Port Alexandria, 31°12'N, 29°15'E, 208 km northwest of Cairo. Once the most important seaport of Egypt on the Mediterranean coast, it has been the eastern political, economic and cultural center of the Mediterranean since the time of the Ptolemaic dynasty of ancient Egypt.

However, as the power of the Celestial Men continued to decline in Central and West Asia, the city's importance on the Mediterranean shipping route gradually declined, and the discovery of the Cape of Good Hope passage almost completely crushed its economy. It's still busy, but it's no longer as lush as it used to be.

The Qin side came here in person, the shipyard in Alexandria has now become the military shipyard of the Qin family, and since last year, the warships that have just been built here will become the main force of the new Qin family's Mediterranean fleet and join the war in front of them.

If it was possible, the Qin side was not willing to choose this way, although the Qin family had indeed been not good at the navy, but the Qin side still knew that the navy's warships could not participate in the war without a considerable period of sea trials.

But there is no way, they don't have time.

This war completely broke the plan of the Qin family's navy, and everything had to make way for this war.

Qin Fang sat on his own warship, lined up from the port of Alexandria, the port of Alexandria is a bay neck estuary, the harbor is almost a semicircle, and then at both ends of the harbor are two peninsulas that stretch forward from the shore to embrace the harbor.

Some time ago, the port was sabotaged by enemy spies, but due to the preparation for war, the garrison of the port has been greatly strengthened, and the shipyards in the port have not been affected.

The ships were launched on schedule.

There were twelve ships in total, four of which were more than 600 tons of warships, and the others were shallow gunboats with a displacement of about one or two hundred tons, a kind of warship specially designed by the Academy to fight in the Mediterranean Sea.

The sea conditions in the Mediterranean Sea are relatively gentle, and the Egyptians in ancient times could fight in the Mediterranean Sea with wooden platoons, not to mention the current special warships.

The characteristics of this kind of shallow water gunboat are that the hull is slender, the ship speed is fast, relatively flexible, although there are not many gun emplacements on the ship, but on this relatively stable sea, the hit rate of the gun will also increase accordingly. It should be good to use as a secondary battleship.

You must know that the power of the guns on the Tianzhu warship is far beyond this era, and there will be no situation where the gunners on the ship will not be able to sink the enemy ship after dozens or hundreds of cannons around a warship.

In addition, these shallow gunboats and battleships are all equipped with Tianzhu's unique marine steam engines, which drive paddle wheel propellers, and will have a good speed even in the relatively calm Mediterranean, which will definitely surprise the enemy.

Compared to these ships, the coalition ships in the Aegean Sea will be as slow as turtles, and this will become a magic weapon for their own victory at that time.

Moreover, although the ships of this fleet are very new, the members of the fleet are not new, they are all veterans who have been galloping on the domestic sea for many years, and the Qin family is recruiting these crew members to give a very high salary. After being recruited, these crew members were also sent to the fleet of the Imperial Navy for special training.

The Qin family actually paid a lot for the future of this fleet.

So even if the size of this fleet is pitifully small and the number is pitiful, but their combat effectiveness is not too disappointing.

The Qin side decided to let them out, and let this extremely small but elite fleet attack the enemy's transport lines and bleed the huge bodies of the enemy's coalition forces.

There is no more deadly blow in war than the direct sinking of an enemy ship, and the greedy merchants of Venice, Genoa, and Florence in the allied armies will know the cruelty of war!

The fleet sailed out of the port safely and into the Mediterranean, looking at the calm sea in front of him, Qin Fang foresaw that this sea was about to boil because of their arrival.

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In September, on the Syrian and Babylonian fronts, near Aleppo on the Western Front, the Byzantines again gathered troops to attack the city, but with the main Japanese army defending the city in the city, they were defeated three times.

A few days later, the Byzantine Western Route Army tried to cross Aleppo to attack south, but was defeated again by the Japanese army who left the city at a hundred miles southwest of the city.

In the battle, the Byzantines again suffered more than 3,000 casualties, while the losses of the Japanese army were only more than 100 people.

In this way, within half a month, the Western Route Army led by the Byzantine general Dimites collided with the Japanese army several times, and the cumulative loss of troops exceeded 10,000, and the total number of troops under the command of the entire Western Route Army was only 40,000.

Coupled with the large amount of baggage lost in the defeat on the battlefield, after this war, the Western Route Army has lost the ability to take the initiative to attack.

On the other side, the Japanese army under the leadership of Wang De Power lost no more than 1,000 and still maintained a sound establishment of about 10,000.

As a result, the situation on the Western Front is changing in favor of Tianzhu.

On the eastern front, east of Lake Assad, the main Byzantine army led by Heraclius still took the initiative in the face of the Japanese army of the same force as Ma Chung.

Because the area defended was too wide and his troops were limited, Ma Zhong simply abandoned a large number of towns and allowed the Byzantines to invade wantonly, and only stationed in a few key cities of Mosul, Hasakah, and Deir ez-Zor, and still shrank back, waiting for the turning point of the war.

Just when this whole area is in chaos everywhere.

In the eastern part of the Anatolian Plateau, on the north side of Lake Van and the largest lake in Anatolia, an army was passing by, and this marching party, on horseback, invaded from the border between Asia Minor and Armenia in the north, destroying all the towns along the way, killing the civilians of all the towns, and rushing into Asia Minor like a bloodthirsty hurricane.

This army is naturally the Dangkou army under the command of the Persian governor Shi Xiu.