Chapter 736： The ending is already doomed

So, Egypt's Mamluk dynasty and some Indian princes, including Ottoman Turkey, began to connect in series, intending to deal with this arrogant West-Portugal and fleet.

But the strange thing is that Venice, which has suffered the most damage, is a little silent, and continues to dig the river there ...

The Egyptians found the representative of Venice and asked them to join in the operation against the Spanish-Portuguese joint fleet, but they were rejected. The reason for the Venetians is because the Venetian warships could not enter the Red Sea and could not compete with the Spanish-Portuguese joint fleet. Want revenge? When we dig the canal, and then blast the ship to kill them ...

In fact, the Venetians did think so. And it's the same way. The reason for this is because Venice is afraid of getting involved in the dispute prematurely, not only will it not be able to fight Spain and Portugal, but it will also cause a war with Spain and Portugal.

Although Venice may not be afraid of Spain and Portugal, it is afraid that the other party will interfere with Venice to dig through the Suez Canal. The opening of the Suez Canal as early as possible can produce benefits as early as possible. Therefore, for Venice, it is unbearable to wait until the future is the best choice.

Of course, Venice is also happy to see the bad luck in Western Portugal and Portugal. To this end, the Venice Parliament specially approved 300,000 Ducat gold coins to support the Egyptian Mamluk dynasty, support the Egyptians to buy ships and recruit people, expand their maritime strength, and work with Spain and Portugal. In any case, it will cause some trouble for these two countries ...

Marin is busy preparing manpower and supplies to build Panama City, and naturally does not know what is happening on the Indian Ocean side. However, even if he knew it, Marin would directly judge that the Spanish-Portuguese coalition would win. why? This has been proven by history ...

In the original history, the Diu Sea War broke out in 1509. The Portuguese relied on 18 ships and 1800 sailors, defeating the coalition's 2,000 ships and more than 20,000 sailors.

This Spanish-Portuguese United Fleet is more powerful than the Portuguese fleet in history. Although there are only eight more ships, they are all big ships. The original Portuguese fleet in the Diu battle was composed of 5 large Clark sailboats, 4 small Clark sailboats, 6 Caravel sailboats and 3 small boats.

Not only that, due to the influence of Marin ’s naval warfare, the Spanish fleet was generally equipped with a large number of rear-mounted bronze artillery, that is, Franc machine guns, mainly caliber 6-pound guns and 3-pound guns, and a small number of 10-pound heavy gun ". Maybe the caliber is not very big, but it also depends on what the opponent is ...

The Egyptians' actions received strong support from Ottoman Turkey. Why? Because the sea operations in Spain and Portugal have affected the sea timber transportation in Turkey!

Most of the areas under Turkish control are relatively arid areas with little wood. Therefore, it is more dependent on importing high-quality wood from India and Southeast Asia. Even the navy fleet that Turkey is still forming is mainly from India and Southeast Asia.

However, the dominance of the West Portuguese League and the fleet to dominate the Arabian Sea seriously affected the acquisition of Ottoman Turkish timber. Therefore, in order to combat the arrogance of Spain and Portugal, Ottoman Turkey originally intended to provide Egypt with a large number of large Mediterranean-style paddle warships and provide Greek sailors for combat (Greece is currently occupied by Turkey and the people are also driven by Turkey) .

However, when the Suez Canal has not yet been opened, how to transport these paddle warships to the Red Sea is a problem.

So, the Venetian took the initiative to stand up-we helped you to dismantle the ship and send it to the coast of the Red Sea south of the Sinai peninsula for reassembly ... To this end, the Venetian urgently mobilized a large number of shipbuilding craftsmen from the mainland ...

The problem is that the Mediterranean-style paddle warships provided by these Turks can only place a small number of artillery in the bow and stern. As for the side rails, artillery cannot be placed because of the need for paddling ...

Therefore, the large ships that the Turks sent to Egypt were actually not capable of naval warfare ...

However, whether it is Egyptians or Turks, they do n’t know that the times have changed-they are still stuck in the old-fashioned naval warfare thinking of the shipboard battle against the cut off, and they do n’t know that the artillery battle has risen ...

Therefore, before this naval battle was fought, the defeat of the Egyptians was doomed. Because the ships of the Egyptian fleet are either large Mediterranean-style oars or single-masted Arabian dinghys. The former can only install a small amount of artillery at both ends, while the latter can't install artillery at all. As a result, bow and arrow shooting has become the main attack method of this fleet. The fleet of the princes of the Egyptian allies of India is almost this level, and even worse ...

Although the large row of oars warships provided by Turkey are not capable of attacking, they are relatively hard to fight. But those small dhows are really unbearable. Even if the main artillery of the Spanish and Portuguese fleets are 6-pound bronze guns, they are enough to deal with these small dhows. As for the more durable Turkish ships, the number is too small, the attack power is too poor, and they can't occupy it at all ...

It was the Venetians who should have actively participated in the war. Because he was reminded by Marin, he was clearly aware of the gap between the two sides at the strategic and tactical level. However, the Venetians did not intend to remind the Egyptians. Why? Because the Venetians do n’t want to see Egypt strong at sea ...

In the Venetian plan ~ www.novelhall.com ~ Once the Suez Canal opened, it was time for Venice to dominate and even monopolize the Indian Ocean. But Egypt is an ally, and Venice is not good enough to take out the sea power of the Egyptians. Therefore, letting Spain and Portugal wipe out Egypt's maritime power is the best result for the Venetians.

Moreover, once the maritime power is destroyed, the Egyptian Mamluk dynasty will rely more on the Venetians. It will even provide excavation for Venice's canals and provide more support. Because, the Mamluks definitely hope that Venice will help them avenge ...

So, do n’t look at the Venetians paying for money, helping to dismantle ships and assembling, but in my heart, I just wish Egypt lost as much as possible ...

In the camps against Spain and Portugal, the strongest Venice immersed themselves in the water and did not work, and Turkey only provided a few old ships. The remaining princes of Egypt and India have low strength and tactical thinking. Therefore, this naval battle has not yet begun, but the ending is already doomed ...

But in any case, the Egyptians and some princes of India, after all, will not be willing to withdraw from the stage of history. Therefore, they will make a final struggle in order to obtain a turnaround. After all, no one wants to give up the **** meat of the spice trade. For the sake of benefit, everyone has to fight each other. Until the end, no one wants to let go easily ...