Compared with southern Africa, which can produce aircraft, cannons, aircraft carriers, it is the normal armament of most countries at this time that they can't even do a gun with one hand, Britain's military industrial strength is strong enough, but before the outbreak of the world war, it is necessary to order rifles from southern Africa to meet the needs of British military expansion, and the Ottoman Empire began to order weapons from southern Africa during the Italian-Turkish War, and was once the largest overseas customer in southern Africa, so the situation of the Ottoman Empire troops, southern Africa is very clear.

Not to mention the all-pervasive intelligence services of the umbrella companies.

In order to adapt to the situation in the Ottoman Empire, the Umbrella Company employed a lot of Persian intelligence officers, and Basra and Damascus, and even Constantinople had the intelligence agencies of the Umbrella Company.

That is, after the beginning of the formation of the intelligence department, Roque found that not only does not need to spend money to engage in intelligence work, but can make money, the intelligence agencies in the Ottoman Empire, almost all in the form of companies, the scope of business is varied, from food to military industry, the umbrella company does not need to invest in these enterprises at all, but also from the business operation to obtain high profits, which is also the fundamental reason for the rapid development of the intelligence department of the umbrella company.

After the outbreak of the world war, the Ottoman Empire, like Europe, began to skyrocket, a kilogram of bread in Constantinople was converted to only 2 pence before the war, now it costs 4 pence, the cheapest meat before the outbreak of the world war 3.5 pence per pound, now it costs 9 pence, the world war has just begun, next year's prices will definitely rise further, and no one knows how much it will rise by then.

Unlike Europe, where prices soared, the prices of farm goods in southern Africa did not rise after the outbreak of the world war, but fell to a certain extent.

This has a lot to do with the fact that southern Africa is confiscating German farms in South-West Africa and Tanganyika, where prices are already much lower than in Europe, with eggs being bought for almost 530 eggs per pound in France and nearly 3,000 in southern Africa.

Nearly 3,500 are available now.

And in France you can only buy 270 of them.

The price gap is so huge, so buying all kinds of materials from southern Africa and selling them all over the world has become the best choice for the intelligence department of the umbrella company, there are many people in this industry doing it, in addition to the umbrella company, the South African company is the largest import and export trading company in southern Africa, if the agricultural products industry is listed separately, the business volume of the South African company is larger than the umbrella company.

Like Constantinople, prices in Basra and Damascus are skyrocketing, about double the price of the Ottoman army in general, and miraculously many of the Ottoman forces are supplied by umbrella companies, and even the weapons used by the Ottoman forces are made in southern Africa.

After the outbreak of the World War, Southern Africa had stopped exporting goods to countries other than the Entente, not only to the Central Powers, but also to countries that did not have a definite position, including the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Italy.

After the reinforcements arrived in Port Elizabeth, the 3rd Cavalry Division and the 12th and 13th Divisions were stationed in the Elizabeth Fields, the 17th Division was stationed in Port Elizabeth, and the 19th and 206th Divisions were stationed in Ahvaz, and the only troops that could be used for the attack were the 305th Division and the 501st and 502nd Divisions transferred from the East Indies.

In the Southern African Ministry of Defense, the "4" begins with the troops of the Sultanate of Najd.

The strength of three divisions was obviously not enough to meet the needs of the attack, but fortunately the Sultanate of Najd could still squeeze it, and after Martin arrived in Port Elizabeth, the Sultanate of Najd added four more divisions to the original four divisions for the attack on the Ottoman Empire.

Martin was trying to drain the Sultanate of Najd, the poor Sultanate of Najd, which had only a million population, had already mobilized 60,000 people to join the army, and if another 60,000 were recruited, the army of the Sultanate of Najd would have exceeded one-tenth of the country's population.

This tenth, by the end of the world war, probably not one in ten.

After the outbreak of the World War, the Sultanate of Najd reformed the army, reorganizing the cavalry division of only 10,000 men into an infantry division of about 15,000 people, and after the restructuring, the Sultanate of Najd only had four divisions, which was stronger than before.

Years of war have caused the population of the Sultanate of Najd to plummet, and the Sultanate of Najd is the rapid increase in the population of Port Elizabeth and Georgetown, many mercenaries of the umbrella company have moved their families to Port Elizabeth and Georgetown, the population of these two areas is now more than 100,000, the total population is more than 500,000, and the extra 400,000 are workers hired from other countries, Port Elizabeth and Georgetown are not independent countries now, and have greater autonomy in immigration policy.

Port Elizabeth and Georgetown are both located on the coast of the Persian Gulf, and there is very little arable land around the city, so Roque covets the rich and fertile two river basins, and without occupying them, southern Africa will not be able to gain a real foothold in the Near East.

The Ottoman Empire's entry into the war had a lot to do with Winston.

Before the outbreak of the World War, the Ottoman Empire ordered two Dreadnought-class battleships from Britain at a cost of up to £11 million.

On July 28, Austria-Hungary declared war on the Kingdom of Serbia, and World War I broke out.

At that time, the Ottoman Empire's naval officers who had received the first dreadnought had arrived in Britain, and Winston decided on the same day to requisition two dreadnoughts built by Britain for Turkey to supplement the strength of the British navy.

This was understandable, but it prompted the Ottoman Empire to turn to the Central Powers.

The last straw that broke the camel's back was the German Navy.

In order to prompt a break between the Ottoman Empire and Britain and France, Germany sent two high-speed cruisers into the Mediterranean, shelled French North African coastal cities on August 10, and then fled into the Dardanelles.

The 34-year-old Enver Pasha, the Ottoman Minister of War and leader of the Al-Shabaab, decided to let the German warships enter the Dardanelles, blocking the Anglo-French warships pursuing the German warships out of the Dardanelles and closing the Dardanelles.

The consequences of the closure of the Dardanelles were serious, Britain and France could not care, the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Empire lost access to the Mediterranean, and 350,000 tons of goods ready for export were stranded in the Black Sea.

Germany decided at this time to send two warships to the Ottoman Empire, although the two warships raised the Ottoman flag, but the warships were still German naval officers and sailors, after the two warships entered the Black Sea, they launched attacks on Feodosia, Odessa, and Sevastopol on the Black Sea coast one after another, and the Ottoman Empire explained to the Russian Empire that the actions of the two warships were not an order of the Ottoman Empire.

The Russian Empire demanded that the Ottomans expel the German warships as a sign of innocence.

On October 25, the Ottomans did not expel the German warships before the time for the Russian Empire's ultimatum arrived, and the Russian Empire declared war on the Ottoman Empire.

At this time, Britain had not yet declared war on the Ottoman Empire, so Port Elizabeth and Basra had not yet entered a state of war, but skirmishes broke out frequently, and if the patrols of both sides encountered in the field, they would launch a merciless attack on each other, and in Sevwan, the Ottoman patrols tried to attack a patrol equipped with armored vehicles of the 3rd Cavalry Division, but were completely annihilated by armored vehicles, and in um Cesar, a patrol of the Sultanate of Najd and the Ottoman troops encountered head-on, and the battle was undecided.

After the Russian Empire declared war on the Ottoman Empire, Colonel McMahon sent three telegrams to Martin in one day, hoping that Martin would transfer more troops to Egypt to ensure the safety of the Suez Canal.

Martin did not have any spare troops to reinforce Egypt, and promised to attack Basra and Damascus at the same time after the outbreak of war to reduce the pressure on the Egyptian side as much as possible.

On the 26th, Britain finally declared war on the Ottoman Empire, and Martin immediately ordered two divisions of the East Indies, 501 and 502, as well as four divisions of the Sultanate of Najd, to attack Basra at the same time.

The Ottoman army was also eager to prove itself in the war compared to Martin, who had just given the order and the troops were not fully mobilized, and the garrison of Basra preemptively attacked the Elizabeth fields.

Alligator armored vehicles in the battle, in the defense, the alligator became the defensive node of the defensive position, and the defense of the third cavalry division, the 12th division, and the 13th division were all carried out around the alligator armored vehicle.

The Ottoman offensive was dominated by cavalry, which had not disappeared until World War II.

In front of the alligator equipped with a 12.7 mm heavy machine gun and a 40 mm grenade launcher, the cavalry only equipped with a rifle has no power to fight back, the armor of the alligator armored car is not thick, but it can defend against the frontal attack of the rifle, the shooter on the roof of the car is protected by a semi-circular armor shield, the shooter sweeps down the group of cavalry through the shooting hole, the cavalry who is lucky enough to escape the large-caliber machine gun can not escape the accurate shooting of the precision shooter, the 40 mm grenade launcher is the nemesis of the cavalry, with the mortar equipped to the company level, the attacking Ottoman cavalry suffered heavy losses.

The horror of the alligator armored car also lies in the counterattack anytime and anywhere, the biggest advantage of the cavalry over the infantry is speed, but in front of the alligator armored car, all speed has become a floating cloud, whenever the cavalry with heavy losses has to retreat, the alligator armored car will leave the position to pursue, in the vast desert hilly area, the cavalry has nowhere to escape, the two alligator armored vehicles of the third division, in a battle in Zubayr captured 650 cavalry and their horses.

The war horses used by the Ottoman cavalry, many of which are world-famous Arabian horses, the world's oldest horse breed are known for their beautiful body and hard work, Arabian horses are fast and have strong staying power, and they are the most suitable riding horse breeds, and they have always been very popular in southern Africa, and a good Arabian horse can be sold for tens of thousands of pounds in southern Africa.