Chapter 1956: The Battle of the New Dabek Grassland (Part I)

How do you make a piece of clothing sassy? Marin suddenly remembered the traditional "cut suit" of German mercenaries. What is the cut outfit of the German mercenary? It's a fancy dress with pockets sewn all over it.

As for why the pockets are sewn full? This is not the identity certificate of the "few bags of disciples" of the beggar gang, but to facilitate the looting of finances in the robbery. The more pockets you have, the more you can fit in. Therefore, the German mercenaries had a lot of places on their bodies that resembled cuts for sewing bags. When the nine bags of elders of the beggar gang saw this group of German mercenaries, they probably had to pay their respects in confusion. Why? There are dozens of pockets on people's bodies, and the "seniority" is obviously higher......

When sewing the pockets containing the belongings, the mercenaries did not have a uniform style of fabric, and the sewing skills of the old men were very rough. So, this kind of clothing with many pockets, and the pockets of the cloth are colorful - all of them are snatched by the mercenaries. Then, the whole outfit will naturally look colorful.

And this style of cheating is exactly in line with the aesthetics of the bad taste of the indigenous Indians. Anyway, they just look at the flowers......

So, Marin planned to use a linen jacket and sew it on the outside with rags of various colors to make the clothes colorful and nondescript.

As for the feathers on the head...... Marin thought of a feather duster......

Many of the feather dusters in later generations dyed their feathers into a variety of colors, and they were colorful and green. Marin was going to do the same, and he was going to have someone design a hat full of feathers. Then, with a variety of pigments, the chicken feathers are dyed in color. In this way, it is very much in line with the aesthetics of the Indians......

Of course, it doesn't have to be chicken feathers, there are also many tropical birds in Cuba. Many of the tropical birds have colorful feathers. If you send hunters to shoot them down, all the feathers will be used as a feather crown, and the more angry the better, so that the Indian puppet army can show off. In this way, more indigenous young Indians willingly joined the puppet army.

In addition to feathered tiaras and colorful non-mainstream clothing, some glittering glass ornaments are also essential. For the indigenous people of the turtle, the glittering glass ornament is definitely a very tall thing.

Therefore, Marin decided to set up a lot of hanging points on the chest in the position of those colorful costumes, imitating the military dress of later generations. Not hanging medals, of course, but hanging glittering glass ornaments......

After hanging glass ornaments, this "shiny" riotous flower dress will definitely become the favorite of the indigenous people......

However, Marin was not sure which one the Aborigines liked the most. Therefore, he decided to follow this idea and let the big tailors design and produce hundreds of similar clothes. Then, send them to the colony, find someone to put them on, and hang out with the natives. Finally, according to the feedback of the aborigines, the most popular Saobao clothing was selected as the standard military uniform of the aboriginal puppet army. Of course, there is a premise, that is, the cost is not too high...... After all, this is for a large number of indigenous puppet armies. If it's too complicated and too costly, it's not cost-effective......

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Marin was immersed in designing riotous clothes for the natives when Khloe hurriedly knocked on the door of his office with a look of urgency.

"What's wrong? What kind of system is it to be so flustered? "Marin was a little upset that someone was going to design an idea.

Kohler said anxiously:

"Your Majesty, there is an urgent report from Egypt that the Mamluk Sultan Ghaligur led an army of 70,000 and was routed by a Turkish army of 60,000 led by the Turkish Sultan Selim I in the Dabik steppe in northern Syria. At present, the Sultan of Ghargul has retreated to the Bekaa Valley in the Lebanese region with the remnants of the defeated army, and has established a defensive position. And the latest news, Garigul Sultan, who was wounded by a bullet, left behind his first fierce general, Adhijimi, to lead 20,000 remnants of troops to block the Turkish army from moving south in the Bekaa Valley, and then returned to Cairo to recuperate from his wounds......"

Marin was taken aback and said:

"Didn't I give them a few thousand Rummy guns? How did they still lose? ”

Kohler replied:

"According to our intelligence officers in Egypt, the Mamluk Sultan Garigul and the commander-in-chief Adimir did not like muskets and preferred bows and arrows. So, the 7,000 muskets we sold in the past were equipped with the most underappreciated slave soldiers. ”

"At the beginning of the war, the 7,000 slave soldiers and musketeers were not able to reach the battlefield in time because they were all infantry. However, during the retreat, the slave soldiers and musketeers who were in charge of the broken rear relied on the difficult terrain in the Bekaa Valley to block the southward movement of the Turkish army......

Afterwards, Kohler brought the map, spread it out, and explained it to Marin:

"The Lebanese region is a complex region consisting mainly of the coastal Lebanon Mountains, the former Lebanon Mountains to the east, and the Bekaa Valley in the middle of two north-south mountain ranges. The Bekaa Valley is also the most important flat and agricultural area in the Lebanese region......"

"The valley floor is about 150 kilometers long from north to south and ...... wide Intelligence officers estimate that the average is about 16 kilometers, and in some places the width is only a few kilometers......"

"When Sultan Garigul retreated, he fled with only 14,000 Mamluk cavalry, and the servant army scattered in all directions, and the local Syrian army even threw itself directly into Turkey. It is said that the Syrian governor was killed by a stray bullet from a Turkish musketeer while charging. Then, without a leader, the Syrian servant army simply surrendered to the Turks......"

Subsequently, more than 14,000 cavalry of Garigul Sultan met the 7,000 slave soldiers musketeers who were still driving north in the Bekaa Valley. These musketeers, relying on the rugged terrain of the Bekaa Valley, held back the pursuit of the Turkish army. After all, the Turkish army can't do anything in the narrow Bekaa Valley......"

Slave soldiers were also different from slave soldiers, although the Mamluk cavalry was also mostly of slave origin. However, they were cavalry, and most of them came from the Caucasus. The slave soldiers and musketeers, on the other hand, were mostly native Egyptian slaves and had a low status in the Mamluk Dynasty.

Fortunately, the muskets were well suited for defense, and Adimir, with more than 20,000 remnants, set up positions in the narrowest part of the southern end of the Bekaa Valley, and arranged the musketeers on the slopes on both sides of the valley floor, leaving the Turkish army without temper. Because, with their muskets and artillery, it was difficult to pose a threat to the Egyptian slave musketeers lying on the hillside. But the Egyptian slave soldiers on the hillside were able to inflict a large number of casualties on the dense Turkish soldiers in the valley......

Then the Turkish army was stopped in the Bekaa Valley and came to a standstill......