We spent a lot of effort to compile several versions of the news of the extermination of the Azisha Pirates, each of which was true and false, with the aim of making the fish bite the hook willingly, even though they still had one or another worry in their hearts.

To this end, the royal family of Basra has also set up a pre-war headquarters - let's call it that, because this war with the Mughal Empire is nominally against the Woodin Chamber of Commerce, but in fact it is against the behemoth behind Basra!

Ottoman Empire!

Although the vicinity of Basra was nominally a city-state, it was in fact firmly under the control of the Ottoman Empire.

Spain had been defeated in the wars with Britain and the Netherlands on the Northern Front, and their expansion in the new continent had been greatly affected, and they had to turn their attention back to the East in order to maintain their strength, especially to pay off the huge debts they had signed for the war.

In the Indian Ocean, the Spaniards encountered the equally ambitious Mughal Empire, a vast empire entrenched in the subcontinent that had been trying to improve its international standing and seek a greater say in trade, but had struggled to fulfill its ambitions due to its relatively poor seafaring prowess.

Now that the two are compatible, their first strategy in the Indian Ocean is to strike at the Woodin Chamber of Commerce, the largest force in the Arab city-states of Basra. And use this as a springboard to encroach on the entire Indian Ocean coast, and gradually realize the vision of both sides.

However, the reality was very cruel, and Woodin and I united to contain the expansion of the Spaniards on the east coast of the African continent, forcing them back to the west coast.

There, they still have to endure competition with the Portuguese, who are separated from each other and have different dreams, or ostracized, and the living space is not smooth.

In particular, I had the courage to break the Spanish Armada in the English Channel, and for a time no one dared to stand up to it in the limelight in Africa, so the Spaniards could only push the boat down the river and burn the flames of war into the Indian Ocean, where Britain and my forces did not penetrate too deeply.

In order to pull out Woodin, a thorn in the eye and a thorn in the flesh, the Spaniards and the spokesman of the Mughal Empire, the Kaplan Chamber of Commerce, thought of countless ways, and they used countless tricks to deal with Woodin openly and secretly, but in the end they were all resolved by Woodin one by one.

After all, Wu Ding has lived in a deceitful environment since he was a child, and he doesn't know how many tricks he has experienced, so how can he be calculated by these small actions?

As for the real competition in trade, other factors aside, in terms of business ability, the Arabs threw off the Mughal Empire.

The Spaniards can't fight directly with the Wooding Chamber of Commerce - once a state intervenes, the nature will change fundamentally, and the Ottoman Empire has been waiting for such an opportunity!

As a result, the anti-Wooding Alliance, or the Anti-Arab Alliance, began a long-term joint strangulation, and even attracted a large number of pirates in the Indian Ocean to attack the Wooding Chamber of Commerce from all angles with no lower limit.

Unexpectedly, in an encounter, under the shelling of the fleet of the female pirate Azisha who has been crisscrossing the Indian Ocean for many years, she happened to seriously injure the opponent's ** character Wooding!

Recently, there has been a lot of rumors that Woodin is actually dead! This news has not been conclusively confirmed, but the intelligence from various sources seems to point to this one answer.

In addition, upon receiving the news of Woodin's death, the pirate Agisha's fleet immediately launched a new attack on the port of Basra. Before the official attack, there seemed to be internal strife within the Azisha fleet, which led to a great loss of strength, and was finally wiped out in the Persian Gulf by the grieving Wooding Chamber of Commerce!

But at the same time, without the unified jurisdiction of Woodin, the largest force group in Basra is currently leaderless, and the corresponding city-state navy is even more vulnerable, and it has suffered heavy losses in the final battle of Agisha, which is a godsend for the anti-Woodin alliance!

In order to confirm the truth of this information, the Spanish envoy Simone Ross and the head of the Kaplan Chamber of Commerce, Cruri, held several secret meetings, but never reached an agreement.

Simone Ross is an old fox who doesn't see a rabbit and doesn't scatter a hawk, and is quite steadfast about attacking Basra. Kruri, on the other hand, was a typical Mughal aristocracy, arrogant, ignorant, and impatient, who advocated seizing the opportunity to immediately expand his influence in the ports around Basra to extract maximum profit and value.

However, after the destruction of the Agisha fleet, they finally came to a unanimous understanding - even if the Agisha fleet had suffered some losses before, it was still the most powerful pirate force in the entire Indian Ocean, and her destruction to a certain extent illustrated the high alert state of the Woodin Chamber of Commerce, and also confirmed the fact that the defense forces of Basra had suffered heavy losses!

Therefore, the two sides decided at the same time to abandon the negative strategy of harassment and attack that they had been before, and go straight to seize control of the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman in one fell swoop!

The two sides agreed to assemble their forces separately and complete the assembly in Muscat, an important port at the mouth of the Gulf of Oman, half a month later!

A war to determine the de facto dominance of the Indian Ocean has quietly begun under the sharpening of knives on both sides!

And the *** of this big war actually originated from an incredible love!

Since then, every time I think about it, it always makes people sigh.

But at this time, the focus has been all aimed at the port of Muscat at the mouth of the Gulf of Oman!

Muscat is located at the key point of the Persian Gulf to the Indian Ocean, surrounded by mountains on three sides, the Arabian Sea in the southeast and the Gulf of Oman in the northeast. The port of Muscat was also an important port for trade between China and Arab countries in ancient times, and was the only port city on the Maritime "Silk Road" passing through the Arabian Peninsula.

In 1507, the Portuguese conquistador Alfonso de Albuquerque led an army to attack Muscat, which the Portuguese captured after a bloody battle with local forces loyal to the Persian government.

After the fall of Muscat, Albuquerque massacred most of the surviving local population, including men, women, and children, before the city was captured and sacked.

Subsequently, Portugal was annexed by Spain, but this did not prevent the Portuguese from maintaining a stable rule in Muscat for more than a century, although they faced a sharp challenge from the Persians during this period.

In 1546, the Portuguese navy in Muscat was shelled by the Ottoman Empire, and the incident was finally over.

In 1552 and 1582, the Ottomans recaptured Muscat from the Portuguese. So Muscat was still under the jurisdiction of the Ottoman Empire, but the Portuguese and the Spaniards behind them were always eyeing this piece of fat.

This time, with the support of the Mughal Empire, the Spaniards are even more confident, and their plan is very simple - to win over the Mughal Empire to fight the Ottoman Empire, regain control of important ports in the Indian Ocean, including Muscat, and kick the Mughal Empire away!

As for the script in the mind of Kruri, the head of the Kaplan Chamber of Commerce, the spearhead of the Mughal Empire, it is actually similar to the script of the Spaniards, except that the subject and object are reversed, and that's it.

The exact information reached Woodin's ears four days after the date the Spanish and Mughal Empire's maritime forces began to be dispatched.

I have to say that Ah San is still a lot rough in this regard, especially the secrecy link. To put it simply, I haven't done anything yet, and I've been shaking my head for a long time, as for the consequences, who knows? The brahmins didn't tell these Shudras and Dalits!

According to the estimation of 80 percent of the maximum mobilization capacity of the opposing sides, it is estimated that the total size of the fleets of the Spaniards and the Mughal Empire should be about 50, of which about one-third are capital ships, and the rest are subordinate ships and functional ships, which will not play a big role.

As a nominal ally and a de facto outsider, it is naturally impossible for me to use my real money to fight with the other party, but intellectual support is no problem at all.

So I discussed it with Woodin a few times, and after considering all the circumstances, I finally decided to act like this......

In June and July, the Indian Ocean is scorching, and the sun is scorching like an oven. This is true on the ground, and even more so without any shelter on the sea.

This is one of the main reasons why most navigators are tired of sailing in the Indian Ocean, after all, you can make money anywhere, so why bother to come here to suffer this foreign sin?

Previously, the Kaplan Chamber of Commerce's fleet was entangled in the Gulf of Aden, and they encountered strange resistance from the Woodland Chamber of Commerce - whenever the Kaplan Chamber of Commerce attacked on a large scale, the ships of the Woodland Chamber of Commerce would always show their faces from a distance and not take the initiative to exchange fire.

The Kaplan Chamber of Commerce thought that the people of the Woodland Chamber of Commerce had really lost their fighting spirit, and they were really strong all the way, and they were not even met with any formal resistance when they attacked the port of Aden, and the Kaplan Chamber of Commerce easily expelled the head of the Woodland Chamber of Commerce and occupied important institutions such as the local business association.

This made Croury very happy, especially since this huge fruit had plenty of reasons to enjoy it to himself, and the complete exclusion of the Spaniards made him happy from the bottom of his heart.

But the strange thing is that whenever the fleet of the Kaplan Chamber of Commerce began to retreat, the fleet of the Woodin Chamber of Commerce always hung far behind, with one shot and no cannon a few shots.

Especially at night, when the sailors of the Kaplan Chamber of Commerce start to take turns resting, the fleet of the Woodland Chamber of Commerce will always make one kind or another noise, which will not make the Kaplan Chamber of Commerce break their muscles and bones, but it will always make people unable to sleep.

Therefore, in the hearts of the Kaplan Chamber of Commerce, Woodin is indeed seriously injured, and it does not matter whether he has died violently or not - the real benefits in hand remind them that the Wooding Chamber of Commerce is indeed not the Wooding Chamber of Commerce at the beginning, full of a sense of powerlessness at the end of the road.

Because according to past experience, these guys who don't drink alcohol and have their heads covered in the Wooding Chamber of Commerce are always extremely heroic, and the best solution when fighting them is to be invincible and undefeated, where will they be as majestic as today!

As a result, the overall mood of the Kaplan Chamber of Commerce is very high, and everyone believes that this is a good time for the Indian Ocean to change the day. This emotion also infected the friendly Spaniards, and when it came to Muscat, even Simone Rose was infected by this emotion, and he had never drunk a few sips, and the whole person was dizzy.

Half a month after the original hostilities, the combined fleet of the Spaniards and the Kaplan Chamber of Commerce landed in Muscat, where they also did not encounter any fierce resistance, and the fleet of the Woodin Chamber of Commerce and the local Ottoman garrison only symbolically resisted a few times before retreating, leaving behind a good, empty Muscat city!

! The Spanish and Mughal armies began an all-night revelry. This big gift came so suddenly that everyone had the dream of conquering Basra in one fell swoop, and everyone was dressed in gold and silver to make a fortune!

Countless wines were shipped from the chambers of commerce in Muscat to the port, but it seemed that they were not enough to satisfy the appetites of the coalition forces anyway.

Simone Ross was drunk, and the last words he left in his memory before the fragment were when he raised his glass and said to Krully: "They all say that these Arabs don't drink, why is there so much good wine in Muscat?" ”

While speaking, Simon Syross faintly heard a noise, but it did not stop him from getting drunk and unconscious. The wine glass in his hand couldn't hold it, and it fell heavily to the ground, splashing blood-red wine all over the ground!

Little by little, the blood-red wine eroded the velvet blanket on the ground, and it was also soaked in blood red!