[Today's second update]

In fact, General Tyris had no intention of fighting the French, his minimum purpose was to hold Egypt, and his highest purpose was only to attack the fortress of Ismailia. Now, his plan has failed, not only has the original plan not been completed, but hundreds of thousands of troops have been dragged in Libya by the French and Dutch troops, and it is a question whether he can return to Egypt safely.

General Tieris confronted Li Yan, but Li Yan insisted that it was the Mediterranean Fleet's problem and shifted the blame to the Royal Navy. General Tieris then went to Port Said and questioned Yang Chen, commander of the Mediterranean Fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy. Yang Chen secretly scolded Li Yan for being shameless in his heart, so he had to bite the bullet and insist that it was the Dutch Navy's investigation, and the navigator of the guide zhì fleet misjudged and brought the Turkish Imperial Army to Syria.

Thieris was so angry that he knew that Li Yan and the others did it on purpose, and secretly scolded them for being shameless, thinking that the Chinese Imperial Navy and Army were passing the buck to each other, and there was no way to talk about it at all, so he simply stopped delaying the time, and hurriedly returned to Cairo to preside over the North African war.

Li Yanshun solved the crisis of the Turkish army's transit through the border, and successfully pinched the Turkish army together with the French and Dutch armies, allowing them to fight each other and consume the strength of the three parties. At the same time, Li Yan found that Turkey had done its best to gather about 140,000 troops to reinforce North Africa, and it would be difficult for the Turkish Empire to gather such a large army for a long time, so Li Yan focused on the hundreds of thousands of Turkish troops in Libya.

"Now the Turks hate us to death"

Li Zicheng carried a pot of good tea and came to Li Yan's office.

"Then it doesn't need to be said" Li Yan said with a smile: "Just look at Tierris's ugly face."

The two burst into laughter.

Li Zicheng said with a smile: "Fortunately, we came up with this clever plan, otherwise no matter how we deal with this matter, it will make the Imperial Military Department dissatisfied, and it will affect the future of you and me in the future.

Li Yan nodded, thinking that when he heard about the Turkish army crossing the border just now, he was frightened, and he still gasped when he thought about it now.

"What are you going to do next?"

Li Zicheng obviously saw Li Yan's thoughts, so he asked.

Li Yan knew that he couldn't hide it, so he said: "Now the situation in North Africa and even the whole of Africa is obvious, all countries are seizing the time to carve up the African Empire, and the African Sending Army uses the Kingdom of Imalina as a springboard, and now it has controlled most of southern Africa, and further north it will touch the territory of the Portuguese." And the African continent is now basically divided, France and the Netherlands can only snatch the colonies from the Turkish Empire, and soon Africa will stage a great war of colonial reshuffling"

Li Zicheng thought about it, and suddenly said, "What are you talking about?" You have to ......"

Li Yan nodded and said: "We are guarding this Suez Canal, watching other countries compete for North Africa, do you say that we have taken the initiative to gain great benefits?" Or is it a big profit to sit back and wait? ”

Li Zicheng thought for a while and said, "With our current strength, there is no problem in dividing troops to occupy Egypt. If we control Egypt, then we can really control the Suez Canal, and if we wait and see, according to the combat effectiveness of the French and Dutch armies, I think the army should be able to defeat the Turkish army, occupy Syria, and then capture Egypt, which will threaten our interests in the canal."

"That's right," Li Yan said, "If the French are alive and the Dutch control Egypt, they will have an excuse to meddle in the Suez Canal affairs, and then we will be passive."

"So you're going to take the initiative?"

Li Yan nodded, noncommittal.

Li Zicheng asked worriedly: "It's just that we are just living in the tun army, and without the order of the military headquarters, we can't leave the defense area without permission, let alone start a war lightly."

"I naturally understand" Li Yan said with a smile: "We can ask the imperial court to act again"

"But without a year and a half, the court's reply can't come at all"

Li Yan thought about it, and suddenly said: "That's easy, we can ask the African Dispatch Army Command to help, as long as they agree, we can use their war to occupy Egypt with all our might."

Li Zicheng nodded and replied: "It's okay, but once the war with the Turkish Empire starts, the battlefield may not be able to control the territory of Egypt, and it will lead to the next world war."

Li Yan sneered and said, "You and I are both soldiers, what is our biggest dream?" ”

"Of course there is a war," Li Zicheng said with certainty: "Soldiers are born for war"

"So we have to create more fuses to start wars, otherwise we will be too dull for the rest of our lives"

At the beginning of the 14th year of Shenwu, Li Yan wrote a letter to Xue Zefeng, the commander of the African Dispatch Army of the Chinese Empire, in which Li Yan described the overall strategic concept of North and South Africa, which was deeply praised by Xue Zefeng.

Therefore, Xue Zefeng submitted Li Yan's strategic deployment to the military department on the one hand, and sent the liaison officer Dao Ismailia to carry out further planning and deployment with Li Yan.

Both of them knew that if the scale of the war was expanded, the situation in the local theater would get out of control and even trigger a larger-scale all-out war. Therefore, the implementation of the plan was postponed as much as possible, and the implementation could only be carried out after the official approval of the central government of the empire.

Fortunately, the Franco-Spanish War dragged Spain and France back, and the Spanish army in Austria cooperated with the main Spanish force to fight and suddenly attacked Paris, France from behind, leading the French army to suffer from the enemy before and after, and the supplies could not be transported to North Africa in time, so that the French army suspended the offensive momentum due to lack of supplies in the North African battlefield.

The French army suspended the offensive, the Dutch army was inferior to the Turkish army in total strength, and was driven back to Tunisia by the Turkish army, the North African battlefield was in a better situation, and the Turkish army regained a large territory.

In this way, the Turkish army continued to advance westward to regain the lost territory, and General Tyris was so overjoyed that he intended to recover all the lost territory as much as possible, so he no longer wanted to return to Egypt.

The Turkish army seized the opportunity and marched westward with all its might, and even transferred a large number of garrisons from Egypt and Libya, making the two places where the strength was already weak even weaker.

Li Yan has been paying close attention to the situation of the Turkish army, and learned that the Turkish army has won one victory after another, and the number of troops has soared to 200,000. Li Yan did not dare to fight the Turkish army at the cost of the Suez Canal, so he postponed his plan to occupy Egypt.

However, Li Yan was not idle. That is, after France and the Netherlands went to war against the Ottoman Turkish Empire, Li Yan joined forces with Yang Chen, commander of the Mediterranean Fleet, to agitate the European powers everywhere and provoke contradictions between the European Holy See and the Turkish Empire.

Out of fear and reverence for the Chinese Empire, the sharp contradictions between the Holy See in Europe and the Turkish religion, and the interest of all governments in the Turkish Empire's territory in Europe and in North Africa, the European countries formed a strong anti-Ottoman alliance under the liaison of the Chinese Empire's embassies in various countries, and thus the Second Crusade began. V