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Hassan, an Ottoman officer, looked out of the city gloomily.

There thousands of fleeing tribal chiefs, routs, and monks were galloping like sheep hunted by wolves, their horses and camels rolling up dust on the arid land, and rushing towards the castle with the help of the wind, and their screams of terror were as terrified as those of a ravaged woman.

And, of course, screams of despair.

Behind them, another line of dust was closing the distance between them at a faster pace, and above the line of dust was a red flag.

"Open the door!"

He said with a sigh.

"Open the door!"

With the shouts of the heralds, the gates of the castle slowly opened.

The loyal people of the Zhu Lord who were galloping in the distance, watching the opening of the Sana'a city gate, immediately broke out into a burst of excited cheers, as if they saw the light of hope shed by the Zhen Lord, but unfortunately this cheer only lasted less than half a minute, and then a series of dense gunshots rang out behind them, and then nearly a hundred loyal people of the Zhen Lord immediately fell from the galloping horse's back, and instantly disappeared into the dust trampled by the horse's hooves.

Almost at the same time, almost in the middle of them, a large number of cavalrymen dressed in red clothes, black scarves over their faces, and silver helmets appeared from the yellow sand.

Together with the spears in their hands.

Almost instantly, this group of cavalry in a row crashed into those loyal people of the Zhen Lord, and with a series of sound of broken spear shafts, those loyal people of the Zhen Lord fell to the ground again, and then were trampled under the horse's hooves by the pursuers behind. At the same time, those cavalrymen drew their swords one after another, and all of them leaned forward and stretched out their swords as far as possible, slamming into the remaining loyal subjects of the Zhen Lord like a spike shining with cold light, and the chain mail on the latter's body, which was originally a sturdy one, could not stop these sharp swords that stabbed them at a speed of tens of kilometers per hour, and they fell one after another as if they were stabbed by spears. Those cavalrymen who had time to draw their swords drew their swords, and those who did not have time to draw their swords were directly abandoned, and then pulled out their sabers with arc blades, stepped on the corpses everywhere and crashed through the opponent's ranks, and then quickly separated and killed to the left and right at a distance of less than 100 meters from the Sana'a city gate.

A fleeing elder rushed to the gates of Sana'a with all his might.

But just as he was about to rush into the city gate to be saved, a cavalryman behind him suddenly pulled out a short gun and pulled the trigger, and the elder screamed and fell off his horse at the sound of the gunshot, but he was not killed, but after rolling on the ground a few times, he miraculously stood up and ran for his life towards the gate of Sana'a, but unfortunately the cavalryman immediately came behind him.

"For the sake of Lord Zhen......"

The elder screamed with outstretched arms at the Ottoman soldiers on the city wall less than thirty meters away.

Then a saber slashed him to the ground.

And the owner of the saber, indifferently raising his head, looked proudly at the wall, and in a fiery gaze, turned his horse's head around the corpse of the elder, and slowly departed as if no one was around.

The Ottoman soldiers on the city wall looked at his back angrily, and asked Hassan to fire, their cannons and muskets were all aimed outside the city, as long as an order was given not to say that these Ming troops were completely annihilated, at least they could meet the remnants of the loyal warriors of the Zhen Lord to flee into the city, and the outside of the city was already the territory of the Ottoman Empire, even if they opened fire, it was completely justified.

Hassan, however, never spoke.

Although he also wanted to do this, it was a pity that the governor of the Hejaz had already ordered him not to take the initiative to fire at the Ming army under any circumstances, and no matter how provocative the latter was, as long as he did not attack the two major cities of Sana'a or Hodeidah, then he had to endure it. Don't you see that even the naval fleet was completely wiped out, and His Majesty the Sultan still pretends that he doesn't know anything? Even the Ming merchant ships bound for Basra were not expelled or sunk. Now hundreds of thousands of troops in Damascus are fighting the Egyptians! The Ottomans simply could not afford to deal with a much stronger enemy. And there is another reason that is not public, that is, the Ottoman army fighting on the front line mainly has to rely on the arms sold by those Ming merchants, although it is only some smoothbore guns, but those smoothbore guns are also a hundred times stronger than the Ottoman Empire's own production!

It was precisely because of this that until the Ming army killed all the loyal subjects of the Zhen lord outside the city, the Ottoman officer did not give the order to open fire.

"Mah, it's quite bearable!"

Xie Hua, the commander of the Fourth Cavalry Brigade of the Ming Army five miles away, stood next to eighteen two-inch howitzers pointing at the sky, held a telescope and looked at the second battalion returning triumphantly in front, and said very unexpectedly,

Well, he just deliberately wanted to provoke a war.

At this time, Yemen has basically been pacified by them, or it can be said that all those who refuse to give in have been killed, Yemen at this time is not big, Sana'a in the north and north of Hodeidah belong to the Ottoman Empire, only the south belongs to the tribal chieftains of the Hadramo, how can they stop the Ming army of one and a half armies, especially a whole cavalry army, that is four cavalry brigades of nearly 20,000 elite cavalry, plus a 5,000-man vehicle-mounted infantry brigade, and an artillery brigade equipped with four-inch heavy guns.

Yemen doesn't have a lot of people.

How long can those wolf-like Ming troops let go of the killing?

Although there are still some who refuse to give in and go to the mountains to fight guerrillas, but theoretically the entire Yemen, or the original historical South Yemen region has all fallen into the hands of the Ming Dynasty, and was officially named Guiyi Province, in fact, in Emperor Yang's plan, the entire Arabian Peninsula will be drawn in a straight line in the middle of the future in the future, and the south of the straight line will be counted as Guiyi Province, and the future Tianfang Province will be counted in the north, including Iraq will also be counted in the scope of Tianfang Province, and these two provinces will be unified under the jurisdiction of Tianfang Jingluo.

Therefore, now the generals of the various departments under the Heavenly Scripture are looking forward to starting a war with the Ottomans as soon as possible, and then continue to expand the territory without stopping.

But the General Staff did not do it.

The plan of the General Staff was to wait for the results of the battle of Damascus, and if Egypt won, they would not do it for the time being, because the Ottomans would continue to fight the Egyptians, and at that time they would continue to be bled by the Egyptians, while at the same time buying weapons from the Ming arms dealers. But if the Ottoman Empire won in Damascus, then the Ming army must enter the war to prevent them from fighting the Sinai Peninsula and affecting the construction of the Suez Canal, at this time the canal has been excavated under the command of a large number of Ming engineers, and even the steam-powered bulldozers designed for the canal have been put into production at the Yingtian Construction Machinery Factory.

But the front-line generals can't wait!

The sooner they started the war, they could have sacked the Ottomans on the other side a day, although this hellish place was dry and windy, but judging from the results of the sweep of Yemen, these guys actually had a bit of oil and water, especially those tribal chiefs' families had no shortage of gold and silver treasures. Now that the land has been largely cleaned, if you want to continue to make a fortune, you have to continue to attack north, especially to the north in the Hejaz, where Mu Dabeard started, where the temple chiefs must have more oil and water in their hands than in this part of Yemen, and the cities there are more prosperous than here.

Mecca, Jeddah, Medina......

The names that are prominent in the world of Mu Dabeard are ahead!

How nice it would be if the Ottomans could provoke the Ming Dynasty!

"Brigade, they don't take the bait!"

The commander of the second cavalry battalion who came back said sadly.

They can't take the initiative to open fire, because once they are known by the General Staff, they will be punished by military law, at least with whips or shots, so they can only take this method, including those loyal people who are loyal to the lord are also deliberately driven by them, but it is clear that they underestimate the patience of the Ottomans.

"If you don't take the bait, you won't take the bait!"

Xie Hua said: "The order is to go down and purge the outer tribes separately, but don't attack those cities garrisoned by the Ottoman army, capture and sell their people to slave traders, this ghost place has no clear national borders, as long as you don't go too far." ”

The four battalion commanders beside him immediately agreed, and then turned their heads to gather their subordinates to play in the grass valley.

"Let's go, go to Hodeidah!"

Xie Hua said to the sentry commander of the post directly under the brigade headquarters.

"Also, get our lunch ready!"

Then he added.

"Get the lunch ready!"

The sentry commander immediately shouted with a laugh.

In the laughter of the cavalry behind, a two-horse chariot drove by, and on the chariot stood two improvised brackets, on which a thick iron rod with a runner was erected, on the iron rod a washed and skinned fat pig stared at the little eyes of death, and accused the sky of human evil, and under it was a pile of burning charcoal, and a man with an apron stood next to the runner and occasionally turned the wheel to turn the roast pig over, and the runner and the bracket had gears occlusive, and the latter had a stop of receding inverted teeth next to the gears.

Well, that's Brigadier Xie's lunch.

"Let's go, go say hello to the Ottomans!"

Xie Hua said with satisfaction.

He and his more than 200 cavalrymen at the outpost surrounded the wagons of roasting pigs, and then appeared under the city of Sana'a, where they drove slowly past the Ottomans as if no one was around.

In the midst of the blazing gaze on the city walls, the man was also turning over the roast pig as if no one was around, and from time to time he took a knife and cut a slice and handed it to the impatient cavalry beside him, the bastards ate with their mouths full of oil, ignoring the feelings of the Ottomans who were close at hand. Although the distance between the two sides is still nearly two hundred meters, in fact, it is not very clear from the visual side alone, but the problem is that the Ming army is already famous for liking to do this, even if it is just imagination, it understands what these bastards are eating.

Of course, the Ottomans had to endure it.

"Brigade, there's not enough fire!"

The fellow shouted suddenly.

"Then add firewood!"

Xie Hua said speechlessly.

"Brigade, where is there firewood here?"

The man shouted with a sad face.

There is indeed no firewood here, and there are no other trees here except dates, only sparse dead grass on the ground, and dead bodies all over the ground.

"Isn't that Chai He?"

A soldier suddenly pointed to the ground and shouted. (To be continued.) )