In the first year, the two sides continued to increase their troops, and the Manchu troops gathered on the front line of Baghdad exceeded 700,000, and the Ottoman Empire ** army also exceeded 550,000.

Of course, although the Qing army was more than 100,000 more than the Ottoman army, its comprehensive strength was not stronger than the Ottoman army, and even if you really calculated it carefully, the combat effectiveness of the 700,000 Qing army was weaker than that of the 550,000 Ottoman army!

Because 500,000 of the 700,000 Qing troops were composed of the Indian flag with the weakest combat effectiveness, the Persian banner with some real combat effectiveness, the Manchu army with relatively strong combat effectiveness, and the servant cavalry were only a little more than 200,000.

On the other hand, on the Ottoman side, most of them are elite troops drawn from the direction of Europe, the direction of Crimea in Ukraine and the direction of North Africa, with armor and combat effectiveness, so the comprehensive strength is stronger than the large number of Qing troops.

However, the overall strength of the Ottoman army may be stronger than that of the Qing army, but after all, the city of Baghdad still belongs to the Qing army, and with the city of Baghdad as a backing, the Ottoman army cannot take advantage of it at all.

Such a large-scale decisive battle is related to the national fortunes of both sides, and neither side has the confidence of victory, neither of them dares to easily fight a decisive battle with the other, so they confront each other in the Baghdad area.

The Qing army relied on the city of Baghdad for defense, and the Ottoman army also built a large number of camps around the city of Baghdad for defense.

The confrontation between the two sides lasted for three years.

In the past three years, the two sides fought from time to time, but they were all small-scale battles, both sides had casualties, although the Qing army suffered more casualties, but the number of Qing troops was more, and most of the casualties were Indian flags, and the injuries were not fundamental.

On the Ottoman side, the dead and wounded were all elite soldiers who had experienced a hundred battles, and every loss was fundamental.

The prolonged confrontation and fighting have constantly consumed the national strength of both sides.

In the end, the Ottoman Empire could not support it, and felt that it was impossible to retake the two river valleys, but continued confrontation would hurt the Ottoman Empire again, and give the European side and the Tsarist Empire an opportunity to take advantage of it.

Therefore, one night, Marshal Dnesseri, the commander of the Ottoman Empire, took the initiative to order the Ottoman army to retreat and withdraw to the territory of the Ottoman Empire, ending this long confrontation.

It's a pity that the confrontation is a matter for both sides, and it is not really over when the Ottoman side retreats, but also requires the cooperation of the Manchus. However, it was clear that Dorgon did not intend to cooperate with the Ottoman boycott.

"Hehe, I want to back down now, it's too late!" Dorgon sneered.

Three years was enough time for the Qing Dynasty to completely digest the Mughal Empire that had been conquered at the beginning. Since the Mughal Emperor was captured in June of the 16th year of the Ming Dynasty, the Qing army completely captured the Mughal Empire, and then a large-scale plague broke out in the Mughal Empire, which lasted for nearly a year, and the corpses were everywhere, but in the end, the plague was still controlled by Dolgon with bloody methods, and the Manchus initially digested the Mughal Empire.

Immediately afterwards, the Ottoman Empire invaded, and Dolgon led the main force of the Qing army to hold the Ottoman army in the vicinity of Baghdad.

While holding on to the Ottoman Empire, the Manchus continued to digest the Mughal Empire that they had conquered, and continued to form new Indian flag soldiers and send them to Baghdad to participate in the war.

After three years, the Manchus also digested the Mughal territory for three years, more and more Indian flags were formed, and the advantage of the Qing army in the area of Baghdad was still gradually increasing with the increasing number of Indian flag soldiers, and finally after these three years, the Ottoman Empire began to feel more and more pressure, and had to choose to retreat, giving up their idea of recapturing the two river valleys.

To say that the Ottoman Empire has been founded for hundreds of years, and now it is still in its heyday, and its comprehensive national strength is absolutely strong, even if it is the crazy Tsarist Empire, it has been suppressed by the Ottoman Empire in these decades, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty has just risen in less than 20 years, even if the Manchu Qing Dynasty currently captured the Mughal Empire and obtained the resources of the Mughal Empire, but in terms of real comprehensive national strength, it is still worse than the Ottoman Empire.

After all, while the Mughal Empire was captured by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, it was full of corpses in the chaos of several years of war, and its population was sharply reduced, from the original peak population of 90 million to only about 37 million, and the combat effectiveness of the Indians was really poor, on the contrary, the Ottoman Empire dominated the Middle East for hundreds of years, and repeatedly suppressed European countries, and also defeated the invasion of crazy Tsarist Russia many times during the same period of time, it is impossible without strong national strength.

The reason why the Ottoman Empire began to show its weakness in the confrontation in Baghdad after only three years was not because the Ottoman Empire's national strength had arrived, but because the Ottoman Empire still had many forces in Europe to defend against European countries and the north to defend against the Tsarist Russian Empire.

It is true that in recent years, the Ottoman Empire has signed agreements with European countries and the Tsarist Russian Empire, in exchange for the promise of European countries and the Tsarist Russian Empire not to delay the Ottoman Empire's retreat for the time being, but the Ottoman Empire cannot fully trust the European countries, especially the Tsarist Empire, and still retains a large amount of strength in Europe and the Crimea.

Dolgon didn't care about this, and the Ottomans couldn't do everything they could to better suit him. Since the Ottoman Empire took the initiative to provoke the Qing Dynasty again this time, it was impossible for him to let go without tearing off a piece of flesh and blood of the Ottoman Empire.

About the middle of July of the 20th year of the Ming Dynasty, after a month's rest, Dolgon ordered the main force of the Qing army still in Baghdad to divide a force of 80,000 cavalry and 200,000 infantry, a total of 280,000 Qing troops, from Baghdad south to the Arabian Peninsula, attack the Arab League, and Dammam, Oman, Yemen, which also belonged to the Ottoman Empire, to seize the Arabian Peninsula.

After nearly three months of campaigning, the Qing army was overwhelmed, first capturing Dammam, then Oman, Yemen, and finally besieging the Arab League from the southeast, north and south.

The Arab League was an independent state that not only did not belong to the Ottoman Empire, but also opposed the Ottoman Empire, because many of the previous territories of the Arab League were seized by the Ottoman Empire, and the Arab League had to pay tribute to the Ottoman Empire every year.

Originally, the Arab League thought that the war between the Manchus and the Ottoman Empire would not affect them, but what they did not expect was that after the Qing army captured the Yemeni region under the rule of the Ottoman Empire, it immediately attacked them from three sides.

Nearly 150,000 troops of the Arab coalition army desperately resisted the Qing army's attack.

Unfortunately, the Arab League could not even defeat the Ottoman army, and in the face of the attack of more than 200,000 Qing troops, they were also unable to resist, especially when the Qing army still had 80,000 elite iron cavalry crisscrossing the desert oasis.

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