"Hahaha!" On the sand dunes outside the city, Hao Shaoqi laughed wildly, laughing happily with the officers around him.

This time, it's the turn of labor and management to make a name for themselves!

A full 100,000 Cairoes, less than 10,000 laborers, drove them back and scared them so much that they couldn't get out!

To be honest, when they saw so many enemies guarding outside the city, the officers were really shocked, and they were in a situation where they were worried about running away, so they had to fight hard.

Unexpectedly, the other party was a paper tiger, a silver-like wax gun head, and beat them back to the city!

The staff officers counted the situation of this battle, which:

In the pursuit battle, due to proper cover and mutual help, our side only lost 2 people and injured more than 100 people;

The result was that more than 1,000 Egyptians were killed--- which was modest, and later the military history investigated, and from the enemy's information, it was known that the Egyptians killed more than 2,000 people, and killed more than 3,000 horses and camels.

More than 3,000 prisoners --- Hao Shao ordered the release of half of the old and weak, let them go back to promote the benevolence and righteousness of the party, and at the same time threatened the defenders in the city to surrender quickly.

Hao Shaoqi was most satisfied with the Indian soldiers, who only killed more than 100 people and killed more than 500 elite cavalry of the other side with one enemy and two enemies.

At first, when he heard that the Indian soldiers were attacked by the enemy, it seemed that he had been hit in the face, and no matter how hard he fought them, if the Indian soldiers suffered too many losses or were even annihilated, it would be difficult to escape the blame.

Unexpectedly, the Indian soldiers withstood the test and achieved a lot of results!

He summoned the officers of the Indian advance regiment and above and above to commend them and thank them for their outstanding contributions.

He recognized Kunal, and patted the Indian's strong shoulder heavily, the shoulder did not move at all, and Hao Shaoqi said happily: "Good fight!" It's not in vain that your regimental commander will guarantee you with his life! ”

Kunal once committed a crime, and his boss Shi'an thought that he was a rare talent, and Shi'an used his own head as a guarantee to enable Kunale to continue his career in the Chinese army, otherwise he would be swept away!

Kunal grinned, "That's Lord Vishnu bless me!" ”

"I'm down!" The seniority next to him rolled his eyes, and secretly scolded this guy for being stupid, he couldn't even speak, he should say thank you to the leader, thank the general, thank the superiors, thank everyone, fortunately, everyone knows that his leader is a set of people and two brands, and he is also the god of Vishnu, and Kunal's words are not wrong.

Just when the Chinese army was celebrating its achievements and was in high spirits, the Governor's Mansion in Cairo was miserable and miserable, and 100,000 soldiers and civilians went into battle to end up with such a result, which is really difficult to explain.

They all said that the military governor Emre should not mobilize the people into battle, which proved to be useless.

Emre disagreed with the accusators, saying: "When we rushed forward, they didn't run away, our strategy was right!" ”

The implication is that "it is not that the national army does not work hard, but that the communist army is too cunning".

Selim, the commander of the cavalry, was attacked by a group, he attacked the Indians with superior forces, and he fought like this, the responsibility is not him, who else is responsible!

If he wins, one victory can cover up all the ugliness, but he will fight like that bird, making everyone lose face.

The point is, he lost to the Indians!

Defeated by the Indians!

The people present are either rich or expensive, for the Indians, knowing that some of them are very rich--- Indians are still quite good at business, but the Indians are definitely classified as a people who are not good at fighting, and if they can fight, it will not be the turn of those brothers of the Mughal Empire to rule them!

Selim argued: "The Indians are indeed very bad, but it is the Chinese who command them!" ”

was scolded in a hurry, and he glared at him: "You have all lost to the Chinese, what is my defeat to the Chinese!" ”

It's worse than that, and it makes everyone laugh and cry.

He was the Governor's henchman after all, and Katabor Pasha said impatiently, "Well, think about how to deal with the enemy outside the city!" ”

Speaking of which, everyone is staring at each other with big eyes and big heads!

Since I never dreamed that Cairo would be attacked, Cairo's city defense can be described as miserable, leaking everywhere!

Yes, Cairo, as an important city in the empire, often had expenses for city defense.

But everyone decided that no one would dare to enter the city of Cairo without a long eye, and all the expenses for the defense of the city were frantically divided up and down by the officials.

The current Cairo city defense gate has not been reinforced, and some city gates can be "kicked and knocked down" if they are ugly!

The battlements and walls have been lost for a long time, and heavy artillery is smashed, and it is inevitable that they will collapse.

If they were held accountable, the officials present could pull half of them out to shoot targets.

With this kind of city defense, how to defend?

However, those who flee without a fight and abandon the city will be beheaded according to the laws of the Empire!

Hurry up and strengthen the city defenses?

Don't be funny, who pays?

Will the Chinese outside the city give you this opportunity?

The officials discussed and discussed, and Katabor Pasha said solemnly: "We must fight, this is a war with the infidels, the empire will never tolerate them getting Egypt, you must know that Egypt is the barn of the empire, it must be defended, and there is no room for loss!" ”

Listen, when they heard him say that they would donate 500,000 silver coins and use 500,000 silver coins of public funds for military expenditures, the representatives of all the forces in the city all broke their mouths and cursed in their hearts!

This is the governor who swallowed all the silver coins during his tenure, and now he has to pay for it!

But he moved out of religion and out of empire, and it was necessary to give money, and everyone bargained.

In the end, it was decided that the major families in the city would bleed together, first raise 300,000 Spanish silver coins or Chinese silver coins, together with public funds, and have the administrator repair the city defenses, make barricades, and authorize Selim to recruit 30,000 people into the army, and urgently train them to fight in battle.

The Ottoman Empire was proud, but the Ottoman currency was really miserable, and it was mainly the currency of the Europeans.

The Ottoman Empire was not short of money, it had Thrace, Macedonia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Serbia and other places rich in silver, and there was a lot of silver income, and there was a kind of Ike silver coin.

It was originally quite good, but it died on its own, controlling the land passage of the East-West trade between Eurasia and the East, but it made it difficult for the East-West trade, resulting in the Hongmao Fan not taking the mainland trade, and the Turks got less and less income from the trade, and they also spent a lot of money on the army, which led to a serious financial crisis in the empire.

The government's tried and tested method in response to the fiscal crisis was to devalue the currency, and the Ike silver coins were constantly flooded with water, and in the end they were almost silver-free, and all of them were minted from base metals.

This round of depreciation has dealt a devastating blow to the credibility of Ike Silver.

Then there is the rise of foreign currencies, the famous Spanish Real silver coins - because Spain received a large amount of silver from the Americas, their Lille silver coins were abundant in silver and beautifully printed, and the merchants in the Ottoman territory preferred to use European silver coins for settlement, while the domestic Ike silver coins were gradually abandoned.

For hundreds of years, the Ottoman Empire simply gave up minting money because of the Lille silver coin competition!

First the Spanish silver coins, then the Chinese silver coins, left the Ottoman silver coins without hope.

The southeastern country had a large amount of silver, and the Chinese silver coins were issued, which were as strong as the Spanish silver coins.

Paper money is popular in the southeast, and the paper money deposit is gold and silver, and the reputation of the paper money is very good, and the people also love to use it, but foreign trade still needs real money and silver, and the trade settlement uses Chinese silver coins.

After the Governor's Palace had finished its deliberations, and after everyone had withdrawn, Katabor Pasha called his confidant, Amin the Afghan, and told him to do something.

Empty the Cairo City Treasury and take away all the public money worth 500,000 silver coins and bring it back to his hometown of Damascus!

Also, inform his Galata Salt Company that he is ready to evacuate Cairo!