Chapter 1040 Soldiers approaching Jerusalem
Although it is February, the Damascus province on the right bank of the Mediterranean has a taste of summer.
A hint of heat was already faintly heard in the breeze, and under the city of Jerusalem, stretching trenches surrounded this city with thousands of years of history.
Whether this city was built by the Ganans or by the Jews is no longer verified.
However, in the long river of history, after the Hebrew Kingdom, foreign tribes such as Assyrian, Babylonian, and Persia have conquered this city and this area. In the 1st century BC, Rome became the conquerors here, and hundreds of years later, in the 7th century AD, it became part of the Tianfang Empire.
By 1099, the Crusaders captured Jerusalem, and several decades later. On September 2, 1187, under the attack of Saladin, the Jerusalem defenders surrendered. Saladin chose to enter Jerusalem on the day of the Feast of the Sky to commemorate the prophet ascending to the sky in Jerusalem.
Then, Jerusalem became a heart-wrenching disease in the world of Christ.
Here is the holy land of the world of Christ!
More than a hundred years ago, the Turks occupied the city from Mamuliuk.
Unfortunately, this has nothing to do with the world of Christ.
But this time, it is related to Christians.
Although it was early in the morning, a sound of prayer came from the wilderness. Under the leadership of the priest, thousands of Spanish people were praying there. Their prayer was very loud and uploaded far in the wilderness.
"Damn it."
Just as she was enjoying the Turkish dancer shaking her slender waist in her dream, she was about to press her under her body, but Mou Guoxi was suddenly pulled back to the real world by waves of prayers.
He was so angry that he touched an empty wine bottle beside the bed and threw it out. The wine bottle that fell on the ground was broken, causing the brothers nearby to look at him one after another.
"He, can these Spanish guys calm down for a day, and make themselves like Tianfang people chant scriptures and worship Buddha every day? If the Buddha blesses him, can he still use us to help us fight this place?"
The Turkish dancer couldn't see him, and his sleep lost his meaning. Mou Guoxi mumbled and climbed down from the marching bed. The empty wine bottles in his tent were left by several drunkards in his army last night. They must drink a few bottles of strong wine every battle. After the fight, the same was true.
This is like his godfather, Kaiyuan Hou Huang Degong. The two of them have very similar personalities in this regard. Kaiyuan Hou must drink a bucket of wine whenever he fights.
However, he is the Marquis, what about him? He is just a small lieutenant, and even he, the lieutenant, has just been promoted.
After walking out of the tent, he looked up at the city of Jerusalem in the distance. Perhaps its walls were not very tall, but because the entire city was built on the mountain, the mountain city that was high and high looked quite spectacular, standing majestic on the top of the mountain.
For the offensive troops, the biggest obstacle is not the stone city wall that is more than ten meters high, but the hillsides below the city wall. Those hillsides range from ten degrees to forty or fifty degrees. It is certain that it is not easy to attack such a mountain city, not to mention that there are nearly 20,000 defenders in the city.
Sitting on the stool, although he was having a meal, Mou Guoxi's eyes were still staring at the city of Jerusalem on the mountain, the hillside under the city, and the slopes of hundreds of meters, seriously restricting the troops' attack.
"Captain, I heard that the defenders mobilized all the men in the city, from the old men in their 80s to the children in their teens, all of them were going to fight to the death with us, saying that we would not let us Kafir dirty the holy land."
"Hmph, that's right, clean it up all at once!"
Sneering, Mou Guoxi asked, looking at the meat in the bowl.
"The meat is quite fragrant today, what kind of meat?"
"Pork, captain, all the pork sent to China are canned. The prince said it is not easy to eat pork here, so he asked China to try to deliver canned pork."
"No, those cows and sheep, I almost faded out of my food, but the canned pork is not satisfying. If I ask me, I still have to be the same as in China. If you eat two big pieces of meat with big boxers, it will be satisfying!"
"Yes, there is also the large intestine!"
"And my stomach..."
Listening to the brothers talking about the food, Mou Guo smiled happily. There were no taboos for Ming people at all, but the people here were different.
But then again, the pork is really fragrant! If you don’t talk about others, even he will be greedy!
"Don't worry, as long as we are willing to pay money, the people here will definitely raise pigs for us. After we build this place, the Spaniards will definitely raise pigs here. I said that when they drove the Moors away, they were really amazing. Every household had to raise pigs, and they had to eat them, and they could even eat pork..."
Perhaps, the Spanish people now don’t know that their unintentional willow planting has made Spain’s Iberian pork a delicacy known as truffle, caviar, and foie gras. The whole raw ham with hoof and bones is the most delicious food specialty in Spain.
"Then the relationship is good. Let the Spaniards raise pigs as soon as possible. They can't fight, so they probably just raise pigs."
"They didn't raise them themselves, probably they would have to raise them by the locals."
"Who cares about him? Just let me eat pork, my mouth fades out of my way..."
While they were having breakfast and chatting, the commander of the whistleman came over - the whole whistleman entered the frontier without hesitation. The people who were still chatting finished the meal in the lunch box for a few bites, and then hurriedly walked towards the frontier trenches with rifles.
Although Jerusalem is located at the top of the mountainous areas of Judea, there are some relatively flat areas outside the city, which are the Ming army's attack positions. In the past few days, the Ming army dug trenches there, which stretched to less than a hundred meters in front of the walls of Jerusalem before being blocked by a hillside.
After they entered the forefront, Mou Guoxi deliberately used a telescope to observe the defenders on the city wall. Just like the information they had obtained before, the city should have mobilized every force that could be mobilized.
"Don't say it, but you're really going to be the males in the city!"
Looking at the dolls and the old man on the top of the city, Mou Guoxi murmured to himself, then turned his head and asked.
"War Chief, when will we attack the city?"
"I heard that the Spaniards were still struggling with churches in the city, saying that this place was a holy land. We had to use artillery to bombard it with a burst of artillery. They were worried that it would destroy the broken place!"
The Chief of the Wing said, making Mou Guoxi grin.
Chapter completed!