Chapter 1029 Occupying Egypt
Ceuta, Wu Changqing stood on the roof of the temporary palace, overlooking Ceuta, and felt like he was in the Central Plains.
After all, the architectural style of Ceuta basically comes from Dahua.
Because in Ceuta, there are still mostly Europeans. However, after the war began, a large influx of Chinese and a large number of Europeans fled back to Europe made its population structure mainly Han.
At first glance, there is really no difference from the Central Plains cities.
"I'm really not a homebody."
Wu Changqing muttered to himself helplessly.
In fact, he still wants to go to London, Paris, and even the construction site of the Suez Canal to see it in person.
However, every time he tries to take action, he will be opposed by the people below.
Nothing but safety.
In Ceuta, the Guards have established a very complete security system. But once you go to a strange place, this system does not apply.
In the new environment, there are too many uncontrollable factors and it is difficult to guard against them.
Especially today's weapons are diverse, powerful and have long range.
Those assassins with guns are easy to guard against, as they only need to control a radius of several hundred meters.
But if a powerful assassin uses artillery or suicide bombs, it will be really hard to guard against.
For safety reasons, although Wu Changqing went on the expedition himself, he could only stay in Ceuta, put on a show, and urge the people below to be more proactive.
The actual function is similar to that in Nanjing.
Even daily life has become the same as in Nanjing.
Every day I just read memorials, criticize memorials, meet with ministers, and play with women, which is quite boring.
Through telegraphs, Wu Changqing maintained control of the empire.
During this period, many things happened in the Dahua Empire.
In terms of war alone, Dahua has several wars around the world at this time.
Europe is the main battlefield, with Cote d'Ivoire and South Africa still fighting, but it is almost coming to an end.
The EU's plan is to catch Dahua off guard and to end the battle quickly.
But contrary to expectations, both places fell into a stalemate.
But now the European mainland is too busy to take care of itself and has no way to provide supplies to the two armies.
Therefore, those two armies were almost out of ammunition and food. As long as they cannot break through Dahua's defense in the short term, then they will only have the option of surrender.
Moreover, the Chinese army is conveying the news to those two places that England has surrendered and the European Union has been disbanded.
Once the news spreads there, the two armies will have no choice.
In South America, Dahua is also suppressing the guerrillas who have lost assistance and expanding its territory. In Egypt, Dahua also got into trouble with Osman.
The reason is very simple. Dahua wants to completely master the strategic point of the Suez Canal.
Previously, Dahua purchased the construction, use and management rights of this canal from Ottoman, but the entire Egypt, including some parts of Libya, still belongs to Ottoman territory.
In order to avoid disputes with Dahua, Osman, although he was very reluctant, still gave Dahua many privileges in Egypt.
But Dahua's army passed through Egypt many times before, which finally aroused dissatisfaction in the Ottoman Empire.
This is other people's territory, and Dahua's troops come over all the time. Even if they are just passing by, it will make people uneasy.
Because of this matter, some conflicts occurred between the two parties.
So the people in the Army Department of Dahua felt that if they did nothing, they would just occupy Egypt.
In this way, there is no contradiction.
If Osman's senior officials knew about this idea, they might overturn the table.
Egypt's strategic location is extremely important, and the Nile Delta is also a good place for the development of agriculture. It can even be said to be the only place in North Africa suitable for the development of agriculture.
The rest of the place is basically desert.
For small countries, launching a war often requires careful consideration or long preparation.
For Dahua, perhaps it just needs to be straightforward.
The Army sent a report to Wu Changqing. Wu Changqing looked at it and felt that there was no problem, so he chose to approve it, and then the Chinese Army began to take action.
After the third batch of troops originally planned to be transferred to Europe, a main division and a Chinese Allied Forces landed in Suez, they launched a surprise attack on the Ottomans.
Osman's worries suddenly became a reality.
Sure enough, allowing Dahua's troops to land in Egypt is a very dangerous thing.
There are so many reasons for Dahua to attack the Ottomans. If you pick any one, they will be so high-minded and confident.
The local dignitaries in Egypt also had strong opinions on the Ottomans. After all, they were conquered only a few years ago.
Under the banner of restoring the freedom of the Egyptian people, Dahua even gained great support in Egypt.
As a result, the Chinese army's war in Egypt was more like a home battle, and the Ottoman army became the previous invader.
Local dignitaries provided food, drinking water and other logistics for the Chinese army, and the Chinese army made rapid progress.
Moreover, the Ottomans have completely fallen behind in development in the past ten years, even worse than the previous Mughals.
They don't even have a modern army, and most of them still use cold weapons like swords and arrows.
This stunned the Chinese army, who felt that they were conquering uncivilized indigenous tribes.
But in fact, Os
Man has always been a place with very advanced civilization.
A hundred years ago, Europe was still in disrepute.
Those cold weapon troops, let alone Dahua's main division, even the Chinese Association Army composed of Siamese and Indians made them flee in panic.
The whole of Egypt and some other places in North Africa quickly became part of Dahua, much faster than conquering England, and there was no need to sign any treaty with the Ottomans, and they could be conquered directly by force.
After capturing Egypt, the main division continued to be transferred to the European battlefield, while the Chinese Association Army entered the Sinai Peninsula and began to attack the Arabian Peninsula.
With Dahua's current strength, it is no longer necessary to avoid two-front operations, and accelerating expansion is a serious matter.
During the capture of Egypt, Dahua also captured a large number of Ottoman soldiers, who were then taken to the Suez Canal construction site.
The addition of a large amount of free labor allowed the Suez Canal to progress rapidly.
It is estimated that it will be open to navigation in another half a year.
Although the Suez Canal looks very long, it actually doesn't require much excavation.
The north-south length of the Great Bitter Lake alone reaches more than 30 kilometers, accounting for one-fifth of the entire canal.
As for other road sections, not all of them need to be excavated. There are still a large number of original river sections that only need to be connected to canals.
In fact, the Suez Canal was dug by local rulers thousands of years ago and was even navigable for a time.
It's just that the width of the canal they dug is too small. What Dahua needs is to widen it.
There are a lot of machines and coolies that can be used to death, and the digging speed cannot be slowed down.