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Immediately after that, several cavalrymen dismounted, and then picked up a book with a beautiful cover from the ground, and threw it to the man, which was carried by the loyal subjects of the Zhen lord until death, and now it was just enough to meet the needs of the Ming army. The man looked at the materials of the books, and threw them into the fire with satisfaction, and the coals quickly ignited the paper and sheepskins, and then the flames rose and roasted the fat pigs that had been charred on them, and the grease dripped on the pages of the books with a crackling sound.

All at once the fire burned even brighter.

Then the anger in the hearts of the Ottoman soldiers on the city wall exploded like the flames of those books.

They really can't take it anymore.

It wasn't a book that was burned, it was their faith, their god, a symbol of supremacy in their hearts, not to mention that it was burned to roast pigs.

They can tolerate the arrogance of the Ming army, saying that these red-clothed devils do have the qualifications to be arrogant, and the fierceness can be said to be beyond their reach, they can also ignore the dead bodies of the common believers all over the land, because those are Shiites, and they are Sunnis, externally they do believe in the same gods, but internally they are heretics, in fact, before the arrival of the Ming army, the main task of their garrison here is to suppress these guys, and they don't care about the Ming army's invasion of their own territory, The land belonged to the Sultan, not theirs, and they had little affection for His Majesty the Sultan.

But they could not tolerate such humiliation of their faith.

Looking at the Ming soldiers outside who were looking for scriptures in the dead body, and then threw them into the fire to continue the barbecue, almost all the Ottoman soldiers were furious, and all the smoothbore guns, cannons, and even ancient bows and arrows were aimed outside the city.

"Patience!"

Hassan saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly shouted.

He didn't say it's okay, just after saying this, a soldier with his finger on the trigger subconsciously moved his fingers, the hammer fell instantly, and the flint immediately ignited the gunpowder, and suddenly there was a crisp gunshot, and the bullet flew out with a whistling, just hitting the feet of a Ming soldier who was picking up scriptures.

The soldier sprang up with a scream as if he had a spring under his feet, and pounced on his horse.

And at the same time, as if ordered to do so, all the Ottoman soldiers on the walls of Sana'a opened fire at the same time, and even the two cannons roared, and one of the cannonballs hit the wagon of roast pork, and the solid cannonball knocked half of the wagon away, and the man immediately flew out screaming.

"Retreat, Maha!"

Xie Hua didn't know whether to be excited or to cry at this time, he hurriedly yelled and turned the horse's head.

The Ming cavalry beside him also turned around, and more and more Ottoman soldiers behind them joined the ranks of fire, although after crossing the distance of two hundred meters, the bullets of those smoothbore guns were almost useless, but there were still more than a dozen nine-pound bronze cannons purchased from the Ming arms dealers, as these cannons fired one after another, soon a shell was hitting the Ming army, and the huge impact force of the solid cannonball directly knocked the two cavalry away at the same time.

But that's when it ......

"Cannons, the Ottomans have fired!"

In the distance, the commander of the artillery battalion belonging to the 4th Cavalry Brigade, who had not yet withdrawn, roared excitedly as if he had won the jackpot.

"The brigade is still there!"

Immediately afterwards, the commander of the third battalion of cavalry, who was responsible for guarding them, poured a basin of cold water on him.

"Quick, fire!"

The commander of the artillery battalion shouted in a cold sweat.

They originally had to wait for Xie Hua to show off his might before retreating, Xie Hua was not stupid, he went to show off his might, and if there was no suppression behind him, he would die, so the eighteen two-and-a-half-inch howitzers were all aimed at Sana at the gun position, and those artillerymen stuffed one by one copper-shelled shells into the barrel and then closed the gun lock with great speed, and then pulled the cannon rope one after another, and eighteen twelve-pound shells flew out with a roar.

And at this time, the Ottomans had just finished loading their cannons.

"Fire!"

Hassan roared as he broke the jar.

Anyway, it's already like this, it's better to just do it, almost the moment his words fell, the piercing whistling suddenly smashed down, and the explosions inside and outside the city wall rose one after another, two of them were on the city wall, directly blowing up the two cannons, the force of the explosion even blew several Ottoman soldiers away, and the city wall was immediately panicked, Hassan only then knew the true purpose of the Ming army's provocation, but this is useless, anyway, the war has already started, and it makes no difference whether the Ming army conspires or not, He continued to fire despite the shells falling overhead.

Outside the city, Xie Hua and his direct subordinate post moved away at full speed.

Also in the artillery positions behind, the gunners were clearing their breeches and loading shells as fast as they could, and the two-and-a-half-inch, or eighty-millimeter-thick shells, flew out again, continuing to kill on the walls of Sana'a, covering the retreat of their brigade seats. Fortunately, it was cavalry after all, and although it was suddenly attacked and close to the enemy's nose, Xie Hua and his direct post still quickly escaped from the range of the Ottomans, and the losses were not too great, only six soldiers, including the man, were killed and four were wounded.

Of course, that's enough.

"Immediately send a report to the military headquarters that our army has encountered the Ottoman ......"

Xie Hua thought for a while and said: "Ambush, ten soldiers were killed or wounded, ask for a counterattack!" ”

The transmitter guarding the wireless telegraph next to him immediately pressed the button, and less than two minutes later, Guo Hong, the envoy of the Heavenly Direction, received the telegram at the palace of the Envoy of the Celestial Strategy in Zhenwu City.

"Counterattack, directly attack Sana'a, order the 3rd Cavalry Brigade and the 62nd Infantry Brigade to rush to reinforcements immediately, and then order the naval fleet to immediately order the 1st Marine Brigade to board the ship, if the army does not capture Sana'a, then land directly in Hodeidah Port, order the 16th Artillery Brigade to prepare reinforcements, once the 1st Marine Brigade lands and occupies Hodeidah Port, then the 16th Artillery Brigade will immediately ship over to Sana'a for reinforcements, saying that Lao Tzu has endured them for a long time, this time since they are looking for their own death, then don't blame Lao Tzu for being unkind."

He said viciously.

The surrounding group of officers immediately showed excited expressions, just like the Kwantung Army when they heard that the patrol soldiers were killed, and it was obvious that they had been waiting for this moment for a long time.

"Also, send a telegram to the convoy in the Persian Gulf, immediately inform our merchants in Basra of the retreat, and all the merchant ships docked in the Ottoman port to retreat, and tell the Jinyi Guard, and ask them to inform the intelligence station in Istanbul and organize the retreat of the merchants there immediately."

Immediately afterwards, Guo Hong said again.

The Ming merchants in the Ottomans were basically in Basra or Istanbul, but mainly in Basra, the number of Istanbul was not large, and the business there was mainly represented by the Universal Company, and all the Chinese employees were also employees of the Universal Company, which was protected by the Swedes. Even if the Ottomans start a war with Daming at this time, it is estimated that they don't have the guts to deal with these people, after all, Charlie's army is still staring at southern Ukraine, once the latter is given a reason, Charlie doesn't mind letting them have one more front when the Ottomans are already fighting on two fronts, but in general, they are still prepared.

His strength was the wireless telegraph.

This thing can transmit information hundreds of miles in a few minutes, and the Ottomans have to calculate the sky to pass it on, and the escort fleet of Basra can get the news of the war in Min'o immediately, but the Ottoman governor of Basra will not get this news until at least three days, and three days is enough time for all the merchants there to evacuate for various reasons.

And that's exactly what happened.

When the Ming army in Guiyi Province was rapidly advancing towards Sana'a, the Ming escort fleet outside the port of Basra immediately informed the merchants in the city of the evacuation, and all the Ming merchants who were doing business in Basra boarded the merchant ships anchored at the port as quickly as possible, and then left the city, although they were full of doubts about their movements, but because they did not receive any special information, the governor of Basra did not react to their withdrawal.

Of course, he didn't dare.

Because the Ming escort warships outside the port of Basra could hit his governor's palace at any time.

As for Sana'a......

In fact, this castle did not wait for the reinforcements of the Ming army, and then it was broken by the 4th Cavalry Brigade, and Xie Hua, who was disturbed to eat roast pork, bombarded the artillery battalion, and then transferred the rapid-fire artillery team to replace it with armor-piercing shells and swept the city gate, which could penetrate the shells of an inch thick armor steel plate, easily beat the city gate into a sieve full of holes, and then blew it to pieces with a light rocket.

After another barrage of air bombs into the city gate, a cavalry battalion dismounted and rushed in with gas masks, revolvers and breech rifles, and quickly took control of the city gate area.

Then the grief dispersed, and the cavalry of the brigade rushed in.

By the time the news of their ambush by the Ottomans was relayed several times by wireless telegraph and finally delivered to Emperor Yang, the 5,000 Ming army had turned Sana'a into a hell of blood and fire.

On the streets of this ancient city, known as the Pearl of Arabia, those Ming soldiers who galloped wildly waved their sabers in their hands, constantly cutting down the loyal subjects of the lord one by one, and then trampling the dead bodies under their horses' hooves, they kept throwing grenades at the buildings next to them, and in the light of the explosion, they jumped like a nightmare, declaring the majesty of their masters to the terrified Arabs.

Like the Arab armies of the past, with swords in hand and scriptures in the other, they killed anyone they wanted, looted anything they found valuable, and some even tied the woman they fancied to their horses.

At this moment, they are barbarians.

"Morality? Let's kill this wave first! ”

Xie Hua stood high on his war horse, looked at Sana in a field of blood and fire arrogantly, and said in a desperate scream in front of the background of the flames like a demon god. (To be continued.) )