Beijing, Longzhongzhuang, Beijing Institute of Technology Building.
Zhuge’s military advisors are all here!
Except for Zhuge Wei, who has been in Europe for a long time, Zhuge Youli, and Zhuge Youxin, who are already old, the remaining sixteen military advisors of the Zhuge family have all come to Longzhong Village today - this is almost the same as the Ming Dynasty. The most powerful computing power. It is equivalent to connecting sixteen "real artificial intelligence" supercomputers in parallel! In today's world, there is probably no super computing power stronger than theirs.
The reason why the Zhuge family wanted to gather so many Zhuge military advisors together was, of course, because Nicholas I, the Roman Caesar who pretended to be a Roman Caesar, was defeated in front of the Turkish defense line of Adrianople.
If we count today according to the Western calendar, it is already May 18, 1829. After Nicholas I's attack failed on May 10, he continued to attack for three days and three nights on May 14, May 15, and May 16. After destroying more than 200,000 artillery shells, dropping hundreds of napalm bombs, and suffering more than 30,000 casualties, Nicholas I's army managed to break through the Turks' first and The second line of defense... But as long as you understand a little trench warfare, you should know that a breakthrough of this level is meaningless.
Because the Turks can also build more trench defenses between Adrianople and Constantiniya! Moreover, the terrain from Adrianople to Constantiniya was a gradually narrowing peninsula. The further east Nicholas I's army advanced, the narrower the terrain became, making it easier to defend and harder to attack.
When the severely weakened Rakshasa army advanced outside the city of Constantinople, they would be bombarded by warships from the Turkish naval fleet anchored in the Golden Horn and bombarded by Turkish coastal defense batteries... ...There is no doubt that facing an Ottoman Empire that fought to the death and learned trench warfare, even if Nicholas I could win, it would not be easy!
"Can't win, can't win... The Rakshasa ghost can't win! Without trench warfare, Constantinople might have been captured, but now with trench warfare, barbed wire, and Machine guns, this is not something that the Rakshasa Kingdom, a country that is still practicing serfdom, can win. Nicholas I is in big trouble!"
The former army boss, Zhuge Yougang, who has now retired and entertained his grandchildren at home, has already made up his mind. All he saw was that he was holding his white beard and shaking his head.
This old man worked in the army all his life, rose to the rank of army general, held important positions such as army minister, army chief of staff, and president of army university, and also served as right minister. He had never fought in a war, and he was very anti-war, so he was nicknamed the "anti-war general."
However, although the young men in the army were dissatisfied with him, they had nothing to do with him - the Ming Dynasty did not defeat the superiors, and the military had always been subordinate to politics.
Zhuge Weiyi, who presided over today's "supercomputing meeting", turned to look at Zhuge Weidao, the strongest computing power among the "Sixteen Supercomputing Conferences" - he has been preparing for an expedition to the Persian Gulf these days. This is a big project! Not only must many front-line combat ships be dispatched, but also a large number of ammunition ships, coal ships, grain ships, hospital ships, maintenance ships, troop carriers, bulk carriers, minelayers, trawlers, camouflaged assault ships, etc. Lots of auxiliary ships.
Zhuge Weidao was going to open a branch base this time, and there might be some problems with the logistics supply of this Persian Gulf base, so he had to prepare enough supplies and equipment.
In addition, he could not pick out some good ships and fast boats to take to the Persian Gulf. Good ships and fast ships are so precious. Isn’t it a waste to serve as a fleet in the Persian Gulf? So Zhuge Weidao tried his best to pick out some shabby boats with sails that were about to be retired and took them with him on the road. Just picking these boats was dazzling... At this moment, he was still thinking about pretending to attack. What to do with the ship?
"Taozi, Nicholas is your wife's uncle," Zhuge said righteously, "You can do the math for him, can he become the Emperor of Rome this time?"
"This is a bit suspenseful!" Zhuge Weidao quickly recovered his thoughts, and then thought about it, "But whether he is worthy of being the emperor of Rome is not that important to us... He is worthy of it, we Although we can take advantage of it, this advantage will not be without cost. In the future, it will be troublesome to suppress a Yingyi and a Rakshasa. Moreover, Rakshasa and us are bordering each other. They are really too powerful. Northern Xinjiang , Central Asia will have to invest a lot of financial and material resources, which may not be beneficial in the long run.”
The relationship between Daming and Rakshasa is actually quite subtle. Let's say they are friends. We should be wary of each other and be careful in every possible way. There is a piece of land left undeveloped on the northern border of Xinjiang. There is also a large gold buffer state on the other side of Central Asia.
Call them enemies. Ever since the fight between King Zhuge Wuzhong and the Rakshasa people, no conflict has broken out between the two countries for more than a hundred years - both families are back to back, with a big gold in the middle, and then neither Looking back, he was obviously very relieved.
After the Napoleonic Wars, because the Ming Dynasty came to help Rakshasa, the relationship between the two countries quickly heated up. Now Zhuge Weidao's wife and children are all lined up in the Rakshasa royal family tree (the line to succeed the Tsar). But... regarding the western section of the Central Asia Railway, Nicholas I promised without any hesitation.
"Taozi's nephew, do you mean to ignore Nicholas?" Zhuge Yougang's brother, the elderly naval officer Zhuge Youxin, shook his feather fan and frowned, "Aren't you afraid of the old British Rakshasa?" Pull them over and let them invade Central Asia to cause trouble for us?"
"Uncle," Zhuge Weidao said with a smile, "That's not what I meant. We still have to help with this... If we don't help, he will suffer a big loss from the Ottomans later. I really feel sorry for him." If Yiheng surrenders to the Yingyi, we will be in trouble. But he can't help too much. He has to fight Constantinople on his own.
Doesn't he want a 155mm cannon? Just arrange it for him. If it's not enough, transport him a batch of heavy howitzers with a caliber of 240 mm and 280 mm, and transport as many shells as possible. "
The artillery and shells given by Zhuge Weidao can of course be used to bombard the Turkish army's positions, but that does not mean that Ming Dynasty is using all its strength to help Rakshasa... If Ming Dynasty wants to use all its strength, it only needs to push Ali Pasha to raise troops. The Turkish Empire was unstable.
Once the hearts of the people collapse, Constantinople cannot be defended no matter what!
But the Zhuge family would not be that helpful, let alone push Ali Pasha, whom they had supported and befriended for many years, to take risks for Rakshasa.
"How to calculate the money?" Zhuge Weijia, the former "big steward" of the Zhuge family and now the minister of household affairs in the imperial court, asked, "The money for buying the ship last time was deducted from Baku oil. If it wasn't big The military advisor has approached the French to take over the deal, but you still don’t know how to do it?”
"This is easy to handle," Zhuge Weidao said, "Didn't we sell him five hero ships before? Now we have delivered one, and there are two more. This time, as soon as I go out, I will also deliver them, and there are two left. They are currently being outfitted... We might as well get these two ships ourselves and exchange the money the Rakshasa people spent on the ships for heavy artillery and artillery shells."
Zhuge Wenyong nodded: "I think the Taoist disciple's suggestion is feasible... Now the rain is coming, we can't take it easy! What if the Yingyi take advantage of the Rakshasa being trapped in the Battle of the King's Castle? To attack us, we have to have a few trump cards in our hands to feel at ease." He paused and then said to Zhuge Weidao, "Taozi, you have to be careful when you go to the Persian Gulf this time... If it's true If we start in advance, the fleet you lead may be in trouble when it crosses the Strait of Malacca."
"Brother Fifty-one, don't worry!" Zhuge Weidao said with a smile, "Nothing will happen this time. After all, there are two heroes following us! And Yingyi would not have thought that we would dispatch such a huge fleet... ....Maybe they thought we were going to attack India!"
Zhuge Wenyong laughed: "That's right. Who would have thought that there would be... treasures on the other side of the Persian Gulf!"
Hearing "there is a treasure", all the Zhuges who were good at calculating burst out laughing.
If this "treasure" is obtained, the Zhuge family will have to replace the silk scarf with the "richest cloth in the world" in the future.
