Chapter 888 Land and sea coordination

Heihu Town, Linhe County, the Governor of North Africa, the Ming Dynasty. At this time, Heihu Town turned into a huge military camp.

The black battle flag is roaring in the wind.

There are endless tents, one after another.

Located in front of the ruins of Heihu Town, a huge general station was built. North African Governor Sun Chuanting, North African Governor General Guo Shaokun, North African Governor General Staff, Deputy Chief of Staff, Brigade Commander and regiment commander gathered on the spot.

The protagonist of this attack was not the soldiers of the Ming army stationed in North Africa, but the militias in various towns were the main force.

On October 10, Sun Chuanting pointed to the ruins of Heihu Town, which had long been transformed into ruins, and said, "This is the territory of our Ming Dynasty. Our Ming people lived here. Now Heihu Town has become ruins. The residents here have become ghosts wandering in a foreign land. As the governor of North Africa, I was ordered by the emperor to guard North Africa. Four hundred and fifty innocent souls are unbearable. I am ordering me!"

The militia and the garrison soldiers immediately stood attentively.

"The blood debt will naturally be paid with blood. The army will use your sword to avenge the shame!"

"Avenge your shame, avenge your shame!"

A whistle-like cry sounded in front of Heihu Town, which was so loud that it soared into the sky.

"Occurrence, the whole army attacks, we meet in Damascus!"

Due to the unstable situation in North Africa during the period when Hong Chengchou was the governor, the conditions for digging the Suez Canal were not ripe. However, as the Ming Dynasty stabilized the situation in East India, there was no place for the Europa to stand from Taiwan to Malacca. However, the Dutch regained their foothold in India.

The Ming Dynasty did not object to this because the occupation of the entire India still lacks the power of population, and comprehensive development is not desirable. It can only focus on business and development.

Sun Chuanting had received an imperial edict from Quan Xu to prepare to dig the canal. Quan Xu also gave Sun Chuanting the greatest support, and transferred 150,000 canal river workers from China, as well as more than 2,000 craftsmen who were good at water conservancy construction. In other words, for a long time in the future, all he needed to do was to build a canal, build a port, and connect with Suzhou Port.

Even if 150,000 people were migrated from the Ming Dynasty, the total population of the Ming Dynasty in North Africa could have exceeded 2.2 million. With such a large territory, two million people were too small.

Moreover, there will definitely be casualties in any construction project. He is reluctant to throw the Ming people on the construction site and is exhausted to death, and he does not want to make his achievements by corpses of the Ming people.

This battle was initiated for labor.

As the horn of the attack sounded, amid the earth-shaking roar, 50,000 Ming troops drove out camps, led by thousands of cavalry, and a large number of carriages and artillery behind them formed a huge iron arrow, whistling towards Beirut.

As the governor of Egypt of the Ottoman Empire, Muhammad Ali was reluctant to do so, leading the Ottoman infantry and cavalry troops to set up a formation to block the attack of the Ming army.

To be fair, North African militia were militias. They did not have heavy weapons or even rifles. The weapons in their hands were just muskets and swords, which were almost on the same level as the Ottoman army.

However, the three regiments, as the main force of the three armies, namely the can opener, have not yet been officially divided in Heihu Town, so three infantry regiments can be concentrated.

Now, each division (company) has a mortar team (twelve people) and two 60 mortars, and each bureau (battalion) has a 60 mortar team (platoon), a total of four artillery teams, a total of eight 60 mortars.

One regiment is an artillery department (company) with 82 mortars, a total of 32 mortars, and three infantrymen can draw direct firepower to strike a total of 96 82 mortars, and 96 60 mortars.

The artillery position composed of nearly 200 mortars launched a scattered attack on the Ottoman Army, which had only built simple camps.

Nearly two hundred mortars fell on the positions of the Ottoman Army at a speed of ten to fifteen rounds per minute, in just half a quarter of an hour, at least more than 10,000 60 mortar shells, or 82 mm mortar shells.

Like a heavy rain shell, the Ottoman Army exploded out of his body. The Ottoman Army soldiers in heavy armor seemed vulnerable in the face of this attack of shells falling from the sky. The explosion shock waves came over like shrapnel rolling and thunder. The person who was hit was instantly broken, thrown high, and scattered all over the ground!

The guys outside the range of the explosion shock wave's death should not be busy breathing a sigh of relief. The shrapnel slashed across their bodies like razors, and the armor could not provide them with any protection. A large thigh gushed out of the wound. Some of them were unlucky and even cut off their thighs...

Even the Sixty-year-old mortars had a range of more than 3,000 meters. This was not during World War I and World War II. At that time, the sixty-year-old mortars were extremely close. Quan Xu's mortars were all bought from later generations, unless the 105 mortars were produced by themselves in the Ming Dynasty.

Although this mortar has a closer range than the Sixty Cannon, it has only an extreme range of 2,500 meters, and its effective killing range is between 2,000 and 400 meters.

Faced with such shells that hit the head and face, the Ottomans once again felt the helplessness of their naval soldiers. First of all, they had no way to attack the Ming army.

Use bows and arrows...

That was purely funny. Even if there were some rare Scottish longbows in the Ottoman Army, they had a range of nearly 300 meters when firing light arrows. At this time, they were already considered a weapon with extremely long range.

But the question is, what is three hundred meters enough?

Muskets? It’s even more joking. It’s better to let them fire at the moon using the original muskets to hit targets two thousand hundred meters away. Anyway, the chances of hitting the two are the same!

As for firing, don't you be funny? The artillery equipped by the Ottoman Empire is the same as the red cannons equipped by the Zhu Ming period. It has a range and does not even have rifle. As long as the firing is fired, it will be suppressed by the Ming army's artillery immediately.

The North African militia were originally a little nervous about the Ottoman army. After all, they were regular soldiers and they were just militias. The militia were all polite, and their real identity was a labor camp.

But when they held the telescope and watched the Ottoman Army panic and messed up, shells continued to explode, blowing them up to death.

They like this feeling so much. They feel like gods, gods that can determine the life and death of countless people! It is worth mentioning that with the help of the descendants of the Mo family, the Ming Dynasty improved the telescope. Their research and attainments in optical are so impressive that Quan Xu has to admire it.

Quan Xu no longer needs to buy telescopes from later generations. He can even take a part of the telescopes to be sold as handicrafts in later generations, and each can be sold for two or three hundred yuan.

The shell made of wood and the adjustment device are also unsatisfactory to the Mohist school's mechanical attainments. They developed a device that can control the flight direction of hot air balloons in a very short time, but the hot air balloon troops did not appear in North Africa.

The research on aircraft has also made certain breakthroughs. Human-powered aircraft have achieved flights of more than ten kilometers. However, Quan Xu is not optimistic about this kind of aircraft. The pilot must be a marathon runner, which is too laborious.

It can be said that the artillery directly under the Ming army was bombarding, and any officer who was the captain (platoon leader level) could be seen with a telescope. At this moment, an 82 mm mortar shell hit the cannon of a red cannon and detonated the powder barrel piled nearby. The violent explosion shocked the old camp wall.

The Ottoman soldiers near the artillery position either turned into airmen or rolling gourds. The more embarrassed they were, the more embarrassed they were. The Ottoman soldiers who were so bombed that they could not bear it left the camp and launched a charge towards the Ming army.

Not to mention, this move really worked, which caused the Ottoman army to charge in advance with artillery fire. This posture was really bloody.

If it was a militia army, their counterattack might work. But the problem is that three infantry regiments and more than 5,000 riflemen, this rifle can have a range of 800 meters.

"Bang bang bang..."

As rifles, light machine guns and heavy machine guns rang one after another, a large number of Ottoman army charging on the ground were killed and injured, and the cheers of the Ming army almost knocked the sky down.

For the Royal Army of the Ming Dynasty, this is a game before the war. They like this little game very much. Every time the shells explode and the fireballs rise in the air and blow their opponents around, they are very excited and have high morale.

Unfortunately, the Ottoman Army was about to cry.

Muhammad Ali, in particular, looked at the generals beside him: "Who knows how to deal with this thing?"

The gang of ginseng generals shook their heads in unison, saying that they had never seen this thing before.

What to deal with? Could it be that they were cut off with a knife?

It’s unimaginable, I can only watch them rage wildly!

A general suddenly ran over, and even a hint of fear on his face. He rushed to Mohammed Ali with his feet in the wind: "Pasha, sea, sea!"

Mohamed Ali was stunned: "What's wrong with the sea?"

"There are so many warships coming from the sea! Each warship is equipped with many cannons, which have been aimed at us!"

Mohamed Ali's heart tightened and rushed over to look into the sea. Sure enough, he saw that a dozen huge warships were lined up a row of 1,000 meters away, and the cannon suits had been unveiled, revealing rows of hideous guns, aiming at them.

"No, retreat quickly, retreat quickly!"

The combat effectiveness of the Ming Dynasty Royal Navy has long been well known. The cannon can destroy a medium-sized warship with one shot, even if the large warship can withstand up to two or three shells.

If you deal with the army, you can kill hundreds of them with one shot.

In fact, Muhammad Ali's worries were unnecessary. Before he could give the order, his troops had already escaped.

From the beginning of the shelling to the collapse of the Ottoman army, the Ming army suffered zero casualties and killed at least five or six thousand Ottoman army in half a quarter of an hour.

"The shelling stops, the whole army assaults!"

"Run, kill!"

More than 50,000 militia carried knives and chased towards the direction of the retreat of the Ottoman army. The navy here was just ready to adjust the firing boundary and had not had time to fire a shell.

The radio station located in front sent an order: "Stop the shelling, the enemy has been defeated, the navy advances along the coastline, and attacks supply points along the way!"

"Fuck, they can't hold on for a while?"

Amid the curses of the navy soldiers, the naval warships raised their anchors and set sail.

Li Zicheng looked at his old subordinate Hao Yaoqi and said, "Let your brothers fight better. There will be few such battles in the future!"

"yes!"

Hao Yaoqi rode a horse, and his horse's hooves hit the earth, making a dense sound of silence: "Brothers, kill!"

"kill!"

To be fair, when these reform prisoners from peasant army had fought such wars, they used their flesh and blood to face the artillery fire of the official army, and finally won hard. Now the feng shui has changed, and finally it has turned to them, and they are also secretly shocked.

Fortunately, he surrendered, and the artillery of the government army was so powerful.

"Puchi!"

Hao Yaoqi shot a Ottoman sergeant with one shot. He lightly pointed his body, waved his left hand, and a big head soared into the sky. With a long spear, he took the head and hung it back on the victory hook.

"Go away!"

The headless corpse slowly fell to the ground after a long time.

"I surrender!"

An Ottoman soldier with blood raised his hands.

"Damn it, what's the ghost called? I know, this dog god is not afraid of me, and I want to scold me!"

The militia around him did not make any statement. One head would be a five-year prison term. Who would not be able to match his future?

The hair of a strong Arab horse was wet with sweat. She was panting while running. A stream of white foam surged out from her mouth and nose, and was then sprayed into the air.

Its abdomen was bleeding, and Muhammad Ali on the horse's back did not care about the war horse at all. As long as its speed slowed down slightly, it immediately stabbed it with a spur to force out its last potential. It could only do its best to speed forward.

Muhammad Ali looked panicked on the horse's back, his lips were covered with blisters, and the flesh on the inner thighs had been worn out, which was heart-wrenching, but he didn't care at all.

He also knew that if he jumped like this, the horse would be dead, but he couldn't care about that much. He just urged the war horse to run wildly. There was only one thought in his mind: "Hurry up, hurry up!"

His more than 30,000 troops collapsed in an instant and had no time to gather. However, the Ming army rushed over like a tide, and its speed was so fast that it did not give him any chance to react.

He was not afraid. As a soldier, he was a little dedicated. After all, to him, he died in battle, and to heaven, there were seventy-two virgins, wading through the river of honey...

But the problem is that the Egyptian Governor's Office was defeated too quickly, and I don't know if the Damascus Governor's Office is ready.
Chapter completed!