Mao Bijiang and Wang Zheng once again divided into two routes, starting from the ancient city of Susa and Abadan at the same time, Mao Bijiang led the Western Route Army, directly to the southwest, Wang Zheng led the waterway to land from the Kuwait port in later generations, the two encircled from two directions, the purpose was to annihilate all the Ottoman and Safavid armies in this circle, and it was a great desert outside, and it was difficult for the Ottoman army to attack through the desert.

Obviously, Mao Bijiang was too cautious, he set out from Susa with his army and went straight to the city of Amara of the next Safavid Dynasty, but he did not encounter any resistance, and there were not many troops in the city, and when he saw the arrival of the army of the Fengyang Kingdom of Mao Bijiang, he surrendered directly. After leaving 5,000 soldiers to set up a military camp here, Mao Bijiang ran to the next target Nasiriyah again, where the Ottoman army was still very small, and let Mao Pijiang occupy it very easily, except for the time of the march, Mao Bijiang almost encountered little resistance, a fist hit the cotton, Mao Bijiang himself did not understand how to occupy this place so easily.

Wang Zheng's situation is also simple, after he led his army to land in Kuwait Harbor, he encountered weak resistance, there is a tribe established by the Khalid family here, this is a tribe that just came here more than 30 years ago, belonging to a small governor appointed by the Ottoman Empire, but their family's rule here is not very stable, not long after Wang Zheng's mortar sounded, this tribe was scattered, fled to the depths of the desert in the west, they have never seen such a way of fighting, they were directly scared away, It can be seen that it is very backward here.

Leaving 5,000 men to occupy the port, they marched all the way northwest to the predetermined rendezvous and place of the frontier. In the small city of Nasiriyah, Mao Bijiang and Wang Zheng were a little unconvinced, they would just be so simple to meet, and left 5,000 troops here again, because this was their farthest target city from Abadan, so they left a large amount of armaments and materials, and told the captain to do a good job of defense, so they led the team from the left bank of the Euphrates River back to besiege Basra, the result was simpler and more unexpected than they imagined, as soon as they arrived in Basra, they met the people sent by Chen Zhenhui to meet them, It turned out that the governor of this city directly submitted the annexation agreement to Chen Zhenhui, who remained in Ahvaz, and there was no need to fight at all.

Looking at the confused Mao Bijiang and Wang Zheng, Chen Zhenhui smiled and explained to them the beginning and end of this well-prepared, but unfought war. It turned out that Abbas I of the Safavid dynasty was killed in battle when he invaded the Ming Dynasty, and the successor Safi was as brutal as his grandfather, but not as wise as his grandfather, the Ottoman Empire saw an opportunity and took the opportunity to attack the Safavid dynasty, the armies of both sides are now concentrated in Baghdad, and hundreds of thousands of troops on both sides are fighting in Baghdad? Even the Ottoman army that attacked Ahvaz was a partial division, and their intention was to cut off the back route of the Safavid army after capturing Ahvaz, so that the Safavid army guarding Baghdad would cause chaos, and as a result, the Fengyang Kingdom took advantage of it and obtained Ahvaz without much effort.

As for Basra City, it is also very interesting to say, it is the doctor who met in Ahvaz Chen Zhenhui who made Chen Zhenhui get the city easily.

Chen Zhenhui said that this doctor is not an Arab, he is a Daman, or a branch of Judaism, or a branch of Catholicism, in short, the relationship between them is more complicated, he is a Jew, and there are more Damanites in Basra, and even they control the management of the city, they are the richest class in Basra, they belong to a remote city of the Ottoman Empire.

The Jewish doctor is called Kafka, since Chen Zhenhui gave him the burn ointment, after a few days of use, he found that the effect is not generally good, and Chen Zhenhui also told him a way to clean the wound, that is, to use boiled clean water, preferably distilled water, plus nearly one percent of refined salt, mixed into salt water, used to clean the wound, not only to reduce the pain of the patient, but also to make the wound heal faster, reduce the probability of infection.

Kafka, who got the benefit of Chen Zhenhui, could not lead the needle for him, but the military operations of the Fengyang Kingdom made Kafka see the opportunity, not only the advanced weapons and equipment, but the fierceness of the soldiers was even more shocking, although he was just a businessman, but the Jews were too good at seizing the opportunity, he thought that this place would definitely be the Fengyang Kingdom in the future, and it was impossible for either the Ottoman Empire or the Safavid Dynasty to recapture it, and it was necessary to move closer to the Fengyang Kingdom.

In Basra, don't look at the Damans who are rich and control the management of the city, in fact, their status is very low, the Arabs who make up the majority of the population look down on them, the Persians look down on them, even if it is the Ottoman Empire, entrusting them with the management of the city, it is because they are good at managing money and can provide good wealth in this remote place, which is their only advantage, this is the opinion of the Ottoman people.

In history, the Jews have been repeatedly slaughtered, which has a lot to do with their national character, because they have a country and no home, they have to save a huge amount of money, almost to the point of greed, and they basically do not participate in wars such as defending their home and country, they want to profit from wars, mercenary, and unscrupulous, they are a strange combination of shrewdness and stupidity, which makes people love and hate, so when they encounter war, wealth is their greatest original sin, and they will be slaughtered if they do not support the war in their country.

Kafka shrewdly saw the future of the Fengyang Kingdom, so he came to Basra and suggested to his people that they should cooperate with the Fengyang Kingdom in order to ensure the best interests of the Daman people.

Seeing that Chen Zhenhui simply cleared up the political environment here through Kafka, whether it was Zhu Changrun or Mao Bijiang, these pioneers finally put their minds at ease. Will the war in Baghdad end for a while and a half, the Fengyang Kingdom has obtained Ahvaz, and if it does not continue to march to cut off the reinforcements of the Safavid Dynasty, the war will inevitably last longer, so sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, and wait patiently for the results of their war.

It is impossible to be idle, since the Ottoman Empire and the Safavid Dynasty can't take care of the Persian Gulf, let Wang Zheng lead the Fengyang fleet along the southern shore of the Persian Gulf to move closer to the Yariba Dynasty, drive away the tribes within a hundred miles of the coast, and build a series of castles by the bay, there is sand, after transporting the oil back to the Ming Dynasty, let them bring a lot of cement when they come back, and then build a coastal official road to connect the castles to form a strong defense line, so that the Persian Gulf becomes the inner lake of the Fengyang Kingdom.

He built castles south of Ahvaz and Susa to the Zaglos Mountains to protect them from Ottoman or Safavid armies. The strategy of Mao Bijiang is very steady, he knows very well that the two countries he will face are very strong, and he is stationed in the contract of building the local soldiers, and the army of the Fengyang Kingdom recruited from the Ming Dynasty is concentrated in Ahvaz, Susa, and Nasiriyah as the main force, these armies belong to the field troops in the future, and they are equipped with a sufficient number of Arab horses, so that their mobility is very strong, and no matter what castle is attacked, they will be quickly supported. Don't worry about the loyalty of the local soldiers, they are all minorities, and the soldiers in the Fengyang Kingdom are treated the highest, so their families are very wealthy, much better than ordinary Arabs and Persians, and even they can marry three wives, and the Fengyang Kingdom also gives them subsidies, behind them is their homeland, and if they lose the subsidies of the Fengyang Kingdom, they will return to their original pitiful situation, so they are very loyal to the Fengyang Kingdom.

In order to protect this large oil depot in the future, Zhu Youxiao also spared no effort, in addition to migrating over more than 100,000 people, he also transported a large amount of grain and farm tools, which were distributed free of charge to immigrants and military families, so that they had no worries. In addition to the resources here there are accidents and the plains on both sides of the Shatt al-Arab River that are very suitable for farming, the agricultural base that would have gradually decayed, after the arrival of the Ming immigrants, it has become the land of fish and rice, I have to say that the Chinese people are born with the ability to farm, as long as there is arable land, it is their happy land.