Reborn South Africa as a police officer

Chapter 718

The current peninsula, including Port Elizabeth, the entire south coast of the Persian Gulf and most of Hejaz are the sphere of influence of the umbrella company.

Unlike the Chinese who are deeply rooted in their homeland, the desert nomads in 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 requirements for the desert area of ​​the peninsula. None of them formed a unified country, and it was still blank on the map.

This gave the umbrella company a chance to conquer the city.

In fact, it is not considered to be a siege. The entire Hejaz, most of the area is desert, and there are no towns in the modern sense at all. There are only dots of oases suitable for human life. Nomads have no sense of belonging to oases. The wealth of desert nomads is camels, not land. When faced with danger, 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 roost.

Therefore, the refugees in the 21st century are really not cowardly. In their tradition, there is no fighting to the death, let alone going to the country to forget death.

For the Persians on the peninsula, obedience to the strong is justified. In common tribal conflicts, if all the men of a certain tribe are killed, the remaining women and children will become the victor's spoils of war. It is the tradition of nomads not to take revenge, but to accept fate and start a new life with peace of mind.

After Tang En and Li De learned about the Persian tradition, they began to try to recruit some Persians to become mercenaries of the umbrella company.

The Persians in this period have not been corrupted by the massive wealth brought by oil, and they don’t have too many demands. They just need to eat and live. Compared with soldiers, this is the real high quality and low price.

To Roque's surprise, although the umbrella company has shown extraordinary enthusiasm for the peninsula desert, it still has not attracted the attention of the Governor of Basra Province of 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 Anglo-American Petroleum, 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 Adan Company.

This request was resolutely rejected by Adan Company. Adan Company did not need the assistance of Anglo-American Petroleum Company at all. The newly established Anglo-American Petroleum Company could not be compared with Adan Company in terms of technology or strength. Anglo-American Petroleum Company did not even have a single oil well. , There is no qualification to cooperate with Adan Company at all.

The lack of access to Port Elizabeth's oil did not kill Anglo American.

The Anglo-American Petroleum Company took the next best thing, 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 south coast of the Persian Gulf, from Port Elizabeth to the New Cape of Good Hope, is now the Umbrella Company's sphere of influence. Exploration activities on the south bank of the Gulf are all suicidal.

The current south coast of the Persian Gulf, except for a few strongholds set up by Adan Company, is all uninhabited land.

Although there are no nomadic tribes in the no-man's land, there are desert robbers, so the Anglo-American oil company can only sigh with regret under the premise that safety is not guaranteed.

"British American Petroleum still doesn't give up. I heard that there are prospectors from Anglo American Petroleum in Muscat. Would you like to let Ali go?" Tang En wanted to kill them all. Muscat is [-] kilometers away from the New Cape of Good Hope. The Anglo-American oil company's prospectors accidentally explored near the New Cape of Good Hope.

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.

The Anglo-American Petroleum Company really has no choice, so they can only go to Muscat to try their luck. However, the Anglo-American Petroleum Company is not sending a drilling team, but only exploration personnel. After the exploration personnel fully understand the geological structure of Muscat , and then the drilling crew will be dispatched.

"Okay, where is Ali now?" Li De didn't know the location of Ali Rashid either. The peninsula is too big, and there are now large areas of no-man's land without even a place name.

In the current peninsula, there is no clear dividing line between countries and regions. The terrain of the peninsula is not like Africa, where the direction of the river can be used as a natural dividing line. The Muscat Sultanate only has a general power The scope, specifically speaking, the coastal areas belong to the control area of ​​the Muscat Sultanate, and the inland deserts are all uninhabited areas.

Looking at the map, you can see that the national border of the peninsula is not as crooked as the European map, but horizontal and vertical, which is almost as drawn with a ruler, which can explain the situation of the peninsula.

"In the yard—" Tang En was also very 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 are really not aggressive. There are so many unowned lands in the peninsula. It would be a waste to stay in Riyadh all the time. time.

Ali Rashid's tribe now has more than 8000 people and can dispatch nearly [-] soldiers at any time. It is the largest tribe on the peninsula and controls a large desert centered on Riyadh.

With less than 2 people, it is already the most populous tribe on the peninsula. It is conceivable that the peninsula is sparsely populated.

"Basra wants Umbrella to participate in the war. Do you want to send some people to Cyrenaica?" Dunn was playing with fire. The Umbrella Company would not participate in wars between major powers in principle.

September NO.15, the Italian Navy launched an attack on Tripoli.

The Ottoman Empire had no navy in Tripoli and Cyrenaica, so the Italian Navy only sent 1500 sailors to occupy Tripoli.

This victory gave Italy enough confidence. Italy believed that it only needed to send [-] troops to conquer Tripoli and Cyrenaica.

If you only count the paper strength of Italy and the Ottoman Empire, the 2 people in Italy can indeed form an overwhelming advantage over the [-] regular troops of the Ottoman Empire in North Africa, but the Italians seem to have ignored the [-] militias organized by the Ottoman Empire in North Africa. The [-] 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 the coastal cities, but once the Italian troops leave the cities and attack inland, without 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.

But the British government, which controls the Suez Canal, refused to allow the Ottoman army to pass through Egypt, so the governor of Basra hoped to hire mercenaries from the Umbrella Company to fight.

"No, we have to be consistent with Egypt." Li De resolutely refused.

"I'm not talking about sending our people directly, but sending Abdul and Jamal." Dunn was insidious. If it weren't for Ali, Tang En would have sent all the Persians in the peninsula to Tripoli and Cyrenaica go.

Abdul and Jamal are also the agents cultivated by Umbrella and Adan Company. There are several such tribes in the peninsula. Almost all the tribes that have gained fame 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. Up to now, several tribes have been annexed by other tribes. Tang En and Li De don't care about these losses. What they care about is that through the wars between these tribes, the umbrella company and Adan's sphere of influence continues to expand.

"That's fine, you can do it as you see fit, but not in our name." Li De didn't care about these things, the fewer desert nomadic tribes on the peninsula, the greater the umbrella company's sphere of influence.

"How to get people there is the key." Tang En was worried. The British government did not allow the reinforcements from the Ottoman Empire to pass through Egypt. This is not a problem that can be solved by dredging the relationship.

"Let's not care about this matter, let the Ottomans figure out a way." Li De doesn't care about killing and burying them. The Ottomans are now focusing on one thing and neglecting the other, and they don't care about Tripoli and Cyrenaica at all.

Like all the empires that are about to collapse, the Ottoman Empire is now full of wars.

The Ottoman Empire once owned a huge North African province in North Africa, and now the North African province is being invaded by France and Italy.

For the Ottoman Empire, compared with Tripoli and Cyrenaica, the Balkan region is more important. Almost all European countries have interests in this region. The Russian Empire hopes to open up the passage to the Mediterranean Sea, and the Austrian Empire tries to expand to the south. The channel leading to the Adriatic Sea, Britain and France want to protect the lifeline of traffic leading to the Indian Ocean and the Far East, so the Balkan Peninsula has always been a fiercely contested area between Russia, Austria, Britain, and France. Wars have broken out many times, and the Balkan Peninsula is known as the "European Powder Depot".

In the current Balkan Peninsula, due to the high-handed rule of the Ottoman Empire, the gunpowder depot is already on the verge of explosion. After the outbreak of the Italian-Turkish War, the nationalists in the Balkan Peninsula were moved by the news, so the attention of the Ottoman Empire is on the Balkan Peninsula, Tripoli and Cyrenaica There is no time to take care of it.

At least it seems that Tripoli and Cyrenaica are indeed isolated.

(End of this chapter)