Under the morning light, the clouds on the horizon seemed to be ignited, hanging high in the sky and burning.

But Odessa under the morning light is really burning.

The fire engulfed not only the entire port area of Odessa, but also the city of Odessa.

The arsenal ship, unable to explode it, threw the last rockets into the city of Odessa.

A 333-millimeter rocket fell from the sky, and even if it didn't explode, it could destroy half a building.

What's more, each rocket was loaded with a full 900 kilograms of high explosives.

The city of Odessa, in an instant, was engulfed in violent explosions and thick smoke.

The Odessians, who did not have time to retreat, many of them became a pile of minced meat.

Li Xiao and Li Xiu on the Kunlun Mountain would not care, since the Hebrew nation chose to join the war, it had to bear the consequences and sufferings of joining the war.

In this world, there is no reason to just take advantage and not give.

Moreover, the Hebrews were one of the most hated peoples.

Nothing else, just because of the rare respite after the winter war.

The Hebrews sent a huge number of guerrillas to the rear of the Ming army!

They were all sent by airships while it was dark, and these people killed people and set fire to the rear of the Ming army.

The most annoying thing is that Russia is a vast and sparsely populated place, and there are dense forests everywhere.

These men hid in the woods during the day, and at night they came out to do evil.

There was even a time when they tangled up with the Ukrainians who followed them. Pretending to be a Ukrainian coolie, he attacked a Ming army convoy.

On that occasion, an entire company of Ming soldiers was killed by them.

They even cut off the heads of the captured Ming soldiers and hung them from trees as a sign of insult.

Therefore, Li Xiao hated this nation, and he also began to hate their cities, their villages, and their everything.

Now, Li Xiao wants to wipe the country of Israel off the face of the earth.

So, Li Dingguo's 3rd Tank Division began to march into the Crimea.

Therefore, the Ottoman soldiers, who had been struggling on the Sevastopol beachhead for eight months, ushered in the strongest support of the Ming Dynasty.

Not only did it have the fire support of the arsenal ships, but it even had the blessing of the 480 mm naval guns of the battleship Tien Shan.

Any strong bunker or fortification, with the blessing of a 480mm howitzer, is like slag.

As soon as it fell, the bunkers flew straight into the sky.

Li Xiao likes to watch such artillery scenes, because it means the destruction of the enemy army and the victory of our army.

With the blessing of battleships and arsenal ships, there were no longer many Hebrew fire support points along the coast of Sevastopol.

The Ottomans marched towards Sevastopol and launched round after round of ferocious attacks.

"Big brother, even if you destroy all the living forces of the coalition.

It was only a short stop to the war, and twenty years later, maybe there will be an even more tragic war waiting for the Ming Dynasty. ”

Li Xiu looked at Odessa in the sea of fire and said faintly.

"How?" Li Xiao frowned.

"Religion!

You don't understand, religion has a place in Europe.

If two or three hundred years in advance, the pope could make the emperor of a country kneel before his door for seven days and seven nights.

Even now, religion is not as powerful as it once was. But they can still incite the hatred of the people at the bottom against us!

This time the coalition forces besieged us, and the Holy See in the Vatican played a big role.

If we do not change the Vatican's position, I think that whatever victory we achieve will only be a twenty-year armistice.

When the next generation of children in Europe grows up, they will be hostile to us in various ways.

This, in turn, leads to the next war.

Even if the Ming Dynasty continues to defeat them, under the bewitchment of the Holy See, the next generation of Europeans will still hate us.

From generation to generation, hatred will be deeply rooted.

What to do when that time comes? Could it be that we still have to cut a stubble in 20 years like cutting leeks? ”

Li Xiao blinked his eyes and looked at the raging flames in the distance.

Li Xiu has a point, the Holy See is a big problem.

Since the Holy See was able to plunge Europe into the millennium-long Middle Ages, it was natural that it could also induce Europeans to go to war with the Ming Dynasty from generation to generation.

On the frontal battlefield, of course Da Ming would not be afraid of them.

Can......

It's hard to say what kind of things those brains that have been indoctrinated with fanatical religious ideas will do.

They would slash through the crowd with knives, and even if they were killed by the officers who arrived, they still did not know remorse.

They have no sense of regret for those who innocently have had their lives taken.

There will also be people who will run rampant in the squares of the capital with cars, killing innocent passers-by without waking up.

What's more, they will carry explosives bags on their backs and blend into the crowd to blow themselves up.

What if this happens?

There are thieves who have been thieves for a thousand days, but there are no thieves for a thousand days.

If the religious problem is not resolved, Europe will remain a huge powder keg.

As long as the Pope ascends to the heights, this powder keg of hundreds of millions of people will explode.

When the time comes, I don't know how many people will be hurt.

"Do you have a good solution?" Li Xiao looked at Li Xiu.

"The Pope has asked someone to come and talk to you. Location in Sicily! ”

"Sicily!" Li Xiao smiled.

This place is a bit special, now occupied by the Ming Dynasty, but the people living on it are all Italians.

Perhaps, this is also the reason why the Pope, who had a particularly strong influence on Italy, chose this place.

"Talks can be talked, but ......, I think it's on my time, in the place I propose.

In addition, the Pope is not in a position to negotiate terms with me on an equal footing.

Because, he doesn't have that strength. ”

A wicked smile appeared at the corner of Li Xiao's mouth.

"Big brother, what are you going to do?" Li Xiu clearly sensed that something was wrong.

From childhood to adulthood, every time the eldest brother showed this smile, something big happened.

And Li Xiu's big things, none of them are accompanied by a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.

"I want the Pope to know that the war is going on because they have so many young men, who are burning like chopping wood.

Even if they hide in Rome, it is not safe to hide in the Vatican. ”

"Big brother, you're going to attack the Pope?" Li Xiu's eyes widened fiercely, he knew the consequences of this matter, it would be an endless war between the Ming Dynasty and the European Christians.

On the land of Europe, there will be long-term hostility to the Ming Dynasty.

"Win or lose, but with strength, if the Europeans can beat us, don't bother to come to me for peace talks.

I am qualified to sit at the negotiating table, and that is because I have millions of Ming warriors under my command.

The most powerful warship in the world, with indestructible cannons and stubborn tanks.

What does the Pope have?

Negotiate with me on an equal footing, and he deserves it! ”

Li Xiu nodded, the eldest brother's strong self-confidence comes from Da Ming's strong force.

And he, Li Xiu, is also a member of the armed group, and he is also a senior member.

"I wouldn't even bother to talk to him if it weren't for the fact that future generations would have to pay too much blood for senseless violence."

"Big brother, did you agree?"

"Hmmm!

But I will negotiate with him in my own way, at the time and place I decide.

Don't meddle in this matter.

It's not good for you to meddle too much in this kind of thing. ”

Li Xiu pouted helplessly, the eldest brother thought that he was too lenient.

"I told you a long time ago, the navy thinks about maritime affairs, and diplomatic affairs have Zheng Sen.

How was he in Athens, and Lin'er was also in Athens? ”

"How dare I let Lin'er go to Athens, something happened to him, and the whole European people died enough to be buried together.

He was good in Crete, watching the Marines train all day and sometimes with them.

The children of our Li family are still suitable for holding a gun handle.

Zheng Sen was in Athens, still arguing with the guy who was called Ribbentrop.

I also really convinced them, obviously there was no sincerity, but they ate and drank together every day.

The Turkish bath is no less! ”

"Second, the passage is very important.

It was not easy to establish this negotiating channel, so the Germans wanted to preserve it.

And to preserve the negotiation channel, you have to spend money to maintain it.

Ribbentrop was the one who came to maintain the passage.

Lin'er participated in Marine Corps training in Crete? ”

"Hmmm! Mainly swimming training, but also learning about the tactics of the Marine Corps.

This is also the meaning of the question, he is a young marshal, how can he do it without practicing martial arts. ”

"Well, it's not bad to be with the Marines.

Actually, I sent him this time, first, to involve him in the negotiation of that.

Let him know a little bit about what diplomacy is.

The other is to let him take a good look at what is going on with the Marines.

The Marine Corps is an army that wants to protect our overseas interests of the Ming Dynasty!

In the future, we will have more and more overseas interests, and most of the time we will have to rely on the landing team to protect them.

It was important for him to be familiar with the operations and tactics of the Marine Corps.

Your two boys are also very prosperous now.

The last time I went back to Beijing, I met one of them, and one of them had become Xu Erjue's favorite student, and the other had his own ideas about radio.

The thing that converts telecommunications into sound has his participation.

These two children are still young, and they are both unicorns of my Li family.

It's just that the fourth child still has nothing to do, which makes people anxious.

I always wonder if it's not the two of them who have a problem.

Shi is a sensible person, and he wanted to give the fourth child a concubine several times, but the fourth child just refused.

It's hard for me to talk about this. ”

"Big brother is not easy to say, and I am naturally not easy to say.

Could it be that I still wrote to ask, saying that the fourth child, why didn't you give birth to a son? If you need the help of the second brother, you can speak.

I reckon he could come to the Mediterranean in an airship to hunt me down. ”

"Hahaha!" Li Xiao smiled helplessly.

This is indeed not what Li Xiu said.

The next generation of the Li family is indeed difficult.

Li Xiu is still good and has two sons.

Li Xiao is such a person as Li Lin, and Li Hao simply doesn't have it.

If Li Hu doesn't die early, maybe he may have a few more children.

Among the brothers, he is the most enlightened in this regard.

The brothers laughed for a while, and the fleet began to close.

In addition to leaving the Tien Shan and several destroyers to protect the arsenal ships, the remaining fleet left the waters of Odessa in a mighty way.

After this battle, the darkness finally quieted down.

The Ming naval forces completely controlled this place.

Oil tankers coming out of the Basra oil fields are not harassed at all and can go directly to Sochi.

The railway between Sochi and Tsarizingrad is also under construction.

The sectional construction method invented by Shi Danai greatly accelerated the construction progress of the railway.

With sufficient manpower, it will take up to two months to build this section of the railway, which is 600 kilometers long.

It can be said that this section of the railway is the railway with the shortest construction time in the Ming Dynasty.

It took a little more than eight months from the start of construction to the opening of the railway.

After the construction of this section of the railway, crude oil transported from the Basra oil field will be able to be disembarked in Sochi.

It is then refined into gasoline and diesel at a refinery in Sochi, which is then transported by tank trains to Tsaritsyn and Moscow.

This will greatly shorten the distance and time of the Ming army's oil supply, and also save the valuable transportation capacity of the Central Asian Railway.

With this railway, it will be possible to concentrate the transportation capacity of the Central Asian railway on transporting things that are more needed on the battlefield.

Li Xiao never dreamed that it was not food, ammunition, and oil that accounted for 30% of the transportation capacity of the Central Asian Railway.

Rather, it is cement, steel and other building materials.

Now most of the defense line of the Ming army has been cast with reinforced concrete.

In terms of sturdiness, it can be described as a real steel line of defense.

Reinforced concrete field fortifications and civil fortifications are two different things.

The ability to carry explosions and the anti-penetration effect are not the same at all!

In particular, the Ming army is building the Moscow fortress complex, which needs a large amount of cement and steel bars.

Originally, Li Xiao thought that as the Ming army further contained the attack of the coalition forces, these things would be reduced.

Unexpectedly, with the effectiveness of the Ming army's offensive, the amount of these things not only did not decrease, but increased.

Because of the bastards in logistics, they had to build an improvised road to the front line with cement, so that the trucks of the Ming army could provide sufficient supplies to the front-line troops.

No way, the capacity of one truck is almost the capacity of five tractors.

Even if it takes a lot of resources to build the road, it's worth it.

The oil consumption alone is enough to calculate.

The fuel consumption of five tractors is certainly much more than that of a ten-wheeled truck.

In fact, many things are like dominoes, one link falls, and a series of changes will be followed.

It's like there are more trucks on the front line, and there are more narrow-gauge trains, which reduces the capacity of the airship to a certain extent.

That is, logistics at the front will no longer need so many airships.

And the capacity of these airships will be transferred to China.

Don't look at the airship, this thing flies slowly, and it's bulky.

But there is also the advantage that there is no need for a particularly specialized landing field and no need to build a long airstrip.

These advantages ensure that the airship can be well used in places like Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan.

And in Jiangnan, where the road network is not very developed, it is also very easy to use.

After all, now Daming can't come up with the money to invest more in infrastructure construction.

Not to mention the south, even if there are many remote mountainous areas in the north, there are still no roads.

Even in the mountains of Yungui and those places, many people still think that the emperor in the capital is still surnamed Zhu.

This is also something that can't be helped, after all, such a big Ming Dynasty has a completely different degree of development.

In Liaodong in the north, because it was the first place where the Ming Dynasty began to industrialize, almost every household in the city can use electric lights.

But in the distant Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, most people still don't know what an electric light is.

To a large extent, uneven development is determined by infrastructure.

Just like those rural areas in eastern Liaodong that are connected to roads, after the annual grain output, the grain will be transported to the granary by large trucks.

When the peasants received the money from the government, they would go to the city to buy all kinds of things.

For example, add a floral dress to your daughter and buy a beautiful scarf for your wife.

Or get yourself two catties of good old white work, and when you go home, you will drink a delicious meal with peanuts, and then carry your own things to work in the city.

Or be a carpenter, or be a bricklayer, it is really impossible to do some other work, anyway, go to the city to work for a few months, otherwise you can only be a cat winter on your own kang head.

On the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, it is different, there are no two sunny days, there is no three-foot flat, and the land is shaved and eaten, which is originally a matter of planting a gourd and harvesting two scoops.

The only thing that can make this place rich is all kinds of mineral deposits underground.

But there is no shortage of manpower to dig out the underground mineral deposits, and there is no shortage of buyers who spend a lot of money.

But there is a lack of infrastructure to transport these deposits!

Not to mention roads and railways, even mining is still using the most primitive manpower methods.

The treatment of those miners can only be described as miserable.

After the Ming people were reluctant to suffer that kind of crime, the miners became prisoners of war brought back from the battlefield.

And these deposits can only be transported by the most primitive oxen and horse-drawn carts.

The gap in infrastructure has led to the fact that although the two directions of the north and south of the Ming Dynasty belong to the same country, the degree of development is very different.

The more airships that are solved on the front line will have a certain degree of promotion for the economy of these places.

After all, the price of oil in Daming is very low.

After all, Li Xiao said that the overseas interests seized by the Ming army were aimed at enriching their own people.

Then the oil snatched back from overseas will naturally benefit the people of Daming.

In the face of Daming's increasing demand for oil, Daming began to develop the Zakum oil field.