Ottoman Empire, Konstantiniye.

Constantinniye was the official name given to Constantinople by the Ottoman Empire, and they also called the city Instanbul. Located at a crossroads of Eurasia, this city not only has a strong presence in the history of European Christian civilization, but is also the glory of the Ottoman-Turkish Empire. And for the Rakshasa Orthodox civilization, the secondary civilization of European Christian civilization, Constantinople is their spiritual totem. As if only by capturing the city could they prove themselves as the successors of the Roman Empire.

Of course, Constantinople was also an ideal outlet to the sea and the capital of the empire for the Rakshasas. Compared to Constantinople, which controlled the choke point from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean, the conditions in Petersburg, the current capital of the Rakshasa Empire, were simply too harsh. For five months of the year, the port freezes due to the cold weather. Who could have imagined what a port would become if it froze for five months a year? Therefore, in the history of the Rakshasa Empire and later the Soviet Union, their most important commercial port in the Baltic Sea has always been the Gulf of Riga, which has a relatively short freezing time.

But the Gulf of Riga and Constantinople are simply terrible! This is not only because the Gulf of Riga is covered with ice floe every winter, and the coastal waters freeze and merchant ships must be guided by icebreakers to enter and exit, but also because the Baltic coast of Rakshasa itself is a rotten land. Not to mention the cold weather, and the products and resources are not abundant, the development of large industries there is purely reluctant, not to mention that the woolly bear is not particularly capable of industry, even if the Germans, Anglo-Saxons are to do it, it is difficult to make a name for themselves.

In contrast, the conditions for industrialization along the Black Sea coast and Transcaucasia, which the bears stole from the Crimean Khanate, the Turkish Empire, and the Persian Empire, are fantastic—coal, oil, iron ore, black soil, warm coastlines, and highly navigable inland waterways, you name it!

And the only thing that is "not as good as the bear's will" is that the best export channel for the products produced by taking advantage of all these favorable conditions is to enter the Mediterranean Sea by sea route held by Constantinople. The second-class product export route was to transport the Danube River, which was also controlled by the Ottoman Empire, to Central Europe and Western Europe.

In other words, as long as the Sultan is angry, the best industrial, agricultural and mining base of Mao Xiong will basically have to say goodbye to the world market.

And the Ottoman-Turkish Empire happens to be a feud with a hairy bear . Whoever wants to invest in the Black Sea coast of Rakshasa and the Transcaucasia has to consider the relationship between Rakshasa and Turkey, and this consideration, a good project is half yellow!

Therefore, the relationship between the two empires of Rakshasa and Turkey is currently a choice between you living and dying together, and it is impossible to work together to win.

Of course, Ottoman, the first generation of the Turkish Empire, Mahmud II, was fully aware of this!

The biggest obstacle he is now pursuing in trying to bring the outdated Ottoman-Turkish Empire into the industrial age is the aggressive furry bear of the North.

Because in the land of the Ottoman-Turkish Empire, there was some industrialized territory, which now seems to be Egypt, Asia Minor, and the Balkans. Among them, Egypt can only engage in some textile industry, where the population is relatively large, and Egypt's cotton is particularly good, and Britain and Ming both like it, and there is also a Suyinshi Canal. But there is no heavy industry there, there is no such resource. And the territory that can develop heavy industry, unfortunately, is all prepared by the Mao family to "liberate"!

Even if the woolly bear will not snatch it all, as soon as the "bear family" takes Konstantinier, the Balkans will have to lose it all, and if Asia Minor does not do well, half of them will have the surname Romanov.

At that time, even if the Ottoman-Turkish Empire did not die, and went to Baghdad or Damascus to survive, guarding the sands of the Arabian Peninsula, would it be able to live this life? Is it possible to dig up treasure under the sand?

Looking at the "yellow" territory of the Arabian Peninsula, His Majesty the Sultan could only sigh.

"Your Majesty, Sultan, as long as you follow the plan of the Duke of Wellington and set up the 'English Bagua Array' in the area from Adrianople to Constantinier, we will definitely be able to hold the provinces of Constantinier and Rumilia."

"That's right, Your Majesty Sultan, Grand Vichiel and I have already checked the exemplary 'English Bagua Array' outside the city of Konstantiniye, which is a multi-layered and wide-depth defense system consisting of eight trenches, eight barbed wire, eight trenches, eight communication trenches, eight rear assembly positions, eight artillery positions, eight improvised roads, and eight core fortresses!"

In the Sultan's office in the parliamentary chamber of Topkapi Palace, two middle-aged Turks wearing Western-style military uniforms, Little Red Riding Hood, and bearded men reported to His Majesty the Sultan on the situation of the "English Bagua Array" demonstration position. They were no ordinary Turks, but two trusted Sultan executives, one of whom was Karapasha, the Grand Ottoman Grandwich, and the younger one was Hussein Pasha, the commander of the new Ottoman army.

And what they call the "English Bagua Array" is through Wellington and Hugh. The "Bagua Machine Gun Array" improved by Goff's hand is a defensive position that combines trenches, barbed wire, and machine guns.

There's nothing high-tech about this thing, and for Wellington, Hugh. As far as a famous general at the level of Gaofu is concerned, it is "if you are beaten", you don't know how powerful you are, you don't know how powerful you are when you are beaten, you know how powerful the "Bagua Array" is, and if you know that it is powerful, you will naturally have to "learn from Jin's long skills to beat the bear".

But how treacherous is the Duke of Wellington? He is the number one general in England who has been competing with the emperor for many years, of course he knows that if he wants to beat the bear, it is not enough to rely on one gossip array, he must arrange multiple gossip arrays, and he must also strengthen the lethality one by one, so that the hairy bear can rush forward against the increasing number of casualties - let the hairy bear break through a few gossip arrays, so that they will feel that they can rely on the corpse mountain and the sea of blood to press all the way through.

In addition, the Bagua Array must be placed at the gate of Konstantiniye. First, the terrain between Konstantinniye and Adrianople is relatively narrow, which is not conducive to the detour of the Hairy Bear army, well, it is basically impossible to detour; Secondly. Victory is in sight! Having fought all the way from Moldavia to the gates of Konstantiniye, what reason not to make an effort?

With a little effort, the will of Peter the Great and Catherine the Great may be realized, and the rise of the Rakshasa Empire will be realized. According to the tradition of the woolly bear, Nicholas I, who won Constantinople, would be able to do anything after that!

What abolishes serfdom, what develops industry and commerce, what learns from the West, learns from the Ming Dynasty, in short, everything is right for the Tsar who won a great victory!

Therefore, the Tsar who came to Konstantinnier would most likely put everything on the line and make a big gamble.

If you win, you get everything!

However, if Mahmud II of the Ottoman-Turkish Empire had won, he would not have had everything, and he would have lost Moldavia, Wallachia, Greece, and Serbia.

So Carapasa can only assure him to hold Rumelia now. Even the area around Bulgaria and Instanbul in later generations belonged to the province of Rumilia.

"Is it only Rumilia?" The ambitious Sultan looked up at his henchman Karapasha.

Karapasha showed a pained expression and nodded lightly, "Hugh. General Goff can only guarantee Rumilia, but he can also guarantee our support in our struggle against Ali Pasha. Your Majesty, as long as we can defend Rumilia, repel the Rakshasas, and destroy Ali Pasha, the country can still have a bright future! ”