456 Ottomans falling apart
Hong Tiancheng has long known that it is unrealistic to fly all the way from land to the east, and it will take at least a few decades to do so, maybe it will take hundreds of years, and Hong Tiancheng can't tolerate such a long time!
God knows what the hell the hell the world will look like in a few decades!
The technology of the Mini rifle has expanded all over the world, and the Hanyang-made rifle has also been imitated by the anti-Han League, and the longer it drags on, the more unfavorable it will be to Hong Tiancheng.
In addition to the morale of the Taiping army in the war, the biggest reliance is on advanced weapons and equipment, if the natives of this world will level the level of science and technology, it will definitely be a disaster for the Taiping army with insufficient troops.
Even from the perspective of eliminating the strongest country, Hong Tiancheng's first target should be the anti-Han alliance in the British Isles!
It was from there that rifle technology spread to the whole world!
The reason why the Taiping army fought the Ottoman Turkish Empire first was only because the Ottomans were too jumpy and vigorously provoked the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
Therefore, Hong Tiancheng needs to defeat the Ottoman Turkish Empire first, so that he does not have the ability to make trouble for his hind ass, and it is better to dismember it and lose its combat effectiveness.
As a result, Hong Tiancheng gave the Ottoman regime in Asia Minor a favorable treatment, Hong Tiancheng would not interfere in the affairs of Asia Minor, all he needed to do was to hold Istanbul as a defensive node, and Asia Minor only needed to submit to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and make a barrier to intercept the invasion from Central Asia.
Hong Tiancheng's goal in the next stage is to occupy the three islands of LinkedIn and completely eliminate the advanced production base of the anti-Han alliance, so it is necessary to ensure the stability of the rear.
The Taiping army razed Istanbul with a great victory, like a god's punishment, and the Ottoman Turkish Empire lost most of the central high-level people, so the Ottomans in Asia Minor were moved!
However, due to the constraints of many parties and the rebellion of the anti-Han alliance, the Asia Minor Peninsula never made a unified response and was still quarrelling.
Hong Tiancheng was not in a hurry, and just used this time to work overtime to replenish the consumed ammunition and materials, build more military trucks, and urge the people in the European occupation zone to overhaul the roads.
It's a pity that when the news of the independence of the Azerbaijani uprising spread throughout the Ottoman Turkish Empire, a larger wave of independence broke out in the Ottoman Turkish Empire!
First, a tribal uprising broke out in Yemen, the southernmost part of the Arabian Peninsula, which successfully expelled a small number of old Ottoman troops, and then the rulers of the cities of Mecca and Medina in the Arabian Peninsula declared their independence from the rule of the Ottoman Turkish Empire and established themselves as kings!
Suddenly, the Ottoman Empire lost a large part of the Arabian Peninsula.
However, tragedy ensued, and after seeing the Ottoman Turkish Empire crumbling and never sending a suppression force, Palestine, Syria, Khasa, Basra, Karbala, Baghdad, Mosul, Ahacheh, Chaldiran, Antioch, Damascus, Jerusalem, Beirut and other regions and cities rebelled independently, either as kings or as urban federations.
After the British of the anti-Han alliance saw that the Ottoman Turkish Empire was on the verge of collapse, they couldn't help but stretch out their hands, and with the support of the British, Egypt, Tunisia, Tripoli, and Algeria all established independent states and restored their original rule!
They were originally the land that was later conquered by the Ottoman Turks, and they have always been dissatisfied with the oppression of the Ottomans!
However, these four independent North African countries did not become independent as the previous series of territories, because the independence of those territories was the result of the Ottoman generals themselves changing their yellow robes.
These four North African countries were spontaneously revolted by the locals, and although there were a large number of flintlock muskets supported by the British, the local Ottoman generals were naturally unwilling!
The Ottoman generals were not willing to obey the orders of the British, so they did not accept the independence conditions offered by the British!
The Ottoman generals of these four countries preferred to follow the example of the independent urban regions of the Arabian Peninsula and establish themselves as kings.
As a result, large-scale fighting broke out in the four North African countries, mainly between the Ottoman garrisons and the local armed insurgents.
However, at the beginning of the war, there was a one-sided situation, and in less than a month, the local armed forces of the uprising were beaten by the Ottoman garrison, whose weapons were still in the stage of hot and cold weapons, and even his mother did not know him......
The Ottoman Turkish Empire in the 17th century was not the sick man of Europe, and even third-rate local garrisons could easily suppress local armed rebellions!
If it weren't for the large number of flintlock muskets supported by the British, the armed uprisings in these four North African countries would not have been launched.
The collapse of the Ottoman Turkish Empire was not a victory over the uprising of the local oppressed peoples, but a choice made by those Ottoman careerists for their own benefit.
Seeing that the local rebels they supported were so uncompetitive, the British had no choice but to make huge concessions and instead support the victorious Ottoman garrison generals, as long as they established their own state, the British would not add any strings attached!
It's not that the British don't have the strength to fly to the four countries of North Africa, but they don't dare to transfer the main army to North Africa, and the threat of the Taiping Army still exists!
The Ottoman Turkish Empire had fallen, and the British naturally had to be more vigilant, and the training of the local army expansion never stopped.
In this way, after the armed uprising of the local people of the four North African countries lost the support of the British, they were quickly suppressed, and the Ottoman generals fiercely suppressed it bloodily, and established their own countries, but because there were too many Ottoman generals, the original four North African countries were scattered into pieces......
This is the reason why the British were reluctant to support the independence of the Ottoman generals, and the fragments of North Africa in this place, let alone confronting the Taiping army, they themselves did not have a human brain, and they would be able to burn high incense......
With the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in North Africa, the fertile plains of Mesopotamia and Armenia all raised their banners and fell into chaos.
Even the islands of Crete and Cyprus, which were close to the peninsula of Asia Minor, ceased to obey the dictates of the Asia Minor regime and exercised self-government.
By the turn of 1687, the Ottoman Empire, which had once spanned Europe, Asia and Africa, had completely collapsed, leaving only the peninsula of Asia Minor still under the de facto rule of the Ottoman Turkish Empire.
In fact, in those independent and chaotic areas, the military strength is not strong, relying on the new Ottoman army in Asia Minor, if it is slowly suppressed, it is not difficult to restore the rule of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, but will the Taiping army allow them to do so? ()
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