"There's no way Justinia was sent out for help, don't ask me how I know." After Ding Yi opened his mouth, he said such an almost scoundrel statement.

But Du Ziteng immediately objected: "Sir, if you don't ask the news channel, how can you guarantee that what you are about to say is credible?" And if there is no way to verify the authenticity, the battle plans and strategies we have formulated for them will not be effective either. He said this very thoroughly and directly, maybe the entire Ming Empire, if he dares to say such a thing in front of Shangfeng and Mr., there are only students and disciples from Ding Yimen.

Ding Yi touched his nose, very embarrassed, because he couldn't tell these people that he had read the literature of the famous Battle of Constantine in history before, right? So he had to make up a very lame lie: "This...... Because the man died...... He told me that I had died...... Anyway, there is such a possibility. ”

Justinia was the commander of Constantine's city defenses.

"And when I asked this Justinia, he also said that in Constantine, he was mainly responsible for the defense of the city, because he was very trusted by their king, he was sent out to ask for help, and because of his bravery, he led these men to fight their way out of the siege all the way east." Ding Yi said this to Du Ziteng, who immediately nodded and did not ask any more questions about authenticity.

For there is no need to ask any more, and the words of Justinia himself can make one doubt the truth of his words.

For example, during the defense of the Jingshi, Emperor Jing would let Yu Qian or Shi Heng command the battle. But it was impossible to send these two to negotiate with Yexian first. If Justinia was really the commander of the city defense, he could not have been sent as an envoy, and he could not have been sent as an envoy. It must be the monarch's confidant, but it will definitely not be the commander of the city defense.

"Young master, there are no absolutes in the world." Ding Ruyu didn't give up, she didn't have a subconscious sense of obedience to Ding Yi like Du Ziteng and his disciples, although she was loyal to Ding Yi, and her heart was also tied to him. But she didn't leave it at that.

Ding Yi thought for a while, but spoke again: "He said Canakkale_Bogazi, not Δαρδανελλια." "Ding Yi didn't make any mistakes." The former seems to be the dialect of the Ottoman Empire, and the latter is the dialect of Rome. "Ding Yi doesn't know Greek, and probably doesn't know Turkish, but at least." The difference between the syllables "Hellespont" and "Dardanelle" is still audible. And this is the different transliteration of the Turkish Straits, "The Tatars do not call themselves Tatars, and even the people of the island nation of the East do not call themselves dogs; It will never be called the Yuan Dynasty as the period of the fall of the country, and it will not be said that when Taizu is not spoken, it will be called a great hero who expelled the Tatars and restored China. ”

A Roman emissary, why would he call the Turkish Straits the Hellespont?

Although Ding Yi found many suspicions about this guy who called himself Justinia, the truth is the next strategy. There are still a lot of deviations, and the reason is in Ding Yi's intelligence. There are too many false factors, such as the powerful Ottoman navy. You know, the Lightning, which only pursues high speed or even the extreme speed of a sailboat, any larger ship will be much bigger than it.

The Ottoman navy could not go out of the Mediterranean Sea at all in this era, and the multi-deck ships were purchased by the Ottoman Empire after the easing of relations with Western Europe in the seventeenth and even eighteenth centuries. As for the artillery, it is even more ridiculously wrong, the naval battle between the Ottoman and Spanish fleets that is about 120 years away from the three years of Jingtai, the two sides are the bow guns with "a higher hit rate within 50 meters", and then engage in broadside battles, and the salvo of muskets is followed by cold weapons "The deck is full of shiny armor personnel" and the like, and there are even the tricks of ramming the opponent's ships with flagships, it can be seen that the Ottomans and Spain, a maritime power, one hundred and twenty years later, did not have the naval artillery problem that Ding Yi was worried about.

Strictly speaking, it was only 200 years later that the "Regulations on Maritime Operations" issued in the First Anglo-Dutch War clearly defined the column as the standard formation for naval operations: "All the warships of each detachment must do their best to keep their detachment commanders in line ...... advance" The concept of battleships was officially proposed.

Maybe Ding Yi is so poor that he has to go to the military camp to eat, but as a prince, Ding Yi has capital: there is a stable steel output, although it is not high; There is an increasing iron output, and for the current era, the output of Wuzhou's factory iron works is a very terrible number; He also had several ocean-going fleets waiting for artillery; His fleet did not propose the concept of battleships until 200 years later in the West, and at this time, when low-side, crosssail, and broadside cannons were popular, they had already practiced the occupation of the T-shaped position quite skillfully......

So Ding Yi is simply too rich now, so he is willful.

He put the impression of the Ottoman Navy at its most powerful in his memory on the so-called powerful Ottoman Navy today. So the preparation for this voyage actually had a lot of nervous preparations, and there was not much need at all; It may be more reasonable to invest a lot of resources in the army.

As for the dramatic effect caused by this in the future, although a lot of it is due to Ding Yi's foresight, Ding Yi himself said very calmly: "No, I made a mistake at that time. This is a later story, so I won't mention it for the time being.

However, this really can't be blamed on Ding Yi, because after this meeting, because he was not very worried about his somewhat vague memory, he tortured the women who were given as gifts by Justinia, and they gave them to various powerful figures under Ding Yi after Justinia arrived in Guangzhou Mansion with Ding Yi, although Justinia could not speak the official language of the Ming Dynasty, but his eyes were very vicious, and he could tell who held power under Ding's hand.

For ethnic groups other than China, Ding Yi did not have much humanitarian spirit, nor did he have any mercy to talk about.

The torture was carried out by Menda and Wudugan, and none of the girls sent out by Justinia escaped.

And Ding Yi didn't avoid it this time, he followed up this interrogation from beginning to end, without him, because no one could understand what these girls said except him, and Ding Yi himself didn't shy away from this kind of scene, he saw too much, whether it was on the enemy or on himself.

"How many cannons does the Sultan have?" Ding Yi asked the girl who was brought in very plainly, according to Ding Yi's aesthetics, this is undoubtedly a beautiful Greek girl, but this does not represent anything for Ding Yi, Ding Yi's judgment standard is a strict chauvinist tendency: they are not the people of the Ming Dynasty.

The real torture will not be like the scandals of the torture of prisoners in later generations, and the tortured person will be taken off his clothes for fun.

Some people may feel so ashamed that they will break down and tell all the secrets they know;

But there are also those who are more reluctant to die because they feel that the punishment that follows will not be more unbearable for him; Others, however, do not care, because they have been trained to become numb to the situation, and deliberately express their horror to convince the torturer that the lie he confessed at this time is true. Therefore, torture is also a science, arresting people, turning over all punishments from beginning to end, is not a very effective method, often only harvesting the answers you want, not the real answers.

Menda is a very knowledgeable person, he can not only bend into a move, but also from the other party's tone and reaction, to see whether it is the truth, at least after interrogating five Greek girls, Ding Yi found that Menda's basic conclusion is the same as him, and even three of them, without asking a few words, that is, Menda took the initiative to propose: "Sir, she knows, I'm afraid there are only so many, it's better to mention the next one." "You know, Menda doesn't understand what the other person is saying.

So for the interrogation of these eight Greek girls, Ding Yi got the information he wanted, and Menda also impressed Ding Yi: if this guy didn't deliberately bend into tricks, he could be regarded as an elite criminal policeman, at least in terms of interrogation, Ding Yi was impressed, you must know that Menda has not read any criminal psychology, nor has he learned any profile or body language reactions, etc., modern interrogation theory.

"The Sultan placed fourteen or five artillery positions along the weak points of the wall" some say thirteen, others sixteen;

"The cubs around the bear" are flanked by various other small-caliber cannons, as everyone says; "The Sultan cannon is placed in a prominent position in front of the Sultan's tent" Some people say that only the Sultan has the divine power to manipulate the cannon, and some say that it is so that the Sultan can monitor the results of the battle at any time. Some say that the Sultan had innumerable artillery, but it is likely that she could not count them at all, or that her French dù was not enough to express a specific number; As for the range of the Urban cannon, this is about the same as Ding Yi remembers.

In the end, Ding Yi left two girls, and he said to one of them: "Your family members were killed by the man who brought you, I don't know, why do you still use your life to keep this secret?" When you arrive in Daming, you are already a free person, if you can tell the facts, maybe we can give you an identity certificate, and then you will be like an ordinary person, working and living happily in Daming, finding someone who loves you, and having a group of children......"

The girl's face changed, Ding Yi smiled and did not ask any more, but said to Menda and Wu Dugan: "Stay here and watch, don't hurt her; Torture another girl, except don't let her die, you can use all the methods you can think of. ”

Then Ding Yi left, because Craftsman Li asked to see him, and what he said made him feel unbelievable. (To be continued......)