Beijing, Prime Minister's Mansion.

In an empty and bright conference room, which had been converted into a combat map room at this time, three long conference tables were put together to form a huge table eight meters long and six meters wide. A map of the battlefield situation, including the Balkans, the Eastern Mediterranean, Asia Minor, Transcaucasia, and part of the Black Sea, is on this big table.

The two prime ministers of the Ming Dynasty, Zheng Guozhong on the left and Yu Quan on the right, were standing on the edge of the map table with their hands behind their backs to study the international situation! Several leaders of the navy, the army, the naval aviation, and the army aviation, as well as Lin Zexu, a scholar of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and others, all stood on the edge of the map table with smiles on their faces.

Zhuge Weidao is also among them, he is now back in the position of chief of staff of the naval aviation, and he has also been called to analyze the situation for the two ministers.

The situation looks good!

The Rakshasa Three-Way Army is in full swing, among which the Caucasian Front is progressing very well, and has now taken the fortress of Batumi and Kars, as well as the capital of Kars Province, the city of Kars, and its vanguard has reached Erzurum and Trabzon on the Black Sea coast, and has not encountered decent resistance from the Turkish army along the way, which is really too smooth.

In the Aegean (Mediterranean) direction, after the capture of the island of Trik, the Rakshasa Mediterranean fleet made contact with the Greek government in Capodistria - the Greeks who were making independence in Greece did not actually come from Greece itself, but from the Rakshasa country.

This was started by a Greek from the Phanar nobles who lived in the Rakshasa and worked as a major general in the Rakshasa army (the Phanar nobles were Romans who surrendered at the castle and maintained their Christian faith), named Epsilandis. This guy doesn't seem to have much to do with Greece except for speaking Greek, but because he loves Greece, he organized a Greek independent organization "Friendship Society" with a group of like-minded exiled Rakshasa nobles. Then in 1821 they organized an army, "alone" out of the Rakshasa and ran to the territory of the Duchy of Wallachia to launch a Greek uprising, and pulled a group of Christians against the Ottoman Empire, and everyone rushed into Greece together, took the Ottoman Empire by surprise, and occupied all the territory south of Athens and the Isthmus of Corinth...... This is really familiar!

And now that Epsilandis has been defeated and captured, but the Greek Capodistria, who succeeded him as president of Greece, is also a Farna nobleman, who has also lived in Rakshasa for a long time, and is also an official in the Rakshasa Foreign Ministry...... Later, because he was dissatisfied with the Rakshasa not enough to support Greek independence, he was not an official and went to do a big business.

In short, in the current Hellenic Republic, the Farna nobles from Russia are extremely powerful, and after receiving the blessing of the Rakshasa Navy and naval infantry, this group has completely controlled the nascent Hellenic Republic and has begun to mobilize on the territory of the Hellenic Republic...... The situation is very good!

The main force of the Rakshasa Army, the Danube Front, took only a month to clear the two territories of Moldavia and Wallachia. Although the Danube Front had a short rest on the north bank of the Danube, waiting for the arrival of follow-up units with heavy artillery, the battle for the forced crossing of the Danube began. It is said that it is a forced crossing, but in fact, it is a casual crossing, because the Ottoman defenders on the other side of the Danube have long fled, so the Rakshasa army successfully crossed the river with almost no effort and drove into the Ottoman Empire's Rumelia Province - this province is equivalent to the Northern Zhili of the Ming Dynasty, which is already a Gyeonggi stronghold!

The Rakshasa army, which successfully crossed the Danube, divided into two routes, and rushed all the way along the Black Sea coastline to the fortress city of Varna on the edge of the Black Sea, preparing to capture the Varna fortress in one fell swoop with the cooperation of the Rakshasa Black Sea Fleet!

And the other way is to Adrianople, the gateway to Constantinople!

The importance of the Varna Fortress and Adrianople was already very clear before Zhuge Weidao crossed. Because there have been too many times in history in those two places, and you have fought for me. In the days of the Roman Empire, in the era of the rise of the Ottoman Empire, in the era of the decline of the Turks, it was a battleground for soldiers. And now, it's still the same!

Varna is a naval fortress and of course an important seaport. It is only more than 200 kilometers from the Strait of Botsphorus, and if the Black Sea Fleet is stationed in Varna, it will be able to go to the Strait of Botsphorus at any time to check in and fire. Varna is also just over 200 kilometres from Adriatic, and there are several road links between the two places. Once the Rakshasas captured Varna, the supplies of the Danube Army would no longer have to be transshipped through Moldavia and Wallachia, but would be sent directly to Varna via the Black Sea, and then 200 kilometers overland to the Adrianople front.

When it comes to war, the layman looks at the artillery fire, and the insider looks at the logistics. Now the Turks on the Constantinople side were almost isolated, and the Danube Front of the Rakshasas could get a sufficient number of cannon fodder troops if they joined forces with the Greeks to the south (which did not seem difficult at all...... If the transport line of the Black Sea-Varna-Adrianople front is opened again, then the Battle of Adrianople should be a sure win!

And if the Battle of Adrianople is won, then the Battle of Constantinople is not nine out of ten?

This Maozi version of the Eastern Roman ...... Looks like it's steady!

"Look at it like this, Lao Maozi is going to win, right? This Ottoman Turkish Empire also couldn't help but beat...... Didn't it be said a while ago that the British had already declared war and gave the Turks tens of thousands of tons of munitions, and they also sent a military advisory group? Why don't you have anything to do with it? ”

The old man who was asking was the right minister, and the smile on the old man's face when he asked was piled up, as if he had picked up a big wallet on the way to work today.

However, it makes sense for the old man to be happy, because according to the original plan, he is making a transition between Zhuge for a long time and Zhuge for righteousness...... I didn't expect that this transition would be able to pick up a person who will go down in history for nothing!

Because once the Rakshasa wins easily, then there will inevitably be a situation of confrontation between the two great powers on the side of the white-skinned civilization!

Although Nicholas I has repeatedly claimed that after taking Constantinople, he will devote himself to construction, but who does not know the urine nature of the woolly bear? If they really want to take Constantinople, then they will have to take Asia Minor and the whole of the Balkans. If it succeeds in the Balkans, the woolly bear will lead the continent next...... How could the British Empire sit still? I'm going to have to have a big fight with the woolly bear.

And once Daying and the woolly bear are in a big deal...... Da Ming is about to win, and he will win without a fight, or a small battle, and then he will win a big victory!

Zheng Guozhong, the prime minister of Zuo, also had the same premonition, and on his big white face that looked loyal and righteous, he was excited to show a red light, and looked at the three Zhuge present with a smile and asked: "Three military advisors, you do the math, is our Ming Dynasty's national fortune coming?" ”

Zhuge Weiyi and Zhuge Weiyi both set their sights on Zhuge Weidao - he and Zhuge Weitian, who had just been elected as a military advisor, are the "latest military advisors", and the computing power is of course the strongest.

"That'...... I'll do the math! Zhuge frowned for Dao, and then crossed his arms and thought about it. Anyone who has studied military affairs knows that the front line does not deceive! The Rakshasa army is indeed fighting smoothly now, and it is no problem to win a big victory...... The question is just whether Constantinople can be taken? If Junbao can be defeated, then the situation in Europe will indeed undergo drastic changes that are extremely favorable to the Ming Dynasty!

In addition, the old man of the Great Military Division has already sent a secret telegram, saying that James the fifth elder of the Rothschild family has come to Daming's side, and the Duke of Marseille, the French Minister of the Navy, will come with him!

This shows that both the Jewish financial bloc in the West and the Bourbons in France have begun to bet on the collapse of the British Empire...... And the Ming Empire must act at this time. Because of the world hegemony, it will not be automatically sent to the door just because Daming's book data is the first in the world.

For world hegemony, it is still necessary to pull out the cannons of giant ships and fight a dozen, and where to hit is indeed a question. ”

Thinking of this, Zhuge nodded for the Tao and said, "The gains and losses of Constantinople are very crucial, but we can't wait for the castle to change hands before we start acting, we must start acting immediately!" ”

Zheng Guozhong asked: "Then where should we move?" Will it take Malacca and the East Indies, or send troops to Oregon? ”

"No, it's neither," Zhuge shook his head, "Our goal is the Persian Gulf!" ”

Zheng Guozhong asked puzzledly: "Persian Gulf? But what's in the Persian Gulf? ”

Zhuge Weidao said with a serious face: "There are small goals in the Persian Gulf, many small goals...... Whether we can defeat the British Empire without a fight or a small war, we must effectively control the Persian Gulf! Moreover, the Persian Gulf does not currently belong to the British Empire, but to the Ottoman Empire, the Persian Empire, the Muscat Sultanate, and we can now declare war on the Ottoman Empire, strike first, and seize it in the name of aiding Ali Pasha. As long as we control the Persian Gulf, we can be undefeated! ”