However, what Mustafa Kemal did not expect was that those German officers really played a great help, because among them was a middle-aged man named Paul von Leto Falbeck, who had rich experience in colonial warfare and excellent leadership, and only asked Kemal for a division of the second line of troops to successfully wipe out the rebels in Syria, so that the main force led by Mustafa Kemal himself could calmly deal with the British and French forces, and finally succeeded in defeating them and recovering Syria. It was a good start for the revival of Turkey. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Paul von Leto Forbeck also helped Mustafa Kemal in the fight to suppress the rebellion at home, but the latter's dream of a "Greater Turkey" was still not realized, because when the Turkish army began to advance on the Persian Gulf coast, a more terrible power than Britain and France also intervened in the Middle East turmoil......

Unconsciously, nearly a generation has passed since Ma Jiajun was "exiled" to Kuwait, not only the former head of the family Ma Haiyan has already died of illness, but even his eldest son Ma Qi is now gone, and the power of the Ma family has been transferred to Ma Qi's younger brother Ma Lin, but even after three generations, the Ma family still dare not disobey all orders from their homeland, because they know very well that if there is no strong Chinese Republic as a backing, No matter how much they paid taxes to Kuwait's suzerain, the Ottoman Empire, and the British Empire, which actually controlled it, they would not be able to hold on to the huge benefits brought by the cornucopia of the Great Burgan oil field, which is one of the few in the world (the income from the oil field is a "five-horse fertilizer" model, with Huaxia Oil Company taking 60%, and Majia, the Ottoman Empire, the United Kingdom, and the local government each taking 10%, but because it is based on income rather than profit sharing, it actually gets quite a lot). ）。

Although the Middle East is full of oil fields, but most of them are buried at a depth of more than 2,000 meters, with the level of science and technology before the end of World War I, even if it can be explored, it is difficult to exploit and utilize, and the only world-class oil field in the shallow oil field is located in the Kuwait coast of the Great Burgan oilfield, this oil field is not only buried at a depth of only 1,000 meters (the deepest place has more than 1,200 meters), and the formation permeability is very high, basically drilling down is a high-yield self-blowing well, It is common for a single well to produce more than 200,000 tons per year, and compared with the Yanchang oilfield, which has a very low formation permeability and the annual production of a single well is generally only a few hundred tons, it is simply a heaven and an underground, and even the Songliao oilfield (Note 1) discovered later cannot be compared.

Therefore, even if the extraction technology is only at the level before 1918, the annual output of this large oil field can easily exceed 30 million tons, which is almost as low as tap water, and most of the oil fields in the West have been directly crushed, and the United States, which was the world's largest oil producer, has been hit particularly hard. But even so, due to the lower cost of extraction, the annual profit of the oil field is very considerable, and from China's point of view, in fact, even if Huaxia Petroleum Company has no profit at all, it does not matter, just such a large amount of cheap crude oil is already a huge benefit for China, which has limited oil reserves.

He believed that neither the British government nor the Ottoman government would dare to risk the risk of war with China to reach out to the oil fields, but it was difficult to say about the uneducated local tribes, and if the Chinese government sent regular troops over, it would inevitably cause unease in Britain and Turkey, as well as the local government in Kuwait......

Objectively speaking, the Ma family has completed the task really well over the years, although the combat effectiveness of this private armed force is far from comparable to that of the Chinese National Defense Force of the Megatron World, but it is still very easy and pleasant to deal with those local tribal forces in the desert. In particular, the last two generations of family heads Ma Qi and Ma Lin have both studied at the Chinese Army University, including many of the children of the Ma family's side branches have also been trained in the non-commissioned officer school with Li Hui's acquiescence, and the quality of the officers of the Ma family army is already higher than that of most Western colonial armies, and the quality of officers is the most important factor in determining the combat effectiveness of a unit.

In recent years, China has continuously relocated the domestic Hui people here, providing a large number of cheap labor for state-owned giants such as Huaxia Petroleum Company and Huaxia Port Company, and also providing Ma Jiajun with potential soldiers far beyond itself.

By 1912, there were more than 300,000 Hui settlers in Kuwait alone, and if you add in other parts of the Persian Gulf coast, such as Dubai Harbour, the total was five or six hundred thousand. If we include other religious peoples who have moved from the country (including those who moved after the occupation of Central Asia), the number has reached two or three million, and the large number of immigrants has greatly changed the local demographic composition, and the "old religion" they believe in is quite different from the several popular sects in the Middle East, so it inevitably arouses the hostility of the local people, and countless bloody conflicts have broken out between the two sides.

This extremely insecure life naturally led them to regard the Ma Jiajun, who was specially responsible for dealing with the local tribal forces, as the backbone, and the Ma family could respond to the tide as long as they climbed the heights. Moreover, among these immigrants, they also implemented the militia system that copied the country, and the adults and young people have received a little military training more or less, plus after coming to the Middle East, there are more workers and less farmers, and the discipline has also been improved, and the mobilization of workers is far more convenient than that of farmers, and theoretically Ma Jiajun has actually had more than 100,000 excellent reserve soldiers in the Middle East!

Note 1: It is the Daqing Oilfield, but here by the way, the Daqing Oilfield is actually a collective name for several oilfields, when the iron man Wang Jinxi they played out of the buried depth of at least more than 1300 meters, the deepest depth reached 2500 meters, in the book at that time China's technical conditions can not be fully utilized, the current Songliao Oilfield is actually the one found later, the main oil layer buried depth is only 900-1200 meters, the difficulty of exploitation is much smaller, this oilfield is also the largest reserves in the Daqing oilfield, Therefore, it is not accurate to say on the Internet that the devils failed to find the Daqing Oilfield because the technical conditions were not up to standard, in fact, the devils were reluctant to spend money to spread out exploration (it can also be understood as a lack of confidence without theoretical support......