"Commander, the Marine Corps has begun to land in Spain." Zhao Liangdong walked in and reported.

This time the Ming Marines attacked the Balearic Islands and Ibiza.

Although these two small islands in the Mediterranean are not large, their geographical location is very important.

These two places are one hundred and sixty kilometers away from Valencia and the other two hundred and twenty kilometers away from Barcelona.

Whether it is 160 kilometers or 220 kilometers, this is a good starting point for an attack.

Moreover, both islands have good deep-water harbors.

With a little construction, large logistics supply ships can be berthed.

With these two places as transit bases, it shouldn't be too convenient to attack Valencia and Barcelona.

"What are the movements of the Spanish?" Li Xiao temporarily put aside the French affairs and stared at the map.

"The attack on the Balearic Islands took one day and the attack on Ibiza took more than an hour.

There are not many Spanish troops stationed on the two islands, and our military casualties are all in single digits. They were mainly shot by snipers. The Marine Corps has thoroughly searched the entire island, and there is no enemy force.

The navy has also blocked these two islands!"

Although the main force of the navy is sailing along the coast of Africa, after all, the Ming Navy has a strong financial background. Only one battleship, three cruisers, and more than twenty destroyers left behind are enough to dominate the Mediterranean.

Now, just a dozen destroyers scare Barcelona and Valencia.

"What are the movements of the Spanish Army?" Li Xiao asked, looking at the map.

“After our army’s aerial reconnaissance, it was discovered that Spanish troops were gathering towards Valencia and Barcelona.

They are afraid that we will attack these places!"

"Haha! Order the navy warships to bombard Valencia.

I want to turn Valencia into ruins!" Li Xiao's mouth curved.

Barcelona is a famous Spanish city and an important town for the Catalans.

Valencia is different. This place is an important port and an important industrial city for the Spanish.

Bombing Valencia would severely damage the Spanish's fragile industry.

At the same time, it will also attract Spanish forces to Valencia. After all, wherever the Ming army bombarded them desperately in the past, that place will become a possible landing place for the Ming army.

As long as the Spanish move their troops to Valencia, the Catalans in Barcelona will have a chance.

What Ming Dynasty paid was nothing more than the scraps of metal captured on the battlefield.

"Li Lin, how are things going in Algiers?" The peach in Spain is not yet ripe and needs to wait a while.

The most important thing now is to open the road from Algiers to Marrakech, as long as this place of more than a thousand kilometers is controlled by the Ming Dynasty.

After Li Xiu's fleet circumnavigates the entire African continent, it will have a reliable supply base.

More than a thousand kilometers, time is tight!

"Our army has advanced to Colma, which is more than 300 kilometers away from Algiers. The reason for the slow advance is that the road conditions are really bad, but we spent almost no effort to capture Colma.

The troops rushed in, fired a few shots into the air, and occupied the area. The locals neither welcomed nor resisted our arrival.

Of course, they had no means to resist. The weapons in these people's hands were extremely primitive and they had no cannons at all.

Rifles are considered advanced weapons, more people are using matchlocks, and many people are even using firecrackers."

Li Lin smiled helplessly. It was not easy for the Marines armed to the teeth to deal with these people.

"Their place is like that, and the Arabs are not very adaptable to industrial civilization.

Moreover, their concept of country is very vague, but they do value tribes very much.

Let the troops advance to Marrakech as soon as possible and tell the local Sultan not to cause trouble. As long as he does not cause trouble, we will not touch all his interests.

If he causes trouble, Ming Dynasty will make him do nothing."

"No! Honglu Temple has sent people to do this.

In addition, Kutuzov requested the dispatch of five Guards infantry divisions and two Guards cavalry divisions to participate in operations in North Africa.

They have no transportation capacity and need our ships to help transport them. And after arriving in North Africa, we have to provide supplies."

"Haha, this old guy is very smart with his calculations. He wants us to help them raise an army, okay!

Just send a ship to transport all those people to North Africa, hoping that the polar bears can adapt to the climate of the North African desert." Li Xiao nodded, agreeing to Kutuzov's request.

"The Sultan of the Ottoman Empire has begun to call for workers. The first batch of 5,000 workers has set off in Military Constantinople, and the second batch of 20,000 workers is now concentrated in Sassenita, waiting for our ship to transport them.

Coming from North Africa.

The Sultan of Egypt soon gathered 30,000 people, who were all concentrated in Alexandria.

They are also waiting for our ship to transport them to North Africa!

Stanai has already flown to North Africa with his people and is surveying the local routes.

He sent a telegram in the morning asking for permission to lay the railway line between Algiers and Colma first."

"How long will the construction period take?"

"He said that if the segmented construction method is used, the construction period can be shortened to two months, but the number of laborers required will definitely exceed 50,000."
Chapter completed!