After chatting with Zhu Jirun, Zhu Cixuan rushed to participate in an important deduction by the military headquarters.

When Zhu Cilang arrived, everyone was waiting. After saluting, Zhu Cilang sat on the imperial throne. Zhou Yuji introduced the situation: "Your Majesty, according to the latest information, the Ottoman Empire expanded its troops to 1.05 million, including 800,000 troops and 250,000 troops.

In the Army, there are 200,000 troops in the Balkan area, 50,000 troops in Istanbul, 50,000 troops in the Asia Minor Peninsula, 200,000 troops in the Mesopotamia area, and 300,000 troops in the Egyptian direction and the east coast of the Red Sea.

This is the army's strength. The Navy's Black Sea Fleet is 50,000, the Mediterranean Fleet is 50,000, and the Persian Gulf is 50,000,000 in the Red Sea.

According to its military deployment, it already has a clear tendency to be on guard against the Ming Dynasty, which is very unfavorable for the Ming Dynasty.

The purpose of this deduction is to see what tactics the Ming Dynasty should use to win this war quickly.

Judging from the national strength of the Ottoman Empire, it has many similarities with the Mughals. They are all ruled by foreign races, with many domestic conflicts and a considerable number of troops.

However, some places of the Ottoman are different from the Mughal Empire. When the Ming Dynasty attacked the Mughals, they could land from anywhere or even rush down from the mountain.

However, during the Ottoman Empire, the Ming Dynasty could only attack from two lines, sea routes in Egypt or land routes in Mesopotamia.

And its narrow, long and strange-shaped territory invisibly created a large amount of depth for them.

Especially the fortress plan he launched in the Suez Canal this year, which greatly reduced the possibility of the Ming Dynasty raid entering the Mediterranean. It is expected that the construction of the Suez Canal fortress into the Ming Dynasty will only be promoted step by step in five years.

This is the entire background of this grand revision.”

Zhu Ciyang nodded: "How many troops are planned to use in the Ming Dynasty this time?"

Zhou Yuji stood up straight: "According to the plan, the Ming Dynasty will use ten divisions to capture the Nile River Basin in the early stage of the war, and then take down Mecca from the east coast of the Red Sea, and Yelushalen and Damascus will surround the Suez Canal.

Then the main fleet was sent to fire with giant cannons, striving to take three months to capture the Suez Canal. At the same time, in the middle of the war, ten divisions of troops were concentrated to defeat the Ottoman army in the Mesopotamian region in one fell swoop.

At the same time, cut off Suez's onshore reinforcement passage."

Zhu Cilang nodded: "Then let's start!"

The military headquarters made this grand deduction to accumulate experience in the next Ming Dynasty. The deductions were to think of all possibilities, take into account all possible reactions made by all enemies, and make corresponding plans.

At the same time, constant deduction can also make the staff members' tactics constantly innovate.

Sure enough, the background setting of this battle was no longer the Ming Dynasty raid, but the independence movements of Greece and Hungary supported by the Ming Dynasty were cruelly suppressed by the Ottomans.

In order to maintain civilized order and to restore justice to the world, the Ming Dynasty united France, Spain and Tsarist Russia in the north to fight against the Ottoman Empire.

Among them, in order to obtain the Mediterranean estuary, in order to regain the land in the eastern Mediterranean and control the Balkans, France also made this for this.

The four countries agreed that after the victory of the war, the straits between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea and the Suez Canal will become international shared waterways, and any country can sail freely here.

This combat plan is also called the free navigation plan. Tsarist Russia is very active in order to obtain sea outlets and the Crimea region. In addition, the Ottoman Empire dispatched a large number of troops to suppress the independence movement in Greece and Austria.

Therefore, Tsarist Russia attacked without fear. Spain and France did not want to watch the resistance in Greece and Austria were suppressed, so their actions would have fewer supporters and they sent troops as soon as possible.

It was in this context that the Ming Dynasty began to send troops to seize control of the Suez Canal first.

However, the Ming Dynasty had already prepared in recent years. Because it controlled the upper reaches of the Nile River, at the beginning of the war, the Ming Dynasty first brought down the small warships that had been building on the Nile River down the river.

Then they occupied Cairo and Alexandria in one fell swoop, and parked these small warships at the Mediterranean estuary of the Suez Canal, intending to intercept reinforcements from the Ottoman Sea.

With Spain's support, Spain will also send a fleet to block possible reinforcements.

It also landed from the east coast of the Red Sea, bypassing the Suez Canal, first taking down Jerusalem and Damascus, cutting off possible land reinforcements.

After cutting off all the periphery of Suez, the siege began. Due to the painstaking efforts of the Ottomans, the fortress groups on both sides of the Suez Canal were built in a grand manner.

However, the Ming Dynasty's battleships had epoch-making artillery fire, which was enough to knock out these outdated fortresses. The only troublesome thing was that the canal was too narrow to place several warships at the same time, so this battle took time.

These three months are the process of the battleship knocking open the opponent's fortress bit by bit.

Everything was normal in the first half, but in the second half of the war, someone from the Ottomans began to destroy the canal. They first used large ships to load sand and gravel to sink the bottom, and then simply filled the river later. In short, all the methods Sun Chuanting used was used.

This led to the inability of the Ming Dynasty's battleships to advance, and the military headquarters had to replace the army's heavy artillery and airships to bomb the air hot air balloon, but this efficiency was much slower than that of naval guns.

For this reason, the military headquarters also used incendiary bombs, but there were too many fortresses, and the Ming Dynasty did not have so many incendiary bombs to cover the place.

Every time we deduce the second half of the Suez Canal, we can always encounter the enemy's bridges that destroy the canal. This is a difficult problem that the military headquarters cannot avoid, and it is also a means of delaying time when the staff members of the Ottoman Empire are playing the role of the Ottoman Empire.

Sure enough, when the attack in Mesopotamia was launched, the planned three months of the canal was not completed as scheduled, and the Ming Dynasty had to go from winning the naval battle to a land consumption that would be preserved.

Fortunately, the Euphrat River and the Tigris River were able to transport the Ming Dynasty supplies to the Kurdish settlement area east of Asia Minor.

It is less than 1,500 miles away from the capital of the Ottoman Empire.

However, there were a thousand miles of mountain and mountain plateau in front. The military plan this time was to use cavalry raids, abandoning the slower infantry, and intending to use cavalry to attack the city of Istanbul like Chengji Sihan.

As long as you can get to the city, there are many ways to break the city, and you will never regret it like you are a chicken and a man.

No matter how strong the city wall is, it cannot hold the explosive pack. If one doesn’t work, we can do two. This is already quite the essence of blitzkrieg.
Chapter completed!