"I'm so worried!

Let’s talk about how it was done.

The entire Middle East is in a mess, and the Kurds, Yazidis, and Arabs are all making a fuss.

The Persians are relatively calm, but according to the telegram sent yesterday, some people in Tehran are also starting to cause trouble.

The King of Persia has contacted us through the embassy and needs Ming Dynasty to send troops to help suppress the place."

In the huge combat conference room, Li Xiao looked at the huge combat map on the wall and felt a little worried.

At this time, the shortcomings of the Ming Dynasty's military system became apparent, and only lean forces were maintained at ordinary times.

Instead of a large standing army!

Now that the Middle East is raging everywhere, the military strength is a bit difficult to expand.

The Marine Corps urgently recruited many retired soldiers and flew them to Hainan for two months of training.

But these people can only serve as a combat readiness force and rashly send people to the front line. This is extremely irresponsible for human lives.

Now the problem comes, the oil fields in the Middle East must be maintained.

But if you want to maintain the oil fields, you need soldiers. The problem now is that there are not so many soldiers.

The General Staff had no choice but to initiate a large-scale conscription plan.

Now, the entire Liaodong, Shandong, and Hebei are undergoing an unprecedented autumn recruitment.

It seems a bit anti-human to conscript soldiers when every household needs strong labor to harvest food.

Not only that, Ming Dynasty also recruited soldiers from Henan, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Gansu and even Qinghai for the first time.

This has never happened before. The Liao army needs to recruit troops outside Liaodong.

At the same time, the Marine Corps recruited soldiers in Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Zhejiang, and Jiangsu.

"Luzhu, you are engaged in intelligence, and you have spent a lot of money. It has been three months since the incident. Please tell us, what is going on in the Middle East?"

When no one said anything, Li Xiao ordered Lvzhu's general first.

Lu Zhu looked around. Normally, he reported to Li Xiao alone. This was his first time giving a speech in such a large audience.

"My Ming Dynasty has been running the Middle East for nearly ten years, but our Ming Dynasty focuses on making money with the chiefs or nobles at the top.

The people at the bottom live a very difficult life. They are also oppressed and humiliated by the government!

Take the Tunisian vendor who set himself on fire, for example. He had to sell all his family property before he could open a small stall.

But because he couldn't pay the protection fee collected by the guards, he was ransacked.

For this hawker, this stall is everything to him.

So, after losing hope of living, he set himself on fire on the street.

It was because of this self-immolation that the riots in Tunisia were triggered.

In recent years, successive droughts in the Middle East have caused farmers who were not already wealthy to go bankrupt.

They don’t have much industry, so farmers live a very hard life after moving to the city.”

"We have not assisted in some projects, such as building roads, building bridges, and building hospitals."

Li Xiao is a little surprised. Ming Dynasty has also assisted some projects in the Middle East in recent years.

Building roads and building bridges were actually for the Ming Dynasty's transportation in the Middle East.

The hospital was built so that the people of Ming Dynasty could have a place to treat their diseases in the Middle East.

When these projects are utilized by Ming people, they will also benefit local people.

"Doing engineering can indeed provide some job opportunities. But engineering is something that cannot exist all year round.

It's like building a road. Once it's built, it's done.

Moreover, our officials are somewhat overjoyed in their work.

The road was built wide and straight, but there was no small road leading to the village.

The Hebrews were very considerate, and they also assisted the Arabs in many projects.

They built a small road that leads directly to the main road we built.

The result!

I asked the local people who built the road. They all said it was the Hebrews, so our Ming Dynasty work was in vain.

Most of the local dignitaries and chiefs interact with our people.

But the Hebrews, they set up relief stations everywhere.

A little food is given to the local people every day, and sometimes doctors are sent to treat local people for free, and medicines are also given away.

Therefore, the Hebrews had a very good impression in the eyes of the local people.

Even the local gangs would not give trouble to the Hebrews.

This kind of thing happens not only in Tunisia, but also throughout the Middle East.

Especially the Suez Canal area where we have the largest number of troops stationed, and the oil field area in Basra.

Things are a little worse with the Persians, who are trying their best to bribe the Kurds.

They not only provided weapons and ammunition to the Kurds, but also sent Hebrew officers who had been on the battlefield to guide their training.

I suspect that the Hebrews are even directing the Kurds to fight."

"The Hebrews are directing them to fight? No wonder the Kurds are so powerful.

Not only did they capture Baghdad, they even threatened Basra." Li Xiao nodded.

Received Hebrew weapons, plus training and combat command.

It can be seen that the Hebrews did not plan this move in a day or two.

Daming focused on the upper-level route, but others took the lower-level route.

The Ming Dynasty and the powerful conspired to divide the spoils, and the Hebrews were in power and the people at the bottom were trying to save all sentient beings.

This time and again, the Hebrews can be regarded as the existence of thousands of Buddhists along the entire Mediterranean coast.

Today's results are actually not surprising at all.

"For now, we have no problem holding on to the oil fields in Basra.

Before the war, we had built reinforced concrete bunkers, fortifications, and trenches thirty kilometers away from the Basra oil field.

Now our infantry relies on these, plus the navy's naval gun fire support. We have no problem guarding the Basra oil field!

It's just that it's still a little difficult to recapture Baghdad.

Insufficient troop strength is an important reason, and another reason is that... the combat effectiveness of the Marine Corps... is somewhat insufficient."

Stewie held a stack of paper in his hand, looked at it and reluctantly took off his glasses.

Li Xiao took a deep breath and said nothing.

This incident cannot be blamed on Zuo Liangyu, he has only been in office for half a year.

The Marine Corps, which has hundreds of thousands of troops dispersed across a vast area, will never be able to improve in half a year.

Li Xiu, the naval commander, must be blamed!

"Cough...!" Li Hao coughed.

"Now is not the time to hold people accountable, now is the time to think carefully about how to get through the current crisis.

The oil fields in the Middle East cannot be lost, let alone any production reduction or even suspension of production.

Now one-third of Ming Dynasty's ships, four-fifths of trains, and all airships use diesel.

Not to mention the troops, which include more than 2,000 tanks and more than 500 aircraft.

In addition to warships, there are more than 10,000 cars.

Eighty to nine thousand tons of oil are used every day, and in the future the number of cars, tanks, armored vehicles, airplanes, and ships will increase.

The amount of fuel used every day is astronomical!

We have not discovered any oil fields in Ming Dynasty, so these oils can only be obtained from the Middle East.

Once there is no oil, it will be unimaginable for Ming Dynasty."

Li Hao also held a piece of paper in his hand, which listed the classification and summary of the oil needed by Ming Dynasty every day facing west.

Li Hao piled a few pieces of paper in front of Li Xiao!

"Yes! There can be no chaos in the Middle East, and the oil supply cannot be cut off." Li Xiao looked at the paper in his hand and nodded.

"What we can do now is to recruit troops on a large scale.

The first was the expansion of the Third Division and the Fourth Division.

These two divisions have a lot of historical debts. The number of soldiers and equipment combined is not as large as that of one division.
To be continued...