Ming Zuo

Its prosperity is also great, and its death is also sudden.

This sentence can be used to describe the Ottoman Empire.

No one thought that this vast empire would collapse to such an extent in less than a year.

Facing several sieges by the Allied forces, the Ottomans had to make painful choices.

In the end, North Africa was abandoned by them.

There is no way, just looking at the map, you can see that compared to other places, North Africa is full of deserts, it is too poor, and it is too far away from the core area of ​​the Ottoman Empire.

There is not much benefit to fighting in this kind of place except for excessive consumption of resources and logistics.

So Mohammed IV ordered to abandon the land of North Africa and fully defend the core area.

But Vizier Mustafa stationed in Egypt believes that North Africa cannot be abandoned.

At first glance, North Africa seems to be tasteless, but this strategic location is very important.Once they are all discarded, the National Defense Forces and North African rebels can easily enter the Middle East from here, and harass Constantinople and other places across the sea.

He wrote a long letter to Muhammad IV, and he was actively preparing for war in Egypt.

At the same time, he also understood that fighting the Wehrmacht in the vast desert of North Africa was purely suicidal.So he hit the troops and planned to stick to the rare oasis of the Nile Delta.

If the Wehrmacht wants to attack West Asia from North Africa, it must pass here.

And here is not far from the core area of ​​the Ottoman Empire, so it is easy to get support.

Ultimately, Mehmet IV agreed to his plan.

With the massive retreat of the Ottomans, the situation in North Africa immediately turned upside down.

The two separatist forces in Morocco could no longer withstand the advance of the National Defense Forces.

The Ninth Regiment first wiped out Helia, who was entrenched in the south, and then wiped out Mamun, completely gaining control of Morocco.

During this process, there was no interruption.

European countries have recognized the empire's occupation of Morocco, and the elimination of the Ottoman Empire is ahead, and there is no stumbling behind.

After this, however, the Wehrmacht fought an independent force.

That is the Alawi in the oasis area.

The leader of this group of Alawites, Sharif Rashid, is ambitious and has long seen the signs of Morocco's decline, so he has been accumulating strength and preparing to replace him.

In the original history, it was he who eliminated Helia and Mamun and established the Alawi Dynasty in Morocco.

But now that the empire has emerged and seized power in Morocco, Sharif Rashid wants to take the opportunity to separate the regime.

How could the National Defense Forces allow such a force to exist, and immediately launched a thorough attack on it.

The Alawi's fighting methods are still relatively primitive, and they don't have any foreign aid. How can they stop the attack of the Ninth Regiment?
In addition, local forces in Algeria have also become allies of the empire. In the end, Sharif Rashid's dream was completely shattered, and he was finally buried in the depths of the vast sea of ​​sand.

With the elimination of this force, the situation in Morocco will be stable.The next step is various governance measures, so that the local people can feel the benefits, and there will be no changes.

The Ninth Regiment began to march eastward, and after joining the rebels from Algeria, Libya, and Tunisia, it made rapid progress along the Mediterranean coast.

They met no resistance, and soon came to Alamein on the west side of the Nile Delta.

Here, Mustafa has already deployed a careful line of defense, waiting for the National Defense Forces to call.

He decided to fight the empire here to determine the pattern of North Africa.

Knowing that the Ottoman army numbered 10,000+, Lu Baoxing did not dare to act rashly.

The third marine division has only one team here, and the rest are armed in North Africa.You can't expect too much in terms of combat power.

If one is not done well, maybe it will be a big defeat.

He decided to be on the safe side, and did not attack rashly, but worked hard to build a front, and at the same time wrote to Shang Kexi, hoping to get help from the ocean-going fleet.

Shang Kexi immediately realized the importance of the matter, and personally led the third detachment to cruise to the sea north of Egypt.

But the problem didn't end there.

No matter how the ocean-going fleet can fight, it is at sea, and it is still beyond the reach of inland battles.

Moreover, the ocean-going fleet doesn't have any more land combat forces, and after landing, it's a scumbag.

How to break the situation?
Just when Lu Baoxing was extremely entangled and the allies were unstable, good news suddenly came from the south, and it was very good news.

"Great, great, this time we will definitely be able to win the battle!"

What good news?
All the soldiers and horses of the third marine division came.

However, the main force of the third marine division did not go to Morocco, but landed in Djibouti.Then under the guidance of the Egyptians, all the way down the Nile River, and the other way entered the Red Sea under the escort of the Western Fleet, and forcibly landed in Suez.

That is to say, Mustafa worked so hard to fight to the death with the Allied forces in Alamein, but in the end, the main force of the Third Marine Division took over the back road.

Now it is no longer a question of whether the Allies can beat the Ottomans, but whether the Ottomans can escape!
At the same time as the situation in North Africa was terribly reversed, the Kazakh Khanate finally reached its final juncture.

Salechuk, the last foothold of the Kazakh Khanate, is now surrounded by 30 defense forces.

Yang Jierhan looked forward to the stars, to the moon, and did not look forward to reinforcements from Russia.

Russian reinforcements could not come.

Just four hundred miles northwest of Salechuk in Alexandrovgay, the Russian army and the vanguard of the Wehrmacht collided.

The 25th Regiment of the Seventh Division used [-] troops to forcefully conquer [-] Cossack cavalry on the Great Plains.

Immediately, Zheng Chenggong led his troops to move into place, and flanked the 25th regiment on both sides. The Russian army retreated three hundred miles, and it was difficult to restore morale for a while.

Zuo Xuanyan received the battle report and knew that her plan had come true.

She immediately gave the order to break the city, and at the same time let the Second Cavalry Division and the Fourth Cavalry Division cross the lower reaches of the Volga River to outflank the Russian army on a large scale.

The commander of the Russian army, Beristsov, finally realized the seriousness of the problem after receiving the battle report from the front line. He dared not let the army advance any more, but built a position on the spot.

What he did was a fatal mistake.

The seventh division and the second division didn't care about the battle of Salechuk at all, and they had already pressed forward.

Salechuk, the city wall has disappeared, and the Kazakh elegy is gradually dissipating.

Numerous National Defense Forces poured into the city and set up the red flag at the highest point.

Yang Jier Khan finally set fire in disappointment and ended his royal hegemony.

At this point, all of Central Asia fell into the hands of the empire.

The footprints of the empire began to touch the Volga River valley.

The Russians have experienced more than a century of eastward development, and finally attracted the dragon of the East.