The boat gang's artillery was not extended at the head and tail, but was set up on the first deck, similar to the rotating turrets in later generations, and were wrapped in iron armor. The first ones each had a twelve-mm cannon.

The Bogda has a full load displacement of 3,000 tons. Since only the middle layer of the three-layer direct deck has artillery, the upper layer is actually completely empty. In addition, the number of artillery loaded on the middle deck is much lower than that of European battleships, so it can load an additional 1,500 infantry.

The largest British battleship requires up to a thousand crew members. As a steam battleship, Bogda Khan obviously doesn't need so many. He only needs one hundred and fifty people to start and can also carry a battalion of marines.

Bogda, majestic and sacred.

Like the previous squadron, there are four smaller battleships, named Batulu by Qitad. Compared with Bogda, their length, width and height are smaller, but their length is 60 meters. There are also three layers of straight decks. The middle-level artillery only has seventeen guns on each side.

The full load displacement is 2,500 tons, which can load an additional 1,000 infantrymen, using 1765-1,000 steam engines.

Batulu, the warriors too.

Compared with the previous two cargo ships, the number of cargo ships has increased to four!

Since it is suitable for large ships in the ocean, the tonnage of the cargo ships traveling with each other is exactly the same as the Bogda, and only two rotating turrets using steam power are loaded on the first deck.

So, his middle and upper decks were completely empty, and he could carry a whole brigade of infantry!

Such a large cargo ship was named Tengis by Qitad.

Tengis, which means sea, uses it to name warships and cargo ships, obviously to show its huge carrying capacity.

There are still only two Clippers, only 30 meters in length, and only 500 tons of full load displacement. They use 1765-500 steam engines, called Saiyin, Saiyin, which means luck, and it takes a lot of effort to name it.

In addition, the fleet can also load additional food enough to meet the needs of the entire ship's personnel for the first half of the year.

There are thirteen ships in total, which can carry more than 10,000 people. If the crew and the Marines are abandoned, they can also carry more than 8,000 people!

Obviously, this squadron not only exists for combat, they also have long-distance transportation missions.

Qitade also took great pains to form the personnel needed to form this fleet.

Timur serves as the commander of the fleet, deputy commander, actual commander of the fleet, Deng Quan, commander of the Marine Corps Nian Wuyi, intelligence officer Adil, and ten intelligence personnel under his jurisdiction.

There is also a civil servant team, with a population of up to 100. He asked Su Wenyu's younger brother, Major General Su Wenyu, the medical officer of the Kingdom Army, to lead them, but the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kingdom Bayar was also inside.

Bayar was not appointed as commander, and obviously he would not follow the fleet in full.

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The pirate's leader is Res Barbarossa, who is said to be a descendant of the formerly famous pirate Barbarossa. He is obviously a Sipasi nobleman.

At this time, on the bell tower of Sultan Fort, twenty-year-old Barbarossa looked at the same misty sea, but she was very nervous.

Barbarossa's descendants have declined by now, and he is a concubine's son who has no right to inherit land, so the situation is even more tragic.

Such people were the main force of the Ottoman Empire's Sipasi cavalry at this time. The Sipasi nobles, who had a large number of farms and serfs, would not ride war horses and fight everywhere for the empire. They would give their younger brothers who had no right to inherit land and let them replace themselves as soldiers.

Such a situation is very common in the empire, not to mention that if you gain credit in war, whether on land or at sea, you can independently portal and become the Sipasi noble who owns the land again.

After Barbarossa took the island of Gozo, he was immediately commended by Mustafa III, so he obtained land in the Thrace region, but before he completely withdrew from the army, he needed to defend Gozo.

"Can you hold on?"

When he brought these three thousand young Sipasi to Mecca, Jenicheri came here with him and felt very upset.

Not far north of Gozo is the powerful Kingdom of Sicily, and the Spaniards served as kings. Although there was a saying that Britain and French ships could not be plundered in the Mediterranean at this time, Barbarossa knew that Spain today was different from the past.

If they become serious, then the tall and studded battleships will not be able to compete with them as long as there are two or three battleships.

However, it has been several months since he captured Gozo, and the Western world is still silent.

Barbarossa was appointed by the Sultan as the leader of this group of jihadist pirates, obviously having two tricks. Not long ago, when the Truechin Navy swept across the Black Sea, a large galleon he was captain escaped successfully and successfully retreated to the Marmara Sea.

But Barbarossa still doesn't think that these people now can defend Gozo Island.

The calmer it is, the more it indicates a greater conspiracy.

His father, Barbarossa, had told him this many times, and he believed it.

So, in order to face the counterattack from the Western world, he contacted Pasha, Tunisia, in the south early in the morning, so that he could support him at any time.

But he also knew that the three Pashas in North Africa are still loyal to Sudan except Hassan in Algiers, and the other two are independent. Only God knows whether they are reliable or not.

After sighing on the bell tower, looking at the fog in front of him, Barbarossa's heart that had been hanging for a long time was slightly relieved - so foggy was so full that the enemy could not rush in at this time.

But everything is not absolute. Among the several classic naval battles he knows, there are many cases of sudden emergence of breaking through the thick fog.

"It is said that the Western world has used the instruments on the ship and accurate navigation charts to ignore islands, reefs and thick fog to navigate freely. When will our country reach their level?"

After watching it for a while, he walked down.

As soon as I reached the bottom of the bell tower, a rapid "dangdang" bell rang out from a distance!

Barbarossa felt a stern.

"This sound came from the city tower, and it seems that someone wants to use the thick fog to attack"

He ran quickly towards the city gate tower in Lingang, and soon he arrived on it.

Sultan Fortress spans the banks of the Konikar River, the largest stream on the island. It is less than one mile from the sea. It is a harbor at the sea. The Konikar Bay, with extremely good port conditions, is only a small bay, but it is more than enough to moor dozens of large ships.

Now he has released all the paddle boats in the fleet. Hasn't a single speedboat discovered the enemy?

He raised the monoculars he had obtained from the looted European merchant ship.

There was no ship in the camera. He was about to blame the pirate who was warning, but he stopped soon.

About ten miles across the harbor, although it was filled with thick fog, some subtle black flashed vaguely inside.

This is not the main thing, and there is a faint roar that appears with the black!

The reason why it appears and appears is obviously related to the sound of wind that is constantly changing in the sea.

Truchen!

"Didn't our country sign a peace agreement with them?"

Barbarossa's brows frowned even more.

However, he obviously miscalculated that these jihadists and pirates were not formal troops of the Ottoman Empire, but appeared in the name of jihadists in the Islamic world, similar to the crusaders in Europe in the past few centuries. Although the Sultan was known as the only representative of Allah on earth, he obviously paid more attention to the secular world than religion.

Therefore, in the current situation where the rivers are declining, he cannot openly admit that these pirates were sent by himself!

And they will only admit that they are those who set out from the Holy Land and carry out jihad according to Allah's call.

If the Truchen attacks a large island like Crete, which is obviously in the hands of the Ottomans, the Sultan will definitely be furious, but if it is a Barbary pirate, then...

Just as I was thinking, the black above the sea became more and more obvious. Gradually, they had turned into wisps of black smoke, and the roar was even more prominent.

"Woo..."

At this time, Barbarossa did not order his own warships parked in the port to fight, but asked them to quickly sail out of the harbor and escape from their own lives.

He has experienced the power of the Truqin warship on the Black Sea, but he doesn't want to repeat the same mistake.
Chapter completed!