Unlike the icy and snowy landscapes of Russia, the sun of the Mediterranean Sea outside the porthole is extraordinarily bright, illuminating the sea sparkling.

Seabirds soar and chirp in the sky, swoop into the sea from time to time, and when they float up, they fiddle with a fish in their mouths and swallow it in their stomachs.

"Second uncle, these are the lists of aunts who resell oil.

There is gasoline, diesel, and all kinds of lubricants.

These are all oil products used on the airship, and they are absolutely wartime controlled materials. ”

Li Lin took out a list and put it directly on Li Xiu's desk.

"There's such a thing?

But your dad wants to resell some of these things. After all, you can get a lot of gold in exchange for that.

This is part of the economic war against Europe, and you should know it. ”

Li Xiu picked it up and glanced at it, then put it on the table again.

casually knew that his wife had a problem with money, but this was something that the eldest brother approved. It should be regarded as smuggling by order!

"Second uncle, it's not that you don't know. There are special people in charge of smuggling, and there is a quota for how much to sell each month.

The quota is determined on the basis of the necessary consumption of the coalition forces.

What my dad meant was that a little bit of eight was enough for the coalition's minimum standard. Guaranteed that there is no storage of oil for the coalition forces!

While hollowing out European countries, it can also limit the use of airships and machinery by coalition forces.

But my aunt did this, and it was conservatively estimated that the coalition forces had been able to store oil for half a month.

Moreover, the aunt continues to smuggle refined oil and lubricants on a large scale.

There is a cargo ship Tianhe, which just passed through the Suez Canal three days ago. Now, I don't know where. ”

"Tianhe?" Li Xiu frowned.

"Yes, an oil tanker with a deadweight of 8,700 tons. All of the oil pulled above is refined oil that has just been produced from the Basra refinery.

It is estimated that these oils can be used by the coalition forces for twenty days. ”

Li Lin stood in front of Li Xiu, although the sofa was close at hand, he still didn't sit down.

"Sit, we don't have such big rules." Li Xiu picked up the list again, and this time he was reading it very seriously.

"Second uncle, you must stop the Tianhe.

We can't let the coalition get this batch of refined oil!

Do you know how much pressure these things will put on the Russian battlefield?

Second uncle!

I have just returned from the Russian battlefield, and we have suffered heavy losses on the outskirts of Tsaritsyn. A regiment went up and was all over in one night.

The fighters are delaying time with their lives!

You're making a fortune! ”

"The Tianhe will arrive in Crete tomorrow!" Facing the angry Li Lin, Li Xiu just said a word lightly.

"...... tomorrow!" Li Lin was stunned for a moment, not knowing what to say.

"Kid!

You say that I am difficult to make a fortune, so let me ask you? Who is this Daming Kingdom? Li Xiu took out his cigar and looked at Li Lin while cutting it.

“……！” Li Lin has not yet recovered from the confusion just now.

"You're still young!

I don't know how difficult it was for our family after your grandfather, grandmother, and aunt were killed by the Tartars at that time.

Your father took me, your third uncle, your fourth uncle and your aunt to Liaoyang Mansion.

On the night the Tartars broke the city, your father fled with us all the way!

Finally fled to Phi Island.

started with the hundreds of people on Phi Island, and your father took me, your third uncle, fourth uncle, Ao Ye, and Man Ye to conquer the world.

Who is in this world?

It's our Li family!

I can't make a fortune and sell myself?

Women are ignorant and do wrong things.

You haven't started a family yet, woman! That's it.

Fortunately, your aunt gave birth to two younger brothers for you, and she also renewed the incense for our Li family.

This matter, let her go!

After I go back, I will send her back to Daming, and I will not let her get involved in anything in the future. ”

Li Xiu took a puff of his cigar and watched the sea outside slowly exhale a puff of smoke.

"Two ......!" Li Lin nodded, and finally came to his senses from his bewilderment.

In the vast sea, it is easy to find a warship, because there are radio stations on the warship.

But if you want to find an oil tanker, it's difficult.

However, this difficulty is relative, it may be difficult for others, but it is not difficult for Li Xiu.

Because he was the commander of the Ming Empire's navy, the Mediterranean Sea was simply his own backyard for him.

It's just a matter of looking for an easily recognizable oil tanker, but isn't it just looking for a quasi-one?

The Tianhe has been found, which means that the oil will not fall into the hands of the coalition forces.

This reassured Li Lin a lot, since the coalition forces couldn't get these oils, it was easy to say anything.

Li Xiu spoke, and Li Lin had nothing else to say. That's the matter of the Zheng family, after all, her identity is special.

To deal with her, you need daddy's voice to do it!

"That Marine Quartermaster Shi Lang, and those under him ......!" Since the tiger can't be beaten, the flies still have to catch a few, otherwise there will be no explanation up and down.

"The Marine Corps is not under my control, you go and ask Zuo Liangyu. People in the navy, as long as they are really involved, you can also arrest them. ”

Li Xiu nodded, and agreed with Li Lin to deal with the others.

"Got it, second uncle!"

In front of smart people, you don't have to say too much. It's good that everyone understands in their hearts!

Walking out of Li Xiu's study, he saw a group of guys dressed in black.

The one who took the lead was Xiao Zhan, the chief officer of the Ministry of Supervision!

"Catch!"

A murderous word.

"No!" After answering the promise, the men in black turned and left.

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The heavy snow began to fall two days ago, and it still has no intention of stopping.

When the cold north wind blew through people's faces, it was like a steel knife.

The crow that fell under the pine tree, buried under the heavy snow, turned into a bulging snow bag.

As the snow fell, the snow packs were slowly filled in, and it was impossible to see what was underneath.

Heaven and earth were vast, everything was frozen, even the attack of the coalition forces was frozen.

The soldiers hid in the trenches, cursing the Russian ghost weather, leaning together and shivering until it got dark.

"The weather in Russia on this dog day is really freezing to death. We are afraid that if we don't wait for dark, we will freeze to death. ”

"Don't say anything about Seleov, now let's light a fire, and a howitzer will come down and not kill you, but bury you alive.

It's better to bear with it, it's warmer for everyone to squeeze. ”

"You can only make a stove to heat up when it's dark, you can save it!"

"Fuck who farts ......!"

"Change the whistle! Change the whistle, fuck, Seryov hurry up. ”

A group of Austro-Hungarian soldiers huddled inside the underground bunker, leaving only two observation posts outside the trenches.

The snow on the ground was knee-high, and I couldn't run at all. Attacking enemy positions at this time is tantamount to suicide.

"Damn, it's cold!" Seleov cursed and walked out of the bunker.

Outside, the sky was getting darker, and the moon was peeking out in the east.

"Why as soon as Lao Tzu came out, he couldn't bake the fire at night." Seleov held his gun in his arms and kept stomping his numb feet in the trenches.

The vast expanse of snow turned a strange red, and only the north wind could be heard in the ears.

Streams of snow foam were swept up by the wind and soared into the sky!

Seleov hurriedly turned his head and threw the back of his head into the wind. This snow particle hits the face, and it hurts hotly.

There was a "crackling" sound from the cotton hat, and Seleov felt like he was going to suffocate from the cold.

"How long do you have to change shifts!"

"When the moon is higher than the treetops!"

"Damn, why hasn't the moon gone up yet?"

"Don't speak, listen to what you hear."

"Fuck off, I haven't heard anything but the wind."

Seleov cursed and trotted up in the trenches. Exercise and get warm.

As long as you stay up until the moon is higher than the treetops, you can enter the trenches and warm up by the fire.

It was so cold that he felt like he was going to freeze to death.

"Don't stomp your feet, it seems like there's a sound, there's a sound."

"Fuck off!"

Selev was still stomping his feet, and the gun in his hand had already been thrown on the ground. Now the barrel of the gun accidentally sticks to the face, and maybe a piece of skin can be scraped off.

"There really is a voice, I don't believe you listen."

Seleov pricked up his ears, but still could not hear. His hat and ears were down, and his ears were choked to death.

"Holy shit, aren't you stupid ......!" Seleov stopped because he noticed that the ground was shaking. The snow on the edge of the trench was crumbling into the trench.

Finally, he heard a ghostly roar.

The sound sounded like the roar of the evil spirits of hell!

"What's that?"

When I looked up, I saw more than a dozen black bumps suddenly appearing in the snow.

These black bumps have a terrifying scream, and you can even faintly hear the "squeak" of steel rubbing.

"Enemy attack! It's an enemy attack!

Enemy attack! Seleov struck a spirit, and immediately sprang up and ran to cover.

"Come out, enemy attack! Enemy attack!

Syllable......! As he walked, he casually shot into the sky.

Soon, the people inside the underground bunker all came out.

"Machine guns, machine gun mounts.

Mortars, fire, fire! ”

By the time the Austro-Hungarian defenders had set up their positions, the Ming tank troops had already rushed to less than 500 meters of the front line.

Mortar shells fell in the middle of the tank formation, and shrapnel "clanged" on the tank.

There were even mortar shells that hit the front armor of the tank, but before the mortar shells exploded, they were directly bounced off by the hard armor.

"Oh God, what's that?"

"Damn, what kind of monster is that."

"Machine guns, machine guns, shoot them!"

On the positions of Austria-Hungary, the soldiers shouted.

Four hundred meters!

The Maxim heavy machine gun began to fire ferociously, and one bullet after another hit the front armor of the tank, and sparks flew in all directions.

But no matter how sparks flew, the tank had no intention of stopping.

"Boom!"

There was a flash on the tank, and then the machine gunner and the Maxim heavy machine gun were blown away.

Soon, the Ming army stood on top of the tank and began to fire at the positions of the Austro-Hungarian troops with a 12.7 mm heavy machine gun on the roof of the vehicle.

One tank fired, dozens of tanks followed.

The bullets were more dense than rain, and the Austro-Hungarian soldiers were all crushed in the trenches, and if anyone dared to show their heads, they would be killed by the bullets.

The tanks, while firing constantly, approached the Austro-Hungarian front.

"Boom!" There was a violent explosion, and the heavy tank jumped on the spot, and soon smoke rose from it.

"Boom!" There was another bang, and another tank lay on its stomach.

As if out of sight, the other Ming tanks continued to advance.

There are constantly all sorts of mines, which are detonated under the crush of tracks.

However, these are obviously small mines, and they can't blow up the tank like the two just now.

At present, the miniaturization of landmines is a common trend in the world. Speaking of which, this trend is still the rise of Daming.

The Ming soldiers would carry some mines the size of a fist with them, which were not only very convenient to lay out, but also powerful enough to blow up a person's feet.

A soldier without a foot is considered to be incapacitated. Moreover, it would take two or even three people to carry him away.

In an instant, three or four people will be hors de combat.

Everyone is not stupid, this kind of cost-effective thing has naturally become a trend.

But this kind of small mine can be regarded as blind when it encounters a tank, and it can blow a person's foot away, but it cannot blow up a steel track.

The crawler "creaked" over the mine, and the ground just exploded into a cloud of snowflakes, and it didn't even feel big inside the tank.

Mortars are still being fired, but they have little effect on the tank.

Even if a shell falls on the armor of the tank and explodes, it will not tear the front armor.

Mortars, however, did some damage to the infantry following the tank.

Finally, a tank discovered the location of the mortar position.

As a series of tracer bullets passed, at least a dozen shells hit the mortar positions one after another.

Immediately after, a string of explosions was heard.

Ammunition is gone!

The tanks stopped more than 50 meters from the enemy line, and the machine guns continued to strafe the positions of the Austro-Hungarian troops, so that the people on the positions did not dare to show their heads.

The infantry from behind rushed up, stepping on knee-deep snow and shooting as they went.

From time to time, someone pulled out a grenade and threw it directly into the foxhole.

The people inside the tank could see the dirt that had been blown up in the foxhole.

The Ming infantry quickly cleared the people in the trenches.

Inside some underground bunkers, there are still some lucky guys. No matter how you shout outside, you just don't come out and surrender.

The Ming army threw a grenade-like object inside, and after a while, smoke billowed from the underground bunker.

The people inside sprang out like rabbits, snot and tears flowed together, and after they came out, they didn't care about surrendering, and lay on the ground coughing constantly.

It's like coughing up your lungs!

The Ming army did not fall in love with this place, and after disarming them, they directly stuffed them into the back bucket pulled by the tractor and sent them away.

The captives were the money of the brothers, and they could not be killed like the Russians.

The remaining Ming tanks quickly ran over the line of the Austro-Hungarian army and continued to advance.

The infantry, on the other hand, boarded the tractor-towed RV and continued to move forward with the tank.

In just one night, both flanks of the Austro-Hungarian army in the Kursk region were broken through.