Chapter 1: Into Egypt (18)
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The first round of shelling on the canal sank five ships carrying troops, and then more than a dozen galleys, which were preparing to attack the destroyer, soon sank into the Suez Canal along with thirteen other troop carriers. There is no process of sinking slowly, it is basically shattered in the shelling.
In the sixteenth century, when Western Europe was basically able to build ships of 1,000 tons, the shipbuilding technology of the Ottoman Empire was still only about 200 tons of galleys. The Mamluk dynasty, which was conquered by it a hundred years ago, was of course inferior to the Ottomans in the 16th century, and the First Destroyer Fleet was presented with nothing more than a number of galleys of less than 100 tons.
The 1st Destroyer Fleet consisted of only five destroyers, but it was developed in a single longitudinal array, and each destroyer had 12 guns on one side, 60 rifled high-explosive shells, and warheads filled with yellow gunpowder.
Clouds of dark red spread underwater, the blood of Mamluk, and the many sawdust floating on the surface of the river, which had once been stored as part of a warship. The destroyer stopped shelling, because the white flags were raised on the Mamluk ships that had survived.
All the valor. The face of this artillery fire turned pale and weak.
It was not the bullet that ignited the fire, and then the panicked soldiers ran around. The oarsman fled for his life, and finally had no power to return to the sky. In that case. The soldiers of Mamluk, perhaps without good discipline, would not have followed suit, but at least some of them had the courage to fight to the death.
Now it's not like that, it's "Boom! Then the troop transports and galleys disappeared in the violent explosion and fire, and they were gone, and the soldiers and horses on them were shattered.
The captain of the destroyer Suzhou graduated from Wuzhou Academy. He went to Guangzhou again, and was admitted to the navigation school presided over by Prince Henry, and then practiced in the Mediterranean Fleet for half a year, and received the signature recommendation of the captain and sailor of the trainee ship before he was able to become the captain of the destroyer.
He stood on the deck and looked at the enemy ships flying the white flags, and said a phrase that would be very popular among the Ming navy in the future: "Perhaps the soldiers of the Mamluk dynasty should rejoice." ”
"Why?" The first mate on the side didn't quite understand, these two salvos, nearly twenty troop carriers, and more than a dozen galleys were gone. There is blood spreading under the surface of this river, what are you glad about? He really didn't understand what the captain meant.
"Their shipbuilding skills are not very advanced, otherwise there would have been more people dying in this fire."
Shipbuilding is not very advanced. Therefore, it could not be loaded with too many soldiers, so even if nearly twenty troop transports were smashed in the artillery fire, the number of dead was relatively speaking. It won't be too much.
"I'm Ming, mighty!" All of a sudden. The naval soldiers on the deck roared one after another.
What is pride? That's pride.
The enemy should rejoice in the inferiority of shipbuilding. Don't lose more lives in the salvo of the Ming Dynasty's naval guns.
When the soldiers of the Marine Corps took the assault boat to receive the troop carriers and galleys of Mamluk, they made preparations for the surrender of the other side. Unfortunately, this did not happen, until all the enemy forces were tied up, and it seemed that most of the people were still staring blankly at the river, unable to recover from the two rounds of shelling.
It was not until the Second Destroyer Fleet came to replace the defenses, and the First Destroyer sent its sailors to manipulate the captured enemy troops and escort them back to the banks of the Suez River, that many of the Mamluk soldiers came to their senses and wept loudly, calling the names of the Sultans, calling Allah, chanting scriptures, and thinking about suicide......
They were soon taken over by Li Bing's police corps, and the construction of another prisoner camp began.
However, among these captives, there were many people who were dishonest and tried to riot.
Because after coming back to their senses, it was difficult for them to believe the facts before, and they even said to themselves and others: "This is the magic of the Ming army!" It's a trick! Impossible! How is it possible that after a spark, there is nothing? "Not everyone can be on the side of the boat, watching the blood spread under the surface of the river, and seeing the corpses that have not yet sunk.
In the hands of the Marines, these prisoners were quite honest, but when they came to the police headquarters, they saw that the Korean soldiers here were much thinner than the Chinese soldiers, and the blacks had always been regarded as slaves by them, so a few groups of prisoners suddenly rioted and held a few Korean soldiers hostage. But soon Cao Jixiang led hundreds of Mamluks, armed with big sticks, and rushed into the captives, killing more than a dozen people alive, and teaching them how to take prisoners.
"You have done a good job, our family has written it down, and in the future, you will be rewarded for meritorious deeds, and you will not be able to shorten your reward!" Cao Jixiang put his hands behind his back and said happily to the hundreds of Mamluk cavalrymen, these people are the prisoners who have no one to ransom them back, and they owe the Ming army a huge amount of food and medical expenses, and they are unable to repay.
Those Mamluks knelt down one after another, and replied in a very non-standard Ming official dialect: "All things are not the master, only Your Highness, every praise is attributed to Your Highness, Your Highness who rules the seas of the world!" Cao Chuza is the messenger of His Highness, and we are obedient to Cao Chuza! ”
According to Cao Jixiang's meaning, these Mamluks were to be castrated for him as disciples and grandchildren. Fortunately, after hearing this, Ding Yi hurriedly sent someone to stop him. He also asked Liu Ji to take the propaganda team and translators to carry out a grievance meeting among these Mamluks, which opened their minds and made them understand that no one was born as a "Mamluk", which was originally a homonym for a slave, and this qiē injustice was brought to them by the chieftains and sultans they were loyal to, and it was brought to them by this man-eating slave system.
For people in the information age, they are willing to scold the system if their lives are not going well, even if they know that this is not necessarily the reason, they don't mind saying a couple of sentences as venting. What's more, most of these Mamluks, who can't even read a word?
The sultan would not come and redeem them, and neither would the chieftain redeem them. It can be seen that they must also be an oppressed class in Ismailia. Class. As long as there are more than three people, there will be classes. The grievance conference was very shocking to these illiterate Mamluks.
At the grievance meeting, some of them began to cry bitterly, because no one redeemed them in the first place, it was a kind of betrayal and abandonment, where would there be no suffering in their hearts? When Liu Ji, who is good at inciting people's hearts, attributes the fate of this suffering and the previous injustice to the following: "All men are created equal." Why don't chiefs and governors and sultans come to war, but you come to fight? Why did the Sultan and the chieftains refuse to pay the ransom for you after you were captured? Because in their eyes, you are cattle and horses, and you are tools, and you can discard them at any time when you are used up! ”
"You see the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty! It doesn't matter if he's black, he's Egyptian. Chinese people! When they fought for the Ming Dynasty, when they were sick, medicine worth dozens of cattle and horses, His Highness used them like this. As long as you are loyal to Your Highness, you will not be abandoned! Even blacks, Your Highness. It is the savior of all the oppressed and enslaved people in the world! ”
Hundreds of captives wept bitterly on the spot, because they knew that the black and Egyptian regiments had been infected with the plague.
This is not made up by Liu Ji. They went to help carry the captives out and watched the medics inject them.
It was this personal experience that convinced them. unreservedly believed Liu Ji's incitement, and some people even suddenly woke up: "When we went to carry the patients, His Royal Highness also asked people to give us masks and gloves!" These days, we are repeatedly told not to drink unboiled water! He even took the captives to heart, and he didn't abandon them! ”
As a result, even the trust arranged by Liu Ji was not used, and the whole scene became fanatical, and the grievance meeting evolved into a kind of worship similar to a religious model, Liu Ji even doubted, is this what Ding Yi told him, the group hypothetical effect in psychology? Because it feels like these captives are all crazy.
"You don't have to change your faith, Sir said, freedom of belief."
After Liu Ji repeatedly stated this. Hundreds of people are still adamant that they will not keep their old faith anymore.
They said they wanted to change to the same beliefs as Ding.
Liu Ji was in trouble: "The student is a disciple of Mr., but Mr. doesn't seem to pay special attention to the various sects......"
So the captives asked, "Your Excellency is a disciple of Your Highness, what religion does your noble man believe?" ”
The scholar doctor doesn't believe in any gods, that is, the low-level Chinese people, they all know that giving sugar to the king of the stove sticks to his mouth, so that he can't say bad things about God! Of course, Liu Ji can speak a lot of truths, but he also has to be able to translate, and these captives can understand it, so at that time he could only say: "I don't believe in any religion, I only believe that following Mr. can teach Huaxia to be rich and strong." ”
This inconsequential sentence is probably a translation error, and the captives of Mamluk heard it as "Mr. I believe"
So they converted to Ding Yi. Ding Yi heard about it later, and personally came to tell them that this was not good, but they insisted that Liu Ji said that they had freedom of belief.
However, Cao Jixiang was very satisfied with these subordinates, they were very cruel, and Mamluk was already very cruel. Cao also has a part-time errand, that is, the commander of the Suez prisoner reform battalion. He commanded these old captives to manage the hundreds of new captives brought in by the destroyer fleet, and it was very easy.
However, Ding Yi didn't have time to pay attention to these captives at this time: "Zhao Fu, can you support it?" ”
"The last general has been cured, and I am willing to drive from His Highness!" Zhao Fu replied with his chest puffed.
"Okay, I order, Zhao Fu will be the commander of the Rongyi Division, Wan An will be the supervisor of the army, and the troops will be sent to Cairo, and they will be drawn on the same day!"
The war finally broke out in full force, and both Mamluk and Ding Yi had begun to assemble their forces, and Ding Yi, who was in control of the Red Sea, was undoubtedly faster than the other party, and Ding Yi certainly would not do such a thing as a decisive battle. The elite soldiers in his hands should have been able to carry out blitzkrieg, especially the Arab horses captured and ransomed twice, which provided him with sufficient conditions for implementation! (A good event for pie in the sky, cool mobile phones are waiting for you!) Follow from ~ Dian/Chinese network public account (WeChat add friends - add public account - enter ddxiaoshuo), participate now! Everyone has a prize, now pay attention to ddxiaoshuo WeChat public account! (To be continued......)