In order to be recognized by the Ming court, become the real people of the Ming Dynasty, and enjoy the preferential treatment of the Ming people, the natives no longer have any resistance, work hard, and accelerate the construction of the North-South Railway of the Americas.

In addition to the excavation of the Panama Canal and the construction of the North-South Railway of the Americas, the Ming Dynasty also had another huge move, immigrating to the American continent.

After more than 20 years of development, the current total population of the Ming Dynasty has grown to 530 million, of which there are more than 400 million in the Central Plains.

More than 20 million immigrants are also an incomparably huge project, and even need to be supported by the Ming Dynasty with most of its national strength.

With the issuance of immigration orders, not only do the state capitals count the number of people who want to emigrate, but also arrange for those who want to emigrate to the coast to board ships. All the shipyards along the coast are working in full swing to build transport vessels.

Among them, Jiangnan Shipyard, Quanzhou Shipyard and other largest shipyards not only build wooden transport ships, but also build many steel carriers. Compared to wooden carriers, steel carriers are undoubtedly able to transport much more quantities, and they have a longer life and are safer.

With the American continent as the center, the Ming Dynasty excavated the Panama Canal, started the construction of the North-South Railway of the Americas, and the large-scale immigration, each of which is extremely huge, and the three together even make the Ming Dynasty in the future for a period of time, must be supported by all the national strength.

The Ming Dynasty is fully supporting the three major projects in the Americas, in Europe, all countries have just been hit hard by the Ming Dynasty, and the special envoy to the Ming Dynasty is about to return, all European countries are waiting, the Ming and Europe are relatively calm, at this moment, there is no war.

However, the world is not all calm, and in the Middle East, the Manchus have been holding on to the Ottoman Turkish Empire for a whole decade!

Ten years ago, about the seventeenth year of the Ming Dynasty, the Manchus had just annexed the Mughal Empire for a year.

The Indians of the Mughal Empire were so easy to rule that in just one year, Dorgon stabilized the political situation in the Mughal region and completely brought the Mughals under Manchu rule.

At this time, the Ottoman Turkish Empire relieved itself and refused to accept the occupation of the Manchu Qing in the area of Baghdad in the Two Rivers Valley, and took advantage of the fact that the main force of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was still stationed in the border area of the Mughal Empire, and ordered the Ottoman army to raid the Two Rivers Valley and attack the city of Baghdad.

The two river basins are the largest granaries in the Middle East, once gave birth to the ancient Babylonian civilization, the land is fertile, the strategic position is extremely important, once the Ottoman Empire took seven years to defeat the original Persian Empire, seized the two river basins, but was captured by the Manchu Qing in the 11th year of the Ming Dynasty.

At that time, the Ottoman Empire had just experienced a crushing defeat, 300,000 Ottoman elite troops were buried in the territory of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the Ottoman Empire was wounded, and the European direction and the Ukrainian Crimea direction had to guard against European countries and the Tsarist Russian Empire, and it was unable to dispatch a large army to recapture the two river basins for a while.

However, after six full years of recovery, coupled with agreements with European countries and the Tsarist Russian Empire, the pressure on the direction of Europe and the direction of Crimea to the north was temporarily relieved, and finally in July of the 17th year of the Ming Dynasty, the Ottoman Emperor once again started the war with the Manchus and ordered the Ottoman army to recapture the two river valleys.

The city of Baghdad is the center of the two river valleys, and it is also the largest city in the two river valleys, and only by taking the city of Baghdad can the entire two river valleys be captured, and Baghdad is attacked with 350,000 Ottoman troops.

After receiving the news that Baghdad was fiercely attacked by the Ottoman army, Dolgon, who was still in the Mughals, immediately led the main force of the Qing army still in Pakistan to return to the defense and rescue Baghdad.

More than 100,000 cavalry of the Qing army were non-stop, followed by more than 300,000 Indian and Persian flags.

After four days and four nights of wild running, Dolgon himself led more than 100,000 Qing cavalry to the outskirts of Baghdad, and then the Qing army and the Ottoman army engaged in a fierce battle.

Although the cavalry of the Qing army had strong combat effectiveness, they were already exhausted after several days and nights of running, and the Ottoman army was obviously prepared, and it was impossible to defeat the Ottoman army of as many as 350,000 and relieve the crisis of the city of Baghdad.

After another five or six days, a large number of Persian and Indian soldiers of the Qing army gradually arrived, and even surpassed the number of the Ottoman army.

However, after ten days of fierce attacks, the city of Baghdad was finally undefended, and at the same time as the Persian and Indian flags of the Qing army arrived, they attacked the city of Baghdad, and the city of Baghdad fell only a short time.

Once the Ottoman army completely captured Baghdad, relying on Baghdad, the Qing army would be completely at a disadvantage, and it is likely that it would eventually evolve into the loss of the entire valley of the two rivers.

In order to keep the city of Baghdad, Dolgon led the cavalry of the Qing army to break through the defense of the Ottoman army, and while most of the city of Baghdad was still in the hands of the Qing defenders, he also entered the city of Baghdad.

The two armies engaged in a fierce battle in the city of Baghdad.

"Bang bang bang bang----- The Ottoman musketeers killed many cavalry of the Qing army.

At the same time, the Ottoman newly formed heavy armor iron shield army also killed the Qing cavalry and retreated, if it were not for the Ottoman army on the periphery of the Persian flag infantry and Indian flag infantry, the Dolgon and more than 100,000 Qing cavalry, who were deeply surrounded by the 350,000 Ottoman army, were in danger of being surrounded and annihilated.

Fortunately, although the infantry of the Persian and Indian flags was weaker than the Ottoman army in terms of combat effectiveness, they were numerous, which restrained a lot of energy of the Ottoman army, making it impossible for the Ottoman army to encircle and annihilate the Qing cavalry such as Dolgon who broke into the city of Baghdad.

The battle between the two armies around the city of Baghdad quickly turned into a major scuffle.

The tired divisions of the Qing army were fortunately more numerous, and there was still a steady stream of reinforcements from the Persian and Indian banners, and the city of Baghdad was not completely lost, and it was inseparable from the 350,000 Ottoman army for a while.

The two armies fought fiercely for two whole days, each with more than 100,000 casualties, the Qing army suffered more casualties due to the weaker combat effectiveness of the Persian and Indian flags, reaching 150,000, but the Ottoman army also suffered more than 120,000 casualties including the dead and wounded in the siege of Baghdad.

At this point in the war, the armies on both sides were already very tired, seeing that the Qing army reinforced more and more Persian flags and Indian flags, while their own reinforcements from the Ottoman Empire had not yet arrived, the city of Baghdad was already difficult to capture, and if the stalemate continued, the Ottoman army was more likely to be defeated, so the commander of the Ottoman army had to order the army to retreat, withdraw from the two river valleys, and wait for the Ottoman reinforcements to also arrive, and then continue to fight with the Qing army.

The Ottoman army wanted to seize the two river valleys, but also wanted to defeat Dolgon, and the shame of the year was washed away, while the Qing army wanted to protect the two river valleys, and it was obviously impossible for both sides to withdraw their troops before one side completely showed its defeat, and a long tug-of-war began.

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