158 Europe in flames (1)
Da Yu stands out in the far east, like a chess player, arbitrarily dominating the life and death of the surrounding small countries, and Da Shi, who has long been regarded by Europeans as the spokesman of the East, will meet the challenge of the Mughal people together with his rival Westerners.
The beggars have been lost, the west of the Dnieper River ushered in the army of Yesuhai, the joint resistance of the Rakshasa Grand Duke and the nobles is almost all useless, once the war starts, the army and the people are completely annihilated, looted, burned, slaughtered, even if they surrender, the people and women and children who have taken refuge in the church will not be spared. Advancing westward to Volyn (Volynsky), Yesuhai was faced with two strategic options: either to the south, to invade Bolgar and Fura, on the west bank of the Pontus Sea, or to continue westward, into the Magyar steppe, surrounded by the Korpathian Mountains, or to move north from the Magyar and attack the Porjere. The latter was the favorite route of the Huns Attila and other nomads who often visited the European steppes.
Polieer and Magyar belonged to the iron plate followers of the Great Qin Holy See, and Bolgar was more intimate with the Holy See of Fula, and the two Holy Sees couldn't care about how to clean up the big food in Bahei, and waited helplessly for the thorny whip to be drawn, because the talkative Khut Thorn did not participate in the western expedition, but turned back to the High Kasuo Mountains. How can his nephew and brother sit idly by while his nephew and brother want to grab his little territory? However, the Papal States in the Apennines were obviously farther away from the Mughals than Vienna, the important city of the Germanic 'Holy Qin Empire', and they still had the energy to pay attention to the wars of other countries, for example, to cooperate with the Bahei to prepare the Second Crusade and recreate the glory of the First Crusade.
The Levant was about to meet the ravages of Namban, Ahmad and Tigur rushed to report, Ming Ting immediately ordered everyone to evacuate, the fleet went to Hanes Island at the mouth of the Red Sea, waiting for the mission to converge, the two warships anchored in the port of Suez, to meet Guo Siruo and Xie Qiwei and others, in the case of the canal is not opened, this is the end of the Red Sea.
Not all Westerners will tremble with fear of the Mughurs' westward conquest, except for the Germans and the Great Qin Holy See, who are worried that the Mughurs will not be able to stop the Mughals, Gaul to the west is tearing up with Britain on the other side of the sea, Iberia is trying to get rid of the control of the Celestial Cultists, Po Qiuge and Hongmaoyi are busy making money, and the interruption of the Vashi trade route is not bad for them and the three countries of the Valan. For countries that live on commerce, such as Venice, as a powerful country that once almost dominated the Damascus Sea and the Pontus Sea, there is only one opponent in their eyes, Ottoman, who replaces Whira and competes with them for maritime supremacy.
Ordering Wanhai to stop at Toris, he devoted his energies to building a well-established post system for the places conquered by the Mughals, establishing effective imperial rule, and tracking down his father's killers, the Youhu Duo.
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As the leader of the envoy group, Zhou Ting dutifully began his foreign visit from Lisbon and divided it into three routes. Under the 'friendly hospitality' of the Pochu Song people, Zhou Ting led all the way along the Atlantic Ocean to visit Britain, Hongmaoyi, the three countries of the Valan Sea and the surviving Novgorod. The most important route was led by Gu Hong, the highest-ranking Gu Hong, who traveled by land along Iberia and Gaul into the 'Holy Great Qin Empire', which was named 'Germanic' by the Divine Sect. The last way is to enter the Damascus Sea, walk along the coast of North Africa, and then further north to explore the Kingdom of Italy, if the situation is safe, you can consider going to Venice, Fula, Ottoman, Levant and other places to go around, even if you enter the Pontus Sea to pay a visit to the Mugul. This route is almost all adrift on the sea, and maybe they will have to use force, so naturally it is led by Gu Xun, who is in the prime of life.
Zhou Ting and Gu Hong's task was quite simple, and with the comparison between the Muguls and the Great Cannibals, these countries showed great goodwill to the 'elegant guests of the Far East', and took the initiative to send envoys to Beijing with the ship to find out. Gu Xun was not so lucky, and his brigade did not start well.
The entire coastal region of North Africa, with the exception of Egypt, is known locally as the 'Maghreb', or the 'Moga Hunt' in the Chronicles of the Domains, and is now under the rule of Abdullah Sudan of the Marin Dynasty. Long before Pochugo's independence, the Iberian Peninsula across the sea was the scene of the 'Liberation Movement' against the rule of the Great Eclipse. For the Celestial Cultists who had colonized the Iberian Peninsula for nearly a thousand years, the Iberians on the peninsula had completely renounced Huda's faith and had become the minions of the Great Qin Holy See, and it was incumbent upon them to wage a holy war against them. The towns established by the Celestial Cult continued to be conquered, and the territory continued to shrink and retreat southward, a tug-of-war that lasted for nearly seven centuries. A hundred years ago, it was finally realized that Dashi completely lost this colony, and half of the control of the Tariq Strait, and Iberia became an independent state. At that time, the nascent kingdom of Iberia also made some compromises, allowing the Celestials who had surrendered in the south to retain their faith. The negotiated peace was only temporary, and the jihad and reconquest movements on the southern shores of Iberia never stopped, and now that Iberia was gaining the upper hand, King Alfonso vowed to completely remove the traces of the Celestial Religion, settle the ownership of the Tariq Strait, and keep the Great Cannibals out of the Atlantic. He set up religious courts, burned books, tried people, arrested people, and burned them at the stake, and 300,000 Celestial believers who did not want to convert were confiscated of their property, expelled and persecuted. The entire strait was filled with fleeing fleets and Celestial cultists who were actively engaged in jihad.
Gu Xun tried to present his credentials to Abdullah to express his cordial and friendly greetings, and then received another piece of bad news: even if he could pass through the strait safely, the current Damascus Sea was not calm, and a large-scale naval battle could break out at any time.
As soon as Ottoman's current Sutan Ogachev took office, he invested a lot of manpower and material resources in the navy. His goal was the never-before-breached city of Furak across the Sea of Mmora. In order to cut off the supply lines of the Whik, he had to gain control of the sea, so he purchased the ship's cannon technology from the Great Cannibal and built a large three-masted multi-deck sailing ship with both sails and oars as a warship to create a fleet. As for the experienced sailors, it is enough to directly recruit pirates who have sealed these two seas.
In recent years, the Ottoman fleet cruising in the Aegean Sea under the pirate flag, treating the merchant ships of various countries as fat sheep, often towing them back to their own ports with their ships and goods, and the most damaged of them was naturally Venice, which had the largest trade volume. The looting of the Ottomans had more money to build ships, and all they wanted was war, and they became more and more domineering. Except for a small area opposite the Flak, Ottoman had snatched most of the Anatolian Peninsula, including the coastal ports, from the Whisk.
Venice, where the eastern route is shrinking, has been financially tight for many years, and it is gradually showing decline, and it has been a little pressed. The Venetian rowing ships were generally not large, and even if they were warships, they would lose more than they won against the new ships of Ottoman. What's more, in the battle between Tianzhuhai and the Boqiu Ge people, the newly built ship was almost wiped out, and the family was almost lost. Venice, which turned its gaze back to the Damascus Sea, did not want to immediately cause a war, gritted its teeth at the crazy provocations of the Ottomans, repeatedly raised 'solemn protests', and at the same time increased its national debt, built new ships, and stockpiled supplies for war.
Not long ago, the Ottoman navy brazenly attacked the largest naval base, Crete, defeating the Venetian navy, which was preparing for the Second Crusade, with its face under its feet. Now, seeing the Mughal people on the land rushing towards Ottoman, there is a God-given opportunity, not to fight at this time, but when!
The Venetian merchants, together with the Iberians, who had also been plundered, and with the financial support of the Flora, mobilized their national strength to engage the Ottoman fleet in the waters on their doorstep. With only half the number of men or ships of his opponent, the commander-in-chief of the Venetian navy still bravely and fearlessly ordered all men to meet the enemy, and first engaged in three large skirmishes to gain the upper hand, forcing the Ottomans to expose the thirty stone cannons on the side of the ship. The dense shells prevented the Venetian boats from approaching from the side, breaking many of the masts and rendering the boats unmobile. In order to allow the Venetian crew on the ship, the two Venetian galleons that were originally in front of the Ottoman fleet and blocked the way quickly filled their sails and attacked the Ottoman command ship on the left and right, starting hand-to-hand combat. Although the Venetians were inferior to third-rate infantry on land, they were much stronger at sea than the seasick Turks, and they pressed into the command room in close combat, and almost immediately took the new Ottoman ship. In desperation, Commander Ottoman lit the oil depot in the command room, and the two Venetian galleons were burned along with his own ship with a flying tongue of fire, and the three ships were reduced to pieces in the blazing black smoke and sank into the sea.
This heroic self-detonation and dying spirit peculiar to the Celestial cultists encouraged the Ottoman navy, and they began to attack the Venetian warships in a frenzy, and the Venetian commander had to abandon more than a dozen small ships that had lost their masts and retreat westward. The Ottomans won the victory at the cost of more than 2,500 dead and wounded, while the Venetians, who had lost in many ways, had to negotiate peace with the Ottomans and continue to hibernate, burying their heads in raising money to build ships and waiting for the next decisive battle.
AFTER GOING NORTH TO MEET THE KINGDOM OF ITALY AND THE PAPAL STATES, HE WAS FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO WATCH A SPECTACULAR NAVAL BATTLE UP CLOSE, GU XUN DIDN'T PLAN TO VENTURE DEEPER AND TURNED AROUND AND WENT HOME. He had plenty of time, and when he went around Africa, he not only recorded and explored many hydrological and geographical conditions along the way, marked supply islands and scattered strongholds on the shore, drew detailed maps, purchased nautical charts with a lot of money, collected a large number of special species that he had never seen before, and captured a dozen or so 'Kunlun slaves' who dared to come to offend, and prepared to take them back to be presented to Uncle Shenzong as a gift for the Holy Birthday.
After the envoy activities that lasted more than a year were successfully completed, in the spring of the ninth year of Shenzong, the mission and caravan brought back a large number of national gifts and goods, and after meeting with the large army in Hanis, the Ming court ordered to return.
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The elusive Yusu Yufu and Huyanjie will not stay in the Shen River, but there are not many places for them to make a comeback, and beyond the shadow of the Mughals, only Egypt and the countries west of the Damascus Sea are likely to be spared. The land was more suitable for camels, and horseback riders had no choice but to go ashore from Egypt.
From the distance point of view, if the Levant can't stop the 20,000 people in Namban, the next turn will be Egypt, but the Levant is not a simple place, even if the current people do not know how many centuries modern countries such as Lebanon, Israel, Iraq, Syria and Palestine have been at war in this narrow strip of land, the existence of a holy city alone has made these ancients shed their blood for nearly a thousand years.
Whether it was because of its significance to the Holy See and the faithful, or because of its role as a wedge for Europeans in the East, the Templars survived independently and tenaciously under the siege of the Celestial Church for nearly a hundred years with the full support of the West. If the Levant falls, the Holy City will bear the brunt, and the Mamulu people to the south can wait for the best moment before attacking.
The two of them came for exactly that.
The Levant and Egypt are still fresh in their memories of the recent sweep of the Persian plateau, not to mention the fact that they had defeated the Muguls, and both the Levant and Egypt welcomed such players from the bottom of their hearts. But they would not be so stupid as to open the door and scatter flowers on their own, meet the sworn enemies of the Mugul, and give the Muguls a reason to attack them first.
When the two set foot in the port of Suez, as a Decalyptus, the newly appointed governor of Egypt, Baibar, quietly sent their group of nearly 100 people to the Holy City, where he 'acquiesced' to them to gather the Celestials to retake the Holy City for Ayyubid and gain a place in the Levant. No matter how bad it is, these people, like the Knights, can at least resist the advance of the Mughals a little, so that Baibars can free up their hands to solve the domestic problems.