France and Venice are both fighting to defeat Spain, and Marin, the initiator, has no time to pay attention to the Italian side for the time being. Because, he got a very important news......

"This is the arquebus of the Ottoman Turks?" Marin looked curiously at the musket that the spies sent to Turkey had brought back.

"Yes, Grand Duke, this is the musket that the Ottoman Praetorian Army is currently massively equipped! It took a lot of money for his subordinates to get this sample from one of the generals of the Sudanese Janissary Army in the name of 'scrapping'. It is said that the new Ottoman Sultan attached great importance to firearms and had already massively promoted this arquebus among the Ottoman forbidden army! Meir, a spy who had been lurking in Constantinople (now called Istanbul) for several years, said respectfully. Meir was a Jew, and the Ottoman Empire was relatively kind to the Jews, and when the Spanish kings expelled the Jews from the territory, the Ottoman Empire specially accepted a large number of Jews who had originally lived in Spain to live in Istanbul. It just so happened that Marin wanted to spy on Jews in recent years, so he arranged for Meir, a Jewish spy, to go to Istanbul, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, as a Spanish Jewish refugee.

And Ma Lin also knew very well in his heart - the arquebus he got in front of him may be the famous Lu Mi gun recorded in the history of the Ming Dynasty!

However, Marin saw the shadow of the Spanish Mushkert musket on this Rumi gun from the Ottoman Empire. Unlike the Mushkert arquebus, the Ottoman Rumi Gun appears to be smaller, and its bullets are not as heavy as the 50 grams of the Mushkert musket, and probably close to the 30.23 grams of the Beihai Army......

"Where did the Ottoman Turks get their arquebus technology?" Marin was a little confused. But suddenly, Marin remembered a possibility - the Jews that the Ottoman Turks had taken from Spain......

Jews were very intelligent, and were generally engaged in commerce or crafts. It is said that the total number of Spanish Jews who were taken by Turkey was as high as 200,000. It is likely that among these 200,000 people, there were craftsmen who knew how to make Mushket muskets. After all, the Mushket musket was originally from Spain......

"I see, the place of origin of the Rumi gun is actually Spain. In other words, did the Spaniards lift a stone and drop it...... No, not in the foot, but in the foot of all Europeans......"

It is said that after taking the 200,000 Jews, the Ottoman Turkish Sultan Bayezid II triumphantly wrote to the kings of Spain, declaring that "King Ferdinand II of Spain was a 'great' ruler who would rather be poor than give his wealth to others...... It is clear that Bayezid II benefited greatly from this group of Jews. For example, advances in technology......

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Marin, of course, did not care how much benefit the Ottoman Turks received. The reason why he sent people to monitor Ottoman Turkey was because he was very concerned about the future military conflict between Turkey and the Mamluk dynasty in Egypt.

The Battle of the Dabik Steppe, near Aleppo, Syria, more than two years later, led to the fall of the Mamluk dynasty and the complete rise of Ottoman Turkey, which gained the power of the Ottoman Empire in Syria and Egypt, and has since had the power to crush Europe......

After all, Egypt and Syria have always been the richest agricultural regions in the Middle East. Having got Egypt, the power of the Ottoman Empire went straight to the next level.

But after the Ottoman Empire's power skyrocketed, it directly became the most terrifying threat in Europe. Moreover, their troops were directed directly at the German region. And this is obviously what Marin, as a German prince, does not want to see.

Next, Marin had to reshuffle the cards within Germany, not wanting a powerful Ottoman Empire to stir things up. Therefore, Marin had to prevent the Ottoman Turks from destroying the Mamluk dynasty. Meir was sent to Turkey mainly to observe the movements of Turkey's military affairs......

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A year earlier, Selim, the third prince of Ottoman Turkey, had staged a coup d'état, poisoning his father, Bayezid II, and killing two of his elder brothers, becoming the ninth Sultan of Ottoman Turkey, Selim I.

Selim I paid great attention to the strength of the army, and also vigorously promoted artillery in the army, and also began to promote arquebuses on a large scale.

Marin vaguely remembers that in the Battle of Dabik Steppe, it seems that Selim I dispatched 12,000 European infantry, using arquebuses and chariot formations (similar to Marin's Yu Dayou chariot formation, the difference is that there are no spears in front of the chariots, and the vehicles are larger. It seems that it is the way of ancient China. After all, the Turks were also Turkic descendants who fled from China to Western Asia), withstood the attack of the ferocious Mamluk cavalry, buying time for the Turkish cavalry's counterattack. It can be said that the Mamluk cavalry was defeated by the battle formation formed by the Turks.

Because, in terms of cavalry strength alone, the Mamluks at this time were in no way inferior to the Turks. In the Battle of the Dabik Steppe alone, the Mamluks dispatched tens of thousands of cavalry. In terms of total military strength, the strength of the Mamluks at that time was 80,000, while the Turks had 60,000. Had it not been for the 12,000 European-style infantry recruited by Turkey from the Balkans to hold off the Mamluk cavalry charge with arquebuses, the Turks would not have won at all.

Of course, the Mamluks weren't fools either. Egypt, on its part, is actually promoting firearms in the military. However, they are not promoting as fast as Turkey. It was not until before the outbreak of the war that the Egyptians began to promote artillery in the army, and they did not have time to promote arquebuses.

On the other hand, the Turkish army, after Selim I came to power, vigorously promoted arquebuses in the army and established a large musket unit. Its musketeers were recruited mainly from Europeans in the Balkan Peninsula. The arquebus they used was the arquebus, which was historically known as the "Rumi Gun". Therefore, the fall of the Mamluk dynasty was largely attributed to Lu Miquan......

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However, the historic Battle of Dabik Steppe would not break out until 1516, and now Marin has time to intervene. Like what...... Supply arquebuses to the Mamluks......

Thinking of this, Marin found the craftsman and instructed:

"You study this Turkish musket carefully, I want you to start mass production of this musket. And then ......" Marin smiled, it must have been sold to the Mamluks.

At that time, the Mamluks also had a large number of musketeers, and they were also equipped with Rumi guns, so it would be more fun......

In terms of cavalry, the strength of the Mamluks was not weaker than that of the Ottoman Turks. Artillery or something, there were no less Mamluks. If the shortcomings of the musket are also filled, I really don't know what the consequences of the Battle of Dabik Steppe will be......

I just don't know how many MMPs there are in the hearts of the Turks when they see that the troops of the Mamluk dynasty on the opposite side are also heavily equipped with the Lumi guns they invented......