Daming Crazy Emperor

Who the ancient Egyptians were is still up for debate.

However, the Berbers are indeed native peoples found throughout North Africa.

As for why the ruling class in Egypt seems to be Europeans or West Asians, it is because Egypt has declined since the sixth century BC.

Although Egypt is ancient, luck is not very good.

Because they were too close to the Eurasian continent, ancient Egypt was occupied by emerging powers in Eurasia since the sixth century BC.

In 525 BC, Egypt was captured by the Persian Empire, and then Egypt was successively occupied by Greece, the Roman Empire, the Dashi, and the Ottoman Empire.

In other words, it was not the original ancient Egyptians who ruled Egypt from the sixth century BC, but invaders from the Eurasian continent.

Therefore, the ruling class in the post-Egyptian era does not look like Africans, but Europeans or West Asians. They are actually real Europeans and West Asians.

As for the Berbers who used to live here, they have always been slaves at the bottom.

Cairo, the capital of Egypt, is now the capital of the overseas provinces of the Ottoman Empire, and there are everyone in the huge city.

French, Russians, Ottomans, Persians, big cannibals, etc., the streets are full of people of all colors in strange clothes.

There are really many people in Cairo, because the mouth of the Nile River is the only large oasis in North Africa, and it is also the most suitable place for human survival in the entire Sahara region.

If you count the population on the plains outside the city, there are 500 million people in Cairo.

Most of these four to five million people are local Berbers. There are actually not many other Europeans and West Asians who invaded. Even the coalition forces of France, Tsarist Russia and the Ottoman Empire only have a total of 500 horses here. Garrisoned, and all Ottoman army.

Because it was an overseas territory of the Ottoman Empire more than 100 years ago.

To be honest, Taichang didn't understand the situation in Cairo, and he didn't come up with any specific strategy on how to win Cairo.

This has to wait for Atlanta to bring someone over to investigate in person before it can be settled.

Fortunately, the Spaniards were also very tricked, and they didn't tell the anti-Habsburg alliance the news of the fall of Ceuta.

At this time, communication was not well developed. Except for the telegraph system in Ming Dynasty, communication in other countries basically relied on person-to-person transmission.

It is almost impossible for the news of Ceuta's fall to come here under the deliberate concealment of the Spaniards.

Therefore, the whole city of Cairo is still quite calm at this moment, all the city gates are open in all directions, Berbers outside the city can also enter the city, but they will be searched by the defenders of the Ottoman Empire at the gate.

Atlantis, a group of cronies and the newly recruited elite Berbers have already sneaked into Cairo in batches at this moment.

Their attire is the same as that of the Berbers here, with a rag wrapped around their waists and nothing else, which can be seen through at a glance.

Therefore, they did not arouse anyone's suspicion after they sneaked into Cairo City.

Atlanta brought people to investigate the situation, because the city of Cairo is very large, and the defenders of the Ottoman Empire have been operating here for more than a hundred years, and the city defense is also quite terrifying. With the current strength of the Black God Army, I think It's not that easy to take it off.

Unless they desperately pulled all the artillery over and blasted at the city wall.

That would be a little dangerous, though.

It will take time for them to pull the artillery over, and East Africa is not just the 10 horses of the Ottoman Empire.

If they can't take Cairo in one fell swoop, France and Tsarist Russia will definitely send troops to support them.

Everyone has warships, and the speed down the Nile River is simply not too fast.

At that time, they will definitely face a steady stream of reinforcements, and it is unknown how many troops will be lost after a battle.

Therefore, both Taichang and Zhang Mingshi felt that it would be best to take Cairo by surprise.

If this fortified city can be conquered from the inside, the loss will naturally be minimal.

The question is, they can't even bring in a knife, so how can they take this fortified city from the inside?

Atlantis stood on the street and looked around blankly, her brows furrowed deeper and deeper.

It's really easy for them to sneak in. They let them go after picking up the rags around their waists.

However, they can also sneak in with their buttocks naked. If they have weapons on their bodies, they will definitely not be able to get in.

How do you bring weapons in?
Atlantis frowned and pondered for a while, then winked, and led a group of men to disperse to the north city gate.

At this moment, they have almost investigated the situation in the entire Cairo city. They have figured out where the defenders' barracks are distributed, how many people are on duty on the city wall, and even the approximate time for people to change shifts.

As long as they can bring weapons into the city, they should not have a problem taking down a gate or two.

The most important thing now is how to bring the weapons in.

After Atlanta came outside the city gate in the north, she simply followed the example of the Berbers here, and sat down on the open space by the side of the road, watching the flow of people coming and going in and out of the city gate as if she was curious.

Soon he found a long food transport team.

This team is quite magnificent, there are at least dozens of grain carts, and hundreds of black slaves pushing the carts, stretching back and forth for two or three miles.

In fact, this is not a big deal. A human cart can pull several thousand catties of grain.

And a merchant ship with 100 materials can transport more than [-] million catties of grain.

That is to say, a team like a boatload of grain can't be finished in one trip, at least two or three trips are required.

Atlantis looked at the port terminal not far away, and then at the gate of the city, with a gleam in his eyes.

If you can pretend to be a food delivery team, it shouldn't be difficult to bring weapons into the city.

Now let's see how the food transport team will be interrogated when they enter the city.

It would be more troublesome if the guards at the gate of the city stabbed each bag of grain with a knife.

However, this seems unlikely. It is convenient to stab it with a knife. After the problem is stabbed, the food will fall out.

If the guards at the gate of the city do this, who would dare to do this business?

So how will the guards at the gate of the city check?
Not long after, the front grain truck arrived at the gate of the city.

At this time, a middle-aged man dressed as a European businessman immediately stepped forward, nodded and said a few words to the guard at the gate of the city, then took out a bag and stuffed it into the hand of a leading guard, who immediately waved his hand with a smile on his face. went in.

So simple?
All the crows in the world are really black!

Seeing this, Atlanta couldn't help showing a hint of excitement in his eyes.

People don't check at all, so it doesn't mean that you can bring as many weapons in as you want!

Of course, it's not that simple.

First of all, they have to find someone to pretend to be a European merchant, and then they have to go to the pier and the city to see the specific process of their grain transportation. Most importantly, they have to find out how much money is fortified when they enter the city, and whether these guards Only recognize money but not people.

It will take a certain amount of time to find out these news, but they are not short of time.

After all, it is tens of thousands of miles away from Ceuta City, even if it is a flying dragon battleship, it will take at least half a month to go back and forth.

What's more, the Feilong battleship never sailed into the Mediterranean Sea, and they could only use the disguised Spike warship to send messages.

In this way, it will take about a month for them to pass the news back to Ceuta, and it will take at least two months for Ceuta to find someone to pretend to be a merchant, and then transfer the troops to prepare to attack the city. time.

Atlantis thought about it carefully, but still winked, and then led his men quickly to the northwest of Cairo City.

The mouth of the Nile River is an inverted triangle plain, and the city of Cairo is just at the apex of the south side of this inverted triangle. The Gobi desert is about twenty miles northwest of it.

Atlantis and the others passed through the Gobi desert in the northwest.

What he brought was not only the dozens of people who followed him into the city to investigate, he directly brought a Berber tribe with thousands of people!
Moreover, he ordered people to bring all the things of this tribe, such as tents, cattle and sheep, horses, camels, etc., everything is available.

If outsiders don't go into the tribe's resident and search it carefully, they won't be able to see anything tricky inside.

It can be said that this is a real Berber tribe, and this tribe is now staying more than [-] miles northwest of Cairo City, on the edge of the Gobi desert and the oasis.

If it is an ordinary person, it will take at least half a day to walk a distance of more than 20 miles.

Fortunately, Atlanta brought no ordinary people, including himself. They were all strong fighters who had undergone strict training. For them, running for more than twenty miles in one breath was nothing at all.

After about half an hour, they ran back to the tribal camp,
This tribal resident looks no different from an ordinary Berber tribal resident from the outside, but the inside is different.

In the middle of the tribe's garrison was a simple military tent, and thousands of elite black gods were stationed in the tent.

These elite black gods are the personal guards of Atlantis. They are not only equipped with black iron knives, black iron armor, iron shields and long spears, but also have a Fengshen flintlock.

It is no exaggeration to say that unless the Ottoman defenders in Cairo brought their artillery over, even tens of thousands of infantry would not be able to defeat them!

Atlanta went directly into his handsome tent, took out a pen and paper, brushed it, and wrote it all at once. He was almost finished writing a piece of letter paper, so he picked it up and blew it, folded it and stuffed it into the envelope inside.

Immediately afterwards, he said loudly to the outside: "Come here, send this letter to the temporary dock quickly, and order someone to pass it to Ceuta City as soon as possible."

Their pier is also in the northwest of Cairo City, but it is a full three hundred miles away from here. If they want to send a message, they have to take a transfer horse and gallop on the Gobi Desert for a long time.

The letter was sent out, and the next step was to investigate the food transport team in detail.

Atlantis led people to hang out in Cairo City and the northern port pier every day, and they mixed in with the coolie team at the pier.

It will be much more convenient for them to investigate the news now.

The population of Cairo is not ordinary, and the food consumption is also not ordinary, and the city does not produce food, so there are many vendors selling food here.

Most of these traders were originally from the Ottoman Empire, and they could directly buy food from the Ottoman lords in the colonies of the Nile Delta and sell it to the city, which is very convenient.

However, at this moment, merchants from France, Italy, Venice, Spain, the Holy Roman Empire, and other European countries also began to flee here.

What they sell is not necessarily grain, they also sell daily necessities, wood and ironware, and even luxury goods produced in Ming Dynasty.

Anyway, there are a lot of people here, and business is easy to do. The Europeans and West Asians in Cairo are all rich masters, and they can even spend money comparable to European nobles. No matter what goods, as long as they are fancy, the price is so Not a problem at all.

As for the money that went into the city, they also slowly found out that it was only about five taels of silver for a trip. No matter what kind of currency, as long as it is real gold and silver, people will accept it, even gold coins, silver coins and silver ingots from the Daming Bank. They all charge!
After Atlanta found out, she was very excited.

He originally thought it would be difficult to bring weapons into the city, but in fact it is not difficult at all, as long as you put some money in, the guards at the gate of the city will not care about you at all!