The Rise of the European Emperor

Gold is the standard hard currency in this era, because it can be circulated in the world when it is cast into gold coins. Just like the 70 pounds of gold sand returned by Mosingen, 8918 gold coins can be minted. A little more, and 10,000 gold coins can be minted.

And according to Mosingen, in the Timbuktu market, as long as there is enough salt, you can easily exchange thousands of pounds of sand...

Thousands of pounds of sand! That's tons of gold! Marin was very excited, this is something that is within easy reach. After all, his Cape Breton island cooking salt base, making salt is too simple. As long as there is coal, you can cook whatever you want. Moreover, Marin can also expand the scale of boiling salt at any time in Newcastle. Marin has the most salt and so on.

Not only that, Laayoune can cook salt locally!

Although there is no coal in Laayoune to cook salt, you can use solar cookers! In Laayoune, there is basically no rain, the sun is extremely abundant, and the temperature is high. As long as you set up a solar cooker by the sea, you can boil salt casually. Moreover, with the addition of a condenser system, it is also possible to produce distilled water while boiling salt. At that time, salt and fresh water kill two birds with one stone.

The only problem is that if the shipment is too large, it will offend the Arab businessmen in North Africa. If those bearded Arabs got angry, they would definitely bring a machete to kill Laayoune's camel caravan. After all, exchanging salt for gold has always been the taboo of bearded people in North Africa. The last time Mosingen went there, only 100 pounds of sand were traded, which was not impressive. If you bring thousands of pounds of salt in exchange for thousands of pounds of sand, it will definitely anger those bearded North Africans.

At that time, for the sake of gold, both sides will definitely die...

If they fought face to face, Beihai could abuse those bearded North Africans 10,000 times. But the problem is, if the opponent kills someone, he must be in the desert. As for the soldiers of the North Sea State, most of them must not be able to bear the harsh climate in the Sahara Desert.

After thinking about it, Marin decided to spend money to buy Mamluk combat slaves from Egypt!

Of course, what Marin wanted to buy was not the authentic Circassian Mamluk slave cavalry, which was the cornerstone of the Mamluk dynasty and could not be sold.

What Marin wanted to buy was only native Egyptian slaves trained by the nobles of the Mamluk dynasty in Egypt using the training method of Mamluk cavalry.

Right now, because the supply of Circassian slaves has been cut off for more than 40 years, there are very few authentic Mamluks in Egypt. There are only descendants of Mamluk slaves, or pseudo-Mamluk slaves selected from local slaves.

However, the descendants of Mamluk cavalry may not be as brave as their fathers and grandfathers. The main reason is that the real Mamluk cavalry has extremely cruel training and a high elimination rate. Just like the killer training camp of later generations, being eliminated means death. And the Mamluk cavalry who persisted from the dead are all top masters in cavalry.

But the training of their own children by the Mamluk nobles must not be so cruel. At least, he will not put his children's lives in danger. But this kind of training without death threat is actually not up to standard, and the real combat effectiveness is not as good as the genuine Mamluk. Especially, in the face of death, may collapse. The real Mamluks have long been used to life and death, and have long been indifferent to it.

But even so, when the "Battle of Dabik Prairie" broke out in 1517 in history, the cavalry of the two sides faced off, and the pseudo-Mamluk cavalry in Egypt beat the Turkish cavalry to the point where they couldn't take care of themselves. Had it not been for the firing of the Turks' guns and the collapse of the local forces in Egypt and Syria, the outcome of that war might have been Egypt's victory.

Therefore, among the cavalry in the Middle East, the combat effectiveness of the Mamluk cavalry is definitely at the forefront, even if it is a pseudo-Mamluk that has not experienced life and death elimination.

Marin intends to buy thousands of pseudo-Mamluk slaves trained by local Egyptian slaves from Egypt, and then let them become the guards of the camel team. If there are North African beards who dare to attack people, let these pseudo Mamluk cavalry take action, and let the North African merchant guards have a taste of what is called the strongest scimitar cavalry...

In fact, these brutally trained Mamluk cavalry are estimated to be world-leading in their horse combat capabilities. Even Napoleon said, "2 Mamluk cavalry will definitely defeat 3 French cavalry, 100 French cavalry and 100 Mamluk cavalry are evenly matched, 300 French cavalry will most likely defeat 300 Mamluk cavalry, 1,000 French cavalry will always defeat 1500 Mamluk cavalry"...

This shows that the personal combat effectiveness of the Mamluk cavalry is super strong, and even the top cavalry in Europe cannot be singled out. However, the discipline of the Mamluk cavalry is not as good as that of the modern French cavalry. When there are more numbers, the disadvantages will become apparent. Moreover, at that time Europe already had a wall charge designed to restrain scimitar cavalry. Therefore, if you take the emperor's talent to scale, you will definitely be able to defeat the Mamluk cavalry.

However, if there is no modern cavalry and no wall charge, the Egyptian Mamluk cavalry is probably the best among the classical cavalry.

Marin intends to introduce some fake Mamluk cavalry trained by fake Egyptian slaves this time. In addition to protecting the gold trade camel team, he also intends to steal the Mamluk training method.

If the German Cossacks also use the Mamluk cavalry training method in the future, even if it is a shoddy version of the undead training method, it will also improve the combat effectiveness of the German Cossacks.

Moreover, the discipline of the German Cossacks is good. Once they have been trained, their strong personal fighting ability, coupled with the modernized training and tactics of the Beihai Kingdom, will definitely be able to rule the world.

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Marin suddenly remembered something. He took out a map of Africa and began to recall carefully. Then, he finally remembered that it seemed that this commercial route in the desert that Mosingen took was the route that the Saad Dynasty of Morocco destroyed the Songhai Empire 76 years later!

It seems that the Saad Dynasty in Morocco only dispatched 4,000 mercenaries and went south to Timbuktu along the desert trade route, defeating the 30,000 troops of the Songhai Empire.

Moreover, of the 4,000 expeditionary force, 2,500 of them were European musketeers from Spain. They are all mercenaries, especially, the commander of these 4,000 people turned out to be a Spanish eunuch named Judal. The tactics they used were also the Spanish phalanx...

It is said that at that time, Sultan Ishak II of Songhai was in a daze during the "Battle of Tondeebi", and actually drove 1,000 cows to the front of the two sides, intending to block the enemy's guns.

However, Ishak II probably never heard of the "Fire Bull Formation". As a result, under the attack of 1,000 cowboys and 2,500 musketeers from Spain, not only failed to block the firepower, but turned around and attacked the army formation of the Songhai Empire in fright, disrupting the formation of the Songhai Empire army. It's like shooting yourself in the foot with a rock...

Marin calculated that his army also used the Spanish phalanx. Therefore, the Songhai Empire can also be destroyed with four or five thousand people.

However, the harsh climate of the tropical desert in West Africa may become the biggest obstacle. After all, native Europeans may have difficulty adapting to the tropical desert climate of West Africa.

But if you buy pseudo-Mamluk slaves from Egypt, those pseudo-Mamluk slaves born as Egyptian slaves will definitely be able to adapt to the tropical desert climate. Because Egypt is also a tropical desert climate, they are used to it.

In addition, Marin will also buy a group of ordinary Egyptian slaves. For this group of people, Marin will send officers to train them into musketeers and spearmen. At that time, they may be used to attack Timbuktu...

The price of those native Egyptian Mamluk slaves is also very high, with each slave costing more than 100 gold coins. After all, this is a combat cavalry that has been trained since childhood. If you buy 1,000 of them, you will need 100,000 gold coins. Marin thought again and again, planning to buy 500 Egyptian Mamluk combat slaves first, forming a Mamluk cavalry regiment is enough.

As for ordinary Egyptian slaves, they are relatively cheap, and some can be bought for 10 gold coins. It doesn't cost much to buy a few thousand...

In this way, in Marin's thought, the "Egyptian Legion" across Africa was born...