"The Ming fleet retreated?" Rundstedt received shocking news.

However, according to the prior agreement, the Ming Fleet needed to ensure the success of the German landing. Now that the German landing was successful, the Ming Fleet has fulfilled its prior agreement.

"Yes! The Ming fleet has informed us that they will retreat at noon."

Chief of Staff Feng.\nBock sighed helplessly.

From top to bottom, the German army understood that the reason why it was able to withstand the British army's crazy counterattack yesterday was entirely because of the overwhelming artillery fire from the Ming warships.

Especially that kind of arsenal ship. Three arsenal ships fired a salvo. All surface life within a radius of five or six kilometers was wiped out.

Seeing the firepower of the Ming army, the German army was extremely envious.

Now the German Navy only has a few coal-burning destroyers. If there are no others to compare with, these destroyers will look okay in Europe.

But if compared with the Ming Dynasty fleet, then...it's not even worthy of carrying someone's shoes.

If the Ming army wanted to annihilate the German navy, it would be easier than crushing an ant.

"Immediately send people to fight for it, and try to let their arsenal ships fire a few rounds of salvos before the Ming army retreats.

There were also several powerful bombardments with howitzers on the strong German fortresses.

If the Ming people leave, we will have to do these things ourselves." Rundstedt knew that Ming's promise had been fulfilled.

All that's left is to settle the accounts with the Imperial Finance Department.

What the Ministry of Finance thinks is not something Rundstedt needs to consider. What he has to do now is to use up all the firepower of the Ming army.

Bomb the road to London for the Germans!

"Yes!" Feng Bock agreed and walked out immediately.

Last night, the airship force suffered heavy losses. So today, Feng Bock can mobilize only cargo airships.

At this time, Li Xiao had secretly left Western Europe and readjusted his strategic focus to Eastern Europe.

The Russian army, with the support of the Ming Dynasty, has completed the full occupation of Ukraine. For the Russian army, this is considered a recovery.

According to the Russians, Kiev is the birthplace of the Slavs. It must not fall into the hands of foreigners!

The restoration of rule over Kiev made the whole of Russia rejoice. Even the lowest serfs received meat and wine from their masters to celebrate!

Another important big country in Eastern Europe, Poland, has been divided under the auspices of the Ming Dynasty.

Russia occupied Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. The rest of Poland was occupied by Germany.

After a bloody battle in Warsaw, the capital of Poland, the German army finally completed its full occupation.

At this time, Warsaw had become a ruin.

If the German army had not urgently purchased the Ming Dynasty's super-large-caliber mortar, more lives would have been lost in Warsaw.

Because of the determined resistance of the Warsaw people, after the war, the German army imprisoned all men, women, and children in Warsaw into labor camps.

According to Lu Zhu, the labor camp is a complete hell on earth. It is estimated that 80% of these Poles will die in less than two years.

Especially those children and the elderly, there is almost no hope of survival.

Li Xiao didn't care about the life or death of the Poles. Poland at this time was a huge empire.

Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia are all part of Poland. Now, Poland has been dismembered.

In other words, Europe will have one less big country from now on.

“We have advanced Russia’s national border by 400 kilometers further than it was five years ago.

These are all gifts from the Ming Dynasty! Your Majesty Paul, I will keep your kindness to the Ming Dynasty in mind." Kutuzov is already very old.

Being a regent sounds like one person is worth more than ten thousand people, but this is actually a very tiring job.

It was like the hair on Kutuzov's head had turned white in front of him.

The ravines on his face are also deeper, and his face is paler.

What impressed Li Xiao the most was that his back, which used to be as straight as a javelin, was now hunched.

"Is Russia interested in continuing to advance westward?" Li Xiao looked at Kutuzov with a smile.

After hearing what Li Xiao said, Kutuzov was suffocated. A European war had just ended. Could it be that the Ming Dynasty was brewing another war?

"You still want to fight?"

Kutuzov was deeply shocked. He knew that with Russia's national strength, it was simply impossible to continue entering the next war.

If you don’t become a householder, you don’t know how expensive firewood and rice are!

As regent, Kutuzov knew deeply that Russia's economy was on the verge of collapse.

For the sake of the war, Russia had to recruit a large number of people into the army. And the Russians who did not have enough to eat among the people also liked to be soldiers, at least they could still have enough to eat.

So many people were conscripted that the huge Russia faced a terrible economic crisis.

When the war just started, the Ming Dynasty did not invest as much manpower as Russia. But now, the Ming Dynasty has 1.5 million troops stationed in Russia.

One country actually deployed an army of 1.5 million people in another country.

If we add in the Ming Dynasty's stable domestic army and the Ming Army Marine Corps that are fighting fiercely in the Mediterranean, the total strength of the Ming Dynasty's army easily exceeds 2.8 million people.

It is necessary to maintain such a huge army, and it must be maintained thousands of miles away.

This requires so much manpower, material and financial resources!

Could it be said that Ming Dynasty has already reached this level of prosperity?

"I know that Russia is in some difficulties right now, and your economy is on the verge of collapse. Your princes are trying to make a move in private.

Paul was too young and no one wanted to take this child seriously.

If the war is stopped now, only God knows what kind of difficulties Russia will encounter in the future.

The only option is to continue the war and let the war continue.

Only by firmly controlling the three million Russian troops can we suppress the Grand Dukes and prevent them from having other thoughts!

If Russia stops the war, disbands the army and returns to the local areas, they will still be peasants under those grand princes.

Then imagine that as long as you get a gun production line, the princes can arm their own troops in their own territory.

After all, there are too many demobilized veterans around me.

Do you know what that means? The consequence is that Russia is likely to be divided, and if you want to mobilize those troops, you will encounter strong opposition from local mayors and mayors.

In just a few years, Russia will slowly emerge from the haze of war.

But when that time comes, you will find that those princes are already making plans in private.

If at this time, there are still people on the side to stir up trouble, or even organize it in private.
Chapter completed!