Chapter 363: Luring the Wolf into the House
Of course, Yang Feng would not have known that Ryokari had already dissected his sinister intentions very thoroughly, and he was now meeting with King Abdullah in Jordan, a country that was originally a British protectorate, and Yang Feng had only been given a practical duli after mediating between the British and the Arabs last time, but because of the need to defend the Suez Canal defense, British troops were still allowed to be stationed here until the end of the war.
Of course, Abdullah had no opinion on Yang Feng's proposal, he was twenty years ago when the French invaded Syria, his father sent to lead the army to fight against the French, and was intercepted by the British halfway, and then stayed in Amman to become the emir of Jordan outside the British protectorate. Ibn . Among Ali's sons, he is the eldest of the living, so to speak, the patriarch of the entire Hashemite family, and it makes sense for him to wear the crown of the Hejaz.
Of course, Yang Feng can't help him in vain, the condition is very simple, the port of Jeddah has been garrisoned for twenty years, so long is enough, and this is not the real Indian Ocean stronghold he designed, who will use it here with such good conditions as Pakistan, now it is just a temporary station, and after the fleet is completed, it will be transferred to Pakistan, and then a few ships will be symbolically left here, but the army and air base must really be retained.
"We only lease the facilities of the port of Jeddah and the land used to build the land and air bases, this is still the land of the Hejaz Kingdom, and the people here are still managed by you, including the taxes of the port, so this is completely different from the concession in the colonial era." Yang Feng said.
He doesn't have anything to say about Abdullah even if he really makes a concession, what Yang Feng gave him is not just a crown, before it becomes the world's oil supplier, whoever controls the holy land in the Arab world is the boss. This is not just because of the religious significance, but because the Hajj tax can support a large number of troops, and the reason why he was driven away by Ibn Saud was largely because of the heavy tax on the Muslims who made the Hajj, which caused public outrage, so when Ibn Saud came to beat him, no one helped, so we can see how important this tax is. Compared with barren Jordan, Yang Feng gave him a treasure trove.
In this way, the two sides quickly settled on what they needed in the form of a treaty, and added the Gulf Oil Company's oil exploration and exploitation rights in the Hejaz and Jordan, but this did not make much sense, because the vast majority of the oil in the Arabian Peninsula was on the Persian Gulf coast, and the amount in the west was very small.
After solving this problem, as Yang Feng's various armies were ready, King Abdullah of Jordan officially announced that he would succeed to the throne of the Hejaz, and demanded that Ibn Saud withdraw from the Hejaz territory that he had occupied. Otherwise, they will be expelled by force.
Ibn Saud was directly amused by him, you still expelled by force, what kind of force to expel him, he didn't know that Yang Feng's army had begun to be deployed in place, in the final analysis, he was just a small country, and the intelligence system was not so efficient, not to mention that Yang Feng had also taken some secrecy measures.
Ibn Saud angrily responded that Hussein. Ibn . Ali is to blame. The people of the Hejaz were voluntarily thrown into his arms, and then there was a whole bunch of things in Balabala. For example, the old guy collected too much taxes, for example, he announced his succession to the caliphate before the Ottoman emperor abdicated, although he only advanced it by two days, but this nature was very bad, and there was also the suspicion that the Hashemite family was the direct descendant of Muhammad.
But his remarks were immediately met with harsh rebukes from the royal families of Jordan and Iraq, and the Hashemite family has been the guardians of the Holy Land for nearly a millennium. How could he doubt this, and where was he hiding in Ibn Saud when the old Hejaz and his four princes led the Arab rebels and the venerable Lawrence in a bloody struggle against the Turks? What right to jump out now to blame the real heroes who have died, King Hussein was only taken advantage of by him because of the Balfour Declaration against the British. In the end, he is the real traitor of the Arab world, the sinner who betrayed the nation for his own interests.
Iraq then announced that it had joined the crusade against him.
At this time, Ibn Saud saw that the situation was wrong, but unfortunately it was too late, Yang Feng's armored troops had already driven to Basra, and then the soldiers were waiting to beat him.
Immediately after the Iraqi government announced that it would invite Muslim brothers from China to jointly punish him, a traitor to the Muslim world, and before Ibn Saud could react, a torrent of steel swept up the yellow sand in the sky and rushed straight to Riyadh, at the same time, a cavalry division led by Ma Hongbin and the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Oman also began to attack northward, and an army led by King Abdullah of Jordan himself also went south to Mecca.
Ibn Saud was really frightened at this time, how could the monarch of a small country with a population of several million be able to withstand such a devastation, while mobilizing those sheikhs with different evil intentions to cobble together an army of about 20,000 people to go north to block the armored forces from Iraq to the south, while preparing for the city defense and waiting in Riyadh to meet Ma Hongbin attacking from the south, as for the west, it can only depend on what choice those local chiefs make.
After understanding the current situation, the chiefs of the Hejaz, who had forced Hussein away, betrayed him almost without hesitation, and then welcomed their new king back with a smile, and several families in the port of Jeddah even united to expel the Saudi royal family's troops here, and then invited Yang Feng's sailors to land and take over their city.
The panicked Ibn Saud began to ask the United States and Britain for help, but unfortunately this time the two countries did not hesitate to reject him, and made it clear to him that abdicating and surrendering to Yang Feng was his best choice at this time.
"Your Majesty, it is already a mistake for you to refuse Mr. Yang's kindness, so please don't continue on the wrong path, and it won't do you any good to continue to fight against an opponent you can't fight," the British ambassador to Saudi Arabia even told him unceremoniously.
However, his words had the opposite effect, the lonely and desperate Ibn Saud made a decision to finally bury himself, he sent a distress telegram to Rommel in Egypt and General Yamada Otozo, the commander of the Japanese Indian Front in Mumbai, in fact, as the only country in the Middle East that has not chosen to take sides, he has never cut off the secret contact channel with these two, but unfortunately Rommel also rejected him, Yang Feng has reached a behind-the-scenes deal with the mustache, of course he will not wade into this muddy water again.
But Yamada Otozo can be said to have agreed to his request without hesitation, and clearly told him that if he held on for half a month, the Japanese army would enter the Persian Gulf to provide support for him, and Yamada Otozo was thinking about attacking the Arabian Peninsula for a day, but the cabinet never agreed, and now such a good opportunity, he decided that the cabinet did not agree to do it, Tojo Hideki was just worried about stimulating Yang Feng to incur retaliation, and now Yang Feng has entered Shenyang, what else is there to be afraid of.
Over the years, he has turned Mumbai into a real military industrial base in India, and with the industrial capacity here alone, there is no problem in maintaining the operation of 500,000 troops, and Yang Feng is only 60,000 in the Middle East, the British army and the Jews need to resist the German army, and it is impossible to draw out to help, and because he has the support of India and those servants, he can at least draw 150,000 people to join the Middle East battlefield, almost a three-to-one ratio of troops, and there is also naval support, why can't he kill Yang Feng's people?
As for the question of Yang Feng's increase in troops, he really doesn't believe that Yang Feng has the ability to continue to increase his troops, Burma, India, Central Asia, Australia, his territory in so many provinces, just outside the violent army of millions of soldiers, where is there so much war potential? In addition, even if it is a long way to increase troops from China, it will be a long way to go, and it may take several months to send troops to the Middle East, but he can transfer troops over in a few days, and there is no comparison between the two sides at all.
His calculation is very good, but Ibn Saud over there is dumbfounded, Yang Feng's armored troops are advancing at a speed of 30 kilometers per hour, Riyadh is only two days away from Iraq, if his 20,000 troops can't stop this force, it won't take a week for people to come to the city, at that time I will ask you for Mao's help, in other words, can Riyadh's ancient adobe city wall block bombs or artillery?
He hurriedly sent another telegram urging Yamada, telling this guy very threateningly that he would never fight the enemy in Riyadh, and when Yang Feng's tank arrived in Riyadh, he would surrender, and as for the next thing you can do, you can do it yourself.
Yamada Otozo doesn't care if he lives or dies! Anyway, you send a telegram to me asking for help, this will complete your historical mission, let alone surrender, it is none of my business that you just let people die, of course, I will take on the heavy responsibility of avenging you, as for the speed of rescue, I will do my best, whether you can wait until I can depend on your own ability.
The two sides are arguing, this matter is known to the outside world, Ibn Saud originally did not want to make a noise, after all, he attracted the Japanese and he had no way to retreat, if it was not made public, at least before the Japanese army landed, he still had the qualifications to be a wall grass, but unfortunately he overestimated the secrecy of his subordinates, the British controlled the Middle East for more than half a century, and the penetration power was not something he could imagine, as soon as his second telegram to Yamada Otozo was sent, the news was known to the British. (To be continued.) )