However, the Portuguese still have considerable strength in dealing with these indigenous countries. After all, they are far better than indigenous countries in artillery and firearms. The only shortcoming is that their troops are too small.

But now with the support of the Ming army, they just made up for their shortcomings. At this time, it was more like a fox pretending to be a tiger. Relying on the tiger behind the Ming Dynasty, the Portuguese army, as the vanguard, was so energetic that it pushed over directly, and its target was the capital of the Ariba Dynasty.

During this attack, the differences between the Portuguese and the Ming Dynasty treated overseas territories quickly emerged.

The Portuguese strategy was to accept all the nobles of the Ariba dynasty who could surrender and use them to rule the land, and they only ruled the nobles of the surrender.

In this way, it is true that under the intimidation of the Ming army, most of the nobles of the Ariba dynasty chose to surrender to the Portuguese and pay tax tribute. For them, it was better to hand it over to the Portuguese or the previous Ariba dynasty.

In this way, the entire process of attacking the Ariba dynasty was extremely easy and progressed very quickly. Even later, the aristocrats from all over the country who surrendered to the Portuguese led more and more troops, without the help of the Ming army, and they already had the advantage.

But Phillips knew very well that these local nobles were subdued only by the Ming army. At least they could not truly trust them at present. In the end, they had to rely on the Ming army to be at ease.

Based on this factor, Phillips dared not to take over the confiscation of the Portuguese and the offerings of the nobles themselves, and they must have to be distributed to the Ming army, even if the Ming army just followed behind without fighting.

In this way, it took two months to destroy the Ariba Dynasty. Then, the Portuguese became the masters of this land and began to rule the land through the nobles from all over the country.

Relatively speaking, compared with the past, local nobles are not much different. The only difference is that their master has changed.

With this kind of rule, you can easily achieve the goal of changing dynasties. However, the foundation is unstable. If the situation changes in the future, the rule of the Portuguese will be overthrown soon.

The Ming army's method, killing the originally vested interests and distributing the benefits obtained to those who have nothing to the poor, is equivalent to using their interests to tie them to the Ming Dynasty.

Although in the early stages, they would encounter strong resistance from nobles of all over the country, as long as they could be implemented, they would inevitably be long-term stability. At least the intention of the Ming Dynasty could be thoroughly realized on the newly occupied land, thus achieving the goal of transforming the local area.

After helping his allies achieve their goals, Yan Yingyuan led his troops westward and began to attack the Ottoman Empire.

The reason why I didn’t rest was actually because of this period of time. For Ming Jun, it was just a trip, so there was nothing that needed to be rested and rested.

The Ottoman land on the Arabian Peninsula is too far from their capital Istanbul. Therefore, at this time, such a distant province was actually half out of the control of the Ottoman court.

However, when the attacks were caused by the Ming army in various places and they could not resist at all, they remembered the Ottoman court again. So they sent people to challenge their emperor as quickly as possible and request reinforcements.

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At about this time, the Ming army led by Emperor Chongzhen had already captured the most important towns in Persia. The vanguards, namely the Cossacks of Racine, arrived at the Ottoman border.

At this time, the Ottomans had already reacted, at least on the surface, they had assembled heavy troops and were ready to fight.

However, the Cossacks were originally fierce and were already a member of the Ming army at this time. After countless victories, they were even more powerful. As a defeated army under the Ottoman Empire, 200,000 to 300,000 troops were wiped out by the Ming army. In this case, they would be afraid that the Ottomans would have ghosts!

Therefore, although Emperor Chongzhen did not obtain the will of Emperor Chongzhen to invade the Ottoman territory, small teams often entered the Ottoman territory to provoke. For a moment, they were like crabs, but the Ottomans did not dare to start a war easily.

At this time, Emperor Chongzhen was still in Zhennan City. His primary goal was not to attack the Ottoman Empire, but to stabilize the Persian territory and settle this land. He would inevitably send troops to sweep away the areas before the army was not reached and establish the true ruling order of the Ming Dynasty.

However, although the Persian Empire was originally very broad, it would definitely not be completed in a short time if it was taken care of. As Ahmed analyzed, the Ming army would be a problem in terms of military strength and logistics.

But Emperor Chongzhen did not intend to take care of all the edges and corners from the beginning, but had a focus.

Most of the Persian territory are plateaus, not only with abundant materials, but also with poor transportation and sparse population. After being tossed by Abbas II for so long, the population was even smaller.

Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen’s focus was to quickly rebuild those places with abundant resources. As for other places, they would wait until the new governor arrived before slowly managing them. Anyway, those who were interested in this land were not to charge a lot of taxes in places where birds did not shit, but to “gold” underground.

In addition, Emperor Chongzhen was actually a little worried. The reason was very simple. He occupied too much territory and lacked people!

In a new town, no matter what, you must send some Ming troops to guard it, and that must be divided. Although locals can be recruited to become the auxiliary soldiers of the main force to supplement the lack of troops, no matter what, this situation will weaken the combat effectiveness of the main force of the Ming army.

In addition, the newly occupied city can achieve military control in a short period of time, but if it takes a long time, civil servants will inevitably need to be governed by this civil servant. And the civil servants who govern this kind of civil servants must use local officials from the Ming Dynasty. So, those officials are still with their Governor and are still on the way!

If we don’t hand over the local affairs and free up the main force of the Ming army, we will not be able to continue the next step. After all, the Ottoman Empire is a country several times larger than the Persian Empire, and it is not a small country and can be destroyed at will.

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Although Ahmed had some speculations about the situation on the Ming army, he was already completely disgusted with Persia today. What he could hear was the fear of the former Persian nobles who fled to the Ottoman territory.

Then, the border guards reported the arrogance of the Ming army, that is, the Cossacks' troops. Judging from this posture, it may be when the Ming army will suddenly launch an attack and invade the Ottoman territory.

This made the border guards very anxious and kept asking for help. Because the so-called gathering of heavy troops there was actually just an illusion and bluff. The Ottoman army suffered such heavy losses before, how could they get the gathering of heavy troops?

To be honest, Ahmed has never had a good night's sleep since last received the news that the border guard said Persia was going to be destroyed. He was worried that the Ming army would attack Ottoman soon, and that someone in the country would use him and his family as scapegoats. For this reason, his hair was not very white.

The army is not a leek, and the elite army is not a leek. If the Ottoman Empire wants to re-owned an elite army, it will definitely take a long time. However, the border guards reported every ten days and every three days, and it is really like the Ming army can invade the Ottoman at any time.

He was like this, and the Ottoman Empress Dowager was not much better. She was also worried. The Persian Empire was destroyed and the Ming army was still arrogant on the border. It was really possible that when would the Ottomans be defeated. However, the Ottoman side could never reassure her, and she could not see the elites who could resist the Ming army.

For this reason, she could only ask Ahmed again, wanting to seek peace of mind from Ahmed.

What else can Ahmed say? He can only continue to use his previous remarks to emphasize that the army will definitely not attack the Ottoman in a short period of time. He still has time and is stepping up training the army.

After hearing this, the empress dowager of the Ottoman Empire had nothing to do.

But who knew that later, in addition to the urgent reports from the guards on the Persian border, the Arabian Peninsula, which had not been too popular in the past, sent people to report to the urgent reports, saying that they were attacked by the Ming army and urgently sought reinforcements.

Moreover, according to the urgent reports, the Ming army's offensive was very fierce, so they headed north along the south bank of the Persian Gulf, with almost no pause.

They didn't know one thing, and the urgent report itself was actually a problem. First, the military information on the battlefield was unclear, and the number of Ming troops was estimated inaccurate. During the insurance period, they would estimate the Duli; and the nobles' urgent reports to the Ottoman court were the same, fearing that the court would ignore it, so they estimated the Ming army's strength to Duli.

They didn't expect that this would scare people!

At this moment, both the Empress Dowager and Ahmed were stunned.

Doesn’t it mean that the army has too few troops and must not be able to take care of it? Then why is the Ming army still able to divide its troops and is already attacking the Ottoman Empire’s provinces in the Arabian Peninsula?

Since the Ming army over there has taken action against the Ottoman Empire, will the Ming army on Persia have taken action against the Ottoman Empire?

Thinking of this, the Empress Dowager became anxious and severely scolded Ahmed and must come up with a solution.

They didn't know that the decree that Yan Yingyuan received was that Emperor Chongzhen asked him to rely on the Persian Gulf first and occupy better land along the coast first. The troops finally went straight to Baghdad and captured the most fertile place here. As for the Arab Plateau, desert, etc., they would let go first. When the prosperous land was stabilized, they would go to sweep those places.

It is also because of this that the Ming army's offensive was very fierce. Otherwise, no matter how many people were, the number of people under Yan Yingyuan would not be able to advance so quickly. After all, the Arabian Peninsula is also very large.
Chapter completed!