Research by the Jinzhou Research Institute found that large-caliber howitzers are actually not suitable for the battlefield. Because even if you can hit a long distance, sighting is a problem.

And the main function of heavy artillery is to deal with enemy bunkers!

This giant mortar with an effective range of twenty kilometers and shells weighing two tons. It can effectively carry out empowerment attacks, penetrating a ten-meter-thick layer of reinforced concrete.

Moreover, this artillery is due to the excessive weight of the shells, which leads to good stability, and the accuracy naturally increases.

In real tests, at a distance of about ten kilometers, the hit rate reached a percent rate.

Li Xiao was interested in this thing, and the Jinzhou Research Institute built three doors in one go. Now, it's all on ship to be shipped to Spain.

At the same time, the Ming Marines. and Cao Wenzhao's Third Army Division, which is also on its way to Spain.

Ao Ye, Man Ye has already made a lot of military industry in Russia. Even Cao Wenzhao's nephew, Cao Bianjiao, was promoted to major general.

Seeing the stars shining on his nephew's shoulders, Cao Wenzhao felt bad in his heart.

Dashuai needs a stable rear, so he stayed in Daming.

By the time he arrived on the battlefield in Russia, the hard battles and the vicious battles were all over. Man Ye and Ao Ye ate straight and licked their paws one by one.

When he arrived at Cao Wenzhao, there were only leftovers leftovers. After eliminating several Swedish units, Cao Wenzhao's 3rd Division had nothing to do in Russia.

Unable to get used to the disgusting faces of Man Ye and Ao Ye, Cao Wenzhao has asked to attack Austria-Hungary several times.

However, Li Xiao vetoed it, and the most important thing on the Russian battlefield now is to repair the support facilities.

Create favorable conditions for the final slam on Germany!

Since Russia has nothing to fight, it cannot march into Viana. It's also a good idea to come to Spain, after all, the Marines are well-armed with light weapons, but not many heavy weapons.

A task such as the attack on Gibraltar would have to be carried out by regular army units.

So the 3rd Division moved south along the railway and concentrated to Sevastopol.

Ship by sea and shipped to Spain for landing.

The successive surrenders of Spain and Portugal made the British very nervous.

They knew that Gibraltar was now an enclave. The Ming Dynasty was preparing an attack on Gibraltar, and it would be difficult to launch a 100,000-strong defender of Gibraltar.

On the one hand, they desperately stuffed supplies, ammunition and all kinds of military supplies into Gibraltar. While trying to find a way to increase the number of troops to Gibraltar.

Everyone knows that to keep Gibraltar is to keep England itself.

In order to defend Gibraltar, England deployed its navy, including two battleships, eight cruisers, and more than 30 destroyers of various types, in the Atlantic Ocean off Gibraltar.

This is the result of all these years of construction by the shipyards of England with all their might. For this, England sacrificed the equipment of the army. All human, material, and financial resources were invested in the construction of the navy.

The naval fleet in the Atlantic Ocean is ready to support the Gibraltar battlefield with naval gunfire.

The layout of the Ming people was very patient, and there was no movement throughout January. It was not until mid-February that the Ming tank appeared twenty kilometers outside of Gibraltar.

But the task of these tanks was clearly reconnaissance, and there were no further moves.

Soon, the Ming army established a stronghold in the area where the tanks had been scouted. Then laborers were sent in to build fortifications right under the noses of the British.

The British shelled, but not very well. Because the artillery of the British was bombed by the Ming bombers in the sky.

In the first round of artillery battles, six 155-mm heavy howitzers were lost.

I also sent a small team to sabotage it, and the result was even worse.

The detachment encountered the resistance of the Ming tanks, and when the Ming tanks were not touched, the detachment was almost wiped out.

For a while, the British army had no choice but to watch the Ming army build a reinforced concrete fortification there.

These fortifications then quickly became clusters of fortifications.

Planes in the sky came to detect more frequently, and then almost to the point where planes hovered all the time during the day.

If these planes were bombarded with anti-aircraft guns, they would have accelerated and fled far away. Then, call a group of bombers over. Bombarding those anti-aircraft positions!

Basically, after the anti-aircraft artillery fire, if you do not quickly transfer positions, you will be blown into slag.

The British hated it, but there was not much they could do. After all, they don't have an air force. No matter how fierce the anti-aircraft guns were, it was difficult to hit the fast and erratic Stuka.

The Ming people were very patient in arranging the starting position, and the British had no choice but to watch the Ming people build fortifications under their noses.

After two months of emergency repairs, the port of Marrakech was barely able to moor the destroyer.

The port of Marrakech was originally built by Moroccans and was mainly used to moor some merchant and fishing boats.

As soon as the port of Marrakech was repaired, a large fleet appeared on the sea.

Li Xiu's face became darker and darker, and it was still the kind of black that was translucent in the black.

In three months, the Ming fleet almost walked around the coast of Africa. The fleet was very tired, but it also gained experience in navigating the African coastline.

In the past, most of the Ming navy was active along the coast of North Africa, and as for the east and west coasts of Africa, most of them were Ming survey ships in action.

Survey vessels carry out a number of scientific expeditions, discover reefs, detect ocean currents, and draw nautical charts.

It is precisely with these charts that Li Xiu's voyage went so smoothly.

No way, Daming didn't walk the Cape of Good Hope line at all. Since the Ming Dynasty Voyage presided over by Li Xiao, the Suez Canal has been the main sea passage.

Whoever is full of food and supports it, detours as far as the Cape of Good Hope.

"Second uncle!" Seeing Li Xiu, who was tanned like black charcoal, Li Lin pounced and hugged Li Xiu tightly.

"Hahaha, your second uncle is back." Li Xiu bared his big white teeth.

It may be because his face is too dark, and his teeth are particularly white.

"My second uncle has worked hard all the way, and my father is inspecting the railway project in Algiers.

Evening is coming, and he says he's going to have a drink with you. ”

"Hahaha, I've been sailing for almost two months, and I'm worried about falling every day, for fear of running into a reef or something.

To tell you the truth, I don't even dare to sleep all day long.

It was supposed to be a month, but the speed was reduced again and again, and it took two months.

His grandma's! A bird fades out of his mouth, and he will get a cow for your second uncle. Li Xiu laughed and patted Li Lin on the shoulder.

"Don't worry, second uncle, your cook on Crete has me transferred. There is everything that flies in the sky and runs on the earth, but there is no swimming in the water. ”

"Good boy, you still know the second uncle's mind. Damn, I'm eating seafood at sea.

Sometimes I wonder if Lao Tzu is a warship or a fishing boat.

Let's go, your father will come at night, let's take a sip first. Li Xiu couldn't help but say something, and pulled Li Lin into the jeep.

"Huh......! Why is there no one on this street? Li Xiu looked around strangely.

The streets of Marrakech are empty, and the houses near the port are inhabited by Egyptian-looking laborers.

The rest of the place is simply deserted. In some places, there are still large blood stains on the walls.

Swarms of flies coiled on the bloodstains, licking greedily.

"In the face of resistance, the Moroccans dare to resist the Ming Dynasty?" Li Xiu couldn't figure out how the weak Moroccans dared to confront the Ming Dynasty.

This is the legendary mantis arm as a car, even if the bones of this mantis are harder. Aside from the "click" and the scattered splash of bodily fluids, there seems to be nothing left.

No anti-theft

"There was no resistance, and they didn't have the guts.

It's just that our troops always lose things, and these people later became so bold that they even dared to steal guns.

Our soldiers went to ask for it, and they were beaten.

You know, our soldiers are not willing to suffer. So there was a conflict, and my dad said that these people were stubborn.

I transferred some Cossacks! ”

"Cossacks?" Li Xiu had heard about the Cossacks in Ukraine, these people were famous executioners, and they absolutely killed people without blinking.

It is said that the Cossack chieftain Grigory once slaughtered more than eighty Ukrainian villages overnight.

No one in the village survived!

In order to deal with these Moroccans, these people were actually transferred.

"How much?"

"A whole four divisions, plus three Indian Gurkha and Sikh infantry divisions.

The Gurkhas and Sikhs were responsible for the usual law and order, and the Cossacks were troublemakers.

With the help of airships, they are already on the verge of sweeping Morocco away.

But my dad had promised the Egyptian migrant workers that if they were doing a good job, they would stay here and farm.

The land of Morocco is their wages. ”

Li Lin pointed to the Egyptian laborers working on the dock in the distance!

"That's not bad, the Egyptians are always better than the Moroccans. At least, not so lazy. ”

Li Xiujiu was in Egypt and knew that Egyptians were not lazy. On the contrary, although these people are also Arabs, most of them are industrious.

"There are not enough large construction machinery now, and they are being transferred from China to this side. I guess it's almost next month!

My father was going to build a large permanent military port in Marrakech, including a repair yard with a dry dock.

And there needs to be the ability to repair large ships like aircraft carriers!

Not only that, but my father also negotiated with the Portuguese. We could have the port of Porto, and from there it would be Ireland and the British mainland going north.

From there, it is possible to threaten the entire Atlantic coast of Europe. Second uncle, your navy is finally going to the British. ”

"I've read the briefing on this, but the telegram doesn't say much detail.

Spain and Portugal have surrendered, so are we going to do something about Gibraltar? "Li Xiu is very obsessed with Gibraltar.

The painful lesson of the last time he lost five destroyers was still fresh in his memory.

Unexpectedly, the huge naval fleet was actually stumped by mines.

This battle was considered a shame in Li Xiu's life.

"It's coming, the army is still preparing. Cao Wenzhao asked for a fight, and my father let him go.

Three 970-millimetre mortars were transferred from the country to him specifically to bombard the permanent fortifications of Gibraltar.

Now the troops and artillery have not arrived, but the vanguard is building a starting position.

My father's meaning is to wait for your navy to rest and then go out to blockade the waters of Gibraltar.

So that the British Navy could not support the army units in Gibraltar! ”

"The British are drumming out the navy again?" Li Xiu was surprised.

Since the elimination of the Israeli-led European Combined Fleet, it seems that the entire European Navy has no ships.

"There are quite a few of them made by the British. There were more than forty warships, and aerial reconnaissance found that there were two battleships alone.

There were also eight cruisers, about thirty destroyers. ”

"Grandma's, the British are quite good at hiding. It's only been two years, and so much has been created? ”

"It's not that the army is sacrificed in exchange, there are so many resources in Britain. Without sacrificing the army, how can so many ships be built.

However, these warships are like chickens and dogs in front of the second uncle.

Tomorrow, your carrier-based aircraft will take off from Algiers and transfer to Marrakech.

When the Navy rests, let's go repair those British Navy.

Gibraltar is a place that can't be beaten. They must be trapped alive! ”

"Humph! You can rest assured about things at sea, no one is our opponent.

But things on land ......, is Gibraltar so difficult to fight? ”

"It's hard to fight! Last time, we were actually sloppy, and recently the inside line sent out the arming map.

That place has been repaired since the Middle Ages, and we went to repair it. In the past two years, the British have occupied it, and they have been repairing non-stop.

It's all reinforced concrete, and some of them simply dig up the mountain. From the ground to the bottom, there is a 10-meter-thick layer of reinforced concrete.

Also, the bright fort and the dark fort on the ground are connected into a piece. The trenches are also made of reinforced concrete, because of the topography. There is basically no water storage!

There are many hidden batteries on the hill, and more than 2,000 guns ranging from large howitzers of 480 mm to small-caliber mortars are arranged.

It is said that the mountains below Gibraltar have been hollowed out.

The 10-storey reinforced concrete building stores a large amount of food, medicine and ammunition.

The British claim to be able to hold out for two years, but the inside line says that there is no problem for three years. And that's without outside help!

Second uncle, last time we didn't lose a ship if it wasn't for the navy. Just land in Upper Gibraltar and it's a meat grinder.

That's going to have a lot of people to die! Let's all think of Gibraltar as simple. ”

Thinking of the British army's defense map sent by the inner line, Li Lin felt a chill down his spine.

If the Marines attacked rashly, it would certainly be an extremely bloody and tragic battle.

The Navy is really a stab in the way for the Marine Corps.

"I can't control things on land, and it's his Zuo Liangyu's problem that I can't beat it. I'm just in charge of the sea!

Damn, I didn't expect the British to drum up the fleet again.

If you really give them time, maybe even the aircraft carrier will be built.

No, this time after that, the shipbuilding industry of the British must be completely abolished. In the future, the British can build some small fishing boats.

Warship......! Hum! ”