Chapter 119
Rich!
When I arrived at the Li family, I didn't think I could do it if I wasn't rich in this life.
Caracals don't know what it means to be rich, but seeing those smiling faces, Li Xiao knows what they know is.
To be rich is to be rich, and to have status and respect is to be expensive.
If you want to reach the realm of these two words in life, having power is definitely a good road.
These are the people who have power.
And they respect themselves because they have greater rights.
The right to control their lives and deaths!
It is practical for Li Xiao to speak, as long as Li Xiu gives him a look, these people will be wiped out.
The king of what tiles, seeing that the big man took his cat, was as happy as a child who had been rewarded by a teacher.
I don't know, I thought he was the one who received the gift.
waved his hand to the black guy encouragingly, and Li Xiao walked away with the cat in his arms.
Completely ignoring the bastard's attempt to give a silverback gorilla to himself.
It's so dangerous that it can tear people in half when it goes berserk.
After one night in Crete, he was to sail to Sicily on the warship Yanshan.
The memory of Sicily is actually a movie, called "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily".
In fact, Li Xiao didn't see the plot or the artistry.
Remember, only Monica. Bellucci.
It's so beautiful, I just appeared on the camera and sparked my titanium alloy eyes.
I don't know if there is a person named Monica in Sicily now. The girl of Bellucci.
But I seem to have heard that Monica. Bellucci is not Sicilian.
Whatever!
Italy is a place where beautiful women come out, and they are also the black-haired beauties that Li Xiao prefers.
Unlike France, Germany, and Russia, where there are yellow hairs everywhere.
Especially Nordic women, naked as if wearing sweaters, when the wind blows, the whole person is ghostly.
I've been to Europe many times, and I feel that the more I go to southern Europe, the more beautiful women become.
As for the African ......, Cleopatra didn't look at it, but she could guess a rough idea by looking at the murals, so she couldn't see where to go.
Crete is huge, compared to Rhodes as a pigeon cage.
The pleasant warm breeze of the Mediterranean Sea blew Li Xiao's face, and he drank a little too much with Li Xiu at the dinner party.
There were many people toasting, and Li Xiao suspected that it was arranged by Li Xiu, but unfortunately there was no evidence.
The etiquette of coming over is almost the same, they all stand up and salute with a wine bowl, saying that some representatives of a certain army come to toast to the marshal.
Then he held a big bowl and said something respectful to the handsome, you take a sip, I did it and so on.
Excited heart, trembling hands, a bowl of red face.
didn't forget to salute Li Xiao before he hurriedly ran to the side and vomited.
The big bowl, a bowl can hold a pound of wine.
Even a wine god like Ao Ye Manye can't drink it without changing his face.
A cat-like voice came from behind him, and the one who made the sound was a person who looked like Audrey. Hepburn's woman.
The naked upper body is ......, and the lower body is also naked.
All over the body, the only fabric was the headband.
Grabbed a lemon from the table and took the fruit knife and slashed it in half.
Lemon squeezed on the chest, and the nice smell of lemon filled the room in an instant.
Soon, though, the smell drifted up.
The climate in the Mediterranean is really fucking good, and Russia is the weather that freezes to death, but the seaside of the Mediterranean Sea is not cold at all when you are naked.
The Yanshan cleaved the waves on the Mediterranean, and the collision angle that stood straight forward was broken, and it broke wave after wave.
From one peak, climb to another.
When passing through the island of Malta, Li Xiao specially landed on the island to have a look.
It was raided by the Israeli navy, and more than 7,000 Indian soldiers fought here until the last moment of their lives.
Along with them, there were also 200 elite soldiers of the Ming Marine Corps.
Of course, the huge Israeli fleet has been sent to the bottom of the sea by the Ming Navy.
The battlefield is dozens of nautical miles away!
The island of Malta is strategically located on the heel of the Italian boot-shaped peninsula.
But now, there is no one on the island.
There are so many dead people on the island, and many of the trenches are stacked with skeletons.
The heads of some of the skeletons have been tightly bound to the steel helmets.
The flesh of a man has rotted, but the uniform on his body has not yet rotted.
This makes the scene seem a little weird, and these people have a sense of déjà vu of skeleton soldiers.
Several of the bones in the open air have been almost eroded by the sea breeze and sun.
If you accidentally step on your foot, it will break off with a "click"!
No wonder no one lives here, living here is not much different from living in a cemetery.
"Why are the bones of the fallen still here?" Li Xiao walked among the skeletons and asked dissatisfiedly.
"Our men were shipped back after annihilating the Israeli fleet.
Here, it's all Indians.
At that time, the war was urgent, and the transportation capacity was a little tight. And this is not our defense zone, so we will put it on hold for the time being.
We asked the Indians to carry the bodies themselves, but they didn't pay any attention.
Later, I asked the Indians, and I heard that they would not bury them when they died. He lit a fire on the edge of the Ganges, and poured his ashes into the river.
Since they don't pay attention to entering the soil for safety, we don't need to do much. ”
Li Xiu shook his head helplessly, he really asked the Indians about this matter.
But now, India is divided into more than 60 states.
The various states have been passing the buck to each other for more than a year, and there has been no result until now.
It seems that it will take another hundred and eighty years.
"After all, it was for us Daming to die here, and they are all people who fought until the last moment.
If you look at these people, it's clear that they were killed in the trenches by shells.
Such a power can only be done by the guns of battleships.
What courage it must be to not surrender under such shelling. Li Xiao glanced at the crater in the distance, at least more than 200 mm of naval guns.
"Big brother, what do you mean ......!"
"Just set up a crematorium on the island, and the bones I picked up were directly refined.
The ashes were collected and transported to India and dumped into the Ganges.
This can be regarded as their return to their roots, and they will not become lonely ghosts. ”
Li Xiao glanced at the skull at his feet, he had been dead for so long.
The bones were scattered everywhere, but the rusty steel helmet was already glued to the head. Not far away, was his rifle.
The rifle was just rusty, not rotten. In the position of the handguard, several bones in the hand are adhered to.
For so long, the sea breeze blows, the seabirds peck, and the bones do not leave the rifle. It can be seen how tightly this guy clutched the weapon before he died.
In good conscience, the Indian soldiers were really brave.
For so long, I haven't heard of anyone escaping.
Among the servant troops of the Ming army, they were the ones who suffered the heaviest casualties.
Encounter a point of fire, and they get on!
Encounter minefields, they are on!
When encountering an unknown area, it is necessary for someone to go out to investigate, or they are on.
It can be said that they have done all the dirty work in the Ming army.
But their pension is only 30% of that of the Ming soldiers.
Their military salary is only 30% of that of the soldiers of the Ming army.
It's just such a little bit of money, and these Indians are very satisfied. They are even willing to die for a meager salary and pension!
The family was so poor that they couldn't open the pot, so they came out to fight for food.
It is even said that as long as you feed the Indians, they will help you in the war.
Li Xiao has heard more than once about this kind of suggestion that lacks virtue and smokes!
From these suggestions, Li Xiao summed up a terrible thing.
That is, when you are very poor, no one treats you as a person.
Maybe those Indians themselves don't treat themselves as human beings.
"No!" Li Xiu made a promise, turned around and ordered the military staff officer to write it down.
Since it was ordered by the marshal, of course it must be handled as a military affair.
The island of Malta is littered with shell craters, some of which are so dense that they look like measles faces.
One can imagine how ferocious the artillery fire of the Israeli Navy was at that time.
What makes people even more helpless is that these warships were all sold to them by Daming.
Daming made a lot of money in these businesses.
The Israelis thought that with these warships, they could compete with the Ming Dynasty.
Unexpectedly, Daming drummed up an aircraft carrier.
These warships, they, are scrap metal in front of aircraft carriers.
After all, no matter how large the caliber of the shells on a battleship, the firing range could not reach one hundred and fifty kilometers.
Even if it reaches 150 kilometers, it is impossible to see it with the current technical conditions.
That's the power of technology, when you're standing at the bottom of the tech tree. I thought I would win, but I couldn't even see you, so I wiped you out.
Some of the warships that the Ming Dynasty sold to Israel and European countries have already been lying on the bottom of the Mediterranean.
Most of the rest are lying in the military port, slowly eroded by the sea.
There is no way to do this, the Europeans do not have crude oil.
"Big brother, I'll tell you a not-so-good news." After Li Xiu read a telegram submitted by the military affairs staff, he walked to Li Xiao's side with some worry.
"What's the news?" Li Xiao turned his head, and the news that could make the commander of the navy worried must be a major event.
"The warships of the Israelis are moving again, and they are now gradually cruising in the Black Sea.
And there seem to be signs of a further campaign towards Constantinople!
Shang Kexi of Constantinople only had three great masters in his hands, and they were all temporary masters who were not satisfied with the compilation.
If the Israelis were to attack Constantinople and try to hold it, it could be another bloody battle. ”
"The Israelites' fleet is moving, where did they get the oil?" Li Xiao was stunned for a moment, he didn't expect that without the supply of fuel, the Israelis' warships would actually start.
According to the calculations of the General Staff, the Israelis' oil reserves should have been exhausted before half a year.
"Coal Oil Technology!
The Europeans have come up with the technology to refine gasoline and diesel from coal.
In the past, the output was not high, but now after more than half a year of drumming, the output has finally been drummed. ”
"How long will it take for the Shaanxi aircraft carrier to be in the ranks?"
"It's coming, the telegram from the day before yesterday said. There is still a month to finish the outfitting, and it will take almost a month to get from Daming to the Mediterranean.
However, the pilots of carrier-based aircraft are still young and have never been on the battlefield.
It's hard to say what kind of battle it will be on the battlefield. ”
"You are the commander of the navy, and you have the final say in matters at sea.
I don't care what you do, I must take out the caged tiger of the Israeli Navy.
If they rush out of the Bosphorus, they will face Crete head-on.
The airfield on the island is not yet finished, and there are no fighter take-offs and landings.
If it really fights, it won't end much better than Malta.
And Rhodes, and then Cyprus.
Our set-ups in the Mediterranean will fall like dominoes, one after the other.
Then they will turn around and clean up Sicily and Corsica. Li Xiao closed his eyes, and he could think of what the Israelis wanted to do.
"And! Just with their few broken boats?
Don't worry, big brother, we sold those boats to them.
Steel, all of which are of the next grade.
Moreover, every ship has a light door.
As long as it is hit by our underwater torpedo, as long as it hits one, even a battleship will surely sink.
I will mobilize the Liaodong and Shandong to Constantinople, Corsica, leaving only the Hebei town.
Anyway, we won't be able to attack the south of France for a while.
Break your fast with the Israelites!
Chen Laohu, what are you doing with your mother shrinking behind, are the big fat pigs afraid of slaughtering? ”
Li Xiu scolded and went to find Chen Laohu!
Li Xiao knew that his sentence: The affairs at sea are in your hands, and Li Xiu's heart was put in his stomach.
Lost the marines, the Navy is still his.
At this moment, the domineering spirit of the king of the Mediterranean returned to Li Xiu.
It's not very comfortable to stay in a lot of skeletons.
Boarding the dinghy and returning to the Yanshan, the battleship once again cleaved the waves and sailed towards Sicily.
Finally in Palermo!
Not to mention, the buildings on the island are similar to those in the movies.
Along the coast, there are breakwaters made of stone strips.
Wave after wave crashed on the breakwater, and the harbor was full of Ming warships.
From battleships to aircraft carriers, even if they are parked so densely, there are still many warships floating helplessly on the sea.
Even going ashore to replenish fuel and ammunition had to be carried out in shifts.
"The port is still small!" Li Xiao sighed helplessly.
"Funding is limited and we can't expand the port of Palermo for the time being.
Now only one airfield can be built on the shore, and some barracks can be built there.
The warriors had been floating at sea for a long time, and they had to go ashore to rest. ”
Li Xiu pointed to a lively construction site outside Palermo.
It looks like more than a dozen buildings have been built there.
"Let's go ashore and find the girl!" All of them were soldiers.
Floating at sea for several months, the sows are all double-eyelid.
It seems that the Sicilian story has to go on.
But there will certainly not be a scene of those women being captured by the Resistance to shave their hair after the war.
Because ......, the Ming army will not be defeated.
The victory of this war will definitely belong to the Ming Empire.