Chapter 330 New Situation

The western Xinjiang covers a vast territory, which is comparable to the traditional Middle-earth region, covering the five countries of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan in the future, with an area of ​​4 million kilometers. It is to the coast of the Caspian Sea in the west, bordering the New Mongolian and the Russian Empire in the north, and to the south, Persia and Afghanistan, and formed an encirclement of the South Asian subcontinent with Tibet. The west is less than a thousand kilometers away from the conceptual Middle East. It can be said that as long as Beijing makes up his mind today, the most cutting-edge Third Front Army Army troops in Western Xinjiang can pass through Persia and enter the Arab region. After the future development of the aviation industry, the air force will directly launch a strike against any place that needs to be attacked in the Middle East within two hours. It can be said that this area is equivalent to the defense depth and attack base of the western empire.

The region is rich in products. Although it seems to be mainly animal husbandry and supplemented by industrial systems such as mining. After the empire conquered the region for a year, it still needs economic support from wealth, but of course I know that there are oil, various heavy metals such as tungsten, coal, iron, lead and other heavy metals and strategic metals, as well as iron ore resources required for industrialization. Although this land may not be able to provide great help to the empire's economy within 10 or 20 years, its own resource reserves alone will be enough to support most of the empire's industrial system, not to mention the strategic deterrence effect of this place on the oil depots in the Middle East, the Middle East.

It can be imagined that the situation in the Middle East will not be as chaotic as in the future. This is what I planned from the beginning. A stable, unified, and pro-China Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will help China control the world resource system in the future. To implement control, military existence is the greatest guarantee. Other strategic partnerships, traditional friendships, etc., are all fake. One of the important itineraries for sending Zaifeng to Riyadh is to discuss with Saudi Arabia about renting one or two long-term military bases in the Middle East and maintaining overseas troops in the Middle East. At this stage, this is extremely helpful to Germany, and at least it can deter the British from unscrupulously launching a strike against Turkey. Optimistically, as long as the Germans draw a certain amount of strength from Europe to come here, the results and reputation that General Alanby has obtained now may be gone.

There are not many Arab garrisons now, but they are looking for one or two armies, plus two to four air fleets, dozens of aircraft are rented and built airports, and they can be built while fighting. After the war is over, it will be consolidated and built for a few years. In the Middle East, this is the iron fist of the Chinese Empire. This overseas garrison is not actually far away from the local area. For them, more than a thousand kilometers away is the territory of the empire.

In response to the situation, China is not far from fully controlling Asia. Although the General Staff believes that this mission will never be easy, from the British standpoint, if this strategic area at the junction of Asia, Africa and Europe is handed over to the Chinese, then if the interests of the entire Asia are given to the Chinese, even though India is still safe from now on, as long as China begins to have a military presence in the Middle East, India will lose sooner or later, whether it is its own independence or the Chinese military takeover. The same threat also exists in the strategic country of Egypt.

Judging from the recent military strategic adjustments of Britain across continents, they obviously attached importance to this point. General Alanby's offensive in Palestine was to launch a war of conquest against Turkey and cut off the German land power to extend to the Indian Ocean. On the other hand, it was not their attempt to re-control the Arab Republic and maintain a strategic trend of dividing Asia from China and the east and west.

It is also for this reason that when we learned that Chinese people began to appear in southern Palestine, the British army significantly strengthened the southern defense line, from the Jordan Valley to the Mediterranean coastline. They deployed nearly half of their troops and built a considerable trench and wire defense system, and stopped the attacks on Turkey on the northern line to fully cope with the new situation that emerged due to China's intervention in the Middle East war affairs. This of course also gave General Sanders the opportunity to strengthen his defense line. The general, who was good at defending, rejected the advice of the adviser sent by Germany first,

The attack plan proposed by the Germans was rejected. He believed that since the Chinese agreed to attack the British in the central and eastern regions, they should defend the defense line and wait for the Chinese air force to arrive before the attack. The British army withdrew some of the troops to the south. Although it seemed to weaken the defense line in the north, it might also be their trick to lure the enemy. After all, air supremacy is in the hands of the opponent, and they cannot effectively reconnaissance the situation behind the opponent's front. Who knows whether the British really retreated to the south or had reinforcing troops from Egypt?

After all, the Germans were just consultants. Without being able to convince this stubborn general, they had to wait for their own troops to arrive before talking about it.

In the south, Bai Chongxi's observation group encountered new troubles. After traveling through Riyadh and Mecca twice in a row, he finally got the vague answer from the Saudi king. The king handed him over a unit of 5,000 people, as an army hired by China. However, when Bai Chongxi saw this unit in Mecca, he found that the unit had only a hundred horses. If there were no horses in this place, there would be no mobility at all. Even if it was used as infantry, the discipline and individual soldiers of this group of Arabs could not bear the role he thought of.

So he had to press the idea of ​​first making merits on the battlefield, temporarily settled the five thousand people and trained with peace of mind under the guidance of more than a hundred people he brought. While seeking the Saudi king to increase horse support, he requested that some training personnel be sent in the country. If possible, it would be best to let his old partner Li Zongren come. After selecting some native Arab tribes, he began to continue his work to contact the Arab tribes.

In fact, whether the relationship between tribes and tribes is friendly depends on blood ties and sects. Sometimes the differences in sects are even more important than blood ties. The reason why the Arab countries established by Saudi Arabia did not fully receive support from all Arabs, and some Arabs even turned to the British was that Saudi Arabia was from the Wahhabiya faction, and after he founded his country, he irrationally chose to grant himself the title of leader of the Wahhabiya faction, which made him not only lose the support of other sects such as Sunni and Shiites, but even some of the Wahhabiya faction were dissatisfied because of his independence as leader of the sect.

This is also why, although Saudi forces are the leading boss in the Arab world in military terms, their forces have never been able to effectively control the northern Jordan River Basin, the Mesopotamia, and even the southern part of his country, all have uncertain factors because of the brink of the seashore. Religion is a powerful tool to unite people and the most effective means to create confrontation. There is no humane way to wars between sects. It is precisely because of this that the fierceness of the war of faith far exceeds that of the war of interests. In history, wars such as the Crusades and later wars such as border wars between two countries with similar beliefs have fully proved this.

This also gave China the opportunity to intervene in Arab affairs. Although Saudi Arabia has its own factors, China's participation in this process is also a very obvious factor. The faster the success, the more afraid of failure, the Saudi hero will obviously not forget this. At this critical moment before him, as long as he makes a mistake, it will be more simple as a whole. China and Britain have begun to fight openly and secretly on his land. For him, the visit of the Chinese emperor's younger brother Zaifeng, and the actions of British diplomats to directly contact his people without his permission on his land are forcing him to make a clear choice to take sides, just as Britain forced China to take sides clearly.

Therefore, it is necessary for him to make a judgment on the current different situations of the Allies and the Allies Group and make a quick final choice. He has not had much time because he has received the news that the Chinese Empire’s full-minded envoy, Prince Si, has boarded the ship in Tianjin and can arrive in Riyadh without having to twenty days.

In fact, he is also seeking asylum countries, China, the United States, and Britain may be his choice. In the case of the United States' pressure from China and Britain has not made a clear statement, the Chinese took the lead in sending an envoy, and then the emperor's brother. How he should choose is not a difficult thing to decide.

It was just a matter of military pressure. In the condition that the Jordanian tribe could not accept the Arab kingdom belonging to a Wahhabiye royal family, Bai Chongxi offered another bold condition. He personally agreed to support some tribes in establishing their own country, which was not much different from the British. Britain's support for Trans Jordan is also a condition for supporting their country. It's just that being a human being depends on the long term. In the ten or twenty years or even further future, China or Britain will rule this area, which is the reference condition for many tribes to do this two-choice topic.

At the end of September, some of the Arab cavalry supported by the British army suddenly made a bold interlude to the south and attacked the camp of the Saudi-stop border troops. The operation took place at night. Thousands of elite Arab cavalry suddenly attacked a large army of more than 20,000 people in the small town of Isavier in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in Transjordan on a dark and windy night. Although the results of the Arab scimitar were not so amazing, the serious consequences caused by this were enough to shock several forces on this land.

The Arab side quickly found out that this was a provocative act of the Abdullah tribe. In addition to being furious, Saudi Arabia quickly announced that he would go to Daman Port to welcome the imperial envoy of the Chinese Empire, and announced with a high profile that the Arab Kingdom would never let go of the efforts of revenge, and the blood of the 973 warriors would be repaid at a price of ten or a hundred times the enemy. His envoy had been sent to Egypt to contact the British directly. He had already demanded in writing that Britain would give up the protection of the Abdul tribe. If his request was not met, then Britain would automatically stand on the opposite side of the Arab Kingdom.

This is simply great good news. Just when I thought Zaifeng might have some work to do to achieve his strategic goals, I first got such great good news from the telegram. But who was doing such a big favor to me, I had no way of knowing this puzzle. I didn't really know until Zaifeng returned to China.

Of course, the British side first expressed a neutral attitude towards this incident, and advised Saudi Arabia and Abdel not to magnify the situation. They also expressed deep regret for the Isavier incident. The British Expeditionary Force has sent effective personnel to thoroughly investigate the matter and will soon give the Arab Kingdom a clear result.

This obviously cannot satisfy the Saudi side. In their opinion, the UK is sheltering criminals and trying to delay the resolution of the incident. While Saudi Arabia is releasing the waves of anger among the people, it is also closely preparing for the reception of Zaifeng. He has basically made a decision.

The British side is not just under unilateral pressure from Saudi Arabia. In fact, long ago, the Abdul family had clearly asked the UK to make a promise to support itself, rather than to support the South Wahhabiye sent to compete with China for control of Arabia. The British found that the Arabs, who had always been not so sensitive to international politics, had significantly improved their international political literacy during this period. The Abdul family seemed very worried that the UK might give up on itself because of its strategic competition with China and instead support the Saudi Kingdom in the South. And it became increasingly obvious that this was expressed in words.

Taking into account the performance of the Abdul tribe at this stage, the British believed that the Abdul family was creating an irreconcilable hatred to force themselves to strengthen their support for them. General Alanby has scolded these bitch-raising Arabs in the office for causing trouble. Obviously, there is someone behind this that spreads some unstable news among the Abdul tribe.

But now it is already a powerful force, and Britain cannot immediately give up its support for the Abdul family. Without the support of the other party, the British even have the ability to survive here, let alone large-scale combat. If the Abdul family is sold to Saudi Arabia in the south to calm Saudi Arabia's anger, it is not considered whether the other party will give up and turn to its own side. There will be pressure to deal with the counterattack of the Turkish-German coalition forces. What's more, there are many Egyptians in the army. Will these people's positions be shaken? If you do this, everything before will be in vain.

The consequences of giving up Saudi Arabia to the Chinese are equally terrible. If the Chinese army enters the Middle East and forms a north-south attack against the British army in cooperation with the Turkish army, the British army will fall into an extremely difficult environment.

Facing this big mess that the Abdul tribe had exposed, Alan was more angry than his lungs. Even his most powerful intelligence officer, Lawrence, could not help in the near future, because he also sensitively discovered that the Arabs who were once kind to him like brothers had changed a lot of their eyes when they looked at him.

He knew that the Chinese Islamic believers were basically Wahhabiyes, and they sent a young officer with a similar background to him to come here to carry out similar activities, but he could never figure out why a Wahhabiye Chinese could have an influence on the Sunni Abdul family? This instigation came into effect, which really fully proved the truth that destruction was far easier than construction.

If he had carefully studied the history of the changes of Chinese dynasties and the history of wars in ancient and modern times, he would have found that such examples were everywhere, and perhaps the situation would not have been so bad.

Bai Chongxi just used some Arabs to weave some rumors and real international situations that were several times more true than rumors, which created the Abdul family's self-threatening mentality. Under this mentality, it is not surprising that anything should be done. Because they are also afraid, of course they know that Saudi Arabia has the ambition to unify Arabia. Now with the support of Britain, it can establish a country. If Britain turns to support Saudi Arabia in the future, can it still have a good ending? Moreover, those rumors may not be all lies.

After this Isavier incident, Bai Chongxi finally successfully bypassed the hurdle of how to fight for the Abdul family to come to his own camp, because now it seems that he is outside the camp, but the effect is better than joining. If they come in, then how to reconcile the conflict between the Sunnis and the Wahhabiyes will become a major problem for him.

So after the new situation happened, I immediately sent a telegram to Zaifeng, who was relying on airlines in Singapore, giving him a new authority, that is, he could promise Saudi Arabia a new and attractive condition, that is, China will support him in establishing a Saudi kingdom that unified the Arab world in the Middle East. He will become the king of the Arab world!

After a while, after a lack of harmonious diplomatic contact with Saudi Arabia, the UK formally decided to completely abandon Saudi Arabia among the two irreconcilable forces. They will base themselves in Jordan and do their best to help the Abdul family.

This method of using conflicts of sectarian beliefs to achieve strategic goals has opened my eyes. Only Bai Chongxi, a believer who believes in Islam, can find out the points of conflict of interests and use them from various factions that everyone believes in Allah and Allah. This also proves the correctness of sending military and political officials with Islamic belief backgrounds to the Middle East. Gradually, I learned from Bai's communication documents that the Wahhabi sect itself is a branch of the Sunnis. Just a few differences in understanding the doctrine and differences in how they act, may gradually form a deep feud over time. This is very similar to the division of sects such as Christianity and Catholicism! Religion is indeed crueler than anything else.

In Russia, this kind of sect conflict began in another form. The leaders of St. Petersburg could not bear the attack of Comrade Jugaschweiri, who had recently been renamed Iron Man, and consciously or unconsciously divided Comrade Iron Man and himself into two different camps. In St. Petersburg, a moderate attack on the Zhu faction was slowly formed, and of course it was still at the stage of verbal attacks. Although Comrade Trotsky later regretted why such counter-revolutionaries were not killed at this time, in fact, he also knew that there was no regret medicine in the world. Of course, he could not think that Feng Shui would take turns, and in a period of time the Zhu faction would become the correct line. In his eyes, the iron man, who was quite dogmatic, would use iron means to revolution, and at the same time, he would also use iron means to deal with them, such Trotsky counter-revolutionaries.

Iron Man, who was busy giving speeches and mobilizing laborers in Germany, did not forget to launch a counterattack against the guys in St. Petersburg at the theoretical level, and new words such as petty bourgeois liberal tendencies appeared in the labor newspapers he mastered, and gradually made the quarrels between their top leaders public.

In fact, this is also conducive to the development of things. Zhang Zuolin adopted a tacit attitude towards this phenomenon, and took time to meet the Iron Man from time to time, and met the requirements put forward by some Iron Man comrades in the role of a sympathizer, such as reducing labor time and improving food, and other conditions to please workers. When the military situation in Germany improved and the number of prisoners of war increased, he even directly provided the Iron Man with the opportunity to receive military training.

He was far away in Germany and had not returned to China since the beginning of the war. Although he knew that this stage of work was very important to his future career, after more than a year of persistence, he still wrote a letter to the country and requested to be transferred back to China. Of course, I cannot agree. He had the best done on the matter there, so who should I find to exchange him for a while? So under my arrangement, the Army Department arranged his family to reunite with his family in Germany.

On October 25, 1913, the naval warship that Prince Si, Prince Zaifeng, was sailed by the Chinese Empire, arrived safely at Daman Port, and the Saudi king personally arrived at the port to greet him.

On the same day, Beijing held a grand collective wedding. A total of 500 young officers from various military departments in Beijing and three newlyweds from the royal family received my blessings from myself. At the wedding, I held Pu Xia and Soong Mei-ling's hands and officially declared Pu Xia as the crown prince of the Chinese Empire.

On October 30, 1913, Zaifeng and Saudi Arabia jointly signed the Riyadh Declaration and a package of military and political cooperation clauses in Riyadh. The situation in the Middle East officially opened a new page.
Chapter completed!