Four Hundred and Twenty Nine Soldiers Approaching the City

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Milani Stairway Dock, February 16, 1785.

This small pier attached to Milani Castle has the purest vision, 180 degrees is the cliff, 180 degrees is the sea, if the concept of the cliff and the sea is expanded to the vegetation on the cliff and the floating on the sea, standing here , it's almost impossible for you to find a third thing.

It's just that things floating at sea just don't fit into any category in any way these days.

There are a lot of them, the scale is a little big, they are noisy and enthusiastic, and even the lofty castle has become eclipsed in front of them, losing the pride of being a proud mountain in the past.

They are a joint fleet formed by the Royal Navy of Great Britain's African Fleet and the Cape Colonial Fleet of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The flagship of the fleet is the Royal Navy's 74-door third-class battleship HMS Furious. The captain of the Lion, the current deputy admiral of the African Fleet, Rear Admiral William Cornwallis.

It took Willow Baker and Chris Emmons less than a month to invite a country-destroying armed force from the southernmost tip of the human world.

The joint fleet consists of 27 warships, including 1 battleship of the third class, 4 ships of the fourth class, 7 ships of the fifth class, 7 ships of the traditional Brig, 2 ships of the Bermuda large Brigantine and the 30-meter class Bermuda large Slu There are 5 generals, a total of 886 naval guns of various types, and nearly 6,000 officers and soldiers on board.

In addition, the ship also carried 18 companies of the Royal Marines of Great Britain, a regiment of the Cape Colony Garrison of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and an independent artillery regiment, with a total of 3,900 marine soldiers and 150 new-type land artillery from 6 to 12 pounds. .

And this is far from all of the fleet.

In fact, in order to shorten the assembly time, the United Fleet set out from Cape Town, with the large Bermuda high-speed ship as the forerunner to collect the patrol fleets of the two countries scattered on the coastline, and arrived at Assel on the Somali Peninsula as early as February 4. horn.

At that time, the fleet was larger than it is now, and its speed was more than three days faster than the fastest speed in Lorraine's mind.

But in order to give full play to the power of the new land guns on board, Major General Cornwallis temporarily changed the march plan.

He led a huge fleet from Cape Aser into the Gulf of Aden, and took the risk of transporting by sea and land to mobilize a total of 8,000 explosive bombs from the British and Dutch colonies...

Six 30-meter-class Bermuda Sloops responsible for transporting ammunition caught fire and were abandoned during this short voyage.

Also implicated was a Brig of the Royal Navy. In the end, only 4,300 explosive bombs were able to land in Milani, and the non-combat losses were shocking.

But Major General Cornwallis was still successful.

Because even if there is only this amount, as long as it is used properly, the artillerymen are sure enough to burn Muscat to white ground in the rainless February. The only difference is whether it is burned all at once or in several pieces.

The charm of colonizing a second-rate power is so irresistible.

When Emmons asked Lorraine for credit, he even said that if he was given two more months, he would be sure to exchange the expected income from Muscat to the Cape Colony on the entire west coast, and use this to persuade The Netherlands officially draws the Cape of Good Hope with the United Kingdom.

The Europeans have already begun to plan for a great victory, while the Omanis are in an inexplicably complicated mood when they are in the coalition.

The Castle of Milani has never been as grand as it is now.

On the one hand, the Drake Chamber of Commerce.

After the arrival of the Dutch Volunteers in Melidori, the Chamber of Commerce unexpectedly withdrew from the land, and all employees returned to the ship, leaving only a few people such as Lorraine, Pierce, Carmen, and Henna in the castle.

On the other hand, the powerful Anglo-Dutch coalition forces.

This army has close to 4,000 members of the Marine Corps alone, occupying a huge camp in Dongyan, and the continuous tents rewrite the color of the mountains.

Roy Hassadi with his Defense Guard.

After the first battle in Milani, there were still more than 1,200 people left in this regiment. It originally occupied the fort, and it is still in the fort now.

The new government Sudanese Guards.

Their navy has 1,000 people, and they used four bargaras to take over the stairway wharf that Lorraine gave up.

Their army has only 800 people, and the soldiers are from refugees. At the moment, they are doing the most basic formation drills with the marine commuters and old land artillery sold to them by Lorraine. The head of the instructors is Barto. Like arms, hiring instructors also requires money, and the premium is high.

Dutch Volunteer Army.

A volunteer army of 400 men and six guns took over the position of Drake's rooftop, and its own scale is not worth mentioning in today's Milani defense zone. However, Lorraine has been frank and honest with the new government. The Dutch Volunteer Army is only the vanguard. Behind them are the Spanish Volunteer Army and the French Volunteer Army. They will eventually form another form of "private coalition" and become the only one that the new government can use as cannon fodder. Alien allies.

There is also a non-combat force with a total population of nearly 3,000 inside and outside the castle. They are the refugees who gave birth to the new Sudanese Guard.

The street fighting in Muscat became more and more chaotic. Muscat people were forced to flee from their homes, fled to Riaman, fled to neighboring provinces, and more fled to the two castles not far from the town, which have always strictly guarded neutrality.

Jalali has the blood of Muscat heroes who have consistently guarded the lives of Muscatians from a long and untraceable past.

Milani had peace, food, shelter and the rarest jobs of the war.

history, and reality.

In contrast, reality seems to be more reliable than history, not to mention that Milani also has a little king named Said and Sudan as his surname.

The little sultan would bring food to the refugee camp to visit his own people every day. Many refugees recognized him as the shy and shy sixth prince. Legend has it that he received revelation from God in Milani and would Save the suffering people from the abyss of this war.

One thing to say, there are some similar legends around several princes, but only the little Sultan of Milani can give people a completely different sense of reality.

He provided food for the refugees and gave up the high walls of the dwellings for the refugees. The beloved Marshal Manzeli swore to him, and the Bargara guards who survived the war swore to him.

Everyone knows that the Hasadi family is the representative of the Imam, and the Imam represents the gods. The choice of Hasadi is like the choice of Allah.

And white people!

No one knows where so many white men armed to the teeth have emerged overnight. They are obviously invaders, armed with artillery, knives and guns, and riding huge warships, preparing to loot the rich Muscat.

But the refugees saw with their own eyes that the little Sultan stood on the tower and reprimanded them, telling them to stay, and then they actually stopped on Mount Harar, where they set up camp, doing nothing, buying and selling, and hiring without deception.

Is this really a white man who came here to invade? The refugees feel that they are as obedient as tamed wild dogs...

Unknowingly, a belief spread quietly in the refugee camp, just like Christ is to God, this belief advocates worshiping the greatness walking in the world like worshiping Allah.

In the name of walking, Sultan Saeed...

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