The Ming army is gone, leaving behind the ruined Constantinople, and even after two months, there are still countless broken planks left by the destruction of ships floating in the Gulf of Marmara, showing how many ships the Ottomans lost in the sea massacre two months ago. 2.

Originally, the Ottoman Empire's maritime power could not be compared with Britain, Spain, the Netherlands, France and Portugal, but at least it was about the same. However, the Ming fleet came to attack and wiped out more than ninety percent of the Ottoman Empire's maritime power in the first battle.

Now the Ottoman Empire can't even find more than three of its own gunboats on its own sea, and with such a weak strength, it is too difficult to hold the Strait of Constantine and resist the Manchu attack on Constantinople.

The current Ottoman Empire, like an old man in his twilight, is terminally ill and incurable.

The Ming army stayed in Constantinople for two months, and Constantinople has always been the target of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and there are many Manchu spies in it, the reason why the Ming army attacked the Ottoman Empire, and forced the Ottoman Empire to sign a treaty, of course, can not hide from Dolgon.

"What is the reason why Da Ming is doing this?" Standing on the eastern shore of the Strait of Constantine, Dolgon muttered as he looked in the direction of Constantinople.

That's what he's been thinking about.

The Qing Dynasty was no longer building ships all the time, preparing to cross the strait to attack Constantinople and completely destroy the Ottoman Empire. Originally, although the Ottoman Empire lost all its elites in 6 places, it was not a cause for concern, but the sea power was still relatively strong, and under normal circumstances, it might take at least five or six years for the Qing Dynasty to defeat the Ottoman Empire's sea power, cross the strait, and completely destroy the Ottoman Empire.

However, at such a juncture, the Ming Dynasty actually sent an expeditionary fleet to destroy more than ninety percent of the Ottoman Empire's maritime power in a war, and invaded the city of Constantinople, besieged the Ottoman Emperor in the Ottoman Palace, forced the Ottoman Empire to sign a treaty, and extorted 15 million silver coins from the Ottoman Empire.

It is conceivable that the Ottoman Empire, which was already empty in treasury and exhausted in national strength, took out so many reparations at once, which was equivalent to being hit by the Ming Dynasty at the moment of life and death, and completely dismantling the last national strength of the Ottoman Empire.

At this moment, the Ottoman Empire not only lost its elite in the six places, but also the sea power also died, and the resistance was extremely weak.

Dolgon couldn't figure it out, even after two months had passed, he still couldn't figure it out, he didn't believe it was a coincidence, so he had a deep worry in his heart.

However, no matter how hard you think about it, the Ottoman Empire is also a country that will be destroyed by the Qing Dynasty, and since the Ottoman Empire has almost no resistance strength, it is imperative to cross the Strait of Constantine, attack Constantinople, and completely destroy the Ottoman Empire.

Therefore, Dolgon put aside his doubts, mobilized the Qing army on a large scale, and stepped up the supervision of the construction of ships.

And Constantinople is on the other side of the not wide strait, and the actions of the Manchus, of course, will not be unknown to the Ottoman side.

"The Ming army has just left, is the Qing army ready to attack again!" The Ottoman emperor walked back and forth in the palace, full of trepidation and anxiety.

The empire didn't have many troops, and after being ravaged by the Ming army, he couldn't find enough strength to resist the attack of the Qing army, could it be that his Ottoman Empire was about to come to an end!

The Ottoman Emperor was desperate and sent the last forces in the Ottoman Empire to defend Constantinople, hoping to resist the Qing army's attack.

In the 31st year of the Ming Dynasty, on April 20, Dolgon mobilized 400,000 Qing troops and more than 1,100 ships of various types to cross the strait on a large scale to attack Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! "On the waters of the Strait of Constantine, the last of the Ottoman Empire's sea forces were resisting the Qing army's attack, and the only three gunboats desperately bombarded the Qing ships trying to cross the strait.

The shells hit a huge column of water, and from time to time ships full of Qing soldiers were hit, and some unlucky Qing soldiers tumbled into the sea.

The Qing army also built several gunboats with rough technology, and was constantly counterattacking several Ottoman gunboats.

Although the gunboats of the Qing army were not built very well, one gunboat only had a dozen guns, but the artillery of the Qing army was more advanced, even if the Qing soldiers had never fought a naval battle, the seven or eight gunboats of the Qing army were enough to completely suppress three Ottoman gunboats.

After a while, two Ottoman gunboats were hit by Qing gunboats, one of which was hit by three shells in a row, and half of the hull was shattered, while the Qing army had already sunk one gunboat and two gunboats were damaged.

Theoretically speaking, the artillery of the Qing army is much more advanced than the artillery of the Ottoman Empire, even if the Qing gunboat with only a dozen guns, the comprehensive combat effectiveness is more powerful than that of an Ottoman gunboat, but it is a pity that the naval combat experience of the Qing soldiers is equal to zero, and the accuracy of the cannon is too poor, otherwise the Qing army should have sunk only three Ottoman gunboats, not so that they sank one first, and wounded two and did not sink a gunboat of the Ottoman Empire.

After all, the Qing army had more gunboats and more advanced cannons, and when the Qing army paid the price of two sunk and three damaged, they finally sank three gunboats of the Ottoman Empire.

Only three gunboats were sunk, and the Ottomans were left with just over a hundred ordinary ships without cannons.

More than 100 Ottoman ships approached the Qing ships with all their might, and fired rockets at the Qing ships, intending to prevent the Qing army from crossing the Strait of Constantine by the most primitive naval warfare methods.

It is a pity that the Qing army had more than a thousand ships of various types, which occupied an absolute numerical advantage.

Qing soldiers on the Qing ships also fired a large number of rockets at the Ottoman ships, and as the battle reached its most intense, dozens or hundreds of burning ships floated on the sea, both Ottoman and Qing soldiers.

In the end, the Qing army relied on its absolute numerical superiority and burned the last hundred ships of the Ottoman Empire's maritime power, and the Ottoman Empire's maritime power was completely annihilated, and the Ottoman Empire no longer had the ability to prevent the Qing army from crossing the strait.

The ship carrying a large number of Qing soldiers docked in the shallows of Constantinople and began to board quickly6.

As a large number of Qing soldiers landed on the 6th floor, the Ottoman army defending Constantinople also came out and engaged in a fierce battle with the Qing army on the 6th in the shallows.

The Ottoman army stationed in Constantinople numbered about 90,000 people, many of whom were improvised and not highly combative, but they were the last resistance of the Ottoman Empire.

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