In the cabin of a ferry on the Bosporus, the Grand Vizier Ahmed Koprulu finally met the Ming Dynasty "King Henry" and the two Ming seals accompanying King Henry. Among the generals of the expeditionary force, one of them looked dark, and he should be an Indian. There is another one with an oriental face. I don’t know if he is a Mongolian or a Mingguo?
The Ming Dynasty's ambassador to the Ottoman Empire also came with him. This ambassador's surname is also Zhu. He is from the family of King Zhou. His name is Zhu Lundun. He is the same generation as King Henry. He is in his thirties this year and was also a student. After graduation, I joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. First, he was sent to the Ottoman Empire by the government to learn Turkish and Arabic, and later he served in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ottoman Empire, and now he has become an ambassador. These descendants of the old Zhu family stopped raising pigs and began to crowd out the ladder of private scholars. Okay... So raising a pig is actually better than raising a pig!
In addition to Zhu Lundun and the two generals of the expeditionary force (one of them is Mourinho, Maria's brother, and the other is Hu Zhongyong sent by Galdan), there are also a total of 7,200 Goan Portuguese soldiers ( Originally I wanted to recruit 8,000, but in the end I recruited only this) and 800 cavalry from Zhungar and Xichu - it must be said that the efficiency of the two wartime countries of Zhungar and Xichu, which were nervous, was , indeed very high, and they also know the significance of this war.
Now the war between Zhungeer, Xichu, and Heshuote in Central Asia is a bit difficult!
Although the Zhungar-Koshote coalition captured the Khwarezm Oasis last autumn, the armies of Zhungar and Xichu suffered repeated defeats on the Zhongyuz grassland. It was not that they suffered major defeats. But there is never a chance for a decisive battle.
The Kazakh and Rakshasa armies were very cunning. They did not engage in a decisive battle with Zhungar and Xichu, but kept going in circles with them on the grassland. At the same time, cavalry was sent to harass the settlement areas of Xichu and the pastoral areas of Zhungeer!
Zhungeer and Xichu did not dare to go deep into Xiaoyuzi (Xiaoyuzi was on the Eurasian border) because it was too close to the homeland of the Rakshasa people. Zhungar and Xichu, both of which have small populations, are unwilling to fight such an uncertain battle, so the war on the Zhongyuzi grassland seems to be going on endlessly.
Just when Zhu Cijiong and Galdan were a little helpless, Zhu Cijiong's letter was delivered to them by Aurangzeb's envoy.
One of these two is the "king in the cage", the "overlord" of a republic. Although they are not dictatorial monarchs, they do not have to report everything to the Ming court - Xichu and Zhungar are both "improper states", and In wartime. So decisions can be made quickly.
Their decision was to send troops to support Zhu Henry, and at the same time strengthen the confidence of the Ottoman Empire.
Both of them knew what was going on in the world, and of course they also knew what the Ottoman Empire's capture of Vienna meant?
However, Xichu and Zhungeer's power is limited, so it would be good if they could provide 800 people, which is better than nothing!
The Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire Ahmed Koprulu never thought that the 8,000 reinforcements brought by Henry Zhu would actually go to the front line - he knew the direct descendants of these 8,000 people, and Aurangzeb told them in his letter Most of the 8,000 people are Christians from Goa, and the remaining are Easterners who believe in Buddhism. Although they are all quite capable of fighting, they are definitely not as good as the soldiers of the Yenicherry Legion.
For this Battle of Vienna, Ahmed Koprulu has expanded the number of the Yenicheri Army to 100,000!
With 100,000 Yenicheri warriors, why would the Grand Vizier need foreign aid?
These foreign players can just be used as cheerleaders, half pretending to be Indian, half pretending to be Chinese...
The old man chatted for a while, and when the ferry was approaching the Golden Horn in Istanbul, he smiled and got down to the topic.
"Your Highness Henry, His Majesty the Sultan is very happy that you can bring people here... This shows that the Ming Empire and the Indian Empire stand firmly with the Ottoman Empire! But you have come from afar and are our guests. , We in the Ottoman Empire will not let our guests take risks, so the troops you bring do not have to go to the front to fight the Christian troops."
His words were translated into Chinese by Zhu Lundun. After hearing this, Henry Zhu smiled and replied: "Your Majesty the Grand Vizier, I think the troops I brought can play a greater role in the future Battle of Vienna."
Zhu Lundun translated this into Turkish again, and the old man just smiled and said nothing.
Henry Chu then added: “There are many sharpshooters in my army!”
“A sharpshooter?” The old man was amused by Henry Chu’s words, “How good is he?”
Henry Chu smiled and said: “During training, if the visibility is good, they can be sure to hit the human-shaped target 300 yards away!”
"300 yards, hahaha..." the Grand Vizier laughed out loud, "This is impossible. Without such a musket, the cannon's shot can't hit that far! Your Highness Henry, are you? Have you drunk too much?"
With a serious look on his face, Henry Chu said to the Grand Vizier word by word: "Your Excellency, Grand Vizier, my words are serious...my men can really hit 300 yards away with muskets." Humanoid targets! But this is not entirely because they have outstanding marksmanship, but also because they have rifled guns and a special kind of bullets!"
"Oh..." The Grand Vizier nodded, "I know about rifled guns, and I also have one... But this kind of gun has a very slow rate of fire and is of little use in actual combat."
Henry Chu smiled and said: “Now there is a special bullet that can allow a rifled gun to shoot at the rate of fire of a smoothbore gun, and it can also ensure air tightness!”
The old man knew about guns, and he was simply stunned after hearing these words, and looked at Henry Chu blankly, “Your Highness Henry, is what you said true?”
“Of course it’s true!” Henry Chu smiled, “Otherwise, why would I come to Istanbul?”
He's talking about the minie bomb!
It is a round-head cylindrical lead bullet. This bullet has a slightly smaller caliber than a rifle and can be easily pushed into the gun bore with a ramrod, thus greatly increasing the rate of fire. The bullet is threaded around the projectile to match the rifling, the middle of the thread is filled with animal oil, and the bottom of the bullet is made of cork. When shooting, the gunpowder gas impacts the cork, and the cork suddenly expands the bullet after the instant impact. Because the bullet is stretched, the bullet itself can be relied upon to seal the chamber at the moment of launch without leaking gunpowder gas and causing the bullet's kinetic energy to be lost. This solves the chamber sealing problem of the old muzzle-loading gun and greatly enhances the gun's rate of fire, range and safety.
In its original history, this kind of bullet was not invented until the mid-19th century by Captain Claude Edirne Migne of the French Chasseurs.
But now, it is the last golden finger in Zhu Cixiang's hand!
Zhu Cixiang did not come from a technical background, so he could not draw too many golden fingers - "Zi Lun Ge Wu Pian", which treats the root cause but not the symptoms, cannot be said to be a golden finger. The golden fingers he has successfully developed over the years are nothing more than the sandbag fortification method, sleeve bayonets, wooden pallet shells (nail-head wooden pallet shells), flying scissor bow, parallel siege method, ricochet method, and sanitation. Disinfection methods, etc... And the last golden finger is the Minie bomb!
This last cheat is very easy to copy. As long as it appears on the battlefield, it will be picked up and imitated by the opponent!
With the handicraft industries of Western powers such as Britain, the Netherlands, and France, it is not difficult to make minie bombs, and they can also make rifled guns. According to records, Italy had spiral rifled guns as early as 1476. The best front-loading rifled gun at present is the French Minin front-loading rifled gun.
The gun factory affiliated to Zhu Cihong's Royal Chamber of Commerce has been working hard to imitate the Mining front-loading rifled gun since Hongxing 12 years ago. In the 20th year of Hongxing's reign, the 20th-year-old long rifle was finally successfully developed based on the Mining-type front-loading rifle.
The Mini bullet (the official name is cork rifled bullet) was also successfully developed in Hongxing 20 years and put into production.
However, Zhu Cixiang did not send the cork bombs to the troops. Instead, he hid the cork bombs in the snow and regarded them as his last golden finger.
Now this last golden finger will be used in Vienna!
