Chapter 14 Nogai Storm (8) Odessa (3) Greek City (Part 1)
In the Greek city, Odessa Pasha Aladdin, who came after hearing the news, was trembling with his hands holding a telescope.
The scene in front of him made him feel a little dreamy:
I saw that the Truqin warship had no sails or oarsmen at all. There was only a thick "mast" near the main mast. This "mast" was shorter and thicker than the mast next to it, and was obviously hollow.
Black smoke keeps coming out.
The Truqin battleships were all scattered, with fifteen ships in total, three larger, but smaller than his galleys, and the other twelve ships were smaller, but there were artillery on both sides. The sound was obviously
At this time, cannons from European maritime powers are popular.
The sound of these cannons is heavier and exciting than that of European ones. Obviously, the sealing of their cannon chambers and the energy of gunpowder are superior.
Aladdin once worked as a Pasha in Egypt and saw the French warships. The largest one of their warships was obviously much taller than Truchen's, and the artillery also had three layers. When they fired together, they were earth-shaking.
But their volleys are just on the surface. In the abnormally bumpy sea and leads, the quality of the drug induces the artillery still comes first and later when it is launched.
But the Truchens' artillery was obviously a real volley. When it roared, sparks that appeared almost at the same time on the black sea.
The scattered Truchen warship could freely shuttle, turn, and fire shells on the sea, and its own ships, whether it was a sailboat or the Garen ship that the Barbary pirates robbed from the Europeans, were completely in a passive position of being beaten.
What's more, the other party has three more big ships than the one!
"Bang!"
As the last Garen ship was shot in the trunk by a volley of the Truqin battleship and detonated the powder barrel on the middle deck, after several huge explosions, the warship was broken into two pieces.
, and then slowly sank into the sea with a huge fire.
At this time, Aladdin could no longer stay. The French gave it to him. The five-fold monocular telescope imitated by Albanian craftsmen fell from his hand. The lenses inside fell on the stone slabs on the city wall were broken, and some were still scattered.
Onto the slab.
The man next to him also looked at all this with disbelief. His mouth was wide open, and in the end it turned into a capital letter "O".
After a while, Aladdin took a deep breath and said slowly: "Send someone to Istanbul by land immediately and let him report to Great Vizier and the Sultan"
"Just say that the rumors are true, the Truchens' warships used new power devices, which are already more advanced than the Europeans, and their artillery technology is also above the Europeans"
"What then?"
"Sultan and Vizier have their own decisions, so we can't control it"
When his personal soldiers left, he said to Zhivkov: "The Truchens have set up such a large formation, obviously not only to our Odessa Navy, but to Ode
Salai's"
"They will definitely dispatch the army to occupy the Odessa Pier. There are still many artillery on the top of the Greek city. Once the Truchens step onto the pier, they will fire there"
Zhivkov nodded.
In fact, they also arranged some artillery on the dock, but there was no one there at the moment, not to mention that there were not many artillery arrangements. The artillery of the enemy ship was so sharp that a cannon could be destroyed by a volley on the side of the side.
Fortunately, no matter how powerful their artillery is, it is impossible to hit the Greek city. The pier is at least three or four miles away from the city. Even if it can hit it here, it is still the last one.
....
When the artillery fire near the Odessa Pier stopped, the Ottoman Odessa fleet was completely destroyed, and they had been able to piece together a large number of naval forces since their last defeat at the Russians.
The dark seabed is cremated into ashes by huge cremation.
Truchen approached the dock, pointed at the merchant ships with the black holes in the side port, and let their sailors all disembark and stood on the dock.
At this time, half a day had passed since Deng Quan's fleet fired its first shot. The sea was in a mess. The remaining hull, floating corpses and broken limbs were everywhere. The smell of the sea was mixed with the smell of blood and smoke.
You can smell it inside and outside.
As the saying goes, "By the mountain and eat the mountain." As Pasha, a remote province of the Ottoman Empire, the central government did not have the ability to allow them to eat enough soldiers. Pasha held the city gate tax in his hand, so the generals had to seek their own money.
As the owner of Greek city, the former Barbary pirate Zhivkov is the owner of the largest fleet on the pier. His people are now the sailors who were driven off the ship by the Truchens.
So, he couldn't help but hesitate when he was about to fire the dock.
....
The east gate of Greek city is near the gate near the sea, close to a large residential building on the south side of the Central Street that connects Greek city, Roman city, and Tatar city. It was always peaceful in the vigorous naval battle in the morning, but
Now there is finally some movement.
The center of the house is Thanos' warehouse. At this time, three hundred soldiers quietly walked out of it!
On the surface, these soldiers are no different from the Jenicheri infantry in Zhivkov.
A red turban, a red robe, a chain mail on the upper body, a musket in his hand, a scimitar hanging on it, and a European appearance.
Although Jenicheri is the Sultan's guards and has always been placed near the capital, there are still some Jenicheri in places close to the border, especially where the Sultan relatives are in power.
After the Fourth Russian-Turkish War, the Sultan immediately realized that if he had treasured his own fortune, the collapse of the empire would be in an instant. So in Albania, Serbia and Moldova, the local Pasha was allowed to recruit Jenicheri on his own according to the regulations of Istanbul.
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At the forefront of the Russians, Aladdin naturally had a large number of Jenicheri troops. At this time, it was obvious that it was too late to train white slaves and children from childhood, so they could only recruit them on the spot.
Filled with a large number of bankrupt Moldova, Nogae farmers and herdsmen.
These people look more like Noga than Europeans, but they will not attract others' attention.
In the past few days, military supplies have been continuously moved from Thanos' warehouse to the Greek city and the military warehouse in Rome, and there are also escorts from Jenicheri.
Of course, if you are interested, you will see that these Jenicer's figures are obviously much more bloated than before, especially the waist is bulging. Fortunately, it is covered by a red robe. If it were a delicate short suit like Truchen, it would definitely be covered by it.
Can't stay.
After coming out of the gate of the house under the leadership of an officer with a European face, these people immediately stepped into the narrow corridor along the city wall, which was listed as a restricted area by the Ottomans.
For the Ottomans, although people from all walks of life are allowed to live in the city, the houses are not connected to the city walls. There is also a corridor between them, about one meter wide, and the walls of the Greek city are not straight or
Round, but extremely irregular.
The corridor leads to the seaside, then goes deeper into the city, then goes north, and then suddenly turns south. As soon as the stranger arrives here, he thinks he has taken the wrong path.
In fact, as long as you walk forward in one direction and don’t look back, the road will eventually lead to the city wall.
After traveling through the inside for a long time, these Jenicer finally appeared in the corridor again, and the corridor here was divided into several forks.
One continues to lead to the distance that is unknown, one leads to the inner city, and one leads to the city wall!
Of course, in such a critical place, there are obviously soldiers here.
Similar to the Tibetan soldiers cave in ancient Chinese city walls, there is also a small house in such a place where a squad of soldiers can be stationed. Only through this small house can one get to the city wall!
The soldiers guarding in front of the small house were confused when they saw so many Jenicer coming.
Although the Ottoman second-generation Jenicheri is known as the "new army", it is still far from becoming a military unit like Europe with company squads as the basic unit.
Their Jenicherri first identified the officers, that is, the old Jenicherri military nobles, who were often the concubines of the military nobles, and then recruited and trained by them. Unlike the ordinary Ottoman army, they had Sultan.
, two salaries paid by Pasha.
In other words, this is a collection of private armed forces dressed in the robes of the new army, but it is just the same training method.
So, when these Jeniceri are stationed in a city, it is quite natural not to know each other.
Even so, Zhivkov, as the highest commander, compiled a set of numbers, passwords and other items learned from the French.
When the soldier with a white European face said a word with a number, command and the chief's name to the soldiers guarding the gate, the soldiers at the gate immediately saluted them and then let them go up.
When these people led to the city wall along the obliquely extended corridor, a person came towards them.
That person is Zhivkov!
At this moment, he finally made up his mind to let the artillery on the top of the city fire at the dock. Although the sailors were not easy to get, they were not worth worrying about losing the Greek city.
At present, although the slave trade in Kafa Port has declined greatly, Istanbul is still very lively, and there are many farmers, craftsmen, and Barbary pirates who deliberately broke it from the Mediterranean in the European region under their jurisdiction.
The robbed white Europeans.
Especially the latter, there are a large number of sailors in it, and without the group of people in front of you, you can buy it from Istanbul.
But no matter what, these people made money for him. Even though he was a pirate, he would not want to see them die under his cannons with his own eyes, so he was ready to leave at the moment of bombardment.
As soon as he saw these Jenicer coming up, he knew they were fake!
Others may not recognize them all, but as the highest commander in the city, it would be strange if he could not recognize one in any team of Jeniceri.
Besides, I did not order Jenicer from other places to come and support.
But there is also a possibility that they were sent by Aladdin from the city of Rome to assist him.
Chapter completed!