The current peninsula, including Port Elizabeth, the entire southern coast of the Persian Gulf and most of Hejaz is the sphere of influence of the Umbrella Company.
Unlike the Chinese, who have a deep-rooted attachment to their homeland, the desert nomads on the peninsula have a very weak concept of land. They have almost no concept of territory, and they have not formed a unified country. The Ottoman Empire also has no territorial claims on the desert areas of the peninsula, so the entire Hijaz
They have not formed a unified country, and are still blank on the map.
This gives the umbrella company an opportunity to conquer the city.
In fact, it can't be considered as conquering cities. Most of the entire Hanjaz is desert. There are no towns in the modern sense at all. There are only dots of oases suitable for human life. The living conditions in these oases are also very harsh, so the desert in the peninsula
The nomads also have no sense of belonging to the oasis. The wealth of the desert nomads is camels, not land. When faced with danger, the people here do not choose to take up arms to defend their homes, but pack up their limited property and ride camels.
Find the next perch.
Therefore, the refugees in the 21st century are really not cowardly. In their tradition, they do not risk their lives to fight against the odds, nor do they risk their own lives to fight for the country.
For the Persians in the peninsula, obedience to the stronger is a matter of course. In common tribal conflicts, if all the men of a tribe are killed, the remaining women and children will become the trophies of the victor, and they will also
Not taking revenge, but accepting the destiny with peace of mind and starting a new life. This is the tradition of the nomads.
After Tang En and Li De learned about the traditions of the Persians, they began to try to recruit some Persians to become mercenaries for the Umbrella Company.
The Persians at this period had not yet been corrupted by the massive wealth brought by oil, and they did not have many demands. They just needed to have enough food to survive, and they were able to make a living and compete with those southern African employees whose annual salaries were getting higher and higher.
Compared with soldiers, this is truly high quality and low price.
What surprised Roque was that although the Umbrella Company had shown extraordinary enthusiasm for the peninsular desert, it still failed to attract the attention of the Governor of Basra Province in the Ottoman Empire and the British Governor in Egypt.
Thanks to the Italian-Turkish war that just broke out, the world's attention is on Tripoli and Cyrenaica. Except for the British and American oil companies, the entire peninsula is in a state of being forgotten by the world.
Since the discovery of oil in Port Elizabeth, Anglo-American Petroleum Company has been hoping to develop the oil in Port Elizabeth together with Adam Company.
This request was decisively rejected by Adam Company. Adam Company did not need the assistance of Anglo American Petroleum Company at all. No matter in terms of technology or strength, the newly established Anglo American Petroleum Company could not compare with Adam Company. Anglo American Petroleum Company did not even have an oil well.
, there is no qualification to cooperate with Adan Company.
The inability to get its hands on the oil in Port Elizabeth did not stop the British and American oil companies.
The Anglo-American Oil Company took the next best option, hoping to hire mercenaries from the Umbrella Company to explore for oil on the southern coast of the Persian Gulf.
This request was also rejected by the Umbrella Company. The southern coast of the Persian Gulf from Port Elizabeth to the New Cape of Good Hope is now the sphere of influence of the Umbrella Company. This is what Roque particularly emphasized. Except for the oil exploration personnel sent by the Adan Company, any attempt to attack Persia
Exploration activities on the south coast of the bay are seeking a dead end.
The current southern shore of the Persian Gulf, except for a few strongholds set up by Adan Company, is all no-man's land.
Although there are no nomadic tribes in the uninhabited land, there are desert bandits. Therefore, without guarantee of safety, the British and American oil companies can only look back and sigh.
"British and American Petroleum still refuses to give up. I heard that there are now Anglo-American Petroleum exploration personnel in Muscat. Do you want Ali to go there?" Tang En wants to kill everyone. Muscat is 300 kilometers away from the New Cape of Good Hope.
The prospectors of Anglo-American Petroleum Company will explore near the New Cape of Good Hope if they are not careful.
Muscat is the Sultanate of Muscat. It has been a British protectorate since 1870, but it is not a British colony. Its status in the Commonwealth is similar to that of southern Africa.
Anglo American Petroleum Company really had no choice, so it had no choice but to go to Muscat to try its luck. However, the Anglo American Petroleum Company sent out not a drilling team, but only exploration personnel. They had to wait until the exploration personnel fully understood the geological structure of Muscat.
, and then the drilling team will be dispatched.
"Okay, where is Ali now?" Li De didn't know the location of Ali Rashid either. The peninsula is so big that there are now large areas of no man's land without even a place name.
In the current peninsula, there are no clear dividing lines between countries and regions. The terrain of the peninsula is not like that in Africa, where the direction of the river can be used as a natural dividing line. The Muscat Sultanate only has a general power.
Scope, to be specific, the coastal areas are all under the control of the Muscat Sultanate, and the inland deserts are no-man's land.
If you look at the map, you will know that the national boundaries of the peninsula are not as crooked as those on European maps, but are horizontally and vertically similar to those drawn with a ruler. This is a good explanation of the situation of the peninsula.
"In the courtyard——" Tang En was also helpless.
"Yard" refers to Riyadh, which means "courtyard" in Persian.
"Let him go to Muscat, this guy is getting lazy -" Li De was very dissatisfied. The Persians really have no enterprising spirit. There is still so much unowned land in the peninsula. It is a waste to always stay in Riyadh.
Time.
Ali Rashid's tribe now has more than 18,000 people and can dispatch nearly 5,000 soldiers at any time. It is the largest tribe in the peninsula and controls a large area of desert centered on Riyadh.
With less than 20,000 people, it is already the most populous tribe on the peninsula. You can imagine how sparsely populated the peninsula is.
"Basra hopes that Umbrella will join the war. Should we send some people to Cyrenaica?" Twain was playing with fire. In principle, Umbrella Company does not participate in wars between major powers.
On September 15th, the Italian Navy launched an attack on Tripoli.
The Ottoman Empire had no navy in Tripoli and Cyrenaica, so the Italian Navy only sent 1,500 sailors and occupied Tripoli.
This victory gave Italy enough confidence that it only needed to send 20,000 troops to conquer Tripoli and Cyrenaica.
If you only calculate the paper strength of Italy and the Ottoman Empire, Italy's 20,000 people can indeed form an overwhelming advantage over the Ottoman Empire's 8,000 regular troops in North Africa. However, the Italians seem to have ignored the 20,000 militia organized by the Ottoman Empire in North Africa.
The 20,000 militiamen are equipped with weapons from Nyasaland, which are not inferior to the weapons equipped by the Italian army. Because the Ottoman Empire has no navy in North Africa, so with the cover of fleet firepower, the Italians can indeed easily
Occupy coastal cities, but once the Italian troops leave the city and attack inland, losing the protection of naval guns, the Italians will feel the vast ocean of the People's War.
Affected by this, the Ottoman Empire also wanted to provide support to Tripoli and Cyrenaica through Egypt.
However, the British government, which controlled the Suez Canal, refused to allow the Ottoman Empire's troops to pass through Egypt, so the Governor of Basra hoped to hire mercenaries from the Umbrella Company to join the war.
"No, we must remain consistent with Egypt." Li De decisively refused.
"I'm not saying to send our people directly, send Abdul and Jamal." Tang En is insidious. If Ali hadn't been useful, Tang En would have sent all the Persians on the peninsula to Tripoli and Cyrenaica.
Go.
Abdul and Jamal are also agents cultivated by Umbrella and Adan Company. There are several such tribes in the peninsula. Almost all the tribes that have become famous in the past year are related to Umbrella and Adan Company.
These tribes do not belong to each other, and conflicts will break out between them. So far, several tribes have been annexed by other tribes. Tang En and Li De do not care about these losses. What they care about is that through the war between these tribes, the Umbrella Company and
Adan Company's sphere of influence continues to expand.
"It's okay, you can do it, but it can't be in our name." Li De doesn't care about these things. The fewer desert nomadic tribes on the peninsula, the larger the umbrella company's sphere of influence will be.
"How to get people over is the key." Tang En worried. The British government would not allow reinforcements from the Ottoman Empire to pass through Egypt. This is not a problem that can be solved by smoothing relations.
"We don't care about this matter, let the Ottomans find a way." Li De said, "We will kill but not bury him. The Ottomans are now focusing on one thing and not on the other, and they can't even care about Tripoli and Cyrenaica.
Like all empires that are about to collapse, the Ottoman Empire is now at war.
The Ottoman Empire once owned the huge North African Province in North Africa, but now the North African Province is being annexed by France and Italy.
For the Ottoman Empire, compared with Tripoli and Cyrenaica, the Balkans were more important. Almost all European countries had interests in this region. The Russian Empire hoped to open up a channel to the south to the Mediterranean, and the Austrian Empire tried to expand southward.
As for the passage to the Adriatic Sea, Britain and France want to protect the traffic lifeline to the Indian Ocean and the Far East. Therefore, the Balkan Peninsula has always been an area of fierce competition between Russia, Austria, Britain, and France. The Balkan Peninsula has been around for nearly a hundred years.
War broke out many times, and the Balkan Peninsula is known as the "European gunpowder magazine."
In the current Balkan Peninsula, due to the high-pressure rule of the Ottoman Empire, the gunpowder magazine is on the verge of explosion. After the Italian-Turkish War broke out, the nationalists in the Balkan Peninsula took notice, so the Ottoman Empire focused its attention on the Balkan Peninsula, Tripoli and Cyrenaica.
There is no time to take care of both.
At least it seems that Tripoli and Cyrenaica are indeed isolated.
