After seeing the democracy and equality of the Ming Dynasty, Montesquieu can be said to have completely fallen. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Of course, in fact, at this time, he had inherited the position of president of the Bordeaux court from his father, and he was somewhat different from the young and enthusiastic Voltaire, and he still needed to understand more deeply, and then he continued to travel around the Ming Dynasty accompanied by the people arranged by Yang Feng, reading books during the day and writing hard at night to write his observations and analysis. Especially after the son of Dantu Bo was disqualified from attacking the knighthood because of the beating and injury, and Dantu Bo himself apologized for his crimes, and even went to the victim's home in person to publicly apologize, he was even more shocked, and was directly impressed by the spirit of equality and the legal system of the Ming Dynasty.

In short, a travelogue that replaced the Persian letters, and thus gradually completed with his travels, and then became a cannon pointed at the French feudal system, and a righteous roar against the rule of Louis XIV.

Of course, Emperor Yang didn't have time to accompany him.

Just when he accompanied Montesquieu to feel the democracy and equality of the Ming Dynasty, the bargaining between the cabinet and the military finally settled, and the cabinet finally agreed to allocate funds for the military to buy twelve machine guns for each battalion to form a gun whistle, and the reason why those scholars were impressed was that the enhanced combat effectiveness of the reinforced battalion could replace the brigade in some aspects.

For example, against the guerrillas.

At this time, there is no real large-scale engagement of the Ming army on the battlefield, especially in the Middle East, there is no regular war that can fight against the Ming army, mainly the guerrilla warfare of the Zhen main warriors, in the past, an infantry battalion carried out a sweep deep into the mountains is very dangerous, after all, those Zhen main warriors really want to play pig stupe, only an infantry battalion is difficult to block, an infantry battalion of the Ming army deducts the artillery team and all kinds of messy personnel, and the real participation in the war is only more than 800 rifles, how many bullets can this thing shoot no matter how fast?

Ten thousand Zhen main warriors were absolutely submerged.

And under the power of faith, it is not difficult for those elders to gather 10,000 cannon fodder, the old people and children consume the bullets of the Ming army in the front, and the young and middle-aged people are the main force in the back, and play with scimitars after rushing through the interception line, even if the quality of the Ming army is high, it can't stop the endless stream of warriors, and finally tired and tired to death, there has been an example of an infantry battalion almost drowned by 10,000 main warriors in Hejaz, fortunately, the two nearby battalions rescued quickly, but this also made Guo Hong dare not sweep with the battalion as a unit.

But with the addition of twelve machine guns, an infantry battalion will basically no longer be afraid of any main warriors, these machine guns fired bullets in a minute, almost equivalent to most of the infantry battalion, the same width of the battle line, the density of firepower has suddenly doubled, for the warriors is undoubtedly a disaster.

This is important.

That's the equivalent of a three-fold increase in the effect of the sweep.

The financial burden only increased the money for the purchase of ammunition for the machine guns, if this was not the case, the brigade would have to carry out the sweeping mission, so that the waste of combat resources would not be a few bullets.

Yang Feng is also very satisfied with this result.

In fact, the infantry battalion of the Ming army is basically the same as the Japanese brigade on the battlefield in North China during World War II, although it is a little awkward to think like this, but in fact, the role of the Ming army on the battlefield is similar to that of Yamada in the tunnel war, including the style of work is also the same, and even Guo Hong, the villain, even shouted the slogan of the three-light policy, which made Emperor Yang quite dazed when he heard it.

At this time, the wars between the Ottoman Empire and Russia and Persia also ended.

The Ottomans not only recovered the east bank of the Severodunetsk River, as well as all the lands previously occupied by the Russian army in the Caucasus, but also captured Tsaritsyn in Russia after a bloody battle.

Of course, Ahmed also suffered heavy losses.

His victories in Russia and Persia were only for the export of evil spirits, and the vast territories he had lost could never be returned, Algeria, Cyrenaica, Tripoli, Egypt, Palestine, Hejaz, Basra, Transylvania, Crimea, Bessarabia, Moldova, Wallachia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece, Bosnia, a series of names disappeared from the Ottoman Empire forever, and what are the names of Dotsaritsyn and Tabriz?

Just a little comfort.

"The Persians beg for mercy?"

Yang Feng said.

"Yes, Your Majesty, the messenger of the Persians has come to Basra to ask for peace."

Feng Zhen said.

At this time, the Ming army had completed the division in the port of Bushehr, and the soldiers were pointing directly at Shiraz, Hussein, who did not know the true intentions of the Ming army, and those temple elders, were desperately mobilizing all the forces that could be mobilized, and rushed to Shiraz to defend the glory of the ancient Persian Empire, Persepolis, the former center of the empire, but it was obvious that they also knew that this was useless, and the Ming army airships that took off from Bushehr these days often bombed in the past, and these demons who did not even let go of the Forbidden Temple had already exhausted the courage of the Persians.

In this case, it is wisest to bend the knee and make peace.

"Yes."

Yang Feng said.

"But the conditions must be made clear, there is no need for land reparations, but they want to allow us to build a railway from Basra to Ashgabat, and the right to garrison troops along the railway, our troops can be stationed and move freely within thirty miles on both sides of the railway line, of course, the mineral exploration and mining within this range also belong to us, and there is the extraterritoriality of the Ming Dynasty in Persia and the right to negotiate tariffs, in short, in exchange for these, in exchange for them not to cede land and pay compensation, and even the ports of Bandar Abbas and Bushehr can be returned to them."

Then he added.

The ports of Bandar Abbas and Bushehr were of little use to him, and when the time came, it would be enough to leave a concession each as a commercial area, and what he wanted most now was a railway, which could only be achieved through Hussein, since Ahmet could not seize Persia. From Basra to the west through Ahvaz, then straight to Tehran and then separated, all the way to Ashgabat, all the way to Baku, this railway started this year, basically the Western Regions railway will be completed when it reaches Longcheng. In this way, only a section of the Central Asian crosses remains, and the steppe of Central Asia is simple to construct and go hand in hand, which is enough to complete the connection in five years, which means that in a maximum of fifteen years the railway can bypass the Caspian Sea and enter Europe.

The rest is to stretch out in Eastern Europe.

"What if the Persians don't agree?"

Feng Zhen asked.

"Then prepare to fight to Isfahan, and order another army to be sent to the Persian Gulf, and which army has not yet fought?"

Yang Feng said.

"The 11th to 15th armies have not yet had actual combat experience, and of course the generals of these five armies have fought for many years."

Feng Zhen said.

The Ming army had 15 infantry corps, two cavalry corps, the 1st Cavalry Corps was stationed in the Western Regions, the 2nd Cavalry Corps was in Yemen, the 10th Infantry Corps was stationed in Luzon, the 8th Army was stationed in Zhennan, the 9th Army was stationed in Ceylon, the 2nd Army was stationed in Bangladesh, the 7th Army was stationed in Egypt, and the 6th Army was stationed in Basra, and the remaining nine infantry corps were stationed in various parts of the country. But in fact, at this time, there was nothing at all in the country, and the other good and bad people had experienced the civil war, but the new 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, and 15th armies in the later period had never been on the battlefield at all.

In this way, these five armies never went to the battlefield.

Of course, the main generals and middle-level officers basically have rich combat experience, after all, in these years, the Ming army has been fighting in the east and west, there is no shortage of such people, and military cadets are usually sent to the front line after graduation, and they will go out to see blood first.

"Then send two more, add one on the Hejaz battlefield, add one more on the Persian battlefield, and transfer two more armies and the second and ninth armies to change defenses, especially the ninth army, which has been stationed in Ceylon for so many years, and it is time to return to China and rest."

Yang Feng said.

Of course, he didn't know that the Ninth Army didn't like to rest, they were not too happy to be emperors in Ceylon and the Indian colonies, that is, they wanted money, money, women, women, many officers and even soldiers can say that they have bad deeds, and if they are put on the domestic garrison, it is not too much to shoot half of the entire army of the Ninth Army. But this kind of good thing really shouldn't be enjoyed by them alone, after all, the few armies in the country are also eager to see through it, and urgently need to go to distant colonies to release their repressed wildness.

"Then it's better to just have a full change of defense."

Feng Zhen said.

Obviously, he understands the feelings of the officers and men in the country.

"A complete change of guard?"

Yang Feng groaned.

It's okay now, there is no problem on the Persian side, Hussein will accept the conditions as long as he is not a fool, otherwise the Ming army will really beat him, and he has nowhere to escape, even his millions of people will not be able to resist the real attack of the Ming army, and if you add reserves, the total strength of the Ming army is about to catch up with the total population of Persia, and the two sides are not of the same grade at all.

And there was no war in Egypt, and there was no war in Southeast Asia or South Asia.

In this case, it is indeed possible to carry out a large-scale change of defense, replacing foreign armies with domestic armies, which can not only allow the domestic armies to go to the colonies to make a fortune, but also allow the colony armies to return to China to change their mood, and in addition, it can also prevent the emergence of a situation in which various localities dominate one side. Although under the system of the Ming army, it is certainly impossible to have warlords, because all the arms industry of the Ming Dynasty is in the local area, and the production of standard weapons is not allowed outside the country, in fact, in addition to the arsenal of the royal family, there are no private arms enterprises with the right to produce standard arms, but it is inevitable that the generals who have been sitting on one side for a long time will play with interest groups.

It is not easy to change during the war, after all, everything is aimed at victory, and a general who is familiar with the situation with a group of soldiers who are familiar with the environment must be much stronger than a group of people with black eyes, but now except for the Hejaz, there is basically no real battle, so it is no problem to make a change.

"Okay!"

Yang Feng thought for a while and said.

In this way, in addition to the two cavalry corps, the fifteen field armies of the Ming Army have begun a major change of defense, originally stationed in the local area transferred to the subject countries and border provinces, originally stationed outside, transferred back to the country for rest, this is a big project, fortunately, at present, the Ming Dynasty's strong shipping capacity is enough to ensure this level of transfer, the navy's troop carriers are not enough, requisitioning civilian ships, one after another full of soldiers from the local ports, have sailed to thousands of miles or thousands of miles away.

This frightened the Persians.

The Ming army did not say that it was a change of guard, and when it was known through the spies in the Ming Dynasty that at least two armies were being transferred to the Persian Gulf, Hussein was so frightened that his legs were weak.

A corps of the Ming army, plus a brigade of marines, beat him like a lost dog, panic all day long, if two more armies, a full 100,000 Ming troops pressed over, how can he still live, said that at this time he can piece together the army, a total of only 100,000 thousand, what can he use to resist the attack of 100,000 Ming troops, in this case he has no other choice, especially Yang Feng also promised to return Bandar Abbas and Bushehr Port to him.

Why don't you hurry up and say yes?

Not only him, but even those temple elders all withered after knowing that the two armies of the Ming army were killing them.

Isn't it just to build a railway?

Isn't it just the garrison along the railway!

Isn't it extraterritoriality?

These are all easy to say, as long as the huge war machine of the Ming army is not crushed, you must know that if the Ming army defeats Persia, then these elders will all have to go to the gem-encrusted garden, to be with a bunch of chu women as companions, it is obvious that in the eyes of the elders, life is more attractive now.

In this way, the Persians quickly accepted Yang Feng's conditions, and then the Ming Empire and the Persian envoys signed a formal armistice at Bandar Abbas.

The latter agreed to cede the Huzestan area occupied by the Ming Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, and provided the Ming Dynasty with a railway area with a width of 30 miles free of charge, which was determined by the railway exploration route in the future, but the specific length was not limited, the Ming army had the right to garrison troops and the right to move freely in the railway area, and the mineral exploration and mining rights in the railway area belonged to the Ming Dynasty, of course, extraterritoriality, the right to negotiate tariffs, and the missionary rights of the Holy Religion in Persia.

The Ming Dynasty returned to Persia the occupied territories, including the ports of Bandar Abbas and Bushehr, but retained a concession in each of these ports, and also had the right to garrison troops in these two ports.

At this point, the war between the Ming Dynasty and Persia ended, and similarly, in addition to the Hejaz, the Ming army also ended the war on various battlefields, as for the Hejaz battlefield, this Yang Emperor was not ready to end, his goal was to completely clean up the entire Arabian Peninsula, so he would not stop until the Hejaz was destroyed.

So the suffering of the Hejaz people had to continue. (To be continued.) )