According to the plan of the theater command, after the 18th Army stabilized in Aden, it was also divided into two routes, the first army advanced westward along the Red Sea, and occupied Taiz, Hodeidah, and Sana in the west, all the way to the port of Jazan, and drove the local natives to the west or north; The 2nd Army marched north along the eastern coast of the peninsula and joined forces with the 9th Army at Salalah City, driving all the indigenous people of the eastern seaboard to the western desert region, and then the 18th Army would leave a division to garrison and establish an air base and seaport in Salalah. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

After eliminating the Sultan of Muscat and part of his army, the mercenaries began to march south, investigating the whereabouts of the fleeing army and members of the royal family, and finally learned that they had fled to the kingdom of Najd.

Soon the 5,000 men of the cavalry division caught up with the mercenaries, and the two forces supported each other and fought side by side.

According to the opinion of the West Asia Theater Command, for the time being, it will not be busy taking over the territory of the Ottoman Empire, but will first occupy the peninsula region and the southern part of Iran.

Qian Xiangyang stated to the minister who came to handle the handover matters of the Ottoman Empire: "The Xia Empire has a good friendship with the Ottoman Empire, and I don't want to embarrass the Ottoman Empire. ”

The Ottoman government was very happy to get Qian Xiangyang's promise, in that era, population was also wealth, no matter how poor these places were, they could also loot a lot of things, and they were also a huge fortune when summed up, which was simply a windfall for them, and they gladly accepted Qian Xiangyang's opinion.

The High Command sent 1 cavalry division, starting from Kuwait, to advance eastward along the southern shore of the Persian Gulf to prepare to join the 9th Army at Dammam.

The 40th Army was temporarily stationed in Basra and sent Janissaries, mercenaries and cavalry divisions across the border line to occupy the Iranian areas of Abadan and Ahvaz, driving all Iranians from the area and confiscating all property.

In order to resist the invasion of the Xia Empire, Iran did not dare to deploy troops in the plains, and all along the line of the Zagros Mountains, relying on favorable terrain to deploy troops, and the plains were quickly occupied by the 40th Army.

The Iranians living in the plains are the same in their beliefs and habits as the Ottoman people living in the Basra region, they belong to the same ethnic group and share the same faith; After the arrival of the Zaitxia Empire, the locals were driven away, some returned to Iran, and some dragged their families into the territory of the Ottoman Empire.

The 35th Army, stationed in Bandar Abbas, sent a defense division to land directly at the port of Bushehr with the assistance of the navy, and prepared to gradually move north, approaching Shiraz, and forcing the Kingdom of Iran to withdraw its garrisons in the southeast; The main force of the 35th Army was mainly active in the east, preparing to occupy the line from the coast to Zahedan and take the lead in opening a land passage to Afghanistan.

The Xia Empire's army blossomed in all directions, occupied a lot of territory, and drove all the locals away.

The Iranians are better, at least they can return to their country, and there is some hope; The Arab aborigines of the peninsula in West Asia are miserable, they exist in the form of tribes, and the tribes themselves are fighting each other for grassland, and they are not united at all, and now they have lost the pastures and property on which they depend, and it will be difficult to survive in the future.

They were organized in such a way that each tent represented a family; The place where many tents are assembled, forming an area; People from the same region form a clan; several clans that are related to each other, forming a clan; There are one or several tribes in each oasis; Most of the nomadic tribes are located in the interior and north of the peninsula, while the settlers are mostly located in the southern part of the peninsula and the coastal areas around the peninsula.

Thanks to the presence of patrol planes to provide information, the location of all the indigenous tribes is clear, the army can go straight to the indigenous tribe station, and the mercenaries are already addicted to robbery, and they like this profession very much, and now they are worthy of the title mercenary.

The weak resistance of the local natives, the damage caused by the army is minimal, only the occasional cold guns and some traps set by the tribe cause some insignificant losses to the army, and after the army pays attention, their strategy no longer succeeds, but only causes a certain amount of inconvenience.

Zhang Liang was quite satisfied with the speed of progress of the various armies, the entire coastal area of West Asia was basically occupied, and the Persian Gulf had become the inland sea of the Xia Empire.

Zhang Liang suggested to Qian Xiangyang: "The Metropolitan Governor should report to the empire what the British have done badly, and beware of the British everywhere in the future." ”

Qian Xiangyang said: "It's not necessary, just don't report it, and the empire also knows that the British will definitely do it." We have eliminated the Muscat Sultanate, we should send troops to eliminate the Hashemite family of the Hejaz Kingdom first, the Saud family of Najd and the Rashid family, as long as these three big families are eliminated, the entire West Asian Peninsula will be leaderless, which is very convenient for our future military operations. ”

"Most of the governors must think too highly of them, they are just a relatively large tribe." Zhang Liang retorted: "Our goal is to receive the Ottoman Empire's agreed territory as soon as possible after occupying and stabilizing the coastal areas, I am afraid that there will be many dreams at night, and it is already very wrong for us to change the reception time without permission, but His Majesty emphasized that the line from Basra to Baghdad to Mosul must be taken as soon as possible." ”

Qian Xiangyang explained: "Letting the Ottoman Empire move away personnel and materials can greatly strengthen the strength of the Ottoman Empire, which is conducive to their confrontation with Britain, France, Russia and other white countries, and become the first barrier in the western part of the empire, and establish a good friendship with the Ottoman Empire, which is very convenient for us to rule West Asia; As long as the people who are unwilling to move and stay behind, we will be able to kill much more easily in the future, and it will not affect our friendship with the Ottoman Empire. ”

In fact, Qian Xiangyang said this very reluctantly, camels play a very important role in the life of the indigenous people of the West Asian Peninsula, and now when the Xia Imperial army occupies the indigenous tribes, they confiscate all their property, drive the locals away, and leave the camels they rely on for their survival in the desert, they are difficult to migrate in the desert, and the fate of being driven into the desert area is to wait for death.

The brutality of the Xia Empire and the inaction of the Ottoman Empire made the large tribes of Najd and Hejaz quickly unite, especially the House of Saud, and quickly gathered more than 140 tribes to form an alliance to prepare to resist the invasion of the Xia Empire. (To be continued.) )