. Sadat waited for many days, and finally waited for a reply from the sea soul. However, it was just a reply letter refusing to form an alliance and refusing to send troops. This letter was sprinkled with thousands of lines, and the last one said: Your Excellency General Sadat, I am very sorry that our side has no intention of interfering in the Middle East and is inconvenient to form an alliance with Egypt. However, although the alliance is not successful, but business can be done, we have thousands of large sailing ships, I wonder if you are willing to buy it? These warships must have contributed to the defense of the Egyptian Navy. If you buy a battleship, you can also get a number of arquebuses as a gift.

Sadat was a little depressed.

The Chinese have no intention of interfering in the Middle East? So what are you doing here to occupy Socotra? Isn't that talking nonsense with your eyes open! The real intention is probably to sit back and watch the crusaders in the Middle East and Europe fight viciously, and be ready to pick up the bargain. His intention to use the "Egyptian-Chinese Alliance" to deter the European crusader fleet was also shattered.

However, although the Chinese refused to form an alliance, they agreed to sell him arms and equipment, which is equivalent to becoming half an alliance of Egyptian players in disguise, which is more or less an unusually strong backup. As long as this news spreads, it will definitely be able to boost the morale of Egyptian players, boost the morale of players across the country, and restore the confidence that has been lost on the battlefield in Palestine.

After he had the bottom of his mind, he immediately sent a regular Egyptian player mission to the port of Hambantota, Sri Lanka, with great fanfare, to negotiate with the Chinese Indian Ocean Naval Command about the purchase of sailing warships. The Egyptian mission arrived at the port of Hambantota, a massive harbor with thousands of bronze batteries and light and dark bastions along the coast, and thousands of gunboats moored side by side with their berths in the harbor. There is no end in sight, and you can faintly feel the murderous aura coming from miles away. There were also Chinese sailing caravans sailing in and out of the Indian Ocean, and the sheer number of them shocked them.

This is called a real military base. The port of Hambantota alone is comparable to the entire Egyptian naval fleet, if not far more. If Egypt had such a naval base, it would be enough to dominate the entire Mediterranean and make the European crusader fleets fearful.

It's no wonder that Indian players, with their huge naval might, are reluctant to compete with the Chinese fleet in their own Indian Ocean. Fight against such a murderous fleet. It takes a great deal of courage.

To the regret of the Egyptian mission, the Chinese players did not intend to sell them new gunboats, but only old warships. And even if they want to, they can't afford it, now a new gunboat costs twenty times more than an old battleship, it's not cost-effective. Moreover, the old ships were not really obsolete, and most of the European crusader fleets still used them.

When the Egyptian mission returned to Egypt, it brought with it more than a dozen gunboats for testing, 3,000 old warships, and a large number of arquebuses. For a time, players from all over the Middle East shook. Three thousand warships were procured in one go, which is almost half of the current Egyptian fleet. The number of warships in the Egyptian naval force exploded by 50% overnight.

This made the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Syria and other countries very excited. Their own shipyards also produced battleships, but in limited quantities. Except for China. No other country could have increased their warships overnight.

Player missions from various countries in the Middle East have come to purchase warships in bulk.

Just when the alliance of players in the Middle East took the initiative to purchase, China's Indian Ocean fleet also took the initiative to sell warships in the Middle East and Africa.

Maybe it's because there's no war, or maybe it's because I'm idle and lack of money to spend. From the commander of the Indian Ocean Navy, Sea Soul, to the small head of each sub-fleet of the Indian Ocean Fleet, they all turned into serious businessmen overnight, and they were very active in selling their old-fashioned warships to players from all over the world.

Other than that. Chinese merchant players active in the Indian Ocean have also been tasked with helping to sell vintage warships, and each ship sold will be rewarded with a rake. For a time, selling ships became the number one business for Chinese businessmen. They have traveled to almost every corner of dozens of coastal countries in the Middle East and Africa, visiting players and powerhouses everywhere to find customers who need ships.

There is no problem with the quality of the old Chinese warships, and these warships are all Chinese building ships, which have a good attack / defense / degree, and can use NP archers and arquebusiers to fight. It can be used in military operations. It can also be used as an armed merchant ship carrying cargo. Such armed merchant ships have a higher level of defense than ordinary merchant ships, and the war is constantly raging in Africa. The big 6, with its many pirates, is undoubtedly very popular.

With the incorruptible tongue of Chinese merchants, 30,000 or 40,000 old-fashioned warships were sold like flowing water. There are even players from the 6 hinterland countries in Africa who bought warships under their strong encouragement, and when the ships returned, they realized that they had no ports to dock into, so they had to sell them to other players.

With the sale of warships, the influence of China's Indian Ocean naval fleet has also extended to Africa. In particular, in four African countries, Sudan, South Africa, Senegal and Morocco, a number of key pro-China player organizations have been supported through arms deals.

Sudan is a neighbor of Egypt, on the west coast of the Red Sea, the largest country in Africa, and will be very important for China to control the Suez Canal in the future. If Sudan can be made one of China's allies in Africa, it will greatly increase China's influence in the Middle East and Africa.

South Africa, the southernmost part of Africa, is bordered by the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean on the east, west and south, and is located at the shipping point between the two oceans, and its southwestern tip of the Cape of Good Hope is one of the busiest sea lanes in the world.

Winning the support of the South African player regime is related to whether the Chinese fleet can smoothly enter the Atlantic Ocean from the Cape of Good Hope.

In fact, it is not easy for Chinese merchants to sell ships here, and there are already many Dutch, British, and Portuguese players in the port of Cape Town, the capital of South Africa. They have long since taken root here and are crowding out businessmen from other countries.

Indian merchants used to play with British, Dutch, and Portuguese merchants here, but they didn't take advantage of it. In addition, a significant number of British warships were found at the Cape of Good Hope. Chinese merchants sold ships here, which directly impacted the interests of merchants from Britain and other Western European countries.

Senegal, the westernmost point of the West Africa protrusion, is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west. The reason why the Chinese Indian Ocean naval fleet is interested here. Because it has an excellent port in Africa, it is the best stopover point from South Africa to Morocco. There were not many foreign European merchants in this place, and Chinese ships were sold slightly better, but not in large quantities.

Morocco is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and Spain across the Strait of Gibraltar to the north, choking the gateway of the Mediterranean Sea into the Atlantic Ocean. The most ferocious battlefield of the Great 6 struggle in Africa is undoubtedly Morocco. The country occupies an extremely important strategic position and is at the forefront of the battle between the African and European blocs. It is also a key area for the intra-European group of fires. Chinese merchants traveled thousands of miles around the Cape of Good Hope. I think of Morocco to sell ships, but Morocco's ports have long been controlled by warships and merchant ships from Europe and Africa, and there is no place for Chinese merchant players at all.

The Cape of Good Hope in South Africa is not just the nautical dividing point between the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean. It has also vaguely become a dividing ridge for the competition between the two major military blocs in Europe and Asia.

The merchant fleets of Britain, France, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, Portugal and other European countries, as well as the fleets of African mainland, are very active in the Atlantic coast of the six major African countries, and conduct extensive trade.

The merchant fleets of India, Arabia, Persia, Indonesia and other Asian countries, as well as the fleets of Africa itself, are very active on the Indian Ocean coast in the six major parts of Africa. After the Chinese fleet entered the Indian Ocean, the Chinese fleet became the most active.

It is difficult for Asian fleets to operate on the Atlantic coast of Africa, and European fleets should not easily operate on the Indian Ocean coast of Africa.

With the constant influx of Chinese merchant fleets. This kind of competition for the market is also more intense.

The price of warships sold by Chinese merchants is only about the same as the price of European merchant ships, which is of high quality and low price, both military and civilian, and the number is extremely large, as many as tens of thousands. As a result, civilian merchant ships from European production areas could hardly be sold in South Africa, dealing a heavy blow to European merchants and ship manufacturers. You must know that under normal circumstances, warships are far more expensive than civilian merchant ships, but Chinese-made warships are sold at the price of civilian merchant ships, and European merchant ships cannot compete at all. It can only be forced to withdraw from the South African market.

Since it is impossible to compete with Chinese businessmen through legitimate means. Some British and Dutch merchants were not willing to withdraw from the South African market in this way, and they immediately bought off the South African pirate army. Plunder merchant fleets from China, Arabia and other countries to weaken rivals. They even directly used their own warships to expel and attack Chinese merchants.

Chinese merchant players are not easy to mess with, and it is not others behind them who are behind them, but China's local arms giants, prince-level player organizations. Moving these merchant players is tantamount to directly shaking the interests of the top fire giants, which is absolutely unbearable.

Furious, Sea Soul received the news that the Chinese merchant players had been plundered in South Africa, and immediately dispatched a medium fleet of 500 three-masted gunboats of the Chinese Indian Ocean Fleet to Mauritius and Madagascar to establish naval bases, and conduct direct deterrence and sweep in the waters near South Africa to ensure the safety of the Chinese merchant fleet. He didn't even need to ask Qin Xiaobai for instructions on this kind of thing, because he knew that even if Xiaobai Boss was here, after learning such news, he would immediately send troops to suppress it mercilessly.

South Africa is entrenched in the fleets of Britain, France, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands, and many other Western European countries, and it is difficult for China's Indian Ocean Fleet to occupy absolute superiority with only 500 gunboats.

But China is not just mobilizing its own fleet. The fleets of other countries in the Indian Ocean, the fleets of 10 countries in Southeast Asia, and the fleets of more than 10 countries in eastern Africa, under the order of China's Indian Ocean Command, also sent their fleets to South Africa. Its momentum and the strength of its fleet immediately overpowered the fleets of European countries in the waters near South Africa.

The Asian fleet, led by China, and the European fleet, led by Britain and the Netherlands, began an armed confrontation in South Africa to seize the market for their own merchant players.