Chapter 1012: Straight to Constantinople
In February of the 31st year of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty, which had just completed the war against France for a few months, once again opened a war against the Ottoman Empire. Ww'W.' ⒉
Radio orders were issued from the city of Nanjing, and the 6th Squadron of the Americas was divided into 30 battleships, and 5,000 soldiers formed a new expeditionary force fleet to expedition against the Ottoman Empire.
After about a month and a half of sailing, the expeditionary fleet sailed into the Greek waters of the western Mediterranean, preparing to pass north to Constantinople via the Aegean Sea.
When you come to the western Mediterranean, you can already see a lot of ships belonging to the Ottoman Empire.
Before the expeditionary fleet set sail, the Ming fully understood the flag marking of the Ottoman Empire, etc., so he could tell that the ship belonged to the Ottoman Empire.
In the face of these Ottoman ships, Huang Haitao did not relent, and ordered the battleships to sink them all.
"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! "One ship after another hanging the Ottoman Empire was sunk.
Due to the huge range of the guns of the Ming battleships, as well as the navigation of the ships, no Ottoman ship could escape, and as long as it came into sight, it would inevitably be sunk.
With the breath of destruction, the fleet of the Great Ming Expeditionary Force continued to approach Constantinople, the core of the Ottoman Empire, and sailed all the way, and the sea was full of Ottoman ships sunk by the Ming battleships, broken wooden planks, floating corpses, and so on.
Sailing to the middle of the Aegean Sea, he began to encounter Ottoman warships patrolling the sea, which was the true maritime power of the Ottoman Empire.
In the face of these Ottoman warships, the Ming fleet did not spare any hands and sank them with all their might.
"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! "Huge columns of water were blown up, and Ottoman warships were shattered and sunk into the sea.
There were also Ottoman battleships that fired a few shots at the Ming battleship before they sank.
It's a pity, not to mention the range of the Ming battleships, the two sides are not less than three or four thousand meters apart, and the backward copper and iron cannons on the Ottoman battleships have a range of only a few hundred and a thousand meters, which is not up to the range at all, and cannot bring even the slightest threat to the Ming battleships.
Even the more powerful European battleships could only be slaughtered in the face of the steel battleships of the Ming Dynasty, not to mention these much backward Ottoman battleships.
There was no way to fight back, as long as it was encountered by the Ming fleet, not a single Ottoman warship could escape.
In this way, the Ming fleet approached Constantinople with a devastating momentum.
Finally, three hours later, the Ming fleet reached the northern Aegean Sea and prepared for the Gulf of Marmara, the lair of the Ottoman maritime power to defend the safety of Constantinople.
Entering the Gulf of Marmara is a narrow waterway with a width of only a few kilometers, and at its narrowest point it is only more than 2,000 meters, and the entire surface of the water is within the range of the Ottoman coastal defense guns on both sides.
It was because of this waterway, which can be called a moat on the water, that Constantinople, the core of the Ottoman Empire, dared to build on the coast.
Although the number of Ming battleships was only thirty, they were not afraid of the threat of this waterway.
Finally, the battleships of the Ming fleet were fearless and sailed into this narrow channel that can be called the lifeblood of Constantinople.
"God of God! What a monster that! As soon as the Ming battleship sailed into this waterway, the Ottoman soldiers on both sides pointed to the huge Ming battleship in horror, they had never seen such a sea battleship as the Ming battleship, and they thought they had seen a monster.
"Boom! Rumble! "Boom ----" responded to them by the cannons of the Daming battleships firing at them.
Powerful naval artillery shells blew away one Ottoman soldier after another on the shore.
"Enemy! They are all enemies! Only then did the Ottoman soldiers on both sides of the strait react, no matter what kind of monsters they saw, in short, they must be enemies.
"Fight back!" The shore defense guns on both sides of the strait began to aim at the Ming battleships that sailed into this narrow strait.
"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! "More than 300 guns of all kinds were firing at full strength.
The shells fired by the Ottoman cannons were almost all solid bullets, hitting the hull of the Ming battleship, only rubbing out some sparks, and some armor was dented.
Of course, there were also unlucky Ming naval soldiers, but all the Ming naval soldiers who were grazed by these solid shells were either dead or disabled, but also caused some casualties to the Ming naval soldiers on the battleship.
However, they soon ushered in the retaliation of the Ming battleships.
"Boom! Rumble! "Wherever there are shells flying, they all usher in the counterattack of the Ming naval guns."----
One after another the Ottoman coastal defense guns on both sides of the strait were destroyed, and at the same time, a large number of Ottoman soldiers who operated the shore defense guns were killed and wounded, and the naval guns of the Ming battleships were very fierce, and all the Ottoman coastal defense guns on both sides of the strait were suppressed in an instant.
In fact, what frightened the Ottomans the most was that even if their cannons hit the Ming battleship, it would only cause minor damage to the Ming battleship, and it was impossible to sink the Ming battleship.
"Monster! It's really a monster! "Being killed and wounded by the guns of the Ming battleships, and destroying more than half of the shore defense guns at once, the Ottoman soldiers on both sides of the strait were full of fear, their bodies were trembling, and some Ottoman soldiers fell directly to the ground, praying for the blessing of their true gods, they believed that only the great true gods could defeat these monsterous enemies.
They ushered in not their true gods, but still a large number of Ming naval artillery shells.
"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! In less than half an hour, all the Ottoman coastal defense guns on both sides of the strait were destroyed, and on the side of the Ming battleships, only seven or eight of them suffered a little damage, which did not affect their combat effectiveness.
Without the threat of shore artillery, the Ming expeditionary fleet easily passed through this narrow strait and entered the Gulf of Marmara, the stronghold of Ottoman maritime power.
Almost eighty percent of the Ottoman maritime power was gathered here, not only dozens of gunboats were here, but hundreds of ships of various types were almost all here.
Thirty Ming battleships were like tigers rushing into a flock of sheep.
"Boom! Rumble! The "bombardment---- constantly bombarded all the ships in sight, whether it was a battleship, a fishing boat, or any other vessel, they had only one target, and all of them were sunk.
In order to completely destroy the Ottoman sea power, the Ming brought a large number of artillery shells, although they only sent thirty battleships.
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