Its prosperity is also booming, and its demise is also sudden.
This sentence can be used to describe the Ottoman Empire.
No one thought that this vast empire would collapse in less than a year.
Facing several Allied sieges, the Ottomans had to make painful choices.
Eventually, North Africa was abandoned by them.
There is no way, just looking at the map, you will understand that compared to other places, North Africa is full of deserts, it is too poor, and it is too far away from the core area of the Ottoman Empire.
Fighting in such a place has little benefit except excessive consumption of resources and logistics.
So Mohammed IV ordered to abandon North Africa and defend the core area with all his strength.
But Vizier Mustafa, who was stationed in Egypt, believed that North Africa could not be abandoned.
At first glance, North Africa seems useless, but this strategic location is very important. Once all are discarded, the National Defense Forces and North African rebels can easily enter the Middle East from here and harass Constantinople and other places across the sea.
He wrote a long letter to Muhammad IV stating his power, and at the same time he was actively preparing for war in Egypt.
At the same time, he also understood that fighting against the National Defense Forces in the vast desert areas of North Africa was simply seeking death. So he deployed his troops and planned to defend the rare oasis in the Nile Delta.
If the National Defense Forces want to attack West Asia from North Africa, they must pass here.
And it is not far from the core area of the Ottoman Empire, so it is easy to get support.
Eventually, Mohammed IV agreed to his plan.
As the Ottomans retreated significantly, the situation in North Africa immediately overturned.
Morocco's two separatist forces could no longer withstand the military front of the National Defense Forces.
The Ninth Regiment first eliminated Helia who was entrenched in the south, and then eliminated Mamun, and completely gained control of Morocco.
There was no interruption during this process.
European countries have recognized the country's occupation of Morocco, and with the important matter of destroying the Ottoman Empire ahead, there are no obstacles behind it.
But after that, the National Defense Forces fought with an independent force.
That is the Alawis in the oasis area.
Sharif Rashid, the leader of this group of Alawi Rao, is ambitious and has long seen signs of Morocco's decline, so he has been accumulating strength and preparing to replace him.
In the original history, it was he who destroyed Helia and Mamun and established the Alawi dynasty in Morocco.
But now that the empire has emerged and seized power in Morocco, Sharif Rashid wants to take advantage of the opportunity to separate the country.
The National Defense Forces could not tolerate the existence of such a force and immediately carried out a thorough attack on it.
Alawi Rao's fighting style is still relatively primitive and there is no foreign aid. How can he withstand the attack of the ninth regiment?
In addition, local forces in Algeria also became allies of the Algerian country. In the end, Sharif Rashid's dream was completely shattered, and he was eventually buried deep in the vast sea of sand.
Once this force is eliminated, the situation in Morocco will be stable. The next step is to implement various governance measures so that local people can feel the benefits and nothing will happen.
The Ninth Regiment began to march eastward, and after joining the rebels in Algeria, Libya, Tunisia and other places, it made rapid progress along the Mediterranean coast.
They encountered little resistance and soon arrived in the Alamein area to the west of the Nile Delta.
Here, Mustafa has already deployed a thorough defense line and is waiting for the defense force to come.
He decided to fight the empire here to determine the pattern of North Africa.
After learning that the Ottoman army numbered hundreds of thousands, Lu Baoxing did not dare to act rashly.
The Third Marine Division has only one team here, and the rest are local armed forces in North Africa. You can't expect too much in terms of combat effectiveness or anything like that.
If one thing is not done well, it may lead to a big loss.
He decided to play it safe and did not attack rashly. Instead, he worked hard to build a front and sent a letter to Shang Kexi, hoping to get help from the ocean-going fleet.
Shang Kexi immediately realized that the matter was of great importance and personally led the third detachment to the sea north of Egypt.
But the problem was not solved there.
Even if the ocean fleet can fight, it will be at sea, and it will still be out of reach of the inland battle.
Moreover, the ocean-going fleet does not have more land combat troops, so it will be a tough battle after landing.
How to break the situation?
Just when Lu Baoxing was extremely entangled and the allies were unsettled, good news suddenly came from the south, and it was great news.
"Great, great, this time we will definitely be able to decide the outcome in one battle!"
What's the good news?
All the troops of the Third Marine Division arrived.
However, the main force of the Third Marine Division did not go to Morocco, but completed the landing in Djibouti. Then, under the guidance of the Egyptians, they went all the way down the Nile River, and the other way entered the Red Sea under the escort of the Western Fleet, and forcibly landed at Suez.
In other words, Mustafa worked hard to fight the Allied forces at El Alamein, but his retreat was blocked by the main force of the Third Marine Division.
Now it is no longer a question of whether the Allies can defeat the Ottomans, but whether the Ottomans can escape!
Just as the situation in North Africa suddenly reversed, the Kazakh Khanate finally reached its final moment.
Salechuk, the last foothold of the Kazakh Khanate, is now surrounded by 300,000 defense troops.
Yangir Khan looked forward to the stars and the moon, but did not look forward to reinforcements from Russia.
Russian reinforcements could not come.
At Alexandrovgei, four hundred miles northwest of Salechuk, the Russian army and the leading troops of the Wehrmacht collided.
The 25th Regiment of the 7th Division used 5,000 troops to challenge 50,000 Cossack cavalry on the Great Plains, killing the opponent with blood and making them terrified.
Immediately, Zheng Chenggong led his troops to move into position, and attacked from both sides with the 25th Regiment. The Russian army retreated for 300 miles, and it was difficult to restore morale for a while.
Zuo Xuanyan received the battle report and knew that her plan had come true.
She immediately issued an order to break the city, and at the same time asked the Second Cavalry Division and the Fourth Cavalry Division to cross the lower reaches of the Volga River and conduct a large-scale outflank of the Russian army.
The Russian commander-in-chief Beriszov received the battle report from the front line and finally realized the seriousness of the problem. He did not dare to let the army advance anymore, but built a position on the spot.
What he did was a fatal mistake.
The 7th Division and the 2nd Division didn't care about the battle of Salechuk at all and were already pressing forward.
In Salechuk, the city wall has disappeared, and the Kazak Rao lament gradually dissipated.
Countless National Defense Forces poured into the city and raised the red flag at the highest point.
Yangir Khan finally set a fire in despair, ending his royal hegemony.
At this point, all of Central Asia fell into the hands of the empire.
The empire's footprints began to touch the Volga River Basin.
The Russians have been exploring eastward for more than a century, and finally attracted the dragon from the east.
