Chapter 588: Troops Arrive in Venice
At this time, the Kingdom of Sicily, the Republic of Venice and the Papal States in the territory of Italy did not realize that the Ming army, totaling more than 800,000 troops, had approached them one after another.
As a country that is still divided and the major principalities are not unified with each other and belong to one side of the separatist party, the ** Ministry of Italy and Asia is also constantly in friction, and they are all working for the unification of Italy and Asia.
In addition, from the 16th century onwards, with the rise of the Ottoman Empire, most of the Italian sub-territories were seized by the Ottoman Empire due to the internal division of Italy.
Therefore, even if the super empire of the Ming Dynasty has coveted him, this country that is busy unifying and destroying the foreign land does not have the energy to detect the true intentions of the Ming Empire.
Moreover, the Papal States, which are more prestigious in Italy, also believed that even if the expanding super-empire in the East wanted to expand further, it would annex the Ottoman Empire first, and would never ignore the Ottoman Empire first, and make a detour to fight its own poor and poor Italy.
The medieval period of Italy was indeed a period of national poverty and lack of people, and because the English bourgeois revolution was delayed due to the intervention of the Ming forces, the medieval embarrassment of Europa did not end as promised in the seventeenth and forties.
The Roman aristocracy at the top was drunk and alive, while the lower classes had little chance of being promoted to the upper class.
If the bourgeois revolution in England had not been interrupted by the intervention of the Ming Dynasty, the other countries of Europa would have sprung up to end the darkness of the Middle Ages, and Italy would have played an important role in starting a world war.
As a result, the whole of Europa will move towards the path of the rise of great powers, and will lead the entire human society into the industrial age.
It's a pity that this task of theirs was replaced by the Ming Dynasty, and because the Ming Dynasty entered the industrial age ahead of schedule, these Europa countries had to face a longer and more torturous night.
Sometimes, it is not true that foreign invading forces intervene to promote the progress of the country's system, and perhaps at the beginning, because of the opening of the country, the country can end its self-contained state, and realize that backwardness will be beaten, but he does not mean that if a country wants to progress, it must rely on this way of being beaten up to make progress, and even the country will pay a greater price for progress.
Because, in this case, the progressives of a country will face not only domestic vested interests but also foreign people with ulterior motives.
Without further ado, by the spring of the 44th year of the Apocalypse, when the weather gradually warmed up, all the strategic materials for the Ming Dynasty's conquest of Europa had arrived in Dongyuan Province, more than 800,000 troops and more than 50,000 air forces had been assembled, and more than 400,000 navies had all crossed the Suez Canal and assembled in the vicinity of Crete and the islands of Cyprus.
This is unprecedented in the entire Mediterranean.
It stands to reason that with the current military strength of the Ming Dynasty, it does not need so many troops to conquer a Europa, but Zhu Youxiao considered that it was necessary to brush up his presence in the Mediterranean area, so he had to show off the muscles of the Ming Dynasty.
And Daming's large-scale military mobilization this time was indeed a success.
Millions of troops, countless ships and cannons are concentrated in the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea, which really makes the Ottoman Empire and the Rakshasa Kingdom and other countries frightened, and they did not dare to act rashly, and they are secretly glad that the Ming Empire mobilized such a huge army this time is not aimed at their own country.
The Italian and Asian kingdoms in Europa and the Mediterranean also knew that the Ming had mobilized a large number of military forces at this time, but they rejoiced because they thought that the Ming must have conquered the Ottoman Empire, otherwise the Ottoman Empire would not have suddenly mobilized its troops to defend itself.
However, what the countries in the Mediterranean region did not expect was that the Ming Empire's conquest of Europa would be led by His Majesty Zhu Youxiao, the Ming Emperor.
After decades, His Majesty the Ming Emperor Zhu Youxiao once again started his personal journey.
However, this time, the purpose of his personal expedition was not to boost morale or anything, to be precise, Zhu Youxiao wanted to go on a long trip before he was fully old and see the world again.
In the previous life, he had not been to Europa, and in this life he was going to come here as a conqueror, and he wanted to make the people here kneel at his feet.
Although Zhu Youxiao personally recruited, but the actual commander was not him, the commander-in-chief was the veteran Fu Dahai, and the deputy commander-in-chief was Heiwa, Li Dingguo, and Jiao Lian.
On the army side, Jiao Lian, the deputy commander-in-chief, first led the cavalry of the two armies to cross the Dnieper River on a bridge and enter the Iasi region of Vanechia.
Fu Dahai led a large army to postpone, except for a part of the sea to Bucharest, most of it crossed the Crimea region, preparing to enter Vanechia and encircle Hungary in a roundabout way to the south.
Vanechia had just gained independence from the Ottoman Empire, and the domestic army was quite combative, and when it knew that the Ming army was coming, it was quite brave to gather 30,000 elites, and arrayed near Iasi Castle to try to block more than 200,000 cavalry of the Ming Empire.
But this is undoubtedly a mantis arm as a car, when the elite of these 30,000 vanedia faced the vast more than 200,000 cavalry, they were already so frightened that they couldn't even hold up the firearms.
And Jiao Lian's side directly surrounded the 30,000 Vaneaia on the Balkan Plain of Nuoda, and the rumbling horses' hooves directly trampled the elite of the 30,000 Vaneaia into pulp.
Without hesitation, the king of Vanechia abandoned the city of Iasi and fled to the Republic of Venice.
In less than five days, the Ming Army occupied the entire territory of Vaneadia, and at the same time, the main force of Fuhai had appeared near Mohachi, Hungary, and Hungary was in danger!
The Hungarian king was in a hurry, and when he saw this situation, he directly hung a white flag, and then changed into Hanfu and surrendered directly.
His Majesty the Ming Emperor Zhu Youxiao accepted the surrender of Hungary and sent the Hungarian king to Beijing as a rich idler, while the Ming army against Europa continued its march after the peaceful destruction of Hungary and arrived in Venice in the middle of summer of that year.
At this time, the Ming Navy also gathered a dense cloud of warships on the northern shore of the Adriatic Sea, and the muzzle of the gun was pointed directly at the water city of Venice.
Seeing this, the Republic of Venice appealed to other kingdoms of Italy and Asia for help, while organizing defenses along the south bank of the Danube and gathering a navy to resist the Ming navy.