My Daming New Empire

After he landed, he quickly entered Canakkale Castle.Regardless of the astonished look of the guards guarding the city, he yelled out of composure: "Go and inform General Kairaz that the fleet of the Ming Empire is too powerful and the imperial fleet can't resist it. I need his authorization to open the coastal defense artillery array."

Both the Samsun and Kairaz families are powerful families in Canakkale.Although one family is in charge of the army and the other is in charge of the navy, in order to compete for military expenditures and collect soldiers, the two families are in dire straits.

In the Kairaz family's castle, Samsun saw Kairaz in full swing.Kairaz had already learned about Samsun's defeat from the guards.

Having suffered a great loss from his mortal enemy, Kairaz felt as refreshed as if drinking a bowl of ice water in the dog days.Faced with Samsun's request to immediately open the coastal defense artillery array to guard against the attack of the Ming Fleet, Kairaz stood up without hesitation.

"Samsun, before His Majesty Muhammad gave the order, I have no right to open the coastal artillery array. And you know, I only have less than fifty barrels of gunpowder in my hand, which can't even fill the muskets in the hands of the soldiers, let alone Talk about artillery."

"Then you're going to watch Canakkale fall into enemy hands?"

"The enemy? Are you saying that there are less than [-] Romans in the opposite fortress? If His Majesty didn't want to keep these two isolated islands to attract the attention of the Catholics, I only need one day to destroy them."

"You know I'm referring to those Ming people."

Kairaz laughed, shook his head and said, "But as far as I know, those Ming people are just here for trade. As long as they don't attack, I won't regard them as enemies."

"You will regret it!" Seeing that Kairaz couldn't be persuaded, Samson didn't have time to entangle with the other party here. He wanted to organize the family to evacuate as soon as possible, and the fleet also retreated into the Dardanelles Sea as soon as possible. The power his family depended on for survival cannot be wasted under Daming's cannon fire.

Kairaz smiled and ignored him.When her figure disappeared, he looked down at a man in a shabby robe. "Hemir, how did the Ming fleet destroy the Timurid navy and directly destroy their army? I need you to tell me the details. As long as the information is correct, I will pay [-]% more than the Ming people. trade price, and bought the goods in your hands."

The businessman named Hemir showed a wry smile. He exhausted all the gold and silver in Hulumos before buying soft silk and expensive spices from the Ming people.

But he didn't sell directly to the inland. Instead, he went all the way west from Baghdad and almost died several times before he came to Bursa.

Unexpectedly, the people of Daming opened up the sea route from nowhere, and now they arrived in Europe with countless goods, and from Europe they went back to Ottoman.

Although the price they are selling now is about double that of when they were in Krumus, but for Hemiel, this arduous journey cannot be sold at the expected high price, which is really not worth the candle.

The trade list of the Ming people has been spread everywhere, and the price is clearly marked, so that the nobles of the entire Ottomans know.It is very rare for him to be able to sell at a price that is [-]% higher now.

It will be difficult to do business in the future!There can no longer be huge profits.

The struggle between the two families kept Kairaz on hold, which directly caused their coastal defense guns to fail to fire.

But for the Byzantines who were trapped in the Kribahar Castle on the other side of Canakkale, the Byzantine fleet was their lifeline.

Today, the area around the Dardanelles is almost entirely occupied by the Ottoman Empire.In this land, only a few coastal castles such as Constantinople and Kribahar Fortress are still in the hands of the Romans.

If the fleet retreats, their castle will have no logistical lifeline, and they will surrender without Ottoman attacking.

So when they saw that their fleet was chased into the strait by Da Ming's fleet and reached the narrowest point of the strait, they immediately fired at the Da Ming fleet.

But the European artillery of this era is ridiculously crude.Due to lack of materials and no copper, they were simply unable to cast bronze cannons like Daming.

Their furnaces were not hot enough, let alone casting steel cannons.It took England 30 years to cast iron cannons, which were still pitiful, while Spain and the Netherlands only cast iron cannons after 100 years.

In the early days, cast copper and wrought iron were the two most popular options for artillery in Europe.Therefore, the part-time job of many gunsmiths in Europe is to make bronze bells, or to make cannons as part-time clockmakers.

As for the wrought iron cannon, it refers to the cannon that is built piece by piece and gradually pieced together.Specifically, it is the current situation where vertical wrought iron bars are assembled into a gun barrel, and then one to several layers of iron rings are put on, and then the joints are filled with lead or welded.This process is very similar to hooping.

For example, like the early Fron machines, Europeans also forged them.However, the barrel of the small-caliber Frangler machine is made of rolled iron bars, and then wrought iron rings and reinforcements are added.For larger calibers, wrought iron bars were joined to form the barrel, which was then reinforced.

Therefore, the power of this kind of artillery is pitifully small, and the firing range will basically not exceed 500 meters.

But because the Ming Fleet was unprepared, more than a dozen of their artillery fired at the same time, which still caused damage to the decks of two fleets of the Ming Fleet, and eight soldiers were killed or injured.

When Qian Zhuang got the news, his immediate feeling was extremely angry.The Ming Fleet was in Dongpu, and in the naval battle of Hulumos, there were no casualties caused by the opponent's counterattack, but this time he made a head start.

This also greatly reduced his credit this time, and even because of his rival in love, he might be reprimanded by Zhu Zhanji.

He had been thinking about how to focus his attack on the Byzantines, and now the opportunity came.

He immediately ordered: "Get out of the range of the opponent's shelling, and stay at the base to fight back. I will make this father Kerry pay back his blood!"

Most of them from Ming Dynasty were not able to pronounce the translated place names in the West, but this did not affect the subordinates' understanding of the order. Following his order, forty warships stopped on the side facing the Ottomans, but they did not Instead of attacking the Ottomans, all the guns were aimed at the Byzantine fortress.

The sea here is only two miles wide, and if it is slightly closer to the Ottomans, the opponent's artillery will not be able to attack.

However, the range of most of Ming's artillery has exceeded 1000 meters, and the range of cast steel guns such as bow guns can even reach a distance of four to five miles.

So this was another one-sided beating, and the opponent was still powerless to fight back.

And Kairaz saw that although the Ming Fleet was close at hand, but because his side did not attack, the other party let him go, and he felt that his strategy of ordering not to attack was correct.

And the panicked Canakkale people were planning to flee for their lives when the fleet fled in a hurry.

But now, they were surprised to find that the Ming Fleet turned a blind eye to their city, and instead attacked the strong fortress of the Romans, which was less than one square kilometer.

Kairaz was naturally unanimously praised by the people, and most of them even believed that this was a war unilaterally provoked by Samsun.

Some nobles even prepared to write to the king, suing Samsun.Of course, there is Kairaz who is constantly fueling the flames.

The other members of the Samsun family who did not escape with the fleet became a punching bag. Their family wanted to transport a large amount of gold and silver away, but was stopped by countless people and took away a lot of property.

At the narrowest point of the Dardanelles, such a strange situation has formed.

The Ming Fleet is just outside the city, but its guns are aimed at the opposite bank.The Ming Fleet did not attack Çanakkale, but Çanakkale itself was already in chaos, and there were even fires in many places in the city.

Kribahar Castle is a peninsula extending out from the west side of the bay. After hundreds of years of building by the Romans, it has formed a strong fortress that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

The Ottomans felt that it was not worthwhile to attack the castle, so although they had already occupied most of the entire west bank, they kept the fort and did not attack.

However, no matter how strong the fortress is, it is also built according to the scale of the war.Their artillery is limited, so although they can withstand their own artillery, they may not be able to withstand Ming's artillery.

Moreover, the people of Ming Dynasty discovered that the stone bullets had little effect on the huge stone city wall. Except for the bow gun that could cause damage to the city wall, the other guns had little effect.

At this time, the Ming Fleet stopped firing artillery after dumbing down a dozen of their turrets. Instead, they used the trebuchets on board to throw oil cylinders and torches into the fortress.

When night fell, the entire fortress had already begun to burn.

And those Roman soldiers who had resisted in front of the Ottomans for hundreds of years, after blowing up their artillery and burning their food and grass, took advantage of nightfall to raise the white flag and surrender to the Ottoman soldiers on the west bank.

In just half a day, there were [-] soldiers stationed in the castle, [-] militiamen, and [-] battalions of prostitutes, and more than [-] people were killed or injured.

But they didn't dare to surrender to the Ming soldiers who didn't know the details, they could only surrender to the Ottoman soldiers who knew the details, at least, so that they could still survive.

At dawn on the second day, Qian Zhuang was surprised to find that the fortress that had been burning all night had turned into ruins, and none of the soldiers inside had disappeared.

But he didn't care about the whereabouts of these people. He cremated the three dead soldiers on the shore and put them in jars.

For him, the execution of Zhu Zhanji's order is the most important thing, and the fleet continues to sail to Constantinople.

Thanks to the governors of the three provinces, bamboo sticks, I spit on you, the rewards from people who see the lights, thank you brothers for your support

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Ottoman Edirne, a city located in the northwest of Constantinople, in Europe.