Who would have expected that Portugal had a serious lack of experience in the expedition of the large corps, and the organizational work was a mess.

But this cannot be entirely blamed on the lack of experience of the king and his commander, because the composition of this crusading army is also very mad. There are tens of thousands of military personnel, bishops, servants, women, children and slaves outside the army. These unorganized and undisciplined guys naturally dragged the army down seriously.

In addition, the baggage is also extremely amazing. In addition to loading the military supplies needed for 25,000 troops, and thirty-six semi-cannon heavy artillery, there are also movable royal and noble tents, chapels, as well as palace bands, royal choirs, and huge chefs who cook delicious food to follow the army... These are necessities for the daily entertainment of princes and nobles.

Without music and food, their souls would be exhausted. Without churches to eliminate sin at any time, they would be quickly swallowed by guilt...

Macaron and his friends were stunned. They thought they had seen the world in the Moroccan palace, but compared with these Portuguese princes, Abu and his princes were simply beggars.

But in this way, the transportation capacity of the baggage team was completely exceeded. He had to collect hundreds of carriages locally and gather a whole thousand baggage cars before he could barely load all these damn things into the car.

After a while, the Portuguese army completed the preparations for the start of the journey for nearly two months. The macarons were almost growing...

However, waiting is not all bad. In mid-July, the tribes loyal to King Abu finally gathered 6,000 camel soldiers to help the battle under his call.

This boosted the morale of a very sluggish wait for a long time, and His Majesty the King was also very happy and became more confident in victory.

On July 29, 1578, Sebastian finally led the coalition forces and left Aishi and headed south along the coastal plain!

Shortly after the army set out, three Ming warships also quietly left Aishila Port.

In the past two months, Macaron and the others have become Sebastian's guests through the recommendation of King Abu.

At this time, the legendary story of the "Flying Henan People" had spread throughout Europe. Sebastian heard that they were the subordinates of the legendary red-haired female pirate, and had saved King Abu on the battlefield, and immediately favored them. Regardless of their dissuasion, they would also incorporate these brave and warlike Ming people into their own guards.

Therefore, the three Ming warships left Aishi very smoothly and then took action separately. The Yixing and Dianshan Lake sailed to Ceuta for ocean supply, while the Ningbo followed the Portuguese army south and remained in a state of receiving contingents at any time.

On the other hand, King Abu's uncle, Malik, who had been the sultan of Morocco for almost two years, has also led his army to set out from Marrakech.

In mid-June, he had already received news that the crusaders organized by Portugal were unprecedentedly powerful in Tangier and Aisi.

Sultan Malik is forty years old, the age of being strong. Twenty-two years ago, he and his eight-year-old brother Mansour wandered in a foreign land for twenty years.

For twenty years, the two brothers have never forgotten their homeland and vowed to regain Morocco. Their firm belief has made them selflessly temper themselves and finally grown into outstanding civil and military versatile talents.

In order to attract the attention of the Ottoman senior officials, Malik and his younger brother participated in the world-renowned Battle of Lebanto. Although the Ottoman lost the war, the two brothers performed very well. Then they volunteered to participate in the battle to regain Tunisia, which was finally favored by Ottoman Sultan Murad III.

Murad III summoned the brothers in the palace in Istanbul. After Malik promised to pay 15 tons of gold and rented the Atlantic harbor to the Ottoman fleet as a base. The Turks provided them with troops and military supplies and helped them fight back to Morocco.

The two brothers led the way and fought bravely, and finally won three battles and drove their nephew Abu out of Morocco. Malik finally regained the throne twenty years later.

In order to gather people's hearts, he vowed in public to keep Morocco's territory and sovereignty intact and regain all occupied cities. No one, including the Ottomans, could bully the Moroccans anymore!

This tough declaration immediately received strong support from Morocco, which was ravaged by the great powers. Moreover, Malik not only spoke bold words, but also had super strong abilities. He defeated the former king Abu, who was exiled to Portugal, as colluding with pagans, in an attempt to dedicate Morocco to Portugal's traitor.

This move was effective immediately, and he transformed himself from a usurper to a defender who led the Moroccan people to resist invasion. Now, the loyal supporters of the former king became traitors who everyone called for and immediately pulled people's hearts over.

Then he quickly cleaned up the situation, brought the country back on track, and implemented many popular policies to bring most of Morocco around him.

In order to resist this invasion, Malik did his best in the past eighteen months. He used his relationship with the Ottoman Empire to secure a large amount of advanced firearms with gold mines that were not yet in his hands... In addition to the mesh gun, there are also cyclone cannons that can be installed on the camel's back.

Malik also reconciled with the Berbers, who had always been hostile to the Saads, promising that they would give them equal treatment to the Saads as long as they followed them to defeat the invaders. Out of their enthusiasm for defending their country, the Berbers, the former ruler of Morocco, finally agreed to send troops to fight.

In addition, Malik accommodated a large number of apostates who escaped from Europe. He used these nobles and officers who were tired of endless killing on the European battlefield to simulate the Portuguese army and trained his subordinates to learn how to deal with the Spanish formation.

So when the Portuguese landed in Morocco, Malik had completed all the war preparations, regained his strength, and waited for a battle!

He immediately convened all ministries across the country and asked them to fight to the end to defend the country, their families and faith! They fought to the last one and also won this battle of independence that would transform Morocco!

The king's declaration successfully aroused the patriotic enthusiasm of the Moroccans. The tribes put aside their grudges and actively responded to the call of the Sultan. All the soldiers brought their own dry food, weapons and horses, assembled from all directions of Marrakech.

Thanks to the slow action of the Portuguese, Malik was able to gather warriors from all over the country and provide them with necessary training, mainly to unify the order, so that they can understand their respective positions in the formation and not rush forward as they did when they encountered enemies like before.

That is outdated. In this era of rapid development of military technology, formations must be used to leverage the advantages of military strength and defeat the strong European enemies!

When he learned that the Portuguese had set out from Aisila, Malik also led him to accumulate strength and the army that had completed training set out.

At the same time, his third brother Mansour, who served as governor of Fes, the dragon-restoring land of the Assad Dynasty, also led the powerful Assad cavalry to come and meet with his second brother in the northwest of Fort Kebir.

Now, Malik's army exceeded 50,000, with a force of nearly twice that of the Portuguese. In addition to the Assad Cavalry, there are also the elite Turkish Jenicheri Guards and the Berber Light Cavalry who are good at fighting. This unit not only has the advantage in number, but also has excellent equipment and strong combat power. Its equipment and training level are not inferior to that of the Portuguese!

Malik's subordinates finally have confidence that they can win this battle of founding the country!

This is really commendable, because Morocco has been in the shadow of Portugal and Spain for more than a hundred years. For more than a hundred years, Europeans have repeatedly defeated the Moroccan army with fewer and occupied all their coastal ports with no limit. They also razed the coastal cities they could not occupy to the ground, and also stomped the Moroccan self-esteem into pieces.

This is the fundamental reason why Morocco is clearly in a very good geographical location and has a good population and resource endowment, but it has been sluggish for a long time and is mermaid meat.

Today, Malik vows to end it all!

However, Allah was like testing the ambitious Sultan with a strong will to accomplish this great cause. On the night the two brothers met, Malik fell ill.

Moreover, the onset was very urgent. Malik Sultan soon showed many symptoms such as chills, high fever, severe headache, muscle pain throughout the body, flushed face, congestion in the eyes...

After following him for many years, the Jewish doctor with excellent medical skills diagnosed him with a 'camping fever'.

The so-called "camping fever" is typhus, an acute infectious disease transmitted through fleas. Because soldiers camping on the battlefield are often infected with this disease, it is also called "war typhoid fever".

Although people at this time did not realize the cause of this disease, it did not prevent them from realizing that this disease was terrible. If they were not treated in time, they would be life-threateningly!

This pair of brothers Malik and Mansour are bolts from the blue.

The shrewd and powerful Mansour quickly calmed down and ordered the Jewish doctor to immediately adopt the most advanced medical skills in Europe to provide bloodletting treatment for the second brother.

Because Hippocrates, the father of Western medicine, believed that people get sick because there is filth in their bodies, so as long as the filth is discharged, the disease will be cured.

At this time, European doctors believed this, so when the patient was sick, he would give him an enema and induce vomiting to help him discharge the filth in his body. What should I do if it was not good? Then I would bleed. What should I do if the blood was released but the disease was not cured? It must be that I didn’t release enough, so I would continue to release it until it emits light...

Fortunately, when the Jewish doctor took out the sharp knife, Malik woke up in time to stop him from bleeding himself.

Malik also knows medical skills and knows that bloodletting therapy can cure it or not, but after bloodletting, people will be extremely weak, and even become unconscious for a long time, and they will be unable to fight any longer.

The war is imminent, how could he not get sick as the king?
Chapter completed!