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Some people may wonder why the Ottoman Empire did not hurry up to send reinforcements to the Caucasus after Li Ding's defeat of Arthurius at Mount Mugojar, when the Caucasus was empty and the morale of the army was in turmoil.

This is because the Ottoman Empire is facing two great crises at this moment.

Grand Vizier Kopluru. Muhammad. During the six months of his reign, the Pasha took severe measures, executing about 15,000 corrupt officials, lawless soldiers, and rebels within six months, and worked hard to rectify and restore order in the country, and even diverted the religious fund to secular purposes to alleviate the financial crisis.

It is not known whether there were political enemies among the 15,000 corrupt officials he executed, but such a big move, such a ruthless method, and even the use of the Word Fund will inevitably provoke a strong backlash.

At this time, as soon as the news of the destruction of Arthurus's army reached China, the whole country was in an uproar.

Governor of Adana, Bapresley, Excellent, Excellent, Small, Say, More, New, Most, Fast||That is, to openly declare that he has conclusive evidence that can prove that the Grand Vizier Copru. Muhammad. Pasha was the mastermind behind the assassination of the Sultan Empress Dowager and asked the Sultan to immediately punish Kollurus. Muhammad. Pasha, and his comrades.

Immediately, the governors of Kastamonu, Diyarbakir, Kosovo, Jerusalem, Benghazi, and Mosul also wrote letters asking the Sultan to severely punish the murderers.

Boy! Koplulu. Muhammad. The Pasha was cutting off the wings and minions of these men, who were confidants of the Sultan's Queen Mother Kosem during her regency.

Koplulu. Muhammad. The Pasha had expected Arthurius to win a great victory, and then take down these people in one fell swoop.

Who would have thought that Arthurus, who had high hopes, would be wiped out.

As a result of the change in trade routes, the Ottoman Empire lost control of trade between the East and the West and the windfall profits of wholesalers, and the financial deficit became more and more serious over the decades, and the Timar system, which was the basis of the empire's rule, was in danger of collapsing. After a large number of Sipahi cavalry lords went bankrupt, they fled to the frontier to join the rebels who rebelled against Zhengfu, which was originally a mess with air leaks in the middle and smoke on all sides.

If at this time, the governors of Kastamonu, Diyarbakir, Kosovo, Jerusalem, Benghazi, Mosul, these places become independent, and the entire vast Ottoman Empire will fall apart.

The 19th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed IV, was only 11 years old this year, and he was not yet in power. Muhammad. Pasha, and the henchmen who supported him.

But the governor of Adana, Bapres, and others. It has also been openly proclaimed that the Grand Vizier Kopluru. Muhammad. Pasha is the mastermind behind the assassination of the Sultan and Empress Dowager, and the two sides are already incompatible.

Koplulu. Muhammad. The Pasha was anxious to find a way to reconcile the contradictions between the two sides.

But disaster doesn't come alone. An even bigger crisis ensued.

In the Mediterranean, under the facilitation of the Qin mission, many principalities such as the Holy Roman Empire, Spain, Portugal, and Venice formed a huge fleet of nearly 400 large and small warships, and launched a fierce attack on the Ottoman Navy.

Among them, the most eye-catching are a huge treasure ship of the Great Qin Empire, and eight 60-meter-long flying scissor warships, commanded by Hua Nanying, a staff officer of the ocean-going fleet of the Great Qin Royal Navy.

Huge treasure ship. Nearly 100 "war eagles", after taking off from the deck, launched a terrifying attack on the Ottoman warships from the air, and immediately stunned the Ottoman navy. They all retreated.

The Great Qin Royal Navy became famous in World War I and shocked the whole of Europe and the Middle East! Good guys, the British, the Hungarians, and just signed an armistice with Great Qin. The Dutch, who had established diplomatic relations, could not sit still.

The territory of the Ottoman Empire was so vast that the Black Sea was their inner lake, and the entire southern shore of the Mediterranean Sea was also his territory. From the Caspian Sea to North Africa near the Strait of Gibraltar, and then to both sides of the Red Sea, it is all the stars and moon flags flying.

Seeing the defeat of the Mansman Empire's army, the retreat of the navy, and the internal turmoil, this is obviously about to die, such a big piece of fat, who doesn't want to take the opportunity to pounce on it and bite hard! A hundred bites! Eat a round belly!

And so! Almost all the Christian countries of Europe, but almost all of them who could send their navies, sent nearly 200 more warships at once, and everyone was very excited to go to the feast with knives and forks.

Since the Crusades, it was all Muslims who were fighting against Christians, and the Ottoman Empire's imperial sea was not only aggressive in the Mediterranean, but the army even reached under the city of Vienna, posing a serious threat to the entire European hinterland.

The emperor of the Holy Roman Empire once wanted to unite with the Safavid Emperor Abbasid I to flank the Ottoman Empire, but at that time, due to the internal contradictions in Europe, the Thirty-Year European War soon broke out, and he became a pot of porridge, so there was no talk of flanking the Ottoman Empire.

Now it's different, with the Great Qin Empire taking the lead, everyone is just sending out the navy to deal with the common enemy, uh no, it should be to carve up a piece of big fat, then it must be scrambling.

There are many countries that come, and it is inevitable that there will be many people and people, each saying one thing, isn't this a mess? Everyone knows that this will not work, there must be a commander-in-chief of joint operations, otherwise this mess will be killed, and this battle will not be fought.

There are many contradictions within the European countries, but it is only because there is a piece of fat in front of them that is big enough for them to temporarily put aside their grievances with each other, but it is not possible to make the fleet of this country obey the command of that country.

The commanders of more than a dozen countries held a meeting in Sicily, and they almost fought first, and in the end, everyone elected Hua Nanying, a staff officer of the Great Qin Royal Navy, as the commander-in-chief of the combined fleet.

Hua Nanying doesn't want to get involved in this matter, you think, these hundreds of warships, from more than ten countries, inevitably have their own selfish intentions, and it is difficult to command, and the Great Qin Military Sea has already shocked Europe in a war, and there is no need to use victory to add points.

If you become the commander-in-chief of this combined fleet, it is good to win, but if you lose, won't it make the prestige of the Great Qin Junhai ruined?

Hua Nanying immediately resigned, and I will not do this commander-in-chief of the combined fleet.

The naval commanders of various countries looked at it, what kind of thing is this, if you don't do it, this thing can't be smoothed! Shouldn't everyone just break up? Everyone came on the spot, waiting for a big meal.

Everyone asked again and again, and promised that once the victory was won, Daqin would take 20% of the spoils alone.

With this condition, and considering that Li Ding's army needed an attack from this side to relieve the pressure, South China Yingcai reluctantly became the commander-in-chief of this combined fleet.

Hua Nanying's first order was to combine nearly 600 large and small warships of the combined fleet to kill the Aegean Sea, threaten Istanbul, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, and force the Ottoman Navy to fight a decisive battle as soon as possible.

Let's not talk about how shocked the Ottoman Empire was by this huge fleet, which united almost all the coastal countries of Europe.

Let's say that in the Tsaritsyn fortress at the confluence of the Volga and Tsaritsyn rivers, the commander Ivanov really hit Li Ding's plan to lure the snake out of the hole.

At this moment, Li Ding's army was blocked under the city of Kota in the Caucasus, and the city of Atyrau on the Caspian Sea organized a large amount of grain and grass, which was to be transported to the city of Kota through the lower reaches of the Volga River.

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!

Although Li Ding left 10,000 troops to build fortifications in the lower reaches of the Volga River, these 10,000 people were all newly captured Kazakhs.

People are iron, and rice is steel. As long as this batch of emergency grain and grass is taken, Li Ding's tens of thousands of troops will definitely collapse due to hunger.

At that time, the Caucasus, the northern shore of the Caspian Sea, and even the Kipchak steppes and Siberia will all belong to Russia.

There is no time to lose. Ivanov immediately personally set out with six thousand cavalry overnight and galloped towards the lower reaches of the Volga

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(To be continued......) r1292

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