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The Russians were followed by the Persians.

The army of the Persian Sultan Hussein began an attack on the eastern part of the Ottoman Empire only three days after the Russians started, although the guardian of the Holy Land, Said II, angrily denounced them for being in the company of demons, but this was useless, Hussein didn't care, when the Ottoman Empire beat us every day, why didn't you stand up and accuse the Ottomans of persecuting the Musling brothers?

Besides, we are also here to protect our fellow brothers.

In this case, the Ottomans will be finished sooner or later, if the infidels occupy the land of the Ottoman Empire, they will definitely persecute the Musling brothers, you look at Yemen, you look at the Balkans, you look at the Caucasus, what will those brothers be killed? Since Ahmed III is no longer capable of protecting them, why not let them throw themselves into our protection? So we're not grabbing territory, we're here to protect the Muslin brothers in advance!

When you think about it, Hussein feels so great when he prays.

Well, he's great.

At least that's what the Shia elders in the Ottoman Empire thought, so when the Persian army began to attack, they changed their doors and returned to their Shiite family contentedly.

That's what it looks like anyway.

The next one to come uninvited and eagerly raise his knife and fork was Louie.

The success of the Swedes and Austrians was coveted by Louis, but he could not afford to go to any side again because of his status, and Charles VI, who had just suffered a big loss at his hands, would not welcome him, so he simply played his own. Escorted by a large naval fleet, the combined forces of France and Spain crossed the Mediterranean Sea and landed in Algeria, and then began shelling Algiers, clearly targeting North Africa. And at this time, the Ottoman army in North Africa was blocked in the west of Egypt, and it was impossible to transfer back in a short time, so there was a huge lump of fat in front of him, Algeria, Tripoli, Cyrenaica, and the richest land in the whole of North Africa were waiting for him.

The pattern of the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire was thus formalized.

Sweden and Austria divided the Balkans, Russia seized the north of the Caucasus Mountains, Persia took the south of the Caucasus Mountains, France's goal was to seize North Africa, and the rest was left to the Ming Dynasty. Or rather, the Sunni muslin raised the tu knife of the partition.

And what about their goals?

The poor Ottomans abandoned the Hejaz, gave up the counteroffensive on Jerusalem, abandoned the defense of North Africa, and threw it directly to the local powers, including Said II, and then all the imperial guards were withdrawn to the peninsula of Asia Minor and the Balkans, concentrating all their efforts on defending the enemy from the north to the south......

Compared with the arid and barren Arab world, the rich north is their most important land.

Surviving with a broken arm was also a choice that Ahmed III had to make.

Then Said II proclaimed himself emir in Mecca and formally established the Kingdom of Hejaz, the governor of Algeria proclaimed himself the Sultan, and the two governors of Tripoli and Cyrenaica also claimed to be the Sultan, so in a very short period of time, the territory of the Ottoman Empire suddenly shrank to less than half of its original level. However, the advantage of strategic contraction was also obvious, as reinforcements arrived in batches, the Ottoman army gradually held on to the Bulgarian front line in Kosovo, relying on the support of local Muslin, where the high mountains offset the technical advantage of the two armies, but they also eventually lost Sarajevo, and as for the northern shore of the Black Sea, with the advantage of the fleet, they also still held Crimea.

And in the Caucasus direction, because the Russian army and the Persian army did not have an advantage in equipment, it turned into the most fierce battlefield.

"Tell Guo Hong that he is too fast."

Emperor Yang said with satisfaction.

At this time, he was sitting in the carriage of the royal special train, although the first snow of early winter was already falling outside, but the carriage baked by the heating was still warm as spring, and the maid wearing only a single coat was bowing her head to bring him hot milk, and the waves of that moment made His Majesty the Emperor show a faint smile.

As he spoke, the waiter carefully selected by the National Railways shyly stepped away.

He was preparing to take a train south along the newly built Tianjin-Pudong Railway.

At this time, the Daming railway trunk network has been basically completed, and the northward Guanwai railway has reached Shushan, the provincial capital of Heishui Province, that is, Changchun, and the railway from Beijing to the northwest is extending forward in Anbei Province, and it is expected that it will reach the north coast in three years at most. The Shunhan Railway from Beijing to the south has been completed to Hankou, the Tianjin-Pudong Railway has just been completed, the Guangdong-Hankou Railway has also just been completed, the Yinghang Railway from Nanjing to the south has also reached Hangzhou, the east-west Longhai Railway has just reached Qinzhou, and the Zhengtai Railway has also been completed.

This is the National Railway.

As for the private railways, it goes without saying that almost all the eastern provinces now have railways of different lengths, and even the railways in Yunnan have been repaired through Bisezhai.

In addition to the Longhai Road that continues to move westward, there is also the Sichuan-Han Railway, this railway Yang Feng is ready to repair him for more than ten or twenty years, Chengdu to Chongqing trivial, Chengdu-Chongqing section can be opened to traffic next year at most, but the remaining section can only be left to fate, after all, the original history of this road was built for a hundred years, and now Sichuan has a road from Chengdu to Kunming, and so on this road and the intersection of the Dianjing Railway will also realize the dream of Sichuan, and the remaining Sichuan-Han line loves to repair how many years to repair how many years, Anyway, you can cross the Three Gorges sooner or later.

"Your Majesty, why don't you hit Mecca in one go?"

Yang Zhong humbly asked.

"What is the most important thing for us in this war? Grab a turf? Is the land there rich? Except for a few seasonal rivers and a few oases, all of them are arid deserts and barren mountains, is such a land worth conquering with our tens of thousands of troops? A matter of faith? Do I care so much about the conversion of the 100,000,000 natives? Or are their women who don't take a bath all year round are popular? Or are their lazy and disobedient men fit to be slaves? ”

Yang Feng said.

Yang Zhong hurriedly put on a posture of humbly seeking advice.

"How many new orders does Great Wall have received?"

Yang Feng asked an attendant.

The Great Wall Company, the arms export company under his name, has the sole license to operate controlled weapons, that is, the sole export rights of rifled guns and rifled guns.

"Your Majesty, the French have just ordered 200,000 rifles, 100 cannons of various types, and 50 heavy rocket artillery, while the Swedes have just ordered a total of 250,000 rifles, including more than 200 cannons of various types and 400 naval guns, and they have also bought the two second-class ships that we have transferred to the reserve, and it is said that they want to expand the naval fleet. The Austrians ordered 100,000 rifles and 100 cannons, and the Egyptians borrowed 100,000 rifles and 100 cannons, some of which were for the Christians who fought with them, and the new orders for more than 30 million bullets, for a total of 1.5 million shells and rockets. ”

The squire said to the ledger.

"And what about the weapons orders of the private merchants?"

Yang Feng asked.

"According to the figures held by Jinyiwei, the Russians and Persians combined bought more than 500,000 rifles and 400 cannons from our merchants, but the bullets were not sold much, but the shells were sold nearly two million, and our merchants were also smuggling various weapons to Muslin in North Africa through the Universal Company, the latter used a large amount, according to intelligence, it should be purchased for the Ottomans."

Yang Zhong said.

"You see, this is the most important thing for us in this war, so do you still think that Mecca should be taken in one fell swoop?"

Yang Feng said with a smile.

Well, that's what he fought this war for.

The most important thing is to make war money.

And the Ming army's attack on the Ottoman Empire is just to attract countries to move, the strength of the Ming is well known, everyone understands that once the Ming army moves, then the Ottoman Empire can only go all out to fight against this evil dragon, then there is no time to take care of it in other directions, it is a good opportunity to take advantage of the fire to rob, and as soon as these countries start, they must purchase arms in large quantities from the Ming Dynasty, and the success of France has already made Europeans realize that rifled weapons dominate the battlefield.

But they can't make it.

Although they are able to make rifled guns in small batches, it is simply impossible to play this without a large steel industry, without all sorts of high-precision mechanical equipment, without a sufficient number of highly qualified workers.

They can't even make bullets.

Until now, European countries, that is, the British, can barely make Mini bullets and rifled guns that meet the standards, but they cannot be mass-produced, and the cost of both guns and bullets is far more than the purchase from the Ming Dynasty, and then shipped thousands of miles to Europe, and they don't even produce cast steel shells at all, and the steel they use graphite crucibles to make cannonballs is too luxurious. The Swedes are still manufacturing in small batches, but they dare to do so because they have almost the best iron ore in the world, and their model cannot be replicated by others, and even then it is only a dispensable supplement because of machine and process limitations.

After all, Daming cannonballs are really not expensive.

In this way, the official sells rifled weapons to those countries with better relations, and the people sell smoothbore weapons to those countries with poor relations or even hostile relations, and then let them fight each other with weapons made by the Ming Dynasty, and the final result is that their gold and silver are all in the pockets of the Ming Dynasty, and the longer this war lasts, the more Ming earns, and it can be said that the blood of these countries has been gradually sucked dry in this way.

In fact, this was the role of the Americans in World War I.

As for the battlefield of the Ming army......

That's really not worth mentioning, as long as the Egyptians hold Jerusalem and ensure that the construction of the canal proceeds normally, and the southern line slowly advances to the north and slowly sweeps north, there is no need to rush at all.

The oil of the Arabian Peninsula does not need to be developed at this time, because the crude oil consumption of Daming is not so large, the output of Southeast Asia is enough to supply, Brunei, East Borneo, Sumatra, Myanmar four places together tens of millions of tons of output can be guaranteed, Daming is not everywhere Petrochemical plants, just that lamp oil and fuel oil consumption is not much, from the Middle East oil transportation is far away, at least in the short term there is no development meaning, and when the Middle East oil needs to be developed, it is estimated that the Ottoman country should disappear.

And what else is there in this land besides oil that is worth Emperor Yang's hands?

Tu Lu is really important.

But this work is a long-term task, there is no need to rush at all, the target of his round of offensive is actually Yemen, this place is an important cotton producing area, producing almost the world's best cotton, in addition to an important pearl production area, these are what he needs, and now Yemen has been completely conquered by him, it can be said that the strategic goal has been achieved, and then fight slowly, and when the war is almost over, just go and grab Mecca.

As for how Mecca handles ......

"Your Majesty, it's not too early, you should go to bed."

Just now, the waiter stood beside him and saluted, and then said softly.

Yang Feng raised his head, only to find that there was another one standing next to her, and more importantly, the two were exactly the same, obviously a pair of twins, the latter looked more shy, standing there quite a little helpless look is cute, looking at their delicate faces, and then looking at the almost majestic twin peaks on their chests, Emperor Yang said with a smile: "Little girl, how old are you!" ”

"The concubine sister has just turned seventeen."

The more daring waiter said shyly.

"Come, help me to the bathroom, you two stay and sleep tonight!"

Yang Feng said with satisfaction.

The two waiters fell to their knees, and then lay there crying bitterly.

"Well, it's a surprise, if you don't want to, go down first!"

Yang Feng said with a little embarrassment.

"No, no, the concubine sisters are willing, the concubine sisters just didn't expect that Pu Liu's posture could be favored by His Majesty, and they couldn't help but be happy for a while, and being able to give His Majesty a bed is a blessing that the concubine sisters have cultivated for several lifetimes, how can they not want to!"

The bold waiter said in a choked voice as he lay on the floor.

I don't know if it's my sister or my sister's in the back, but I can't stop kowtowing.

"Oh, then you're going to have to work hard tonight!"

Emperor Yang said as he stroked her back.

"Concubine, the concubine sisters are young and ignorant, please give your majesty more advice."

The waiter whispered.

"I like you like this!"

Yang Feng said happily.

Then he stood up, and the twins quickly got up and helped him one by one, as if they were helping a seriously ill relative, and the three of them went into the bathroom, and before the door was completely closed, there was a soft scream from inside, like a little sheep being pushed, and then there was the sound of splashing. (To be continued.) )