"This is also something that can't be helped, domestic is fundamental. Only by stabilizing the country can our expansion be a source of water and a tree with roots. Li Xiao walked to the huge map hanging on the wall and looked at it!

This map was surveyed and mapped by Li Hao and his men. Especially in the Northwest and Shuzhong generations, the mapping was particularly careful. Even, Li Hao also flipped through the county records and population books of the local counties, and used colors to distinguish between cities with large populations and small populations.

"Nie Dahai is in Guangxi to conquer the remnants of the Yang clan, which is located in the middle of 100,000 mountains, and it has always been easy to defend and difficult to attack. No way, I equipped Nie Dahai with thirty airships. It is estimated that if you want to completely eradicate the bandits, it will take a year or two.

Now the six provinces in the south of the Yangtze River have been completely annexed, and there are still Yungui left. These places are high and far away, and the Tusi have been acting on behalf of the imperial court for hundreds of years. There were even cases where local governments began to administer during the Three Kingdoms period, and it was much more difficult to completely reclaim them.

To the north, we have developed to the extreme, and along the line of the Xing'an Mountains is the last suitable place for human habitation. In the rest of the country, half of the year is winter, and the crop production cycle is extremely short, and the gains in cultivating large areas in that area outweigh the losses. We have only a population of more than 100,000 people living there. It mainly deals in leather goods, ginseng, timber and other local products, and the annual tax and output are very limited.

If the real land has some cultivation value, it needs to go to the Nenjiang, Songhua and Mudanjiang river basins. The black soil is the most suitable for producing soybeans, and soybeans are a treasure. Don't look at this thing, you can't eat it directly, but it can be used to extract oil. As the urban population grows, soybean oil is being consumed more and more every year.

The residue left over from oil extraction can be used as feed, do you know how many people we have in Daming? ”

"Last year's statistics were 233 million!"

"Then how many poultry do we have?"

"Uh......!" Li Xiuke can't answer this, who cares about how many livestock and poultry Daming has.

"More than 3,387 million, including pigs, cattle, sheep, horses, mules, large animals such as donkeys, and poultry such as chickens, ducks and geese. But in any case, these are more than 387 million mouths. They also need to eat, and how many things do you have to fill these mouths with each year? ”

Li Xiu felt a pain in his brain! This man has just been able to eat enough, so does he want the animals to eat enough? Let the animals eat food?

"Animals don't necessarily eat food, but they always have to eat. It is these animals that feed us every year. Let me be a bright people, and my body will become stronger and stronger year by year. Not to mention anything else, how much canned meat does your Navy purchase in a year? You think that the meat was conjured out of thin air, and that the animals were not made after they were slaughtered. ”

"Big brother! I'm a soldier, these ......! ”

"Without the country's leading position in science and technology, culture, and industry, your navy can play an egg. Let's also make some wooden sailing ships floating on the sea. If you want to go south and north, you have to wait for the trade winds. Otherwise, you have to arch forward slowly, like an old ox cart.

No matter how far your navy sails, the country is your roots. Without domestic support, you are nothing. ”

"No! Knowing the big brother, I must understand these things well when I go back. Seeing that Li Xiao was angry, Li Xiu hurriedly bowed down and apologized. The irritable big brother can't be provoked!

"I'm also upset, no one speaks. It's good for you to understand these things, and you don't need to look at them specifically. For the last two days, I've just been terribly irritable. Li Xiao saw Li Xiu bowing down, and reluctantly slapped Li Xiu on the shoulder. There is fire in my heart, so I can only sprinkle it on a few younger brothers. If you change someone, it will scare that person to death.

"In the final analysis, it's not for Wu Sangui to make trouble. The resources we currently have are not enough for us to occupy India. ”

"I don't want to occupy India, and it's a country with a population of 100 million, and we can't manage it at all. I just want to drive Wu Sangui out of India so that India is no longer a threat to the sea. Then we went to the territory of the Persians and the Arabs and pumped the oil back.

The development of the Ming Dynasty needs oil, as much oil as the sea. Li Xiao paced as he spoke, like a tiger trapped in a cage.

"Big brother, in that case, let's use that thing. It's not a pity to be so good! Li Xiu's eyes immediately lit up, this was a good opportunity to encourage Li Xiao to use that special weapon.

"You mean...... That thing? You're too vicious, I'm afraid ......! ”

"Big brother, it doesn't matter what kind of viciousness is not vicious on the battlefield [new], as long as you can kill the enemy, it is a good thing. Anyway, I don't think it's anything, I always take care of this and that, so how can I win the war, what do you say? ”

"Uh-huh......!" Li Xiao was still hesitating.

"Big brother, let's use that thing. At least let's test the combat effectiveness, it's a pity to always throw it in the warehouse. ”

"Alright! To use this thing, you must use a large number of them together to be effective, and you must choose a weather without wind. ”

"I know, when this thing just came out last year, the old man Yu told us a long time ago, so don't worry." After Li Xiu finished speaking, he jumped out like a rabbit.

"I'm not done yet!" Li Xiao shouted, but Li Xiu had already run out.

"Pandora's box has opened!" Li Xiao looked at the clear blue sky and sighed, he knew that from now on, the war had entered the time of unscrupulous means. God knows how immoral things will happen.

Wu Sangui has been in a good mood recently, and George really persuaded the Queen and the members of Parliament. Or rather, it was the boatload of gold that convinced them. England itself, began to continue to provide support to India. The most exciting thing is that a fleet of six ironclads has already departed from Liverpool for India in February.

This is simply a send-off in the snow, and what Wu Sangui lacks most now is sea power. The fleet in the port of Mumbai, with the help of mines and coastal artillery, could barely hold out. But it is different if there are six ironclad ships to join at once, and the fleet of thirteen ironclad ships can completely engage in a large-scale naval battle with the Ming Navy.

Since then, the naval blockade has been completely broken, and the port of Mumbai will be revitalized again.

The good news is that Dr. Newton has developed a reliable anti-aircraft rocket. When launched, this thing scurries around like a wasp, and if one hits an airship and explodes, it can blow a hole out of the airship.

The airships that kept leaking had no choice but to turn back, and several airships had already fallen into the sea and were silent when they were forced to return. Two more fell on land, and the engines on the airships were a treasure trove for Dr. Newton, who was being studied in depth, and it is said that they had been copied seventy-seven-eighty-eight. It's just that because of the problems of craftsmanship and tools, it cannot be mass-produced for the time being.

What made Wu Sangui even happier was that an almost intact Makqin heavy machine gun was also found in the wreckage.

Dr. Franklin admired this perfect mechanic so much that he had now led people to make a one-to-one replica, and when he asked last time, he said that he would be able to build a prototype gun next month. Mass production will be available after three months at the latest.

I have long envied the rapid-fire weapons of the Ming army, and it is much more convenient to deal with the Persians and Turks with this thing. It will also be very effective against the beachhead attack of the Ming army!

In short, everything is developing in a good direction, Wu Sangui firmly believes. As long as he survives this year, Da Ming will be helpless for him. Two more years of recuperation, and the recapture of Ceylon will not be a problem.

From Ceylon Island, step by step to Xinjiapo, and then from Xinjiapo step by step to Daming China. Wu Sangui was already fantasizing about the scene when he returned to his hometown with the army.

On May 1, the weather was cool. There was hardly a hint of wind over the city of Mumbai, the sky was blue, and black smoke was rising from the huge chimneys of the Bombay steel mill. The black smoke rushed almost straight into the sky.

At dusk, the island of Ceylon begins to come alive. Fifteen of the latest airships were laden with bombs and filled with maximum fuel. This time it was a very long voyage, and I am afraid that I would not be able to come back without filling up my tank. Even in order to add some extra fuel, the machine guns and some unnecessary weapons on the airship were removed. In the entire airship, there were only four 500-pound bombs.

This time, the target of the airship attack was Mumbai.

Almost at the same time, two large warships moored off the west coast of India also began to lower their dinghys. A marine battalion under Zuo Liangyu quietly landed at night.

Scar was one of the first to hit the beach in a dinghy to capture a small town called Udup. And to capture the town as little as possible without alarming people.

Pre-war intelligence indicated that the town had a population of 700 people.

Seven hundred people are also called towns? Scar felt that there were more people in any village in Liaodong than here.

The waves are constantly washing the sand, and Scar is wearing the latest camouflage uniform with an Aka rifle in his hand. Even the steel helmet on the head is covered with a camouflage interlining.

About five or six hundred meters away is the small town of Udup. The reason for the capture of this town is that there is a dock in this town. Scar felt that this time the battle was to kill chickens with a knife.

The advance platoon soon took up the beachhead, and in addition to the Acre rifles, they were armed with another weapon, the roughly steel crossbow bolts. The crossbow string is made of steel wire rope, and it is extremely powerful within fifty meters.

Scar led people to hide on the beach, and the most important thing in this battle is to hide. The Indians in the vicinity cannot be alarmed, at least not now.

Two young Indians ran and laughed as they came to the beach, and it was obvious that they were a couple. The man was talking to the woman, which made the woman "cluck" and "cluck".

The corners of Scar's mouth showed the most cruel smile, "squeak" "squeak" Scar learned a mouse call. With a cry, more than two dozen crossbow arrows were fired at the man and woman like wasps.

The sound of crossbow arrows entering the flesh came and went, all of them were trained and skillful, and there were almost no bullets within thirty meters. What's more, the distance should only be twenty meters now. The two guys threw away their crossbows, drew their bayonets and ran to the two men who were still wriggling. The bayonet swept through their throats like lightning, and the two men let out only an exclamation and a small scream.

The bodies were dragged into the bushes by the sea, and soon the second and third groups of marines landed on the beach.

Here, the Marines shot and killed a few more children playing on the beach.

As soon as the Marine battalion landed, Scar commanded the Marines to storm the town.

Chen Tieying commanded the airship, and after crossing the Indian mainland, it flew along the west coast of India. As Chen Fu's most beloved grandson and Chen Laohu's youngest son, Chen Tieying is the pride of the younger generation of the Chen family.

I love airships, I love flying. Chen Tieying felt that the name his father gave himself was simply too appropriate. I am an iron eagle flying in the air!

At 11 a.m., you should have arrived at your destination. Chen Tieying looked at the fuel tank that was gradually bottoming out, and began to drum in his heart. This is a very risky operation, and there is no going back for the slightest mistake.

Finally, he saw four large triangles burning on the ground in the distance. It's a signal to the target!

Scar watched as one airship after another landed on the Udup docks, and many pipes immediately pulled out of the parked tanker and began to pour fuel into the airship.

This is only the first time to refuel, and the airship will have to be refueled again when it returns. However, with the backward means of communication of the Indians, it is estimated that Mumbai, thousands of miles away, does not know that a small port has been occupied.

The refueling lasted a full hour, and all the airships were refueled again. The biggest advantage of this thing is that there is no need for a dedicated airport, and there is no need for runways and other things. The airship, refueled, immediately lifted off and continued to fly along the coastline towards Mumbai.

It's hard to tell which city is down in the dark, but you can tell the coastline. According to the calculations, five hours later, at five o'clock in the morning, they should have been able to see the city of Mumbai.

Chen Tieying stared nervously and apprehensively at his watch, constantly looking at the coastline below. Proceed at a planned pace!

Lights are strictly controlled during the flight, and no signals are allowed to be sent between boats.

Chen Tieying was the first air raid on Mumbai, and of course this was also the first air raid on Mumbai by the Ming Dynasty. For this air raid, the Marines had to temporarily capture a small port for refueling.

Finally, the sky was white, and Chen Tieying's watch also pointed to the position of five o'clock. In the morning light, a huge city appeared on the shoreline. The city is so large that you can even see early risers walking through the streets.

Chen Tieying felt a burst of excitement in his heart, and took the lead in rushing towards the factory with the largest chimney. The rest of the airships followed, and when they flew to the factory area, they dropped bombs painted green in unison.