The fire in the distance burned for three whole days, and it was the Kurds who were looting. They plundered all the Turks, rich and poor, and they could not escape their raids

The Turkic women were tied into strings with ropes and taken away in groups. As trophies, these women could be bought and sold on the human market. Human trafficking has a long history in the Middle East, and it is said to have existed longer than the prophets.

The Turkic men were pressed to the guillotine and rolled around with a knife. Sen Sen's white fangs were frantically gnawing at the dirt on the ground, looking very weird. It's a pity that it doesn't move after a few clicks, and many children haven't seen it yet.

But it doesn't matter, there are a lot of Turks, just pull one more and kill them. Seeing the children happy, it doesn't matter if you put some effort into it.

All the children were stripped of their pants, and only the girls were spared. There was a large pit on the side of the road where the bodies were burned, covered with wood and fire oil. At the beginning, it was still filled with firewood, but now it is the best fuel without a lot of human oil.

The Turks are fat and do not lack fuel.

A woman walked over with a child in her arms, and the arrogant Kurds pulled her straight over. snatched the swaddling clothes in his hand, opened it three or two times and looked at it. Throw the child into the fire at will, and none of the Turkic cubs can stay in this world.

"Kid!" With a terrible scream, the woman threw herself into the flames, only to be caught by several Kurds.

They stripped the woman of her clothes by the roadside and tied them to a wooden barrel. Women are like donkeys, patronized by one big man after another.

When the woman was dying, she was pushed directly into the fire pit with a wooden barrel.

The fire only grew smaller for a moment, and then burned even hotter.

There were tears in his eyes, and he regretted it! I regret that I didn't be more ruthless with these Kurds, and if I had killed all these Kurds, the Turks would not have suffered such killings.

But it's useless to regret it, it's not the same time it used to be. Outside the city, in addition to the Indians, there were also their masters, the Ming people. Without the support of the Ming people, the Indians would have been trampled into pulp by the remnants of the Koprulu army in two hours.

Countless Turkic people are suffering, but they are powerless to do anything about it. Koprulu was thinking of suicide. But this thought had just arisen, and it had to be forced.

There were still 70,000 remnants of the army in the city, which were the only remaining seeds of the Turks. As long as these armies are preserved, the Turks will have a chance to turn over in the future.

But the question is, can it be saved?

Koprulu had no choice but to stay in the lonely city and wait for rescue. One by one, the carrier pigeons were released, and the damned Kurds were firing eagles outside the city.

God knows if the blood book will be seen by Lord Sultan, but there is a high probability that it will not be seen. The eagle hovering in the sky is the best weapon against the carrier pigeon, and the pigeon is not as powerful as the eagle in any case.

Information from inside the city can't get out, and information from outside the city can't get in. Koprulu feels like he has been abandoned by this world!

In fact he was also abandoned, and it was impossible for Constantinople to give him any aid, because ...... Constantinople is now also in danger of protecting itself.

Suleiman II watched sadly as one of his emissaries was blown away by cannonballs, or smashed into pieces by rapid-fire guns.

The Ming people refused to negotiate and rejected any intention of dialogue. Their attitude is very clear, and it can be summed up in just three words, nothing to talk about!

Since there's nothing to talk about, let's fight!

At the call of Suleiman II, the entire Turkic population of Constantinople prepared for a holy war. With their own blood and lives, in exchange for the retreat of the aggressor.

However...... Suleiman II has failed again, and no one is ready to fight you. The Ming soldiers outside the city waited leisurely in the trenches all day long. As long as someone runs out, they will be killed, and if no one runs out, they will never move forward.

Someone began to lay mines around Constantinople, and those who slipped out at night to escape would always step on one or two shots.

A slight explosion was followed by a miserable wail. If there are enough people wailing, the sound will be penetrating. It fluttered like the wind against the ground, drifting back and forth.

Some people are crying, some people are screaming, and some people are scolding. It's like a mosquito whispering, and it's like a mayfly singing.

The Turks listened at the head of the city, quietly.

When the sun rises the next day, you'll see the bodies lying in the wilderness outside the city.

One by one, the crows circled and fell, then slowly approached. Some were still alive when they were pecked, but they were powerless to resist.

The number of animals that feast gradually increased, gray voles, foxes with bright fur, and wolves with big tails.

A huge vulture that kicks up a cloud of dust when it falls. Thanks to their huge size, they are able to occupy the most advantageous position and start their own gastronomic journey.

Those who are captured by the Turks will be forced to go back by gun. If they don't go, they will be shot immediately. The corpses were then dragged by several Romanians to the front of the two armies, waiting to be eaten by voles, wolves, foxes, crows, and vultures.

The red stripes come, and the red stripes go, without taking away a trace of clouds. In half a month, a lot of white bones have piled up under the city.

Nature is the best scavenger, everything can be digested, not to mention the stinky skin of man.

The Turks on the walls could only watch, they could not do anything. I can only watch, maybe one day, they will also become one of those white bones.

Who knows!

Li Xiao stood inside the airship, looking at Constantinople below. Two months have passed, and the Turks in Ankara have begged for surrender eight times, but Li Xiao still did not agree.

Defeat the Ottoman Empire in order to grow countless small states on the body of this empire. It will be many, many years before they produce a peerless overlord who will lead them to reunify the land.

It may take 10 or 20 years, or 100 or 200 years. The most conservative statement is what Zhu Yuanzhang said, in 500 years, there will be a king who will prosper, and his prosperity will also be sudden, and his defeat will also be sudden!

There was only one way to completely defeat the Ottoman Empire, and that was to destroy the Turks. Of course, Slaughter can accomplish this task faster and more efficiently.

But Li Xiao knew that slaughtering the city would not solve the problem. Because no matter how harsh the slaughter is, there will always be survivors who will survive the massacre.

The descendants of the Turks will look at the Ming with hatred, and it is not comfortable to be hated by these people. They retaliate in the most extreme ways, such as a woman walking down the street in a voluminous robe, and when the crowd is dense enough, they pull off a bomb on their body.

The best weapon in the world is actually hunger, and there are at least two million people in the city of Constantinople. To feed so many people, the amount of food consumed every day is staggering.

Li Xiao did not believe that Suleiman II could save enough food for millions of people for a year or two.

It is said that cannibalism has begun in the city of Akala, and Li Xiao believes that it will not be long before they will be eaten by their own people. Anyway, as long as you besiege it and don't let the people inside escape, the goal will be achieved.

In the extermination of the Turks, great enthusiasm erupted among the various "minorities" of the Ottoman Empire. With unimaginable enthusiasm, they participated in the extermination of the Turks.

They hunted the Turkic diaspora everywhere in the cities, in the countryside, and even in the pastures, and if they caught them, they would be stabbed in the face. Because the head of each Turkic man can be exchanged for a Turkic woman.

Although the Turkic women who were rewarded were all defective, it was not bad for a woman to take it back and wait for her wife during the day and herself at night. At least there are many people who work in the family, and if they are really tired of playing, they can still sell them to the market for money.

Turkic women are not worth much now, but they can also be sold for one or two Ming silver coins.

People are not rich without foreign wealth, which can be regarded as a foreign wealth.

Li Xiao is to make them all executioners, so that hatred can be imprisoned in the Middle East. The remnants of the Turks will hate everything here. In the future, even if they rise again, the first thing they will have to attack is these neighbors around them, rather than retaliating against the Ming Dynasty, who is thousands of miles away.

Siege warfare is boring, it's just waiting every day. Wait for the people in the city to finish their food, and then come out and be beaten to death, or they themselves will starve to death.

Li Xiao took this opportunity to take a good look at this country located at the junction of the Eurasian continent.

First of all, it was mountainous, and on the way to Ankara, Li Xiao saw the continuous mountains. Ankara is located almost in the basin, which is somewhat similar to Chengdu.

Adana is a very important choke point, through which you can enter the eastern provinces. Most of these so-called eastern provinces are inhabited by Arabs, Yezidis, Persians, Syrians, and so on. The Turks were guests here, with only a small distribution, and are now in a precarious situation.

The Eastern Mediterranean was originally very calm, and the bulk of maritime trade was detoured to the African coast to Rotterdam or Spain. Only those small boats will dock on the territory of the Arabs.

Then they endured the exploitation of the sultans and sold them to Europe.

The discovery of the American continent made Europeans rich for two hundred years. They amassed a great deal of wealth, and they loved the goods of trade from the East.

As a result, large quantities of silver flowed from Europe to the Ming Dynasty through trade. And Europe can export very few goods to the Ming Dynasty, which has led to a large number of ships, in fact, in the state of returning empty. This was very uneconomic, so European merchants began to look for some goods that the Ming Dynasty needed.

Soon, the Europeans discovered another commodity that the Ming Dynasty was in high demand.

Person!

There was no shortage of labor, but there was a shortage of slaves. Sturdy blacks, very popular with Ming slave owners. There are many mining disasters in the mines, and it is said that sometimes hundreds of people die at a time.

Every day, corpses are carried out and burned, and ashes are dumped into the ground to be used as fertilizer. In order to achieve the purpose of making the best use of people!

The development of the Ming economy is inseparable from a variety of minerals, especially coal. Since they were all foreign slaves working, the concept of safe production could not be discussed.

As long as enough coal can be dug up, no one cares whether the foreign slaves live or die. If you die in a batch, you can buy another batch from Quanzhou. It doesn't take much effort, the price of one person is only one or two Daming silver coins.

You must know that a mule can be sold for ten or eight silver coins.

Because of the huge number, slaves were not very valuable in Daming.

Li Xiao found a phenomenon, that is, the Ming silver coin now has a tendency to become a common currency. Originally, this thing had been circulated throughout Southeast Asia and India, for which the Ming Dynasty also established three new currency mints.

The 10,000-ton hydraulic press is constantly pressing out new Daming silver coins. Because of the unique nickel plating process, and the emergence of 10,000 tons of hydraulic presses. It is extremely difficult to forge Daming silver coins, and until now, no one has been found to have successfully forged them.

Because the Ming Dynasty uses a fixed amount of currency, it is far better than those messy currencies abroad. And it is beautifully manufactured, and the workmanship is exquisite and not easy to damage.

And it has a wide range of use, almost beyond the Middle East, and is used in all countries.

In addition, the national strength of the Ming Dynasty is now in full swing, which has strengthened the monetary credit. More and more countries began to use the silver coins and copper dollars of the Ming Dynasty.

Even in Southeast Asian countries, Da Ming's checks have begun to become popular.

Unconsciously, with the Ming Bingfeng pointing westward, the currency of the Ming Dynasty also expanded overseas. This is something that Li Xiao did not expect, and perhaps this is an add-on product of armed aggression.

Thinking about this, Li Xiao was so happy that his snot was bubbling. What a great opportunity, in the future, as long as Daming makes these exquisite small metal pieces, he can exchange all kinds of things from all over the world.

This kind of plunder is much stronger than war plunder.

Stilwell has already led people to drill oil wells in Iraq, and Li Xiao believes that it will not be long before oil wells are drilled.

There was no way to do it, and the prophet of the Arabs blessed them. At their feet, there are countless black treasures. As long as the treasure is not drawn for a day, they can make a huge profit from it.

Of course, today's profits belong to Daming.

Li Xiao has issued a decree that only the Ming people have the right to develop oil wells. Others who develop oil fields are thrown directly into the Red Sea to feed the fish.

Stilwell has set up a special enforcement team to keep an eye on the chiefs who don't yet know what the oil fields mean.

At the same time, inside the shipyards of the Ming Dynasty. A ship is being produced specifically for pulling oil, and a large oil refinery is being built on Jeju Island.

This is the island that Li Xiao asked for from the king of Joseon, and all the Koreans on the island moved back to the Korean mainland. In the future, this will be the oil refining base of Daming. The oil produced can be supplied to Liaodong, Beijing, Tianjinwei, Shandong and other places.

Now the only thing that Daming uses oil is airships, and I believe that it will not be long before ships running at sea will also use oil.

Daming is a very enlightened country, as long as this thing is convenient and cheap enough, plus good enough. It's very easy for the Ming people to accept it!