My Daming New Empire

They killed countless Chinese, seized the land of the Chinese, and seized the Sakha Republic, the second largest yellow country in the world, and turned the northern part of Asia into their land.

In this life, of course Zhu Zhanji will not let this matter happen again. He has considered it from the very beginning and cut off their hand extending to Dongfang directly.

So he chose to sacrifice the Byzantine Empire first, instead of supporting them to fight the big cannibal.

Although the religion of the cannibals is disgusting, they themselves have become a multi-ethnic nation.Semitic people, cannibals, Turkic people, Mongolian people, although the forces formed are huge, there are also many internal struggles.

More importantly, there are Indians and Ming in the east, and white Europeans in the west, leaving little room for them to develop.

The development of Europeans is difficult to control in Ming Dynasty because of the distance, but relatively speaking, the big cannibals are much easier to deal with.

In particular, Ming Dynasty had already decided to deal with the Timur Kingdom, and Zhu Di would go on a personal conquest in two years, so Zhu Zhanji mainly focused on the Europeans.

In the letter to Qian Zhuang, although Zhu Zhanji did not elaborate on the purpose of different strategies against various countries, he clearly gave instructions, requiring Qian Zhuang to focus on the weaker fleet when targeting the two fleets. On the Byzantine Empire.

Qian Zhuang is just a mid-level general of Daming, he doesn't understand the significance of Ming's expedition and trade.However, as the general of the First Fleet directly under Zhu Zhanji, he will not compromise when carrying out Zhu Zhanji's orders.

Divide the forty ships under his command into two attack formations, with fifteen ships in each attack formation, and keep another ten ships as a reserve army.

Although Ming's fleet has experienced three large-scale naval battles, the first two were encircled and suppressed in Japan, and only the third time in Khormos was a real naval battle.

The tactics of the Ming Fleet gradually changed from being chaotic at the beginning, and it was not until the Battle of Hurumus that they formed a truly modern naval warfare tactic.

That is to use the inertial force of the sails and the tactics of going around the front to make the fleet look like boiling water. With the flagship as the center point, the fleet will move forward in a blooming formation, and when the fleet is facing the enemy on the side, it will fire.

Such a tactic can prevent Ming's warships from being surrounded by more flexible Western warships, and form a blossoming formation of the Ming's fleet, without being afraid that the opponent's small ships will disrupt their own formation.

More importantly, even if some ships were able to get close to Deming's fleet, they would not be able to engage in a boarding battle in the face of the superior firepower of muskets.

This kind of tactic is unpredictable to the Western fleet that still uses boarding battle as its main combat method, and it is even more caught off guard.

They couldn't understand when they saw Da Ming's fleet gather in the middle, then spread out along a straight line and in a circular arc to both sides.

The warships of the Ottomans came up to meet them, while the warships of the Byzantines waited in full force, trying to see clearly Ming's tactics.

From their point of view, they had an absolute advantage. Although Da Ming's ships were bigger, they were too small in number, so they didn't take it too seriously.

However, when Da Ming's fleet spread out to both sides in two straight lines, the artillery above the Da Ming fleet opened fire.

The loud bang sounded like thunder from the sky, and it made everyone feel heartbroken on the calm sea.

Whether it is the Ottomans or the Byzantines, at first they thought it was the gods who were angry.It wasn't until they saw that it was the artillery on the Daming ship that fired, that they calmed down a little.

Then, their ships rushed up at a faster speed, trying to encircle and suppress Daming's fleet.

But they didn't know that the Ming fleet had already launched with full sail, forming a horizontal figure-of-eight attack formation. No matter how many ships they had, they could only become targets.

Today's ships are all made of wood, and they are completely defenseless in the face of stone bomb attacks.Moreover, Western ships do not have the watertight cabin technology of Ming ships. As long as they are hit by stone bullets to the left and right of the waterline, their fate is that the ship disintegrates or capsizes.

The faster the Ottoman ships rushed, the faster they died.So much so that before Samsun could react, more than [-] ships had lost their combat effectiveness, and hundreds of soldiers had already floated on the sea.

Seeing this scene, Samsun really understood why Daming dared to attack their more than 200 ships when they only had [-] ships.

Daming had artillery, and Daming was able to install artillery on wooden ships.

When the artillery was besieging the city, its power was not too great, but it was amazingly powerful in the face of wooden ships.

But the Ottomans ignorantly encircled and suppressed the Ming Fleet and sent them to their door.

He didn't want his fleet to be beaten passively, and then one by one was sunk in front of his house.

"Immediately hang the flag of retreat and retreat..." Samsun watched his soldiers howling on the sea. Although he was in pain, he had no idea of ​​saving them at all.

He just wanted to retreat quickly and preserve his strength.

If there are no soldiers, he can be recruited again, but if there is no ship, his army will exist in name only.

Ottoman's ships retreated hastily before attacking the Ming Fleet, but this is a naval battle, and even if they wanted to run, it would take time to adjust their course on the sea.

Samsun could only watch helplessly as his fleet fled in all directions, and was sunk one by one by the Ming fleet.

Compared with the Ottoman fleet, the Byzantine fleet faced the bombardment of the Ming fleet a little later because it was on the rear side from the beginning.

When Ottoman's ships capsized one by one, they hadn't collided head-on with Ming's left fleet.

So they have more time to adjust, and the casualties are much less.

Although today's Daming Artillery is assisted by quadrants and crossbars, the sight is still pitifully low.This is not because of technical problems with the artillery, but more because of the shock of the ship caused by the recoil of the artillery.

The attack formation of the Ming Fleet is always moving, which further reduces the sight of the artillery.

However, today's artillery mostly attacks horizontally, and the Byzantine fleet is assembled together, so they still caused huge casualties to them.

As long as their ships were hit in important places in the rain of stone bombs, they could only helplessly resign themselves to their fate.

In terms of speed, whether it is Byzantine or Ottoman, their ships are only more than half the size, and some are even small sampans.Moreover, their ships are all soft sails, which are more flexible and faster than hard sails.

Qian Zhuang stood on the bow of the flagship, holding a binoculars in his hand, watching the situation on the battlefield, and couldn't help showing a proud look. "Vulnerable!"

From Qian Zhuang's point of view, he could clearly see that there were only 200 ships on the left and right flanks, but the chasing enemy troops each had more than [-] ships and fled in all directions.

This is indeed vulnerable, but this is not due to the force of the soldiers, but because of the gap in weapons and technology.

Hundreds of years later, Manchu Qing's helplessness in the face of Western muskets reappeared in the Western world hundreds of years earlier.

But this time, it was not the Chinese who died, and the positions of the two sides were reversed.

Qian Zhuang didn't have these emotions. This kind of asymmetrical war couldn't even arouse his enthusiasm.In his eyes, such a naval battle is nothing more than a live ammunition exercise.

The location of the confrontation between the three armies is located at the southern end of the Dardanelles, which is called the Canakkale Strait by the Ottomans. The two ends of the strait are connected to the Aegean Sea and the Dardanelles Sea respectively. It is the only waterway connecting the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea. .

On the east side of this place is Ottoman, and on the west side is Byzantium. This [-]-kilometer-long strait is only one kilometer at its narrowest point.

The famous ancient city of Troy in history is located on the east coast of the southern part of the strait.

Byzantium's land power is definitely not comparable to that of Ottomans. After losing the support of most European countries, they can only grit their teeth and hold on.

But in the Dardanelles, because of the artillery donated by European countries, they defended the Kribahar Castle at the narrowest point in the middle of the strait, and firmly controlled this important fortress on the west side of the strait.

Today's two countries are in a short period of peace because they are unable to fight. The strait is jointly guarded by the two countries, and both sides have the right of passage.

When faced with the irresistible artillery attack of the Ming Fleet, the fleets of the two countries fled into the strait hastily.

The speed of the Ming Fleet was a bit slower, and the power of the artillery and stone bombs was limited, so most of the ships quickly escaped from the pursuit of the Ming Fleet.

Many times, an inadvertent accident can lead to the trend of a war.

Because of Samsun's heavy losses, he fled back to the Dardanelles at almost full speed, and ran all the way to Canakkale, the most important city of the Ottoman Empire in the straits.