Because of the last defeat, Mosingen was indeed a lot of careful attention this time. Moreover, after being taught by the enemy cavalry last time, Mosingen also brought many wheeled chariots this time to array to block the impact of the enemy cavalry.
However, in the desert, wheelbarrows are very difficult to walk on. Because the sand is too soft, the wheels are prone to sink. Fortunately, the capable carpenters under Governor Cotton of Ayuen transformed the wheels and created very wide wheels. In this way, the wheelbarrows will not easily sink into the sand in the desert.
In addition, in order to reduce the physical strength required for pushing the cart, the wheelbarrows Mosingen brought this time did not carry too heavy things. In addition to the four spears on the car that resisted the impact of war horses, each car would not hold more than 200 pounds of cargo. Moreover, most of these cargoes were water...
These are fresh water disinfected at high temperature and are not easy to deteriorate. The method of high temperature disinfection is very simple - after putting the fresh water into the skin bag, throw it into a large pot and boil it. Of course, the plug of the water bag cannot be tightened. Because the heat expands and contracts, the water bag after boiling is easy to break. Therefore, the mouth of the water bag will generally be clamped by a clip and lifted onto the water surface of the steamer. When the steamer is boiled, the water in the water bag will be almost sterilized at high temperature. Then, the worker wearing leather gloves will take the water bag with a clip and quickly plug the pocket with a cork, and then tighten it. Then, add some mud and dry it. In this way, a bag of water that can be kept for several months will be processed like this...
In this team, Mosingen brought a total of 400 Yu Dayou's unicycle with spears and wide-wheeled ones. When marching, Mosingen would bring another 400 slaves, and pushed this wide-wheeled ones to follow the 800 cavalry and 100 musketeers in the desert. The wheelbarrows were not loaded with many things, but they were all very important food and water. Moreover, food could be replenished when passing through oasis that could replenish fresh water.
According to the principle of desert marching, Mosingen requires that those specially treated fresh water should not be used if they can be used. When passing through areas where fresh water can be replenished, try to drink the fresh water obtained locally. Of course, it is cooled down by boiling water in a large pot. Only when you walk deep in the desert and cannot replenish fresh water can you use the water storage bag on the wheelbarrow.
In fact, this wide-wheeled Chinese wheelbarrow is not only a tool used by Mosingen to transport fresh water and to resist enemy cavalry, but also a tool intended to transport black slaves in the future.
Of course, it is inappropriate to say that it is "transporting" the black slaves. Because Mosingen's plan is to let the black slaves push their carts with freshwater wheelbarrows. In this way, there is no need to work hard to help the black slaves carry the freshwater they need.
The black slaves in the Sanghai Empire were very cheap. A small bag of salt could be exchanged for a strong and honest black slave, which was much cheaper than the Portuguese black slaves. But the problem is that it is very difficult to take the black slaves across the Sahara Desert. The difficulty lies in how to transport the fresh water needed by the black slaves.
If we use the traditional method to help carry the water-filled bag, the camel will be very burdened. Moreover, we will not be able to bring many black slaves at once. After all, the camel's ability to withstand limited, and it will carry up to 300 pounds of things.
It would be easier to let the black slaves push the cart themselves. They would push the wheelbarrows they need to eat and drink without having to work hard. As many wheelbarrows as they have, they could bring back as many black slaves as they have.
Before, it was naturally difficult to cross the desert because of a wheelbarrow without wide wheels. However, since Collier, a great carpenter under Cotton, invented this kind of wide wheel that can travel freely in the desert, it is no longer difficult to carry things on the desert. As long as you don’t have too many things, it is difficult to fall into the sand. For example, a Chinese wheelbarrow that can hold five or six hundred kilograms can only hold more than two hundred pounds of things, so it will be easy for people to push and it will not easily fall into the sand.
In addition, Mosingen also came up with a trick - to tie the black slaves to a wheelbarrow with a chain. In this way, he would not worry about the black slaves running away in the middle of the night. Mainly, in the territory of the Sanghai Empire, those black slaves were prone to run away quietly in the middle of the night. After all, they were mostly unlucky people nearby, prisoners of war or forced to be slaves by the nobles of the Sanghai Empire. As long as they left the Sanghai Empire, the black slaves became honest. After all, they were not locals and dared not be arrogant...
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However, when Mosingen went on the expedition, he didn't want to bring many black slaves, but instead brought a group of slaves to help push strategic materials in the desert like Tamsui to deal with the possible outbreak of battles in the desert. Moreover, these slaves have received simple combat training. If necessary, they can also pull out one of the four spears on the car, hide behind the car, and poke the enemy's scimitar cavalry with their spears.
But that usually occurs in emergencies, and Mosingen did not think that the 800 Mamluk slave cavalry in his hand could not defeat the cavalry of the North African bearded merchants. Because those machetes were mostly irregular tribal cavalry, which seemed brave, but in fact their quality was far inferior to those Egyptian slaves who had received regular Mamluk cavalry training.
What's more, in the past few months, Mosingen has also trained these Egyptian slaves who have received Mamluk cavalry training in discipline and tactical training, making the discipline of these slave cavalry stronger than that of the authentic Mamluk cavalry. In the words of the emperor, the team battle level of these Egyptian slave Mamluk cavalry is no worse than that of the authentic Cherks Mamluk cavalry. They may not be the opponents of the authentic Mamluk cavalry in single confrontation and small-scale confrontation, but with more people, they rely on the discipline and formation they have repeatedly trained over the past few months, and they are no worse than that of the authentic Mamluk cavalry.
As for the Arab tribal cavalry led by the bearded men in North Africa... I would like to ask if you are afraid of the Egyptian Mamluk cavalry who can charge in a wall...
In order to facilitate the straight stab during wall charge, all the Mamluk cavalry from Egyptian slaves changed to the relatively straight type 65 cavalry sword, which can stab and chop. Although they were a little unfamiliar at the beginning, these people have been trained for many years, proficient in a variety of weapons, and even learned how to use the straight sword of the European knight, so it is not difficult to get started. After a few months, these 800 Egyptian Mamluk slave cavalry have adapted to the use of the Type 65 cavalry sword.
With the overall crushing of personal force and tactics, Mosingen did not think that these 800 people would lose to the North African tribal cavalry with one or two thousand beards...
You should know that in history, since Austria learned to launch a wall-type charge with a straight knight sword, he never lost to Turkey in a cavalry duel. The Austrian cavalry in the 18th and 19th centuries could only be considered second-rate in Europe, not as good as the French cavalry and the Prussian cavalry. They may not even be able to beat the Tsarist Russian cavalry...
However, they are traditional scimitar cavalry who can abuse Turkey, and since then they have turned Türkiye, which is the "European bulldozer", into a native chicken...
Of course, it was not the Austrians who really made Turkey decline, but the ferocious Tsarist Russia. Tsarist Russia launched several Russian-Turkey wars in succession since Emperor Peter the Great, and crippled Turkey, the "European bulldozer".
But it is undeniable that Austria, which was once besieged by Turkey many times, has no longer taken advantage of the conflict between the Balkans and Turkey since mastered the wall-type charge, but has begun to take advantage...
Chapter completed!