Tomorrow

Chapter 157 New heights, new realms

Leaving the friendly Ethiopia, the fleet slammed into the territory of the Ottoman Empire.

The Ottoman Empire is an ambitious military empire with the name of its founding sultan Osman I.

Every Ottoman sultan will give birth to a bunch of cubs, and then he will not teach these cubs to unite and love, but deliberately create contradictions among them. Then, he will sit on the highest point and watch his cubs. They fight each other.

Only the strongest, strongest, and most intelligent cub can survive. Whenever his cubs have a victory or defeat, usually at this time, Sudan's life generally comes to an end.

Naturally, he did not die of old age, but was killed by his own cubs. Therefore, in the history of Ottoman, the violent sultan accounted for more than 60% of the total number of sultans.

Every time the imperial power changes, it is the moment when the blood of the Ottoman Empire flows.

However, the emperor selected in this way, to be honest, is really good.

In 1299, Ottoman took advantage of the split of Seljuk Roma Sultanate and formally declared independence, titled "Gazi", laying the embryonic form of the Ottoman country.

In 1326, after the Ottoman son Orhan succeeded to the throne, he changed his name to the Governor-General, established a standing army, and annexed most of the Roma Sultanate.

In March 1331, he wounded the Byzantine emperor, occupied the Byzantine Empire’s largest city in Anatolia, Nicaea, and moved its capital here.

In 1337, Nicomedia was captured and the capital was set in Bursa.

In 1338, it occupied Uskudar again.

In 1354, Turkish Orhan led his army across the Dardanelles and occupied the Gallipoli Peninsula and used it as a bridgehead to attack the Balkan Peninsula.

After the Ottoman monarch Murad I succeeded to the throne in 1360, decisive progress has been made in the expansion of Southeast Europe.

In 1362, a large-scale military offensive was launched, occupying Adriatic Fort, the important town of the Byzantine Empire, and renamed Edirne, the capital was scheduled to be there.

After that, it conquered Western Thrace, Macedonia, Sofia, Thessaloniki and the entire northern part of Greece, forcing the rulers of Bulgaria and Serbia to claim tribute.

In 1389, the Allied forces of Serbia, Bulgaria and Hungary were defeated in the Battle of Kosovo.

In the Battle of Fort Nico in 1396, the Ottoman monarch Bayset I defeated the coalition forces of Hungary, France, Germany and other countries in one fell swoop and occupied most of the Balkans.

Nearly 10,000 crusaders were captured, and almost all of them were killed except for the three hundred noble knights who were redeemed with huge sums of money.

From then on, Europeans could only watch the Ottoman Empire expand and the Byzantine Empire was at stake.

Murad II repelled the European counterattacks of Hungary and Poland at the Battle of Varna, and the Polish king Jagelonchik and Archbishop Cesarini were killed.

In 1453, the 21-year-old Mohammed II succeeded to the throne for less than two years. He led an army of 80,000 to attack Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire. He fought fiercely for 53 days. He captured it on May 29 and moved his capital here. The Zhan Ting Empire fell. Mohammed II changed Constantinople's name to Istanbul.

In 1517, the Ottoman Empire eliminated the Mamluk dynasty of Egypt, and its naval power expanded to the Red Sea.

[31] Since then, the Ottoman Empire and the Portuguese Empire have become the most dominant forces in the region.

In 1521, Osman captured Belgrade.

Occupied Rhode Island in 1522.

At the Battle of Mohac in 1526, the Ottoman Empire defeated the Hungarian monarchy in one fell swoop. Later, he conquered the Kingdom of Hungary and established Ottoman Hungary in Hungary and Central Europe.

In 1526, the Ottoman Empire was victorious in the first battle of Mohaci and launched the Siege of Vienna in 1529, but was forced to retreat due to the advent of winter.

In 1532, the Ottomans again attacked Vienna with more than 250,000 troops, but they were repelled in Kseg, south of Vienna.

In 1543, the Ottomans continued to push, and the ruler of the Habsburg dynasty, Ferdinand I, officially recognized the suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire over Hungary in 1547.

Under the rule of Suleiman I, Transylvania, Wallachia and the volatile Moldova all became Ottoman's vassal states and had to pay tribute to Ottomans. In the east, the Ottomans captured Baghdad in the hands of the Persians and were able to control Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf.

For Europeans, the Ottoman Empire is a powerful and headache monster. Even now, there have been some declining trends, but their strength is still not to be underestimated.

If you want to deal with a country, you must first understand the country.

This is the first impression that Little Descartes had of this behemoth after entering the Ottoman territory.

Faced with such a behemoth, the captain of the Huashan, Lai Dingcheng, still raised the red flag representing Daming on the mast in an upright manner.

Then, after putting on the protective iron armor, the second-class battleship drove straight east along the coastline.

In Europe, they were collecting pirates. In the Arabian Sea, they were collecting pirates like crazy.

"Mr. Zhang Liang is a gentle and mellow person, but General Lai Dingcheng is a meaningless warrior."

Regarding the battle between the Ming Empire and the Ottoman Empire, Mr. Descartes undoubtedly stood on the side of the Ming Dynasty. When he saw Lai Dingcheng defeated another pirate, he couldn't help but admire.

"Grandfather, Lai Dingcheng is not a general, he is just a captain."

Little Descartes seemed to be more familiar with the official position of Ming Dynasty.

"It seems that they have no respect for the Ottomans, they have no respect for the European countries, and they have no respect for God, so the question is, who do they respect?

emperor? Their emperor? "

When eating dinner again, Mr. Descartes, who couldn't bear it, finally asked this question that had troubled him for a long time.

"Our army has already contacted the Ottomans in the middle of the river. As a result, Governor Xia Wanchun killed 60,000 Ottomans in the middle of the river, including their Governor in the middle of the river."

After listening to Mr. Descartes' questions, Lai Dingcheng responded to Mr. Descartes with facts.

Mr. Descartes was silent, and he ate very little that night.

The Ottoman navy has fallen, and this is why Lai Dingcheng dares to challenge the entire Ottoman waters with a second-class battleship.

And Mr. Descartes heard fearless from Lai Dingcheng's words!

In his opinion, these Ming people seem to be very humble and polite on the surface, and welcome everyone with a smile, but on this smiling face, there is no warmth.

This is arrogant.

This kind of arrogance is not so obvious, only some extremely sensitive people can discover it, and finally come to a conclusion-Mingguo people are consciously superior!

The Europeans' methods of dealing with European pirates are cruel, while the Ming's methods of dealing with European pirates are relatively mild, but this is only the appearance.

Europeans still treat pirates as human beings, but these Ming people regard pirates as objects, which can be given to Ethiopians to eat, or they can be thrown away on uninhabited islands at will. This is not an attitude towards people.

The European pirates were dealt with in this way, and the Ottoman pirates who were captured will probably have the same fate.

Sure enough, when the fleet had no place to hold more pirates, Captain Lai Dingcheng no longer accepted captives. After smashing the enemy's battleship each time, he quickly left the sea, leaving the fallen pirates in the arms. Debris of the ship drifted at sea.

Mr. Descartes had been waiting for the Ottomans to pursue the fleet, but until the fleet left the Arabian Peninsula, there was no shadow of the Ottomans fleet.

"In order to ensure that Daming merchant ships can reach Europe smoothly, Daming's warships will **** this sea area. There have been several battles. Then, the Ottoman fleet basically ignored us.

Our Navy Minister Han once wrote to the Ottoman emperor, asking him to open the sea to ensure the freedom of navigation for merchant ships. If not, the Daming Navy will help the Ottoman Empire to ensure the safety of merchant ships.

The Ottoman Empire did not respond, but since then, the Ottoman "Barbarossa" fleet has rarely been seen in the Arabian Sea, but the number of pirates has increased a lot.

It is for this reason that any warship that comes here has the duty to fight pirates. "

Zhang Liang saw that Mr. Descartes was very serious, and he deliberately explained what Captain Lai Dingcheng had done to prison.

These words sound reasonable to ordinary people, but they can hear other meanings in the minds of wise men like Mr. Descartes. So far, for the first time, Mr. Descartes has the idea of ​​going to Mingguo. .

He wanted to know whether Ming Guo was really as strong as they described himself. He wanted to know whether Ming Guo was really as bright and prosperous as Little Descartes dreamed of.

Leaving the Arabian Sea, the fleet quickly entered the Indian Ocean.

When the fleet was cutting through the waves in the Indian Ocean, Mr. Descartes soon discovered that the sailors on the warship and the envoys who had returned to the Ming Dynasty from Europe had also become relaxed one by one.

"In ten days, we will reach Binzhou."

Zhang Liang smiled and watched the dolphins leading the way in front of the warship and said to Little Descartes.

"Bianzhou? Have we arrived at Daming yet?"

"You can say it like this~www.wuxiahere.com~You will also meet a duke of my Daming."

"Teacher, you said before that Daming has no nobles."

Zhang Liang shrugged his shoulders and said, "That is the local area of ​​Daming. There are no nobles in the local area. It is a world where everyone is equal. As for the sea, there are always people developing. When will they keep up with the development of Daming local area, The people will naturally overthrow these so-called nobles.

Our ideal is-no nobles! "

Little Descartes looked up at the tall teacher and said, "Can people really be equal?"

Zhang Liang smiled and said: "In the local area of ​​Daming, people only differ in the division of labor, and there is no difference between superior and inferior."

"So, how should I treat this duke who is destined to be defeated?"

Zhang Liang patted Little Descartes’ face and said: “You are different from others. You are a native of Ming Dynasty and a student of Yushan Academy. When you meet anyone, regardless of his status, you are little Descartes, one in your soul. On the same level as him."