Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 540 Concerning the European Conference
Zhang Huangyan said to Bai Mingxiu: "There may be a joint reaction in Europe. Prussia has shown obvious interest in the German states, and Louis XIV also wants to extend his hand here. A relatively large war may break out between France and Prussia. Austria, Both Denmark and the Netherlands are stakeholders. What we are most worried about is that once Austria responds to Prussia's actions, Xiqing may take advantage of the situation and attack Hungary or Austria. The most pessimistic strategic research institute believes that the West The Qing has the ability to fight all the way from Poland to France, encroaching on the entire European continent, which is obviously not what we want to see. And if this situation arises, Ming will definitely intervene."

Wanting to intervene and whether they will intervene or not have the ability to intervene immediately are two different things.

Da Ming is very powerful, there is no doubt about it, but precisely because of this strength, Da Ming feels that there is no need to over-develop military power. Da Ming's global military strategy is a very modern style of defense and control of important nodes, and it has a strong sea power feature. This is why in the past 20 years, as a country with a land area of ​​more than 3000 million square kilometers, the navy budget was higher than the army budget.

Naturally, it was not that Ming did not have enemies on land that could threaten him, such as Xiqing.

Bai Mingxiu was shocked for a time, thinking that he might have really suffered from the consequences of raising a tiger.The Western Qing Dynasty expanded very quickly, and its iron-fisted governance and modernization progressed very quickly. What surprised Bai Mingxiu was that the Eight Banners system with a tribal nature was actually given up to Fei Yanggu and his group. When the flowers arrived, they brought with them many characteristics of the Soviet Union in another dimension, which made him simply amazed.

Europeans have resisted the Green Cult forces for many years, but in Eastern Europe, the resistance to Xi Qing was extremely weak.The main reason is that Fei Yanggu is a "sane-headed" person. He doesn't think the so-called Eastern European intellectuals, high society, and nobles are of any use. Things, so as long as these people make any changes, the whole family will be executed.

Bai Mingxiu doesn't have any exact figures here, but according to Jin Yiwei's estimate, in Russia alone, the Western Qing Dynasty killed just over 100 million people. Almost all Russian nobles and members of the Orthodox Church were killed. .This is much more ruthless than in the Central Plains.After all, Russia had a population of 2000 million. The Western Qing Dynasty almost wiped out one-tenth of the population, and almost wiped out the most educated and vocal people.

Although it is more difficult to reorganize society, Xiqing brought people of all ethnic groups along the way, so it would be okay even if all the Russians ran away.In fact, most Russian serfs still choose to be honest slaves of the Eight Banners, comb out their money rat tails, and then get their own land.

At this stage, the Western Qing Dynasty has about 25 Guards and Eight Banners troops, which is considered the most powerful army in Europe.Only about one-third of their forces were used in the previous wars against the Ottoman Empire and later Austria, while the real main force was placed in the east, always on guard against the Ming army on the other side of the Volga River.

At the beginning, the Ming people did not have a lot of pressure, but later, the Qing army was also equipped with a large number of bolt-action rifles (made in Hanyang), with Maxim and Madsen made by itself, as well as a lot of infantry artillery and Shanpao, according to Daming's intelligence in the past two years, these Tartars actually imitated Daming and began to trial-produce tanks and wooden aircraft.

Fei Yanggu invested a lot of money in the army. On the west bank of the Volga River and the Don River, there is a force of more than [-]. The Qing army has excellent weapons and has experienced some wars. The Ming Dynasty is gradually under pressure.The Eastern European Military Region began to ask the Ministry of War to increase the garrison and give priority to the supply of weapons.

Daming is indeed gradually increasing its deployment in Eastern Europe. At this stage, Daming has deployed a group army with a total of six divisions in the lower reaches of the Volga River, and has also built many local airports and directly stationed air force strike fleets.

The Western Qing Dynasty didn't quite know what air superiority was. In fact, the Ming Dynasty didn't quite understand it either. It was just based on the emperor's idea of ​​building an army.

Summarizing the strategic tasks of the Ming Army, the first is the Western European Army, Morocco and Gibraltar, which are mainly responsible for taking care of the situation in Europe, avoiding affecting Ming’s interests, and ensuring that Europe becomes an honest market for Ming; the second is the Eastern European Army and Xixia (Asian) Army, The main thing is to suppress the Western Qing Dynasty, which can be regarded as the most stressful direction of the Ming war; the third is the Meng Burma Army that controls the situation in India and the Indian Ocean. In fact, there is no problem. He won, but Wu Min was more obsessed with developing the Bangladesh-Myanmar economy, and didn't want to swallow India in one gulp, which was not in Ming's interest.

In other places, Daming really didn't have any defensive problems.At most, it's local provocations and small disturbances by foreigners, and they don't even need the regular army to do it.There are internal guards in the mainland, and the Xuanwei Division has Fanjun, escort regiments, and militias overseas, all of which can fight.

The navy that really dominated the Ming Dynasty was the navy. Due to the rapid technological innovation, the average service life of the main ships of the Ming Navy was only 3 years. They basically advanced for two or three years and then immediately became less advanced. Then they stayed around for two years and then were decommissioned. Reserve fleet.For example, the Civilization-class battleships of 20 years ago were not theoretically unusable, but they were mothballed.

The Ming Navy now has four major fleets, 5 aircraft carriers in service, 9 battleships, 16 cruisers, 45 destroyers, 96 frigates, 62 submarines, excluding various small combat ships and auxiliary ships.The average age of these ships is only about 4 years.

Technically, it naturally crushes other countries in an all-round way, so the size of the fleet may not be as exaggerated as that of Meisuhua on another plane, but its strength is naturally the best in the world.

Facing the Ming Dynasty, the maritime hegemon, basically other countries were relatively honest and did not dare to directly provoke. Moreover, except for the Ming Dynasty, basically no country has established a world-wide navy.

As for the Daming Air Force, it was established only recently, and everyone didn't pay much attention to it, but Bai Mingxiu knew its importance.

The strength of the Ming army on paper is such that it is definitely no problem to fight, but whether it is His Majesty the Emperor himself or the cabinet ministers of the Lizheng Yuan, they are very clear that Ming is actually not prepared for a full-scale war. The key is that Ming There hasn't been a major war in 20 years.During the period, there were only some military operations during the time when the cheap money to wipe out the Ottomans was picked up, and the scale was not large.Then there is the situation of the Xuanwei Sifan army's action, which is almost calm.

Once the Western Qing Dynasty entered Western Europe on a large scale, it was impossible for the Ming Dynasty to stay out of it.

This vile dog was indulged by Bai Mingxiu back then.

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