The so-called "know the victory and defeat when you hear the wind, and smell the soil to determine the military situation", Farhad Pasha fought a lot of battles and had rich experience, and others were happy to see that the moat was filled, and thought that a difficult problem in the march had been solved, but Farhad Pasha saw a lot of things from it and felt that it was not good!

The dense gunfire of the Chinese, coupled with the explosion of bombs, indicates that they have a large number of firearms, and that they did not hesitate to fire, and it seems that there is plenty of ammunition.

A bullet hit the city, causing the city rusher to fall to the ground in a large area, obviously the Chinese soldiers are well-trained and accurate marksmanship.

Even from the cries of the Chinese soldiers, Farhad Pasha could know that the other party had enough energy, and he was sure that the food in the city was good and the morale was strong.

This battle is not easy to fight!

What frightened Farhad Pasha even more was that the soldiers at the head of the city were densely populated, so many of them were far more than the red-haired fans!

He has been soaked in Europe for a long time, and he has a lot of liver with red hair, in his opinion, the firearms of red hair are sharp, but there are not many soldiers, so it is not a problem!

Due to the underdeveloped economy, backward agricultural technology and low medical level, the population of Europe is not large, such as the United Kingdom, a maritime power, had a population of 10 million until the beginning of the 18th century, which is already considered a large country.

Other countries are not much better, with France having a population of 22 million.

The Ottoman Empire had less than 10 million people on the population roll, and slow! They did not count the conquered tribes in the population count, but they were recruited in battle, so that the total population may have been as high as 30 million, a figure that has never been counted, because the arrogant Turks did not consider the conquered peoples to be people!

It is not a problem to deal with the red-haired fan, it is often the red-haired fan who defends and the Turks attack, occupying the strategic initiative.

Now that the Chinese are defending, there are tens of thousands of professional soldiers in one city.

There were 30,000 professional soldiers under the command of Farhad Pasha, who ate the imperial grain, and the rest of the army consisted of about 20,000 noble cavalry and 20,000 nomadic light cavalry, plus a large number of cannon fodder militia and a certain number of artillery and engineers.

Even so, he continued to recruit troops from the rear, and wrote to the Sultan to show the strength of the Chinese, and he received a large number of troops, an army of 220,000 men, to surround the new city of Cairo, and another 100,000 troops as reserves, under the command of another general, Camille Pasha, to block the front of Suez City to prevent aid to the new city of Cairo.

Farhad Pasha had no interest in attacking Suez City, because the Chinese occupied the control of the sea, even if Suez City was captured today, the day after tomorrow the Chinese would land somewhere on the seashore, and if they went to fight again, it would be better to let the Chinese stay in Suez City, and the two sides would be safe.

As a veteran, Farhad Pasha was very calm, and did not launch a large-scale attack before the troops and supplies arrived, but launched an artillery bombardment first!

On the day of the attack, the wind and the sun were beautiful, and the city was shining in the sun, and Farhad Pasha sighed slightly in his heart, but on the surface he looked calm and calm.

In private, he and Chief of Staff Ghazi don't know how much to sigh again, after all, he has studied military history and knows how the Ottoman Empire was able to take Constantinople in the first place.

The mighty cannons were concentrated in the east of the city, lined up, and the black hole muzzles made the soldiers excited, these were heavy cannons of more than 24 pounds!

Farhad Pasha brought one hundred and twenty-five 24-pounder guns and seventy-five 32-pounder guns, which was almost the largest artillery build-up of the Turks.

The artillery was busy, and the officers were directing the adjustment of the posture of the artillery body by estimating the direction of the landing point, which looked very professional.

The Ottoman Empire attached great importance to artillery, and they established arsenals to manufacture artillery, which was not inferior to the Hongmaofan in the technology of casting cannons.

Spending a lot of money and putting a lot of effort into training artillery, this unit carried out sufficient live fire every year, had enough experience, and became the elite unit of the Imperial Army.

There are still some white-skinned people busy in the artillery unit, most of them are officers and gunners, and they are ashamed to invest in the Ottoman Empire for money, and they don't talk about any country or nation for money.

It seems that there are such white skins in the southeast, and they are even sold more thoroughly, they abandon their original religion and simply naturalize in the southeast, how can this be said?!

"Put!"

"Put!"

……

The officers on the side of each gun roared, and with the command flag waved down vigorously, a flash of light like a storm suddenly flashed on the gunners' position, and two hundred guns opened fire together, the earth trembled violently, and there was a thunderous roar!

With such a fierce shelling, the soldiers who approached covered their ears hard, but the roar of the cannon made their hearts beat with it!

The roar of the artillery clusters!

The fire from the 200 cannons was like a small sun, which made the defenders of the city shrink their eyes and busily lay down their bodies, not wanting to let themselves carry other people's shells.

The cannonballs fell with a whistling and slammed into the walls, which trembled.

The Ottomans cheered with excitement and retreated, as they saw that the walls seemed to be unmoving, and in many places only left one imprint.

Xiongcheng withstood the power of the shelling!

"Keep calling me!" Farhad Pasha snapped.

Chief of Staff Ghazi explained to the crowd: "If the shelling continues, their walls can be smashed, sooner or later!" ”

So everyone was methodical and kept firing guns towards Cairo New Town!

"Their city defenses are so strong!" Back in the tent of the Chinese army, Farhad Pasha said stupidly.

He had wanted to build the wall while it was ready, and it would be easy to smash it if it didn't dry out, but now it seemed that the sun over Cairo had dried the wall.

"We need to increase the ammunition delivery force in the rear!" Gazi said in a deep voice.

"Not bad!" Farhad Pasha understood what he meant and agreed.

The ammunition used by the Ottomans was brought in by camels, and at present there was a lot of accumulation, and by the time the big fighting began, there would not be enough shells.

Ghazi sighed: "The speed of the camel is still too slow! ”

The two of them looked at each other, both thinking of the trouble in case there were not enough shells.

"I heard that the Chinese have a kind of railroad track, which can be used by horse-drawn vehicles to walk on the rails, and the speed is very fast!" Farhad Pasha said slowly.

Ghazi said with a smile on his face: "We haven't mastered such a technology yet, and even if we master such a technology, when will they be able to repair the railroad tracks from Cairo to Damascus?" ”

Thinking of the efficiency of those people, the two were speechless together!

It takes 10 days to dig a trench alone, and the distance between the two cities is about 600 kilometers, so will it take 600 days or two years?

This plan was not sold, and Farhad Pasha thought again: "Let the navy bring the shells along the Nile?" ”

It was a good idea, but the thought of the relationship between the army and the navy made Farhad Pasha shudder and dismissed the tempting idea!