At the mouth of the Indus River, the Ming fleet is anchoring, and the warships here are followed by two divisions of army troops. These will be the main forces landing in the Port of Basra, the Persian Gulf.

The army set out in advance and will launch an attack on time on the 16th of the first lunar month. However, at dawn on the 16th of the first lunar month, the fleet will raid the port and carry out devastating artillery bombardment on the Ottoman Indian Ocean fleet anchored in the port.

Although the Suez Canal is of great significance to the Ottoman Empire, the Ottomans stubbornly believed that the front line of resistance to the Ming Dynasty was in the Persian Gulf, not the Red Sea.

Moreover, there is indeed no good place on the Red Sea shore as a port, and the Ming Dynasty happened to have another outlet to curb the Red Sea.

If the Ottoman Empire's Indian Ocean naval anchorage was chosen in the Red Sea, it would be embarrassing to be blocked by the Ming Dynasty in the Red Sea.

But the Persian Gulf is different. Although the Ming Dynasty also occupied the southern part of the Arabian Peninsula, it did not build a large military port there, nor did it go deep into the Persian Gulf to establish a military.

On the other side of the Persian Gulf is the Shaphie Dynasty of Persia.

The Shaphie Dynasty was not a country that valued the development of the navy, so the Persian Gulf could not be blocked.

In the eyes of the Ottoman Empire, it was directly facing the Ming Dynasty's South Asia after leaving the Persian Gulf. It was an important source of financial and taxation for the Ming Dynasty. As long as the Ottoman navy was stationed here, the Ming Dynasty had to defend itself, which was equivalent to pulling the enemy to a position that was beneficial to itself to fight.

Moreover, in order to deal with the Ottoman Indian Ocean Fleet in the Persian Gulf, the Ming Dynasty did build a military port and station a naval fleet at the mouth of the Indus River.

The Ming fleet is about to start now, and the Ming Dynasty fleet has no intention of giving the enemy a chance to showdown. The best enemy warship is of course the sunken warship.

Since the Ming Dynasty had already planned to attack, it naturally could not leave time for the other party to react.

Skefa submitted a declaration of war in Istanbul, and the Ottoman Empire did not have a telegram, so the other party could not pass the news to the Suez Canal front and the Persian Gulf front within three or five days.

The Ming Dynasty could have successfully attacked without any defense in the opponent's fleet.

After success, the Ming Dynasty will land here, control the railway line up along the railway line and control the entire Mesopotamian basin.

In the Central Asian War Zone in the Ming Dynasty, Yang Sichang was still collecting ships. It was too difficult to transport a cavalry division across the sea for a long expedition.

If a ship is not big, he can only transport one horse. The standard configuration of a cavalry division is 40,000 horses, each soldier is equipped with three and logistics is 10,000.

Although it is not necessary to transport a cavalry division for 40,000 ships, not all horses must be transported there at one time.

But who else is fighting with this time? How many troops can the first batch transport over there? It determines whether this battle will be full of flowers or oil-added battles.

Can Yang Sichang not be in a hurry?

The Ming Dynasty controlled the Caspian Sea not long. Although it was working hard to repair and expand the shipyard, a piece of wood here had to be transported from the upper reaches of the Volga River on Tsarist Russia, and then it was dry for a year before it could be used.

The Ming Dynasty did not have the ability to build enough ships in such a short time, and no one was ready to transport the army across the sea two years before the war began.

The military headquarters had no such plan at all, so naturally there was no way to prepare for a shipyard.

Huang Degong replied that the military headquarters was determined to win this battle and had formulated an emergency plan for the damage to the canal.
Chapter completed!