Just two hours before the Southeastern Army arrived in Cairo, the city of Cairo finally received an alert.

"What?!" The Ottoman governor of Egypt, Katabor Pasha, stood up from the carpet, pointed at the messenger with trembling hands, and said in a trembling voice: "You said that the Chinese army has landed in large numbers, has passed the city of Plega, and is advancing towards Cairo!" ”

Plega City is a small town located between Suez City and Cairo City, roughly from the city in the morning to Plega City at noon.

"Yes!" The messenger kneeling on the ground replied: "Their army is very large, so many that it is too many to count, and there are both infantry and cavalry, and our city lord does not dare to count them, so let me report them immediately!" ”

"Is it the army of the Chinese?" A high-ranking military general named Emre next to him asked sharply.

"It is indeed their troops, under the banner of mountains, seas and stars!" The messenger said.

Katabor Pasha sat back in his seat, full of remorse!

No wonder so many Chinese returned to their hometowns for the New Year, which was a premonition before the attack, but he didn't take it to heart.

Also, John Robert, an English merchant who came to Cairo as a guest, warned him that the Chinese would attack Turkey, and Cairo would bear the brunt!

There are always smart people in the world, and some people in the red-haired fan have been dealing with the Chinese for a long time, and they have also seen through what the Chinese want to do!

John Robert was a merchant of the British East India Company, engaged in the sugar business, selling white sugar from Chinese Taiwan and Southeast Asia to India, Persia and Arabia, and then to Turkey and Asia Minor.

The Chinese soldiers left the Straits of Malacca, and John Robert's business collapsed!

Even after the armistice between the two sides, trade reopened, business was already difficult to do, competition was fierce, Chinese businessmen intervened, it was no longer a British monopoly, and John Robert said goodbye to the past when he could make money while sleeping!

The anger in his heart can be imagined, and in his anger, he decided to give the Chinese some color to see.

So he lobbied the Turks, especially Katabo Pasha, pointing out that sooner or later the Chinese would move westward, and they would never let Cairo go.

Katabor Pasha recalled the words of the red-haired fan: "...... I have often traded with the Chinese, and I know that the Chinese are insatiable, they first established themselves in Taiwan, then they took Batavia of the Dutch, then they took all of Southeast Asia, and they occupied India, and they drove all of us Europeans away. Wait, they will definitely attack Turkey, and Egypt, as the breadbasket of Turkey, they will definitely take Egypt first! ”

Insightful, but unfortunately Katabor Pasha did not believe his words, he received the Chinese tribute very freely, and the Chinese acted generously, and Katabor Pasha took John Robert's words as the words of a loser.

What is more is his confidence in the power of the Turkish Empire, Turkey's national strength is strong, and the power of the whole of Europe cannot beat Turkey, and one country singles out the whole of Europe!

Do not forget that the Turkish army appeared under the city of Vienna, and this is Central Europe!

The Chinese dare to attack? Katabo Pasha really never thought about it.

Yes, they dominate the seas, but I haven't heard what they do on land!

Today they came, the patrol ships on the sea, the defenders everywhere, and the border tribes were all useless guys, and they did not play any role in early warning, and they did not report the information until they landed and rushed to Cairo.

Katabor Pasha hated and feared him, for not only John Robert had warned him, but there were many other messages that had been reminding him, but he had taken it on deaf ears.

There were a lot of precursors before the storm came, and Turkish and Arab merchants who went to trade in the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia told in unison that the Chinese had moved, that their military ships were coming and going, that they were stockpiling supplies in India and Ceylon, that they were actively training Indian troops, that they were holding exercises, and so on!

There is no impermeable wall in the world, and the Chinese can still keep it secret, and the three pots can be kept secret?

As long as they feel that they can be used as a talking point, they will definitely publicize it, and they are so good that even the gods in the sky will soon know what they are doing, and they want to keep the three pots shut up, and wait for them to make fish in their next life!

Be a cow, a horse, a dog, and they'll bark!

Some vigilant and patriotic Turkish businessmen thought that something was wrong with the Chinese when they talked about the Chinese in Cairo, and even an Arab businessman, an old friend of Katabor Pasha, came to remind him that the Chinese should make a big move, they bought horses and donkeys, and the horses were swept away everywhere, and all the donkeys in Afghanistan were bought!

At that time, a wealthy Arab businessman relayed the words of an Indian maharaja to Katabor Pasha: "The Chinese bought enough grain for 200,000 people to eat for a year, and the price of grain soared. ”

Buying so much food for charity or accumulating grain to prevent hunger?

The usefulness of food soon understood, the Chinese in India conscription--- things can not be hidden, the Chinese cantonment points in South India, from the remote Kashmir, Punjab, and a little close to China's Tibetan side of the Assam milk tea hometown There are Indians to defect, recruit for many years, and select the best!

The wealthy Arab businessman said that he had never seen Chinese soldiers trained, but some people had seen them, and it was very strict to say that the Indian soldiers trained were "murderous".

Indian soldiers have always been very good-looking, and being able to use these four words shows that the Chinese have the ability to train soldiers, and it also shows that the Chinese have made a heavy investment!

Most of Colombo, Ceylon, was tightly sealed by the Chinese, making it mysterious, but the sound of guns could not be cut off, and the dense sound of guns could be heard clearly, and it was obvious that there were many troops.

The southeastern country has a strong navy and is the hegemon of the Indian Ocean, and they also train the army?

An old friend reminded Katabor Pasha that he wanted to beware of the Chinese, but he ignored him, he really didn't believe that the Chinese dared to attack Egypt, and even suspected that the Chinese wanted to attack Africa!

The Chinese are really here, and Katabor Pasha is too late to regret it!

He has to deal with the attack of the Chinese, and victory is good, if he can't resist the Chinese, Istanbul will not tolerate the loser.

Katabor Pasha hoarsely said, "Alright, we're ready to fight!" ”

It was not easy to prepare for war, and Katabo Pasha originally had tens of thousands of elite cavalry, but only 3,000 men remained in Cairo, and the rest of the cavalry went to Minia in Upper Egypt to deal with the tribes outside.

Egypt is divided into Upper and Lower Egypt, with Upper Egypt being the Nile Valley and Lower Egypt being the Nile Delta region north of Cairo.

As for the strength of the infantry, at the junction of Asia, Africa and Latin America, Katabo Pasha has seen a lot of the world, and has armed 3,000 flintlock pikemen, which is almost the strongest infantry in the Ottoman Empire.

The flintlock pistol was put into use very early, but there was a problem that it could not be fired, which led to the slow equipment, and the soldiers preferred to use the backward arquebus rather than the flintlock pistol, until the Chinese improved the flintlock pistol and popularized it in the eastern army.

First, the Europeans followed suit and came to equip the army, and then the Turks bought or built them, and they also had advanced flintlock pistols.

Unfortunately, even if Katabor Pasha had money, he could not be armed with too many flintlock pistols, the reason is very simple, no court would allow the local government to have too strong a military!

In this way, 3,000 cavalry and 2,000 flintlock pikemen were the main force in the hands of Katabor Pasha, who had 3,000 flintlock pikemen, and 1,000 were not in Cairo.

And the information currently available is that there are more than 10,000 Chinese attacking and tens of thousands of flintlock pistols!

Therefore, intelligence is very important, and if you know that the Chinese are coming, you can mobilize more troops and increase your chances of victory.

All the nobles in the chamber of the Governor's Mansion had grim faces!

Emre, the senior military attaché, said in a deep voice: "We must launch a full-scale popular war against these infidels!" ”

All of them agreed, "Yes! ”

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