No one could sleep that night, at least no one could sleep peacefully.

As soon as the morning dawns, these young warriors will be launched from their boats, and then they will be rowing their boats, splitting the waves, and rushing to the beaches of Baku.

And in these humble troop carriers, the whole fleet knew in their hearts: in a few hours, the death of some of them was coming.

The soldiers can't sleep peacefully, and as their commander, Zhu Hewei can't sleep peacefully, in fact, he is no different from ordinary soldiers now, the only difference is that he doesn't need to sleep on the gondola, he lies on his back on the bed, closes his eyes, but he doesn't feel sleepy at all. He could only hear the sound of the waves coming from the window, which shook the ship as if it were playing a lullaby, but he could not sleep.

Maybe you should squint for a moment.

Tomorrow is sure to be a very difficult day.

Zhu Hewei thought so in his heart, but he couldn't sleep, his eyes stared at the cabin and slowly looked around, and his mind gradually became clearer. Once again, many things are coming to mind. It was these things that made it impossible for him to sleep peacefully.

He was the king of the west of the Ming Dynasty, and his wife was the heir to the Roman Empire, and he also had the right to inherit the Roman Empire...... Rome, however, was under Turkish occupation, despite the promise that his father would help him recover Constantinople and that he and his wife would wear the crown of the Roman Empire there.

But the long wait made him lose his patience.

I'll wear that crown in my own way. Of course, on the other hand, he wanted to prove himself to his father and the world. Prove that you are fully qualified to wear that crown.

When this thought surfaced, the tension in his heart also dissipated, but then a bunch of messy things surfaced again, what funds, troops, personnel, etc., a lot of questions came to his mind, and he was overwhelmed again.

He sighed, then sat up, slowly put on his clothes, and hesitantly climbed out of bed in the darkness. Then, Zhu Heqi sat in the cabin for a while, and when he silently took out his cigarette and wanted to smoke, he heard someone say in the dark.

"King, can't sleep?"

It was Zhao Wanli, he was the second son of Zhao Wei, the Marquis of Chengyi, who entered the military academy at the age of fifteen, and sat all the way to the deputy commander of the town.

From then on, they became true kings.

"Hmm!"

Nodding silently, Zhu Heyan said in a deep voice.

"What will be the result tomorrow, this king does not know, but ......"

When the words came to his lips, he still hadn't spoken yet. Unlucky words, can't be said.

"King, in fact, this is nothing, it is nothing more than a siege of the city, and by six o'clock tomorrow afternoon at the latest, the minister will definitely take Baku City for you!"

As a soldier, after the king made the decision to capture Baku, Zhao Wanli did his homework, and he had enough confidence in the siege.

"It's just a small border city of Safavid (Persia), and the key is that after the capture of the city, in addition to the threat of the Turks, we must also take into account the attitude of the nominal owner of the Safavid."

Although he is a soldier, it does not mean that Zhao Wanli does not understand politics, in fact, among many candidates, the reason why Zhu Hewei chose him is because he is more like a civilian official than a military general.

"There is no need to worry about the Safavid side for the time being, that Suleiman I has no interest in political affairs, he would rather stay in the harem than intervene in the affairs of the court, and now the affairs of the Safavid side are in the hands of the prime minister and the council composed of the eunuchs of the harem. The prime minister and the eunuchs are in collusion, corruption is rampant, Baku is just a small border city that belongs to them in name for them, and they will never risk offending the Ming Dynasty to fight for such a small border city! ”

The reason why Zhu Hewei chose Baku in the first place was not only because it was once the territory of the Roman Empire, but more importantly, because neither the Turks nor the Safavids would risk conflict with the Ming to stop his attack because of such a "foreign land". All he needs is an opportunity to take advantage of it, to gain a foothold here, and then to expand further.

The king's explanation made Zhao Wanli nod and say.

"That's true, but the king, what if they want to send troops? The Turks, the Safavids, it's a land of four wars! ”

Facing Zhao Wanli's worries, Zhu Heqi said with a smile.

"It's true that the land of the four wars is true, but it is precisely because of this that this place will become a land of disintegration, because neither Turkey nor the Safavid will tolerate the other side occupying this place, and we want to take advantage of the contradictions between them to seize this area."

Plan!

For everything in the future, Zhu Hewei has his own plan, and he clearly remembers what his father once said to him.

I remember that one night, he was in the imperial garden with his father.

"You are different from your brothers, perhaps, your father did not give you a fiefdom, but you will become the emperor!"

Zhu Mingzhong looked at him and said that among all the brothers, Zhu Hewei is the ninth, and he is not old according to his age, but his identity is unusual, he is the son of Zhu Mingzhong and Shi Zhao, which is also the reason why he was chosen as the emperor of the Roman Empire, because of a very special compensation psychology.

Of course, for Zhu Hehao, he didn't know all this, he just knew that he would become the emperor, and his other brothers were just monarchs.

Emperor of the Roman Empire!

Standing on the deck, Zhu Hewei thought of the crown that his wife had married, and he could not understand the meaning of the crown that he symbolized as a Ming dynasty, but it was certain that the crown gave him the power to be emperor of the Roman Empire.

At about three o'clock in the morning, as the ship's bell rang, the deck was lively, and after a night of sailing, this fleet of hundreds of merchant ships of all kinds finally arrived off the coast of Baku.

At this time, the city of Baku was outside of darkness, and the ships of the entire fleet were slowly sailing in the black waters, and the gunners on the gun emplacements were nervously waiting behind the gun emplacements.

This fleet is not a fleet, but a merchant fleet recruited by Zhu Hewei in the Caspian Sea, after all, his army needs to arrive in Baku by boat, of course, this does not mean that he does not have his own warships, in fact, there are six "warships" in the fleet, in fact, they are nothing more than armed merchant ships.

However, before the siege, it was not the armed merchant ships that played a role, but the Kang's rocket, which is a gunpowder propelled rocket, which is composed of arrows and balance rods, although its accuracy is average, but this rocket is still popular, because the rocket has the characteristics of fast rate of fire, long range, and flexible mobility compared to artillery, and it is this characteristic that makes the Kang's rocket stand out in many conflicts with the natives.

However, the reason why Zhu Hewei chose this rocket is because it is cheap enough! Another reason, of course, is that it is extremely flexible in use, and almost every ship can become its launch platform.

"Let's start the siege!"

Staring at the city in the dark, Zhu Heyan said to Zhao Wanli beside him.

At four o'clock in the morning, with a sharp whistling sound, hundreds of rockets dragged the flaming red tail flames and crossed the air in arcs, and they intertwined into fiery red trajectories in the air.

For a time, the heavens and the earth were filled with the deafening whistling sound of rockets.

The night was lit up by rockets, and the sea was lit up at this moment.

This scene is completely different from the scene that Zhu Hewei has experienced before, but it is somewhat familiar, just like the fireworks on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, it does not make people feel nervous in the meantime, this is not even like a battlefield, but it is like watching a fireworks show, like enjoying the fireworks on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, which only makes people feel that the picture is magnificent and wonderful.

Zhu Heqi could see the gods, and just as he was admiring the beauty of the rocket with amazed eyes, a red and yellow fireball lit up outside Baku, a rocket exploded, and the next moment, Baku was lit up.

Hundreds of rockets trailed in a fiery trajectory and fell into the city of Baku like meteors, and the cloud of smoke from the explosion quickly enveloped the city, plunging the city into a sea of fire.

The explosion in the early hours of the morning woke the city from its slumber, along with Miel Mohammed, a native of Turkmenistan in the Afshar tribe, who called himself "Khan" in Baku, but even then he was the de facto emperor of Baku.

When he woke up from his dream, his instinctive reaction was to push the woman next to him, grab the Damascus scimitar at the head of the bed naked, and shout.

"Is it the Persians, or the Turks?"

As the de facto ruler of Baku, Miel and his ancestors had always maintained their power and Baku's autonomy through the contradictions between Persia and Turkey, and knowing the ambitions of both countries, he took it for granted that either the Persians or the Turks had called.

"No, I don't know......"

In reply to the frightened cries of the servants, a sharp whistling once again pierced the sky and smashed towards Baku,

Raising his head to look at the sky, Miyr saw a series of fiery meteors, which streaked across the sky and landed in the city of Baku, raising clouds of exploding smoke, and in the deafening explosion, Miyle did not even lower his head, he held the scimitar in his hand, and a doubt flashed in his mind.

Isn't it them?

Of course not them!

Throughout the night, the fleet's attack on the city of Baku did not stop, in less than three hours, the fleet was like Baku dumped more than 25,000 rockets, in addition to explosive bombs, there were more than 15,000 incendiary bombs, compared to explosive bombs, incendiary bombs are undoubtedly more destructive, the explosive power of black powder is limited, but incendiary bombs can ignite nearby buildings, a large number of incendiary bombs plunged the entire city into flames.

At seven o'clock in the morning, when thousands of soldiers rowed their sampans and began to land, Baku was still burning, the whole city was almost razed to the ground, and many places outside the city were also burning and smoking, and when the troops landed, the enemy on the shore did not even fight back, in fact, in the process of rocket attack, the batteries outside the city also tried to counterattack, but because of the small caliber and short range of the artillery, it did not pose much threat to the fleet at all, and their counterattack was not effective, but was shelled by the gunboats of the fleet. The rudimentary batteries and artillery on the shore were blown into the sky.

It was only after the landing that they began to encounter a less violent counterattack. In fact, Baku, which has been razed to the ground, has completely lost the strength of resistance, and the flames burning inside and outside the city, not only have a large number of civilians been caught in the fire, but also many soldiers may have died in the fire, even if a small number of soldiers survived, they often thought first of all to save their families in the fire rather than help the Khan defend the city.

After the modest resistance was broken, the attacking forces stopped their assault on the city - Baku had been engulfed in flames, and they had no way to storm the city, at least until the fire was extinguished.

Who are they?

Looking at those Orientals who broke in from the sea, a question undoubtedly arose in Hait's mind, as merchants, of course, from the appearance and words of these people, they were Mingren.

However, their uniforms were not the uniforms of the Ming army.

In the Western Regions where Haitt once went, he did business with Ming merchants in the Western Regions, and he had also seen those Ming soldiers in red uniforms, but these people were wearing green military uniforms.

If they are not the Ming army, then who are they?

Just as the thought came to Hait's mind, there was a dense sound of gunfire, which made his heart tremble, he didn't know what was going on over there, but he was sure that it was definitely not a war, maybe they were dealing with something.

Amid the choking smoke, Hait, like his family and other survivors, walked towards the beach, which was probably safer than the city that was still burning, at least on the beach, without choking smoke and without choking people's breath.

Some things are always unavoidable in the war, on the way to the sea, Hait is blind to what he sees along the way, even if there is an occasional scream from someone around him, he chooses to bow down, as an Armenian, he is just an inferior person who is bullied in Baku, and he has long been used to everything that may happen.

"God bless ......"

As Haitt prayed to God and walked towards the sea, he was still some distance from the shore when he overheard a flag fluttering on a ship at sea.

"It's a two-headed eagle!"