1635 Han style rises again

Chapter 813 The Battle of Suez ([-])
On April 4, in the early morning, a ray of morning light appeared slightly in the sky, and the sun was about to rise. Although there was a besieging army from tens of thousands of miles outside the city, looking at it like a tiger, countless devout believers in the city of Suez ignored it. , all prone on the ground, doing routine morning rituals.The first two prayers are the Sunnah (by yourself), and the last two prayers are followed by the imam (imam).

Several soldiers guarding in the towers of the city wall silently recited "The True God is Great" and performed simple morning salutes. At the same time, they did not forget to turn their heads to watch the movement outside the city.

More than a dozen officers and soldiers of the Qi army stood on the slope behind the trench, holding binoculars and observing the city.They thought they were curious about the ongoing morning ritual of the True God Cult on the city wall, pointing at each other, as if they were still discussing and gesticulating.

"God, please punish those disrespectful pagans!" The guards at the top of the city were obviously very angry at the disrespectful behavior of the Qi army. They actually did this at such a solemn and sacred moment. An act of blasphemy against the great true God.

If they dare to launch an attack on the city of Suez now, we will definitely chop off their heads one by one, and then pile them in the direction facing the holy city, offering our great true God.

The sun gradually rose, and the sun shone on the khaki city of Suez, as if it had been inlaid with a golden border. Against the backdrop of countless devout worshipers in the city, it appeared somewhat sacred and solemn.

At this time, the Qi army outside the city had already finished their breakfast and was lining up outside the camp, as if they were about to start attacking the city.

"Great God!" In the city square, Suez Pasha Ahmed Fathi drew out his scimitar, held it high above his head, and shouted loudly: "The evil heretics are about to attack us, They covet our riches and lands, and with their mighty guns and muskets they will conquer us and enslave us! They will kill us all, take all our wealth, and take all our women into slavery!"

"Brave warriors, take up the sharp swords in your hands, put on your tough armor, muster all the courage in your heart, and go to fight! Kill all the enemies outside the city, use their blood and heads, come Sacrifice our great true God! We will win the final victory!... True God bless us!"

"The true God is great!"

"Kill the heretics outside the city!"

"..."

"call out!"

When the soldiers and civilians in the city of Suez were cheering wildly, suddenly a rocket flew in from outside the city with a trail of flames, crossed the city wall, and landed on the roof of a shop. A spark.

"What is this?" A few soldiers standing on the street looked up at the rockets that exploded on the roof. It seemed that they were not very powerful. They didn't smash the roof like shells, but only ignited the tarpaulin on it, and No one has been hurt yet.

"Hoo! Shoo!" Two more rockets flew over and landed on the street and the edge of the city wall respectively. After exploding, two groups of flames appeared.

"Prepare the bucket!" A Mamluk officer suddenly realized something, and immediately shouted: "The enemy troops outside the city are launching a fire attack! They are firing a kind of shell that will catch fire! Put out the flames!... Put out the fire!"

The surrounding soldiers and civilians panicked when they heard the words.You must know that most of the buildings in the entire Suez city are civil structures, and many roofs are covered with branches and grass leaves, and even some exquisite shops and houses will be covered with a layer of linoleum.If this is set on fire artificially, wouldn't it be possible to ignite the entire city of Suez.

Moreover, what is even more deadly is that Suez is located in a hot and dry area, which can be described as dry and dry. Once a fire breaks out, it will burn more fully, but there are only a few wells in the city, making it extremely difficult to fight the fire.

"Hoo! Shoo! Shoo!..." Just as the soldiers and civilians in Suez City, led by the officers, ran towards the water well in a panic, more rockets flew in, ranging from dozens to hundreds of rockets. The ground fell into the city, and within a quarter of an hour, more than a dozen blocks were set on fire, billowing thick smoke.

Numerous soldiers and civilians carried buckets, while dodging the falling rockets, while struggling to run towards the flames, trying to extinguish the fires that sprang up everywhere in the city.However, as the flames burned bigger and bigger, gradually becoming a prairie fire, the burning area spread from one house to a row of houses, and even to a block. Gradually, the fire became difficult to control.

The soldiers stationed on the city wall lay on the ground, raised their heads, and stared dumbfounded at the rising fire in the city, with terrified expressions on their faces.

Just now all the Qi troops came out of the battalion, and all the defenders thought they were going to launch a siege operation, and they were also ready to deal with the shelling.But who knows, the Qi army only marched to the side of the trench, and then stopped, putting on a tight defensive posture.

Seeing this, the defenders on the city laughed secretly at the Qi army. In order to besiege our city of Suez, you set up two barriers outside the city and dug a trench three to four meters deep and six to seven meters wide. Are you still thinking about waiting for us to take the initiative to go out of the city to attack?
Then, not long after, rockets flew out of the Qi army's position, crossed the city wall, fell into the city, and then rose one after another with fireworks.

The Qi people didn't even use artillery to bombard them!
Seeing that the fire in the city was getting more and more intense, and countless soldiers and civilians scattered and fled in all directions, some swift Mamluk cavalry passed through the sea of ​​flames and drove straight towards the gate of the city, thinking that they wanted to rush out to avoid being buried in the sea of ​​flames.

However, the soldiers guarding the city didn't get the order of Master Pasha, how dare they open the city gate, they all held spears and blocked the cavalry that kept coming in at the gate of the city.

"Open the city gate!" A Mamluk cavalry officer brandished a saber and shouted loudly, "You are blind, the fire is raging in the city, and it will sweep through the city after a while. You want all of us to be killed Burned in the city?"

"What if we open the city gate and let the Qi people from outside come in?"

"..." Several Mamluk cavalry officers were almost annoyed when they heard this, "Idiots! The Qi army is obviously setting fire to the city, how could they attack!"

"But, Lord Pasha..." The officer guarding the city gate looked at the flames constantly rising in the city, even sporadic flames began to appear in the houses near the city gate. It was obvious that the entire fire was out of control, and his heart sank immediately. hesitated.

"Go, open the city gate!" A Mamluk officer turned to his subordinates and said, "Let's rush out and kill all the Qi people who set fire!"

"Get out!...Kill them!"

"rush out!"

Several Mamluk cavalry jumped off their horses, pushed away the guarding soldiers, and then worked together to remove the heavy door plug.

"Squeak..." With the sound of the door hinges turning, the city gate slowly opened, and several Mamluk cavalry rushed out along the crack of the door.Immediately afterwards, more cavalry swarmed out, and at the same time drew out the scimitar from their waists.The Qi army set fire to the city, and outside the city, they would definitely stand ready, and what awaited them would be an extremely tragic breakout battle.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!..."

Less than a minute after the city gate was opened, artillery roared from the Qi army's position in the distance, and a dozen huge iron balls roared and flew towards the city gate, slamming into the cavalry formation that had just left the city, A few shells hit the city wall, causing it to shake violently a few times, and immediately, countless gravel and mud were splashed.

"Attention, lower the muzzle by another two points, and don't bombard the city wall." On the heavy artillery position of the Qi army that was set up yesterday, a naval observer held up a telescope to observe the effect of the shelling, and shouted loudly: " The city wall collapsed, and all the people inside had to escape!"

"Quick! Quick!...Reload!" The gunner on the side urged eagerly.

I thought that it would not be their navy's turn to participate in the battle on land.Unexpectedly, in order to strengthen the coverage of firepower, Army Commander Li Fade requested the naval fleet to unload dozens of 18-pound heavy guns, and form a multi-dimensional strike with the Army's field guns and howitzers to kill and injure the defenders who escaped from Suez City as much as possible.

There is no more effective means of striking momentum and making the enemy feel hopeless and intimidated than ferocious firepower.

The fire in Suez City forced more soldiers and civilians out of the city, but near the north and south gates, there was a crowd of people shouting and screaming. Every time the artillery roared, the chaos was amplified a little bit.Broken limbs, bloody flesh, human corpses, horse corpses, dying cries of serious injuries, screams of terror, cries of despair...

More than a dozen horse-riding Muruk cavalry crossed two rejecting horses in a row, kicking the horse's belly vigorously with their toes, trying to urge the horse to cross the several-meter-wide ditch.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!..." The orderly volley of guns knocked down the cavalrymen one by one. Some wounded horses could not stop their pace, neighed, and were loaded into the ditch, knocking the riders to their bones. Broken ribs.

"Rush out!...the cavalry disperse immediately after rushing out!" Fathi rode on a horse, brandishing a scimitar, and shouted loudly as he looked at the crowd near the city gate.

There are fires everywhere in the city, and the flames are covered with thick smoke, which almost obscures everyone's sight. Countless soldiers and civilians are covering their mouths and noses, covering their heads and running around, unable to tell the direction at all.And the crowd gathered near the city gate was frantically crowded, trying to escape from the sea of ​​flames.However, the constant artillery shells made the soldiers and civilians who left the city panic, and some even turned around and wanted to return to the city, making the city gate crowded into a group.

At the place where the horses were refused, and beside the ditch, there were fallen people and horses everywhere. The dense rain of bullets in front of them made the Mamluk cavalry cower, rein in their horses and linger, and even hindered the crowds near the city gate from entering and exiting.

Fathi led several personal guards and rushed to open a road. When he came out of the city, he immediately organized the nearby Mamluk cavalry and ordered them to pack the infantry and civilians and charge forward no matter the cost.

Under the desperate charge of the Mamluk cavalry, most of the two repelling horses outside the city gate were quickly destroyed, but they were intercepted in the ditch. Row after row of cavalry fell to the ground, and the scattered cavalry who crossed the trench also found in despair that there was still a refusal horse in front of the Qi army. .

"Order the eighth mixed battalion to enter the blocking position and increase the density of firepower." Li Fade, the commander of the Qi army in the formation, put down his binoculars and turned his head to order.

"General, we don't have a reserve team anymore?" A combat staff officer asked in surprise.

"Leave a fart reserve team!" Li Fade smiled contemptuously: "Didn't you see that the enemy army has collapsed? Don't try to keep as many Mamluk cavalry as possible at this time. How can we easily sweep them away in a few days?" The surrounding tribes confiscated cattle, sheep, camels and other livestock? Look at the fire in the city, it is estimated that not many were seized after entering the city!"

"At least some gold, silver, copper and iron can be confiscated. I guess there is no hope for food." A logistics staff officer smacked his mouth and said regretfully.

"It doesn't matter, there are no more in the city. There should be some in the nearby tribes, which can meet our basic needs." Yue Zhongwu said: "Besides, the fighters from the surrounding tribes are probably here. After this battle , the entire Suez region, are the fruits of our harvest."

The trench seemed to be an invisible borderline of death. The well-organized Qi army used musket bullets and shrapnel shells to continuously sweep down the opponent's cavalry. Unable to approach within 50 range of the Qi army.When the cavalry's corpses piled up on the battlefield, the people behind gradually realized that fighting like this was purely giving away heads.

"Let those captured Egyptians go forward and shout, those who dismount and abandon their blades will not die!" Li Fade ordered coldly: "Notify Amrind Singh, let him take the Maratha cavalry on the periphery Spread out, and prepare to kill the fish that slip through the net, regardless of life or death!"

At around [-] o'clock in the morning, as the Qi army shouted to surrender, large-scale battles ceased one after another. Teams of Mamluk cavalry untied their armor and discarded their weapons. Kneeling on the ground, waiting for his unknown fate.

Riding on a captured Arabian horse, Li Fade looked at Suez Pasha Ahmed Fathi arrogantly, with a smile that only a winner could have.

"You son of a bitch, you are quite courageous. Those who dare to kill us and rob us of our belongings. Not to mention, after a while, follow us back to the mainland of Hanzhou and accept the punishment we deserve!"

Fathi couldn't understand what he was talking about, but from the contemptuous eyes of the other party, he seemed to feel that his fate might not be so good, so he gritted his teeth and held his head up, trying to protect an Egyptian Mamluk nobleman, Suez Pasha. He had some dignity, but when two Qi soldiers saw him trying to stand up, they raised their feet and kicked him at the crook of his leg, forcing him to kneel down again.

"Get it on the boat and take care of it. Don't let him die casually." Li Fade ordered, and then lightly tapped the horse's belly with both feet, and headed for the city of Suez.

Fathi was dragged towards the pier by two soldiers. His fat body was obviously heavy, and he stumbled on the ground. His robes were hung in strands within a short while, and he looked extremely embarrassed.

Suddenly, there was a cry from behind, followed by the sound of "bang bang bang" musket fire. Fathi's heart sank. Could it be that the Qi people were killing prisoners?
(End of this chapter)