Chapter 1019: Katabo Pasha is late to regret
Two hours before the Southeast Army arrived in Cairo, Cairo City finally received the alert.
"What?!" Katabor Pasha, the governor of Egypt in the Ottoman Empire, stood up suddenly from the carpet, pointed at the messenger tremblingly, and said tremblingly: "You said that a large number of Chinese troops have landed and they have already passed the city of Priga. Advance towards Cairo!"
Prega is a small town located between Suez and Cairo. The approximate distance is from the city in the morning and to Prega at noon.
"Yes!" The messenger kneeling on the ground replied: "Their armies are so many, too many to count, and they have both foot and riding. Our city lord dare not count down, let me report the letter immediately!"
"Is it a Chinese army?" A senior general named Emre asked sharply next to him.
"It is indeed their troops, flying the banners of mountains, seas and stars!" said the messenger.
Katabo Pasha sat back down in his seat, regretful in his heart!
No wonder so many Chinese returned home for the New Year. This was a sign before the attack, but he didn't take it seriously.
Also, the English businessman John Robert who came to Cairo as a guest once warned him that the Chinese would definitely attack Turkey, and Cairo would bear the brunt!
There are always wise people in the world, and some of them have been dealing with Chinese for a long time, and they have seen through what the Chinese want to do!
John Robert is a businessman in the British East India Company. He is in the sugar business. He sells the sugar produced in Taiwan and Southeast Asia to India, Persia and Arabia, and then sells it to Turkey and Asia Minor. There are many people and wealth in these areas, while the Chinese sugar High quality, large quantity, huge profits every year!
The Chinese soldiers went out of the Strait of Malacca, and John Robert's business collapsed!
Even after the truce between the two sides and the reopening of trade, business is already difficult to do, competition is fierce, and Chinese businessmen intervene. They are no longer exclusively owned by the British. John Robert has completely bid farewell to the past where he could make money when he fell asleep!
The anger in his heart can be imagined, and under his anger, he decided to give the Chinese a little bit of color.
So he went to lobby the Turks, especially Katabo Pasha, and pointed out that sooner or later the Chinese would move westward, and they would never let it go in Cairo.
Katabo Pasha recalled the words of the Hong Maofan: "...I often trade with the Chinese, knowing that the Chinese are insatiable. They first established a foothold in Taiwan, then captured the Dutch Batavia, and then took the entire Southeast Asia They were all in the bag, they occupied India again and drove all of us Europeans away. Wait, they will definitely attack Turkey, and Egypt, as Turkey’s granary, must be the first to use Egypt!"
I really know what to see, but it's a pity that Catapor Pasha didn't believe his words. He was very free to collect the tribute from the Chinese. The Chinese were generous. Catapor Pasha took John Robert's words as the babble of the loser.
What's more is his confidence in the power of the Turkish Empire. Turkey is so powerful that the power of Europe can't beat Turkey. One country singles out the entire Europe!
Don't forget that the Turkish army appeared under the city of Vienna, this is Central Europe!
The Chinese dare to attack? Katabo Pasha really never thought about it.
Yes, they dominate the sea, but I haven't heard of their performance on land!
Today they came. The patrol boats at sea, the defenders everywhere, and the border tribes were all useless guys. They did not play any role in warning. They waited until they landed and rushed to Cairo to report information.
Katabo Pasha was hated and scared, because it was not only John Robert who warned him, but also many messages reminding him to pay attention, but he took it as a whisper.
Before the storm came, there were a lot of precursors. Turkish and Arab merchants who went to the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia to trade in unanimously talked about the changes of the Chinese. Their warships traveled frequently, gathered supplies in India and Ceylon, and actively trained the Indian army. Hold drills and more!
There is no impermeable wall in the world, and the Chinese can still keep secrets. Can the three pots keep secrets?
As long as they feel that they can be used as a source of talk, they must be promoted. They are so happy. Even the gods in the sky will soon know what they are doing. They want to shut up the three pots and wait for them to make fish in the next life!
Be a cow, a horse or a dog, they will bark!
When some alert and patriotic Turkish businessmen talked about the Chinese in Cairo, they thought that the Chinese were not quite right. There was even an Arab businessman who was an old friend of Katap Pasha, who came to remind him that the Chinese should make big moves. Buying horses and donkeys, the horses everywhere were wiped out, and all the donkeys in Afghanistan were bought!
Buying a large amount of food. At that time, a wealthy Arab businessman relayed the words of an Indian prince to Katapa Pasha: “The Chinese bought enough food for 200,000 people for a year, and the price of food soared. They bought so much. Chickpeas have doubled the price of chickpeas on the market, and the Chinese can't buy them. They have money!"
Buying so much food for charity or accumulating grain to prevent hunger?
The usefulness of food quickly became clear. The Chinese conscripted aggressively in India---something could not be hidden. The Chinese were stationed in southern India, from remote Kashmir, Punjab, and a bit close to the hometown of Assam milk tea in Tibet. All Indians went to join, recruiting soldiers for many years, and recruiting the best!
The wealthy Arab businessman said that he had never seen Chinese soldiers training, but some people had seen them. They were very strict, and the Indian soldiers trained were "murderous".
Indian soldiers have always been very face-to-face, and being able to use these four words shows that the Chinese have the ability to train soldiers, and also shows that the Chinese have made a lot of money!
Most areas of Colombo in Ceylon were tightly sealed by the Chinese, making it mysterious, but the sound of gunfire could not be interrupted. The dense gunfire was clearly heard, and obviously there were a lot of troops.
The Southeast has a strong navy and is the overlord of the Indian Ocean. They also train the army?
An old friend reminded Katabo Pasha to beware of the Chinese, but he ignored him. He really did not believe that the Chinese dared to attack Egypt, and even suspected that the Chinese wanted to attack Africa!
The Chinese have really come, and Katap Pasha is too late to regret it!
He has to deal with the offensive of the Chinese, and victory is good. If he can't resist the Chinese, Istanbul will not tolerate losers.
Katabo Pasha said hoarsely: "Okay~www.wuxiaspot.com~We are ready to fight!"
It is not easy to prepare for battle. Katap Pasha originally had tens of thousands of elite cavalry, but only 3,000 remained in Cairo. The rest of the cavalry dealt with the tribes outside, and all went to Minia in Upper Egypt.
Egypt is divided into Upper and Lower Egypt, Upper Egypt is the Nile Valley, and Lower Egypt is the Nile Delta north of Cairo.
As for the strength of the infantry, at the border of Asia, Africa and Latin America, Katabo Pasha is well-known in the world. He has armed with three thousand flintlockers, almost the most powerful infantry in the Ottoman Empire.
The flintlock gun was put into use very early, but there was a problem that it could not catch fire, which caused the equipment to be slow. Soldiers would rather use the backward matchlock gun than the flintlock gun. Until the Chinese improved the flintlock gun, it became popular in the Eastern Army Up.
First, the Europeans learned something, the copycats came to equip the army, and then the Turks bought or made them, and they also had advanced flintlocks.
It is a pity that even if Katabo Pasha is rich, he cannot be equipped with too many flintlocks. The reason is very simple. No court will allow a local government to have too strong military power!
In this way, three thousand cavalry and two thousand flintlockers are the main force in the hands of Katapor Pasha. He originally had three thousand flintlockers, and another thousand were not in Cairo.
The current information is that there are more than 10,000 Chinese who have struck, and tens of thousands of flintlocks!
Therefore, intelligence is very important. If you know that the Chinese are coming, you can mobilize more troops and increase your chances of winning.
All the nobles in the council chamber of the Governor's Mansion have grim faces!
Senior military attache Emre said solemnly: "We must fully mobilize the people to join the war to deal with these heretics!"
Everyone agreed: "Yes!"
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