While the military port in Marrakech was still under construction, the railway from Algiers to Marrakech was also in full swing.

Li Xiao rode an airship, patrolling the hot construction site along the way.

I finally understood how majestic the emperor was.

As long as you give an order, you can frantically accumulate manpower and realize your wishes.

If 10,000 is not enough, then 20,000, and if 20,000 is not enough, then 40,000.

There are now 350,000 people working between Algiers and Marrakech.

These people are working frantically under the sectional construction method created by Shi Danai.

A railway of more than 1,000 kilometers is being completed at a rate of 10 to 20 kilometers per day.

This speed is staggering, and it has never been imagined by humans before.

To this end, Yuan Hao has successively invested 350,000 people here. And that's not counting the logistical supply staff, which is about 450,000 if you count them all.

The vast majority of these people came from the Ottoman Empire, and the rest came from Egypt.

Of course, there were also some Austro-Hungarian prisoners of war.

In addition, some of the professionals are engineers from Korea and the Japanese state.

"Sir, those airships put the raw materials they need on the construction site.

There are also some logistical supplies, which are also dropped by airships.

In this way, our people are able to get the material without having to move.

At the current pace, the railway could be completed in a month at most.

I think the highway you are talking about can also be built using the sectional construction method with reference to the railway.

Of course, after we finish building the railway, we can also invest the abundant manpower into road construction. ”

Shi Danai stood by the porthole and pointed to the construction site below to introduce Li Xiao.

"Hmmm! This sectional construction method is really good and solves our big problem.

In fact, with railways, road construction can even be slowed down.

After all, road transport is not so important now. ”

Li Xiao looked at the airship in the sky and put the hanging materials on the construction site.

Workers carry railroad tracks and move through the ground like centipedes. Finally, the rails are placed on the constructed roadbed.

This is a great project, and once the railway is fully operational, it will be able to transport a large amount of supplies to the port of Marrakech.

So that the port of Marrakech will quickly become the export of Daming in the Atlantic. It can also be used as the home port of the Ming fleet in the Atlantic.

This is very important, as long as the Ming has an outlet to the Atlantic. In order to be able to better control Europe, and even provide a reliable starting point for controlling South America in the future.

The human, material, and financial resources that the Ming can mobilize now are very huge, so huge that Li Xiao feels that it is a problem for him to build several pyramids here.

But Li Xiao won't, wasting so much resources to build a useless pyramid.

Now that Portugal and Spain have surrendered, Gibraltar has become a turtle in an urn. As long as England's Atlantic Fleet is eliminated, Li Xiao can besiege Gibraltar.

Create better conditions for the army to attack Gibraltar.

Cao Wenzhao's Third Division was still moving towards Spain. With the addition of the troops assigned to him, the Ming army in his hands will exceed 150,000.

It's just that he doesn't have a lot of tanks in his hands.

Many of the existing tanks are still old tanks No. 1 and No. 2 and No. 3. The new tank No. 4 numbered only one tank battalion.

Even if it is these old tanks, there are still many of them eliminated by Ao Ye and Man Ye.

Sometimes the people of the third division will say in a weird way that they are born of maids.

Many people in the Third Division, including Cao Wenzhao, were holding their breath and wanted to fight the battle of Gibraltar well.

Huge caliber mortars are in place in advance. It's just that there is not enough infantry to cover, and it is not deployed in front of the two armies.

"Sometimes, looking at you road builders doesn't do anything.

Some people will even look down on you!

But I know that without your help, the Ming army would not have enough materials to support the battle.

Fighting a war is actually a process of burning money.

We produce supplies as high as mountains, and we have to transport them to the battlefield for soldiers to use.

Production depends on the factories in the rear, and it is up to you to send things to the front.

I also know that this is not an easy thing to do.

But in last year's European war, you still did it. The Central Asian Railway is actually our main artery.

If the Central Asian Railway is broken for a day, the Ming army on the front line will fall into passivity.

If it is cut off for a week, the Ming army may collapse.

It wasn't until the double line of the Central Asian Railway was repaired that I knew that victory was ours.

We can deploy more troops in Russia, and we can also mobilize more tanks, planes, artillery.

All of this is your credit!

In this European victory, you have to take the first credit. Li Xiao happily patted Shi Danai's shoulder.

People who do not understand war tend to pay attention to the command art of generals and evaluate the strategies and tactics of the two armies.

Some will also take pains to compare the equipment and strength of the two armies, and discuss who will win under these equipment.

But Li Xiao knew that the victory or defeat of the war lies in logistics.

It's one thing how many tons of supplies you can produce, but how many tons of supplies you can get to the front is another question.

Only when the front line has a steady supply of materials can it continue to attack or defend.

At the beginning of the European War, the Ming army was always on the defensive, always against a superior enemy. And the last resort to use the refueling tactics!

There is no way, because the load of the Central Asian railway has reached its limit. The supplies that could be transported could only support the supply of an army of 900,000 men.

After two years of fighting in Europe, the resumption of the Central Asian Railway was suspended for two years.

The double line of the Central Asian Railway was fully opened to traffic, and Napoleon fled back to France day and night with his own soldiers.

Because Napoleon had already seen that as long as the Central Asian Railway was fully opened, the Ming army would no longer be troubled by a shortage of troops.

All kinds of supplies, including a large number of troops, will be mobilized.

The Ming army in Russia swelled to 1.6 million men within a few months.

This number is very staggering, relying on these people, Daming has also achieved brilliant results.

The airship flew to Marrakech, and as soon as Li Xiao got off the airship, he saw Li Xiu waiting at the airship landing field.

"Hahaha!" Li Xiao laughed and gave his brother a big hug.

It's not easy, for more than two months, I just led a huge fleet and walked in the unknown seas.

Finally, we arrived in Marrakech.

"Big brother, when are we going to attack?" Letting go of Li Xiao's hand, Li Xiu immediately asked for battle.

"Let the troops rest for a few more days, you have just returned from a long voyage, rest for a few days first."