Li Xiao closed the telegram in his hand and kept examining the map.

Take it for granted!

It's so much to take for granted!

Thought that there were tanks, there were armored vehicles. With planes, building a few more airfields would be able to replicate Blitzkrieg.

Now it looks like this is nothing more than wishful thinking.

There are no roads, no railways, no bridges.

Tanks and armored vehicles can drive through these places, but trucks certainly cannot.

The armored division has no logistical supplies, so is it really rushing forward?

After the rush, give people loot?

The highway is okay, and getting some bulldozers and rollers can barely make it easy quickly.

The bridge is not a thing, and the total weight of the Ming tank in battle is nearly thirty tons. This is not something that any bridge can afford!

The great rivers of Europe, the Volga, the Don, the Danube, the Rhine.

These rivers are all stumbling ropes on the road to the Ming Dynasty's march!

Sappers built bridges simply, and there was no problem dealing with those small river ditches.

It is not enough to deal with such a large river with a width of hundreds of meters, or even a kilometer.

Man Gui is still right, he wants tanks and armored vehicles to exert their due power. We can only wait until winter!

At that time, the earth will be frozen and the rivers will be frozen in ice.

And only then will tanks and armored vehicles be invincible.

The door to the office opened, and Junko let Midori in and closed the door outside.

"How is the news going, when the Coalition of Christs intends to attack?" Li Xiao rubbed his forehead.

Spend a lot of money to build an armored division, but you can only use it to its full power in the harsh winter.

Whoever it is, it will feel a headache.

Lu Zhu walked behind Li Xiao and gently kneaded Li Xiao's temples.

"They have not yet set a time for the attack, and Moltke Jr., the chief of the Prussian General Staff, advocated an attack now.

Napoleon, on the other hand, advocated waiting for the bitter cold of Russia to pass before launching an attack.

Now the two opinions are at odds, but Napoleon's opinion seems to have prevailed. ”

In terms of intelligence, the Ming and the West have an unparalleled advantage.

The frontier of the Ming Dynasty is in Xinjiapo, and no Westerner can cross the South China Sea. And the Ming people they bought had no way to enter Liaodong.

They can only rely on layers of bribery to achieve the purpose of obtaining intelligence.

But when it comes to intelligence, the most feared thing is that there are too many links.

As long as there are more links, the greater the chance of error.

Over the years, Luzhu has cracked many spy cases bought by foreigners.

With the unremitting efforts of green beads, Daming has basically become an impregnable wall. It is difficult for foreign spies to infiltrate, and it is even more difficult to find out intelligence.

But the Ming Dynasty was different, with merchants all over Europe. There are countless Europeans who have been bought.

Coupled with the European nobles who have interests in the Ming Dynasty, Green Pearl has already spread a huge spy network in Europe.

Although there is no way to subvert Europe, it is still okay to listen to some news.

Li Xiao is convinced of Luzhu's words!

"More than 800,000 people gathered under the city of Warsaw, and the people ate what the horses chewed, and the military expenditure was naturally expensive.

Most of the Prussian troops who went to Warsaw in advance would spend an extra day of military expenses for each more day of stay.

The Prussians were naturally in a hurry!

Napoleon was different, he had bitter memories of the bitter cold in Russia. Naturally, prepare to wait for the beginning of spring to fight!

The motives are different, and the time of the attack is naturally unnegotiable.

It's October, and it's already snowing in Russia. But the road is not frozen hard, it is still muddy.

Neither our armored vehicles nor tanks can be used, and I have already ordered Manye and Ao Ye to withdraw to the east of Moscow and facilitate supplies along the railway line.

Find a way to keep the coalition from attacking for the time being. It's better to get them to attack again in the winter! ”

The green beads were kneaded very comfortably, and Li Xiao snorted comfortably.

"This is very difficult to do, after all, the European nobles we bought are all minor nobles.

Limited influence on the decision-making of the authorities!

So......! "Green beads are a little embarrassed.

Most of those great nobles were close to the Hebrews, which was also something that could not be helped, after all, the Hebrews had been mixed in Europe for thousands of years.

"It's okay!

Espionage is actually a long-term process.

But you have to think carefully about the direction of your breakthrough, and sometimes, this small nobleman can also become a big nobleman.

Pick some that can be cooperated with for a long time, and write resources and opportunities for them appropriately. Give them the opportunity to become a generation of powerful ministers!

O European aristocrats!

There are some talents, but there are also many who are actually gentlemen.

This is no different from our Daming.

The gentleman is so happy, but he has a low eye.

In our Ming Dynasty, they can only rely on the blessing of their ancestors to eat and wait for death.

But in Europe, their debabilities are still very marketable.

The rulers of Europe have a habit of appointing nobles.

Believe it or not, just look at how many people in the Prussian army have a Feng character in their name.

Tie up the fence tightly, reach out to other people's houses to pick up eggs, this job is actually not easy to do.

But let the chickens lay eggs in our house, that's a different scene. ”

Lu Zhu is so smart about ice and snow, and immediately understood what Li Xiao meant.

"No! The subordinates understood, and they must follow the instructions of the commander. ”

Li Xiao nodded and closed his eyes.

Lu Zhu was about to retire, when he suddenly heard Li Xiao say, "How is the matter with those two planes?" ”

Lu Zhu knew that the two planes that Li Xiao was talking about. Referring to the planes that fell on the decks of two aircraft carriers, the Shandong and the Liaodong!

Because of the fall of these two planes, the Ming had no way to continue the attack on the Crimea.

The direct consequence is that Israel has avoided this crisis of national annihilation.

The strategic attempt did not reach, starting with Li Xiao. The entire General Staff will be full of resentment for these two dead pilots.

So far, the notices of the death of the two people have not been sent.

Speculation has never ceased as to whether the two men were martyrs or traitors.

Now that I've been checking for more than two months, I have to have a result anyway.

"We gathered a lot of experts and interviewed all the witnesses who were present.

It was concluded that ......, the two men did not significantly ram the aircraft carrier.

The experts came to the conclusion that the accident!

According to Lu Le, captain of the Shandong, the two pilots flew for no more than 10 hours in total.

After the accident of the Shandong ship, the pilot who crashed on the Liaodong ship flew for a little more than an hour.

Lack of training and experience were the main causes of the accident. Lu Zhu said very carefully, she still couldn't figure out Li Xiao's attitude towards this matter.

Anyway, these people in the General Staff want to convict these two pilots of treason.

They hated these two pilots so much, if it weren't for them, the General Staff would have been holding a meeting to celebrate victory.

"Experts look at the problem professionally, and I would like to know your opinion." Li Xiao closed his eyes and said faintly.

Both of them are innocent children of Liaodong, and they are also excellent in character and learning when they go to school.

Their fathers are both retired officers of the Liao Army, and their families are very wealthy.

I sent someone to investigate their home, and I also investigated all their relatives, including the betrothed woman's family.

No one has been found to have accepted large sums of money!

Besides, foreigners and people from Jiangnan who go to Liaodong must go through strict checks.

In the last five years, neither they, nor their families, have dismissed anyone from the south who has come to do business. ”

The people who do business in the south mentioned by Luzhu refer to the maritime merchants in the south of the Ming Dynasty.

Because there are so many factories in Liaodong, Shandong, and Hebei, most of the people here go to work in the factories.

When the children of workers reach old age, most of them are recruited to work in factories.

It can be said that the people of these three provinces, except for the peasants, are workers and soldiers.

The provinces to the south are characterized by a strong traditional commercial atmosphere. Usually the goods are purchased in the factories in these three provinces, and then transported by ship to Quanzhou and other places.

After changing large ships, some of them were pulled to Xinjiapo and sold to European merchants.

Others, loaded directly onto cargo ships and shipped directly across the ocean to Europe.

Therefore, the subordinates did not think that they were traitors. There are also no conditions for treason!

Crashing into the flight deck, one is that the aircraft may malfunction, and the other is that there is a lack of training and experience. ”

Lu Zhu was careful when he spoke, and looked at Li Xiao's face carefully.

"Hmmm!

The review of net worth is still necessary, and for a position like a pilot, you must find a child of the Liao army who is innocent to do it.

The most unfortunate thing has to be the children of innocent farmers.

Since it was caused by an accident, you give the General Staff a conclusion.

Although it caused such an unfavorable consequence, it was also sacrificed on the front line, and the honor that should be given cannot be less.

The bereavement pension must also be in accordance with the rules of the imperial court, and it must not be deducted or misappropriated. ”

"No!"

Li Xiao waved his hand, signaling that Lu Zhu could go.

After Luzhu left, Li Xiao sighed helplessly.

This is the result of pulling out seedlings and fueling growth, and in many places without preparation, it is inevitable that there will be some unadaptability to the soil and water if they rashly drum up advanced things.

This is what the aircraft carrier looks like, and so does the armored forces.

If Man Gui and Ao Canghai knew Li Xiao's thoughts, they would definitely raise their hands and feet in agreement.

Finally received the order to retreat, Ao Ye and Man Gui ordered their subordinates to fill tanks and armored vehicles with fuel as soon as possible.

Late autumn in Russia is very annoying, with constant sleet.

The muddy road froze at night, but before it could freeze, the next morning it was fucking sunlit again.

The damn road was run over by a tank, and it was a meter deep with mud and water. The swamps on the edge of the Liao River are easier to walk than this ghost place.

Although the road is open, the weather is still extremely cold. At night, it was strange cold inside the tank.

But he didn't dare to go outside, and he fell into the mud, maybe he would be frozen.

There was no way, the tanks and armored vehicles were idling while camping. Although this may cost the engine life, it will also cost some fuel.

But fortunately, this is also a heat source, and the people in the tanks and armored vehicles will not freeze to death.

I asked the locals in Russia and said that such weather lasts for a week at most. Then the sky was completely cold, and the rivers froze and the earth froze.

However, Ao Ye and Man Ye are estimated to be Tai Sui this year, and they actually caught up with a relatively rare warm winter in Russian history.

And it's a warm winter with a lot of precipitation!

This is more fatal, the weather is sunny for three or two days, and the next day. The next day, it was sunny for three or two days.

More often than not, the sky is overcast.

Blown by the wind, it is colder than the winter in Liaodong because of the high humidity of the air.

In Ao Ye's words, this is even more damn annoying than experiencing lingering winter rain in Jiangnan back then.

After all, Russia is much colder than Jiangnan.

The time and terrain were so difficult to pass with the armored troops of the Ming Dynasty, and when marching, tanks were often seen dragging tanks.

The scene of tanks dragging armored vehicles, more often than not, is the tanks rescuing large trucks from mud pits.

There were even a few times when Ao Ye had to order the airship to directly lift the big truck out of the mud pit.

Man Gui was so angry that he scolded his mother, and Ao Ye was so angry that he wanted to kill.

Because of all kinds of unfavorable conditions, the most elite armored forces of the Ming Dynasty began to show a large number of non-combat attrition.

Almost everyone has chilblains, and Ao Ye and Man Gui are no exception.

Some soldiers even accidentally leaned their heads against the inner wall of the tank when they slept at night.

As a result, the next day, my ears began to itch and water, and within two days, my ears began to turn black.

In the end, it was the military doctor who went down with a knife and cut off his ear.

Frostbite is still a trivial matter, and the most terrible thing is a cold.

The truck was full of wounded soldiers with a cold and fever, and the military doctor prescribed medicine and placed them in the big truck.

Wrapped in a quilt and waited for the airship to come and carry them away.

When people are lifted onto the airship, it is very much like they are carrying corpses one after another.

It took only 15 days for the troops to fight from Moscow to Minsk. It took ten days to withdraw from Smolensk to Moscow.

On average, you don't travel more than 40 kilometers a day!

The infantry's running of more than 40 kilometers a day is a reasonable achievement, but for the tank troops, it is simply climbing at a turtle speed.

In ten days, the injury reached one-fifth.

The mud and cold made the First Expeditionary Force and the First Cavalry Division of the Ming Dynasty suffer enough.

Man Ye and Ao Ye, who are not afraid of heaven and earth, are now full of awe of nature.

Returning to Moscow, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

There are many houses that can be assembled in China, without laying foundations and bricks and tiles.

As long as these parts are screwed together, they can form a house.

The houses are connected together to form rows of barracks.

The earthen kang is Korean-style, and the stove digs a pit outside and buries it underground.

In this way, gas poisoning is effectively avoided.

The cooks from the country set up a marching cauldron in the middle of the barracks.

The firewood below burned vigorously, and the smell of pine oil filled the camp.

Russia is good at this, there are trees, just cut them down!

Chop the whole cabbage, stew it with chunks of pork, and add a handful of vermicelli.

Eating rice, stewed vermicelli with pork.

A group of Liaodong men cried like dolls in the month. I haven't eaten rice for a long time, and my stomach is full of acid water when I eat dry food.

The love of Liaodong people for rice is no less than the love of Hebei Shandong people for pasta.