Taichang stared at the latest Africa map and frowned and pondered for a long time.

At this moment, the northwestern Africa has been completely occupied by Zuma's West African Kingdom, and East Africa has almost been occupied by Atlanti.

However, Zuma and Atlanti could only use one million troops, and North Africa's defense line could not be relaxed at all. Once it was relaxed, the Continental Union might counterattack.

This is actually not the biggest problem. After all, the slave trade has just emerged at this time, and Africa has not been sold to hundreds of millions of young and strong men as slaves as in history.

The population of Africa is still relatively large now. Not only are there hundreds of millions of young people, but there are still millions of people, and most of them are concentrated in the areas occupied by Zuma and Atlanti.

In other words, it is not a problem for them to expand their troops by one million or even two million.

The question is how to fight to South Africa.

The southern borders of the Kingdom of West Africa and the Kingdom of East Africa on the map are almost all vast mountains, and large armies cannot pass through.

Lin Chaojie's battle report has been sent here now. People have investigated it on the spot. Central Africa is still a tropical rainforest like the Amazon jungle. The only road to the south is an uneven mountain road, and even the chariots cannot pass it.

In other words, if they want to follow the old path of Tirena, their chariots and even artillery can basically not be transported there, and they can't bring much food.

Tirena was running for life, so it didn't matter.

They had to organize an expedition of at least two million troops, and they had to attack at least ten cities and eliminate nearly one million enemy troops. They did not have enough artillery or food, and even the demand for ammunition was impossible.

If the Ming Empire participates in the full war, this problem will naturally be easy to solve. As long as all the ASCHS ships, dragon warships and dreadnoughts are mobilized, thousands of armed merchant ships, two million men, food, supplies, weapons and ammunition are mobilized several times to South Africa.

Problem: The Ming Empire cannot participate in the war now.

Once he mobilized most of the navy ships, the development of Siberian and Western Regions provinces would have to stop halfway.

That was a year of hundreds of millions of taels of investment, and he could not invest less than one billion taels of investment. He gave up halfway through the process. I don’t know how big the loss was.

Besides, the history of the previous hundreds of years and the next hundreds of years has proved that once you become stronger, you can't think you are invincible in the world, and you will do something unscrupulously.

If this is the case, it will be not far from destruction.

Is the Spanish colonial empire awesome?

In the past century, it can be said that Spain has been in the world, and Spain has occupied almost half of the whole world.

As a result, Spain had been doing things randomly for decades, and an empire that was so powerful that it was almost impossible to decline declined.

Is Napoleon awesome?

During the heyday of the First French Empire, almost occupied the entire continent, and only Britain was still shivering on the sea.

As a result, Napoleon fought for less than ten years, and the powerful French Empire collapsed, and Napoleon himself became a prisoner.

There is also the continental madman in World War II. At its heyday, the entire continent and even North Africa were trembling at his feet...

As a result, he was defeated and died in less than ten years.

To be honest, his current strength is just a dish compared to that crazy man.

When the madman was the strongest, the army, navy, and air force combined for more than 10 million. If the troops of the servant country were added, the number of troops they could use was more than 20 million, and tanks, aircraft, and cannons were even more popular.

Such a powerful force was destroyed in less than ten years. This is a real historical fact, not something he imagined.

Therefore, it is said that a man is crazy. He cannot be as crazy as he is strong as he is. He can beat whoever he wants and fight as he wants. No matter how powerful the empire is, he cannot withstand such random tossing.

He still needs to use his brain more and think of ways to strive for the smallest loss to win the greatest victory.

If you rely on your own number of people, you will be seeking death. No matter how many troops you have, you will be exhausted.

After exhausting all the troops, it will be over, and I have no medicine to take if I regret it.

He stared at the map for a long time before he said solemnly: "Mingshi, do you think Zuma and Atlanti's men can advance south by land?"

This is the biggest problem now. If it really doesn't work, then he can only mobilize American ships to come and help.

They may not participate in the war, but there is no problem in helping others transport their troops, including food, supplies, weapons and ammunition.

However, the number of ships that America can mobilize at this moment is not very large. Two million troops and a large amount of food, supplies, weapons and ammunition may have to be transported for at least half a year.

If Atlanti recruits troops and equips with all the equipment, it would probably not be enough for a year.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Mingshi nodded slightly and said, "I have considered the issue of land propulsion carefully, and I have also sent someone to investigate it carefully.

It would be OK if we could open avenue in the jungle of Central Africa.”

When Taichang heard this, his eyes lit up.

Prince Kong Dai was shocked when he heard this.

What a joke, to drive a road that can pass through millions of troops in the tropical jungle?

He couldn't help but interrupt and said, "General Zhang, do you know how big the tropical jungle in Central Africa is?"

Zhang Mingshi was not very clear about this, because the scouts he sent only explored the northern edge of the Central African tropical jungle, and they had not penetrated the entire jungle yet.

Zhang Mingshi shook his head slightly and said, "I don't know much about this."

You don’t know what to say about opening a highway from the tropical jungle?

Prince Kong Dai's eyes almost popped out when he heard this.

Seeing this, Taichang couldn't help but ask with interest: "Why, do you know how big the tropical jungle in Central Africa is?"

Prince Conde nodded repeatedly when he heard this, "I really know this, because when Tirena hit southern East Africa, he sent people to Angola through the jungle.

I was afraid that this guy would hit me through the jungle, so I sent someone to follow his men through the jungle and take a look.

The jungle was so terrifying that it was thousands of kilometers thick. Even the strongest scouts could die at any time.

I sent more than a dozen of the strongest scouts to follow them, but only five of them were left after returning...

At that time, I was relieved that it was impossible for Tirena's army of hundreds of thousands to cross the jungle to fight Angola.

Unexpectedly, this guy was forced to come over the edge of the jungle!"

Oh, it's only a thousand kilometers, and a thousand kilometers can be as high as three thousand miles. It's no big deal.

Taichang nodded slightly and then asked, "Mingshi, where do you think we are better at opening the road?"

Zhang Mingshi hurriedly pointed to the southeastern border of the Kingdom of West Africa and said, "Your Majesty, look, there are no mountains here.

Weichen has sent someone to investigate. This area has a little ups and downs, but nothing else.

Moreover, there is also grassland here, and there is no need to prepare any forage when war horses gather in this area."

Well, why are there mountains on this map?

Taichang hasn't seen it before, so naturally he doesn't know.

The maps at this moment are not as detailed as those drawn by later generations. Many of the Central African prairie have been painted into mountains.

Zhang Mingshidu sent someone to investigate on the spot, so there was no problem.

The location of this place is pretty good, just between the Kingdom of West Africa and the Nile River Basin, Zuma and Atlanti's men arrived here almost the same distance.

He stared at the map again and thought about it carefully, then pointed to the Congo River and asked, "There are no colonial strongholds of continental countries in the area where this river flows through?"

Prince Kong Dai shook his head repeatedly and said, "No, no, the area where this river flows through is all tropical jungle, and it is impossible to develop it at all, and there is no interest in the European countries."

Then there will be no problem.

Taichang nodded slightly, then said decisively: "Okay, Mingshi, please write a letter to Boya and introduce the situation there, and let him mobilize all the trees and cut down machines to come over. We will open the road from the middle of the Congo River to both sides, and then build a bridge on the river."

Are there any machinery for cutting trees?

When Prince Kong Dai heard this, he couldn't help but look curious.

This Taichang naturally won't explain to this guy.

He waved his hand directly, "Okay, go and prepare. After the letter from the Duke of Richelieu was sent, Tirena will definitely find a way to mobilize a large amount of supplies to transport them to the continent. Then you will have work to do."

Uh, are you going to prepare now?

There are still tens of thousands of miles from Angola. Black drove over in a fast ship, and Tirena prepared to transport supplies for at least one month.

Although Prince Kong Dai was a little confused, he bowed and retreated.

Although Taichang knew that this guy was unlikely to betray him

However, if you are not afraid of ten thousand, just be afraid of if you are. It is better not to let this guy know their specific strategy.

He looked at Prince Kong Dai's back as he left, and then solemnly said: "Mingshi, this is the last battle on the African continent. We must prepare well."

Zhang Mingshi nodded repeatedly and said, "The emperor is wise. After this battle, the African continent should be able to usher in a rare peace and tranquility."

How do you say this?

Some memories of later generations emerged in Taichang's mind. It seemed a bit difficult to make peace and tranquility in this continent.

However, this is not the time to consider these things. No matter what, it is necessary to completely drive the European colonial robbers out of this continent...

The root cause of war in later generations can be said to be poverty, backwardness, hunger, etc., and these are caused by the crazy looting of European colonial robbers.

Only by completely driving the European colonial robbers out can they get rid of all this.

Perhaps, in the future, people on this continent will not always fight around when they are rich.

He sighed secretly, and then started discussing with Zhang Mingshi.

The most urgent task at this moment is to expand the army. After all, there is no way to fight without enough troops.
To be continued...