Chapter 971: The Battle of the Ten Years of Qing Ao (3)
In the past, the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Arab League may have been able to rely on the desert to resist the attack of the Ottoman Empire and keep the Arab League from being destroyed, but the same method did not work for the Qing army.
The Manchu Qing Dynasty came from the northeast of the Ming Dynasty, and once conquered the Mongol tribes, as well as the Bulha Khanate and other places with large desert Gobi, and accumulated a lot of experience in fighting in the desert Gobi, so the Arab League could not use the desert to resist the attack of the Qing army.
After more than a month of attacking, the Qing army from all walks of life reached the city of Riyadh, which was built by the Arab League on the basis of the central mountain range.
"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! "The Qing army carried a lot of artillery.
-----After three days of fierce bombardment, the walls of Riyadh City were destroyed, nearly half of the buildings in the city were also blown into ruins, and the greatest and recognized king of the Arab League was also killed, and the Qing army entered the city of Riyadh, and the Arab League perished.
After the destruction of the Arab League and the capture of Daman, Oman, and Yemen, which originally belonged to the Ottoman Empire, Dolgon was not satisfied, and after half a month of rest, he continued to attack the western part of the Arab League, and the eastern part of the Red River also belonged to Mecca, Medina and other places in the Arabian Peninsula, and really wanted to take the entire Arabian Peninsula.
The main Ottoman forces were in Europe, Crimea, and Syria, and the troops in the Arabian Peninsula were actually not much, and the entire Mecca and Medina were only 50,000 or 60,000 Ottoman troops.
Soon, the Qing army captured Mecca and Medina and the entire Arabian Peninsula by sweeping away the leaves in the autumn wind.
Including Oman, Yemen, and Dammam, the Ottoman Empire has lost more than 2 million square kilometers of land in just four months.
Similarly, counting the captured Arab League, the territory of the Manchus expanded by more than 3 million square kilometers, and at present, the entire territory of the Manchus has expanded to more than 10 million square kilometers, which can be called terrifying.
However, Dolgon was not satisfied, and he still wanted to conquer Jordan, Syria, Palestine, Lebanon and other fertile lands. Even Egypt, Libya, ******, Algeria and other North African regions are in Dorgon's mind.
More than that, Dolgon's deepest thoughts were the gradual annexation of the entire Ottoman Empire!
Huge appetite!
In order to satisfy such a huge appetite, after the Qing army returned to the city of Baghdad, Dolgon personally led a large army to attack the city of Mosul north of the city of Baghdad and the whole of Syria.
At this moment, the news reached Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, and the Ottoman emperor couldn't bear it anymore.
"Damn Manchurian, damn Dorgon, not satisfied, still have to inch in, damn it! I must make them pay the price they deserve, do whatever it takes, destroy them, destroy them! The Ottoman emperor roared and overturned a lot of things.
The Ottoman Emperor is already a bit insane, and this time he really wants to destroy Dorgon at all costs.
Dolgon is too greedy, Dammam, Oman, Yemen, Mecca and other places in the Arabian Peninsula are not very rich places, and they are all places that the Ottoman Empire has only captured in the past twenty or thirty years, and the rebellions continue, and the rule has not been completely ruled so far, and if it is lost, it will be lost, but after Dolgon conquered the entire Arabian Peninsula, he was not satisfied, and continued to attack Syria and other places.
Syria was the barrier of Asia Minor, the core of the Ottoman homeland, which completely violated the bottom line of the Ottoman Emperor, causing the Ottoman Emperor to go completely crazy and destroy Dolgon at all costs.
The Ottoman emperor not only ordered the 300,000 Ottoman troops who had besieged Baghdad to fight the Qing army in Syria, but also desperately transferred the troops of the European side of the Balkan Peninsula, as well as the army of the Ukrainian Crimea to defend against the Tsarist Empire, and even the army of North Africa.
With the mobilization of a large number of Ottoman troops, almost all the national strength of the Ottoman Empire was concentrated in Syria, Jordan, and Baghamstan, with a total of more than 700,000 Ottoman troops.
These are the elite armies of the Ottoman Empire, which have been fighting in North Africa all year round, or in Europe, Crimea and other places.
The overall strength immediately surpassed Dorgon's Qing army.
Even, in order to prevent accidents from happening, to prevent these forces from being enough to destroy the Manchus, the Ottoman Emperor was still frantically forming more new armies, which were also sent to Syria, Jordan, Palestine and other places.
In terms of Dolgon and the Qing army, although it is said that under the madness of the Ottoman emperor, the strength of the Ottoman army has completely surpassed that of the Qing army, but Dolgon is not afraid, and has no intention of withdrawing troops to defend, and still takes hundreds of thousands of main forces of the Qing army in Syria and other places to consume the Ottoman army.
At the beginning, Marshal Deniseri, the commander of the Ottoman Empire, relied on the stronger strength of the Ottoman army, and in the continuous fighting during the confrontation, he constantly defeated the Qing army, killed and wounded many Qing soldiers, and fought Dolgon and the Qing army could only defend the camp.
However, Dolgon and the Qing army were supported by the 37 million Indian population in the Mughal Empire that had just been conquered, and as long as the vitality of the Eight Banners was still there, he did not pay much attention to the casualties of either the Persian flag or the Indian flag.
A steady stream of new armies under the Indian and Persian flags, after simple training, were sent to fight in Syria.
The Ottoman Empire had more than 700,000 troops, and the Qing army also had more than 800,000, and both sides were constantly sending new troops to reinforce from afar, which was a big war of more than 1.5 million troops.
At the beginning, the Ottoman commander Deniseri wanted to fight a decisive battle with the Qing army, defeating more than 800,000 Qing troops in one battle.
Unfortunately, Dolgon didn't seem to have any idea of a decisive battle, and ordered the Qing army to stick to the camp, that is, not to fight a decisive battle with the Ottoman army, but the Qing army's artillery was more powerful than the Ottoman artillery, so that even if the Ottoman army took the initiative to attack the Qing army's camp, it would be difficult to attack it, unless the Ottoman army was willing to pay much more casualties.
The strength of the Ottoman army may be stronger than the Qing army, which occupies the majority of the Indian flag, but it is not absolutely crushing the Qing army.
In the absence of a decisive battle, the Ottoman Empire had to fall into a long stalemate with the Qing army, which lasted for nearly six years, almost exhausting the national strength of the Ottoman Empire.
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