The war in India is finally over, and this bone that has been stuck in Daming's throat for eight years has finally been swallowed today.

Li Hao looked at the current Ming Empire, and the maritime territory included the entire western Pacific Ocean, as well as almost the entire South China Sea and the Indian Ocean.

There are already several nodes in the middle that have been firmly occupied by the Ming Dynasty, including Diego Garcia Island, Ceylon Island, and Mumbai, which is not yet available.

In the future, the Ming merchant ships will no longer be bounded by Xinjiapo. The entire Indian Ocean is the sea where the Ming merchant ships galloped. Merchandise from Daming could be loaded into larger ships at the port of Guangzhou, and sail all the way to Mumbai.

All the way is the territory of the Ming Navy, and no one dares to do anything to the Ming ships here. In fact, Li Xiu's men have already breached many pirate lairs.

On some of the small islands in the Indian Ocean, pirates who have been entrenched for hundreds of years have not been spared.

Even in order to chase and kill a group of pirates, a marine battalion of Zuo Liangyu pursued all the way to the coast of Africa. They landed on a huge island, fought it for more than a month, and finally eliminated all the pirates on it. At the same time, almost all the humans above were also purged.

From the mouths of the survivors, Zuo Liangyu learned the name of the island, which the locals called Madagascar.

Li Xiao didn't dare to be interested in Madagascar, even if Zuo Liangyu sent a big-nosed monkey, Li Xiao was still not interested. What is there to see about monkeys, a few big-nosed monkeys are far from being able to make the country prosperous.

Now what Li Xiao has to do is how to get a few places from the hands of the Persians and the Ottoman Empire. The place where Li Xiao saw the most was at the end of the Persian Gulf, at the entrance of the two river basins.

The place was later known as Kuwait, and its oil fields were famous for their shallow reserves.

And, of course, there is the port of Lunga, the main road in and out of the Persian Gulf, which is not far from Ras Al Khaimah in Oman. Five months earlier, Li Xiao had sent a man from the Ministry of Rites named Zheng Guangchen, a son of the Zheng family who was fluent in Persian, Turkic, and Arabic, to Constantinople to negotiate with the Ottoman sultan.

In order to get these two places, Li Xiao is ready to make a comeback at a certain price. After all, it is extracting oil from other people's land, and the Ming Dynasty will not be able to maintain an army in tens of thousands of units in the Middle East for a long time.

Although the Ming Dynasty is extremely powerful now, Li Xiao is not ready to fight in the hellish place of the Middle East. There isn't much else to use here except sand and oil.

The so-called Tigris and Euphrates rivers, which flow with milk and honey, produce only enough food for the locals. It's far from being an export!

As for controlling Egypt, Li Xiao didn't even think about it. It is also a densely populated country, and the human, material and financial resources required to control it are far more than you think.

The Ming Dynasty needs to end the expansion period, and what the next stage of the Ming Dynasty needs to do is to consolidate the foundation of an empire. On the already leading technology tree, new branches will grow.

Not really! The tree wanted to be quiet and the wind did not stop, Zheng Guangchen's head was sent back, and it was still a carefully nitrated head. It can be seen that the sultan of the Ottoman Empire did not want to negotiate business with the Ming Dynasty. In his eyes, Da Ming is here to grab territory. Or, he thinks Da Ming is easy to bully.

"What happened to the canal built by the Napoleonic family?" Six years have passed, and Li Xiao doesn't know what happened to the canal that Li Hu was thinking about.

"It's coming! I heard that there is only one last section of the project left, and it will take about half a year to be able to gather and break through. When the time comes, we won't have to travel far for months to the Mediterranean. Li Hu often asked the merchants in the west about the construction of the canal.

After all, it used to be his dream when he was younger.

"Good! Very good. Tell Li Dingguo that the hunt is over, and I want him to occupy Suez immediately. At the same time, Sun Yuanhua was told to continue to produce additional ammunition. The battle is not over, our next target, the Turks. ”

"Got it, big brother."

Li Dingguo's 1st Marine Division was ordered by Li Xiao. They quickly got on board and, under the cover of eight ironclad gunboats, sailed to Fort Suez in ten steamers.

At the dawn of the Buddha, the soldiers of the 1st Division began to land. By the time a group of Arabs on horseback found out, the 1st Division had already landed a battalion of troops.

The silence of dawn was pierced by the sound of gunfire, and a dozen Arab patrols were quickly eliminated. The boys of the Marine Corps, began to advance inland. After capturing a high ground, wait for the support of the follow-up landing force.

"What? Unknown troops landing? It seems to be a Ming person? Joseph, who was presiding over the construction of the final section of the Suez Canal in Suez, was shocked to hear the news.

Those stupid Arabs don't know, but he knows the strength of the Ming Empire. Just a month ago, Daming had beaten India. British rule in the Far East completely lost its footing, and the whole of India was divided into more than fifty small states.

They were no longer under the rule of India, but cooperated with the Ming Dynasty, forming a relationship between the suzerainty and the vassal states.

The British are completely finished in India, and I heard that Wu Sangui, who is so powerful that he can't talk about it, is also finished. and the fleet, which Britain was proud of, all destroyed with the defeat in India. Today's Ming Empire is really as dazzling as the rising sun in the east.

"Don't go to war with Da Ming." This is an order given by Joseph to the French, of course, those sultans are willing to get along with the Ming people, so let them fight well. Anyway, as long as the French don't die!

Today, Napoleon is going through a difficult war in France. The traditional powers of Europe, led by Britain, are thinking about how to take out the nascent French Republic. They formed an anti-French coalition in an attempt to oust Napoleon from power through mass beatings.

The Suez Canal needs to be built as soon as possible, and it needs to be productive as soon as possible. Only when the Suez Canal is profitable can it help the struggling French finances.

has been dealing with Daming for many years, and he agrees very much with what Daming people said, war is burning money. The final victory is often not the side that burns more, but the side that can afford it.

No matter who he fights with, Da Ming will be able to afford to burn, and he will be able to burn the last side. Joseph knew this very well, he had never seen so many factories in other countries.

I have never seen such a neat and orderly city in any other country.

Paris is the capital of Europe, but as a proud Frenchman, Joseph also had to agree that Paris is not worthy of carrying shoes for the Ming Jingshi.

The Ming people landed, and the cowardly French hid in the castle and did not dare to come out. This was the impression of the Sultans on this matter, and although the French were also outsiders, the French gave enough money.

The Ming people were outsiders, not only did they not give money, but they also killed Lao Tzu's people. Although the merchants said that the Ming was a powerful empire. Can...... No matter how strong they are, Lao Tzu is the head snake of the land, who is Lao Tzu afraid of.

Five or six sultans gathered for a meeting, and finally agreed that the Ming had come to grab the advantage. They are here to grab their own territory, and as a common interest, they should unite to defeat the Ming Dynasty. Drive the invaders out of their homeland and let people know that the Arabs are not easy to mess with.

The Sultans were a little slow to react, and by the time they decided to drive Li Dingguo into the sea, it had already been three days since the initial landing. Li Dingguo had disembarked smoothly, sent all the equipment to the shore, and set up a position to prepare for a possible attack.

At the same time, the 1st Marine Division actively moved towards the port of Suez in an attempt to occupy the port of Suez in one fell swoop.

The Great War broke out in the port of Suez, and at the beginning the Sultans felt that they were strong. After all, after so many years, he bought a lot of firearms from Wu Sangui. These Indian-made firearms are indeed very advanced, and it is not a problem to fight the Ming people.

The Arab coalition forces concentrated more than 30,000 men and held the port of Suez. The French, on the other hand, were in the castle not far away, resolutely closing the gates. Before the end of the war, Joseph did not plan to go out, even if he starved to death.

The war began in an almost tragic form, with the Arab coalition attacking on all fronts, and the 1st Marine Division defending with simple field fortifications. And the 1st Marine Division is an absolute disadvantage in numbers!

While the 1st Marine Division retreated in great strides, the Arab coalition forces advanced in great strides. In their eyes, the Ming people were cowardly, and for these cowards, they could only chase and fight hard.

"Boom!" When the first shells fell on the charging crowd, the Arabs immediately went into chaos. They had never seen such a powerful cannonball, and when a cannonball came down, there were almost no living people within a radius of thirty meters.

Those who died were either blown up or shocked to death. And many people did not fire a single shot until they died.

The Sultans quickly gathered their men, picked up the bloody guns on the ground and continued the charge. Who knows, the shot just now was just a test firing. The artillery fire of the test fire was so accurate, then you are welcome later.

In the distance, the beachhead heard the rumbling of cannonballs, and shells swarmed into the ranks of the Arabs.

Like a matchstick, the person was blown up by a huge wave of air, and shrapnel cut into the person's body one by one, and then pierced out from behind the body. Straight cut a large living man in half, and the broken internal organs flowed down the wound, staining the sand on the ground red.

With just five rapid firing at a time, there were hardly any Arabs on the battlefield who could stand.

The sultans were stupid, they had never seen such an efficient killing scene. The Ming army is so powerful!

The Arabs were almost dead, and the Ming offensive began.

A large number of Ming marines, armed with Acre assault rifles, opened fire on the fleeing Arabs. The marksmanship of these men was unusually accurate, and the fleeing Arabs seemed to be live targets. Marines in a half-kneeling position often kill them with just one shot.

In just an hour, the Arabs threw down more than 20,000 corpses. The tranquil beach suddenly became a blood-stained place.

Countless crows and vultures flew in from afar to rush to this feast.

"That's it?" Li Dingguo looked at the corpses in front of him and was a little stupid. Those stupid Indians seem to be able to fight better than they can. At least the Indians also knew how to dig trenches, which were used to hide from artillery blows.

These bastards don't know anything, so they dare to come and fight Lao Tzu?

At the castle, Joseph watched with his pipe in his mouth. This is the killing efficiency of the Ming Dynasty, compared to the French battlefield, the efficiency of the Ming Dynasty is more powerful.

"Open the city gates, let me down, I have to talk to the commander of the Ming Dynasty." Joseph knew that the Arabs were finished, and the rest was his own.

Fortunately, he has a good relationship with Li Hu, and he has met Li Xiao again. As long as these two banners are sacrificed, I am not afraid that the generals of the Ming army on the opposite side will not give face. As far as he knew, the Ming army system was almost the private soldiers of the marshal Li Xiao's family.

"But my lord, they ......!" The French soldiers were also frightened, the artillery of the Ming people was so powerful, and their own small broken castle was not enough to resist the attack of the Ming people. I'm afraid that after a few shots, the city wall will collapse.

"Don't worry, I know the big people of Daming." Joseph was very proud of Ming's relationships. Fortunately, I made friends with Li Hu back then, and today I can pull up this tiger skin as a banner.

The Marines were very interested in this yellow-haired man who could speak human words. I don't understand, how did he say so slippery words from the Ming official. They even felt that this guy's Liaodong accent was more authentic than their own.

"You're the Ming Commander?" Joseph looked at Li Dingguo.

Li Dingguo also looked Joseph up and down, and he was also shocked by Joseph's fluent Liaodong accent.

"Who are you?" Now even the tongue man is saved.

"My name is Joseph, and I am friends with your handsome brother, Mr. Li Hu. I also once went to the capital to meet with the marshal and discuss the friendly cooperation between France and the Ming Dynasty. I don't know why you've suddenly come here with your soldiers, but I want you to send me to your commander at once. ”

"Humph! Dashuai is very busy, not someone like you can see it. "Li Dingguo gave Joseph a blank look, Dashuai, is you a guy who looks more like a ghost than a human and says that you can see it when you see it?

"According to the rules of your Ming Dynasty, the two countries will not fight each other. Your traditions keep you from killing me, and I can tell you that I'm telling you the truth. Send me to your commander, so that the two empires will not be bloodied.

I know you're a great soldier, but Daming is a few months away from here. If we do have to fight, it will be the Arabs who will have the last laugh.

Here, pulling a queue is easy and fast. As long as you have money, you can pull a team of tens of thousands of people at any time. As long as you run out of money, of course. Others will not be soft on you, and it is possible to be eaten alive. How about I'm going to see your boss? ”

"Who the hell are you?" Li Dingguo re-examined the man in front of him who was like a white-skinned pig.

"I am Joseph, the brother of Napoleon, Emperor of France."