Iron Dynasty - Chapter 1084

“A copper plate will not lose you.”

Xiao Ming glared at Cui Shangan. If he had been in the past, he wouldn’t dare to praise the expansion of the army to 600,000 in Haikou.

After all, the modernized army is not a feudal cold-weapon unit that used to just feed on food. The training of soldiers, the purchase of equipment, the daily diet and the soldiers salary are all huge expenses.

In addition, the generational difference of the imperial army is much higher than that of other countries, so three to four hundred thousand people in the six military regions are more than enough.

But the Nanyang warfare still made him decide to expand, because the empire seems to have a lot of troops, but apart from the stationed and border guards, those who can freely pull out to fight are tight.

If the Europeans smashed with him, it would be really difficult for him to deal with this person. After all, according to the information he got, Europe is now also working on science and technology. As long as it lasts for a few years, I am afraid that weapons will be updated. The war will be even worse.

Although Xiao Ming wanted to kill Europe, it was still somewhat impractical to travel far to Europe. For one thing, the empire did not have such a strong troop transport capability, and at least four to five million troops were needed to attack Europe.

Replenishing an army of this size is simply an epic difficult task.

Therefore, in order to prevent future European countries from counterattacking, it is still necessary to expand the army in advance. He does not want to be anxious when problems arise in the future.

And the most important point is that the steady growth of the empires taxes also gave him the capital to maintain a huge army. The bullets and artillery shells are now real money. If you have no money, you cant do it.

“If this is the case, this is not a problem. There are still many young people in the empire who have aspirations to join the army.” Cui Shangan said.

After a pause, Cui Shangan remembered something, and he said, “The emperor still remembers the foreign legion that he ordered to form?”

“Are you talking about the foreign legions of Korea and Wa?”

“Exactly, now this foreign legion has been formed and trained, and the number is about 20,000. Ye Qingyun called to ask if it can be put into the Siberian battlefield now?” Cui Shangan asked, “If the emperor is not in a hurry to take Siberia, this Only the foreign legion can enter the Indian battlefield.”

“Let them go to Siberia, now the only land threat of the empire is Tsarist Russia, and he can’t give him a chance to grow, so he must be driven to the west of the Ural Mountains as soon as possible.” Xiao Ming said.

Cui Shangan answered that although the protagonist of this year’s war is the Southeast Army, the actions of other military regions have not stopped. Ye Qingyun has been arranging the war to seize Siberia, while Qi Guangyi focused on Central Asia.

Luo Xin has been preparing to go south, and now he has formulated a complete offensive plan and submitted it to the general staff.

The only thing that the General Staff has no news about is the Eastern Military Region of Zhu Sansi. After recruiting and training the first 8,000 soldiers, Zhu Sansi set off for Alaska in the second half of last year, but there is no feedback yet.

But he also understands this situation. After all, Alaska is a snowy field. It is not easy to land and build the first city of the empire in this place, even if it takes a long time to go back and forth.

Speaking of the foreign legion, Xiao Ming suddenly remembered the domestic unrest in Japan. Last year, his attention was focused on the war in Southeast Asia. He didnt know how Wang Xuans arrangement was in the country?

But this thought just flashed through his mind, because now he has more important things, that is oil.

It doesnt matter if India doesnt strike for the time being, but buying oil from the Middle East must be on the agenda. Now that internal combustion engine technology has achieved breakthroughs, the only thing missing is oil.

Just buying oil from the Middle East is not something that can be done simply. Although the Middle East oil fields are said to be able to produce oil with a shovel, there is no concept of oil in that area.

If you want to get oil smoothly, you must first send an exploration team to find the corresponding oil field location, and second, you must ensure the safety of the exploration team, and this requires a good relationship with the Omans Empire or Persia.

Therefore, he is going to send two waves of envoys to the Ottoman Empire and Persia on the same day. Both sides bet is his usual style, so that at least one party can be used when the other party has a problem.

Istanbul.

This is the capital of the Ottoman Empire and the residence of King Saliman III.

Like every leisurely morning, the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, King Saliman III, wakes up when the sun shines through the bedroom window.

Just when he finished washing and was about to enjoy breakfast, the Ottoman victor came to him.

“Selit, why did you come to my palace at this time?” Saliman asked strangely.

bowed his head respectfully, and Sailit said: “The great Sultan, just now a team of envoys from France came here. They asked to go to the palace to meet, saying that there was a very important thing.”

“France!” Saliman frowned upon hearing this. “Don’t the French know that they are not welcome here? Unless they return the Peloponnese to us.”

Sailit smiled at this time: “Great Sultan, this time the French envoys said that they are here to discuss this issue, and they said that they have come to have the support of Britain this time, which represents the British attitude.”

Saliman was taken aback, he hesitated: “Will this be a trap? These **** Europeans have taken too much land from us.”

Thinking of this, Saliman tickled his teeth with hatred. Hundreds of years ago, the Ottoman Empire was a huge empire spanning three regions of Asia, Africa and Europe.

But with the rise of science and technology in Europe, the Ottoman Empire continued to lose in the war with the Europeans ~~ and the territories of Africa and Europe were constantly lost.

This made the Ottoman Empire, which was once the overlord country, feel very humiliated. Because of the successive defeats in the war, there are already voices against him within the empire.

claimed that he had kept the Ottoman Empire at a technological level hundreds of years ago, but for Saliman, he was very wronged because he had only taken over the empire for more than 20 years, not hundreds of years.

“I believe he came with sincerity this time. Now both the British and the French are said to have been defeated in Asia by the former Great Chongqing country. Now they are asking us.”

“Great Yu Kingdom? The country that was almost wiped out by the Golden Horde?” Saliman asked.

“Yes, this is it,” Sailit said.

Saliman became more and more surprised. In fact, because of the closed geographical environment and the stability of the status quo, he rarely cares about countries outside Europe.

Sailit’s words really surprised him. ) Download the free reader!!