South entrance to the Dardanelles Strait.

The alarm bell suddenly rang on the shore defense fortress in Seidirbashir.

The most elite guards of the Ottoman Empire rushed out of their barracks and rushed towards their shore defense guns. This ancient Ottoman-style bastion quickly entered the war state. On the circular tower facing the sea, a cast steel rifled gun purchased from the Ming Dynasty at a high price raised its muzzle behind the guard wall...

"Quickly, report to Istanbul!"

The defending commander looked at the sea in the distance and swallowed hard, then said in a dry tone: "The Ming army is here."

Yes, the Ming army is here.

The Ming army's Mediterranean fleet is here.

On the blue Aegean Sea, giant warships of black yellow and white were spitting black smoke, one by one appeared on the same blue sky. Four ironclad ships were in the middle, and twenty cruisers were divided into two wings, like cavalry on the battlefield of the Cold Weapon Age, lined up in a huge geese-winged team on the sea surface. The head of the powerful ship was raised with five-inch cannons, just like the spear in the hands of ancient knights.

No negotiations.

Nor would the Ottomans have any chance.

The 64 five-inch guns on the head of twenty-four giant warships were on the fortress. When the Ottomans could see the iconic golden dragons on the head of the ship, they roared almost at the same time like a volcano erupting. Sixty-four fiery flames ejected out in a very short time, forming spectacular fire dragons in the smoke on the sea surface. Then hundreds of pounds of pounds of shells filled with wet cotton gunpowder roared, carrying huge kinetic energy, crashed into the outer wall of the ancient castle like a meteor, and the explosion of flames suddenly rose the next moment.

The torn fortress tower and the cannons above soared into the sky.

"Strike back, for the holy land!"

The commander on the castle roared in grief.

Among the gravel that fell like a meteorite, the Ottoman warriors who were full of anger because the holy land was destroyed bravely launched a counterattack against the Ming army, so the artillery that also purchased the Ming Dynasty roared. The twenty-four kilograms of steel flowering bullets crashed into the sea, hitting the shipbuilding steel and steel-surface wrought iron produced by the same steel factory as them. Then, like a ball hitting a wall, it was bounced directly by the solid steel and exploded meaninglessly near the warship

.Not to mention the steel-surface wrought iron armor of battleships, even the shipbuilding steel plates of cruisers cannot penetrate, this level of artillery shell can penetrate the wooden boards, and it must be within one thousand yards. It is too impractical to penetrate the steel plates that are more than two thousand yards away. Compared with the power of the Ming army shells, the explosive power of black gunpowder is like setting off large fireworks, which can at most create shrapnel, but the Ming soldiers hiding in the cannon can basically ignore this.

However, the Ming army's shells easily smashed castles one after another like giant hammers of gods.

In this way, the warships on the sea continued to shell.

The Ottomans on the shore continued to fight back in vain.

Half an hour later, the castle was turned into ruins.

This thing is made of bricks and stones, used to defend against ball shells with a maximum weight of only 20 to 30 kilograms. Its protection ability is a fraction of the difference between the Japanese artillery towers in World War II. In front of the five-inch guns that actually weigh 95 kilograms, it is no different from the paper-paste ones. You should know that the Eighth Route Japanese Artillery Tower is only a maximum of five kilograms of explosives, and the shell contains fifteen kilograms of wet cotton gunpowder. The earth-making ammonium nitrate in the Eighth Route may not be as powerful as the Ming army's nitrate!

"Is this the Ottoman who abused Europeans as dogs for hundreds of years?"

Xu Shou said contemptuously: "That's all!"

"Sir, should you keep moving forward?"

The officer beside him asked.

"Continue, leave six cruisers to guard the exit of the strait, and patrol the channel to prevent them from being blocked. All remaining warships enter the Dardanelles, and then flatten all the Ottoman fortresses on both sides of the strait, sink all the Ottoman ships they encountered, whether they are warships or fishing boats, all of them sink into the sea."

Xu Shou said.

"Sir, will we give them an explanation?"

The officer asked.

They did not have any contact with the Ottomans until now. The entire fleet drove from the south and bombarded them directly. What he meant was whether he would tell them the reason for bombarding them and what conditions could he stop. In short, even if he died, he would have to let others die.

"Say? Beating them means saying it! Negotiation is the job of diplomats, and our job is to beat them and continue to bombard them until we receive the order to stop bombarding!"

Xu Shou said.

"Abide by the order!"

The officer quickly clasped his fists and said.

Immediately afterwards, the huge fleet continued to sail in two columns. In the fearful eyes of the Ottoman soldiers surviving the shore, one by one entered the Dardanelles Strait, and then headed north to the Marmara Sea. The environment of the Turkish Strait was outrageous for the Navy. A sixty-one kilometers long and a few kilometers wide protected the southern entrance, and a Bosphorus Strait, which was also dozens of kilometers long and several kilometers wide protected the northern entrance, and a vast inland sea of ​​more than 10,000 square kilometers in the middle. Such an environment was simply a holy place for the Navy.

Of course, this is a complete nightmare for the attackers. For example, the blood of Fatty Qiu and the British Empire, which were originally in history, flowed around the castle that had just been leveled by the Ming army.

"Mama, we should move the base here in the future."

Xu Shou said viciously.

"I am more looking forward to whether the girls here will be more beautiful than the Egyptians!"

The officer under his command, looking at the villages on both sides of the shore, especially the Ottomans who were running around, said with a longing that it was obvious that the Egyptian girls could no longer satisfy him.

"First, your government must restrain the people from all acts that harm the feelings of the Ming people, such as boycotting Ming goods, slandering the reputation of His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and vilifying the image of the Ming Empire. The unreasonable attacks of your people have made our country surprised. Second, we must compensate a series of sacrificial acts during this period, including their mental damage, especially the compensation for the two murdered Ming merchants and their families' mental losses. This totals 30 million dragon yuan. Third, we must compensate the Ming Navy's military operations to protect the Ming people in the Ottoman Empire. This totals 20 million dragon yuan, and the two items together are 50 million dragon yuan. Fourth, we must send a prince-level envoy to the Ming people to officially apologize to the Ming people for this, and build a monument for the two murdered Ming merchants..."

Just when the Ming fleet bombarded the two sides of the Dardanelles, the Ming Dynasty's minister to the Ottoman Empire also formally issued an ultimatum to His Majesty the Ottoman Emperor.

"Please come back, we need to discuss this."

Yusuf Great Vizier said with a gloomy face suppressed his anger.

"I hope you can get faster!"

The Minister bowed to Ahmed III on the throne and said, "Otherwise, I am afraid that our soldiers who are indignant will be impulsive and cause some completely avoidable losses to your country."

Ahmed III nodded slightly with a gloomy face. At this time, the sun was shining. His favorite tulips in the surrounding gardens were fragrant, but he was in a very bad mood. His Majesty the Emperor was really exhausted at this time, and internal and external troubles were destroying his once powerful empire. He was unable to control the angry elders of the temple. The three holy places allowed the Ming army to calm the anger caused by the two, and a frenzy of revenge on the Ming Dynasty was forming in various parts of the Ottomans. Even if he was the emperor of the empire, he could only retreat in the face of this frenzy.

But he can't afford to offend Yang Feng!

If you mess with Yang Feng, you will...

"Your Majesty, the Ming fleet bombards Seidilbashir!"

Suddenly the voice of a minister woke him up.

"What?"

Ahmed III was stunned and then turned his head to the Ming Dynasty envoy.

"Your Majesty, I have said that our indignant soldiers are easily impulsive."

The minister said innocently.

"Your Excellency, impulse is punished."

Yousuf sneered.

As soon as he finished speaking, the second minister who reported the letter ran over and said to Ahmed III with a hint of horror: "Your Majesty, the Ming army has broken through Seidirbashir, and the defenders have been wiped out. The Ming fleet is sailing towards Chanakal!"

"Well?!"

The Ottoman ruler and ministers were all stupid.

"Your Majesty, it is obvious that impulse is punished, and the impulse of your people is also punished."

The Ming Dynasty minister said with a smile.

"roll!"

Ahmed III finally broke out.

However, his outbreak was of no use. In fact, due to the limitation of the speed of information transmission, it was the second day. From Seidilbashir to Istanbul, even the fast horses had to run for a day and a night. They received an alarm for the enemy to invade the strait through the beacon yesterday, but two groups of messengers sent and escaped from Seidilbashir took a day and a night to send the news of the Ming army's attack and the castle's breaking almost at the same time.

However, one day and one night were enough for the Ming army fleet to break out into a strait that was a hundred miles long.

As for Canakale...

"Can this thing block us?"

Xu Shou looked back at his back with contempt and said.

Behind him, the famous Sultaniye Castle has turned into a ruin, carrying residual flames, releasing thick smoke in the noon sunlight, just like ugly scars on the green field. In front of Xu Shou, there is a narrow sea surface seven or eight miles wide. Through this strait less than sixty miles long, you enter the Marmara Sea. From here, less than four hundred miles north is the Ottoman capital Istanbul.

But what he didn't know was that a huge fleet of more than 30 battleships was also sixty miles away from the north, and was sailing through the north entrance of the Dardanelles in sequence. The huge bodies of four second-class battleships were particularly eye-catching.

This is the Ottoman fleet heading south.

Black Sea Fleet.

They were ordered to go to Seidilbashir to help the shore defense fortresses against the invaders.
Chapter completed!