Since the fiasco of Taoli City, Massoud has been thinking about the reasons for the defeat, and after thinking about it, he believes that there are three reasons for the failure: first, the British army is a mysterious division, and he is not familiar with the British army; second, the British army was equipped with a large number of unknown weapons; The third is that the training level of the British army is far higher than his own, and Massoud believes that the Persian military system is backward and cannot keep up with the times.In response to these three points, Massoud made corresponding adjustments, on the one hand, he sent spies to East Persia to find out the details of the British army, and on the other hand, he tried to know the secrets of the British army's terrible weapons; The last and most important adjustment was that Massoud reformed the army under his control, and based on his own experience, Massoud completely abolished the undead army and the Saintfall cavalry, and used a large number of his own guards as officers, and exercised effective control over the various departments through these pro-soldier officers whom he called "Ghulam".Most of these pro-soldiers were small slaves and small prisoners of war that Massoud had just taken in, he provided them with food and clothing, taught them martial arts, and when they grew up, they became Massoud's personal soldiers, they followed Massoud to fight in the south and the north, and they have accumulated rich battlefield experience, and more importantly, they are loyal to Massoud, even if Massoud was defeated in Taoli City, but with their support, the Northern Persian army gradually recovered.Based on these Qulam soldiers, Massoud formed a new army system, and he divided the army of Northern Persia into three ranks, the central Ghulam Praetorian Guard, the Qulam cavalry stationed in the area, and the Azatan knights.The level also means that the salary and combat effectiveness are also from high to low.The Gullam Janissaries were roughly the same as the local Guram cavalry.Their basic unit was the Thousand Men Corps, and they were responsible for commanding their Thousand Commanders all out of their own Massoud's Ghulam Guard, and they could command a thousand heavy cavalry.These commanders were loyal to Massoud alone, and even Empress Atosha could not command them.In addition, there are a number of other ranks and ranks that lead the hundred-man team.The most basic leader is the commander in charge of the ten-man squad.The higher level commanded a squad of forty men in the field army.Under Massoud's tutelage, the newly-born Ghulam cavalry was all-powerful and fierce.Armed from head to toe, they could serve as escorts for other archers on the march, and they could even dismount and fight on foot.They also did this in pursuit of higher accuracy and longer range in bow shooting.Armed with bows and swords, these Ghulam warriors were fierce even when fighting on foot, combining the long-range shooting ability of a first-class archer with the hand-to-hand combat ability of a first-class heavy infantry.These abilities of the Ghulam cavalry also benefited from their daily training, which was a method summed up by Massoud after he fled from Taoli City, based on the experience of the battlefield, he asked his Ghulam cavalry to deal with the enemy cavalry, to shoot men and horses first, and wait until the enemy cavalry was quite close and close to the critical point before firing arrows to ensure hits.If the enemy cavalry, if the enemy has a cavalry spear or a shooting weapon in his hand, try not to blindly approach the enemy, keep a distance from the enemy and shoot at it or at least pick up an arrow and shield to protect yourself.Usually the heavy pikemen of the enemy army are the most threatening, and these cavalry must be the first to pick them up.Compared with the Ghulam, who trained and served full-time, whether it was the Azatan knights who relied on feudal fiefdoms to support them, or the Eastern Roman legionnaires who were also farmers and soldiers, they were slightly inferior to the Ghulam cavalry in terms of personal skills and military organization.The most formidable of these were the Ghulam Janissaries, who usually numbered between 20,000 and 25,000.They were the only troops to be permanently armed with swords, and they played a greater role in ceremonial and diplomatic matters, with Massoud often selecting senior commanders and government officials from among them.It should be said that Massoud's military reform has achieved a lot of success, he went south to Egypt, South Persia is almost vulnerable, in addition to Rustam's self-destruction of the Great Wall caused the South Persian army to be separated from Germany, no combat power, a very important point is that Massoud's army combat effectiveness has indeed been improved after the military reform, whether it is the South Persian army or the Eastern Roman legion of Constans II has formed a huge advantage, can be called the strongest army in the world, in the battle of Alexandria, It was Massoud's Ghulam warriors who braved the rain of guns and arrows to climb the walls of Alexandria, and finally forced Rustam to flee Constantinople, but Massoud understood that the strength of his army was only relative, because the British army that had pounced, he was at a loss, for the British army with advanced weapons, because so far, the secret of the mysterious weapon was still locked by the British, so Massoud has not come up with any tricks for the time being, in the face of absolute strength, whether it is strategy or strategy, will be crushed to pieces.After careful consideration, Massoud decided to set up a pocket formation in Laina and eat the invading British army with an absolute superiority, but how to lead the enemy to Laina was a problem, and finally he thought that he was reluctant to let the camel trap the lion, so he called his confidant Gao Mada and asked him to lead his own Gulam to attack the British army who was concentrating on dredging the river, and at the same time asked him to find a way to lead the main force of the British army to Laina.Gao Muda is a brave general, he has not participated in the battle of Taoli City, he does not know the strength of the British army, he has not been convinced, and he has not taken Massoud's warning to heart, he thinks that as long as his Ghulam cavalry launches a wave of attacks, even if it is an iron wall, it will not be able to stop such an offensive, when he led his Ghulam cavalry to Tim Shah (that is, Ismailia, the location of the later Suez Canal Authority), he found that the British canal dredging work has basically been completed, And his arrival, people have known about it for a long time.Su Lie immediately formed a phalanx of all three divisions he had deployed here.The phalanx was full of bayonets, and the cold light was pressing.The two wings and rear of the phalanx were each armed with different artillery.In order to be able to keep in touch with the British fleet that had already arrived on the canal, the phalanx of one of the divisions was close to the canal, which had just been dredged.As the figure of the Persian Ghulam regiment appeared on the horizon, the trumpeters of the regiments sounded their bugles, and all the British soldiers clenched their swords and guns, ready for the battle that was about to come.In the face of the thick bayonets of the British army's phalanx, Gomada and his Ghulam cavalry had obviously not seen it, and he just wanted to attack, but was stopped by his deputy Day, "Your Excellency, General, you listen to the words of the general, don't attack easily, the British have some very evil weapons in their hands......
Last time, His Royal Highness suffered a big loss on those weapons, and now we don't know what this weapon is..... so we rush up to it, if we ......"
"Okay, Day, I think you were frightened by their so-called mysterious weapons, right??"
”Gao Moda waved his hand, "If you are afraid, you can stay behind and be a rabbit, hahahaha..."
Seeing that Gao Moda insisted on attacking, Dai Yi, a veteran who escaped from Taoli City, did not say anything, he was not optimistic about Gao Murda's attack, he led his subordinates to stay in place, Gao Moda saw that Dai did not obey his orders, so he said angrily, "Day, you can think about it, if I crush the British in a while, I will not have half of your credit...."
His Ghulam cavalry shouted, drew their swords, and galloped into a brave charge, but was soon met with British bullets and grape cannonballs, and had to be defeated."
Ahura God is above, this, what kind of evil method is this?"
Looking at the defeated and retreating Ghulam cavalry, the arrogant and arrogant Gomera was dumbfounded, "No, this is not true, if you charge me again, I won't believe it, I can't rush through the British army formation......."
Under Gomda's order, the Persian Ghulam cavalry charged again, but without success, the British phalanx was like an iron wall, not moving at all.Under the pressure of the powerful firepower of the British army, Gao Moda finally bowed to the facts, "Your Excellency General's brothers have shed enough blood, let's retreat quickly and lead the British to take the bait...... " Dai quickly said to Gao Moda."
What a great British......
Retreat, retreat......"
Gao Moda was dripping blood in his heart, you must know that this Gulam is his own personal soldier.