Chapter 166 The Emirate Hits Gg

The temperature in the desert made Muhammad Ali feel very uncomfortable. During the day, the temperature could almost soar to more than 30 degrees Celsius, but it was surprisingly low at night. Fortunately, there were warm clothes in the military supplies sent by Haji Pasha, otherwise he really didn't know what to do.

Muhammad Ali grabbed a bunch of grass roots and put them in his mouth to chew. The grass roots had almost no moisture, giving people a dry feeling.

However, his attention was not on his mouth. He was thinking about his offensive tactics.

He was very happy that the island-hopping tactics in the past few days were very successful.

He had skipped many oases guarded by Bedouins. Most of these oases were small and medium-sized oases with extremely poor self-sufficiency. They needed to rely on nearby large oases for supplies, otherwise they would starve to death.

And the key is here. Muhammad Ali specifically chose small and medium-sized oases with weak defense and large oases with important strategic positions.

After the small and medium-sized oases were captured, the original defense system of small and medium-sized oases that supported each other was destroyed, and the tactical activity range of the Bedouins was greatly compressed.

The loss of large oases has caused all small oases and a large number of medium-sized oases to fall into a situation of insufficient supplies.

The question is, why didn't the Bedouins flee?

Because Muhammad Ali came too fast, the Sipahi cavalry almost quickly completed the interlacing and detour, cutting and encircling, so that the Bedouins were trapped before they could react.

In addition, in order to improve the defense system, the Bedouins dispersed their troops, while the Ottoman Empire attacked with an encirclement.

This created a situation where they wanted to defend but had no supplies, and they wanted to break through but had no troops.

As for taking the initiative to attack and intercept the Ottoman Empire's transport team, the Bedouins had tried it before.

It was just that the rapid support of the Ottoman cavalry made any Bedouin who dared to take the initiative to drill out of the oasis to attack suffer a miserable defeat without exception.

This also proves the strategic thinking of Muhammad Ali and Emperor Sayyid.

It can be said that the desert here is the Pacific Ocean where the American army and the devils once fought, the oasis is the island where the devils defended in the Pacific Ocean, the cavalry is the escort fleet, the civilians are the transport ships, and Muhammad Ali is the Middle Eastern Emperor Mai who took advantage of the huge size of the Ottoman Empire in front of the Deramayer Emirate to kill.

The only difference is probably that Muhammad Ali is really good at fighting, and Emperor Mai looks very good at fighting.

As Muhammad Ali continued to advance into the heart of the desert, Hussein Pasha in the south had also pressed towards the Deramayer Emirate, and the Wahhabis were defeated in succession and were almost defeated.

It can be seen here that even if an army has obtained new weapons, it will not be able to exert its strength before receiving systematic training.

With the two generals as examples, Emperor Seychelles naturally did not want to fall behind.

He further advanced his army, and the Emirate of Kuwait was occupied by the Ottoman army with almost no resistance. The Emirate of Helidil below did not organize any useful resistance. Sey the Great and Alamdar-Mustafa Pasha almost blocked the northern corridor, and at the same time approached Oman and began to die in various ways on the border.

Under the huge pressure of the Ottoman army, Oman was forced to stop its aid to the Bedouins.

Omani Sultan Hamed was very angry about this. He lodged a strong protest to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Ottoman Empire, believing that the Ottoman Empire was violating Oman’s national territorial sovereignty and brutally interfering in Oman’s internal affairs.

In response to this protest, Haji Pasha and Sey the Great tacitly chose a way-delay.

Anyway, we will not say anything, just delay. Oman will not go to war for such a small matter. Why not limit your supply to the Bedouins?

Threatened from three sides, step by step, and supply cut off, the destruction of the Bedouins seems to be foreseeable.

A journey of a hundred miles begins with a single step. The more critical the moment, the more cautious you should be.

The Sultan was alert and prepared for the Bedouin's dying counterattack at any time, but unfortunately, he did not encounter the same situation that Muhammad Ali encountered.

In June 1790, after two months of attack, the main force of the Bedouin was almost completely lost.

Of course, the Ottoman Empire also suffered heavy losses. This part of the loss was not the loss of the army, but the loss of the logistics system.

The loss rate of the 100,000 Shiite civilians sent by Emperor Seychelles to Muhammad Ali reached an extremely alarming level, as high as 80%.

The reason for this situation is actually related to the counterattack of the Bedouin that almost wiped out their main force.

In the process of Muhammad Ali's continuous advancement, the Bedouin finally couldn't hold back.

So under the command of the second generation of the Dirayei Emirate, the Bedouin directly inserted 20,000 troops into Muhammad Ali's military deployment, intending to use cavalry to encircle and divide, and then solve the Ottoman army once and for all.

In fact, they almost succeeded.

It must be said that the ancestors of the Saudi family were very martial. The second generation quickly besieged an Ottoman army that was too far forward.

This was not a mistake in Muhammad Ali's command. It was really that this large oasis was a bit prominent, causing it to be somewhat out of touch with other oases.

In this situation, Muhammad Ali acquiesced to the besieged army's free play, and at the same time assigned the army to advance at full speed, and the civilians kept up with the speed. With the cooperation of the besieged army, the Bedouins were defeated in one fell swoop.

All this was thanks to the civilians, because without them, the besieged army could not hold out for so long. After the trapped army had eaten all the food, it had to eat the civilians.

After defeating the Bedouins with luck, the Great of Seti began to brainstorm. Whenever he thought of the performance of Saudi Arabia in later generations, he extremely doubted whether his descendants were replaced by others. Otherwise, why was it so lame? Every time a fight started, let alone the little bully in the Middle East, the Alawites (Xuriya) might not be able to beat them.

These civilians who survived by chance did not get the result of returning home.

They were used by Muhammad Ali in siege warfare. Yes, the Emirate also had a city.

After using civilians to consume the enemy's physical strength and weaken their will, Muhammad Ali took the Bedouin city in one battle and forced the enemy to flee to Oman.

This battle that lasted for half a year ended, and the first stage of the Great Expedition came to an end.

Now we need to rest and prepare for the second stage, which is to fight against Oman, the one who disobeyed the Caliph's orders in the Islamic world.