"The situation in the Middle East remains difficult, from Tunisia to the Persian Gulf.

There was fire everywhere and rebellious Arabs everywhere.

Our policies in the Middle East in recent years have been really unpopular, and the greed of those sheikhs is really bottomless.

They were so mean and cruel to their own people, and when we couldn't take care of them, they betrayed them again.

This is a group of people who are greedy and have no integrity or morals.

We relied heavily on them in the past, which was wrong!" During the general staff's operational briefing, Shi Dewei reported helplessly to Li Xiao.

Li Xiao remained silent. Li Xiu was responsible for this. But he also had a big responsibility!

From the beginning, Li Xiao wanted to copy the policy in India. Give some benefits to those at the top and let them help manage the Ming Dynasty.

But the ideal is very full, but the reality is very skinny.

The Arab sheikhs made huge profits but ignored the suffering of their tribesmen.

Their human hearts have been completely consumed by ten years of arrogance and extravagance.

Now that there are such big things happening in the Middle East, some chiefs have even stood up and held high the banner of opposing the Ming Dynasty.

They hoped that after driving away the Ming people, they would gain greater benefits from the Hebrews.

There are all kinds of people in the chaos, and the King of Syria is still struggling to support himself in Damascus, waiting for the arrival of reinforcements from the Ming Dynasty.

The King of Jordan has made peace with the Hebrews and declared the West Bank and Gaza City to be peace zones.

Everyone regrouped in this chaos, either to fully demonstrate their loyalty to the Ming Dynasty, or... to hug the Hebrews.

"It seems that Hinduism is better. Let's just bring Hinduism to the Middle East!"

"That won't work! It will cause resistance in the entire Moslin world, and we cannot take this risk.

If one of them is not handled well, let alone the Middle East, North Africa and the Balkans will also be in chaos. At that time, we will be in trouble."

The people below were chattering away, while Li Xiao sat there expressionless and said nothing.

It is not feasible to replace Moslem with Hinduism. After all, it is also a religion with a thousand-year foundation.

"For the problems in the Middle East, now we just need to hold on to Basra, Cairo and the Suez Canal Zone.

In other places, if there are no important interests, we can choose to give up." Li Xiao opened his mouth to speak, and everyone closed their mouths.

"What about Damascus?" Stewie asked immediately.

"Damascus needs to be defended. The first Indian division to be formed should go there. Let them consume it with the Arabs!

Although the Indians' combat skills are not strong, they are on par with the Arabs."

"Among the Arabs, there were many Hebrew advisers. They were responsible for training and commanding these Arabs!

Regular Hebrew artillery was even found on the front of Basra. Occasionally, organized Hebrew infantry appeared.

It seems that the Hebrews were fully involved in this war."

"The Hebrews were so cruel that they directly hit our oil fields. Ming Dynasty's demand for oil is getting higher and higher, and we cannot cut off oil."

"Should we attack Sevastopol directly? Let the Hebrews have a taste of not being able to look after each other."

"It's impossible, all our warships have been transferred away from Constantinople.

Some of them have to escort the ships carrying the Marine Corps, and some have to provide fire support for the Marine Corps.

To be honest, it’s a bit hard to break up.”

"Where are our Marines?"

"There was only one Marine Division left in Constantinople, and the rest were transferred to Basra.

Fortunately, they provided timely support, otherwise Basra would have fallen by now."

“How powerful are the Kurds’ weapons?”

"Their tactical knowledge is very good and the Hebrews must have been training them for a long time."

"Will they attack Constantinople?"

"You shouldn't dare, after all, Israel and Ming Dynasty have not declared war.

If they attack Constantinople, it will be a declaration of war. The consequences are not something the Israelis can afford."

"Well! Although after five years of development, Israel already has a preliminary industry.

Arms manufacturing and shipbuilding are developing rapidly.

But after all, their development time is too short, and their strength is far worse than our Ming Dynasty.

Although the Ming Dynasty does not allow foreigners to set foot there, those missionaries should have brought some news back.

At least, with their intelligence network, they won’t know anything about the Ming Dynasty.”

"Mossad is still very powerful. They bribed many Ming Dynasty businessmen.

Although these people reported to the court upon their return, there is no guarantee of what they said to the Israelis."

Li Xiao shook his head helplessly as he listened to the subordinate officers and officers of the General Staff Headquarters acting haphazardly.

In the end, there is still insufficient background. The General Staff, which was born out of the Ministry of War, is still difficult to handle the task of commanding such a large-scale war.

Even these senior officials of the General Staff did not have a systematic understanding of the entire macro-war situation.

Li Xiao knocked on the table and the place became quiet again.

"You can order the Indian Sikh and Gurkha divisions to go to Damascus. Since the King of Syria is worthy of our Ming Dynasty, our Ming Dynasty must also be worthy of him.

We must use actions to prove that Ming Dynasty is worthy of its friends.

As for those people who are half-hearted and double-dealing, we will give them a severe blow.

besides!

Remind Constantinople to pay attention to the actions of the Hebrews."

With insufficient troops, Li Xiao could only do this.

The troops temporarily recruited by the Ming Dynasty had to undergo military training for at least three months anyway.

Today, Hainan has become a huge military camp, and the barracks have long been unable to make ends meet. Even Xiaoyu's villa has become a temporary headquarters.

Inside the coconut grove, there are even more densely packed tents everywhere.

Li Xiao has always been patient because he knows that throwing untrained troops into the battlefield is tantamount to killing people.

Fortunately, in recent years, the rural militia organizations in Liaodong, Shandong, and Hebei have not slackened off.

Every year during the farm break, the militiamen conduct military training.

Infantry subjects such as bayonet shooting and target shooting are naturally all part of the training.

But the soldiers recruited from the south were not so good. Many of them had never even touched a gun.

Target shooting can break the collar bone, and throwing a grenade can hit the heel.

Because of the intense training, more than thirty training accidents occurred after only one month of training.

Eight people died and more than thirty others were injured.

Even before we go out to fight, there are already damn casualties.

The current Marine Corps has at least two months to last until the hundreds of thousands of troops recruited by the Ming Dynasty!

The training of those technical arms does not only take a few months, some even take a year.

Li Xiao made the final decision and no one spoke again.

"Let's talk about the north and see how our Mr. Ao is doing." Li Xiao saw that everyone was silent and looked at Shi Dewei and asked.

"The close combat on the northern front went very well.

The First Army of the Expeditionary Force has recaptured Smolensk. Three days ago, it forced the Minsk garrison of 50,000 people to surrender.

Currently, more than 400,000 Polish troops are surrounded in the Smolensk, Yelinin, Orsha, and Gradsky areas.

The length of the encirclement is about 200 kilometers on both sides of the Dnieper River. Ao Ye is commanding the First Expeditionary Force and the Russian army to narrow the encirclement.

It is estimated that in the next three days, the area occupied by the Polish army can be successfully reduced by half.

If they don't surrender, they can basically be wiped out within a week."

Speaking of the northern route, Stewie was obviously in high spirits.

No matter what, winning a battle is a matter of morale.

"Did Master Ao say what he plans to do next?" Li Xiao asked, looking at the map.

"Empress Catherine requested that the coalition forces march directly to Warsaw. She wanted to teach the Poles a harsh lesson!"

"When did our Ming Dynasty become workers and work for the Russians?" Li Xiao said contemptuously, lighting a cigar.

"Please give me your next step, Commander-in-Chief."

"After annihilating the Polish army, the army gathered in Minsk and looked for an opportunity to occupy Vilnius and force the Lithuanians to surrender.
To be continued...