Chapter 253: African Spheres of Influence (4)

Susniyos didn't know how powerful the army trained by Zhu San was, although he had also seen the training of these soldiers, but he still didn't know the specific combat ability, especially the power of the hundred specially trained soldiers. Zhu San has experienced the battle to capture Fucheng, and he clearly understands how threatening the powerful firepower is to ordinary soldiers, especially the power of small mortars, which is undoubtedly a psychological shock for soldiers who have never seen *.

Zhu San will be a hundred of the best soldiers in the elite soldiers of 1,000 people, armed into special operations soldiers, their weapons are made from the Ming Dynasty copper-shelled bullet rifles, long range, high accuracy, the role of these soldiers is to snipe the enemy's important targets on the battlefield from a distance, causing chaos to the other party, but also in the siege of the city, to create an area shield, so that their teammates can smoothly enter the city. without being attacked by the enemy.

The remaining 900 people were all redressed into small mortars and formed a small artillery battalion, the role of this mortar battalion is to deter the enemy, you can imagine that the army that has never encountered an artillery blow suddenly encountered an overwhelming bombardment of small mortars, how terrible it would be, when fighting with the Jurchens in the northeast, the troops who were just preparing to charge were blown up by artillery, and a rout would occur immediately, and Zhu San wanted to use this effect to completely dispel the enemy's will to resist.

Although Susniyos has not seen this kind of scene yet, he also knows that Zhu San will not be able to deceive him, because Zhu San has not put forward the conditions he wants to exchange until now, before Zhu San puts forward his own conditions, his huge investment will not think of waste, Susniyos is now waiting for Zhu San to put forward his own conditions, to see what kind of price he has to pay, just free trade will not meet Zhu San's requirements, he will definitely have other purposes.

In fact, Zhu San didn't want to put forward conditions, but so far there is nothing he can see here, and he is still wandering around the streets, planning to find things here that are not available elsewhere, so that he can make a lot of money by trafficking them out! However, the hard work paid off, and Zhu San really found a good thing, that is, coffee beans that swept the world in later generations.

At present, Abyssinia is the only region in the world that produces coffee beans, and according to legend, coffee was discovered by a shepherd named Kaldi in the Ethiopian highlands, who discovered coffee when he noticed that his sheep had inadvertently eaten the fruit of a plant. All historians seem to agree that coffee was born in the Kaffa region of Ethiopia. However, the first people to plan to cultivate and consume coffee were the Arabs, and the name coffee is thought to be derived from the Arabic word "Qahwah", which means a plant-based drink.

The use of coffee for drinking is said to have begun at the beginning of the 11th century, and it can be found in ancient Arabic texts. Before that, green coffee beans were dried and then decorated in the Arab region as a stomach medicine, but it was later learned that coffee also had a refreshing effect, and the strict Islamic precepts forbade believers to drink alcohol, so they used the coffee juice brewed after roasting as a stimulant drink instead of alcohol, and it is said that the locals knew how to use roasted green beans after the thirteenth century.

In the 16th century, coffee was gradually introduced to Europe via Venice and the port of Marseille under the name of "Arabic". The European coffee drinking habit was gradually spread in the 17th century by the Venetian merchants in Italy in various places, and the first coffee shop in Europe appeared in Venice - Podigre, and the coffee drinking habit not only spread from the West to the East, but even became an unstoppable trend.

Now Zhu San has seen this kind of thing, although it doesn't taste very good when he drinks it, but after tasting it slowly, his mouth is full of fragrance and bitterness, but it has a long aftertaste, comparable to the famous tea of the Ming Dynasty. In this way, Zhu San decided to monopolize the sale of this kind of thing, and vigorously develop the cultivation in the right place, making it his own cornucopia.

Zhu San quickly passed this information to Zhu Yousong, and Zhu Yousong was naturally very happy, so he agreed to Zhu San's plan and sent the fleet of the Fucheng Kingdom to the depths of the Red Sea, so that the naval soldiers would occupy a series of islands along Abyssinia, and all the Ottoman people above would be eliminated, cutting off the connection between the Ottoman Empire and Eritrea, so that this area would be isolated and convenient for Zhu San's actions.

In order to show the martial arts of Emperor Susniyos, Zhu San asked him to drive the expedition in person, with more than 10,000 people, straight to the port of Massawa, the center of Ottoman rule in Eritrea. Nearly 20,000 soldiers under the Ottoman Governor's Governor of Egypt were stationed here, and since the Kingdom of Fucheng cut off their maritime ties with the Ottoman Empire, they had to rely on land transportation to communicate with Egypt proper. When the army of Susneyos came here, the commander of the garrison here, Astafy, didn't take it seriously at all, and the little Abyssinia dared to challenge the dignified Ottoman Empire, which was simply a pure death-seeking act, and he didn't expect that there was a vicious wolf Zhu San behind him.

Commander Astafi ordered more than 20,000 soldiers in the port to be dispatched, intending to defeat the invading Abyssinian army in one fell swoop, and even the artillery on the city wall was not guarded, which was an important reason for the tragedy in the end, the entire Ottoman population of the city was slaughtered by the soldiers of Susniyos, even Zhu San's suggestion that they stay as slaves did not work, you can imagine how barbaric these people are.

When the teams of both sides are lined up ten miles outside the port, according to the ancient battle ritual, the leaders of the two sides will have a meeting of accusations and insults, and the two sides will curse each other, and then return to their own teams to attack each other. After countless battles, Zhu San naturally would not let go of this excellent opportunity, he did not let Susneyos come forward in person, but he took fifty personal guards to meet him, when the two sides were more than ten zhang away, they all dismounted and were about to accuse each other, Zhu San took out his pistol and shot directly at the crowd of the other party, and the fifty personal guards who accompanied him also lay down and began to shoot with rifles, directly killing dozens of people sent by the Ottoman Empire. At the same time, nearly two hundred small mortars in the rear heard the gunfire in front of them, and all of them began to pour out an overwhelming number of shells on the ranks of Ottoman soldiers, dense crowds, unprepared queues, and the tragic phenomenon under such artillery fire would make anyone collapse. The non-stop mortar group has been firing nearly fifteen rounds, and more than 3,000 small shells have made the Ottoman soldiers have a huge fear of this small cannon from then on, and the soldiers who escaped from this battle, as long as they hear such a sound in the future battle, will immediately have a mental breakdown, directly throw down their weapons and flee, thus causing the rout of the whole team.

After the small mortar exploded, the ground was full of mutilated limbs of the Ottoman soldiers, and the bloody Abyssinian soldiers were like wolves that smelled fishy, and they did not need to give the order of Susniyos to attack, and under the leadership of a hundred half-hung special soldiers, they rushed directly towards the defeated Ottoman soldiers. The momentum of the charge of more than 10,000 soldiers is extremely strong, there is no formation at all, just like a group of hungry wolves rushing towards the flock, as long as the Ottoman soldiers who have not yet lost their breath will be stabbed or shot again, and the dead can not die again, and the living soldiers only hate their father and mother for having two legs missing, and desperately run back.

Abyssinian soldiers, full of murderous spirits, desperately pursued the fleeing enemy one by one, as if they could catch up and grab silver. The smarter Ottoman soldiers fled straight into the endless wasteland, but these were a few, and many more fled into the port city of Massawa, where the walls of the city could protect their lives, but what they didn't expect was that the soldiers who had lost their courage were still called soldiers? Is a cannon still called a cannon if it loses the guarded by soldiers? It was not a safe port and ended up being a slaughterhouse.

The Abyssinian soldiers who rushed to Massawa with their front heels and back feet burned and looted here to their heart's content, with a thousand soldiers trained by Zhu San as the core, they formed dozens of small teams, and killed several times back and forth in Massawa City, killing all the living Ottoman Empire, and all the gold and silver treasures, food, weapons, etc. were looted.