Hearing that he was willing to surrender, the officer laughed and said, "How can the tea set we drink tea be used to stain blood!" ”

The officer, Chief of Staff Xiao Changrong, is also a good use of Max Oude and "publicizes" him for free!

Therefore, Mesood was treated well, and the Chinese took charge, giving him back ten thousand silver dollars, and returning his two concubines to him, and the Chinese were not responsible for whether they had been used before.

They sailed upriver and attacked the heart of the Ottoman Empire.

The river is surging, the waves are rolling, as far as the eye can see, both sides of the river are all emerald green, which is pleasing to the eye, above the river, a large group of cranes chirp and fly in front of the fleet, like a pathfinder sentinel, the scenery is picturesque!

For the people of West Asia, water, greenery, and animals are their favorites, after all, they often leave the house with yellow sand everywhere, and there is no grass.

However, the two West Asians who stayed on the Chinese warship hated each other and did not like each other, but they had to make do with each other.

Max Ode Pasha!

McNee!

"Pasha" is the title of a high-ranking civil official in the Ottoman Empire, which can be used in the name, Mesood Pasha is only the lord of a city, not up to the class of "Pasha", and his title is given by the Chinese.

The Chinese are not qualified to be crowned high-ranking civil officials of the Ottoman Empire, and they do so in order to confuse the public and raise the level of influence of Mesoude.

Masod Pasha was dressed like a dog, dressed in a distinguished garment, all of precious materials, with a large number of glittering rings on his fingers, and a scimitar scabbard at his waist made of shark skin, dotted with precious stones.

After a few days, Max Od regained his strength, and he found that the Chinese did what they said, and as long as they obeyed them and cooperated with them, they would treat him politely and not abuse him because he was a prisoner.

Therefore he began to get nervous again, and his spirit was vivid, and he really thought of himself as a Pasha, and he went to the place to point his fingers and be triumphant.

The Chinese are nothing, and the others are nothing, it's just that McNee, who keeps taunting him in his mouth!

McNee and the others expressed their willingness to serve the Southeastern Army, which immediately recruited them as part of the glorious Imperial Army.

After joining the Southeastern Army, they routinely had to talk to understand their outlook on life, and recorded it in the file--- civilian officials and officers would establish a file, which was a very powerful trick, and the officials would be more modest and cautious when they thought that they would remember everything.

McNee's military qualities and quick mind led him to be put to good use, and he was given the rank of major by the Southeastern Army as chief of guard to Maxod Pasha.

The two knew each other, and McNee knew what this Lord Pasha was, and Master Pasha hated McNee for pulling him off the horse, so McNee counted down a few words when he had time to remind him that he had to understand who he was!

"Oh, Lord Pasha, you have to keep warm, dress tightly, or you'll be sick again!" McNee said.

"Hehe, my good chief of guard, you used to be my subordinate, and now you are also my subordinate, can you bear with me!" Max Odd sneered.

In private, the two kept bickering, but when they appeared in public, they showed a scene of harmonious coexistence, which made others laugh.

McNee brought thirty men as a guard, and twenty as the honor guards and retinue of Maxod, who followed the detachment commanded by Xiao Changrong, who had previously intimidated Maxod with an axe, into the Shatt al-Arab--- that is, the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates, when the Shatt al-Arab was abundant and the battleships of the sail period did not have a deep draft to enter.

The Southeast Fleet was still very cautious, led by Xiao Changrong to lead the smaller eight "Nanhai-class" battleships and 16 cruisers into the Shatt al-Arab River, the battleships provided firepower, the cruisers were oars and sails, and when there was no wind, they could paddle and drag the battleships to move forward at a high speed, after all, they also prepared four oar-scratching boats for tugboats.

There are also a number of transport ships on which the Marine Corps is about 1,000 people, and the commander Cheng Yu is stuck in the Persian Gulf.

Along the way, the detachment fleet is like entering a no-man's land!

This river is the essence of Iraq, the towns and towns along the river are dense, the population is so large that the magistrates everywhere never dreamed that there would be an enemy invasion, so one town after another fell!

The Ottomans thought that there was a fleet in the port of Jubail, a garrison in the port city of Fao, and a fort to block the mouth of the river, so the Shatt al-Arab would.

As a result, the fleet was completely annihilated by the Southeast Fleet, and the city of Port Fao had a garrison--- a small number of troops, and there were forts--- but no construction started, so the towns by the river were tragically destroyed!

When it comes to the decay of the Ottoman Empire, the real eldest brother Mo Xiao and the second brother, compared with those town garrisons, Mesood can be regarded as having a conscience!

The port city of Fao, which he commanded, had at least 1,000 cavalry and musketeers fully manned.

Other towns?

There is a standing army, but the equipment is tall and tall cavalry and camel soldiers, using scimitars, leather armor and bows and arrows, and the same is true for infantry, many infantry are cloth clothes + skin armor!

There was no trace of muskets, and metal armor was rare.

Compared with bows and arrows, the cost of muskets is too high, the silver in training is gone, and metal is even more valuable, and the Ottoman Empire is an agricultural country, although there is mining and smelting, but not much metal is produced.

At that time, China was the world's lighthouse, and the steel output of a country was several times that of other countries combined!

The Ottoman Empire was so inprotective of its own country?

It cannot be said that in some big cities and towns, there are still military funds allocated to form city defense armies and purchase equipment for them.

How!

Officials at all levels did not believe that anyone would dare to provoke them, so the military expenditure was devoured by those large and small moths, and they worked on it, and the military expenditure was not used for army construction at all, and once it was invaded by the southeast army, it was completely exposed.

First, battleships bombarded the city with artillery and terrorized the population.

Only 800 marines from the Southeastern Army went ashore to beat the defenders of the Ottoman towns.

Under the platoon of guns, whether it was cavalry, camel soldiers or infantry, they fell to the ground one after another, and there was no battle example worth boasting about, and the Southeast Army itself was embarrassed to say.

When it comes to the Turks, there are still some officials who have commendable courage, but unfortunately they can't beat the dummy bullet.

After seizing the towns, the southeastern army robbed the wealth, grain, and materials of the official warehouses and large households, killed their livestock to eat, and distributed the grain that could not be taken away to the local poor in order to buy the hearts of the people.

One town after another has fallen, and now, the riverside town of Basra has been captured by the Chinese, and Masood Pasha has appeared in full view!