Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1631, the war in Mesopotamia
The Mesopotamia in the Middle East, the fertile Mesopotamia has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times. From ancient Rome to the Persian Empire, to the Mongols, Turks, and Arabs, almost every powerful country and tribe will not let go. through this fertile land.

As a result, in this ancient land, the civilization has gone through ups and downs, and prosperity, decline, prosperity, and decline have been staged in a continuous cycle, as if it will never stop.

Baghdad city.

"Dong Dong~ Dong Dong~"

Accompanied by the sound of rumbling shelling, the soldiers of the Ottoman Empire launched an attack on this ancient city like a tide.

The hateful Persians, taking advantage of the war between the Ottoman Empire and Egypt, played sneak attacks behind their backs and sent troops to capture the Mesopotamia.

Directly mobilized [-] troops from the European thin line to the Eastern Front, and fought with the Persian and Egyptian troops to determine the status of the Ottoman Empire in the Middle East.

The powerful soldiers of the Ottoman Empire are invincible wherever they go, and they are invincible in every attack. The entire Mesopotamia is currently only left with Baghdad in front of it.

Here, the Persian Empire gathered an army of [-] to defend the city.

Once Baghdad is lost, the Persians will be driven back to the Persian Plateau by the Ottoman Empire and lose their ownership of this land. This is something that Ismail I absolutely cannot accept.

He has coveted this piece of land for a long time, and has long wanted to incorporate this fertile land into his territory.

The Persian plateau where the Persians live is actually very barren, with many mountains and uneven land. There are really few good places. If the Persians want to become strong, they must occupy the fertile land in the Mesopotamia.

In addition, the Persian Empire really has no direction to expand.

To the north is the mighty Ming Empire, and the Hezhong area is very rich, but the Ming people are not easy to mess with. They will burn incense if they don't attack themselves, so how dare they think about the Hezhong area of ​​the Ming people.

To the east are the colonies of the Ming Dynasty, the Japanese Kingdom, and the Koreans, and they are not very hot. Ningguo is now the most powerful vassal state, with strong troops, rich people, and no one to mess with.

Japan and North Korea are the vassal states of Daming, and the younger brothers who follow Daming's buttocks are not easy to mess with.

To the south is the Arabian Peninsula, a barren desert area, which is given to Persia for free, and Persia has to consider the issue of whether to want it or not.

Only the Mesopotamia in the southwest has fertile land and a large population. It is a treasure land. Whoever occupies it can basically determine its status and hegemony in the Middle East world.

Baghdad cannot be lost under any circumstances.

"Kill! Kill!"

On the walls of Baghdad, the Persians roared.

Not to be outdone, the cannons attacked the Ottoman army.

dong dong~dong dong~
The sound of violent shelling resounded through the sky, and the billowing smoke covered the top of the city, but soon, it was blown away with a gust of wind.

"Boom~boom!"

On the top of the city, dense gunshots continued to ring out.

This kind of musket from the Ming Empire has a long range, high precision, and full lethality. It can be said that it has an advantage when used to defend the city. Every time a wave of gunfire sounds, countless Ottoman warriors fall from the top of the city. .

However, the Ottoman Empire is also inevitable for Baghdad.

The mighty Ottoman Empire has never lost except once to the Ming people, as for the Persians.

In the past, it was a frequent target of bullying by the Ottoman Empire. If there was nothing to do, he would directly kill the Persian Dabris, and drive the Persians away like a bereaved dog and flee to the east.

Now, with the support of the Daming people, the Persians have become fine.

I heard that there was a fight with the Spaniards in West Africa, and they came to snatch the two river basins of the Ottoman Empire. If they don’t teach the Persians a lesson, they may forget the power of the Ottoman Empire.

The mighty Persian army rushed towards Baghdad.

Every moment, a large number of soldiers died, like a meat grinder, causing both sides to bleed continuously and fight extremely fiercely.

"Why haven't the Egyptians acted yet?"

"What are they waiting for?"

"Is it necessary to wait for us to be killed and they wait to be cleaned up by the Ottoman Empire?"

On the top of the city, the commander-in-chief of the Persian Empire, Musa, was covered in blood. The battle was very fierce. It had been several days. The Ottoman army almost took turns, launching endless attacks, and had fought several times. When they reached the top of the city, they almost broke in, but in the end they desperately repelled the attack of the Ottoman army.

Musa knew that there was definitely no way to support him in Persia.

The Persian Empire is now also fighting on two fronts. It is fighting fiercely with the Spaniards in West Africa and is desperately robbing the colonies. Here it is facing the Ottoman Empire again.

In fact, Persia itself is not strong enough to support the two-front war at all. The treasury has been drained, and it has borrowed huge funds from the Ming people to operate, so it is simply unable to support it.

The only ones who can count on now are the Egyptians.

In the last war between Egypt and the Ottoman Empire, Persia attacked the two river basins, forcing the Ottoman army to retreat. Therefore, the two sides formed an alliance to fight against the Ottoman Empire.

Now that the Ottoman army is besieging Baghdad, it is also a good time for the Egyptians to attack the Ottoman Empire.

As soon as he finished shouting, the Ottoman army that was besieging the city quickly receded like a tide, and then began to withdraw from Baghdad almost without looking back.

"Could it be that the Egyptians succeeded?"

Musa heaved a sigh of relief, looking at the retreating Ottoman army, he also began to guess.

Soon, a piece of good news came.

The Egyptian army attacked the rear of the Ottoman Empire and directly cut off the food supply line of the Ottoman army. The Ottoman army, which lacked food supplies, had to suspend its attack on Baghdad. After retreating, it quickly stabilized its rear. The Egyptian side launched an attack.

The two sides fought a great battle near the city of Damascus. In the end, the Ottoman Empire barely defeated the Egyptians by virtue of its superiority in military strength.

But the Persians on the Baghdad side took the opportunity to take back several big cities in the two river basins, so that the Ottoman Empire had to divide its troops to guard the two river basins again.

In the Middle East, the armies of the three parties continued to stage a tug-of-war with each other, and for a while, no one could do anything to the other.

And since ancient times, once war breaks out, it is undoubtedly the biggest disaster for ordinary people.

At this very moment, the same is true across the Middle East.

The Egyptians, Persians, and Ottomans, the three-party army repeatedly saw each other on this land, and you came and went between the two sides. A city often had its walls not repaired, and soon changed hands.

In one area, the Egyptian army swept it once, and the Ottoman army came to sweep it again, over and over again, and now slaves are very valuable.

When these large armies have nothing to do, they basically have a business, which is to go around to catch slaves, and then sell these slaves to the Ming people.

It's almost a public matter.

To be a soldier, to be a soldier, is not only for honor, but also for money.

Every siege battle will inevitably be accompanied by wanton killing and looting.

Now even the people are not spared. The captured local soldiers and the looted common people can all be sold to the Ming people in exchange for white money or food, medicine, weapons and equipment that the army urgently needs.

The three parties were fighting each other in dire straits, but the merchants of the Ming Dynasty were unimpeded in this land, delivering a steady stream of ammunition to the three parties.

They can get you anything if you have money.

Food, weapons, armor, war horses, and medicines are not a problem. The Ming people have set up transfer points in the Persian Gulf, the Egyptian Canal, and Damascus City. As long as the money is in place, everything can be delivered to you.

Of course, it doesn't matter if you don't have money, you can use slaves in exchange. The high price of a slave is nearly 20 taels of silver, which is enough to exchange for a cart of grain. What better deal than this?

Under such a trend, the armies of the three parties have been habitually sweeping around, arresting anyone they see, and selling them to Daming people for money and supplies.

From top to bottom, they are all sharing the benefits. They call this activity grazing valleys, just like nomadic tribes. Do each.

Ongoing wars, repeated see-saws, and the act of mowing grass valleys have caused the originally prosperous Middle East and Mesopotamia regions to quickly become depressed.

There were no people to be seen in the cities, and no one dared to stay in the cities. No matter who came down here, they would be sold as slaves.

They can only escape to the countryside and mountains, but even if they escape to these places, it is still not safe, because soldiers from the three parties will go to Caogu from time to time.

The entire Middle East and the Mesopotamia region are like a garden after the cold winter, everything is rapidly withering and withering.

(End of this chapter)