"How?" Li Hu, who was sitting on the side drinking tea, looked at the disciple's calm command, and looked at Qi Yuan, who was also holding a teacup next to him, with a smile of relief.

After taking a sip of the high-grade green tea that only the navy has been rationed for a long time, Qi Yuan nodded and said, "It's very good, I just ignored something!" Li Hu smiled and explained: "The first time, it is inevitable that you are a little nervous, are you so calm when you go to the battlefield for the first time." Qi Yuan shrugged his shoulders,

"The first time I saw the killing, I peed my pants and had nightmares for half a month."

"Hahaha......" Li Hu laughed, patted Qi Yuan's shoulder, and said to his apprentice who was looking at the map: "Don't forget Your Highness's explanation, this is also one of our tasks." Jiang Han, who was staring at the map and thinking about the next battle plan, was stunned for a moment and slapped his forehead.

"Look at my memory, I almost forgot such an important thing." After speaking, he walked quickly to the radio, picked up the microphone and ordered: "Pay attention to all departments, if you find that the other craftsman is captured alive as much as possible, if the resistance is fierce, you can consciously deal with it!" The reason why Zhu Zhangui has such an explanation is because he wants to gather all the craftsmen from the East and the West to see what kind of sparks will be stirred up when people from different civilizations collide together.

In the same way, it can also arouse the desire of the two parties to fight. As the status of the Ming craftsmen became higher and higher, Zhu Zhangui found that some craftsmen had begun to be unenterprising.

Immersed in the research results of the past, it is impossible to extricate themselves, and some have even begun to fish. Every morning when I was on a business trip, I went to the place to punch a card, and then I took something and fiddled with it, and I didn't write a word in the morning, and I went to the cafeteria to eat in a leisurely manner, and the same was true in the afternoon.

If it's just a day or two, according to Lao He's report, some craftsmen have been like this for several months or even half a year.

Although Zhu Zhangui hated it a little, these craftsmen all made contributions to the Ming Dynasty, and if they were all opened, it would feel a little unkind.

After all, in the most difficult time, these people followed themselves to endure hardships, day and night research, and now that the Ming Dynasty is strong, they feel that they are useless, so they kick them out, which really doesn't seem like a human thing.

Later, when he learned that the navy had a plan to attack Constantinople, Zhu Zhangui informed Li Hu not to harm the Western craftsmen and escort them to the Ming Dynasty as safely as possible.

Zhu Zhangui wants to use the hands of these Western craftsmen to stimulate these craftsmen who have begun to live a life of idle fish to continue their work and research.

Of course, if Western craftsmen have researched something very useful, Zhu Zhangui will not hesitate to reward them.

Isn't there a saying? Call him a black cat and a white cat, and if you catch a mouse, you will be a good cat. As long as he researches something that is beneficial to Daming, even if it is a, Zhu Zhangui will give him corresponding treatment.

This is the respect for talent. On the shore, the battle on the beach is over. The Ming soldiers, shouting and charging with rifles, were driving the Ottoman soldiers towards the castle.

Gunshots and cries rang out throughout the beach, and the Ottoman soldiers who were being pursued fell to the ground screaming from time to time, never to get up again.

Under the frenzied catharsis of the naval artillery, the walls of Constantinople collapsed in many places, and the Ottoman soldiers guarding the walls also suffered heavy casualties, and they were no longer able to block the attack of the Ming marines.

"Bang bang bang...", quickly draining the ammunition in the pistol, and the first squad leader to step on the beach quickly changed the ammunition for the pistol while looking at the situation on the battlefield.

The order that followed just now has already been conveyed, and it is not possible to harm the craftsmen of the West, and they can cooperate as much as possible.

And also gave a very high reward. Capturing an important craftsman alive can be rewarded with up to ten taels of silver, and the cheapest apprentice of an ordinary craftsman is also worth three taels of silver.

Nima, killing an Ottoman regular soldier is only one tael of silver, and a powerless craftsman is three taels, and fools know which is the most cost-effective.

The team leader, who was already thinking about going back to build a house and marry his daughter-in-law, was in urgent need of money, so he needed to find two fat sheep in exchange for the money to marry his daughter-in-law.

Although with his current salary, there is no pressure to take a Goryeo or a Japanese woman, but the father of the family is an old-fashioned person, requiring him to marry a girl from the Han family, and not allowing those aliens to mess up the family's bloodline.

But the problem is that the bride price of the girls of the Han family is expensive, and the family is good and good-looking, and the minimum bride price has reached 66 taels, plus a series of matters such as marriage, there is no one hundred taels of silver that cannot be erased.

Ordinary peasant girls have a low bride price, and twenty or thirty taels of silver can complete a marriage. However, the captain who has seen the big world is naturally a little high-minded, and although the rural girl is good, he still wants a better one.

Some time ago, the family sent him a letter, saying that he had discussed with the Xiucai family in the village, and as long as he took out a bride price of 66 taels, he would promise to marry his daughter to him.

The captain of the Xiucai girl team has seen it, and she looks like a showman, a beautiful one, and she is also literate and hyphenated.

If you marry home, not to mention the envy of relatives and friends around you, you will have a good life.

Thinking of the girl of the Xiucai family, the captain Kacha loaded the bullet and put down an Ottoman soldier who rushed over with one shot, and rushed towards a relatively large room.

He had the privilege of going to the Artisan Camp to equip the Legion, and he knew where the Artisan would work, so he immediately locked down a room in a building similar to the Artisan Camp.

With the brothers behind him, he rushed all the way and soon came to an area. With a kick open of a closed door, the captain rushed in with his gun in hand.

In the past, when encountering this kind of environment, they would first throw a grenade into it. However, today it is a captive, and the dead craftsman is worthless, and if he kills someone with super ability, he may be scolded.

So at the moment I can only take the risk and rush in. Besides, wealth and wealth are in danger, how to make money without working hard, and how to marry a girl from a Xiucai family.

This captain is on the move, and the other squads are not stupid. Who is not short of money these days, and such a high reward is that a fool is willing to give it up.

So in the future, all those who did not hold weapons and did not wear military uniforms, the Ming soldiers were merciful.

Although Constantinople had 30,000 Ottoman troops, it was so weak and powerless when the defensive line was lost and faced with the powerful firepower of the Ming Dynasty.

Coupled with the trouble of loading the flintlock pistol, in the face of the charge of the Ming army, it was impossible to resist at all. The battle began in the morning and ended in the afternoon.

Constantinople, an important Ottoman town, fluttered the golden dragon banner of the Ming Dynasty and became the control territory of the Ming Dynasty.

"Hurry up... Hurry up..."A group of prisoners were pressed out of the castle by the soldiers, and one by one, they wept and lined up to the Daming transport ship that had docked at the dock.

There will be two destinies for them next. First of all, anyone who is a craftsman can be lucky to go to Daming and live a well-fed and warm life.

Second, those who are not craftsmen will be sent to areas that need to be worked, such as canals, and the fate of the second half of their lives will be for Daming to work for a lifetime.

In the castle, the marines escorted the soldiers and prisoners, and let them start repairing the walls and cleaning the battlefield.

Constantinople was an important location, and to take it would be to divide the entire Ottoman Empire in two.

Qi Yuan's plan was to use this place as a long-term occupation base to influence the operation and connection of the Ottomans.

As for the enemy's counterattack, he didn't care at all. Logistics and supply have naval transportation, and the enemy attacks, and the navy can also provide fire support on the sea.

As long as a legion is stationed here to ensure its supply and fire support, even if the 200,000 Ottoman legions come, they will not want to retake Constantinople.

"Li Hu, the chief officer of the Navy, and Qi Yuan, the commander of the Marine Corps, are detaining peace to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

"In the cooperation of our navy and land forces, we took Constantinople this afternoon, and in this battle, our army killed more than 15,000 enemies and captured more than 20,000 enemies, including more than 12,000 craftsmen."

"A number of various experimental tools and more than 20,000 rifles of various types were seized, so that countless raw materials of various kinds were obtained."

"In this battle, our troops lost 867 people, 2,321 wounded, and several losses of ammunition and weapons."

"Now our army has divided the Ottoman Empire into two, completely disrupted the enemy's internal stability, and perfectly completed the plan to cooperate with the Eastern Front."

"The officers and men of the whole army are very confident, and they will stick into the heart of the enemy like nails, so as to take back Kyushu for our Ming Dynasty and contribute to the grand blueprint in the heart of the emperor."

"Daming Wansheng, November 23 of the fourth year of Hongxi! Joint report of the Navy of the Western Expeditionary Corps. In the Baisha conference room, Zhu Zhangui held a telegram from Li Hu Qi Yuan, and read out the contents in a loud voice.

The crowd listening to the telegram smiled happily at the corners of their mouths. The old man put his hands in his sleeves, squinted his eyes and half-lay on the brocade couch, listening to the telegram, as if listening to some beautiful song.

"Good!" When Zhu Zhangui finished reading the telegram, the old man opened his eyes and shouted loudly.

"Beautiful, well done, now I see how Omurad, a bastard boy, can support Timur." The old man laughed and took the telegram and read it again happily.

Meimei admired it for a while, the old man slapped the telegram on the table, looked at all the generals present and said loudly: "The West has won a beautiful battle, and the 200,000 or so people in our east can't contain the lake." ”

"Now we have occupied a small part of Timur's territory, but is that enough?" Staring at everyone present, the old man said loudly without waiting for everyone to answer: "It's not enough, this is just the beginning, our brothers have just warmed up, and the next thing is to move seriously." ”

"Now the Timurid Empire, because Shahru's death is a time of chaos, we don't express it at this time, and the Timurid people still think that we don't support it."

"Hahaha..."There was a burst of laughter in the room.

"Now I command!" The old man also smiled, and then his face turned pale. All the generals present

"Wow" stood up and waited for the old man's arrangement.

"After a few days of repairs, I believe everyone has come to a better breath, and the supplies have reached the various legions. Now the Timurid Empire has been divided into several factions in order to compete for the right to rule, and its national strength has been weakened to the extreme. ”

"The ancestor said that we should listen to the words of the ancestor while he is sick."

"So the next legions, according to the plan made at the beginning, continue to attack!"

"Old man, I'll give you time, before February 2 next year, I want the name Timur to become history!"

"Yes!" November 25 of the fourth year of Hongxi. Because the guerrilla warfare stopped resting the Ming troops, once again embarked on the first day of the first month of the iron hoof of the conquest, Jianghuai led the troops to take the central city of Mashhad Timur, on the fifth day of the same month, Zhang Fu led the main force, arrived in Qazvin, attacked for three days in a row, paid thousands of casualties, and took the city.

On the eighth day of the lunar month, when the people celebrated the Laba Festival, the right army led by Qian Yu passed through most of the Timurid Empire regardless of logistics, and killed in Baghdad, and then took advantage of the unpreparedness of the defenders to break through the city in one day.

On the twenty-eighth day of the lunar month, two days before Chinese New Year's Eve, the main army of the Ming army arrived in Mosul. At this point, the territory of the Timurid Empire was only left with part of the western Caucasus, and all the rest fell into the hands of the Ming army.

On the Ming side, the Ming army also successfully joined forces with the Western Expeditionary Corps and completely opened up the entire East Asian region.

However, just when the various legions of the Ming Dynasty were in high spirits and were ready to take down the last resistance of the entire Timurid Empire in one fell swoop, a letter of challenge came to the Baisha Headquarters.

"Peng!" The old man slapped the challenge book on the table, and said angrily: "This Golden Horde Governor is capable, I didn't go to him for the old man, but he dared to get involved in my affairs, and dared to challenge Lao Tzu by name, which is really against him." According to the report of the Jinyi Wei spies, on the twenty-fifth day of the lunar month, the Golden Horde suddenly announced that it had joined the alliance of Allah, and sent 100,000 troops, including 50,000 cavalry, to the Timurid Empire, ready to help the Timurid Empire and jointly resist the invasion of the Daming.

And what is even more surprising is that the people of the Golden Horde came to the Timurid Empire and did not follow the advice of Uchar to defend the various places and resist step by step.

Instead, he directly sent a letter of war to Da Ming, asking for a face-to-face confrontation with Da Ming.

And later explained that if the Ming Dynasty was afraid, it would return to the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and the great Golden Horde would not pursue the Ming Dynasty's offense.

Such an arrogant behavior of the other party made the entire command group of the Ming army angry. They have been fighting the enemy for so long, and they have never seen such an arrogant one, the forest is really big, and there are all kinds of birds.

It's only been a long time, and these grassland barbarians have forgotten the lesson Daming's father gave them.

The old man also pretended to be looked down upon and angry, but in fact, he was already happy in his heart.

Especially when the other party named him to fight, it made him feel beautiful in his heart. Originally, he still thought that after beating Timur, his family should urge him to go back.

It doesn't matter if he goes home, but he regrets very much that he didn't have a single enemy in the whole war, which makes this veteran who has been on the battlefield all his life feel uncomfortable.

However, just when he regretted that he thought that he might never have the chance to go to the battlefield to slash the enemy in the future, the Golden Horde actually sent it over.

This made the old man almost cheer with joy. If the ruler of the Golden Horde was in front of him, he would have excitedly stepped forward and grabbed the other person's hand and thanked him repeatedly.

Of course, but before that, he needs to explain his eldest grandson, otherwise his eldest grandson is opposed, and it is useless for him to be excited.

Alas, it wasn't until this moment that the old man found out that as he grew older, his grandson grew up to take on the family, and he had begun to subconsciously listen to his grandson and be afraid of his grandson.