The Marine Corps has completely become the Marine Corps, and the word Navy has been removed.

Last time, it only lost the command power in peacetime, as well as the financial power and personnel power. It's good now, even wartime command is gone.

This is the Marine Corps founded by Li Xiu!

From a regiment at the beginning to hundreds of thousands of troops now, only Li Xiu can understand the hardships and hard work involved.

At this time, Li Xiu's mood was like an old man who had been married to his daughter.

Since childhood, we have weeded, fertilized, and caught insects for a pot of flowers, so that it can shelter from the wind and rain.

It's easy to boil until it blooms, but a thing called a son-in-law is taken away along with the pot.

Helpless!

The situation is pressing!

Li Xiao forcibly elevated the use of technology in the war, and almost extinguished the possibility of rebellion among the generals.

This problem, which has plagued the Chinese Dynasty for thousands of years, was solved by Li Xiao in a few decades.

In the past thousand years, the logistics of the army has actually referred to food most of the time.

The two armies are at war, and the side that runs out of food will be quickly routed.

The masterpiece is the Battle of Chibi led by Mr. Cao, after burning Yuan Shao's army rations, Yuan Shao's army suffered a systematic collapse.

But now it's different!

If the generals want to rebel, it is too difficult.

One of the reasons is the complexity and specialization of the supply!

A modern military is a product of industrialization.

For example, the navy under Li Xiu not only needed food and drinking water. Ammunition, fuel, and other supplies are also needed.

These things are definitely not something that the Navy can handle.

This requires mines, smelters, oil refineries, gunpowder factories and thousands of industrial workers.

These ......, except for the oil fields in Basra, there is no way to supply them overseas.

The current army is a large, systematic organization.

And the logistical supplies are the lubricating oil of this large organization.

An army without supplies is like an engine that has lost its lubricating oil, and it will not last long to pull the cylinder.

Crete has become the most important base of the Ming Dynasty in the Mediterranean, even more important than Cyprus.

A huge port, not to mention a truce battleship, even if it is a docking of the entire aircraft carrier fleet, there is no problem.

"The first phase here has just ended, and three kilometers away is the second phase.

Three dry docks are going to be built there, and when they are completed, everything from battleships and aircraft carriers to destroyers can be maintained and repaired.

There's three phases further along, but that's two years later.

After the completion of the third phase, Crete will be able to dock more than 70 warships, a proper naval home port. ”

Li Xiu proudly pointed to a large busy construction site!

"Hmm!" Li Xiao nodded.

In fact, it seems that Palermo, Sicily, is more suitable as a naval home port.

But Li Xiu still set up the navy's home port in the Mediterranean, on the island of Crete.

The reason is simple, Crete is stuck in the estuary of the Aegean Sea.

If Constantinople is lost, it will be possible to guarantee that the powerful Israeli navy will not be able to rush out of the Aegean Sea.

"It's the airport over there, and it's going to be completed in just over a month.

The runway is tamped with large stones underneath the foundation, concrete in the middle, and gravel and asphalt on the top.

The amount of work was a bit larger, but it was finally completed.

It is a full three kilometers long, and there is no problem with taking off and landing large transport aircraft. ”

"Huh!

How did the plane fly?

From Daming to here, only Xinjiapo, Mumbai and Cairo are building airports along the way.

You expect the plane to fly from Daming, I'm afraid it's unreliable. ”

"Isn't the Shaanxi aircraft carrier already over sea trials?

Let it carry five of the latest Hercules transport planes, and an airport is being built in Sicily.

If all goes well, it should take another five or six months to be able to fix it.

It's just that the runway is a little shorter, only two kilometers. ”

"It's better to repair three thousand meters, this kind of thing can be repaired at one time, but don't waste it twice."

"Two thousand meters should be repaired, and three thousand meters should be repaired.

You see, on the edge of this runway, the foundation has begun to be dug and preparations are being made to build a two-kilometer runway.

Two kilometers for fighters and bombers, and three kilometers for Hercules transport aircraft.

Each uses its own and is spacious! ”

The Hercules transport plane in Li Xiu's mouth is the latest product of the Changchun Aircraft Factory.

It has just been finalized, and only three prototypes have been produced.

The five planes Li Xiu said are estimated to even count the output of the next two months.

This transport aircraft can be described as an epoch-making product, it has five engines.

The length of the fuselage reached twenty-one meters, and the wingspan reached thirty-two meters.

The height of the fuselage is five meters!

The net weight of the whole aircraft is six and a half tons, and the maximum take-off weight reaches eleven and a half tons.

The maximum cruising speed reached three hundred kilometers.

The maximum range reached 1,300 km.

As a pure transport aircraft, it does not carry a single weapon on it.

In fact, in terms of transportation volume, this thing is not really an airship at all.

At present, the Ming army's large transport airships can carry 90 tons and fly 1,500 kilometers.

But the speed of the airship is too slow, and the cruising speed of the large transport airship is only ninety kilometers.

Even at full speed, the speed is only 110 km/h.

In terms of speed, the transport plane is three times faster than the airship.

Large-scale strategic transportation is not possible, but it is still feasible to transport some emergency personnel and equipment.

Palermo is only a little more than 900 kilometers away from Crete, which is the ideal distance for this type of transport aircraft.

"Okay!" Li Xiao nodded, anyway, it's good to build two more runways.

Aircraft take off and land more frequently, and in case of emergency, one runway cannot be used, and the other side of the runway can also take off and land aircraft.

"The climate in the Mediterranean is really nice.

The construction can be carried out around the clock 365 days a year, and you can see that the water plant, the power plant, and the dormitories of the officers and soldiers have all been built.

There's also a lighthouse over there that can guide the ships in the harbor. ”

Li Xiu seemed to be an honor student who showed off his grades to his parents, and proudly introduced the infrastructure projects on the island of Crete.

Li Xiao looked at the past, and there were big trucks running on the road.

Thinking that the problem of the road, this thing is not used much in Russia. But here, it comes in handy.

Truckloads of cement and yellow sand were transported to the construction site by this thing.

On the construction site, there are also various construction machinery.

Grappling hook machines, bulldozers, forklifts and much more.

Where the building was built, Li Xiao also saw a tower crane seven or eight stories high!

Although it has been under construction for two years, Crete still looks like a large construction site.

There was dust everywhere, and many of the people working on the site were black Egyptians.

The Daming supervisor, who wears a helmet on his head, takes drawings and tape measures from time to time to check the construction quality.

Li Xiao saw that these guys also used a line pendant and a level.

When encountering substandard construction, they will ruthlessly order to tear down and rebuild.

Usually at this time, the Egyptian foreman who had just nodded his head would whip the workers with a hideous face and make the workers cry wolf.

"There are no locals here anymore, except for our Ming soldiers and their families, there are only these Egyptians."

"What about the locals? Killed all? "Li Xiao knew that Crete was originally indigenous.

"No, it's all sent to Greece."

"To Greece?"

"Yes!

We have occupied other people's land, and there is no need to exterminate them all.

So I wrote a note to the king of Greece and asked them all to be sent to Greece. ”

"Will they take it?" Li Xiao felt that the Greeks seemed to have no reason to accept these aborigines.

"He dares!

The note that Lao Tzu gave him was an order to settle these people well.

The man I sent returned, and the king of Greece behaved like a cat.

The natives divided the land and built houses.

Life is not bad, and some people are even better off than this Cretan life. ”

Li Xiao nodded!

Indeed, under the strong ships and cannons of the Ming Dynasty, the Greek king could not be as obedient as a cat.

Crete is so close to Athens that it offends this lord.

Maybe in a few days, the port of Athens will also become a military port of the Ming Dynasty.

Anyway, in such a small country, drive a couple of destroyers over, and the king will be stupid.

"Over there is an arsenal under construction, which mainly produces artillery shells and naval ...... Guns and bullets used by the Marines, mines or something.

It was shipped from within the Ming Dynasty, but it was too far.

Build some here to reduce the pressure of long-distance transportation.

Oh, and there's a repair shop next to that.

Some mechanics were found in the country to repair cars and various construction machinery.

The quality of the car made in Shenyang is not very good, and it will break down as soon as it is opened, and the failure rate is amazing.

As a last resort, I had to build such a repair shop. ”

Li Xiu pointed to a large area of completed and near-completed factories!

Li Xiao nodded, these are all reported.

In the arsenal, the main production is small-caliber artillery shells for the Marine Corps, as well as rifle and machine gun bullets.

This kind of thing consumes a lot of money, and it is transported from Daming for a long time, and sometimes it will be delayed.

As for the repair shop, Li Xiao also had to admit it.

There is still a bad consequence of their own seedlings, that is, the car failure rate is amazing.

Comparatively, tractors seem to be better.

Perhaps, this has something to do with the fact that the tractor is relatively slow.

Water plants and power plants look all the way over!

Crete is now more and more modern, with water towers more than 50 meters high and telephone poles on the side of the road.

The asphalt pavement, although somewhat dirty, is very smooth.

Li Xiao sat in the jeep, barely bumpy.

It's not like in Russia, where taking a jeep on that kind of road is the same as shaking the Lantern Festival, and it's better to take a triple jumper.

Further on, there is a temporary dockyard for the Navy.

It is an open-air dry dock with no roof.

All the workers are working shirtless!

Inside the dock was a large transport ship, presumably just on its own, with oysters and barnacles growing on its bottom.

Dense, dense phobia look, goosebumps will immediately appear on the body.

A group of workers are wielding shovels in their hands, shoveling the barnacles on the hull of the ship.

Barnacles secrete a glue-like thing that holds itself tightly to the bottom of the hull.

And, over time, the barnacles on the bottom of the boat will get more and more wet.

In the end, even to the point of affecting the speed of the voyage.

Therefore, ships generally go ashore every few years to clean up barnacles and other things.

This is the first step in the maintenance of the ship, and it is also the step that cannot be reduced.

These workers had the scorching Mediterranean sun on their heads, and the shovels in their hands were constantly waving.

Pieces of barnacles, shoveled down.

The slag of barnacles, as well as dust splashed on people, will immediately stick to sweat.

The smell of barnacle dregs is very bad, and it smells even worse when exposed to the sun.

From afar, Li Xiao smelled a fishy smell.

It's really bad luck to work in this place. In Li Xiao's view, it is not as good as the Egyptian workers who laid bricks just now.

When the jeep drove here, it slowed down significantly.

Li Xiu also introduced this dock intentionally or unintentionally!

With Li Xiu's fingers, Li Xiao finally saw the scene that Li Xiu wanted to let himself see.

Chen Laohu, who has gray sideburns, is shirtless, holding a shovel in his hand and wielding it vigorously.

It can be seen that he is working hard. Almost every swing of the shovel shovels shovels a large area of barnacles are removed.

His body, hair, and face were covered with barnacle slag, and he looked terrible.

This is too far from the image of the rear admiral and deputy commander in the military uniform in Li Xiao's impression!

Li Xiao almost didn't recognize it!

I finally knew why Li Xiu wanted to lead himself here.

Since he has acted in this play to give himself a step, he has to continue.

"That's not Chen Laohu?" Li Xiao pretended to be surprised and pointed at it.

"Big brother, that's the old guy.

Guilty of such a big mistake, I punished him for coming here to shovel barnacle oysters. ”

"Parking! Let's go, go and see! Li Xiao waved his hand, and the driver immediately stopped.

The group got out of the car and walked to Chen Laohu, who was working.

Chen Laohu shoveled barnacles very devotedly, and Li Xiao walked behind him, he was still sweating like rain.

It's just that the shovel is more fierce and harder.

"Chen Laohu!" Li Xiao shouted.

Chen Laohu turned around and bowed: "Handsome!" ”

The acting skills are really not good, but the script of the bitter love drama is good, and at first glance, you can see that there is a master to guide you.

The head is pestled on the oyster shell on the ground and slammed hard!

Soon, there were traces of blood on the ground.

After the oyster shell was broken, it was like a knife, and when Chen Laohu raised his head again, his head was already full of wounds.

Blood ran down his cheeks, onto his chin, and then "tick" and "tick" to the ground.

"Handsome ......!" I don't know if it's painful or really sad, Chen Laohu's tears rolled down.

Li Xiao's belly was dark, and there was a high probability that it should be painful.

"That's it! The demotion was also degraded, and the punishment was disposed of.

This kind of corporal punishment is not necessary, after serving Daming for so many years, this bit of dignity still has to be left for you.

Get up! ”

Li Xiao bent down and patted Chen Laohu's shoulder.

"Handsome! Guilty of lowly duty!

This battle was lost, and I lost the prestige of the Ming army.

Thousands of brothers have also been lost!

Guilty of lowly duty!

Guilty of lowly duty! ”

"Get up, pretend to be a dead dog.

My Liao army, even if it is defeated, will fucking fight back.

Get out now, and go back to the troops to make a plan to beat the French to a pulp for Lao Tzu. ”