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There's nothing wrong with this logic.

Gisela reviewed her thoughts from the beginning, but there wasn't enough intelligence to support her judgment yet, so she could only wait for the intelligence agents to continue their work.

In any case, the Russian forces attacking from the Caucasus Mountains—that is, the Pan-Slavic Self-Defense Forces—are tied down. Russia probably won't deploy its own magic users just to deal with this old magic user and her cobbled-together magic armor—the Kurds certainly can't provide complete maintenance for that armor, and it won't be operational for long.

Moreover, as long as the Russian troops in the Caucasus can play a restraining role and prevent the Turkish interim government from transferring all its troops from the Middle East to Istanbul, their goal will be achieved.

The real threat was the Russian army passing through Romania. The Bulgarians had already bowed to Russia, the "protector of the Slavs," and once Russian troops entered Turkish territory, they would be close to Istanbul, the Turkish capital. Gisela had always worried that the Russian army would seize Istanbul swiftly before other countries could act. If that happened, Russia's enthusiasm for continuing the war would be halved. Although they would continue to fight for the Dardanelles Strait, giving the Black Sea Fleet a passage to the Mediterranean, if things went poorly, they might compromise with Britain, abandon their advance into the Mediterranean, and hold onto Istanbul, which they had already captured—at which point the city would likely be renamed Constantinople, the name it held for centuries when it was the capital of the Byzantine Empire.

Luo might be pleased with this, but from the perspective of Austria's national interests, she has every reason to stop it.

According to intelligence provided by Marta's organization, the British plan was also to hold the Dardanelles Strait and blockade the Black Sea Fleet in the Sea of ​​Marmara.

But Gisela didn't want the Russians to stop; he wanted them to fight for as long as they wanted.

Therefore, the news that the Russian army's advance had been slowed down was absolutely good news for Gisela.

“The Turks actually managed to hold off the Russian army.” Gisela opened the folder Jeanne had placed in front of him. The first page was about the Russian army being blocked along the line from Karajakkoi to Kabakcha northwest of Istanbul. Gisela picked up the photo tucked inside and stared at the person in the photo. “Who is this person?”

After asking Gisela, she remembered that it should have been written in the document, but Jeanne still answered immediately: "The former Ottoman Pasha who led the Turkish army to fight against the Russian army on this front, now a general in the new government: Akya Kemal Atatürk."

PS1: This is Kemal's father.

Chapter 565 The Turkish Symphony of the Vienna Rose: Capter 62 The Father of Kemal Atatürk (Seeking votes)

“Akya Kemal Atatürk?” Gisela was unfamiliar with the man, but she knew the surname all too well. Kemal…

In its original history, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk is considered the father of modern Turkey. Moreover, he served in the Turkish army and participated in World War I as a military officer in the Ottoman Empire. During the war, he commanded troops who successfully repelled the British landing operation, thwarting the British offensive and turning the entire Gallipoli Campaign into a pointless trench warfare of attrition, with neither side able to achieve a breakthrough. The British were eventually forced to withdraw from the Gallipoli Peninsula in disgrace. The ANZAC soldiers who participated in the campaign earned the nickname "digger" because they were mostly confined to digging trenches, a nickname that has remained with the Australian Army into the 21st century.

Gisela stared at Kemal in the photo. He was much younger than Gisela remembered, and just by looking at the photo, he exuded an aura that suggested he was no ordinary person.

In terms of time, it should be Kemal's father, the elder Kemal. It can only be said that like father, like son; both were born military commanders.

“Well done, Mr. Kemal.” Gisela murmured to herself as she looked at the photograph, then clipped it back into the file and looked up at Jeanne. “The Turkish army won’t last long. They don’t have enough logistics, and the quality of their troops is uneven.”

"However, the Russian army's logistics should not have kept up either. Although the Turkish navy is weak, it is better than nothing. They can harass the Russian army's sea supply lines. Currently, most of the Russian army's supplies rely on land routes."

As she spoke, Jeanne bent down, flipped through the files in the folder, took out a map and pointed it out to Gisela, "If the British Navy can enter the Black Sea by sea and drive the Black Sea Fleet back to Sevastopol, the Russian army will have no choice but to deploy defensive forces along the Black Sea coast in order to prevent the British from landing and cutting off the supply lines."

“But that would force Britain and Russia to openly go to war, which we would much rather see,” Gisela said, pursing her lips. “But I don’t think that wise Her Majesty the Queen would be so foolish. Let’s make our plans based on the premise that we can only hold off the Russian army with ground forces. In this respect, we can only rely on your military capabilities.”

Gisela looked up and smiled at Jeanne.

Jeanne shook her head slightly: "I rarely command more than ten thousand troops myself. You, Fox, defeated a group of Prussian generals before. You are obviously more suitable for this kind of thing. I only need to charge into battle."

"Jeanne, when did you become so slick? I still prefer your old, unruly self."

"Huh?" Jeanne seemed speechless at the fox's words, her signature look of disdain creeping onto her face.

Where are the troops now?

"Our first batch of troops to enter Turkey to fight has arrived near Montenegro. In addition to our Austrian volunteers, Prussian troops have also entered Turkey after changing their uniforms and flags." This was a joint military operation between Austria and Prussia, and it was decided that night.

To be honest, although the Prussian generals seemed outmatched in their fight against Gisela, they still had their own unique methods when it came to traditional warfare.

"Claus's efficiency in Berlin is truly extraordinary," Gisela remarked, nodding in admiration.

After the last meeting, Cloris returned to Berlin and made arrangements for the Prussian army to participate in the operation. After all, Gisela only had three divisions of Volunteer Army, volunteers, and a series of independent special forces, which was not enough to handle a war.

"Has Her Majesty Chloris sent back any message?" Jeanne asked.

“No, besides, any messages would reach you first.” Gisela said, then suddenly sighed and patted the small map in front of him. “If only the railway from Vienna to Istanbul were working now.”

There is no direct train from Berlin to Istanbul, and the train from Vienna can only reach Belgrade. After that, you can only travel by land. If the entire railway is completed, it will form an artery from Berlin-Prague-Vienna to the Black Sea.

If this railway were usable, Gisela's National Volunteer Division could be transported to Istanbul in just over a week. Moreover, Belgrade is now the capital of the Kingdom of Serbia and is considered part of Russia's sphere of influence. The Belgrade authorities would not allow a train full of Gisela's soldiers to pass through Belgrade.

“Now we either have to take the sea route, boarding a ship in the Adriatic Sea, or we have to pass through the territories of the Aegean Union countries, enter Turkey by land, and then travel hundreds of kilometers to make direct contact with the Russian army. This is obviously not suitable.” Gisela curled his lip and teasingly reached out to grab Jeanne’s chest. Jeanne lowered her eyes and silently endured the fox’s workplace harassment.

Gisela continued, "If the British act quickly, they should be able to send ships to transport our troops this week, and General Kemal will receive support from the International Volunteer Corps a week later. If they act slowly, General Kemal will have to hold out a little longer."

Gisela turned to Jeanne: "How long do you think he can hold out?"

"I'm not entirely sure, but when he can't hold on any longer, the Turkish government will probably send in magic users. Although that would play right into the hands of the Russians, it's still better than having the capital occupied for nothing."

“That’s true.” Gisela nodded. Although it wasn’t the first time she had planned a military operation, Gisela still occasionally made decisions without considering the impact of the presence of magic users on the military situation.

After all, if you can defeat your opponent in a head-on battle and force them to use their trump card, then you have already won.

As she closed the folder and stood up, she asked Jeanne, "The afternoon's activity is at the research institute, right?"

"Yes."

"Hmm, I'm kind of looking forward to it. What will Mr. Hertz gain from his new research materials?"

As soon as Gisela finished speaking, Jeanne replied, "In the past six months, I've helped them activate that armor quite a bit to assist with their research."

"Thank you for your hard work." Gisela said, then pulled Jeanne closer and suddenly felt a cheesy urge to give her a kiss.

Then he suddenly realized that his daughter was still there, so he had to temporarily stop what he was doing...

PS1: If we're talking about seniority, wouldn't the father of the founding father be the grandfather of the nation? Haha!

Chapter 566 The Turkish Symphony of the Vienna Rose: Capter 63 The Shaking Magic System (Seeking Votes)

After dinner, Gisela, accompanied by Jeanne, headed to the German Institute for Theoretical Physics in Vienna—of course, with her daughter Mia as well.

The main building of the institute has undergone a dramatic transformation compared to when it was first established several years ago, and now, thanks to its generous financial support, it has become a new center for physics research in Europe.

At this moment, the super scientists that Gisela had recruited from all over Europe were already waiting in front of the main building entrance. As soon as Gisela's car drove into the courtyard, they all came out to greet him and went directly to the parked car.

As soon as Gisela got out of the car, he said to the scientists, "I have been looking forward to your results for a long time."

“You will be satisfied,” said Heinrich Hertz, the leader, with a rather smug look on his face.

As an expert in the field of electromagnetics, his inventions were initially overlooked due to the existence of magical communication, but he was invited by Gisela to join the German Institute for Physics to conduct research on other topics. Of course, his own theoretical achievements were not ignored and were widely applied in the field of radio.

Hertz's assistant gestured for Gisela to come in, and Gisela entered the research institute surrounded by a group of scientists.

Gisela stopped in the central hall of the research institute and looked up at the two almost identical magical armors placed in front of her.

A moment later, he turned back and looked at the scientists with suspicion.

"You... copied one?"

"Yes, sir, we made a copy."

Gisela, mouth agape, circled the two magical armors that stood side by side in the hall like twins, then turned and winked at Jeanne.

Jeanne walked towards the newer-looking magical armor, pressed her hand against the chest plate, and held her breath. The next moment, all the magical runes on the armor lit up, and the powered mechanical components started operating, transforming the armor from a loose standing posture into a standing posture reminiscent of soldiers being inspected.

Jeanne turned and nodded to Gisela.

“You actually built it.” Gisela turned and glanced at her scientists. “How exactly did you solve the problem of so-called sensing magical energy?”

The scientists exchanged a series of glances, as if to say, "He did ask that, after all." Finally, all eyes fell on Hertz, a young and promising project leader. This was a crucial moment for him to report his findings to the Queen, as the future of the department's research depended on this report.

Hertz stepped forward and said to Gisela, "Originally, we only intended to further reveal the inherent mathematical laws of magical energy technology by collecting and analyzing data from this magical armor. Before that, we could only obtain relatively simple magical energy devices with single functions, and conduct research based on these devices. Even with Madame Jeanne..."

Hertz glanced at Jeanne, hesitated for a moment, and then continued, "Even with the support of all the magic users, we can only enable them to activate simple personal equipment and record relevant data."

Gisela really wanted to criticize "Madame Jeanne," but she held back and nodded to Hertz to continue. After all, scientists are a relatively open-minded and straightforward group; they could see that the Queen had a clear interest in women, but at this moment, reason and emotion prevented them from having the urge to flatter her.

"This is the first time we have obtained a complete magical energy armor, and with the help of everyone, we have conducted a large number of tests. We then discovered that the data we obtained before was incorrect, and many questions that had previously puzzled us have vanished in the face of the more complete and accurate data provided by these tests. Of course, this is also due to the fact that we adopted new observation instruments. I don't know if you remember, but in order to better observe those large devices that cannot see matter, we first created some small things to verify our ideas, and some of these products are now being used by us to observe so-called magical energy fluctuations."

"You can observe the magical energy fluctuations now?" Gisela asked in surprise.

"Actually, we are not sure if what we observed was the magical energy fluctuation that you gentlemen are talking about, but we did observe something emanating from the operating magical energy device, which we believe to be a wave."

To be honest, the sea of ​​consciousness that she, as a magic user, often enters might be the image of this so-called wave. She has also confirmed this with Jeanne and Marta. In fact, every magic user can see different things from their own consciousness.

However, because of its mysterious nature, it has long been overlooked, and Gisela hopes to explain this phenomenon scientifically.

Hearing Hertz say "it can be observed" carries immense significance, considering that even the most brilliant scientists present are not wielders of magic...

However, Hertz and his group clearly misunderstood Gisela's surprise. So, something that reminded Gisela of an oscilloscope she had seen in high school physics lab was pushed in front of her. Hertz then said to Jeanne, "Please restart that armor."

Jeanne did as she was told without hesitation, and then Hertz flipped the switch next to the oscilloscope to power it on. (The power supply technology had already been solved by Siemens.)

Immediately afterwards, an electronic waveform appeared in front of Gisela, with the trajectory of the rapidly moving light spots forming extremely irregular peaks and troughs.

This involuntarily reminded Gisela of the music player installed on her first computer, which had a feature to display the melody of music as an image. However, it seems that modern music players have removed this flashy but impractical feature.

Gisela stared at the ever-changing trajectory, trying to discern some pattern, but failed. Mia, on the other hand, seemed quite curious, as everything she saw was novel and unfamiliar to her.

“Alright.” Gisela indicated to Hertz that he had seen enough. As Hertz turned off the instrument, Mia frowned, but Gisela, though noticing this, ignored her daughter and continued, “You observed something, and then you completed the replication?”

“No, no, Your Majesty, I’m sorry. We were just reporting on our research progress. The replication has little to do with that.” Hertz swallowed hard and waved for the staff to remove the oscilloscope. “Actually, we completed the replication by chance. Without the help of a mage to conduct the tests, we disassembled this original armor and tried to test the components individually. At that moment, one of our colleagues suddenly discovered that he could make the magical runes on a small portion of the components glow.”

"Glowing?" Gisela raised an eyebrow.

Hertz nodded, then turned and exchanged a glance with his colleague.

PS1: Germany's science and technology are now truly number one in the world! 0v0!

Chapter 567 The Turkish Symphony of the Vienna Rose: Capter 64 We Need Computing Power (Vote Requested)

“Yes, it’s glowing,” the scientist said. “Nothing else is happening except for the glowing, but it has given me an idea. Because according to common sense, it shouldn’t be possible for me to activate anything on this armor, including making it glow, since I was judged from a young age to be almost unfit to become a magic user, and my magic power is quite weak.”

But now that it's glowing, I'm reminded of the impact of magical energy on our lives. For example, you see, some magical energy devices can be used by ordinary people, such as magical communication machines. These are widely used by elite military units, and most people can operate them. Many of these people are classified as ordinary citizens, but are ordinary citizens destined to remain ordinary forever?

The scientist paused for a moment.

"Therefore, I believe that many of the church's records about magic power are actually incorrect. Is it possible for men, or even seemingly weak ordinary people, to become magic power users later in life?"

The Church possessed the power of this transformation, but even Gisela had never considered such a possibility...

By this time, Gisela understood. Pointing at the scientist, he said, "So, magical armor can actually be used by ordinary people, as long as the critical point is found or the magical energy level of ordinary people is increased..."

“Yes, it’s just that they’re not as strong as Magic Users or Magic Warriors.” The scientist was somewhat excited. “Now that I think about it, this is the logical conjecture. Everyone has the bloodline to become a Magic User or Magic Warrior, just to varying degrees. You see, there isn’t actually a hard gap between Magic Users and Magic Warriors. A Magic User is just a Magic Warrior with a particularly pure bloodline.”

“No, I think a Magic Power User is a Magic Power Master who undergoes a qualitative change after their bloodline purity exceeds a certain threshold,” another scientist suddenly jumped out and refuted the first scientist.

"Oh no, dear Pauli, your statement..."

"Stop!" Gisela, knowing these scientists loved to argue, quickly called for a halt. "Don't debate, explain yourself clearly. Is it true that once a bloodline reaches a certain threshold, everyone can wield magical armor?"

“Yes, I think so.” The scientist nodded, then glanced at his companions and changed his tune, “We think so. It makes sense and is logical upon closer examination. Once this secret is revealed, the Church’s authority will be gone. However, we don’t know how the Church discovered these things; Professor Frankenstein’s research only proved the first part…”

In fact, Gisela already had a vague premonition of something ominous. Could the so-called bloodline enhancement be achieved by injecting blood plasma containing magical energy to temporarily increase the magical energy intensity in an ordinary person's body?

If this research finding is true and could potentially overturn the world's political power structure, wouldn't it be a reversal of the natural order if a group of physicists were to have them conduct research on the ascension of flesh and blood?

Gisela shook her head, shaking off these thoughts, and returned to the current topic: "Alright, the previous speculations were too far-fetched, so after you discovered that you don't need much training to sense the magical energy components, you had this scientist in charge of creating this replica?"

“No, we disassembled the original into its most scattered state.” Hertz took over the explanation again. “Then we had researchers from each institute try it out, and we found that at least twenty of us could sense the small components to varying degrees. Then we obtained the raw materials according to the list in the magic energy technology promotional materials, as well as the teaching materials left by the church. In fact, we could manufacture magic energy armor in a more convenient way.”

Gisela couldn't help but click her tongue.

Previously, the efficiency of the professional magical energy research team led by Miss Palaiolo was limited by outdated data, but now these scientists have changed the situation.

Although this armor was a model Gisela had never seen before, and although it had a strong sense of being pieced together, based on her observation, she could not tell that it was much different from the genuine product.

Clearly, all of this proves that Otto, that old fox, is hiding many things from her. Just thinking about this makes Gisela feel a chill run down her spine.

Gisela shook off the ominous thoughts in her mind and turned her attention back to her scientists.

"So, we can now build factories to mass-produce magic armor?"

“You can set up a factory to mass-produce this magic armor.” Hertz pointed to the trophy standing quietly in the hall. “We just made one by copying the design. We have no idea how those magic runes work. We still need to test it step by step. In addition, we believe that in-depth research on the waves we observed will help us further uncover the mysteries of magic technology.”

"Then let's study it." Gisela said in a nonchalant tone, as if these scientists could easily come up with formulas related to magical energy technology with just a little effort. "Just tell me what you need, and I will do everything I can to meet your needs."

Hertz glanced at the others, then said to Gisela, "Actually, we're short-staffed right now."

Gisela raised an eyebrow: "Lacking manpower? Are you planning to have these magical components mass-produced for your research? Fine, I'll send reliable workers over immediately..."

“No, you misunderstand.” Hertz shook his head. “We don’t lack workers. What we need is a large number of well-educated people with a mathematical background who can use arithmetic tools like logarithmic rulers to help us with calculations. I think about three hundred people should be enough, but the more the better.”

Gisela looked at Hertz and suddenly realized that she had made a huge oversight in the field of scientific research as a time traveler: she had completely forgotten the enormous reliance of modern scientific research on computing power! So many years had passed since she arrived in the world, and Gisela had never thought of starting a computer-related project in advance! Looking back now, this oversight was simply unbelievable.

But she herself completely forgot about this, and forgot it so thoroughly.

While reflecting on this point, she said to Hertz, "You will have the support of these three hundred people. Also, does anyone here know Dr. von Neumann?"

Ironically, the father of the computer was Hungarian, a citizen of the present-day Austrian Empire. Before the outbreak of World War I, he and his family immigrated to the United States because they were disgusted by the war. People often overlook the status of the surname itself in the scientific community because of Dr. von Neumann's achievements in the field of computers, because his father, Dr. von Neumann, was also an outstanding scientist. Without his father's guidance, this genius scientist would not have been born.

Faced with Gisela's unexpected question, the scientists exchanged glances, then one of them said, "I know Dr. Neumann; I had afternoon tea with him in Budapest last week..."

PS1: Computers need to catch up too! 0v0!

Chapter 568 The Turkish Symphony of the Vienna Rose: Capter 65 The Aerial Knight from Germany (Seeking votes)

Gisela raised an eyebrow.

“Budapest?”

"Yes, Budapest, Neumann Bois 76 (32-year-old) is now a professor at the Faculty of Engineering, Royal University of Science and Technology."