When the battle on the deck of the Blade of Allah was taken over by the ironclad warriors, the Shinsengumi fighters who had just taken the lead were not idle, and they began to search for the lower deck of the Blade of Allah under the leadership of Muto Shinichi.

They were there to free the slaves!

Unlike the warships of the coastal cities, which generally used hired oarsmen, the oarsmen used on the Arabs' warships were usually slaves. And theoretically, one Celestial cannot turn another Celestial into a slave. That is, the oarsmen on the oarsmen's deck (usually below the first deck) were all pagan slaves who had been plundered!

So they are not warriors of the Celestial Sect, but enemies of the Celestial Sect, and as soon as they join the Celestial Path, the battle on the Blade of Allah will end immediately.

The structure of the Arabian galleys operating along the coast of the South Seas and China was similar. In "Saeed. Muto and his Shinsengumi samurai, who had spent a lot of time on the Wankasu, knew how to get into the oarsman's deck.

A group of short and evil Japanese samurai fought along the port side guard of the "Blade of Allah" and soon reached the bottom of the high stern deck. There is a closed wooden door locked from the outside, which is the entrance to the lower paddleman's deck!

The wooden door was locked with chains and locks, but no one guarded it. Muto asked his men to find a wooden spear, inserted it through the chain, one end against the threshold, and the other end was used to pull outward, and the lever quickly tore the unstrong chain.

The two samurai pushed the wooden door open, and a foul smell and noise came from the staircase corridor of the black hole!

"Lock the chains! Lock the chains! You damned pagan slaves! Lock yourselves up, this ship is your grave, you despicable infidels......"

Obaha, a dark-skinned white slave from Axum, once again remembered the sound of Arabic shouts, the terrible sound of leather whips whipping against people, and the sound of screams.

This mulatto man from Axum, Africa, and later Ethiopia, was originally a noble warrior - in later generations, all mulatto were considered black, but in the Middle Ages, the black and white Axumites considered themselves white. He belongs to the disintegrating kingdom of Axum. Founded by black-looking white Africans, the nation was once very powerful, controlling the trade routes of the Red Sea and making several incursions into the Arabian Peninsula.

But since the emergence of Muhammad in Arabia, the Coptic Christianity, and the close relationship with the Eastern Roman Empire, the hard times have come. Control of the Red Sea was soon lost, and ties with the Eastern Roman Empire were severed. It became a Christian enclave, and if it weren't for the barren land and the treacherous terrain, it would have been conquered by the Arabs long ago.

However, the Aksumite Empire, which escaped the Arab conquest, was not spared the catastrophe of internal strife, and more than a hundred years ago, the Axum Kingdom ceased to be a unified country. Although everyone was too poor to organize a large-scale civil war, small-scale conflicts were endless. The purpose of these conflicts was usually not to unify Axum, but to plunder slaves and sell them to the Arabs.

True, it was not the evil white Europeans who had been the slave trade for the longest time in history, but the Abynesian (Ethiopian) "whites" who later became the oppressed black uncles. And the biggest buyers of black slaves were not Europeans, but Arabs - there were also large-scale black slave uprisings in the historical Arab Empire!

The minor lord of Axum, 'Obaja, was defeated in an invasion by the "Israelites", lost everything, and was then sold as slaves to Arab slave traders.

Oh, and the so-called "Israelites" are actually the Abinisians who practice Judaism. In the Bible. In the Old Testament, there is a story about the Queen of Sheba seducing King Solomon, and the first king of Abynesia was the son of Queen Sheba and King Solomon, who grew up studying in Israel and stole the "Ark of the Covenant" that Moses had received from God on the two tablets of the Ten Commandments...... I don't know if the "Ark of the Covenant" exerted its magic power, anyway, Abinesia has had "Israelites" since then.

There were frequent clashes between the Jewish "Israelis" and the Coptic Christian tribes, and the Aksumite warrior Obaha who followed the Coptic Christianity went from a fairly wealthy white aristocrat to a hapless black slave.

And because he was not black enough as a black slave, he was not chosen by the various caliphs, sultans, emirs, sayyids, Sharifs and sheikhs of the Celestial Sect system to become a black eunuch with no worries about food and clothing, but could only become a slave oarsman who sold coolies. Spent all day in the sweltering, dark, and stenching of all sorts of breathless cabins, under the supervision of vicious Arabs or Persians, paddling with all the strength of milk until he died of exhaustion and sickness......

Resistance is impossible, and merchant ships sailing on the oceans are generally not equipped with many oarsmen, and the oarsmen are all warships. On board there were fierce soldiers, and there were Ghulam warriors who were ten times more vicious than ordinary soldiers.

Even in wartime, it was impossible for the slave oarsmen to resist. Because before the battle begins, they have chains under their feet, and they must lock themselves up before the battle begins!

If their ship catches fire or is sunk, all the slave oarsmen will die.

If you want to survive, you can only obey the command and work hard to paddle.

As for the capture of the warship by the enemy...... For slave oarsmen of other races, it may be a good thing. But for a black slave oarsman, it was the same everywhere, it was nothing more than a change of master to continue paddling.

After all, slave oarsmen are consumables!

Obaha, who had long accepted his fate, didn't think about resisting at all at this time, but obediently chained the shackles to his increasingly thin feet and neck.

As soon as the lock was finished, I heard someone shouting: "Save the heavens! Slay the demons! Kill to ......"

The enemy has already attacked? Too fast, right?

Obaha couldn't understand the stilted Chinese mixed with Japanese, all he knew was that someone had made it to the oarsman's deck!

"It's a Song person!"

"It's your own people!"

"Saved!"

"Kill! Kill the white ......"

Unlike Obaha's obedience, there were also a number of Han oarsmen in the cabin, all of whom had been swept by the Pu family's warfleet from the Han merchant ships they had captured.

They heard the shouts of the Shinsengumi, and vaguely knew that they were Chinese, so they thought they were Song people—whether they were pirates or maritime merchants, they were all their own people! Of course, the treatment of one's own people is different, and those who catch foreign enemies are generally slaves, while those of the same race can act as thugs, and thugs can eat well, dress well, and make money......

There was chaos in the cabin, and some of the Han sailors who had not yet locked themselves up began to resist, scuffling with the Arabs and Persians who tried to suppress them.

And the Shinsengumi thugs led by Muto were like bantams descending from the mountain, wielding long, sharp swords, killing and wounding several Arab and Persian samurai one after another - these people were all old warriors who could no longer serve as hand-to-hand combat, so they were naturally no match for the Shinsengumi samurai, and they were slaughtered in a short time.

"Reason! Slay the demons! Muto Shindaichi shouted, "Whoever wants to live, come with us to kill the demons!" ”

"Kill the demons!"

"Kill!"

The Han oarsmen were quickly stirred up - they are not good people, there are no good people to go to sea, and good people do not go to sea! If you want to make a fortune on the sea without a king's law these days, you have to be a ruthless existence.

A Han Chinese oarsman who had a good relationship with Obaha (albeit without a language barrier) somehow found the key, opened Obaha's shackles, and pulled him up from his seat.

"Big black man, let's do it with us!" As he spoke, the man shoved him with a thick, heavy stick—presumably a severed oar. Then he dragged him out of the oarsman's deck and onto the top deck.

As soon as he stepped onto deck, Obaha was stunned by what he saw. The upper deck was littered with the corpses of people who had been chopped into pieces - almost no intact dead people! They all lack arms and legs, or have no heads, or have been cut in two! Look at how they dressed, they were all Arabs and Persians!

A dozen "iron men" dressed in shiny iron armor stood in a row facing the raised aft deck, all holding terrifying weapons that I don't know whether they were short guns or long knives. Behind them were some archers, firing their arrows at the stern deck.

It is clear that the Arab and Persian warriors of the Pu family have lost most of the Allah's Blade and can now retreat to the stern deck, holding the stairs on both sides and waiting for rescue.

The stairs were covered in slippery blood, too easy for the heavily armored "Iron Man" to slip. Therefore, they did not launch a strong attack for the time being, but acted as an "iron wall" to cover the archers in archery.

Obaha, who was tall and had prominent muscles in his arms (without which muscles he was already exhausted), suddenly noticed that someone was tugging at his trouser belt, and when he looked down, it turned out to be a "Han child warrior" who was only taller than his chest.

This kid samurai is Muto Kinichi! What a stupid big black one, of course, you have to use it well. Muto shoved his shield into Obaha, gave him a broken spear, and said to Obaha, "Big black man! You take the lead! As long as you rush to the back deck, there are big copper coins! There is a big flower girl! If you can't rush up, you'll die! It's dead! Yours, understand? ”