However, the Portuguese still have considerable strength against these indigenous countries. After all, they are far better at artillery and muskets than the indigenous countries. The only shortcoming is that they have too few troops.

But now that there is the support of the Ming army, it just makes up for their shortcomings. At this time, it is more like a fox and a fake tiger, relying on the tiger of Daming behind him, the Portuguese army as the vanguard is called a high-spirited one, and directly pushes it sideways, and the target is the capital of the Yariba Dynasty.

In the course of this offensive, it soon became clear that the Portuguese and the Ming treated overseas territories differently.

The strategy of the Portuguese was to take what the aristocracy of the Aripa dynasty could surrender and use them to rule the localities, while they only ruled over those nobles who surrendered.

In this way, not to mention, under the deterrence of the Ming army, most of the nobles of the Yariba Dynasty chose to surrender to the Portuguese and pay taxes and tribute. For them, it doesn't matter if it's handed over to the Portuguese, or the previous Ariba dynasty, it's the same.

In this way, the whole process of attacking the Yariba dynasty was also extremely easy and progressed extremely quickly. Even later, the nobles from all over the country who had taken refuge in the Portuguese led more and more troops, and they did not need the help of the Ming army, and the advantage was already there.

But Phillips knew very well in his heart that these local nobles were only forced to surrender by the Ming army, at least for the time being, they could not really be trusted, and in the end, they still had to rely on the Ming army to rest assured.

Based on this factor, the capture of the Portuguese and the offerings of the nobles, Phillips did not dare to monopolize it, and it must be distributed to the Ming army, even if the Ming army only followed behind and did not fight.

In this way, it took two months to destroy the Yariba dynasty. Subsequently, the Portuguese became the masters of the land and began to rule the region through local nobles.

Relatively speaking, compared to before, the local nobility is not much different, the only difference is that their owners have changed.

For this way of rule, you can bother less, and soon achieve the goal of changing the dynasty. However, the foundation is shaky. If things change in the future, the Portuguese rule could soon be overthrown.

And the way of the Ming army, killing the original vested interests, and distributing the benefits to those who have no owners and distributing them to the poor, is equivalent to tying them to the Ming Dynasty with interests.

Although in the early days, there will be strong resistance from the nobles and nobles in various places, but as long as it can be implemented, it will inevitably be a long-term peace and stability. At least the intention of the Ming Dynasty can be completely realized on the newly occupied land, so as to achieve the purpose of transforming the local area.

After helping his allies achieve his goal, Yan Yingyuan marched westward and began to attack the Ottoman Empire.

The reason why I didn't take a break was because during the previous period, for the Ming army, it was a tourist, so there was nothing to rest and recuperate.

The Ottoman lands on this side of the Arabian Peninsula were too far from their capital, Istanbul. Therefore, at this time, such a distant province was actually semi-out of the control of the Ottoman court.

However, when various places were attacked by the Ming army, and they could not resist at all, they remembered the Ottoman court again. As a result, they sent people to their emperor as quickly as possible to ask for reinforcements.

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Around this time, the Ming army led by Emperor Chongzhen had captured the most important towns in Persia. The vanguards, the Cossack divisions of Racine, reached the Ottoman border.

By this time, the Ottomans had already reacted, at least on the surface, by massing their heavy forces and preparing for battle.

However, the Cossacks were originally fierce, and at this time they were already a member of the Ming army, and they had experienced countless victories, and they were also irrigated by the victory of the ancient era, which was even more fierce. The Ottoman Empire was defeated as a subordinate army, and the two or three hundred thousand troops were wiped out by the Ming army.

Therefore, although Emperor Chongzhen did not obtain the will of Emperor Chongzhen to invade the Ottoman territory, there were often small groups of men and horses entering the Ottoman territory to provoke. For a while, like crabs, the Ottomans did not dare to go to war easily.

At this time, Emperor Chongzhen was still in Zhennan City, and his primary goal was not to attack the Ottoman Empire again, but to stabilize the territory of Persia and get this land, so it was inevitable to send troops to sweep the places where the soldiers had not reached before, and establish the real ruling order of the Ming Dynasty.

However, although the territory of the original Persian Empire was very extensive, if you really want to take care of it all, it will definitely not be able to complete it in a while. As Ahmad analyzed, the Ming army would be a problem in terms of strength and logistics.

But Emperor Chongzhen did not intend to take care of all the corners from the beginning, but had a focus.

In Persia, most of it is plateau, not to mention the abundance of materials, and the transportation is not good, and the population is sparse. Tossed by Abbas II for so long, the population is even smaller.

Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen's focus was to quickly rebuild those rich places first, and as for other places, he would wait for the new governor to arrive and then slowly govern them. Anyway, what is fancy to this land is not how much tax to collect in places where these birds don't, but the "gold" underground.

In addition, Emperor Chongzhen was actually a little worried. The reason is very simple, there are too many territories occupied at once, and there is a shortage of people!

A new town, no matter what, must send some Ming troops to defend it, and it must be divided into troops. Although it is possible to recruit locals to become auxiliaries for the main force to supplement the lack of troops. But in any case, this situation will weaken the combat effectiveness of the main forces of the Ming army.

In addition, the newly occupied city can be managed by the military in a short time, but after a long time, it will inevitably have to be governed by civilian officials. And the civil officials of this governance must use officials from the Ming Dynasty. No, those officials are still on the road with their governors!

If the local affairs are not handed over and the main force of the Ming army is vacated, there will be no way to move on to the next step. After all, the next Ottoman Empire was a country several times larger than the Persian Empire, and it was not a small country that could be destroyed at will.

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Although Ahmed had some guesses about the situation on the side of the Ming army, after all, he was already blind to today's Persia, and what he could hear was the fear of the Ming army of the original Persian nobles who fled to the Ottoman territory.

Subsequently, the border guards reported back the arrogance of the Ming army, that is, the Cossacks. Judging from this posture, it is uncertain when the Ming army will suddenly launch an attack and enter the Ottoman territory.

This made the border guards very anxious and kept asking for help. Because the so-called heavy build-up over there is actually just an illusion and a bluff. The Ottoman army had suffered such heavy losses before, and where did it come to gather heavy troops!

Seriously, Ahmet hasn't slept well since the last time he received news from the border guards that Persia was going to be destroyed. He was worried that the Ming army would soon fight the Ottomans, and that someone in the country would make a scapegoat for him and his family. For this reason, he doesn't know how much gray his hair is.

The army is not a leek, and the elite army is not a leek. If the Ottoman Empire wants to regain its elite army, it will have to be a long time. However, the border guards made a big report every ten days and a small newspaper every three days, as if the Ming army could enter the Ottomans at any time.

He was like this, and the Ottoman Empress Dowager was no better. She is also worried, the Persian Empire has been destroyed, and the Ming army is still arrogant on the border, so she really doesn't know when she will fight the Ottomans. On the Ottoman side, she was absolutely unable to reassure her, and she could not see the elite who could resist the Ming army appear.

For this reason, she could only ask Ahmed again, wanting to seek peace of mind from Ahmed.

What else can Ahmed say can only continue to emphasize his previous remarks, indicating that the army will definitely not attack the Ottomans in a short time. He still has time and is stepping up the training of the army.

The queen mother of the Ottoman Empire listened to it, and she could only do so.

But who knows, later, in addition to the urgent report from the guards on the Persian border, the Arabian Peninsula, which was not much of the Ottoman court before, also sent people to report urgently, saying that it had been attacked by the Ming army and urgently asked for reinforcements.

And judging from the emergency report, the Ming army's offensive was very fierce, and it went all the way north along the southern shore of the Persian Gulf with almost no pause.

What they don't know is that the emergency report itself is actually problematic, one is that the military situation on the battlefield is unclear, and the number of Ming troops is not accurately estimated. During the insurance period, it will be estimated to many miles; And in the urgent report of those nobles to the Ottoman court, they also had the same psychology, lest the court ignore it, so they also estimated the strength of the Ming army.

They didn't expect that it would scare people like this!

At this moment, both the Queen Mother and Ahmed were dumbfounded.

Doesn't it mean that the army is too small to take care of it? Then why was the Ming army still able to divide its forces and already attack the Ottoman provinces in the Arabian Peninsula?

Since the Ming army over there has already made a move against the Ottoman Empire, will the Ming army on the Persian side be far away from the time to make a move against the Ottoman Empire?

Thinking of this, the Queen Mother was anxious and severely reprimanded Ahmed, and she must come up with a countermeasure.

They didn't know that the decree that Yan Yingyuan received was that Emperor Chongzhen wanted him to rely on the Persian Gulf first, occupy the better land along the coast first, and finally reach Baghdad and capture the most fertile place here. As for the Arabian Plateau, the desert or something, let it go first. When the prosperous places are stabilized later, we will sweep those places.

It is also for this reason that the offensive of the Ming army is very fierce. Otherwise, no matter how large the number of Yan Yingyuan's subordinates was, it would be impossible to advance so quickly. After all, the Arabian Peninsula is also very large.