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Just as Wang Qiu and other travelers from later generations were scrambling and looting all kinds of property in the royal tent of the Ottoman Turkish sultans.! The Eastern Roman people in the city of Constantinople were fighting a brave battle to defend their city.

The golden sunlight pierced the faint clouds, and thousands of beams of light fell on the turquoise sea. The salty sea breeze blows countless triangular white sails...... But it has nothing to do with prosperity and trade, but is full of slaughter and bloody war.

-- Although the enemy on land had been wiped out overnight, the Turkish fleet on the Sea of Marmara remained intact.

The seven-ton Soman gas bombs dropped by the travelers at night were enough to cover the destruction of the Turkish military camp on land. However, if it is used on the open sea, it may not have much effect on the Turkish fleet - first, unlike the fixed barracks, the warships are mobile, and it is likely that they will inadvertently break out of the poison gas contaminated area; Secondly, the wind at sea is strong, and the poisonous fog can be easily blown away; Third, rough seawater will also have a considerable degree of adsorption and dissolution effect on poison gas, thus further weakening the power of poison gas.

Therefore, since the birth of modern chemical poison gas, no country has ever used poison gas bombs in naval warfare, and the traversers also do not intend to set this precedent - there has never been very cheap arms in this world, and Soman poison gas is also very expensive.

Therefore, before the Turkish fleet learned of the terrible news that Sultan Mehmed II had died violently and that more than 100,000 troops had been wiped out overnight. Emperor Constantine XI, who opened the super golden finger plug-in, still had to withstand the enemy's first wave of naval attacks before he could enjoy the luscious fruits of victory.

In fact, with Constantinople's current appearance of a small number of soldiers, if the enemy who crossed the sea was the Venetian or Genoese fleets that were good at naval warfare, and the Western European crusaders who were strong in individual combat. Then maybe you really can't even withstand the first wave of blows.

Fortunately, this time the opponents who appeared in the sea outside Constantinople in battleships were the Turks, mainly landlubbers. According to past experience, it should not be difficult to deal with - this navy has only been in existence for a few months since it was ordered, and it is already good to be able to get the ship moving.

In short, look at the Ottoman Turkish fleet like a ball of yarn in a completely disorganized and chaotic formation. and the appearance of a number of accidental injuries before the battle began, as well as the appearance of collisions on the street while slowly advancing, could not help but increase the confidence of the defenders on the docks.

So, Emperor Constantine XI, dressed in purple robes, stood on the seaside tower near the old palace at the southeastern end of Constantinople, overlooking the Sea of Marmara, which was full of Turkish warships, and at the same time proudly drew his sword and issued an edict to all the soldiers and civilians:

“…… With the power and name of God given to me! All the Romans, ready to fight!! ”

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In the crisp sea breeze, the first naval commander in the history of the Ottoman Turkish Empire. Suleiman, a Bulgarian Muslim who had just been converted, was standing on the bow of the flagship, looking up at the majestic walls of Constantinople at the end of the sea, and could not help but feel deeply hesitant for a while.

“…… Commander Suleiman, the walls in front are so high. How exactly should we attack? ”

A Turkish officer with a green face, despite his seasickness, grabbed the planks on the side of the ship, stumbled to the side of the naval commander, pointed to the walls of Constantinople in front of him, and shouted, "...... The Greeks built the walls directly into the water. Not an inch of shallows were left! When our ship got over, we didn't even have a place to stay! Will they shoot their walls through with ballistas and bows? ”

“…… This kind of thing is impossible to think about, I don't have a city cannon here...... Let's get closer to the boat first! ”

Commander Suleiman couldn't help but roll his eyes, and at the same time wondered how to attack Constantinople next.

Indeed, Sultan Mehmed II was self-aware of the inferior quality of his navy and never thought it would be possible to capture Constantinople by sea, so he laid out his tactics with the fleet of mere feints - just pretend.

But the problem is that even a feint attack on Constantinople is far beyond the limits of the capabilities of this rookie-class fleet.

In the era of sail artillery warships, the famous British Admiral Nelson once famously said: Only a fool would let a warship shoot at a fortress!

Because, compared to the sturdy, thick, well-protected coastal fortresses, the structure of wooden battleships is too thin. Unless there is a landing force to cooperate with the operation, or the opponent is a scum with a combat strength of less than five such as the green battalion soldiers in the late Qing Dynasty, the battleship and the battery will basically suffer a great loss in firing at each other.

And in this era when even artillery was not used on a large scale in naval warfare, attacking a fortress with a warship was like hitting a stone with an egg.

-- In 1453, artillery had appeared in the arsenals of European armies, but it had not yet been used at sea. Because, at this time, the sailing oars warships widely used in the Mediterranean Sea, in terms of structure and principle, are still almost the same as the triremes of the ancient Greeks and Carthaginians two thousand years ago, and the main means of combat are still the bow and crossbow shooting, broadside warfare and ramming angle impact that the ancient Greek navy used. As for the idea of installing artillery on warships, it is currently in the stage of practical exploration -- because the early sail oars warships did not consider the need to install guns when they were designed, and their structures were generally not strong enough, and the bombardment of shipboard guns would seriously damage the hull skeleton.

Therefore, the fleets of the Mediterranean countries of this era were all without artillery, and at most they were equipped with a few antique primitive muskets, similar to the large iron cannons of the Warring States period of Japan - the recoil of this thing was relatively small, and it could be used on old ships - and the sturdy ships that could withstand the recoil of artillery bombardment would not be studied and invented by Europeans until the time of Columbus's discovery of the New World.

Obviously, Commander Suleiman was not a traverser, so his fleet was also not equipped with any artillery. And the trebuchets and large bows that can be found on Turkish battleships...... Seven hundred years ago, when the Arab fleet first attacked Constantinople by land and sea, it was fully demonstrated by the countless burning wrecks and floating corpses on the Sea of Marmara that such weapons could not shake the fortified walls of Constantinople.

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