Chapter 447: Middle East Oil City
In October 1657, the weather in Xichang began to cool, and the three ladies decided to live in Yangon, where the temperature was relatively warm, for half a year.
Because Cao Wenzhao was progressing smoothly on the battlefield in Saudi Arabia, Gao Junshan decided to transfer "Zheng He No. 1" to escort the three wives.
Cao Wenzhao's headquarters in the port of Bushehr was commanding a desert siege of Riyadh, and the coalition forces had advanced 200 miles on the west coast of the Persian Gulf, crushing the Ottoman army's 50,000 troops.
Cao Wenzhao was in front of the sand table in the war room of the headquarters, thinking about how to successfully capture Riyadh, because the Persian cavalry sent to reconnoiter the terrain had not yet returned, he could only anxiously look at a clearing marked with Liyadh on the sand table, the headquarters knew nothing about this area, and urgently needed information from the Persian cavalry.
"Commander, the emperor's telegram." Tian Qiliang, deputy director of the Navy Department, handed a telegram to Cao Wenzhao.
Cao Wenzhao took the telegram and read it, the content of the telegram was very short, that is, Cao Wenzhao sent "Zheng He No. 1" to escort Empress Han Yuyan and the imperial concubines Jiya and Suyena to Yangon.
After Cao Wenzhao read the telegram, he handed the telegram to Tian Qiliang and said, "Your Admiralty will arrange it, and it is best to send a squad to escort the queen mother." ”
Tian Qiliang said: "The emperor has arranged for the Cao Gang to escort the queen. ”
"It's Xiaohuzi, right?" Cao Wenzhao asked.
Tian Qiliang said: "Yes, it is the son of Li Busi, and he will escort the queen." ”
Cao Wenzhao nodded and said, "You go and arrange it!" ”
"Honorable Order!"
As soon as Tian Qiliang left, Feng Ju came in in a hurry, he took a telegram in his hand, and happily said to Cao Wenzhao: "Master Cao, there is a telegram from the front." ”
Cao Wenzhao took the telegram given to him by Feng Ju, opened it and looked at it, and looked at him with a solemn face.
Feng Ju asked cautiously, "Master Cao, is there something wrong?" ”
Cao Wenzhao handed the telegram to Feng Ju: "Grandma is a bear, you can see it yourself!" ”
Feng Ju was also surprised after reading the telegram: "There is no city in this place at all, just a small village?" He returned the telegram to Cao Wenzhao, "Master Cao, could it be that the emperor made a mistake?" Not only are there no cities, not even the Ottomans are missing. ”
Cao Wenzhao shook his head and said, "The emperor will not be wrong. When I left Xichang, the emperor himself told me that I must take Riyadh. ”
Feng Judao: "Judging from the map, this place is Riyadh, and there is no other Riyadh. ”
Cao Wenzhao said firmly: "The emperor will not be wrong, maybe this Riyadh is not a city now, but a small village." The emperor also told me that there is a large oasis in Riyadh, and the intelligence detected by the Persian cavalry mentions this oasis, so there is no mistake in the place. ”
"So what do we do?" Feng Ju asked.
Cao Wenzhao said: "According to the original plan, we will attack Riyadh, but it is enough to let the Cossack cavalry division go, and the 101st division will follow, and the other troops will not move." ”
Feng Ju flattered: "Cao Ye is wise, send Cossack cavalry, Riyadh is at your fingertips." ”
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The good news of the victory soon reached the Allied Command, and the 101st Division and the Cossack Cavalry Division occupied the place called Riyadh.
Cao Wenzhao sent a telegram to Gao Junshan to report, and Gao Junshan quickly sent a telegram back to Cao Wenzhao to congratulate him.
In a telegram, Gao Junshan instructed that the occupied area should be immediately Chineseized, that the place in Riyadh be named "Oil City", and that Cao Wenzhao should move his headquarters to Oil City.
Feng Ju said to Cao Wenzhao: "Master Cao, the emperor changed Riyadh to the Oil City, and let us directly enter the Oil City, it seems that this place is a very important place." ”
Cao Wenzhao said: "You don't understand this. The emperor himself told me that Saudi Arabia is an oil-rich country, and we will first occupy these cities that contain oil underneath, and these oils will become our resources in China. ”
Feng Ju asked: "Riyadh, no, there must be oil under the oil city?" Geological experts have not come to explore, how did the emperor know? ”
Cao Wenzhao said: "What a great person the emperor is! Is there anything he knows that you can guess? In short, it will not be wrong for us to resolutely follow the emperor's instructions. ”
Feng Ju said: "Cao Ye is wise. ”
Cao Wenzhao corrected: "It's the emperor who is wise!" ”
"Yes, yes, yes! The emperor is wise! The emperor is wise! ”
At this time, Hong Pengju came to Cao Wenzhao and said to Cao Wenzhao: "Commander Cao, the train taken by the queen mother entered the station at 1 o'clock in the afternoon, do you want to pick up the train?" ”
Cao Wenzhao hurriedly said: "Go, I will definitely go." ”
After lunch, Cao Wenzhao led Cao Bianjiao, Chen Yunlong, Feng Ju, Ping'an and other civil and military officers of the First Army to Bushehr Railway Station to greet Empress Han Yuyan and her party.
At the same time, those who came to the railway station were Shail, Tian Qiliang, and Hong Pengju from the coalition headquarters.
The train that the queen was riding slowly entered the station, this train was a passenger train from Xichang to Bushehr, there were 21 trains in total, similar to the green trains of later generations, but the wagons were red.
Han Yuyan, Ji Ya, and Su Yena sat in the third carriage, and the third carriage was the queen's special carriage.
After the train stopped at Bushehr Station, the No. 3 carriage was protected by a group of soldiers, Han Yuyan, Ji Ya and Su Yena walked off the platform from the carriage, and the people who welcomed the queen on the platform were all senior generals in the military circles, and after meeting, Han Yuyan and his party got into the carriage and went to the Bushehr Wharf, where Deng Shijie, the captain of the "Zheng He No. 1" ship, was already waiting here.
Han Yuyan, Ji Ya, and Suena did not stay in Bushehr any longer, got on the battleship "Zheng He No. 1", and ordered "Zheng He No. 1" to set off.
The reason why Han Yuyan left Bushehr Port in such a hurry was because Gao Junshan asked her to do so, and Gao Junshan was afraid that Cao Wenzhao would delay the combat mission in order to receive Han Yuyan and them.
After sending off the empress, Cao Wenzhao ordered the whole army to march to the oil city.
Cao Wenzhao took a steamer from the east coast of the Persian Gulf to the west coast with the army, whether it was the east coast or the west coast, the wharf was busy transporting all kinds of materials, these materials were constantly being transported to the oil city, and the logistics department of Huaxia was responsible for transporting the materials, and the logistics department was under the orders of Gao Junshan to carry out the transportation work.
Cao Wenzhao, who went to the west bank, saw the mountains of various materials piled up on the wharf, and said to Cao Bianjiao: "Look at this formation, the emperor wants to turn the oil city into a strategic base." ”
Cao Bianjiao asked: "Why did the emperor change Riyadh into an oil city?" ”
Cao Wenzhao said: "The emperor's decision must be reasonable, but we can't see through it for a while, and in a few years, you will be able to know why this oil city is called an oil city." ”
Feng Ju came over and asked, "Master Cao, the troops are about to set off, are you riding a horse or a carriage?" ”()
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