There is a war going on in the east, and there is no idle in the west.

Since the arrival of the 5 legions, Qi Yuan began the plan he had been studying in his heart for a long time.

In Jerusalem, in a huge conference room, dozens of officers sat in rows, holding small notebooks in their hands, looking at Qi Yuan, who was holding a command baton in front of him, and kept poking around on the map, recording important contents.

"Since you come from different units, in order to facilitate command, from today onwards you have been temporarily reorganized into the Western Expeditionary Corps."

"The legion I led is the first legion, and then you are 12345..."

After waving his hand to let a few of the legion commanders sit down, Qi Yuan picked up the command baton and poked the map behind him and said:

"Since the war with the Rocco Kingdom, the Ottomans have also suffered heavy casualties."

"According to the information we have received, they have retreated to Aleppo, where they have begun to build a defensive line, intending to rely on supplies from the rear to block our attack."

"The British duke has already started fighting, and I believe that we will be able to achieve great results in the near future, so we can't rest, we must come up with a beautiful victory, and show our existence to the emperor, to the emperor, and to His Royal Highness the Prince."

"Brothers, let's be on the table, this kind of world-level war, from ancient times to the present, in addition to the Mongols, only we in the Yanhuang race have the ability to launch a war of this level."

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"Our soldiers are born for war, and this is also an opportunity for us to make a name for ourselves."

"It is the biggest dream in the hearts of all our soldiers to expand the territory and worship the generals, and now the opportunity is in front of us, and whether we can win it depends on our own efforts."

"So for the sake of this war, our brothers will not be reduced to supporting roles, we must play our own wonderful, we must play our own prestige."

"Let's let the people of the world know that this great achievement of pouring the sky also has a share of our Western Expeditionary Corps!"

"Bang Bang Bang..."

Warm applause rang out, and all the generals were excited and their faces flushed, as if they had thought of their great achievements, and they had returned to their hometowns to be rewarded by the people by the imperial court, and their relatives cheered enthusiastically.

Stretching out his hand and pressing it, Qi Yuan said with a serious expression: "No matter how beautiful you say, it is better to go down and fight with the enemy in person, only by making merits, only by playing beautiful records, can everyone remember us." ”

"Now I command!"

"Whoa!"

All the generals stood upright, looking at Qi Yuan expectantly, waiting for his order.

"The Sixth Army is responsible for guarding Jerusalem and is sending a portion of its forces to assist the navy in protecting the canal."

"Your Excellency..."

Hearing that his mission was only to protect the city, the commander of the only garrison corps was unwilling to take a chance.

"Lao Xu's rear is the most important, the canal is related to our Ming Dynasty's plan to conquer the world in the future, as long as you hold Jerusalem and the canal, it will be a great achievement, if it is not for my life, I want to change with you."

"Hahaha..."

A kind laugh burst into the room.

The commander of the garrison corps scratched his head, although he was still a little unwilling, but he also understood that compared with several other field troops, his corps was much inferior in terms of equipment and combat ability, and Qi Yuan's arrangement was actually to take care of his face.

"It's the Commander!"

Raising his hand and saluting, the commander of the garrison took over the task.

After arranging the rear defense task, Qi Yuan looked at the other corps commander, "Lao An, the weapons and equipment of your legion have not been updated, and it is a bit of a loss to go to the front line, and the task of protecting our logistics line will be handed over to you, this is an important errand, whether our brothers can win the Ottomans in front depends on you." ”

The commander of the Fifth Legion nodded, raised his hand and saluted, and took the task.

After waiting for the other party to receive the order, Qi Yuan thought for a while and said: "In a few days, a batch of transport three jumpers will come over, I will send all of them to you, and I will also give you half of the three crashes of other legions, and you use these three crashes to form a fast movement corps, which is responsible for patrolling and security on the logistics line." ”

"It's all mine after the battle, right?"

Hearing that there were so many three collapses assigned to him, the eyes of the commander of the Fifth Legion lit up.

Qi Yuan shook his head amusedly, "I'm just for you, can you afford it, there are so many fuel supplies for each legion, and there is no fuel for those three collapsers, and you still plan to let your subordinates pull it." ”

"Hahaha......"

There was another burst of laughter, and the commander of the Fifth Army scratched his head without caring about laughter, and took over the task.

After arranging the tasks of guarding the city and logistics, Qi Yuan looked at the remaining three army commanders.

"The task of tackling tough problems will be handed over to our four brothers, whether we can play a beautiful record or not depends on whether our brothers are desperate or not."

The three army commanders stood neatly and solemnly, raised their hands to beat their chests, and said loudly: "If you don't break the enemy army, you swear not to turn back!" ”

Qi Yuan nodded and raised his hand in salute.

"Set off tomorrow and launch an attack on the Ottoman lines."

On the second day, the gates of Jerusalem were opened.

The heavily armed daimyo soldiers, lined up in a neat line, and marched quickly under the guidance of the officer's flag.

The people of Jerusalem, who were still reinforcing the defensive line outside the city, looked at the endless marching procession, and their eyes were full of complexity.

The reason why their expressions are complicated is because they don't know whether to be grateful to these Ming soldiers or to hate and resent these Ming troops.

They were taken out to separate from their families and worked hard every day to build fortifications for these Ming troops.

But these Ming troops were very well disciplined, and they didn't ask them for food and cards like their own army, and even humiliated women with food or other means, not to mention that they were forced to buy and sell and beat the people.

Because of this, they have very mixed feelings towards the Ming army.

Qi Yuan naturally didn't know about the complicated emotions of the people of the Luo Ke Kingdom, and even if he knew, he was not interested in it.

In the words of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, he Qi Yuan is an extreme democrat, and in his Qi Yuan's mind, except for the Ming people, other races are really no different from livestock.

If necessary, he will not hesitate to sacrifice all these aliens, and he has not felt the slightest guilt or shame in his heart.

"Do you really want to do this, our mainland in the east has already started a war with the Timurid Empire, and our best choice at this time is not to provoke the Ottomans, but to help the local side and block the Ottoman rescue route."

On the swaying three-jumping car, Saxu'er looked at Qi Yuan, who was staring at the map opposite, and said his thoughts.

"Block the rescue, how to block it?"

Qi Yuan glanced at him, and the pencil in his hand tapped on the map.

"The Ottomans want to support Timur, they have routes and methods, and it is impossible for me to have 50,000 or 60,000 people under my command to block them."

Hearing this, Saxuer said angrily: "So you chose to attack, right?" ”

Qi Yuan raised his eyelids, "Then do you have any good ideas, haven't you heard that the best defense is to attack." ”

Sash'er snorted twice and spread her hands, "Okay, you're a military commander, it's up to you to beat you." ”

"But I want to explain to you in advance, if you lose the battle because of this, the emperor, the emperor, and His Royal Highness the crown prince will blame you, and you don't implicate me."

Qi Yuan chuckled, "Don't worry, Lao Tzu has fought for so many years, and he has never affected others." ”

After speaking, he no longer bothered the other party, lowered his head and continued to study the military map in his hand.

"What do you do with Constantinople, it's an important military production base, and if you plan to attack and destroy it, it will bring you unexpected benefits."

Qi Yuan nodded, "I don't need you to say this, I know, the navy has already sent someone." ”

Tenryu Canal, naval military base.

"Stand upright!"

With a loud shout from the officer on duty, the hundreds of admirals in the conference room collectively stood up and looked in the direction of the door.

"Stomp, stomp..."

There was a sound of footsteps coming from far and near, and soon a man in his 50s, who was not tall but had a particularly thick body, strode in with several generals.

"Salute!"

All the officers raised their hands and saluted to greet their Supreme Commander of the Navy, Li Hu, Chief Officer of the Ming Navy!

After more than ten years of development, the strength of the navy has grown from about 100 ships to a huge number of 1,800 ships of various types.

As the commander of the world's No. 1 navy, Li Hu rarely sails to sea, and spends most of his time in Weihaiwei dealing with naval work, or training a new batch of naval personnel for the Ming Navy.

Originally, this time the ironclad fleet came to support Qi Yuan, and Zhu Zhangui planned to send a naval commander over.

As a result, after Li Hu found out, this guy was stalking, and kept crying miserably and yelling at himself.

In the words of this old guy, since he returned to Daming and became the chief officer of the navy, he has not personally commanded a warship to fight.

Now he is said to be the head of the navy, but in fact he is more like a civilian officer.

Now that he is also old, it is not a few years before the Navy retires at the age of 65, and he wants to personally command the fleet to fight a battle before retirement, and have a perfect curtain call.

Zhu Zhangui, who was impatient with this guy, finally agreed to his request and gave him the task of launching a naval war against the West this time.

Even changed the original plan to send only one ironclad fleet to mobilize 1/2 of the Ming fleet, and sent it to the west to destroy the Western naval forces to prepare for the next conquest operation.

After receiving the task, Li Hule's snot bubbles came out, and he happily took his chosen successor to lead this huge naval fleet, pulling supplies and equipment for the Luo Ke Kingdom and Qi Yuan, as well as reinforcements to the west.

Taking over the command of the navy of the entire West, Li Hu began to prepare, and he planned for many years of operations in the Western seas.

"Sit!"

Pressing his hands against the saluting generals, Li Hu smiled and asked everyone to sit down, and then looked at the generals with a smile and said, "Brothers, it's been more than ten years, and the world ocean war we are looking forward to has finally begun." ”

Hearing this, the generals below had a smile on their faces.

From the day they created the Navy, the Navy planned an ocean war against the world.

Over the past ten years, they have been deducing various tactics every day, and today they finally came in handy.

"Okay, without further ado, I'll tell you about our next tasks."

After chatting with his elder brothers, Li Hu took a folder and began to prepare to read out the task.

The various admirals below also hurriedly took out their notebooks and prepared to record.

"We have a total of three combat missions this time, which are to annihilate the naval forces of the Allah Alliance, destroy the opponent's important industrial base Constantinople, and escort Zhenhai Gong to the New World!"

"Now I command!"

"Hula!"

All the admirals immediately stood by and stood by.

"The first and second detachments follow my ironclad fleet and are responsible for the first and second combat objectives!"

"Yes!"

The commanders of the two detachments immediately answered with a loud voice.

"The third, fourth, and fifth fleets, your goal is to go west along the Mediterranean, first, to send something to our ally, and second, to destroy all the ships that do not fly the Ming flag!"

"Yes!"

Three more detachment commanders answered with a loud voice.

"The Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Fleets, although you are not a combat mission, but it is equally arduous, you must protect Zhenhai Gong and escort him to the two continents he once discovered."

"Yes!"

"Okay, the above is the combat goal of our army, as for how to fight, I believe I don't need to explain, in the past ten years, we have practiced more than once, I believe you all know it in your hearts."

"But I also want to say one thing here, if you win the battle, Lao Tzu will personally ask for credit from His Royal Highness, and if you lose, don't embarrass Lao Tzu, and jump into the sea to feed the sharks!"

"Yes!"

All the officers shouted loudly.

On the eighth day of October in the fourth year of Hongxi, the navy and the Western expeditionary corps, which had already reached the west, launched an attack at the same time.

The navy's most elite fleet, led by Li Hu, went directly north from the canal to the island of Cyprus to fight in search of the naval forces of Allah that might be stationed there.

On land, Qi Yuan led more than 40,000 people from 4 legions, and along the route of the attack of the Roco Kingdom, he slaughtered Aleppo in a mighty manner.

The two combat units were like a pair of scissors, trying to completely cut off the Ottoman territory across the strait.

On October 15 of the fourth year of Hongxi, the island of Cyprus was dozens of nautical miles away.

Li Hu looked at the fleet that hurriedly raised its sails in the distance and drove towards the open sea in a panic, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

He had been a naval commander for so many years, and he finally got the opportunity to personally command the fleet in battle.

It's ridiculous to say that he is a dignified naval commander, and he has never commanded the fleet under his command to fight, which is really speechless.

That is, he taught a lot of admirals, otherwise his subordinates would have doubted whether this chief naval officer would be able to fight in the navy.

At three o'clock in the morning, the two navies were fifteen nautical miles apart.

The ships of the Daming Navy were in full swing, their gun jackets were lifted and ready for battle, while the Allah Alliance Navy on the opposite side had just started.

At the end of the day, the Allah Alliance Navy had just been extended, and the Daming Navy launched an attack under Li Hu's orders.

Daming currently has 8 ironclad warships, except for the Zhenyuan Dingyuan at the beginning, the other 6 warships are all 10,000-ton warships.

In terms of artillery caliber, the guns of the battleships of the Zhenyuan Dingyuan have a larger caliber and a longer range.

With Li Hu's order, the 6 battleships that seized the T-shaped head sent out a deafening roar to the enemy, thick shells, rubbing the air, making a roar like a train, and smashing fiercely towards the Allah Alliance warship group.