At the same time that Yahaya was killed by Muthadid II, Lin Xi also ordered the more than 500 people who followed him to attack the North City Gate to publicly display the flag of the Ming army. Everyone took off their large food robes and
He took out a sun and moon flag from the car and stuck it on his back, shouting in Chinese to fight with the Mamluks.
The army stationed at the North City Gate suddenly became chaotic. In fact, the impact of Yahaya's death was not great. The soldiers at the North City Gate each had a general. Yahaya would not lose his command even if he died; but he was killed by Muta.
The killing of Didi II with his own hands and the appearance of the Ming army in the city gave them a heavy blow. Muthadid II was the supreme religious leader, but he helped the pagans. Does this mean that even the true God
Abandoned them? The Ming army who thought they were outside the city actually appeared inside the city. Does it mean that the city has been breached and that they would just die in vain if they held on at the north gate?
At this time, there was also chaos in the city. Fires were lit in many places, and there were shouts and curses in various languages. The Mamluk soldiers suddenly no longer wanted to defend the city gates, nor did they want to fight with the Ming army.
They fled into the city in small groups, wanting to go back to protect their wives, children, and property. A Mamluk general who was loyal to his duty tried to stop him, but was chopped down to the ground by a soldier. He did not know whether he was alive or dead.
Of course, the Ming army would not stop those who wanted to escape. After killing the few soldiers who stayed at their posts, they removed the things blocking the city gate, opened the city gate, and lit fireworks. Those who were taken by thousands and hundreds of households seemed to
When the soldiers on an outing saw the fireworks, they immediately ran towards the city gate as fast as they could; the cavalry in the horse pen also got on their horses and rushed towards the city gate.
By the time Tata I learned that the north city gate had fallen and sent his own guards to recapture the city gate, thousands of Ming troops had already entered the city, half of them firmly controlled the northern city wall, and half of the soldiers had already attacked the city. Nearly.
The Wei army fought a battle with the Ming army. Seeing that it was impossible to recapture the city gate, he led his troops back to the Sultan's palace and persuaded Tata I to escape from Cairo City. Of course, he did not persuade Tata I to escape now. It was daytime, even if
Even if you escape from the city, you can't escape from the delta, and you can only evacuate at midnight. The general suggested that Tata I send people to set fire everywhere to further disrupt the order in the city, and evacuate at night.
King Tata I also knew that the city could not be defended, so he agreed to the general's suggestion and sent dozens of his closest confidants to change their clothes and set fires everywhere; he abandoned the Sultan's palace and killed his concubines, daughters and even young sons.
The older son and the remaining soldiers were running around in the city.
But his idea of escape was still shattered in the end. It was true that order had not been restored in the city at night, but the Ming army and the Castilian army captured the four city gates, and except for the northern city gate, the other three city gates did not allow any movement at night.
Even if the coalition soldiers did not obey orders, they would kill them with arrows when people approached. Tata I wanted to pretend to be an army of Castile and escape, but he received thousands of arrows and had to retreat into the city again.
Until dawn, King Tata I was completely desperate and disbanded the Guards. He took only one son and a few guards and changed into local Egyptian clothes and hid in a house, hoping to escape from Ming Castile.
The raid by the coalition forces. But what the Ming army did afterwards completely shattered his idea.
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"Order the officers and soldiers to drive all the people in the city out of the city, leaving no one behind! After all the people in the city are driven out, the officers and soldiers will be sent into the city to search. If anyone is found hiding in the city, they will be killed on the spot!" Cao Xing
Qian Hu gave instructions to several commanders and commanders.
"General Cao, can they be allowed to take their belongings out of the city?" Everyone agreed, and one person asked again.
"Of course it's allowed. They can take whatever belongings they have. But they have to tell the soldiers to search them carefully when they leave the city. If anyone has weapons on them, they must be confiscated." Cao Xing replied.
"Yes, general." Everyone agreed again and retreated to carry out Cao Xing's order.
"Your Highness Alfonso, there are not many soldiers in the Ming army. To drive the people out of the city and to search back and forth in the city, we still need the cooperation of your soldiers." Cao Xing said to Alfonso who was standing aside.
"It's easy to talk about it." Alfonso said with a smile. There will definitely be people who dare not take all their wealth with them and order soldiers to search the city, which is equivalent to giving them the power to legally plunder. Of course he is willing. This time he
The tens of thousands of mercenaries hired were all mercenary groups that often cooperated with the royal family of Castile or Aragon. They knew the rules very well and would hand over a proportion of the things they robbed from the city to him.
"However," Alfonso said, "General Cao drove everyone out of the city. I don't quite understand this. And it seems that the Ming army did not do this in the past."
"There are too many Mamluks hiding in the city. If we want to find them out as soon as possible, we can only drive everyone out of the city." Cao Xing replied.
"General Cao doesn't need to hide. I have already understood what you are going to do. After all, although the Mongols did not reach Iberia during the Western Expedition, I have also read the records about the Mongols' Western Expedition. I did not stop you.
I'm just curious: Why would the general do this? Judging from what you did in India, you don't look like someone who would do such a thing," Alfonso said.
Cao Xing did not answer his question, but said: "Your Highness, there is no need to ask any more questions, and I will not answer them."
"In this case, I won't ask. But in the end, even if only the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty take action and not the soldiers of the Kingdom of Castile, I will still share a part of the wealth obtained." Alfonso said.
"I will give a share to His Highness. The final goods will be divided into three parts, one for the Ming Dynasty, one for you, and one for His Highness the Seventh Prince. Moreover, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty are very tired after a day and night of fighting, so in the end they will give it to
You Castilians and Aragonese took action." Cao Xing said.
"Okay." Alfonso agreed again with a smile, and said a few words to the leaders of several mercenary groups beside him, who immediately cheered loudly.
"General Cao, you don't have to give this order personally." At this time, Wen Di approached Cao Xing, with a special expression on his face, and whispered to him.
"Your Highness, if I don't give this order, who will give it? Because this time the troop dispatch is small, there are only more than 20,000 soldiers and more than 20,000 people, and I don't even have a deputy. Who can give this order except me? Could it be Li
General?" Cao Xing didn't care and said with a smile.
Wen Di didn't speak anymore. Apart from Cao Xing, it was true that no one could issue this order except him. But he was even more unwilling to issue this order, so he could only leave it to Cao Xing. Wen Di was silent for a while and said: "This is
The various treasures obtained from the battle, the BMW and the beautiful women, you can tell me whatever General Cao wants, and I will definitely agree."
"Don't worry, Your Highness, I won't be polite." Cao Xing agreed again with a smile.
While they were talking, everyone in the city had been driven out of the city. The translator of the Ming army who knew the language of food stood on the slope and loudly told everyone that the reason why the Ming army drove them out of the city was to drive all the Mamluks away.
After searching them out, they had no other purpose and reassured them. Then some people walked into the city and searched repeatedly, while others began to count the people and search for the Mamluks.
Because these words were reasonable and reasonable, the originally frightened Egyptians were slightly relieved and took the initiative to separate into units of a thousand people in accordance with the Ming army's requirements. Some people reported the Mamluks hiding among them. The Mamluks saw that they were not immune.
, picked up a wooden pole and fought with the nearby searching soldiers, planning to take away a few more people before dying.
The well-prepared coalition soldiers immediately pounced on them and killed them. Since most of the Mamluks had been exposed or resisted when they were driven out of the city, there were not many Mamluks discovered at this time, only a few hundred people.
, was quickly killed. Tata I was also found, but he received preferential treatment and was not killed on the spot. The coalition officers seemed to be afraid of missing something, so they searched again. Although the Egyptians thought they were taking the opportunity to rob property
, but there is no harm, and there is no resistance.
At this time, the translator walked up to the slope again and loudly said that since everyone had been driven out of the city, His Royal Highness the Prince of Ming Dynasty would also check the household registration and ask all craftsmen, no matter what they do, to bring their families out. At this time
Some people were suspicious again, but most people did not doubt his words, and the craftsmen also walked out of the queue with their families. Several officers of the Ming Army asked the adult men who walked out of the queue one by one what they did as craftsmen, and then recorded them in this book
Go up and take them aside.
When no one came out, the interpreter walked up the slope again and asked the remaining people to separate according to the gender. This caused a commotion, and countless Egyptians shouted, unwilling to obey this order, even though the interpreter repeated it.
When everyone was in a state of excitement, a mercenary from Castile seemed to be impatient with this scene. He yelled something and came over to pull a beautiful young woman away. Of course, the young woman's husband did not want to, so the mercenary stabbed her away.
He chopped him to the ground. The nearby Egyptians immediately understood what their fate was, and they picked up something to kill the nearby coalition soldiers. But their weapons had been taken away, not even wooden poles.
He could only wave the box in his hand. Of course, he was no match for the coalition soldiers and was quickly killed. But more and more Egyptians began to resist and fought with the coalition soldiers.
Seeing that he could no longer deceive them, Cao Xing whispered to the person next to him, and the person continued to order. Soon, Chinese and Castilian were echoing in the delta. Hearing these words, all the coalition soldiers
They stopped fighting the Egyptians and retreated. Some people even threw the things they grabbed on the ground. The beautiful girls and young women also let go of their hands, as if they were afraid of being a step too late.