The peninsula, including Port Elizabeth, the entire southern shore of the Persian Gulf and most of the Hejaz are the sphere of influence of the Umbrella Company.

Unlike the Chinese who are deeply rooted in their homeland, the desert nomads of the peninsula have a weak concept of land, they have almost no concept of territory, and they have not formed a unified state, and the Ottoman Empire also has no territorial claims to the desert areas of the peninsula, so the entire Hejaz has not formed a unified country, and it is still blank on the map.

This gives the Umbrella Company a chance to conquer the city.

In fact, it is not a siege, the entire Hejaz, most of the area is desert, there is no town in the modern sense at all, only the oases are suitable for human life, and the living conditions of these oases are also very bad, so the desert nomads in the peninsula have no sense of belonging to the oases, the wealth of the desert nomads is camels, not land, and when facing danger, the people here do not choose to take up arms to defend their homes, but pack up their limited possessions, and then ride camels to find the next perch.

Therefore, refugees in the 21st century are really not cowardly, and their tradition is not to fight against the water, let alone to forget the country and go to the national disaster together.

For the Persians of the peninsula, obedience to the strong is the natural thing, and in the common tribal conflicts, if the men of a tribe are killed, then the remaining women and children will become the spoils of the victors, and they will not take revenge, but accept their fate and start a new life with peace of mind, which is the tradition of the nomads.

After learning about the traditions of the Persians, Don and Li De began to try to recruit some Persians to become mercenaries of the Umbrella Company.

At this time, the Persians had not yet been corrupted by the massive wealth brought by oil, and they did not have too many requirements, as long as they could live by food, so that they could feed themselves, and compared with those southern African mercenaries whose annual salaries were getting higher and higher, this was the real good quality and low price.

To Roque's surprise, the Umbrella Company, despite its extraordinary enthusiasm for the deserts of the peninsula, failed to attract the attention of the Ottoman governor of Basra province and the British governor of Egypt.

Thanks to the Italian-Turkish war that had just broken out, the world's attention was on Tripoli and Cyrenaica, and the entire peninsula, with the exception of Anglo-American oil, was in a state of world oblivion.

Since the discovery of oil in Port Elizabeth, Anglo American has been hoping to work with Adan to develop Port Elizabeth oil.

This request was decisively rejected by the Adan company, which did not need the assistance of the Anglo-American oil company at all, whether it was technology or strength, the newly established Anglo-American oil company could not be compared with the Adan company, and the Anglo-American oil company did not even have an oil well, and it was not qualified to cooperate with the Adan company at all.

The inability to get their hands on the oil in Port Elizabeth did not put the British American oil company on the ground.

Anglo American Petroleum (BP) retreated to the next best thing, hoping to hire Umbrella Company mercenaries to explore for oil on the southern shores of the Persian Gulf.

This request was also rejected by the Umbrella Company, and the southern shore of the Persian Gulf, from Port Elizabeth to the New Cape of Good Hope, is now the sphere of influence of the Umbrella Company, which is particularly emphasized by Roque, and any attempt to explore the southern shore of the Persian Gulf, except for the oil explorers sent by Adan Company, is self-defeating.

The current southern shore of the Persian Gulf, except for a few strongholds set up by the Adan Company, is all no-man's land.

Although there are no nomadic tribes in the no-man's land, there are desert bandits, so under the premise that there is no guarantee of safety, Anglo American can only sigh.

"Anglo American Petroleum is still not giving up, I heard that there are Anglo American Petroleum explorers in Muscat now, do you want Ali to go?" Don is going to kill them all, Muscat is 300 kilometers from the New Cape of Good Hope, and Anglo American Petroleum explorers will explore the vicinity of the New Cape of Good Hope if they are not careful.

Muscat, the Sultanate of Muscat, has been a British protectorate since 1870, but it is not a British colony, and its status in the Commonwealth is similar to that of southern Africa.

Anglo American Petroleum also really had no choice, so they could only go to Muscat to try their luck, but the British American Petroleum Company did not send a drilling team, but only exploration personnel, and only after the exploration personnel fully understood the geological structure of Muscat, they would send a drilling team.

"Yes, where is Ali now?" Li De also did not know the location of Ali Rashid, the peninsula was so big that now there was a large area of no man's land, and there was not even a place name.

The current peninsula, there is no clear demarcation line between countries and regions, the peninsula is not like Africa, can be used as a natural demarcation line by the direction of rivers, and the Muscat Sultanate only has a general sphere of influence, specifically, the coastal areas are under the control of the Muscat Sultanate, and the inland deserts are all no-man's land.

If you look at the map, you can see that the national borders of the peninsula are not as curved as on the European map, but are horizontal and vertical, as if they were drawn with a ruler, which is very indicative of the situation on the peninsula.

"In the courtyard—" Tang En was also very helpless.

"Courtyard" refers to Riyadh, which means "courtyard" in Persian.

"Let him go to Muscat, this guy is getting lazier and lazier-" Li De was very dissatisfied, the Persians are indeed not enterprising, there are still so many ownerless lands on the peninsula, and it is a waste of time to stay in Riyadh all the time.

Ali Rashid's tribe now numbering more than 18,000 and nearly 5,000 soldiers ready to be dispatched, is the largest tribe on the peninsula and controls a large swath of the desert centered on Riyadh.

With less than 20,000 people, it is already the most populous tribe on the peninsula, and the peninsula is sparsely populated.

"Basra wants the umbrella to go to war, do you want to send some men to Cyrenaica?" Donn is playing with fire, and the Umbrella Corporation does not participate in wars between major powers in principle.

On September 15, the Italian navy launched an offensive on Tripoli.

The Ottomans did not have navies in Tripoli and Cyrenaica, so the Italian navy captured Tripoli with only 1,500 sailors.

This victory gave Italy enough confidence that it would only need to send 20,000 troops to conquer Tripoli and Cyrenaica.

If you only count the paper strength of Italy and the Ottoman Empire, Italy's 20,000 people can indeed form an overwhelming advantage over the Ottoman Empire's 8,000 regular troops in North Africa, but the Italians seem to ignore the 20,000 militias organized by the Ottoman Empire in North Africa, these 20,000 militias are equipped with weapons from Nyasaland, which are not inferior to the weapons equipped by the Italian army, because the Ottoman Empire has no navy in North Africa, so with the cover of fleet firepower, the Italians can indeed easily occupy coastal cities, But as soon as the Italian troops left the city, attacked inland, losing the protection of the naval guns, the Italians felt the vast sea of the people's war.

As a result, the Ottoman Empire also wanted to provide support to Tripoli and Cyrenaica through Egypt.

However, the British government, which controlled the Suez Canal, refused to allow Ottoman troops to pass through Egypt, so the governor of Basra wanted to hire mercenaries from the Umbrella Company to fight the war.

"No, we have to be consistent with Egypt." Li De decisively refused.

"I don't mean to send our people directly, send Abdul and Jamel them." Don is insidious, and it is estimated that if Ali is still useful, Donn will send all the Persians on the peninsula to Tripoli and Cyrenaica.

Abdul and Jamal are also agents cultivated by the Umbrella and Adan companies, several of which are on the peninsula, and almost all of the tribes that have risen to prominence in recent years are related to the Umbrella and Adan companies.

These tribes do not belong to each other, and conflicts will break out between each other, and by now several tribes have been annexed by other tribes, and Tang and Li De do not care about these losses, what they care about is that through the war between these tribes, the sphere of influence of the Umbrella Company and the Adan Company continues to expand.

"This is okay, you can do it, but not in our name." Li De doesn't care about these things, the fewer desert nomadic tribes on the peninsula, the greater the Umbrella Company's sphere of influence.

"How to get people over is the key." Donn was worried, the British government did not allow Ottoman reinforcements to pass through Egypt, and this was not a problem that could be solved by dredging relations.

"Let's leave this matter alone, let the Ottomans figure it out." Li De killed or buried, and the Ottomans now cared about one thing and the other, and did not care about Tripoli and Cyrenaica at all.

Like the empire that was on the verge of its demise, the Ottoman Empire was now in flames.

The Ottoman Empire once had a huge North African province in North Africa, but now it is being annexed by France and Italy.

For the Ottoman Empire, compared with Tripoli and Cyrenaica, the Balkans are more important, almost all European countries have interests in this region, the Russian Empire hopes to open up the passage to the Mediterranean Sea in the south, the Austrian Empire tries to expand southward to open the passage to the Adriatic Sea, Britain and France want to protect the transportation lifeline to the Indian Ocean and the Far East, so the Balkan Peninsula has always been a fiercely contested area by Russia, Austria, Britain and France, and wars have broken out many times around the Balkan Peninsula in the past hundred years. The Balkans are known as the "powder keg of Europe".

Now in the Balkans, because of the high-pressure rule of the Ottoman Empire, the powder magazine has been on the verge of exploding, after the outbreak of the Italian-Turkish War, the nationalists in the Balkans have heard the news, so the attention of the Ottoman Empire is in the Balkans, and Tripoli and Cyrenaica have no time to take care of both.

At least, Tripoli and Cyrenaica appear to be isolated.