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Chapter 838: Suez

After years of operation, Mumbai has turned into a bustling port city. The gathering of steam-hulled boats spewing black smoke from the docks has become the biggest news in the city lately. The expeditionary force is not large, with only one infantry corps, three infantry divisions, one artillery division, and auxiliary services at all levels, with a total strength of 50,000. The biggest characteristic of this army is that it is mainly Japanese alliance soldiers, and the officers and technical units above the company level are mainly local soldiers of the Ming Dynasty.

Chang Shiren, who had been the Turkish emperor in India for a while, appeared at the pier of Bombay and watched the soldiers of the expeditionary force begin to board the ship. As the supreme commander of the Indian colonies, Chang Shiren was in charge of India, and the whole of India changed dramatically. After the Japanese samurai came to India, they did not become landlords, because Tokihito found that India was a special place. As long as the government agencies are set up, with Japanese people as the grassroots officials of government departments, and Ming natives as the chief officials of various places, and a Japanese police force is formed, the operation of the country will be very stable. The vast countryside should not be exhausted by themselves, just let those local kings and nobles manage it, and the ruler can live a very nourishing life as long as he collects taxes.

This method worked well, with the army as the backing, and then pushed all the way through, forming local governments while fighting, and delegating the management of rural affairs to the high-caste aristocracy. In just two years, a huge colonial power emerged. It's as simple as that, and the tax department doesn't even have to go to the farmers to collect taxes. Just go directly to the local kings, nobles, and temples to collect taxes.

This time, the Ming Empire expeditionary force went to Africa, and there was no need to worry about food at home, and it was done directly in India. Stabilized Indian colonies. Immediately recruited a group of hungry wolves from the Ming Dynasty, among which the wolf of Dafa Bank was the most ferocious, and directly established banks in New Delhi and Mumbai, and all the taxes paid by the colony every year were deposited in the bank. There is no industry in India, but the land here is fertile and suitable for growing cotton. In contrast, the cost of Daming cotton is higher than in India. Soon India became the base of Daming cotton raw materials and a market for industrial products.

In today's India, the legal currency of the city must be the paper money issued by the Dafa Bank. The government collects taxes. The last thing to collect is also paper money, and the in-kind taxes collected by the local princes and nobles have to be exchanged for paper money before they can be accepted by the government. It was invisibly stripped several times. This mode of robbery. It's really cool.

Chang Shiren's achievements. Chen Xie was surprised, and hurriedly went back to dig through some information, only to find out that the root cause of the largest "uprising" in the history of the Indian colonies was actually the British promotion of the westernization of India. For example, the construction of railways, the promotion of Christianity, and the establishment of a judicial system. These measures hurt the rights and interests of the local aristocracy, and at the same time caused ethnic and religious contradictions. And the fact that the people of India are living in hardship because of their oppression. It's not the main reason.

Gossip aside, because well prepared. The expeditionary force boarded the ship in thirty-six hours, and the huge fleet composed of 24 four steamers, 55 merchant ships, and the escort fleet was 20 third-class warships, 20 fourth-class warships, 10 clippers, and 30 supply ships of various kinds. This is only the first batch, and then there are ships from Daming and so on, after arriving in Mumbai one after another, all the goods are unloaded, and the materials are slowly transported to Suez by steam ships, otherwise there is no dock and no warehouse, and you can't get ashore no matter how many things you have.

This huge fleet did not scare the Ottoman Empire, but first scared the colonists of European countries half to death. Despite repeated newspaper reports about going to fight the Ottoman Empire, the question is who dares to believe it? With so many troops, just find a place to land, and the Cape of Good Hope can still hold it? Or can you defend some other colony point? In the whole of Africa, no colony could be the thunderbolt of this expeditionary force.

Forty years have passed, and the officers who fought in the land of Zhili and Liaodong back then are already over sixty years old, and it is impossible to lead an expedition. Therefore, the commander of the expeditionary force this time has cheapened Major General Yin Jie, an outstanding representative of the younger generation. In fact, this guy is not young anymore, he is close to fifty years old, graduated from the sixth phase of Dengzhou Lecture and Martial Arts Hall, and participated in the War against Jiannu and the War of Pingkou. He was able to become the commander of the expeditionary force, not because of his high rank, but because he knew some Japanese.

The commander of the fleet in charge of escorting, and those who know a little bit about history know Zheng Sen (Zheng Chenggong), Zheng Sen in this time and space is very nourishing. Obviously, this guy has the fame of the Ming Dynasty, so he has to go to Dengzhou to learn the navy. After graduation, because of the activities of the Zheng family, his development within the navy was stable, and he was promoted to rear admiral step by step. No one wanted to come to the expedition to Africa, so he was sent out. Why doesn't anyone want to come to this job? Quite simply, there is nothing good in this realm except sand. The Ming Empire was not a European country, and it was not interested in Egypt, which faced the Mediterranean Sea and blocked the road from Europe to the Middle East. This is not the case with European countries, and Egypt is strategically located. In a few hundred years, the Suez Canal was completed, and Egypt's strategic position became even more important. If you simply come to rob the colony of Egypt, for the Ming Dynasty, the attraction is really not as great as that of Annam, and it is not better than North America. Therefore, the news that Zheng Sen saw in the newspaper was to punish the rude Ottomans.

The army naturally wants to grab this job, and the navy has no one to spend this effort. In the final analysis, Zheng Sen, a major general who has no strong backers in the Chen Xie system, can get this errand for a reason. The current Daming Navy, the most popular work is still in North America, in India, and even in Annam, there is a clamoring to send marines to loot.

The naval battle broke out very suddenly, and the clippers in charge of reconnaissance in front encountered ten Arab galleons, and without saying a word, they fired signal flares, turned around and left. It's not that you can't beat it, but it's a task. By the time the main fleet caught up with it, and the clipper fleet ran behind enemy lines at sea with speed to outflank them, the naval battle had already begun.

Zheng Sen was naturally disdainful of the combat effectiveness displayed by these small boats of only three or five hundred tons, and his brows did not wrinkle. I have to express my admiration for the courage of these ships to move forward as usual, knowing that they are too big.

Five faster Tier 4 ships dominated the T-shape, and the 75-caliber cannons were a little less powerful but had a faster rate of fire. At a range incomprehensible to the Arab galleons, the assault fleet opened fire. In just five minutes, an Arab galleon was sunk on the sea, and two or three were wounded. It's really good luck to be able to play at this level.

It was only then that the brave Arab galleons discovered a problem, and the heroic fighting spirit was of no use at this time. It's like the Boxers carrying broadswords and spears to attack the positions of the Eight-Nation Alliance. Although the Arab ships did not know about the Boxers, they quickly turned around and ran away. The sad and indignant thing is that even if they run away, they can't outrun the fourth-class battleship with good speed, and they are constantly caught up and set fire by the ship's guns. Finally ran out of a ship, ready to go back to report the news, but was blocked by the flying clippers, and greeted them with two 75 guns in the bow.

When the earth-shattering fleet reached the sea of Suez port, the entire port city was in chaos.

Zheng Sen commanded the fleet unhurriedly, sweeping around and clearing the sea. The port is not big, there are not many ships that can dock, the third-class battleship stepped forward and washed the perimeter of the port with 105 main guns, and after the deafening shelling lasted for half an hour, the whole port was full of smoke, and the local garrison was gone, and some of the residents dragged their families and ran away, and some closed the door and shivered at home. The Ming imperialists are really familiar with the matter of erecting artillery on the coast and conquering a country for these imperialists.

Putting down the boat, the Japanese soldiers rowed their oars vigorously under the shouts and curses of the officers, and the soldiers of a battalion rushed into the harbor in a small boat, and after landing, the boat returned to pick up the next group. Gunfire erupted in the harbor, and the fighting was concentrated near the pier. There was actually no fighting, and the only battle of an infantry platoon under the command of Second Lieutenant Akashi after landing was a resistance of more than thirty men near the docks, and such a battle was really nothing to be proud of. The weapons in the hands of the enemy are a combination of spears, scimitars, bows and arrows. A volley of guns passed, and there was an extra corpse on the ground, and blood flowed all over the ground.

Stepping on a pool of blood, Second Lieutenant Akashi instructed his men to continue their advance, clearing the perils around the docks. When Ensign Akashi, who had a cautious personality, was advancing unhurriedly, a building 100 meters away from the residential area on the other side was on fire.

"What is that guy going to do in Gangcun?" Akashi looked at the direction of the fire in confusion, and ordered his subordinates to rest for a while, and sent someone to contact his good base Tomogang Village. "Bastard, how can you set fires, do you want your brothers to sleep on the street at night?" Seeing Gangcun running over, Akashi directly sprayed him with foul language.

"It's not my order, it's Lieutenant Lee." Lieutenant Lee, the company commander of this Japanese-American infantry company, ordered the fire because of casualties. Just now, a group of Ottoman soldiers hiding in a residential area rushed out of a small alley and attacked the front infantry squad. Three unlucky eggs were injured, and one of them was hit in the stomach, probably not surviving.

Fortunately, the soldiers of this infantry squad fought extremely bravely, retreating as they fought, killing more than a dozen people on the opposite side. By the time Gangcun led the men to rush up, the Ottoman soldiers ran away and disappeared into the houses. Hurriedly sent someone to report, summoned the company commander, and after figuring out that it was such a thing, he did not hesitate to order: "Set fire!" (To be continued......)