The Turkish envoy to the Sultan did not hesitate to refuse the demands of many countries, not because he was afraid of becoming a sinner of any ethnic group, but because if he agreed to this request, he was afraid that he would be executed by the Sultan if he returned home. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Negotiations broke down, and the multinational forces continued their operations, and the multinational combined fleet through the Sea of Marmara began to bombard the Turkish capital Istanbul, while the Iraqi front of the Tang Dynasty also completed the initial reconstruction, with a Datang Yamato Brigade as the main axis, supplemented by Persian, Arab, Armenian, and Kurdish troops. This is a lightly armed army, the terrain of the Anatolian plateau in Turkey is harsh, and it is not suitable for large-scale armored troops at all, while the Tang Army trained large and soldiers skilled in mountain combat, forming a very good lightly armed army. This army numbered about 20,000 men, basically equipped with the second-line equipment of the Tang Dynasty, and the Japanese soldiers were also equipped with a considerable number of mortars as fire support, and they sent troops to the eastern part of the Asia Minor Peninsula, aiming directly at Ankara, an important city in Turkey. In addition, the army aviation of the Tang Dynasty also sent attack aircraft groups to provide air support to this lightly armed mountain force, and the Turkish army was defeated in successive battles.

Under the bombardment of the multinational fleet, Istanbul was almost in ruins, and a large number of residents fled the city, and the Sultan and his cronies had to be evacuated. At this time, a civil strife broke out in Turkey, and the Turkish Praetorian Guard, the Janissary Legion, which had participated in many coups in history, took Sultan Selim III hostage and demanded that he accept the demands of the multinational coalition and immediately stop the war.

The Janissary Legion was the earliest standing army of the Ottoman Empire and was considered the most combat-ready unit of the Ottoman army. In essence, this army was not composed of Turks at all in the beginning, they were Slavs who had been converted to the Green Religion and taught Turkish since childhood, ethnically Greeks, Bulgarians, Sevillens, Albanians and Bosnians, and later expanded to Romanians, Georgians, Ukrainians, etc. This army had been the most powerful musket infantry in Europe, and the Austrians had considered it stronger than any European army. Eventually, however, the army began to corrupt and lose its effectiveness, making it almost impossible to be sent into battle.

But it was still an army, and it was the Sultan's personal guard, and Selim III did not expect this army to betray him at this time. The Janissaries thought very directly, Turkey could not defeat the multinational force led by the Tang Dynasty, and if Selim III still held his neck and did not compromise, so many troops would turn their country into devastation. The assets and homes of the Turkish nobles and the Janissaries were bound to be destroyed by the multinational forces. During the bombing of Istanbul, many people's homes and properties were destroyed.

They will not simply attribute this hatred to the multinational force, because they cannot fight it. So they forcibly staged a mutiny, coerced Selim III, and demanded that he sign the armistice.

Selim III had no choice but to agree to an armistice and sue for peace. In the end, Tang, Britain, France, Italy, Russia and other countries held a signing ceremony on the deck of the Tang battleship Sunda on the sea of Istanbul. According to the agreement, Ottoman Turkey relinquished control of the two principalities of Romania, the Kingdom of Greece, the Republic of Egypt, and the Kurdish Republic formally became independent, Turkey ceded Syria to France, Cyprus to Great Britain, and Italy received Libya as its mandate. Turkey ceded Iraq and the land belonging to Turkey on the Tianfang Peninsula to Datang, and Datang troops also withdrew from Turkish land and returned to the land belonging to the Kurdish Republic and the overseas territories of Datang.

Secondly, Turkey opened its market, joined the Warsaw Trade Agreement, granted most-favored-nation status to the other countries of the Entente, and at the same time was obliged to protect the security of merchants from other countries on its soil.

Immediately after the signing of the Istanbul Treaty, Turkey declined from a world power to a second-rate small state. More than half of the land was divided, revealing its weak nature. At a time when all countries were struggling to industrialize, Turkey fell victim to a slight slowness.

In addition, some of the remaining lands of Turkey, including Albania, Serbia and Bosnia, are gradually becoming more and more separatist and independent, and it is conceivable that these places will break away from Turkey's bosom for some time to come, and Turkey has no way to stop it.

The future of Turkey Tang people do not care, although this war is not morally decent, but the gains of the Tang are huge. Two pieces of land rich in oil and with development potential have made Datang's strength jump again. Administratively, Datang was preparing to gradually annex Morocco in North Africa, and Iraq was officially incorporated into the Tianfang Overseas Territory. This brings the area of Tianfang's overseas territory to more than 3.6 million square kilometers, including Saudi Arabia, the Gulf states, Oman, Yemen, Iraq, Jordan and Palestine. The Tang Dynasty immediately drew up a ten-year plan for the settlement of Tianfang and Carthage. The Datang Immigration Bureau plans to immigrate 1 million Chinese to the overseas territorial coastal areas of Datang Carthage within 10 years and establish a preliminary industry. The two major resettlement areas are the two river basins of Iraq and Palestine, both of which are suitable for irrigated agriculture and relatively suitable for the population.

Some of the indigenous people of these lands can stay in the area, while others will be relocated to Egypt or elsewhere, where each family will receive a certain amount of compensation. Given that most of these locals are nomadic tribes and live in extreme poverty, it is acceptable for many to move after receiving some subsistence supplies.

This action is somewhat similar to the bloody and tearful road of the Americans who drove the Indians westward in another face, and the Tang Dynasty's methods were not necessarily completely mild, but on the whole did not cause much chaos. The local population is already relatively small, and it is relatively easy to deal with. As for some of the more extreme religious elements, they swore to protect their sect's land to the death, and the only way to end up was to destroy it.

The Celestial Territory covers several major religious sites, such as Mecca and Jerusalem. Datang intends to preserve the style of these historic cities, and it is not impossible for them to become tourist attractions in the future. As for the issue of Israel, Datang has no intention of creating a Jewish ghetto on its own land, and in the future there will be a situation in which Chinese, Jews, and Arabs coexist in the Palestinian region. However, the Chinese are likely to make up the majority of the population, and the Chinese language spoken in the overseas territories of the Tang Dynasty is not negotiable. (To be continued.) )