Chapter 518: Temporary Patience and the Development of the Ming Dynasty Situation First
From the bottom of his heart, Xiao Mingqian really wanted to fight the Iranians, but his reason told him that he could not fall into a multi-party battlefield!
The Ming Dynasty has not yet solved the problem. A large number of troops are tied up in Liaodong and the three southeastern provinces. Even if they invest three divisions in India, they have already transferred all the troops that can be mobilized in Nanyang. If we reduce the troops in Nanyang, it will be There might be a big problem
Under this situation, so what if the naval battle is won, but troops cannot be stationed in the Persian Gulf. Then once the naval fleet leaves, all that will be left behind is the undying hatred of the Iranians.
And if the navy destroys the Iranian navy, it will remind the countries along the Persian Gulf and the Ottoman Empire that they must strengthen their navies.
So more than ten years later, when the navy of the Chinese Empire comes there again, it will face the stronger Iranian navy and the equally hostile Ottoman Empire.
In the end, Xiao Mingqian accepted Tang Hongsheng¡¯s proposal and sent diplomats to Iran to seek a diplomatic solution. However, in order to protect the safety of the diplomats, he specially deployed 500 Guards members to protect them.
However, although the Iranians agreed not to get involved in the hatred between Sun Yat-sen and Taiwan, Iran will also protect its maritime trade with the Chinese Empire. However, the fleet of the Chinese Empire is not allowed to approach the Persian Gulf, otherwise it will be regarded as being in conflict with Iran. In other words, if Sun Yat-sen has been hiding in the Persian Gulf, the Chinese Empire will have nothing to do with them.
In other words, diplomatic efforts have basically failed. Iran only promised to protect businessmen conducting commercial trade with Iran, but at the same time, in order to protect its sovereignty, Taiwan's warships were not allowed to enter Iranian waters.
Such a result makes the Chinese Empire very helpless. Many naval officers hope that the Empire can send them to destroy the Iranian Navy and Sun's naval fleet.
But Xiao Mingqian endured it. Unless the problem of military strength is solved, the navy cannot go north to Iran. After all, even if the Iranian navy is destroyed, the number of troops stationed there will not exceed 10,000. Once the Iranians make up their mind to eliminate those who stay there, The army is so far away that they can¡¯t even reach rescue in time
In the end, the special fleet can only be stationed in Bombay with thirty warships to specifically block Sun and his gang. At the same time, it will protect the commercial activities there and also serve as a deterrent to various forces in India. After all, not all forces recognize the Bombay Treaty.
Due to political considerations, Goa is surrounded by the Kingdom of Bangalore in the south. They do not recognize the treaty signed between the Chinese Empire and the Mughal Empire and always insist on not recognizing Goa as the territory of the Chinese Empire.
There was no other way, Xiao Mingqian could only keep those 60,000 people in India, and at the same time recruit some Indians in India to form a force of 100,000 people to maintain the military strength in Mumbai, Goa, Surat, and Karachi. Dominion and the protection of several other commercial strongholds
However, even this seems to be a bit stretched. Although the Chinese Empire fully respects the religious customs and national feelings of Indians in these areas, there are always contradictions of one kind or another. Even the Chinese Empire makes their lives better than those of Indians in other areas. It's so much better, but because of the different ethnic groups, there are still many people who come out to resist
Such resistance is understandable emotionally, but from the perspective of the interests of the Chinese Empire, it is absolutely not allowed, so the bloody conflicts in these places have never stopped.
After everything was basically resolved and it was the end of June, Xiao Mingqian once again focused his attention on Ming Dynasty and Japan.
Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting are indeed two famous generals who are proficient in battle formations. Under their joint stranglehold between the north and the south, all the peasant armies in Shanxi were wiped out, eliminating the threat to the capital from the northwest.
Hong Chengchou led the army directly into Shaanxi, defeated Wang Jiayin and other tribes of more than 100,000 people in northern Shaanxi, killed Wang Jiayin and other peasant army leaders, and forced the peasant army to go south to Hanzhong. Some peasant troops went south to Hubei and other places, echoing Xiao Mingchou.
Sun Chuanting, on the other hand, sent his army northward and drove Xiao Mingchou's forces out of Anhui, forcing him to enter the Dabie Mountains with complex terrain to continue fighting against the Ming army. After stabilizing the situation in Anhui and other places, Sun Chuanting sent his troops north to Shandong. Participated in the strangulation of Kong Youde
Under this situation, Kong Youde and others, who had just captured Laizhou, no longer had room to expand, and were completely compressed in Dengzhou and other places.
But because Kong Youde's unit is also a good musketry unit, although it does not have the rifles of the Chinese Empire, due to the reform of the Ming court's military equipment, their unit with a certain foundation was selected and became the first army of the Ming Dynasty. A batch of equipment came from Taiwan¡¯s copycatmusketry troops
Under this situation, Kong Youde¡¯s troops who were shrinking in Dengzhou were simply not something that the other troops of the Ming Dynasty could defeat quickly.
With desperation, Sun Chuanting, Zhu Dadian and others went to Chongzhen and adopted the strategy of besieging Dengzhou without attacking and trapping him to death.
The siege that lasted for more than three months has left Dengzhou city in dire straits. Food has become the biggest problem in Dengzhou. If it is not solved, Kong Youde and other troops will starve to death.
But where does the food come from? Although there are countless ships on the sea transporting shiploads of grain to Liaodong, Kong Youde didn't dare to take advantage of those grain transport ships even if he had ten nerves.
Not to mention the subsequent retaliation from the Chinese Empire, even if they really sent the navy to rob, they may not be able to rob the First Fleet. After the caravan reported the news, they would rush to the scene of the incident as soon as possible and seize those who participated in the robbery. The warship was sent to the bottom of the sea
By the end of July, Kong Youde had no other choice but to use the warships left behind by the navy to lead tens of thousands of rebel troops north to Liaodong.
In his opinion, since he has tens of thousands of troops, the Chinese Empire¡¯s treatment of him will not be worse than that of Shang Kexi
But he did not understand the system of the Chinese Empire at all. When he first arrived in the Liaodong waters, he was surrounded by twenty warships. After landing ashore, all his tribesmen were ordered to enter various construction sites of the Chinese Empire in Liaodong. workmanship
As for Kong Youde, who originally wanted to support himself as a soldier, after asking Guo Yong for an official position in a very proud tone, he was directly thrown to North Korea by Guo Yong and became the most ordinary road construction worker in North Korea, and his subordinates Geng Zhongming also got a chance to join the Chinese Imperial Team