The Ming Dynasty made comprehensive use of public opinion and intelligence means, and under the direct deterrence and suppression of nuclear weapons, it used semi-coercive means to peacefully take Moscow.

When the news reached Berlin, Emperor Lucia Nikolai almost pulled it over.

Nikolai had already made up his mind to take out the capital that Lucia had used for hundreds of years, and to take out the lives of 800,000 soldiers and millions of civilians.

I want to confirm whether Da Ming still has a divine punishment weapon, and whether he will use a divine punishment weapon again.

As a result, the price of preparation was indeed spent, but there was no result in the test of whether Da Ming had a divine punishment weapon.

"These cowards have surrendered!"

Nikolai slapped the newspaper on the table with some hysteria, and then threw the thing in front of him forward with all his might:

"How dare they surrender! How dare you betray me! These traitors! All traitors! ”

The secretaries and servants around him were all silent and terrified.

But some can't help but muttered in their hearts:

Your Majesty, you are not in Moscow right now, so you don't have to think about whether you want to be a coward or not, and you don't need to betray anyone.

King Wilhelm I of Germany, after receiving the news of Moscow's surrender, also felt that his eyes were dark.

Then there was a feeling that I couldn't breathe in my chest for a long time.

Moscow, on which it had high hopes, actually surrendered.

The entire 800,000 soldiers in Moscow are not all Lucia's army, but also tens of thousands of wills.

Of the three million soldiers lost in the previous seven divine punishments, there were also nearly a million Germans.

These elite soldiers were all wasted, and there was still no way to determine whether Da Ming would continue to use divine punishment weapons.

But Wilhelm I's mood was more of a planned unexpected grievance than that of the angry Tsar Nicholas.

There is no way to determine the matter of the divine punishment weapon, and there is no way to make a decision on his attitude towards Da Ming and Lucia.

This would delay his own time in adjusting the future direction of the Hohenzollern family and Germany.

After Prince Wilhelm Ludwig received the news, he went to his father's room to ask if he wanted to contact Daming directly.

William I thought about it for a long time, but still replied very entangledly:

"Wait, wait, there is Constantinople after Moscow, and it may be even more difficult to fight with conventional weapons than Moscow......"

Prince Wilhelm Ludwig did not change on the surface, but said goodbye to his father very politely.

After leaving his father's office, the prince couldn't help but sigh:

"I can't go on like this, I have to do something for the sake of the Hohenzollerns, for the sake of all the German people......"

Lucia and the German top brass could not make a decision, and the war could only continue in such a chaotic manner.

The 2nd Army, the main force of the army, which was the first to set out from Baku and the Ural region on the northern bank, also received the second big harvest after Tsaritsyn.

On March 5, the fourth year of the Grand Duke, the 2nd Army Corps captured the last fortress on the Crimean Peninsula, the port of Sevastopol.

At this point, the Ming army finally occupied the entire Crimean Peninsula.

It also finally completely cut off the land communication between the core area of Lucia and the Caucasus, and completely occupied the Caucasus.

In just one month, Lucia lost almost half of her territory.

And most of them are the best of the local area.

Lucia's total population was originally about 120 million.

Now in these lands occupied by the Ming Dynasty, there are 40 million or even 50 million people.

The Lucian people in the land that the Lucia court now controls are only 70 million to 80 million.

However, in this process, the advance speed of the Ming front has obviously slowed down further.

The war initially broke out on the second day of the second month of February, and it took only three days for the Second Army to quickly advance more than 600 kilometers and quickly occupy Tsaritsyn.

The city of Tsaritsyn on the Volga River is almost a thousand kilometers away from the port of Sevastopol on the Crimean Peninsula.

The Second Army, which had advanced 600 kilometers in three days, ran on this road for a whole month.

In particular, the last of the Crimean Peninsula, where it was fought for ten whole days.

After the main force of the 1st Army occupied Moscow, it stayed in the city for seven more days, and did not advance again until the first day of March.

After that, the pace of progress was also very slow, and it was more than 200 kilometers in five days.

Although it is not slow in a conventional war, compared to Da Ming's previous offensive speed, it has indeed slowed down too much now.

In the beginning, you can travel 200 kilometers in a day.

The main reason for the slowdown in the advance of the Ming army was not that the Ming army encountered any large-scale resistance.

The first main force of the Lucians was wiped out in the seven nuclear explosions at the beginning of the war.

The 800,000-strong army in Moscow and the vicinity, a barely organized second wave of resistance, immediately surrendered somewhat inexplicably.

After two transfers and conscriptions, there will be no large-scale regular army in Moscow and the surrounding area anytime soon.

The cities of Lucia, large and small, were relatively easy to capture, even if they were unwilling to surrender.

Unless it is a megacity like Moscow, Yang Yuchun does not have to think about strategic strikes at all.

The real reason for the slowdown in the advance of the Ming army was that the strategy of the Ming Dynasty's Taixi War operation did not require a quick victory.

Rather, it pursues complete conquest and total governance of the region, and the pursuit of conquest is accompanied by the re-establishment of the ruling order in the region.

The main reason for the rapid fighting in the early stage is that the occupied areas are small, the people in the occupied areas are also small, the overall burden is small, the speed of logistics supply is still fast, and the efficiency of strategic implementation is also high.

Now, it takes a lot of time to occupy a city as large as Moscow, simply counting hundreds of thousands of prisoners and three million citizens.

It also takes a lot of time to confiscate the wealth of the middle and upper ruling groups, centralize the management of these people, demolish Western-style buildings, and build factories.

In the rear of the Ming Dynasty, the troops that have been demobilized and conscripted in the past three years are being sent to Lucia in a steady stream.

The current 20 million troops of the Ming Dynasty will eventually have at least half of the number and be responsible for the governance of the people.

In the future, they will also stay directly on the Tessie continent to suppress and control the conquered Tessies.

In the past month, the Ming army has controlled at least 60 million Lucia and Ottomans.

It takes a lot of manpower and time to count the number of these people, confirm their work and identity, and re-establish the identity system.

The managers of the four major industrial groups of the Ming Dynasty, the owners and investors of private manufacturers, and the management personnel are also sending a steady stream to Taixi.

They are responsible for taking over as complete the various industries on the continent as possible.

The treatment of the ruling class in these conquered areas by the Ming Dynasty, although it cannot be said to be a clean house, is almost swept away.

Their industries, estates, and shops, it is difficult for the four major industrial groups of Daming to eat them all.

Therefore, many of them have to be resold to private manufacturers and investors.

This process also takes time.

The army of the Ming Dynasty was highly mechanized, and the requirements for logistics were also very high.

All kinds of military supplies and supplies, including military weapons, ammunition and fuel, as well as daily necessities, most of them had to be transported from the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

There are only a limited number of communication lines from Daming to Lucia, whether it is a railway or a road.

At the beginning of the war, Lucia's main army was wiped out in an instant, and they did not have time to destroy the lines of communication close to the border.

But as soon as the Ming army penetrated inland from the border, the garrisons in Lucia had more and more opportunities to destroy the railroads and highways.

So there was also a need for enough craftsmen and soldiers to escort the prisoners on the roads that urgently continued to occupy the area.

Now, the personnel and supplies of the Ming Dynasty, whether they go to the Great Food Country or come from the mainland, can be regarded as a long distance.

After arriving in the interior of Lucia, the local civil resistance began to rise one after another.

The Greater Lucian elements are found throughout Lucia, and the closer they get to the traditional core, the more they become.

Although there was no special theoretical guidance, when the front was completely unable to resist the Ming Dynasty, they naturally thought of sabotage.

Assassinations and raids in the cities, lurking and tandem in the countryside, organizing the sabotage of railways and roads.

The corps of servants led by Mu Yi and Isai will clean up Moscow and send troops to the surrounding areas to start a continuous anti-bandit operation.

Relatively speaking, the task of suppressing bandits in Lucia itself is slightly easier than that of the Ottoman Mountains.

Because Lucia itself is all Great Plains terrain.

They can work in light armored vehicles with heavy machine guns, and can summon helicopters and propeller planes to assist in destroying enemies.

At the same time, not all Lucians are hardcore Great Lucian elements.

Nor did the Great Lucians have the courage to resist in this way.

Therefore, this kind of war against bandits and law and order will not be endless, but can really be fought.

Napoleon's Cessy Corps, in the mountains around the Anatolian plateau, the bandit operations also progressed relatively smoothly.

Historically, places like Afghanistan have been able to trap foreign empires mainly on external support.

These bandits in the Ottoman territories now have no support from outside forces and no industrial production capacity of their own.

They didn't even have many bolt-action rifles from the last world war, and many of them used earthen guns, and even had to rely on cold weapons.

Napoleon's troops were well-armed, and the main force had basically popularized assault rifles, as well as a large number of light machine guns and shoulder resistance missiles.

It was also able to get the support of helicopters and propeller planes provided by the Ming Dynasty.

In such low-intensity combat, propeller aircraft are better used than jets, have a longer endurance, and are better suited for ground attacks.

Napoleon's troops were also getting larger and larger, and they could be slowly carpeted out.

The slowdown in the Ming army's offensive was mainly to allow time for the various personnel in the rear to cooperate with each other, so that they could take over the occupied areas relatively safely.

With the re-establishment of grass-roots social institutions in the occupied areas, it will be difficult for these occupied areas to recur.

To put it bluntly, the logic and criterion of the Taixi War is that the land and population that cannot be controlled temporarily are not in a hurry to occupy it.

Do not pursue a wave of onslaught, completely and directly penetrate the entire territory of the enemy.

The scale of the entire Taixi Continent can't really be broken through in one wave, and the long front will slow down after all, so it's better to take the initiative to slow down and pursue stability.

Daming is now a comprehensive leader in national strength and combat power, and there is no need to engage in any risky actions.

The main force of the offensive will wait for the military, political, economic, and social forces to follow before moving forward.

Therefore, although the speed of the main army's advance is indeed slowing down, the results of the battle are firmly held.

And this speed will not slow down indefinitely, when the cycle of acceptance and transformation work is formed, it will enter a relatively uniform forward state.

As for what to do with the enemy's regrouping of resistance after the attacking troops have slowed down on their own initiative?

The strategic weapon that Yang Yuchun kept was used at this time.

Being able to concentrate on destroying the enemy's resistance is something that Yang Yuchun can't ask for.

At the same time, the military staff officers of the three Roman countries on the opposite side are frantically looking for a life-saving straw these days.

Before the war, they never thought that the war with the Ming would become the way it is now.

The well-prepared main army was wiped out in one move, and the rest began to pour thousands of miles.

Moscow was already the second wave of power mobilized by Lucia, and the result was inexplicably gone.

Now some of them are particularly perceptive, and they have noticed the slowdown in the advance of the Ming army.

They quickly sorted out their findings and guesses and handed them over to General Wittgenstein first.

After reading this, Wittgenstein felt that these analyses made sense, so he went to Emperor Nicholas of Lucia.

After Nikolai read the report, he asked rhetorically with some surprise:

"You mean to say that Da Ming is starting to be a little overwhelmed?"

Wittgenstein chimed in:

"The degree of mechanization of the army in the Ming Dynasty is much higher than ours, and the pressure on logistics from military operations must be far greater than ours.

"The deeper they get into our native Lucia, the farther away from their own local supply base, the greater the logistical pressure.

"In addition, our people in Lucia will not be willing to submit to the rule of the Ming Dynasty, and the local resistance forces are also continuous.

"They have now occupied millions of square meters of land and tens of millions of people, and the governance of these lands and populations will also contain a lot of power of the Ming Dynasty.

"Overall, it's the strategic depth of our homeland, which will also put pressure on Daming, so their offensive speed has slowed down.

"And if nothing else, it will continue to slow down......

"If we can organize a wave of counteroffensive operations at the right time, we may even have a chance to interrupt the advance momentum of the Ming army."

After hearing this, Nikolai nodded again and again:

"It makes sense, although our Lucia has suffered huge losses now, our size has indeed begun to slow down the momentum of Daming's progress.

"Come, go and invite the kings and ministers of Germany and Italy to discuss the next situation."

King Wilhelm I of Germany, King Vittorio of Italy, soon rushed to the palace where Nicholas lived.

Nikolai explained to the two kings the analysis of his advisers and generals.

King Wilhelm I's eyes lit up when he heard this:

"This shows that the Ming army is not invincible, and their offensive momentum will also decay because of the distance from the mainland!

"In other words, we still have a chance to hold on to the Ming Dynasty, and we can't just wait for the final destruction......"

Vittorio couldn't help frowning when he heard these people's words, instinctively thinking that these people were simply dreaming.

What does it mean that Da Ming's offensive speed is blocked? Is Daming's current front advancing very slowly?

They advance more than 1,000 kilometers a month.

This is definitely an unprecedented amount of real speed.

It's just that compared to the beginning of the war, after Da Ming destroyed the front-line base with divine punishment, the speed of quickly seizing the flying military area was a little slower.

But it wasn't normal at all, and at that time Da Ming was not actually resisted at all.

At that time, the Ming army was racing cars.

In fact, Vittorio thought well, Zhu Jingyuan's blitzkrieg in World War II in his previous life was not as fast as this.

Because Germany did not have nuclear weapons, did not have full-fledged diesel-powered tanks, did not have smoothbore tank guns with tail stabilized shell-piercing shells, and did not have jet aircraft.

But Vittorio looked at the mental state of his companions around him, and in the end he didn't say anything.

Italy was the weakest of the three Roman kingdoms, and Germany and Lucia did not think much of him in the first place, and often did not consult him.

So now King Lucia doesn't speak, and they don't feel anything out of the ordinary.

After discussions between the kings and staff of the two countries, they quickly made a decision that took it for granted.

Organize a new army as soon as possible and try to block the offensive momentum of the main army of the Ming Dynasty in the two cities of Minsk and Kiev.

This time, the main force will be dominated by Germans, because although the Lucians can now recruit more troops, there is really no one who can be the main force.

Officers and veterans at all levels can be said to be completely wiped out, and the rebuilt troops can only be used as a motley army.

Therefore, Nikolai decided to try to mobilize a civilian revolt and distribute the stockpiled guns and ammunition in the area to anyone willing to fight for Lucia.

When the discussion here was quite hot, the Italian king Vittorio couldn't help but mention:

"We gather the soldiers again, what if Da Ming uses the divine punishment weapon again?"

The scene suddenly fell silent, and many people who had just been a little bit upset suddenly realized that the previous discussion seemed to be meaningless.

Because it is likely that the Ming Dynasty has divine punishment weapons.

Even if Lucia's huge depth dragged down the offensive momentum of the Ming people, it couldn't stop the Ming people from continuing to advance.

At this moment, Nikolai's special telegraph operator ran in quickly and handed Nikolai a telegram:

"Your Majesty, the defenders of Constantinople have received an ultimatum, or rather a proclamation, from the operational command of the Great Ming Taisi.

"At the same time that the telegram was sent to the garrison command, it was also made available to the people and the public by radio and radio, as well as through newspapers.

"When the news was officially sent, there were already planes dropping flyers over the city.

"All the contents are the same, the defenders of Constantinople, the nobles, the bureaucrats, the Grand Duke of the Ming Dynasty, the city is opened and surrendered before noon on the fifteenth day of the third month of the fourth year.

"The civilians of Constantinople are required to leave Constantinople by March 15 and to stay at least twenty kilometers away.

"The Ming will launch a strategic bombardment of the city of Constantinople on the afternoon of March 15.

"This will directly destroy the entire city.

"Refusing to surrender while remaining in the city is a dead end.

"The staff of the defenders of Constantinople believed that the strategic bombardment that directly destroyed the entire city should be a description of the weapon of divine punishment.

"Da Ming finally officially and directly put forward the threat of using divine punishment weapons."

Because the news was public, the telegraph operator spoke it directly, rather than carefully informing Nikolai.

After listening to this, Nikolai only felt that his eyes were dark, and he almost fainted.

The reaction of many people at the scene was the same.

The venue fell silent.