Valley Emperor

When Datang's mixed regiment landed, all they faced was ruins, and the Egyptian garrison of more than 10,000 Ottomans stationed there had long since disappeared.

Most of them were killed or injured in the naval artillery attack, and a few escaped during the chaos.

Under the cover of powerful naval artillery fire, the mixed regiment of the landed Army and Marine Corps occupied Suez without firing a single shot.

However, they did not quickly advance to Cairo or other places in the future, but stayed directly at the local garrison.

On the one hand, it is necessary to give the officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Empire time to negotiate. If the canal can be obtained through negotiation without fighting, then the Empire is too lazy to fight.

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On the other hand, Datang’s overseas military operations have always been steady and steady. After landing, they generally do not push forward rashly, but build ports and wait for more logistical supplies. At least, they have to transport the artillery of the landing troops. , and then wait for the arrival of the cavalry troops.

In short, if they are not prepared, they will not attack rashly.

In addition, this is also a military consideration. If you have worked so hard to fight, you might as well let the other party take the initiative to gather troops to counterattack, and when that time comes, you can just pull out an artillery battalion and shoot a quick shot and you will be done.

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In order to repair the Suez Canal, the Tang Dynasty engaged in an armed conflict, killing thousands of Ottoman troops.

In order to speed up the construction of the canal, it is not surprising that there is a special case for the restricted use of machinery and equipment.

It's just that the import and export policy is very important. If you open your mouth rashly, it will have a great follow-up impact. Even Li Xuan has to be cautious.

The construction of the two canals definitely requires the use of construction machinery, otherwise the construction progress will be too slow.

You must know that when the French and Americans built these two canals in history, they used large-scale engineering equipment, but even the speed of construction was very slow.

If the Tang Dynasty only used pure manpower to build it, God knows when it will be successful. Lin Ziran doubts that it will not be completed in another twenty or thirty years.

However, although the canal and some overseas military bases can be used, they must also be used in a restricted manner, and other possibilities must also be avoided.

Li Xuan doesn't want special handling to become commonplace, and he doesn't want other overseas territories to follow this model and then introduce a lot of machinery and equipment.

Especially in North America, it is a region that needs to focus on preventing technology export in the short term.

In recent years, Li Xuan has deeply felt the great development potential of North America, and also felt the urgent need for the development of industry and commerce by the local elite.

However, this is also the reason why he changed his original intention and turned to support continued suppression.

Anyway, before the widespread popularization of radio, before the sailing speed of ships has been greatly improved, especially before the local defense industry has reached a new level, the localization of the Americas is not to be expected.

Li Xuan needs radio to communicate on a global scale in a timely manner.

It is even more necessary to have an army that is ahead of its time, an army equipped with radio communications, using advanced rifles like Li Fu rifles, equipped with heavy machine guns, and even cars and tanks to face threats from overseas territories around the world.

The manufacture of these advanced weapons requires much more industrial base and technology than the current weapons and equipment.

At that time, even if overseas territories are localized, it is difficult to catch up without a few decades of development.

Due to many considerations, Li Xuan personally reviewed and instructed the use of machinery and equipment for key overseas projects.

Li Xuan instructed that one case should be tried and one batch should be used in a restricted manner while ensuring that the advanced science and technology of the empire will not be leaked.

Such instructions also made the Import and Export Committee feel relieved.

They have been under a lot of pressure in recent years. Many people are actually very dissatisfied with the way the Import and Export Commission bans the export of technical equipment across the board.

Banning exports to indigenous people is reasonable and everyone supports it.

But even Datang's overseas territories cannot import these machinery and equipment, and many people are unhappy. Could it be that the Datang people living in the overseas territories are not Datang people?

It is precisely because of this pressure that the Import and Export Commission has been adjusting its policies to try to ease the anger of the people.

For example, localized localization, this thing actually has the promotion of the Import and Export Committee behind it.

In addition, overseas military bases can set up maintenance plants to introduce machinery and equipment to maintain warships and overseas merchant ships of the Tang Dynasty.

In the early years, the Import and Export Commission released certain restrictions on steamships, allowing Datang to operate steamships overseas, but these steamships must be regularly reported and maintained in officially recognized overseas ship maintenance bases. maintenance.

When this policy was first implemented, the Import and Export Commission was also very helpless.

Steam engines are definitely not allowed to be exported, let alone steam ships.

However, Datang people buy steam merchant ships themselves, and then run them overseas. It is difficult to prohibit them. You can't allow Datang's ships to go offshore.

Therefore, we simply took the initiative to guide and release the restrictions on the operation of steam ships overseas, but we need to report regularly and maintain at designated locations.

But even so, there have been many cases where the whereabouts of steam ships are unknown. The Tatars have built several sets of ship-based steam engines on Datang merchant ships. After moving back, they tried to install them with the help of Datang traitor technicians. on the wooden battleship.

The Tang Navy had already foiled a Tatar conspiracy. At that time, it dispatched a fleet to blow up the Tatar shipyards to pieces and recovered the smuggled steam engines.

Later, in order to prevent the Tatars from developing the shipbuilding industry~www.wuxiaspot.com~ to pose a potential threat to Datang, the Datang Navy simply started from the United Provinces and sent fleets to patrol along the coastline for a long time, and saw the Tatar shipyards. Just shelling, and later, even ordinary ports were shelled.

Therefore, although the coastline controlled by the current Tatars is very long, their coast is very threatening. There are basically no shipyards, not even coastal ports.

Because they were all blown to pieces by the Datang Navy.

For this reason, the Tatars had to retreat to inland rivers to build shipyards, ports, etc. At the same time, they vigorously developed land canals and continued to conduct foreign trade through the United Provinces.

The Tang Navy also turned a blind eye to this. At most, it would occasionally send a few shallow water gunboats to go around symbolically, but they would not go deep, and the Tartars would also cooperate to release one or two. Small ports, small shipyards, etc. let the Datang Navy blow up.

As for going deeper and attacking important targets, this is something that the Datang Navy will not do.

After all, the Tatars would also set up strong forts along the inland rivers.

Although they are all smoothbore guns, dozens or hundreds of large-caliber smoothbore guns are also threatening.

The solid rounds and grenades fired by these smoothbore guns are capable of inflicting damage on these small tonnage ships.

Naturally, the Tang Navy would not take these unnecessary risks.

Just block their coasts and the mouths of major rivers.

After all, the ground combat in Europe was a task that Datang handed over to Spain, France and other European countries. The Datang Navy had done all the work, so why do they need these European natives?