Facing the "threat" of Casillas, Jack and others could only persuade Henry to agree to solve the problem of food and grass for the Spanish army going on the expedition.
Although Henry agreed, his face was gloomy.
At the same time, in order to interfere with the logistics of the Egyptian army, the meeting also reached an agreement, requiring the Gallic fleet and the Caesar fleet to cooperate with the Spanish Armada to strengthen the control of the Mediterranean.
The current logistical supplies of the Egyptian army can be roughly divided into three categories.
The first category is Daxia's grain storage in Jidian City. The grain accumulated in the granary of Jidian City basically comes from the province of Morocco. After such a long period of consumption, there is actually very little left.
The second category is local plundering in Spain.
For this reason, the people in the entire southern region of Spain suffered. In order to raise food and grass for the army, the Egyptian army did everything they could to scrape the ground.
But in Spain's defenses, this approach is rather unstable.
The third category is the food supplies brought by the Atlantic Fleet from the port of Tunisia.
When Zhanlan Badge signed the Egyptian dynasty cession agreement with Daxia, one of them was that Daxia would be responsible for the supply of food and grass for the Egyptian army before the Egyptian army gained a firm foothold in the European battlefield.
The grain and grass were stockpiled by the Egyptian dynasty, Ouyang Shuo had no reason to refuse.
In order to fulfill the agreement, Zhou Yu, the admiral of the Atlantic Fleet, led the first formation to the Gulf of Aden, and immediately started to arrange the matter as soon as the designation of the Atlantic Fleet was raised.
What the allied forces have to do now is to let the three major fleets join forces to cut off the most important food transportation channel of the Egyptian army, so that the Egyptian army on the front line will be self-defeating.
It is indeed a good calculation, which has captured the most fatal weakness of the Egyptian army.
After Casillas complained, Caesar also had something to say: "The return of Egypt will allow Bactria to return to the Mediterranean, posing a direct threat to the Caesar dynasty. In the future on the Germanic battlefield, please forgive me for adding more troops."
Compared with the face-saving Casillas, Caesar is much more straightforward.
The Italian region is the core area of the Caesar Dynasty, and it is precisely this place that is closest to Bactria, only separated by the Tunisian Strait.
How does this not make Caesar nervous.
"I think there is no need to fear Daxia like a tiger." It was Jack who spoke, "Daxia is in the whole of Africa, but there are only a million troops, but they want to guard the entire East and North Africa."
"The Egyptian dynasty has just returned, and there are a lot of internal problems. It is too late for Daxia to deal with internal affairs. How could it be possible to provoke the Caesar dynasty rashly at this time."
Caesar disagreed, and said teasingly: "You are standing and talking without pain in your back. Apart from the Great Xia in Africa, there are as many as four to five million local troops. If you just teleport it over, what's the problem?"
All of you here, probably only Caesar, the "foolish young man", dared to speak to Jack like that.
"Then you can figure it out yourself!"
Jack was also angry. He kindly adjusted the European battlefield, but he didn't want to be angry.
It's not easy for others to intervene when they see it.
Because of this episode, the summit meeting ended hastily in such an embarrassing atmosphere.
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April 28, South America.
Jack fulfilled his promise. On this day, half of the Dawson Dynasty's army in Colombia, that is, 200,000 troops, joined with the 400,000 troops of the Brasilia Dynasty to provoke a war against the Indian Empire.
The Indian Empire once again fell into the dilemma of fighting on two fronts.
This is almost a dead end.
Seeing this, Casillas decisively transferred 50,000 troops from the Argentine region back to defend the mainland, and finally stabilized the local situation a little bit, blocking the Egyptian army in the south.
The Spanish war situation seems to be gradually stabilizing.
Facing the siege, this time, Juarez was determined to capture the Argentine region first, and then concentrate on dealing with the Brasilia dynasty, so as not to fall into the dilemma of two-line warfare for a long time.
While arranging a large army to defend the east, the Indian Empire strengthened the attack on the south.
The whole of South America was dragged into the flames of war.
Only Daxia is located in Ecuador County in South America, and it still maintains a rare peace, like a pure land.
This time, Juárez was really desperate, and even spent all his money. He once again placed an order for firearms with 20 million gold coins from Daxia. He said bluntly that he wanted the most advanced flintlock guns and artillery.
The two large arms orders before and after almost emptied the financial reserves of the Indian Empire for the entire year of last year.
Faced with such an order, Ouyang Shuo naturally would not refuse anyone.
In the more than a dozen newly industrialized cities selected by the imperial court as priority development, military factories have sprung up one after another. Massive resources such as coal and iron ore are continuously transported to these cities by water or sea, turning into tons of Tons of steel are turned into flintlock guns and cannons.
With the help of developed sea transportation, it is sold all over the world.
With the three firearms orders, the industrialization of these cities is ushering in a leap forward.
In order to realize train transportation as soon as possible, improve the transportation efficiency of coal and other resources, and meet the support needs of these cities, the railway network planned by the imperial court is also being built overtime.
The three orders, together with the money earned from selling obsolete firearms, totaled more than 76 million gold coins. Except for the factory construction in Zhuchengchi, the rest was invested in the railway construction.
It is equivalent to saying that Daxia is using money from other dynasties to build its own industrial facilities.
Coupled with the huge amount of special funds allocated by the imperial court, the speed of railway construction is almost calculated by the sky. With the help of fuzzy processing, the railway network is expanding every day.
A new miracle of construction is being staged in the Great Xia territory.
The former infrastructure maniac seems to want to repeat the miracle of construction in the game world.
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Time soon enters May.
mediterranean.
When the gunpowder started in South America, the Spanish Armada, the Gaul Fleet and the Caesar Fleet launched a joint patrol in the Mediterranean Sea to interfere with the supply lines of the Atlantic Fleet.
For a while, the Mediterranean route, which is usually prosperous in business and trade, became turbulent.
A large number of merchant ships were forced to stop at the surrounding ports in an emergency, not daring to walk on the sea anymore, because it was reported that a caravan was seized by the Allied Fleet yesterday on the charge of "collaborating with the enemy".
The maritime trade of the European and American dynasties suffered a serious setback.
Only a few greedy businessmen, seeing the flames of war in Europe and wanting to take the opportunity to make a fortune from the war, dared to take risks and continue to cross the Mediterranean route.
In this situation, once you succeed, you can indeed earn a lot of money.
Materials during wartime are always more expensive than usual.
Of course, there is another type of merchants who dare to continue doing business, and that is the caravans related to the three major fleets. They can get the protection of the three major fleets, so they are naturally confident.
For a time, the number of caravans who took the initiative to send "filial piety" to the three major fleets increased sharply.
For the three major fleets, this was a surprise. They tasted the sweetness of monopolizing the shipping route for the first time, and they acted more and more recklessly.
In the back, even the most daring businessmen dared not take risks. All caravans that wanted to pass through the Mediterranean had to pay tribute to the three major fleets.
The caravan colluded with the fleet and successfully monopolized the Mediterranean route.
During the process, they seemed to overlook one thing, that is, the presence of Daxia's Atlantic Fleet in the Mediterranean Sea seemed to be getting lower and lower, almost becoming a little transparent.
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Another five-nation summit.
The discussion this time is precisely the arrest of a merchant ship that just happened not long ago.
What happened was actually very simple. It was just that the Caesar fleet was obsessed with ghosts. In the name of escort and inspection, it guarded itself and stole it.
In response to a sentence, if the army robs, even the gods cannot stop it.
"Caesar, you must give us an explanation!" It was William who spoke. The Mediterranean route was blocked, and the Gangdor Dynasty was the most affected. How can we not make William angry.
Caesar was not afraid, and said calmly: "What is there to explain? Daxia's transportation of materials to the front line is through merchant ships. Who can guarantee that they will check it every time? It is normal to make a misjudgment once."
In fact, the behavior of Caesar's fleet was originally instructed by Caesar in private. This greedy guy just wanted to take the opportunity to make a fortune in war.
Anyway, the Caesar Dynasty is located in the eastern Mediterranean, even if the navigation route is blocked, it will not have much impact on the Caesar Dynasty. On the contrary, because the navigation route was blocked, those merchant ships that were originally going to the Gundor Dynasty or the Germanic Dynasty could only stop at the port of the Caesar Dynasty and sell them on the spot, which actually promoted the trade of the Caesar Dynasty.
This deal, no matter how you look at it, is a bargain.
What Caesar, the "initiator" did not expect, was that an accidental arrest of a ship would cause a chain reaction, creating a new pattern of monopoly on the Mediterranean sea route.
Caesar discovered that accepting tribute from caravans could make more money than simple and rough seizures.
"you!"
For Caesar's rogue behavior, William was so angry that he couldn't speak. "You all talk about it, how should we deal with this matter?" Seeing that Caesar didn't get in, William could only ask Henry and others for help.
Strangely, neither Casillas nor Henry said a word.
Casillas was tense because of the domestic war. Even without this incident, Spain’s overseas trade would have almost stopped long ago. He still relies heavily on the Caesar Fleet and sniped the Atlantic Fleet. How could he stand up at this time and refute it? Caesar's face.
After the last meeting, Henry felt resentment in his heart, and he didn't say a word the whole time.
Furthermore, the two are also beneficiaries here.
Standing up to condemn Caesar at this time, isn't that slapping yourself in the face? !
There seems to be a tacit understanding among the three of them, and they want to make a lot of money through this European war.
As for Pushkin, the Romanov dynasty did not rely heavily on the Mediterranean sea route and stayed out of the matter, and of course they would not stand up to speak for William.
Under William's stare, Pushkin said reluctantly: "I think it will be beneficial to the front line to cut off the trade channels of the Germanic dynasty."
When William saw it, he felt cold hands and feet.
Only then did he realize that without Jack in charge, the five major European dynasties would have their own agendas, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that they were in disarray.
And William, in Europe, really has no prestige at all.
desolate!