Walking on the streets of Basra, although he took refuge in the Chinese, no matter in the hearts of Mesood and McNee, the fall of Basra really should not be!

Located on the west bank of the Shatt al-Arab at the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, the city was founded in 636 and has since become a center of culture and trade. Using the leaves of reeds and date palms from the marshes of the lower Tigris and Euphrates, merchants established paper mills that produced white, tough paper that sold well in the Ottoman Empire.

Papermaking was pioneered in China and spread to Damascua and Cairo in the 10th century, before spreading.

The suburbs are important production areas for dates, and the main agricultural products are dates, corn and rice.

Date palm skin is thin and thick, sweet, soft and glutinous, nutritious, is the food of the general public in the Middle East, but if you have dates, you will not starve to death.

Basra is blessed with the benefits of the river, a thriving plantation industry, high grain production, and a large population due to the trade and paper industry at the mouth of the river.

According to the system, the city should have 5,000 city defense troops, but how many people are actually there?

A thousand people!

Yes, five thousand nominally, there are indeed on the roster, and salaries are also paid!

The other 4,000 people are only names, and they usually do not participate in training, and their salaries are naturally the safety of the officials.

Such a bold and reckless act, in other words, in the border cities really can't do it, although they also eat empty salaries, dare not eat so much, but in the inland cities, this is not a thing at all, the higher departments come to check, just call those people back, the trained troops are in front, and the untrained troops are in the back,

The southeast army came to attack, and the 1,000 city defense army defeated the 800 Chinese warriors, and was defeated in less than half an hour, giving up the city of Nuoda.

The commander of the army was brave and unscrupulous, he led the charge, rushed at the Chinese guns, and died under the platoon of guns as soon as he charged, and his subordinates continued to charge, and only a hundred of them escaped from a thousand people, and their bodies were beaten to pieces by the well-trained southeastern army with dummy bullets.

The Chinese said that the battle was very relaxed, no one was killed, and less than 100 were injured.

The city is so big that the Chinese only control the rich areas, that is, the location of the government offices, and nearly eighty percent of the urban areas are civilians and slums, and the Chinese have given up.

They just knocked out the head of the city and created chaos, as for the people, they can't control so much, but the people will think, don't you see that the civilian areas have not been fired, and as a result, there are fires everywhere?

Order is lost, the populace is reduced to a mob, looting everywhere, killing people, setting fires, good deeds!

The Southeastern Army had bad intentions, and the Ottoman Empire was in chaos and trouble, and they were happy to see it happen.

After taking control of the main area, Masod Pasha entered the field under the protection of his guards, all of whom were dressed as West Asians, dressed in the finest silk or yarn, and clad in chain mail.

Behind Mesodh Pasha, a large standard-bearer carries a large red four-sided flag with gold threads written in Chinese, Turkish, Persian, and Arabic, all of which are "Maxim Commander of the Ottoman Free Army, Mesodh Lebib Pasha", indicating Mesod's identity.

When Mesod arrived at the city lord's office, he saw more than a dozen men cleaning under the supervision of the Southeast Army, the original owner of the office had fled in a hurry, the place was in a mess, things were thrown everywhere, and now they were cleaning up.

They entered the chamber, and in the council chamber, Mesod swaggered into the position of lord of the city, and in front of him stood a group of people, all dressed more elegantly, but with sad faces, who looked like officials, merchants, and so on, about thirty people.

These people are middle-class people who didn't have time to run away or didn't want to escape, and the upper class people had already run away.

The good reputation of the Chinese is outside, and some of these people are reluctant to give up their family business, thinking about taking a look first, and they have not run away for the time being. --- rich people left their hands to guard the door and ran away on their own, which is right.

The people who stayed behind were called to the city lord's mansion by the Chinese army, and then they saw an obvious Ottoman bureaucrat sitting on the throne of the city lord, and his entourage were all authentic West Asians, Middle Easterners, and Arabs.

The head of the guard, McNee, quarreled with Max Od after arguing, but he still opened his eyes in front of him, he put on a respectful attitude, bowed to Mesod, and then turned to everyone and introduced, "I am the chief of the guard of the Ottoman Free Army, Lord Max Ood Lebib Pasha, this is Master Max Ood Lebib Pasha!" ”

Max Ood cleared his throat and said, "I am Masoud Lebib Pasha, I am Sanjak Bey of Port Fao, and it is a pleasure to meet you!" ”

It was Sanjak Bey, he followed the Chinese, did he rebel?

Guessing correctly, seeing that he beckoned, Macbeth took out a proclamation and read it, and what he said surprised everyone and regretted it.

In the name of Mesod, he scolded the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and ruthlessly exposed the dark inside story of the Ottoman Empire!

Among them was Mehmed II, who defeated Constantine, who strangled his infant brother with his own hands, and when his army entered Constantine, it carried out a massive annihilation of the boys in the city......

Sultan Selim I poisoned his father and killed his brothers.

Selim and his successors slaughtered a large number of Zizbashi, and successive sultans slaughtered and used black eunuchs, who were above the civil and general officials of the empire!

There are also Ottoman officials, who are in the dark, and the people under their rule are not living......

Seeing this, Mesod decided to rebel and overthrow the decaying Ottoman Empire, calling on everyone to join him.

Macbeth read the proclamation aloud, slandering and viciously attacking the Ottoman Empire, while the audience heard sweaty and secretly complained.

The authority of the emperor in feudal society is strict, and rebellion is such a thing, don't say that participation is a capital crime, even if you hear this kind of thing, it will be unforgivable!

Some people are worried that if Mesooder really wants everyone to "join in the righteous act", then everyone will be finished, and those who do not follow will not be able to escape the punishment of the Chinese now, and the servants will not be able to escape the strong power of the Turks who will have a knife on their necks in the future--- so that their hearts will palpitate!

Fortunately, Max Ode did not follow up on this matter after reading the notice to Macbeth, and only said that he would post it for everyone to see.

What he did was blackmail, asking everyone to hand over a number of silver dollars to comfort the southeastern army.

He threatened, "Give the silver dollar, you can say anything, otherwise!" ”

Under such pressure, those people gathered 100,000 silver dollars as quickly as possible to keep their homes safe.

The mansions of those rich people, the Southeast Army unceremoniously smashed open the doors everywhere to rob them!

Now is the age of the jungle, the jungle eats the strong, and the foundation of the Southeastern Army is pirates.

And on the streets, posters written in a variety of languages are everywhere!