The island of Malta eventually chose to surrender. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The Ming army attacked this place on the grounds of the medical knights, and most of the medical knights here went to Jerusalem, and then died in the Ming army's artillery fire, leaving only some old and weak women and children on this island who did not follow.

What resistance do they take?

Together with the attached islands, Malta officially became the territory of the Ming Dynasty, which blocked the expansion of the Ottoman Empire in the Mediterranean, this time failed to stop the new enemy, the expansion of the Ming Empire, for the first time really stepped into the scope of Europe, and it also became the first military base of the Ming Empire in Europe. The Ming Mediterranean Fleet, which was crushing the heads of the countries on the Mediterranean coast like a nightmare, was a lot closer to them, and those terrifying steam-powered steel warships no longer had to go around their ports only occasionally because of their voyage problems.

From here, they can be seen on a daily basis by Europeans.

On the Spanish warship in the distance, those generals and soldiers silently watched the Ming warship sail into Valletta Harbor, watched the red-clothed soldiers walk down the battleship lineup, and raised the dragon hugging the sun and moon flag in this port.

From this moment on, Europe is no longer just their Europe.

Just like the iron hooves of the Mongols back then, the armies from the East officially set foot on European soil.

On the same day, Yang Feng's special train drove into a small city.

"This place is good!"

Emperor Yang stood on the bank of the newly thawed river, looking into the distance with great interest, the ice and snow of the Altai Mountains stretched across the sky, the boundless primeval forests formed a green mountain, and the grassland that had just opened spring was a new green dotted with flowers, and the calm river meandered in this new green......

This is Xinjin.

The Son of Heaven in Xijing Dragon City.

Although it is the center of the entire Eurasian continent and a full 3,000 kilometers from the nearest ocean, a large river with a volume of water that exceeds the Pearl River and almost half of the Yangtze River solves this problem.

"Your Majesty, do you want to think again?"

Chen Lie said cautiously.

"What are you thinking about, isn't the Fengsheng Palace still repaired?"

Yang Feng said.

"No, no, it's already fixed there!"

Chen Lie said hurriedly.

"That's not it!"

Yang Feng said.

Chen Lie was depressed for a moment.

Well, the emperor is going to patrol again, of course, the emperor's patrol is very common, His Majesty the Emperor has not been on patrol in these years, and last time he went out to patrol for almost two years, but this time is different, no matter how he patrols before, he will not break away from the country, even if he goes out to Antarctica, when he really has something to do, he will rely on the cruising speed of the Dongfang that ten nautical miles, and if he sails at full speed, he will return to Yingtian in a month, even if the Dongfang is broken, it can be replaced by other escort ships, and it can still be guaranteed to sail from the South Pole to Yingtian in no more than a month and a half.

But this time it's different.

He wants to take an inland river boat from Xinjin Port to the Xuanming Sea, that is, the Arctic Ocean, those inland river boats are going down the river faster, and the countercurrent is almost like a turtle climbing, if he delays on the road, then I am afraid that there is no possibility of coming back this year, you must know that the freezing period of the river is as long as half a year. Although for his patrol, a new city was specially built at the mouth of the river, and a Fengsheng Palace was built, and even garrisoned there, even if he couldn't come back, it was a big deal to live there for half a year, but the problem was that the emperor and the country were completely isolated during this half a year.

The ice field, which is almost equivalent to a long distance from Yingtian to Luntai, and the severe cold of minus 30 degrees Celsius, will cut off all traffic for half a year.

That's serious.

Of course, he didn't know that this was what His Majesty the Emperor wanted.

"Get on board!"

Yang Feng said with satisfaction.

In the ...... of nearly a thousand attendants and palace maids

There are no eunuchs left.

The eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty were all received from Kang Mazi, although the Ming people kept at least tens of millions of slaves of various colors, but there were no new ones in the palace, and the vast majority of the old eunuchs are now fifty, of course, it is impossible to follow the emperor anymore, in fact, most of these people are placed in various properties of the royal family for the elderly, and some high-ranking figures such as Gonggong Gui have even been knighted, some of the really capable ones are still serving in some secret agencies of Jinyiwei, For example, the Jinyi Secret Service Division specializes in doing dirty work that even the people of their own country can't know.

Therefore, there are only noble children in the palace who serve as attendants, and there are also palace maids who have entered the palace through recruitment.

And this has become the system.

The Ming Palace no longer uses eunuchs, the people are not allowed to be cut again, the status of subjects and slaves is too low to be qualified to enter the palace to serve the emperor, so there are only attendants and palace maids, and the emperor's concubines also have a system, according to the standard of one queen, four concubines, nine concubines, twenty-seven women, and eighty-one royal wives, you can't marry more casually, and even the draft girl is not allowed to have this kind of thing anymore, the emperor is to marry a wife and find it himself, but it is not limited to nobles, so applying for palace maids is still a very important way, These were written as legal provisions in the constitution that was compiled at the request of the emperor.

Of course, the Ming Dynasty is not called the Constitution, this thing is called the Ming Emperor's ancestral system.

Since it is the ancestral system, so whether it is the Ming royal family or the people, it must be strictly abided by, if it is purely legal, then the emperor can not abide by it, after all, I have the law, but the ancestral system is different, especially if it is still a fairy ancestor, then this thing is absolutely sacred, understand that this thing is Emperor Yang to his descendants to set the head of the Cabinet of the Inspectorate of the House of Nobles, are full of great enthusiasm into the formulation of this law.

After all, it's for their good.

Emperor Yang boarded a large river boat with his attendants and court maids, and a thousand other attachés boarded dozens of river boats, and then began the long voyage along the gentle river, which required them to cross the entire Siberian wilderness and inspect several cities along the way.

At this time, the Ming army had conquered St. Catherine, that is, Yekaterinburg in the original history, the city was named after Peter I's wife, that is, after he died of typhoid fever in St. Petersburg, he inherited the throne after his wife Catherine I, not the famous Catherine II, but at this time Peter I was not dead, and his health was good enough to last for a decisive battle with Yang Feng, he was already as strong as a cow, and I don't know if it was lucky or unlucky.

In this way, the Ming army has actually completely controlled the land east of the Ural Mountains, and Orenburg, the last Russian fortress on the Ural River, has also been conquered, and all the Xiaoyuz people have fled to the west of the Ural River, so that the land east of the Ural River has all fallen into the hands of the Ming Dynasty, and of course Emperor Yang has to inspect such a vast territory, so he is not ready to return before the freezing of the Ural River this time, he just wants to let the people of the Ming Dynasty gradually adapt to the days when they do not have Emperor Yang.

Just as Emperor Yang's fleet began his long journey, the Eighteenth Army led by Qin Yu first reached Baghdad.

And then......

"It's a big one!"

The military commander held the binoculars and looked up at the top of his head, while sighing heartily.

Twenty airships were flying slowly above him, and unlike the other bombing airships, which had bombs in their cabins, the bombs of these airships were outside the cabin, and unlike those airships that used special bombardiers, these airship bombs were simply strapped under the cockpit......

Tie it with a wire rope.

Under the cockpit of each airship, there was an identical bomb strapped to it, even if it was nearly a thousand meters in the air, Qin Yu could still feel a visual impact.

"This bomb has to be a foot long!"

Brigade Commander Han beside him also looked at the sky with a kind of worshipful gaze.

Of course, this is not the six-ton super bomb that Yang Feng wanted, it takes time to develop, and the airship has to be transformed, and the battle of Baghdad can't wait, so the General Staff of the Ming Army sent them a batch of two-ton aerial bombs that were developed before, and later piled up in warehouses because they were useless. According to European standards, this thing weighs one ton and two, adopts a low-resistance slender type, and was originally not designed to fight, but purely for the fighting spirit of the navy and a group of army generals, who often boast about their giant ship cannons, and the army small artillery soldiers whose self-esteem is hurt simply build a hundred of these things, so that these bastards can see what giant ship cannons are also scum in front of the bombs of the airship.

Of course, they were piled up in the warehouse after they finished fighting, and this time Emperor Yang wanted a super bomb to remember that there was still this thing, and then hurriedly sent it to Qin Yu and them.

Twenty airships with twenty bombs slowly flew over the Ming army in the eyes of countless eyes on the ground, and soon reached the sky above the city of Baghdad, and then the soldiers in the airships took out wire cutters and cut the wire ropes that bound those bombs without hesitation, and the piercing whistling sound suddenly sounded. Just when those airships were rising rapidly because of the weight reduction, one bomb after another fell at high speed, and the slender size of the shuttle and the gravitational acceleration made them like huge nails one after another into the soft ground of the city of Baghdad, and then the delay fuse came to an end, and the bombs filled with hundreds of pounds of explosives were instantly detonated.

"It's magnificent!"

Qin Yu said in horror.

In the city of Baghdad in front of him, like a huge pillar between heaven and earth, twenty black mushroom-shaped clouds suddenly erected, soaring into the sky in an extremely spectacular posture, and even the twenty airships were violently shaken by the air waves created by themselves, and then accompanied by an earth-shattering explosion, the trembling of the earth also reached his feet, and the city of Baghdad was already covered by the dust stirred up by the explosion.

"It's our turn!"

Brigade Commander Han said excitedly.

"Quick!"

Then he waved behind him and shouted.

Behind him, ten modified tracked trucks immediately started to move, these steam-powered monsters that were actually bulldozers were carrying a large tank behind them, which looked like ordinary oil tanks, but they were not filled with oil, they were all explosives, and the explosives were mixed with aluminum powder, which had just been put into production and was quite expensive, and each large tank contained at least ten tons of explosives.

Of course, they didn't expect all the bombs dropped by the airship, no matter how powerful the bomb was, it was only a two-ton thing, and this was the real big killer.

While the Ottoman defenders in Baghdad were shattered by the twenty giant bombs, ten steam wagons rushed into the dust as fast as they could, and with the passability of their tracks, one car rushed towards a crater created by the explosion. The Ottomans began to shoot at them, but unfortunately their bullets could not hit these steel monsters, nor could they penetrate the steel shells of the large canisters behind them, so they could only watch in terror as they rushed into the craters, and then the driver inside abandoned the car as fast as he could, and ran desperately out despite the Ottoman attack.

Just when seven of the ten drivers appeared in Qin Yu's field of vision, the timer was at the point, as if ten flaming monsters had drilled out of the ground, ten terrifying fire balls arched at the same time, and the dust created by the explosion instantly flooded the entire Baghdad.

"Prepare to attack!"

Qin Yu looked at the seven soldiers who were still knocked over by the qi wave because they were still not far enough, and immediately shouted loudly.

Immediately after that, the officer next to him picked up the phone and gave an order, and in the headquarters around Baghdad, the brigade commanders and battalion commanders of the Ming army gave orders one after another, and the Ming soldiers of the entire four infantry brigades immediately rushed out of the trench where they were hiding with their bayonets and rifles, and poured into Baghdad still shrouded in dust like a red tide, and the real battle began.

Of course, this battle will not be too troublesome.

"What a plan, what a calculation, what a spirit of courage, in front of a sufficiently powerful fist is all paperwork, these Ottomans have the bravest soldiers, the most ingenious tactics they can think of, and their generals are equally good, but what is the use of that? We solved it with dozens of tons of explosives, which is only a few dozen tons, and next time we have hundreds or thousands of tons of bombs, maybe we don't even need soldiers, and a bomb will go down to a city and there will be no more, in the final analysis, strength is the most important thing. ”

Looking at the subordinate soldiers who were rushing into Baghdad, Commander Qin said with emotion.

"Hundreds of tons and thousands of tons of bombs, how can you build them and throw them!"

Brigade Commander Han said speechlessly.

"That's just talking about the power of the explosion, when we used to use black powder, how powerful was a pound of gunpowder? Later, when it was replaced with cotton gunpowder, how powerful was a pound? What kind of power is a pound of the latest explosives that are being used now? Thirty years of technological development has increased the power of our explosives by more than ten times, so will it increase by more than ten times or even more in another thirty years of development? Will a single bomb blow up a city? ”

Qin Yu said.

"Then what do you want us to be soldiers?"

Brigade Commander Han said.

"So I'm going to let my son go to college, and if he doesn't become a doctor, I'll break his leg!"

Qin Yu said.

What he didn't know was that his son, a high school student who had just had a ten-year-old fiancée and was turning his grief and anger into strength and studying hard to get into college, had really realized his dream thirty years later and studied the chain reaction.

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