Steel Dynasty - Chapter 1091

[Chapter 1081 Saliman]

“I won’t miss you even a copper penny.”

Xiao Ming glared at Cui Shangan. If it were before, he would not have dared to boast about the expansion of the army in Haikou to 600,000.

After all, the modern army is not the feudal cold-weapon army that used to provide food and drink. The training of soldiers, the purchase of equipment, daily meals and the soldiers’ military pay are all a huge expense.

In addition, the imperial army’s weapons generation gap is much higher than that of other countries, so the 300,000 to 400,000 people in the six military regions are more than enough.

However, the war in Nanyang still made him decide to expand, because the empire’s army seemed to be many, but apart from those stationed and guarding the border, there were only a few that could be freely drawn out to fight.

If the Europeans were to fight him to the death, he would be really hard to deal with. After all, according to the intelligence he had received, Europe was also making efforts in science and technology. As long as it lasted for a few more years, I am afraid the weapons would have been updated. By then The war will be even more brutal.

Although Xiao Ming wanted to strangle Europe, it was still a bit impractical to travel across Europe to fight. First, the empire did not have such a strong troop transport capability, and attacking Europe would require at least four to five million troops.

Adding supplies to an army of this size is simply an epic and difficult task.

Therefore, in order to prevent future counterattacks from European countries, 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 empire’s tax revenue also gives him the capital to maintain a huge army. The bullets and cannonballs are now worth real money, so he can’t do it without money.

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

After a pause, Cui Shangan remembered something, and he said, “Does the emperor still remember the foreign legion that he ordered to be formed?”

“You are talking about the foreign legion of Goryeo and Japan?”

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

” Let them go to Siberia. The only land threat to the empire now is Tsarist Russia. We cannot give him a chance to grow. We must drive them to the west of the Ural Mountains as soon as possible.” Xiao Ming said.

Cui Shangan responded, although the protagonist of this year’s war is the Southeast Army, the operations of other military regions have not stopped. Ye Qingyun has been arranging the war to capture Siberia, while Qi Guangyi has 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 one that the General Staff has not heard from is Zhu Sansi’s Eastern Military Region. After recruiting and training the first batch of 8,000 soldiers, Zhu Sansi set off for Alaska in the second half of last year, but there has been no feedback yet.

However, he understood the situation. After all, Alaska was a snowfield. It was not easy to land in this place and establish the first city of the empire. Even the round trip would take a long time.

After talking about the foreign legion, Xiao Ming suddenly remembered the civil strife in Japan. Last year, his attention was focused on the war in Nanyang. He didn’t know what Wang Xuan’s arrangements were in Japan?

But this idea only flashed through his mind, because now he has more important things, and that is oil.

It doesn’t matter if India doesn’t conquer it for the time being, but buying oil from the Middle East must be put on the agenda. Now that internal combustion engine technology has achieved a breakthrough, the only thing missing is oil.

Just buying oil from the Middle East is not something that can be done just by talking. Although the oil fields in the Middle East are said to be able to produce oil with a shovel, the region currently has no concept of oil at all.

If you want to successfully obtain oil, you must first send out an exploration team to find the corresponding oil field location. Secondly, you must ensure the safety of the exploration team, and this requires a good relationship with the Ottoman Empire or Persia.

Therefore, he plans to send two waves of envoys to the Ottoman Empire and Persia today. It is his usual style to bet on both sides. This will at least ensure that when one side has problems, the other side can be used.

……

Istanbul.

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

Like every leisurely morning, the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Saliman III, woke up when the sun shone through his bedroom window.

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

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

Lowering his head respectfully, Selit said: “Great Sultan, a group of envoys from France have just arrived here. They asked to go to the palace to see them, saying that they have extremely important matters.”

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

Selit smiled at this time: “Great Sultan, this time the French envoy said They came to discuss this issue, and they said that they came with the support of the United Kingdom, which represents the British attitude.”

Saliman was stunned for a moment, and he hesitated: “Could this be a trap? This group. The damn Europeans have taken away too much land from us.”

Thinking of this, Saliman was filled with hatred. Hundreds of years ago, the Ottoman Empire was a huge empire spanning Asia, Africa and Europe.

However, with the rise of science and technology in Europe, the Ottoman Empire continued to fail in wars with Europeans and continued to lose territory in Africa and Europe.

This made the Ottoman Empire, which was once a hegemonic country, feel very humiliated. Because of the repeated defeats in the war, there are now voices within the empire that oppose him.

He claimed that he had kept the Ottoman Empire at the technological level of hundreds of years ago, but for Saliman, he felt aggrieved 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 by the former Great Chongqing in Asia. Now they are asking for help from us.”

“Great Chongqing? The country that was almost destroyed by the Golden Horde?” Saliman asked.

“Yes, that’s it.” Sailit said.

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

Serit’s words really surprised him.

(End of chapter)