Napoleon pondered on the Lucia train full of wounded people where to find the power to change Europe.
At the dock of Alexandria, Egypt, where he fought, the wounded and soldiers who had been evacuated from the battlefield in the Dashi area were also being put on passenger ships returning to the Western mainland.
Napoleon initially served as an officer on the battlefield in the Dashi area. After continuous promotion, he was transferred to the Anxi battlefield as the supreme commander.
The Dashi battlefield was the real main battlefield of the anti-Ming war and the place where this world war broke out.
The trigger of this world war was not the Ming Dynasty's attempt to dismantle the Ottoman Empire. The British, French, and Lucians all wanted to participate in this matter.
It wasn’t even the Ming Dynasty that built the West Sea Canal.
The historical Suez Canal, until the first large-scale expansion after the end of World War II, had relatively limited navigation capabilities from a modern perspective.
Only ships of up to 5,000 tons can pass.
Although the Ming Dynasty in this world intends to dig bigger, the local geological environment is fixed, and the engineering capabilities of this era are also here.
The West Sea Canal of the Ming Dynasty can only pass transport ships of 7,000 tons at most.
Nowadays, the navy's battleships and armored cruisers have a displacement of over 10,000 tons. Of course, it is impossible for them to pass through the West China Sea Canal.
Only a protected cruiser of six thousand tons can move at most.
Because the hull draft of a warship of the same tonnage is deeper than that of a merchant ship, its traffic tonnage is smaller than that of a civilian ship.
In other words, at that time, the Ming Dynasty could only deploy a maximum of 6,000-ton protected cruisers in the Daqin Sea (Mediterranean Sea).
While confirming this, coupled with the Ming Dynasty's commitment at the time, the canal would allow ships from all countries to pass and promised not to deploy main ironclad ships in the Daqin Sea.
The British and other Westerners temporarily resisted the urge to break with the Ming Dynasty.
However, this state did not last long.
When Zhu Zhongliang, the current emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was young and vigorous, he eagerly wanted to deploy the battleships to the Great Qin Sea.
Ironclad ships really can't be sent in, but armored cruisers can also be sent.
Because at that time, the Ming Dynasty was already planning combat operations against the British.
Transporting large warships into the Daqin Sea is also a preparation for combat operations and is used to defend the West Sea area (Sinai Peninsula) at sea.
Taking the Little Western-Atlantic route, bypassing the Mexican continent, passing through Gibraltar and entering the Great Qin Sea, it was impossible for the British and Spanish to let them pass.
The result of forcing their way inside may be that the war breaks out early.
The key Ming Dynasty was in the mid-Atlantic and north without any available supply and repair bases.
In a naval battle with the European and American countries in the Atlantic Ocean, the Ming Navy would suffer greatly.
So Zhu Zhongliang came up with an idea to secretly assassinate Chen Cang.
It is very common to build a civilian shipyard on the coast of the Daqin Sea in the northern part of the West Sea region that also has military ship repair functions.
Then at the Jizhou (Djibouti) Shipyard in East Mozhou, the hull of the 10,000-ton armored cruiser was built in advance.
There are no weapons, equipment, or armors installed on the ship, so that the hull floats on the sea at an extremely low draft and is secretly towed through the canal by tugboats.
The weapons and equipment required for the armored cruisers are transported by cargo ships to the shipyards on the side of the Daqin Sea to "repair" those 10,000-ton armored cruisers that only have hulls.
Of course, the repair process is also confidential.
The initial operation was also quite smooth, and the ship repair yard successively "repaired" six armored cruisers.
At the same time, there were a large number of low-level cruisers that sailed into the Great Qin Sea openly, and the Ming Dynasty's Great Qin Sea Fleet began to take shape.
However, such a large project cannot be kept secret for a long time.
The newly completed warships will eventually go out for testing, and they will come into contact with more and more people.
The news finally leaked out, and then the whole of Tessie was completely blown away.
Especially France, Sardinia, Italy, Austria and other countries along the Mediterranean coast, as well as Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands and other countries that have been devastated by the Ming Dynasty.
Daming put the knife directly under their buttocks.
After Daming's behavior was discovered, he simply stopped covering it up.
Continue to transport more hulls and equipment to assemble more warships in the Great Qin Sea.
Publicly prepare for war, install main guns on the repaired bases on the coastline, provide cover for cruisers at sea, and prevent enemy fleets from directly bombarding the coastline.
The Ming Dynasty's initial combat goal in this war was to secure the West China Sea Peninsula and the Canal, while seizing the entire Egypt and India.
This war goal was not too big, but it underestimated the pressure it would put on the Taixi people.
The Ming Dynasty continued to build docks and shipyards in the Daqin Sea, and continued to send warships in. The Taixi people were not idle either.
Although the Taixi people do not know that Ming Dynasty is secretly plotting against Chen Cang, the threat they feel is constantly increasing.
They began to add troops to the areas around Dashi, especially the British, Spanish, and Ottoman countries.
When the Ming Dynasty openly prepared for war, the long-term accumulated pressure reached a critical point, and with the mediation of the British, the anti-Ming Dynasty alliance was finally established.
After the anti-Ming alliance was established, it immediately asked the Ming Dynasty to dismantle all armored cruisers in the Daqin Sea, or transport them back to the Little Western Sea around the Atlantic Ocean under the supervision of the Western and Eastern Fleet.
Ming Dynasty, which was originally preparing for war with Egypt and India, naturally rejected the "barbarians'" request for self-harm.
The anti-Ming alliance, which thought it was backed into a corner, took the initiative and formally declared war on the Ming Dynasty.
Lucia launched the first attack on the northern battlefield.
Then the coalition forces of the Thai and Western countries cooperated with the Ottoman army to attack the West Sea area from the east and west directions, trying to seize the West Sea peninsula and canal.
This is how this truly world-scale war began.
As the main battlefield, the Dashi Battlefield quickly gathered all the anti-Ming Alliance troops and fleets after the war began.
Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, Prussia, Austria, Lucia, Ottoman, Netherlands, and Sardinia (Italy) were all present.
The entire Great Eclipse battlefield is divided into four sub-battlefields: Egypt, the Dead Sea, Lianghe, and the Great Qin Sea.
The Egyptian battlefield is a battle for the Egyptian mainland, and the Dead Sea battlefield is a battle for the areas east and north of the Sinai Peninsula, as well as the northern part of the Cathay Peninsula.
Both battlefields were centered on the Western Sea Peninsula (Sinai Peninsula).
The Sinai Peninsula is too small and there are not enough local sources of supplies. The invention can only transport supplies from East Africa and India through the Red Sea route.
This limited the number of combatants in the Ming Dynasty and was unable to take advantage of local manpower.
Although these places are not native to the Western countries, they are much closer to their homeland than the Ming Dynasty.
It is more convenient to directly transport supplies by sea through the Daqin Sea, so the number of participants in the war is actually larger.
But the end result is a lose-lose situation for both sides.
As for the Two Rivers battlefield, it had been fought for a long time before the Anti-Ming Alliance was established.
It was a war in which the Ming Dynasty seized the Mesopotamia from the Ottomans. The main opponent was the Ottoman Empire's troops.
Here, the Ming Dynasty could transport soldiers and supplies from India and Persia. Although it was mainly transported by sea, it was surrounded by Ming Dynasty colonies.
The efficiency is much higher than transporting from Dongmozhou through the Red Sea.
The level of the Ottoman troops was also significantly lower than that of the major European and Western countries, and the entire war process was a slow and continuous retreat.
In the end, the Ming Dynasty basically occupied the entire Mesopotamia.
After the Ming Dynasty troops completed their mission in the Lianghe battlefield, they tried to continue their attack to the west, trying to open up a line of communication with the Xihai Peninsula.
However, they were desperately blocked by the European and Western countries and the Ottoman army, and the goal was ultimately not achieved.
The Great Qinhai battlefield is a naval battle.
In the early days of the war, the Ming Dynasty's naval fleet in the Daqin Sea was limited in number, and there were even no main armored ships at all.
However, most of the main fleets of the Thai and Western countries were dragged in the South Atlantic by the Ming Dynasty's main fleet, and the fleets in the Great Qin Sea were also not the main force.
The Ming Navy's armored cruiser fleet's early operational thinking was to attack the supply routes of the European and Western countries and interfere with the support of the European and Western countries on the battlefield.
As a result, after several unexpected exchanges of fire, it was discovered that the enemy's shells could not penetrate the armor of their own armored cruiser.
Then the Ming Navy began to try more proactive combat strategies.
However, the number of Ming fleets in the Qin Sea is still too small after all, and the anti-Ming alliance can draw fleets from the Atlantic at any time.
The Ming Navy achieved quite a few results, but in the end it was difficult to truly defeat the Anti-Ming Alliance Navy. Seeing that the situation was unstoppable, they took refuge under the shore artillery range for repairs.
On this battlefield, the Ming Dynasty continued to explore the command of a large number of shore artillery for a long time, and completed the accumulation of experience in coordinated attacks with large-caliber main guns.
Generally speaking, there are four battlefields in Dashi, two battlefields are both losers, one Ming Dynasty achieved part of its goals, and in the final naval battle, the Ming Dynasty was at a slight disadvantage.
The number of casualties of the Ming Dynasty's troops was far smaller than that of the Ottoman Empire and the Western countries. Even the casualty data of the servant soldiers were lower than those of the Anti-Ming Alliance.
The final result can be regarded as a draw in which Ming Dynasty has a slight advantage.
Now, the brutal war that lasted for more than ten years is finally over.
Most of the soldiers participating in the war in the Tianfang area are a bit like the soldiers in the northern battlefield of Lucia. Although they are gradually withdrawing from the battlefield, it is difficult to relax in a short time.
The "Grand Vizier" of the Ottoman Empire, Kor Yusuf Zayadin, assesses the losses and the situation in the empire after the end of a normal war.
Muhammad Ali bin Ibrahim, nominal governor of Ottoman Egypt and de facto ruler of Egypt, looked at the ruins of the city and pondered the future.
In Alexandria, the children of princes and nobles from various countries in the West were discussing whether to hold an armistice celebration banquet.
When news came from the British and the location of the negotiations was finally determined, the banquet was also officially decided.
They invited several of the most distinguished princes, princes, and grand dukes to attend.
Prince of the Netherlands, William Frederik, also known as the historical King William I of the Netherlands.
The Portuguese prince and Brazilian prince, José Francisco, died of smallpox in history. In this life, he was vaccinated with cowpox as a child and survived.
Spanish Prince Ferdinand Francisco, historical King Ferdinand VII of Spain.
The younger brother of the Kingdom of Sardinia, Duke of Aosta, Vittorio Emanuele, the next King of Sardinia in history.
Some of the noble children headed by these princes actually participated in combat or command, but most of them just came to brush up their qualifications.
But no matter what the situation, everyone is now focusing on one person, a person who doesn't seem too unhappy.
He is the younger brother of the Austrian Emperor, Duke of Teschen, Austrian Marshal, commander of the Teishi Allied Forces in the West Sea Battlefield, Karl Ludwig Lorenz.
Although the war ended in a near draw, it was considered a victory for the Europeans.
But Archduke Karl was not happy. He could not see the future of Europe and Austria.
Since the war ended in a draw, Ming Dynasty completely saved the Sinai Peninsula and the West Sea Canal.
In the future, the fleet will be deployed in the Mediterranean without any scruples. If it cannot enter through the Strait of Gibraltar, then it will be built directly in Xihai City.
This is like putting a knife in front of all European countries.
The British, Prussians, and Lucians whose outlets are on the ocean may not be particularly concerned about this matter.
The French and Spanish, who have access to the sea both on the ocean and in the Mediterranean, may be able to tolerate it.
But the outlets of Austria and Italy are all in the Mediterranean Sea, so there is no way not to care about them.
Especially Austria, its outlet is in the Adriatic Sea inside the Mediterranean Sea.
The Adriatic Sea is like a pocket, with an exit of only more than 70 kilometers.
As long as the Ming Dynasty navy arranges a fleet, it can completely block Austria's gateway to the sea.
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This chapter was written in a hurry, there may be many questions, and the word count is a bit too high, almost over 3,600 words.
I originally planned to delete more than 2,000, but I couldn’t decide which ones to delete in my hurry.
Let’s send it out now and then think of ways to correct it. If you find any problems, you can mention them in the chapter. I’ll read them and then correct them.
