Li Xiao shook his head helplessly. To be honest, he was a little undecided.

After all, Gibraltar's geographical location is too important.

"dad……!"

"We are in a meeting now, call the commander in chief." Li Xiao glared at Li Lin.

"Commander!

I think Gibraltar should be abandoned." Li Lin sat next to Li Xiao, and the two men spoke quietly.

But it caught a lot of people’s attention!

Within the General Staff, few people recognized this young master.

Many people saw that Li Lin could sit next to Li Xiao and asked who this guy was and why a small lieutenant officer could actually sit next to the commander.

You know, Li Xiao's bodyguard leader Shunzi is both a lieutenant colonel.

All the staff officers present here have the lowest military rank of lieutenant colonel.

Li Lin's lieutenant rank seems a bit... eye-catching.

"Why?" Li Xiao asked softly.

“Gibraltar is too far from Crete, our defensive anchor in the Mediterranean!

If the enemy adopts a siege method, our navy will definitely go to rescue it.

The Israeli Navy is still in the Black Sea, although our army successfully annihilated their squadron last time.

Successfully sank two battleships and some destroyers.

But the main force of the Israeli navy is still there, which is a huge fleet of five battleships, plus dozens of cruisers and destroyers.

What if they take advantage of my aircraft carrier to rush to support Gibraltar and attack Constantinople again?

What if they stormed the Bosporus?

If such a huge fleet is put into the Western Mediterranean, Egypt may not be able to defend it.

Places such as Crete, Rhodes, Alexandria, and Cyrenaica may not be able to be defended.

Without these bases, the aircraft carrier will also lose supplies in Gibraltar.

At that time, should we continue to defend or withdraw?

Commander, even if we want to withdraw at that time, we may not be able to withdraw."

Li Lin's words made Shi Dewei and other senior officers look askance.

This is a boy under twenty years old who actually has such a strategic vision. In comparison, although there are many school-level officers here who are better than him.

But he is much older than Li Lin!

Think of Li Xiao’s unpredictable command...

Could it be said that..., the children of the handsome family are born to fight?

"Haha! Boy, you still have some knowledge.

Then take a look, who among the people here is closest to your ideas?"

There are not many fools who can manage to sit in this conference room.

When Li Xiao was talking, except for a few of them, they were still arguing anxiously with pale faces. The rest of them all looked at Li Xiao and Li Lin, their ears standing up like rabbits, wanting to hear clearly what the commander said.

"Well, that major." Li Lin pointed to a major officer sitting in the corner who had just spoken.

"Who is that?" Li Xiao pointed to the major sitting in the corner.

"Uh...!" Stewie was in trouble.

There were as many as eight hundred majors in the Ming army. How could he know them all?

"Commander, that's a staff officer working on strategy at Shanhaiguan Army University, named Nian Gengyao.

He is only twenty-five years old this year and is the youngest major at Army University." Sun Xing next to him replied, it seemed that he knew this Nian Gengyao.

"What's it called?" When Li Xiao heard the words Nian Gengyao, his head buzzed.

"Come back, Marshal, Nian Gengyao!" Sun Xing didn't expect that Li Xiao had a shocked expression.

I wipe it!

It’s actually Nian Gengyao!

Li Xiao naturally knew about this legendary figure.

Now Nian Gengyao is only twenty-five years old, but he has become a major at this age, which is already unusual.

Excluding the factor of spending money to buy an official, I can only say that this guy does have two skills.

"Nian Gengyao, come here." Li Xiao waved to Nian Gengyao.

Nian Gengyao stood up, put on his military cap and straightened up. He walked to Li Xiao and stood at attention to salute!

"Commander!"

"Tell me, should Gibraltar be defended?"

Nian Gengyao's back was straight, and he was not at all nervous about meeting the commander-in-chief for the first time: "Reply to the commander-in-chief!

The humble opinion is that Gibraltar should not be defensive.

Not even Malta should keep it!

Our defense line was withdrawn all the way to Crete.

And just use Crete as the core and defend the Eastern Mediterranean."

"It would be a pity to evacuate Gibraltar! After all, Gibraltar guards the throat of the Mediterranean."

"If you return to the Commander-in-Chief, I can sell Gibraltar in exchange for war supplies or funds.

I think it would be best to sell it to the British or the Spanish."

This is a non-starter, and he actually said that Gibraltar was sold. It was like entering a beehive, and the "buzzing" and "buzzing" sounds were endless.

"Oh, sell it. This idea is new, but the Spaniards and the British will definitely join the Christian Alliance to fight against our army.

If you sell it to them, don't you offer your land to the enemy?" Li Xiao's eyes were fixed on Nian Gengyao like a tiger.

After all, it was Nian Gengyao who didn't panic when Li Xiao stared at him like this.

"Commander, it's precisely because they will join the Christian Alliance and become enemies of our army. In the future, we will have a reason to recapture Gibraltar."

"...!" Li Xiao nodded, he was indeed a hero of his generation.

Black-hearted! Thick-skinned! Shameless!

The essence of the three elements is mastered thoroughly!

Sold out, then grab it back.

Not everyone has the courage to say this kind of thing.

Li Xiao himself doesn’t think he has the courage!

"Furthermore, I feel that after we withdraw the Gibraltar garrison, we can prepare for an attack on Crete and continue to attack Israel to the north.

Directly occupy Crimea and completely destroy Israel.

If we don't want to get into a multi-point battle, we can use Crete as a base, escort it with aircraft carriers and battleships, and send troops to directly attack Rome and the Vatican.

Since we are a Christian alliance, we will directly attack the Pope.
Chapter completed!