While the military port in Marrakech was still under construction, the railway from Algiers to Marrakech was also under intensive construction.

Li Xiao took the airship and inspected the hot construction site along the way.

I finally understood how majestic the emperor was.

As long as you give an order, you can accumulate manpower crazily and realize your wishes.

If ten thousand is not enough, then twenty thousand; if twenty thousand is not enough, then forty thousand.

Now, there are actually 350,000 people working between Algiers and Marrakech.

These people are working frantically under the segmented construction method invented by Stanai.

A railway with a length of more than 1,000 kilometers is being completed at a rate of 10 to 20 kilometers per day.

This speed is astonishing and has never been thought of by humans before.

To this end, Yuan Hao has successively invested 350,000 people here. This does not include the logistics and supply personnel. If all are included, it would be almost 450,000 people.

Most of these people came from the Ottoman Empire, and the rest came from Egypt.

Of course, some were prisoners of war from the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Some of the professionals are from the engineering corps of North Korea and Japan.

"Commander, those airships dropped the required raw materials on the construction site.

There are also some logistical supplies that are also delivered by airships.

In this way, our people can obtain materials without moving.

According to the current progress, the railway will be completed in another month at most.

I think the highway you mentioned can also be built using the segmented construction method with reference to the railway.

Of course, after we build the railway, we can also invest the spared manpower in highway construction."

Shi Danai stood by the porthole, pointing to the construction site below and introducing it to Li Xiao.

"Well! This segmented construction method is indeed good and solves our big problem.

In fact, if there is a railway, road construction can even be slowed down.

After all, road transport is not that important now."

Li Xiao looked at the airship in the sky and placed the hanging materials on the construction site.

The workers carried the rails, walking across the ground like centipedes. Finally, the rails were placed on the constructed roadbed.

This is a great project. Once this railway is fully opened to traffic, it will be able to transport a large amount of materials to the Port of Marrakech.

As a result, the Port of Marrakech quickly became the Ming Dynasty's outlet on the Atlantic Ocean. It could also serve as the home port of the Ming Dynasty fleet on the Atlantic Ocean.

This is very important. Only when the Ming Dynasty has an outlet to the Atlantic can it better control Europe and even provide a reliable starting point for future control of South America.

The manpower, material resources, and financial resources that the Ming Dynasty can now mobilize are so huge that Li Xiao feels that he has no problem building several pyramids here.

But Li Xiao would not waste so much resources to build a useless pyramid.

Now that Portugal and Spain have surrendered, Gibraltar has become a turtle in the urn. As long as he kills England's Atlantic Fleet, Li Xiao can besiege Gibraltar.

Create better conditions for the army to attack Gibraltar.

Cao Wenzhao's third division is still moving towards Spain. Including the troops assigned to him, the Ming army in his hands will exceed 150,000.

It's just that he doesn't have many tanks in his hands.

Many of the existing tanks are still the old Panzer 1 and Panzer 23 tanks. The new Panzer 4 tanks only have one tank battalion.

Even among these old tanks, there are still many that were eliminated by Ao Ye and Man Ye.

Sometimes people from the Third Division would say in a weird way that they were born from a maid.

Many people in the Third Division, including Cao Wenzhao, were holding their breath and wanted to win the battle of Gibraltar.

The huge-caliber mortars were in place in advance. It was just that there was not enough infantry cover and they were not deployed in front of the two armies.

"Sometimes, watching you road builders doesn't do anything.

Some may even look down on you!

But I know that without your help, the Ming army would not have enough materials to support the battle.

Fighting is actually a process of burning money.

We have produced mountains of supplies, and we have to transport mountains of supplies to the battlefield for the soldiers to use.

Production depends on the factories at the rear, but delivering things to the front depends on you.

I also know that this is not an easy task.

But you still succeeded in last year's European War. The Central Asia Railway is actually our main artery.

If the Central Asia Railway is interrupted for one day, the Ming army on the front line will be passive.

If it were interrupted for a week, the Ming army might collapse.

Until the double-tracking of the Central Asia Railway is repaired, I know that victory already belongs to us.

We can deploy more troops in Russia and mobilize more tanks, aircraft, and artillery.

These are all your contributions!

You must remember the first victory in this European war." Li Xiao happily patted Shi Danai on the shoulder.

People who don't understand war often pay attention to the general's commanding art and criticize the strategies and tactics of the two armies.

Some will also compare the equipment and military strength of the two armies in a serious manner, and discuss who will win with these equipment.

But Li Xiao knew that the victory or defeat of the war depended on logistics.

How many tons of materials you can produce is one thing, but how many tons of materials you can send to the front line is another question.

Only when the front line receives a steady stream of supplies can it continuously launch attacks or defenses.

In the early days of the European War, the Ming army was always on the defensive, always fighting against superior enemies. And they had to resort to fueling tactics as a last resort!

There is no way, because the load of the Central Asia Railway has reached its limit. The materials that can be transported can only support the supplies of 900,000 troops.

The war in Europe lasted for two years, and the double-tracking of the Central Asian Railway was suspended for two years.

Here, the double line of the Central Asia Railway was fully opened to traffic, and over there, Napoleon took his troops and fled back to France day and night.

Because Napoleon had already seen that as long as the Central Asia Railway was fully opened to traffic, the Ming army would no longer be troubled by insufficient troops.

All kinds of materials, including huge military resources, will be mobilized.

The Ming army stationed in Russia surged to 1.6 million men within a few months.

This number is very astonishing. Thanks to these people, Ming Dynasty also achieved brilliant results.

The airship flew to Marrakech. As soon as Li Xiao got off the airship, he saw Li Xiu waiting at the airship landing area.

"Hahaha!" Li Xiao laughed and gave his brother a big hug.

It was really not easy. In more than two months, I had to lead a huge fleet and walk in unknown waters.

Finally, we arrived in Marrakech.

"Brother, when will we attack?" Li Xiao let go of his hand and Li Xiu immediately asked for a fight.
Chapter completed!