Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 467 I don't know how to deal with the situation

The Ottoman Turkish navy discovered that the shelling of the Ming army was so "violent". Perhaps Allah favored them so much that they fired all the shells around them.

However, Suleiman understood the meaning of these enemies: "They concentrated their artillery fire around us. They did not hit us, but they were very close. This is what they are saying that the artillery fire enveloped us and could hit us at any time." us."

Suleiman now wants to know even more where these enemies come from.Why did he get a report that only a few small ships landed on the southern shore of the Persian Gulf, and they seemed to want to build a fortress to occupy that place. How did it become such a large fleet that looked more terrifying than the main fleet of the Ottoman Empire in the Mediterranean.

"We have been deceived!" Suleiman became extremely angry.

He was an educated Turkish pasha with a basic political understanding.The only country capable of producing such a huge fleet is the Ming Empire, which has been rumored to be miraculous in recent years. This country from the East is said to have superb military technology, with countless warships and millions of troops.When he first heard such rumors, Suleiman refused. In his opinion, Ottoman Turkey is the greatest country on earth.But after all, it was also mentioned in the history he came into contact with, that the Eastern Empire has always been very powerful, and there are various legends about China.Although Suleiman felt that the European rumors of a powerful eastern empire were exaggerated, this country should be strong, second only to Turkey.

Suleiman has seen a lot of European ships, but he has never seen such a huge warship, which naturally comes from the East.

And Suleiman immediately realized that the culprit who sent him this wrong message should be the Portuguese, who have a strong presence in the Persian Gulf.Portugal and Turkey have always been at odds with each other. The two sides have fought and clashed many times in the Persian Gulf.But now the Portuguese no longer have a real stronghold, but Portugal's intention to intervene in Persian Gulf affairs has not changed.

The Portuguese used the locals to send a wrong message to the Turkish Pasha, deceiving them to come over to deal with the Ming navy, which was tantamount to inducing Turkey to clash with Ming.

"Pasha, what should we do?" All the subordinates asked him with fear on their faces.

Suleiman loosened his tightly clenched fist, and he sighed, "It is impossible for us to defeat such an enemy. Surrender."

If the enemy's artillery is stronger than him, and the number is about the same as his fleet, Suleiman may choose to surrender to trick the enemy into boarding the ship, and then the soldiers hidden on the lower deck will fight out and directly destroy the enemy soldiers who boarded the ship. Finally, jump onto the opponent's deck to decide the outcome by hand-to-hand combat.

But there are too many enemies. Even if Suleiman is sure to capture one or two enemy warships in this way, there are still more ships that he cannot deal with.

Obviously, Daming has a lot of experience in capturing warships.Someone on the approaching Daming Navy frigate shouted loudly, demanding that all the soldiers on the other side must come to the deck, lower the sails and draw in the oars, all weapons must be sealed up, and more than half of the personnel must tie themselves up.If not, the guns aimed at them will fire directly, sending them to the bottom of the sea.

Suleiman didn't want to play any tricks himself, so he surrendered so neatly.

After Suleiman made the move, Bai Mingxiu realized that he was accidentally hit by a big fish. The Pasha of Baghdad province of the Ottoman Empire led the fleet to deal with the Ming army in Dubai, but he was killed without firing a single shot. captured.

"It seems that there are some twists and turns." Bai Mingxiu thought about it.

Liang Haisheng asked Bai Mingxiu with great interest: "Commander, what should we do now? We have captured Suleiman Pasha, which means that half of the door to Iraq has been opened to us."

Bai Mingxiu really didn't want to do anything to Iraq at the beginning. He sighed: "Iraq is different from the barren land on the south coast of the Persian Gulf. The Two Rivers Plain is the most quintessential land in the entire Middle East. Ottoman and Safi Persia There is also very fierce competition here. Once we establish rule here, the Ottomans will definitely launch a military counterattack against us frantically, and we will face very serious defensive problems. Iraq will become a war zone, and we There is not much energy to deal with this war."

Liang Haisheng said with a gentle smile: "Turkey's main energy is still in the war with Tsarist Russia, Austria and other countries. If it is said that it can spare [-] to [-] troops to attack Iraq, I am afraid it will not be easy. And we want to establish rule in Iraq. It is not necessarily in the name and power of Ming Dynasty, the local Arabs are actually very resistant to the Turks, maybe we elect a tribal chief to establish a local country..."

Bai Mingxiu immediately refused: "No, I will not let the Arabs establish any new countries. It will be too troublesome to deal with it in the future. In the Persian Gulf, Ming Dynasty will really carry out colonization and settlement in the future. We will let The oasis city is full of our Chinese, and it will not be particularly easy to annex a country established by the Arabs."

Yu Chenglong is a traditional official with a sense of dominance. He said: "If we order the Ottoman Turkey to apologize to Daming and make compensation, then let this matter go, and we will take it slowly in the future?"

Liang Haisheng shook his head and said: "With the diplomatic character of the Turks, they will not give in in front of us so easily. It is estimated that whether we enter Iraq or not, we may eventually have a larger-scale military conflict with Turkey. "

What he said was actually something that Bai Mingxiu was worried about. The area on the south coast of the Persian Gulf was actually an area that the Ottoman Empire didn't care much about. It might take a long time before they noticed it, and they might not necessarily take action.But now that even the Pasha in Baghdad province has fallen into Daming's hands, and Daming has captured thousands of Turkish soldiers in one go, then Turkey will definitely take countermeasures.

Bai Mingxiu did not want to see the Turkish army besieging the Dubai Castle. The people he left in Dubai were mainly escorts, not regular troops.

Bai Mingxiu really felt that he was faced with a situation where no matter how he chose, it might not be the best solution. Ottoman is really not an idle country, and a large-scale army of tens of thousands of 10,000+ may be mobilized in a conflict, and Da Ming obviously has no interest in it. Iraq and Turkey engaged in such a large-scale conflict.

(End of this chapter)