supply capacity was lost, the Ming army, which was fighting fiercely across Europe, soon had to retreat in full force. This was too important for the Allies.

It's a pity that the idea is good, but it's too difficult to execute.

The Allies had little power in the Mediterranean at the moment, and apart from the French fleet trapped in the southern ports of France and the Russian Black Sea Fleet encircled in the port of Sevaskotopol, they could not pose any decent threat to the Ming routes in the Mediterranean without being able to break through the Strait of Gibraltar and the Suez Canal.

As for the route from the Ming mainland to India, from India to the Suez Canal, it is even more difficult to attack.

All areas around these routes were already under the control of the Ming army. If an allied submarine or raid ship wants to attack here, the distance it needs to cover is measured in thousands of miles.

The most recent way would have been to start from the Malvinas Islands and cross the South Atlantic and break through the strait between South Africa and Antarctica, which had been heavily blockaded by the Ming Navy. After that, it would be thousands of nautical miles north to enter the Red Sea to attack the Ming convoy.

Most importantly, there were no supply points or naval bases on this long journey. Once the Allied ships were wounded or ran out of ammunition, they had to travel back to the distant American continent by the same route that had crossed tens of thousands of nautical miles. This kind of thing is not worth the cost even in the case of large-scale use of supply ships.

If the attack on the Ming army's transportation line cannot form a scale, then a little loss is just an itch in the shoes for the Ming Dynasty.

There is also a shortcut to cross the Strait of Gibraltar by diving directly from Europe. With the French Navy having few submarines and surface warships unable to break through the blockade of the Ming Navy's Mediterranean Fleet into the Mediterranean, the British and German submarine forces made several attempts to use submarines to submerge through the heavily guarded Strait of Gibraltar.

In one week in February, only three of the 29 Allied submarines that launched the breakthrough successfully passed through the Strait of Gibraltar. All the other submarines were sunk to the bottom of the sea by patrolling Ming warships. Losses of this magnitude led directly to the abandonment of this suicidal method of warfare by the Allied navies.

The disparity in strength between the two sides allowed the Ming Navy to attack the North Atlantic route, the lifeblood of the allied sea, with impunity, and achieved impressive results. But when the allies tried to attack the Ming army's lifeline at sea, they didn't even have a chance to make a move. This is the difference in strength. (To be continued.) )