Baghdad, on which Mahmud I had high hopes, fell after only half a month of blocking the Ming army. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The 100,000-strong army was wiped out.

If they had dispersed around the periphery of Baghdad and fought around the Ming army, they might have lasted longer, but they were all trapped in Baghdad and all went underground to play tunnel warfare, which can be called a tragedy. Qin Yu and his relatives who arrived later used a hundred giant bombs, plus twenty bomb trucks, to easily destroy the fruits of their hard work for more than a year, and when most of the underground caves and tunnels were collapsed by the terrifying explosion, all that was left was the cleaning up of the Ming army's infantry.

Although the surviving Zhen warriors still fought bloodily, the result was only 5,000 casualties to the Ming army.

Of course, this is already rare.

After all, the casualties of the two armies of the Ming army can be close to one-tenth, and the bravery and tenacity of the defenders of Baghdad are already worthy of pride, although this is useless, the Ming army's strong ability to replenish troops, so that this casualty is just to pull another ship of reserves.

After the capture of Baghdad, the Ming army temporarily moved to rest, and their next target was Mosul.

In this way, the Ming army's attack on the Ottoman Empire was actually divided into three routes, and the left was the newly formed Second Army, after all, there were too many Ming troops now, and a higher-level establishment was needed, so the group army was simply brought out, but this was only a wartime formation, which could be disbanded at any time as needed, and there was no specific standard for the strength of troops, everything was built according to needs, for example, the Third Army had a full five armies.

And the Fourth Group Army, which was led by Qin Yu as the group army in the middle, actually only had two armies, him and his in-laws.

The Fifth Army on the right was composed of three armies attacking from Persia, these three armies were originally responsible for operations in western Persia, Tabriz and Baku had been conquered by the Ming army, but there were too many guerrillas and they were still fighting a law and order war, and they would soon be replaced by the Japanese Local Defense Army and the Bengal Local Defense Army, which were reinforced from the country, and the latter was also an army formation.

The Fifth Army, on the other hand, continued its offensive to the west.

In this way, the three group armies of more than 300,000 troops pushed forward all the way, swept the entire Anatolian Plateau and pushed to the Black Sea, so that the territory of the Ming Empire advanced all the way to the dividing line between Asia and Europe.

However, at this time, the Left Route Army was still attacking Syria, and the progress was not very fast, the biggest limitation here was logistics, the consumption of 150,000 troops had to be transported by sea to the port of Suez, and then transported by a railway to Cairo or the current name Anhua, where it was then loaded onto a small river boat and transported to the port of Zhenxi, where it was replaced by sea ships and transported to Beirut, from Beirut to Damascus under the attack of the guerrillas......

It's not easy.

But the good news is that all of this is finally history.

Ying'en Port of Anhua Domain, or Suez Port of Egypt, the director of the Anhua Canal Company of the Ming Empire, with an irrepressible smile, handed a detonator to a young man in front of him, who was wearing a nine-chapter crown on his head, and the eye-catching golden dragon pattern on his upper body represented his noble status......

Prince.

"Your Highness, please!"

The head of the Anhua Canal said.

Yang Xuan, Prince Ning, the fourth son of His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, smiled and made a gesture of invitation to King Murad of Anhua beside him.

"Your Highness, please!"

Murad hurriedly said.

"Then I'm not welcome, little brother."

Yang Xuan said with a smile.

Then he raised his head, looked at the people around him who were waiting, and then made a wave of his hand, which quickly pressed down on the detonator, and saw that in the distance in a yellow-colored desert connected to the coast, the ground suddenly arched upward, and then the fiery red light and smoke broke through the earth, and countless sand and dust rose into the sky like the sea water hit by a cannonball, and at the same time, the impact of the explosion pushed the sand and dust outward, and the hit sea water retreated fiercely, stirring up monstrous waves in the originally calm sea.

The cheers of the people suddenly rang out.

At the same time, a huge explosion and the tremor of the earth could be heard in the distance.

And the waves on the surface of the sea, as if attracted by something, crashed into the shore at a very fast speed, and unlike the waves that were also stirred up in other places, the waves in the middle disappeared strangely, and the sea water behind them continued to rush forward, the waves rushed forward in the yellow of the desert, and gradually disappeared from people's sight, and at this time a patrol ship from Ying'en Harbor rushed to the shore at high speed, and then it appeared strangely in the desert, and the steel hull moved at high speed in the desert.

The cheers intensified.

"It's been eleven years, and it's finally opened!"

King Anhua muttered excitedly.

Of course he was excited, but he owned 30 percent of the Suez Canal Company, and according to previous estimates, the canal's annual net income would not be less than 10 million dragon dollars, which was even the minimum figure, which meant that he would receive at least 3 million dragon dollars a year, which was almost catching up with the Golden State Company.

"Congratulations!"

Li Xuan said.

"Rejoice and rejoice!"

Murad said busily.

Then both of them burst out laughing at the same time.

Li Xuan holds the same shares as him, which was held by Emperor Yang back then, and later transferred to his son, and the remaining 40% is all owned by Daming and Anhua, of course, mainly by Daming investors, that is to say, this canal that died tens of thousands of people finally dug through, the future income will be divided by all shareholders headed by them, of course, this income is after deducting taxes, because the canal company is a company registered in Daming, and the canal is in the land of Anhua, Therefore, this company needs to pay corresponding taxes to the imperial government and the Anhua government.

But the main beneficiaries are the shareholders.

For the Ming Empire, this canal is not a matter of money, at this time, there are already dozens of huge ships full of military supplies waiting in Ying'en Port, these are not the hundreds of tons of small ships that Zhenxi Port Shipyard made to transport materials for the front line, these are all 10,000-ton giant ships, and there are even a few 20,000-ton ships inside. Previously, these huge ships could not sail to the Mediterranean Sea due to the lack of supply ports belonging to the Ming Dynasty, but with the opening of the Anhua Canal, this problem was completely solved, and they could sail directly into the Mediterranean Sea through this canal, and then send the thousands of tons of supplies to Beirut.

There were no longer any restrictions on the logistics of the Ming army.

That's all that matters.

"This is the real ship!"

In the port of Beirut, Xu Jie looked at a steel giant ship that appeared in his field of vision, and couldn't help but say proudly.

The Seventh Army led by him is now responsible for operations in Lebanon, which is actually just logistics, and the Seventh Army has been the main force before, which is to let them repair, while one of the other four armies is responsible for clearing the east bank of the Dead Sea, two armies are besieging Damascus, and one army is attacking Homs, and the two ports of Beirut and Tartus are responsible for support, but the lack of transportation capacity has kept them in a tight state of material supply, which seriously affected the progress of the Ming army.

Now it's finally settled.

The supplies brought by this ship are almost equivalent to those small boats in the past combined.

And a local next to him was dumbfounded at this time.

Together with all the locals behind him, they were stunned to see this huge ship like a steel castle, spitting black smoke slowly, next to the huge ship, several small fishing boats were fleeing in horror as if encountering a sea monster, a small steamer quickly rushed forward, guiding the huge ship that occupied almost a third of the pier to dock on the shore.

"Quick, take your people to unload!"

Xu Jie patted the man's shoulder and said.

The latter came to his senses and quickly waved with a flattering smile, and thousands of locals behind him immediately stepped forward......

Well, there are not only warriors who fight for their faith in this place, the war has been fought to this point, how can there be a thing where everyone continues to adhere to their faith, especially after Jerusalem was conquered, the strength of the Ming army is enough to suffocate, some of the sober-minded people here have begun to choose to accept the rule of the Ming Dynasty and abandon the old faith, in Syria, where the religion is most mixed, this situation is especially serious, after all, the people here are very flexible in their beliefs.

For example, these Alawite guys submitted to the Ming as quickly as possible.

And they were rewarded.

These heretics, who were originally suppressed by the orthodox forces, have now become loyal dogs of the Ming Dynasty, and have been rewarded by His Majesty the Emperor, four Alawite chieftains have been made foreign vassals, and they will receive nearly half of the land in Syria in the future as a reward for their understanding, so now all the young and middle-aged people of the Alawite faction are serving the army of the empire, like being a stevedore, which is a trivial matter that is not worth mentioning, and there is a volunteer army fighting with the Ming army.

"My lord, another group of natives has come to Shun!"

Just as Xu Jie was contented to watch the good dogs work for him, an officer walked up to him and said.

"Oh, call over and see."

Xu Jie said with a smile.

Soon the officer came with nearly a thousand men, women, and children, and the first old man immediately bowed with a smile on his face.

"Are you willing to convert to Wanghua?"

Xu Jie said.

"My lord, we are all willing to take refuge at the feet of the true gods, and we are all willing to become the subjects of the Emperor of the Ming Empire, and from now on we will always be loyal to the Ming Dynasty, to His Majesty the Emperor and his descendants, and only ask that the Lord can grant us a land to flourish, where we will build a shrine and pay taxes to the officials of the Empire."

The old man said in stiff Chinese.

"Very well, I like you like this."

Xu Jie said with satisfaction.

At the same time, he took the map from the officer's hand, looked at it, then pointed to one of the locations and said, "Do you know here?" ”

"Yes."

The old man said hurriedly.

"This place was originally inhabited by some Xie Sect elements, they were stubborn, resisting the king so they were cleaned up, and now there are probably some women there, and this place will be your residence in the future, take this document, and in the future, our army will come over, just show this document to them directly, and they will know that you are already Ming subjects, but the priests of the Holy Sect will check your faith at any time, if you dare to deceive us, it will be a dead end."

Xu Jie said.

During this time, there are often such people who come to attach to the Ming Dynasty, and these people are also given the identity of the subjects, after all, the people on this land cannot be completely cleaned, and the people of the Ming Dynasty will definitely not immigrate here, so a certain number of residents must be retained to the Ming Dynasty as an economic colony, in fact, the generals of the Ming army have several such documents in their hands, and the tribe that holds the certificate is also the subject of the Ming Dynasty, and the people who issued them the certificate can give them a designated place of residence.

"Thank you very much, sir!"

The old man said excitedly.

At the same time, he quietly handed a small bag to Xu Jie, Xu Jie nodded with a smile, and then handed him the document, the old man took the clansmen to bow again, and then happily went to their new home, Xu Jie threw the bag of gems to his own soldiers, at this time, the Alawite guy came over, looked at the people who were leaving, and said: "These Jews are very smart!" ”

"Jews?"

Xu Jie was stunned for a moment.

"Yes, my lord, they are all Jews."

The man said.

"How can there be Jews here?"

Xu Jie asked.

"There are a lot of Jews here, they all live in the area of Jerusalem, when the army fought Jerusalem before, they ran out of there, they have been in this area, they are not welcome everywhere, but adults should be careful, these Jews are very firm in their faith, they were driven out of Europe, they have not changed their faith in Europe for more than a thousand years, and they are very good at hiding themselves, it is estimated that they will not really convert to the Holy Religion."

The man said.

Xu Jie looked at the backs of those people, glanced at him, and made a motion to wipe his neck in the latter's inquiring gaze.

There have been secret orders within the Ming Dynasty, and the Jews are not left, although I don't know why, but it is said to be the emperor's order, so it must be carried out, but the Ming army can't do it, after all, people have taken the initiative to ask for return, so they can only borrow the hands of these guys, they must also like this kind of work, in fact, the believers of different sects in this area have been full of enthusiasm for killing another sect, this kind of thing is also very easy to do, just sneak attack in the middle of the night, at this time this area is messy, there are not a few village massacres one day.

"What about women?"

The man immediately understood what he meant, and said eagerly.

"Women and children don't need to, I'll arrange for a few slave traders to take over."

Xu Jie raised his head as he spoke, a girl among those Jews was turning her head, although her clothes were shabby, but she could not hide her natural beauty, and her heart was a little budding when she saw the vicissitudes of life.

"Don't worry, the small one will be delivered to you in the house."

The Alawite guy said in understanding.

"You do things, I don't worry!"

Xu Jie patted him on the shoulder and said.

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