Chapter 744 (2/2)

With the cooperation of the Imperial Navy and army, the Red Sea and the isthmus of Suez were successfully controlled in only four months.

At this time, only Napoleon, who was still the emperor, proposed to build a canal connecting the Red Sea and the Mediterranean in the isthmus of Suez. However, Napoleon was still at his peak. His deterrent power frightened the whole Europe. In addition, the energy of France and other European countries was involved in the European mainland, So no one realized the importance of the isthmus at this time.

Under such circumstances, the Empire occupied the isthmus of Suez and blocked the entrance and exit of the Red Sea at the southern end of the Red Sea, completing a beautiful strategic layout.

The most important thing is that the imperial army did not wantonly expand, which made many European powers a little relaxed about the imperial action.

After all, the whole of Europe now knows that the Empire rising on the other side of the Atlantic is really not easy to provoke, even worse than Napoleon's France.

As long as the powerful empire did not reach into Europe, most of the European powers turned a blind eye to the Empire's small moves in Africa. Even Napoleon didn't want to offend the Empire at this point because of a Suez isthmus.

Throughout the past half century, the French have suffered a lot in the hands of the powerful chief, so that the French have a psychological shadow.

Napoleon was busy dealing with the anti French Alliance. With his intelligence, he would not offend the powerful empire at this time.

With the military bases established in Ismailia and several military fortresses established in the border area, the Empire soon firmly controlled this area.

And the Empire didn't stop. When the Empire gained full control of the Red Sea and the isthmus of Suez, the imperial fleet sailed out of the red sea again, and continued to go north along the Arabian Peninsula, and then quickly occupied the narrow valley where heseb lived

Heseb is a small city at the northernmost tip of the Cape of Oman. In later generations, if you just look at the map, maybe many people will think that this city located in the northernmost corner of Oman belongs to the United Arab Emirates, but in fact, this city belongs to Oman, which is an enclave of Oman separated by the United Arab Emirates.

However, at this time, the borders between countries are far less clear than later generations. At this time, the UAE still belongs to Oman

And at this time, France was the colonist who ruled here... France: what's so special about me?

Needless to say, the French colonists in Oman were beaten up by the Empire again. However, this time, the Empire did not forcibly expand in Oman. Instead, it stopped expanding after it just hit the nearby heseb.

This made the French colonists put down a little bit of a snack. After all, Cape Oman is full of mountains, and the place is very poor. Although the Empire occupied there and could directly control the Strait of Hormuz, no one realized the importance of Middle East oil, so the French did not care about the Empire occupying such a small enclave at the top of Cape Oman.

By 1810, the great Chinese Empire had controlled about 300000 square kilometers of the Johannesburg colony in Africa, the isthmus of Suez and the sea mouth of the Red Sea at the junction of Eurasia, and the Strait of Hormuz at the corner of Oman.

And the imperial logistics troops also began to quickly build large military bases in these places, making these key areas into fortresses that can not be broken!