Ignazio Cassis doesn't seem to have much choice!

He is a general who has come down from the battlefield, so he naturally knows how disparate the power balance is on the battlefield.

Those dark tanks kept advancing along the front line.

A bullet hitting it will only create a spark, while a cannonball hitting it will be bounced away.

Even the rocket launcher purchased from Germany for a large sum of money could not penetrate the round turret.

Ignacio Cassis felt heartbroken every time he saw the helpless Swiss soldiers throwing themselves at the tank with explosives and bundles of grenades in an attempt to die with the tank.

The blame for not having weapons capable of defeating the enemy lies not with the soldiers, but with the superiors.

I had heard that the Ming Dynasty's tanks were very powerful, but I didn't expect them to be so powerful.

The Swiss sergeants are brave enough and they are tough enough.

No matter where he goes, Ignazio Cassis will be proud of the warriors under his command.

But they still failed, were forced to hand over their weapons, and were driven like pigs to this unknown place.

The people of Ming Dynasty used the reason of not invading Switzerland to convince him, so they really found the right destiny.

When almost everyone surrendered, they believed that the Ming Dynasty was about to win this war.

No one thought that the coalition forces would fight back and defeat the Ming Dynasty.

No one!

Even those who were full of confidence in the war before the war now no longer have the courage to face the Ming army.

What's more important is that the words of persuasion came from the pope's mouth.

They have no reason to object!

The Ming Dynasty's ship arrived, and it was the first time for everyone to see such a huge ship.

This is a cargo ship that can hold 3,000 Swiss soldiers in just one storey.

When the freighter was full, Ignazio Cassis discovered that there were eight thousand fewer people in the prisoner of war camp.

Two such cargo ships arrived at once, which meant that in two trips, all the Swiss people here could be taken away.

The Ming Dynasty officer in charge of liaison said that new weapons would be distributed to them when they arrived in Basra.

Senior military officers can even take an airship and arrive in Basra first so that Ming military officers can introduce their future opponents as much as possible.

The Pope successfully completed his mission and was sent back to Crete by airship.

Then, a warship specially sent him back to Rome.

Twenty days after Li Xiao left Basra, the first batch of Swiss soldiers set foot at the Port of Basra.

Sun Zhijie was so excited that she almost jumped up. He didn't expect that the commander-in-chief would fulfill his promise so quickly.

In the past, all prisoner-of-war armies were composed of mixed units.

They originally belonged to different troops, but they only got the opportunity to fight for the Ming Dynasty after they showed respect to the Ming Dynasty in the prisoner-of-war camp.

The degree of tacit understanding between these people is far inferior to that of an army under the same organizational structure.

Even so, they were able to push the Kurds into Baghdad without daring to show their faces.

These Swiss are different. They have just come off the battlefield, and their combat experience is unquestionable.

The most important thing is that these people came to Basra as an integral part of the organization.

Here, their division commander is still a division commander, a regiment commander is still a regiment commander, a battalion commander is still a battalion commander, and a company commander is still a company commander.

From the highest command organization to the ordinary soldiers below, the organizational structure has not changed at all.

This is the most important one, and it is precisely because of this that they will become the main force in attacking Baghdad.·

Even airships have begun transporting their equipment.

Old-fashioned bolt-action rifles, as well as artillery of various calibers. The ammunition they need is even specially prepared from Russia.

The ammunition of Western Europeans is very different from that of the Ming Dynasty, mainly because the caliber of the Ming artillery is usually larger.

However, under the same level conditions of Western Europeans, the artillery caliber is smaller than that of the Ming Dynasty.

Ming Dynasty does not have production lines in Western Europe, but Russia does.

Because the Russian army's ordnance, whether it is weapons or ammunition, originally belonged to the same origin as Western Europe.

There is still no problem with the ammunition supplied to them. Sochi has a complete ammunition production line.

Nine-millimeter high-power rifle bullets can be produced there, but the artillery shells need to be mobilized from the arsenal in Mumbai.

After all, there is no production line for artillery shells in Sochi.

But this doesn't seem to matter. After all, the Swiss' opponents, the Kurds, don't have many artillery.

On the Baghdad front line, mortars are actually heavy firepower.

If it weren't for the fact that this city was too big and had too many buildings, it might have been captured by a foreign regiment composed of prisoners of war.

On the Russian battlefield, there is now an actual state of armistice.

The German troops on the northern front retreated from the Ming and Russian troops, and the two armies faced each other at a distance of fifty kilometers.

The Ming army had no intention of attacking, and the German army naturally had no intention of attacking either.

The same was true for the French army on the southern front. The French army was unwilling to take the initiative to provoke the Ming army, and the Ming army did not take the initiative to attack.

However, the preparations for the war between the two sides are completely different!

The double-tracking project of the Central Asia Railway has finally been completed, which means that the transport capacity from Daming to Russia has doubled.

The train roared across the vast land of Central Asia, carrying cartloads of ammunition, supplies, and baggage to the front line.

The most important thing is that thousands of soldiers who have graduated from various training centers are transported to the front line every day.

Among the three tank factories in Liaodong, Changchun Tank Factory has completely completed the conversion of production. They no longer produce tanks, but infantry fighting vehicles equipped with 25mm rapid-fire cannons.

Shenyang Tank Factory and Jinzhou Tractor Factory are now operating at full capacity to produce No. 4 tanks.

Due to the improvement of workers' proficiency and the improvement of process flow.

The number of tanks coming off the production line every month has reached 500, which is already a very impressive number.

Because last month, the Ming Dynasty only lost one hundred and thirty tanks on the battlefield.

Almost half of them can be towed back for repairs.

In other words, the number of the Ming Army's Type IV main battle tanks is increasing by one tank regiment every month.

Not to mention aircraft, Changchun Aircraft Manufacturing Factory and Shenyang Aircraft Manufacturing Factory are now operating at full capacity.

Among them, the Changchun Aircraft Manufacturing Plant is fully engaged in the production of Stuka bombers.

One hundred and twenty fighter jets can be offline every month, which is a number that far exceeds the number of fighter jets consumed.

Because in the past two months, the coalition forces shot down a total of twenty-four Stukas.

However, the Stuka, which crashed due to mechanical failure, also fought as many as twenty-seven.

There is nothing we can do about this. Fighter aircraft are dispatched too frequently, and many accessories are actually not up to standard.

More importantly, there is a lack of qualified aircraft maintenance technicians on the front line.

Many aircraft actually had minor malfunctions and were put on the battlefield again before they could be repaired.

It was officially because of the extremely high attendance rate that the coalition artillery became a target.

When the Ming army attacked, as long as the coalition artillery was found firing, they would immediately be attacked by groups of Stukas.

This made it impossible for the coalition artillery to fight.

They once tried to concentrate anti-aircraft guns against the Ming Dynasty Stuka.

But there is a Kunpeng flying higher in the sky commanding him. If a large number of anti-aircraft guns are found concentrated in a certain place.

The most likely possibility is to call in bombers from the entire theater, and even Kunpeng will mount bombs for bombardment.

What often happens is when the coalition forces concentrate their anti-aircraft artillery and shoot down one or two Stukas.

There will be wasp-like Stukas coming from all directions to drop bombs, and those anti-aircraft gun positions are usually filled with thick smoke.

Moreover, once this place is targeted, it is impossible for an anti-aircraft gun to escape.

Especially the powerful 88-gun, as long as it is targeted, it will be a saturation bombing.

Targets within thirty-five kilometers of the battlefield will also be carpet-bombed by rockets.

Under such a blow, the coalition artillery was effectively destroyed.

Because they can basically only fire one or two shots, and they will be killed directly.

In terms of aerial deployment, Kunpeng produced by Shenyang Aircraft Manufacturing Factory plays an important role.

This large aircraft with four engines was actually developed based on a heavy bomber.

But Li Xiao's decision changed the purpose of this aircraft.
To be continued...