"I'm Venice....... I ....... Venice"

The governor who was guarding Poros gasped for breath and almost suffocated before he could even out.

Looking at the wharf that was being strafed, and then looking at the Han people who put down their sampans and pushed their cannons onto land in the distance, the governor felt that the world was changing too fast, and he couldn't accept it.

The Venetians were accustomed to having consuls on each colony. And in general, we like to use the word governor to describe it.

The Venetians' own supreme leader, Doge, was born from the Latin duke. But in reality, the word was meant to be a similar word for consuls. Therefore, we uniformly called the Venetian consuls dukes, and the colonial governors as governors.

The Venetians pursued a policy of ethnic segregation. They believed that the Venetians were flesh and blood, everywhere. And this also caused a lot of trouble. Like Crete.

Crete, the trading center of the Venetian maritime empire, was the place where the rebellion against the Venetians was fiercest.

Where the Venetians' St. Mark's flag is planted, the tax is received. How could the Venetians, who had to collect heavy taxes even on their own, spare everyone? Jews, in particular, were tragic, burdened with heavy taxes.

And Crete, as the core of the Venetian maritime empire, is particularly tragic. Cretan wheat was requisitioned to Venice to replenish it, and the men, as naval sailors, had to pay heavy taxes every year. It can be said that Crete carried the pain of Venice and did not get the benefits it deserved.

One hundred and fifty years? Two hundred years? Countless resistances, large and small, broke out.

The Cretans rebelled against the Venetian dukes countless times, but eventually they were reduced to an even heavier tax hell.

Today, however, is different.

Chen Jia personally brought the navy to Gandia.

Candia is now Clandia in Crete, in the northwest of the island. Heraklion, the largest city in Crete, was the second largest city at this time. It was renamed Chania by the Venetians. (Heraklion will be used later to distinguish between Heraklion and Gandea.) Don't mind, everyone)

There is only one city on the island of Euboea, Negroponte. It is at the junction of the Duchy of Athens with the island of Euboea. The rest of the place was just guarded by some Italian landlords. At the end of the day, they can't afford to make waves. In the same way, after the bloodbath of the colony of Constantinople, the Venetians could no longer make any waves. Now there are only two things to worry about.

One was the anchor ship of the Venetians, and the other was the pivotal role of Crete.

Whoever holds Crete falls into the hands of the Aegean Sea and the Eastern Mediterranean. Without Crete, what did the Venetians do business with the Mamluks?

The main ship of the Venetians must have been on the island of Venice. This time, Pan Daoquan, who was desperate for his life, had already spent a lot of money to visit Slovenia and Dalmatia. The main ships of the Venetians did not appear in either place.

The Venetian colonial cities of Othello, Zara, Ragusa, Palento, and Di Lieste finally showed the swaying posture that a colony should have. That's where the folly of the Venetians comes in.

The country of the Venetians, after all, was a commune. In the final analysis, a new commune will be created in another city. Like the city-states of the Greeks, the Venetians abandoned their vast lands and subjects and condensed themselves into a small but fine iron stamen. Its expansion is never permanent.

When Chen Jia stood on the deck, the people of Gandia had already rang the bell in panic.

The terrified Venetians gathered on the docks, pushing their cannons and preparing to resist the enemy's onslaught.

The Venetians valued Crete so much that they set up a duke and several governors in Crete. And of the less than 100,000 Venetian citizens, there are more than 10,000 in Crete. It can be seen that the Venetians want to hold Crete in the palm of their hands.

"It's time. Fire! "Chen Jia came to Crete with pride.

In order to encourage the development of the Navy, but also to divide the powers of the Privy Council. The privy envoy went from one person to two people. And logistics and other matters were left to the Ministry of War. This caused Chen Hanlin to be extremely unhappy. He went from having an overview of the whole situation to having an overview of the army. The navy was divided to Chen Jia.

Of course. This naval privy envoy was temporary. Chen Jia agreed with everyone that once he broke through Venice's various territories in the Mediterranean, and threatened Venice to achieve a victory, he could break the domestic convention and rise to the position of one-half of the Privy Council.

At this point, Chen Jia has already set his sights further.

Cabinet......

After the fantasy was over, Chen Jia began to watch the artillery performance happily.

Powerful firepower is ploughing the Venetian watchtowers!

"None of them will be left!" Li Anshi said!

Attacking Poros, the Venetians on the island were very troublesome for the army. The cowardly Greeks were fine. So Andrew Lee decided to teach the Venetians a lesson.

Not a single one to stay!

The soldiers, pushing large and small cannons, rushed to the watchtowers on the high ground. That was the last retreat of the Venetians on the island of Kefalonia.

"Siege! Siege! Dare to kill my Han people! I will kill his whole family. Li Anshi personally carried the flag and kept waving it on the high ground. On dozens of ships, small sampans were connected into pontoon bridges, and Spartan companies and Greek auxiliaries were constantly disembarking.

"Father, will you give me the flag?" Li Anshi's son Li Zhijing said in embarrassment. Li Anshi is already in his forties, and it is not good to do it like this again.

Li Anshi kicked Li Zhijing down, scolded and said: "You and I have been bullied to the doorstep, you still let me go down, do you have a face?" I don't even feel faceless! Governing the Codex! ”

The second Li Zhidian hurriedly ran over.

"You go to the artillery position! Tell them that this is my battle for the right name of Anshi Lee! It's also a battle for their reputation! If you want not to be looked down upon in the future, then show your strength! Blast that castle! ”

More than 8,000 people from all directions, plus civilians, sailors, merchants and hired laborers, more than 10,000 people set up a merciless siege camp outside this castle!

Navy naval guns, army eight-pounder, four-pounder and two-pounder guns.

Li Zhidian looked at the sturdy castle and shook his head. It is no longer the Crusader era of a hundred years ago. No matter how good a castle is, it can't be worth a cannon.

The castle of the Venetians is really well repaired. The castle with a radius of nearly a kilometer is built of solid stone bricks. Fortresses, watchtowers, watchtowers....... Such a multifunctional knight's castle is even more powerful than that of Western Europe.

"So what? What do I want you to do? Open fire! Bombardment! Li Anshi angrily scolded the commander of the Spartan company who came to ask for instructions.