"Are you sure you have killed the enemy's anti-aircraft artillery group?" Li Xiao looked at the map and asked Stilwell on the side.

"Huh! A rocket artillery regiment pulled up, and the entire regiment poured fire on the anti-aircraft artillery group.

What I want is that I would rather kill three thousand by mistake than let go of one.

Yesterday during the day, our planes were never again subjected to large-caliber anti-aircraft guns.

It's just a pity that the number of fighters is too small. Failed to deliver an effective blow to the enemy!

Isn't it, sending an airship up? ”

"Airplanes can, airships can't.

Large-caliber anti-aircraft guns are gone, not necessarily small-caliber anti-aircraft guns.

The 25mm rapid-fire gun on the airship had to be lowered in height in order to be effective.

We lowered the altitude so that the enemy's rapid-fire guns could hit our airships.

At the speed of the airship, it's not a dozen or a quasi.

Let's keep these airships for transportation! ”

Li Xiao shook his head helplessly, but Stuka made it up.

However, there is still a gap in engine output, and the reliability of the engine is not high.

Embodied in the bomb load and range, the Northern Front has crashed six planes without enemy strikes, simply because of a malfunction.

That's just three months!

There is no way, the plane is the result of Li Xiao's seedlings. After all, there are still problems with technical support and reliability!

It's like the current Stuka that has never been solved by the problem of starting in cold weather.

For a variety of reasons, Stuka's attendance was not high.

Coupled with the limitations of bomb load and range, the damage to the French army was not as great as imagined.

What made Li Xiao even more speechless was that the hit rate of Stuka's dive bomb was really not high.

The pontoon bridge was blown up three times yesterday, but each time the Norwegians were able to rebuild it in an hour.

There are many woods on both sides of the Volga, and it is very convenient to get local materials.

"It will take more than thirty hours for Master Man to come over.

The troops now on top of the Svetloyar swamp consisted of only one regiment of the Ninth Division.

If the French broke through this line, they would have a logistical supply point behind them.

There was a lot of ammunition, weapons, and all kinds of supplies. ”

"Transfer another regiment of the Temporary Ninth Division over and tell Master Man not to be in a hurry. Tired soldiers and equipment, rushing to the battlefield will also greatly reduce the combat effectiveness.

Let the Ninth Division of the Temporary, take two days! ”

"How? Commander, this regiment is the last barrier around you, and it is the key moment to ensure that you can get out smoothly. ”

Stilwell said anxiously!

"It's all at this time, and I'm still talking about retreating.

Go up, two regiments against three divisions. There is no natural danger in the defensive place, and this battle is difficult enough. ”

Although Li Xiao spoke softly, he was very calm.

"Handsome ......!"

"Execute the order!"

"No!"

Stilwell had no choice but to carry out Li Xiao's orders.

Turn around and order your staff to move your troops.

Li Xiao glanced at the night sky outside and could hear a thunderous sound in the distance.

The positions in the swamps of Svetloyal must be held.

Otherwise, after the French army obtained supplies from the Ming Dynasty. will be interspersed all the way to the back of the Ming army in the battle of Tsaritsyn!

At that time, even if the full master arrived, I am afraid that he would not be able to return to the sky.

No way, the strength advantage of the Christian League is too great.

Li Xiao was nervously commanding the operation in Tsaritsyn, and thousands of kilometers away on the island of Crete, Li Xiu was watching the Marines board the ship.

"Second master! Isn't it too hasty for us to send troops now? Chen Laohu hesitated.

This time, the target was Sicily, but the marines transferred by Zuo Liangyu were not all in place.

There was only one division, which seemed a little too little for the vast island of Sicily.

Well, the Italians are also a country with a million troops. Although the combat effectiveness is not very good, it is still a bit too contemptuous to attack Sicily with more than 9,000 people.

"No way! Big brother is fighting hard in Tsaritsyn, and we must threaten the south of France.

In this way, the French will be confused if they can't take care of each other.

We will first defeat Sicily, and the rest of the marines will go directly to Sicily for concentration.

Napoleon dared not to withdraw his troops, and Lao Tzu landed in Corsica. And then there's Marseille!

Instead, Napoleon still didn't care about mainland France. ”

Li Xiu looked at the troops who boarded the ship, and let out a heavy "snort" in his nose.

"What if he goes all the way to the dark?"

"Then go straight north to Paris. I don't believe it, he doesn't even want Paris anymore. ”

Li Xiu knew in his heart that Napoleon would not abandon Paris no matter what.

For the French, there are only two parts of France. One is Paris, and the other is outside Paris.

If Paris is really lost, Napoleon, the emperor, will not be able to do it steadily.

"Second master, I just don't understand.

Why didn't you let them cut off their oil!

Oil and refining are now in our hands, and if we don't sell oil to the Portuguese, they will run out of oil.

Second master! Don't say you don't know, the diesel imported by the Portuguese was sold by them to the coalition forces.

If there were no diesel, their airships would have to lie on their stomachs. ”

"You know what? Sell them diesel because it's good at the price. In the past, it was still settled with Daming silver dollars, but now it is found that someone has minted Daming silver dollars privately.

Settlements are all in gold!

Look at it, if the war is really going to be fought for a few years.

We may not have won on the battlefield, but we were able to make all the gold in Europe.

Without the support of money, they still fart.

If war is about opening the flesh, then what we are doing now is to knock them out and suck the marrow.

After squeezing these Europeans dry, they will want to fight in the future, and I am afraid they will not be able to fight.

Fight! Hehe, it's the fuck that's making money. ”

Li Xiu glanced at Chen Laohu, this guy is always stumbling on the diesel oil exported to Portugal these days.

It's good to make it clear to him this time, at least this thing won't stop again.

Portugal is one of the few European countries that has not declared war on the Ming Dynasty, but everyone knows in their hearts that this product is a two-five-year-old.

Fools can see that they don't have a good mind.

One hand bought oil in the hands of the Ming Dynasty, and the other hand poured these things to the French and British.

The two ends are upside down to make the difference, and the abacus is "crackling".

However, Li Xiao also admitted that it was nothing to let the Portuguese make a little money. Anyway, if you want to buy diesel now, you don't need to talk about silver, just gold.

The consumption of war is huge, and how terrifying the fuel of the airship is, Li Xiao knows too much in his heart.

If the war drags on for two years, the oil alone will be able to drag the Europeans into beggars.

No money!

Also make a yarn.

"Sun Tzu's Art of War" says that the first army is to attack and plan, the second is to attack the enemy, the second is to attack the army, and then the next is to attack the city.

Li Xiao felt that what Lao Sun said was very reasonable, killing people with a soft knife is sometimes far more cruel than on the battlefield.

Fighting on the battlefield is to use violent means to force the enemy to accept our will.

But when a soft knife kills, it drains the enemy's blood and sucks the enemy's bone marrow.

At the end of the day, when the enemy is sucked into a skeleton, it will take you as much as they want.

Even if you step on their heads and, there's nothing wrong with that.

The fleet departed, two aircraft carriers. Three battleships, plus fifteen destroyers.

The huge fleet is where Li Xiu's confidence lies in daring to attack!

The 480 mm cannon on the mountain-class battleship is a terrifying existence for everyone.

Palermo, the capital of Sicily, was within range of naval guns.

In fact, Li Xiu didn't think about occupying the whole of Sicily with one division, he only needed to control one port city.

Anyway, if such a wedge is driven in Sicily, the follow-up marines will come over one after another to concentrate.

The whole of Sicily will fall into the hands of the Ming Dynasty sooner or later.

Blockading Sicily, the entire eastern Mediterranean is the world where Ming ships are rampant.

It's not like now, you have to send out patrol planes to search all day long. I'm afraid that a Christ coalition warship will sneak in!

Objectively, it also played a role in saving troops.

The huge fleet went all the way to the west, and along the way, the ships of the Christian League saw this fleet, and they simply fled.

It's a pity that no matter how they escaped, they couldn't escape the pursuit of carrier-based aircraft.

How could a warship fly faster than an airplane, even if it was on their doorstep.

On two occasions, carrier-based aircraft chased down enemy destroyers and went directly into the Italian military port.

In the face of the arrogant and domineering tactics of the Ming Dynasty, the Italians' approach was to transfer all the limited ironclad ships to the north.

There is no way, there is no such battle.

People were flying around in the sky, so fast that anti-aircraft shells couldn't catch them.

Before you can beat them down, they start to torpedo bombs.

It's okay to say that the bomb exploded, after all, the explosion on the deck was only a matter of casualties.

But the torpedo thing was going to die, a 500-kilogram high-explosive torpedo exploded. You can send a destroyer with a displacement of 3,000 tons directly to the bottom of the sea!

The really boring Ming army pilots even strafed Italian fishermen for fun.

However, soon, this boring practice was strictly forbidden by Li Xiu.

It's not for humanitarianism, it's just because it's a fucking waste of ammunition.

The ammunition is also fucking asking for money!

The fleet is mighty and does not hide at all, and it is extremely arrogant to parade in the Mediterranean.

Along the way, there are some ghosts and gods.

After two days of sailing, we finally arrived in Sicily.

Li Xiu was naturally familiar with such a thing as a landing operation. He turned out to be the commander of the Marine Corps!

When India was attacked, such things as landing operations were not less.

Pull out the arsenal ship first, look at the shore like a bunker, boom!

The positions that the Italians had hastily set up were blown to pieces in an instant.

Faced with a blackened beach, the Marines are on the scene.

The early marines, set up small boats and sailed to the coast. In the sky, the Ming fighter jets circled like eagles.

As long as it finds an Italian military target, it will pounce like a falcon.

Gao Jiu, who had already become a company commander, rushed to the beach with ten assault boats as soon as possible.

As soon as the assault boat hit the beach, they jumped down with the people and ran to the shore with the water.

The Marines lay on the beach, their Aka rifles firing at any suspicious target.

After emptying a magazine, Gao Jiu motioned for the big guy to stop shooting.

It was quiet, and smoke was still rising from the huge crater not far away.

Many of the tall palm trees on the beach have been blown off and used as makeshift shelters.

No one, no one.

It is estimated that even if someone has just been killed, they have been killed by the huge power of rocket artillery. The power of the explosion of the 500-kilogram warhead is very amazing.

Not to mention, this is a rocket artillery salvo.

Not to mention the explosion, even if it is an earthquake, it will shock you to death.

"Watch your step, one row of search forward, two rows follow, and three rows of palaces." Gao Jiu gave the order loudly.

A long platoon led a platoon, holding an Acre rifle and walking cautiously forward.

Although there was rocket bombardment, no one could guarantee that there were no mines buried underground.

If you accidentally step on it, you will become lame if you are not careful.

Smoke billows from the burning palm trees, giving the beach a touch of battlefield.

After the search platoon went five or six hundred meters ahead, the second platoon set off.

Three platoons remained on the beach to meet the troops that landed below.

Gao Jiu followed behind the first row with the second row, and the big guys were all bowed down, ready to lie down at any time.

The experience of the Middle East has taught them that bullets can come from anywhere.

If the enemy has mortars, it is even more terrible.

"Lie down!" Gao Jiu's eyes were sharp, and he saw a dark castle inside a bush.

The outcropping part is only about half a meter high, and it is difficult to spot it when it is hidden by trees.

The spearhead crawled over, but there was no reaction from the inside of the bunker.

The Spearhead lay on the edge of the bunker's firing hole, pulled out a grenade and stuffed it in.

"Boom!" A large cloud of smoke rose from the bunker's firing hole.

The spearhead didn't hear the screams, and with a wave from behind, he got out of cover.

It was a reinforced concrete bunker, and there were no people in sight, only shrapnel embedded in the walls after the grenade exploded.

Gao Jiu was also a little puzzled, it stands to reason that the Ming fleet was marching so arrogantly. There's no reason why the Italians shouldn't be prepared in the slightest!

This bunker is so hidden and strong, there is no one to defend it.

Soon, the search platoon advanced more than two kilometers.

Along the way, many fortifications were encountered, again unmanned.

So much so that later, the soldiers just fired two shots at the shooting hole and went down to search.

Gao Jiu was a little puzzled, he didn't even want his subordinates to go any further.

It's so weird!

Everyone knows that a kilometer in front of the beach is the best defensive area.

And there are still a lot of reinforced concrete bunkers here, why did the Italians give up like this?

After advancing a few hundred meters, you can see the thrown mortars inside the underground bunkers.

There are even a lot of mortar shells in the bunker.

The weapon was found, but no one was found.

His grandmother's, even if she was killed by a rocket, would have a corpse.

No, nothing.

This eerie beach is like a ghost island, full of indescribable weirdness.

"Stop moving! Defend in place. Gao Jiu finally couldn't hold back anymore and gave an order to his subordinates.