Chapter 819 The Burning Strait Helena will hate the Ottomans to the root of her teeth, and the two sides can be said to be feuds, or they can be said to be conflicts caused by the uneven distribution of spoils.Back when the Ottomans were just a tribe and the Venetians were a group of merchants, the two sides worked together to dig into the corners of the Byzantine Empire.To take a less appropriate example, the Ottoman Empire at that time was like the Jiannu and Jin merchant organizations, the only difference was that the Venetian city-state republic, a merchant organization, established a state of merchants as a kingdom.However, no amount of hatred can solve any fundamental problems, to put it mildly, in fact, the Ottomans also hated the Venetians, after all, in this more than 200 years of fighting, except for Cyprus, all other wars ended in defeat.Especially in naval warfare, the Ottoman Empire was constantly pressed to the ground by the weak Venetian city-state republic.In fact, if it was during the most powerful period of the Venice city-state republic, the scale of the Ming royal kingdom was not necessarily as strong as the Venice city-state republic, after all, they had more than 3,300 warships.Of course, the naval warships of the Venetian city-state republic are mainly small warships of three or four hundred tons, far from the Royal Navy of the Ming Dynasty, the main warships of the Royal Navy of the Ming Dynasty are mainly large battleships of 1,200 to 1,500 tons, even if they are medium-sized warships, they can be regarded as their main warships in Europe.In terms of quantity alone, the combined navy of European countries is not necessarily more numerous than the Ming Royal Navy, of course, more numbers do not mean that the combat effectiveness is stronger.The Spanish Armada was also defeated by the British navy, which was dominated by pirates, and although this was a weather factor, the vitality of the Spanish navy was greatly damaged from then on.Looking at the dense battleship, Helena was very jealous, and the person she was jealous of was none other than Catherine, that is, her daughter.Little Catherine is not yet three years old and already owns the vast fiefdom of the Nile Delta.Her father, with an order, sent nearly 100,000 men to the Ottomans to wage war against the mighty Ottoman Empire.This war also caused a fierce debate within the Ming Dynasty, but Quan Xu kidnapped Mingyi, who was the Ming Emperor and used the Ming Empire as a legitimate merchant of the Ming Dynasty as a reason, meaning that the Ottoman Empire ordered him to be the Ming Emperor.As the saying goes, the lord is worried about the humiliation of the ministers, and the lord humiliates the ministers to death.Now that the Ming Emperor is so insulted by the Ottoman Empire, how can he bear it?
In the past dynasties, China has never taken the initiative to invade any country, but no matter which country invades China, eventually through the Ten Years or Hundred Years War, that country will become a part of China.This was true of the original Dog Rong, and the same was true of the later Huns, and of course, the Xianbei, Turkic, and Mongol people.Looking at the entire Ming Royal Navy, Li Jing is not advanced, but a Sea Shark Type III warship, with a full load displacement of about 1,400 tons, a light load of 1,190 tons, equipped with 43 naval guns of large and small calibers, and 16 triple rocket launch units.The most advanced is that it has two hot air balloons that can be used to observe the movement around you.As the flagship, Yang Yandong and the staff and others are engaged in heated discussions about the upcoming war, as more and more information is obtained."
The most elite unit of the Ottoman Empire was called the Sipahi, or Spahks, roughly equivalent to the knights of Europe!"
At this time, Saragno, a professor at the Royal Naval Military Academy, was the deputy chief of staff of the expedition to the Ottoman Empire, and he was more familiar with the situation in Europe and the Ottoman Empire.After all, Saraño had fought more than one battle with the Ottoman Empire.Saraño continued: "Of course, their knights are not hereditary!
”"What about combat effectiveness?"
As the only major general of the expeditionary force, Su Kunsheng, the former major general of the 14th Division stationed in Taiwan.Saraño smiled faintly: "How effective are the Mongols?"
”Su Kunsheng said with disdain on his face: "Can this be the same?"
”"How is this different?"
Saraño smirked: "Even if the Ottoman Empire was at its strongest, the Sipahi cavalry was not as good as the opponent of the Mongol cavalry, but it was more powerful than the crusaders, and now the Mongols have lost the courage of the year, and the Sipahi cavalry is the same, they are just like the army of the Ming Dynasty more than ten years ago, the army is full of corruption, corruption, and unfair rewards and punishments, so these armies are no longer enough to worry about, the level of the Venetian army, you have also seen, they are far from being the opponent of the Venetians in the same number!"
”Speaking of which, the expeditionary force generals seemed to be a little more relaxed.Saraño didn't bother to introduce the Ottoman navy at all, and their navy was not even as good as the sailor troops that had been eliminated by the Ming Dynasty.At the very least, the naval forces of the Ming Dynasty also knew how to attack the enemy with naval guns and bowl-mouth guns, while the Ottoman navy was still playing gang fighting.Gang-jumping combat is a naval combat method in the era of cold weapons, and it is also the favorite tactic of the Zheng fleet, of course, the Zheng fleet will carry out gang-jumping operations only to capture enemy warships, and the premise is to beat the opponent half to death first.Yang Yandong looked at Saraño and said, "According to what you mean, we can directly enter the Ottoman Empire?"
”"Although the Ottoman Empire is bloated and inefficient, they are still a huge empire, they have a population of 35 or 6 million, and if they want, they can organize two or three million troops!"
Saraño was a little helpless, as early as the battle between the Venetian city-state republic and the Ottoman Empire, they had eliminated as many as a million Ottoman troops alone.The problem, however, is that they wipe out one, and it won't be long before they rebuild an army.Especially for the navy, a warship of the Venetian city-state would sink an average of three to five Ottoman warships before it was sunk.However, the problem is that even with such a large difference in the exchange ratio, the Republic of Venice was beaten to a losing temper, and at one point it was almost wiped out.Yang Yandong smiled faintly: "We have more shells, let's see if the Ottomans are enough to die!"
”Just when the Ming Royal Navy was sharpening its knives and preparing to kill the Ottoman Empire, what was the Ottoman Empire still doing?
They are still immersed in their own world, and Mudra IV is busy leading his army to occupy Baghdad, and he also famously said: "I think the capture of Baghdad is more wonderful than Baghdad itself!"
”To be sure, Mudra was a natural military commander, having ascended to the throne as an eleven-year-old doll and remained a puppet until the age of twenty-three, until he quelled the rebellion of the once-dominant Janissary Legion, with the full support of the Guards and the judges.Fighting in the east and west, invincible and invincible.He dared to threaten the Ming with war, not a bluff, but a real confidence, he thought that the Ming was too far away from the Ottoman Empire, if it would take six or seven months by sea, and if it would take a year and a half by land.If the Ming dared to send troops and horses to attack the Ottoman Empire, he was absolutely sure that he would defeat the Ming army's attack.At this moment, a group of horsemen rushed towards Muchra IV like a lightning speed, and a hundred paces away from him, the knight turned over and dismounted, knelt on the ground, and slowly moved towards him with his knees."
Honor, great sultan!""
Tell me, what's wrong!""
Da Ming, Da Ming has sent an army!""
Oh!"
Mudra said excitedly: "They really dare to send troops?
Where did they go?
”"The Sea of Oman!""
Chuan Ben Sultan's order, the troops quickly move out, go south to the Arabian Seas, and meet the Ming army!"
There is a saying that is very good, the ideal is very plump, but the reality is too skinny!
Mudra IV wanted to fight a decisive battle with the Ming Dynasty, but it was a pity that when he led the army to hurry up, and after arriving in the Persian Gulf, standing on a boulder, Mudra IV looked sluggish.He could not believe that his Arab fleet had been reduced to a pile of burning wreckage, smoke and fire covering the sea, rumbling explosions like rolling thunder, and the sound of wails could be heard between the smoke and fire.I don't know how many people are struggling to escape on the sea, and every thing that floats up is densely packed with people, and the terrifying thing is that the number of people who are fluttering is still increasing, because the fierce Ming warship guns are aimed at the still burning warship and make the final blow.The huge Ming naval warships formed an arc-shaped encirclement of the surviving Arab fleet, driving his naval warships to the middle like sheep, without mercy and without mercy.The Ottoman naval soldiers in the arc-shaped encirclement were densely packed together like frightened sheep, and the strength of the Ming army was only one-third of theirs.If they had made a decisive assault, they would have been able to tear some gaps in this arc and rush out, but no one had the courage to launch an assault, and the encirclement was constantly compressed, and the Ottoman soldiers in the encirclement either jumped into the sea with all their might, or desperately fought for everything that could float and jumped into the sea.The Arab naval fleet is one of the three major fleets of the Ottoman Empire, although the number is the weakest, but there are still more than 150 warships of all sizes, even if it is a European maritime power, they do not dare to provoke the Ottoman Empire easily.But the problem is that the current Arab naval fleet is finished.His more than 150 warships are finished.At this moment, the Ming Navy on the sea seemed to have discovered Mudra IV on the shore, in fact, he thought too much, the distance was too far, and the Ming Navy did not find Muchra IV at all.Just look at the dense cavalry and infantry units gathered on the coast, and if there are fish or not, cast a net first.As a result, the battleships immediately turned their guns and covered them with artillery fire on the shore!"
Boom ......"