Begging for peace, not just begging for peace.

Only by fighting can we make peace, and only then can we negotiate and achieve a peace that we can agree with.

To the point of begging, then peace certainly comes at a price.

It has always been an immutable law that the strong do what he wants to do, and the weak bear the suffering he must endure.

When the remnants of Mamluk sent messengers to Cairo to beg for peace, they were well aware of this.

So when Ding Yi smiled very gently and said, "Don't want to fight? The Ming Dynasty has always been not warlike, if you don't want to fight, you will surrender, the Ming army is good at serving prisoners, this has a precedent in Suez, if you want, you can go to the prisoner of war camp to see. ”

The emissaries of Mamluk also did not refuse, and the option of surrender, they could all accept.

Begging, begging for peace, what dignity do you have to think about?

It's just that they have a bottom line, the final bottom line.

If this bottom line cannot be satisfied, they would rather focus on the remnants of their forces and fight Ding to the death.

"We are willing to serve the great Highness as our master! Never surrender to the female pharaoh of Egypt! The messenger said very firmly.

It seems that surrendering to Morena is a humiliation that they can not endure?

Even after he kowtowed to Ding Yi, he continued: "Even if it is to settle the old court case back then, this territory east of Suez is also unprecedented!" ”

"You're putting up a leader now?" Ding Yi asked with interest.

"Yes." The messenger didn't know why he suddenly came to this stubble.

Ding Yi sounded like a child who had discovered a novel toy, and his eyes were filled with hope: "Is his knife technique good?" Or is archery better? ”

It's ridiculous, even if it's a cold-armed unit like Mamluk. The personal bravery of the leader, for the war. The effect was also extremely weak, and the envoy didn't know why Ding Yi suddenly asked such a question. But he came to beg for peace, and the word begging came first, which meant that he had to let go of a lot of dignity, so he had to answer: "The knife skills are better." ”

"Call him, and if he can stab me once, or take me three times, and be alive, I will consider your so-called final request."

The messenger was dumbfounded. He didn't understand what Ding Yi meant, was he dissatisfied with their bottom line? Or is it going to test their loyalty? It is absolutely impossible that this highness, known as Poseidon in Western Europe, would come to fight the temporary leader of the remnants of the Mamluk army?

He really didn't know how to answer for a while, so he was stunned.

"If he does not dare to come, kill him and put him at the head of a man who dares to come to me with a sword."

"Fifteen days, I give you fifteen days, and if your leader does not dare to come, I will not hold the sword again. And will take this teacup in his hand, cross the Suez Canal, and leisurely watch you fall apart in the shelling. When the time comes, there will be no mercy. If the weak have not even learned absolute obedience, then you have no value in it. ”

Ding Yi took the teacup and said to the messenger gently.

Until the messenger exited the room. He felt like his head was a mess because he felt like he was missing the point. I didn't understand the true meaning of His Highness's words, a word from a big man. There will always be many meanings in and out of words, and there is no difference between ancient and modern China and foreign countries.

It wasn't until he crossed the Suez Canal that the envoy was again and again stupefied by the answer he had finally deduced: Ding Yi was probably really going to let the temporary leader of Mamluk, with a knife, come and fight him for his life!

How is this possible!

But when he returned to Jerusalem, the messenger had no choice but to translate the words of Ding Yi into the original text of the Mamluk leader. Not counting this chief, even the governor and the chief who came over from Damascus to discuss the matter could not understand.

So when they couldn't figure it out, they had to ask the messenger what Ding Yi looked like and so on.

"Very cultured, so tall." He gestured to Ding someone's height of about 1.8 meters, and gestured to himself, "That's an indescribable character, that is, a girl walking on the street, on the road, there will be many people who are willing to unveil him!" ”

But those who listened became impatient: "Enough! I am asking you, Your Highness, do you look brave and fighting? Or do you fight him on the battlefield, and what is the result? "Who wants to listen to how handsome and extravagant Ding is? Mamluk was at least in power, and no one liked men.

"Battlefield?" The messenger was stunned for a moment before he reacted.

It's not that he is slow to react, if he wasn't shrewd and knows how to read faces, he wouldn't have sent him to beg for peace.

He never thought that a person like Ding Yi, who was extremely noble in his eyes, would really fight for his life on the battlefield with a knife!

"On the battlefield, I alone can beat ten of him." The envoy laughed when he came back to his senses, but quickly shook his head and said, "Impossible, he can't really ask the leader to fight him, how can such a big man, such a noble superior, be ......?"

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by the leader of Mamluk: "Then you say, what does His Highness want to do?" Can anyone think of it? ”

For a moment, no one answered, so the leader of Mamluk nodded and said, "Beg for peace, and ask for surrender, naturally we will show our stupidity." Didn't that Poseidon say it? To be absolutely obedient, maybe we are not smart, but we can embody our obedience. ”

"You, you......" he pointed to the five men, then gritted his teeth, "and we will set out with me tomorrow, and we will take on his challenge with our knives as they order." This is also our only chance, otherwise the Ming army will summon that thunderous artillery fire again, who can resist it? ”

On the second day, they really packed up, rowed small boats, and held white flags to identify themselves to the Ming destroyer fleet cruising in the Suez Canal. Then he crossed the Suez Canal and rushed to Cairo under the escort of a company of Ming troops.

At this time, Ding Yi waited for him to deal with many things before the case, and his free time every day was the time for running in the morning and exercising before going to bed at night.

Huang Xiaoyang is going to Guinea, and the fleet here must leave destroyers and a few cruisers, otherwise how can the order of the canal be guaranteed? Order is never enough to be established by justice and conscience, and power is the guarantee behind the contract. Without a strong ship, expect the ships of the countries that pass through the Guò Canal to pay taxes honestly? Dream on.

Okay, so who's in charge of the fleet on this side? Draw over the ships on this side, so how to replenish the ships that the Mediterranean Fleet lacks? The firepower of the battleship is not lacking, but the cruiser and the expulsion have their own combat functions, and you can't smuggle a merchant ship of dozens of tons to pass by, and also get a team of battleships to set sail to chase after it, and then if you can't catch up, you will fire a thousand guns in unison, right? Cannonballs don't want silver? Counting the freight and various expenses, a shell and a bullet on the African side are really not much cheaper than the same weight of silver.

Is it possible to set up a rudimentary ship repair system in Suez or Ismailia? Don't expect Egypt itself, Portugal still has a Prince Henry, so the foundation of the navigation facilities is good, expand it, the daily maintenance of destroyers and cruisers is not a big problem, and the battleship only needs to go back to Guangzhou for a few years to do a major maintenance.

Egypt does not have such conditions, the 100-ton galleys, repair its shipyard, and even the maintenance of destroyers. You can't just wander back to Daming whenever something happens, right? Or run to Hughton, right? It's too far from either side, and if something happens, you can't drive it halfway and it will sink!

Following Huang Xiao's past, Ding Yi finally decided on Li Bing, and he decided to give Li Bing a chance, after all, since he joined the door, although Li Bing said that the troll attribute was too heavy, he really didn't mess up, and he was much stronger than Wan Ana; And grain and grass must also be prepared, and there are some supply ships, which have transported the war dividends back to Daming, and there is a shortage of everything here, so we have to organize some galleys, and use battleships to drag them or how to get them, to act as supplies.

In addition, Liu Tie is also in full swing with the Egyptian financial officials on Morena's side.

Therefore, the leader of Mamluk, with five Mamluk knights, came to see Ding Yi, Ding Yi buried his head in the high pile of Wen Jiàn on the case, although Wan An and Liu Ji are very talented in internal affairs, but important issues are for Ding Yi to decide, for example, after the foreign army returned to the Yamen, the governor of the canal, Xu Bin thought that the allowance could be lowered, and he was not a Chinese soldier, why did he give them such a high salary? Wan An and Liu Ji about this, who dares to make a decision?

"You sit down first." Ding Yi received them in the study, he raised his head, and said to the visitors, "If you are bored, go out and go around. The Al-Azhar Mosque next to the Hariri market, where we had a meeting and many people watched, there was a fair place. ”

Whether it was the leader or the five Mamluks accompanying him, they all felt extremely ridiculous!

The Ding Yi they saw was Ding Yi sitting behind the bookcase, holding a brush, holding Ding Yi, who had simulated the first assistant for ten years, and Ding Yi, who had been exploring flowers.

So after being escorted out by the Ming army, these Mamluks had a thought.

Sometimes, something that, once grown from the heart, is like a vine that quickly extends and wraps up the original intention.

"Maybe if you kill him, the Ming army won't be able to summon that terrible artillery fire?"

"Perhaps killing him, like the Tatars who had their generals killed, would realize that the cost of conquering Mamluk was so heavy!"

"I heard that he is the soul of the Ming army, and he is indeed a noble highness, if he suddenly dies in a duel, the Ming army will definitely collapse! At least there will be a riot! ”

"In Cairo, there are still a lot of our people, maybe we can make secret contact."

"Mamluk may no longer need a caliph."

"If our lives can make the Ming people retreat, then let us return to the arms of the true God!"

As for Ding Yi? Such noble people are indeed admirable, but they are more fragile than paper in front of Damascus steel knives.

At least that's what the Mamluk chieftain and his retinue thought. (To be continued......)