I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

On the surface of the Aegean Sea, Admiral Abaza Mohammed of the Ottoman Empire held a telescope and watched the battle on the sea. One-third of the shells fired in the first round hit directly. This hit rate is already very ideal. Venice The navy's combat effectiveness is good, and it is very rare to achieve such a high hit rate.

This requires the best artillery in Venice, but also the best gunners. Obviously this is the main fleet of the Navy of the Republic of Venice.

However, Admiral Abaza Muhammad of the Ottoman Empire Navy did not know that Venice did not use artillery for this bombardment, but the fire dragon water purchased from Ming Dynasty.

In Catherine's view, even with the best naval guns and the best soldiers in Venice, it is impossible to reach 700 meters and hit one-third of the first shot. You must know that if it really has this strength, the navy of the Republic of Venice, completely Can dominate the Mediterranean.

"Get ready, the second round of strikes!"

With one third, about a dozen medium-sized warships of the Ottoman Empire were shot, and these Venetian naval generals still wanted to take advantage of his illness and kill him, and planned to send these dozens of Ottoman Empire warships to the bottom of the sea.

"Stop launching!"

"why?"

Lieutenant Commander Chet of the Republic of Venice city-state looked at Catherine puzzled and asked.

Catherine smiled lightly: "No need! One shell is enough to destroy a medium-sized battleship. What's more, these medium-sized battleships hit one or two shells less, and three or four shells too many. There is no need to waste!"

The admirals expressed doubts about Catherine's words. It is not easy to sink a warship in an era without high-explosive bombs and incendiary bombs. For the warships, it seems really small, often the two fleets bombarded each other for a long time, everyone's flesh and blood on the deck was broken, and the sails were folded, and there were only a dozen or a few warships that were actually sunk.

Although the Ottoman Navy mostly had medium-sized warships with heavy artillery, there was also an armed merchant ship with a displacement of [-] tons. Would two shells be enough to sink such a big ship?

Catherine didn't explain too much. At this time, language explanations haven't made the facts more convincing.

The fire dragon's water killing method is different from the ordinary solid shells of this era. The explosion part of the fire dragon's water shell is almost exactly the same as the Ning Haijun's blooming shell. The nitrocellulose is used as the explosive powder. Like the grenade of later generations, it explodes upon contact.

The shells that crashed into the Ottoman warships began to explode one after another. That is, just as Catherine's voice fell, the Ottoman warships exploded one after another. The fireworks that exploded soon blew up those medium-sized warships.

This is not over yet, the armed merchant ship that was shot also emitted thick smoke, which soon merged into a black column of smoke and rose into the sky. The fire rushed from the bottom hold of the armed merchant ship, climbed onto the deck, And the sails became the best kindling, and the whole merchant ship was blown to pieces, and large balls of fire were thrown around.

The flames swept across the deck and climbed up to the top of the mast. The huge sails turned into torches, and the high flames could be clearly seen from more than ten kilometers away!
The Ottoman looked at this scene, dumbfounded.

The Venetian watched this scene, dumbfounded.

If those medium-sized battleships were blown to pieces and sank, they are still reasonable. After all, in previous wars, the losses of the Ottoman Empire have never been light, but the problem is that this is a [-]-ton ship. Armed merchant ship, such a large ship was destroyed!

The admiral of the Ottoman Navy, Abaza Muhammad, had cold sweat on his forehead, took a breath, and murmured, "What's going on? Who will tell me what's going on?"

It's a pity that no one answered Abaza's question. They were all frightened by such a fierce fire and such a violent explosion. It was terrible!

Major Chet, who had been rude to Catherine, saluted Catherine: "Catherine, you have exchanged the city-state for our dream weapon, which is really great!"

"Did you forget something?"

"Yes, we should hurry up to buy what the Duke of the East needs, and set off as soon as the collection is complete! Not only must you bring those goods, but you must also bring enough gold coins. We need to buy more ships before other countries react. Cannons and shells, the future of the city-state depends on it!"

"No, I mean, we're at war!"

Catherine pointed to the large Ottoman fleet in Wuyang Wuyang and said, "Shouldn't the most important thing we should do be send these bastards to the bottom of the sea?"

"exactly!"

The admirals of the Venetian city-state Republic immediately returned to their combat positions and began to direct the soldiers to load the fire dragon water. The fire dragon water is essentially a rocket shell, and the loading speed is very fast, faster than that of the artillery, and the rate of fire is also faster.

Not long after, thick smoke billowed in the Venetian strike fleet again, fire dragons soared into the sky, and hundreds of fire dragons flew towards the fleet of the Ottoman Empire with their fangs and claws.

Due to the shorter distance and greater confidence in the fire dragon fire, the shooting effect was better this time. Nearly half of the fire dragon fire hit the target, and at least twenty or thirty Ottoman warships were beaten into pieces. Blossoming brilliant fireworks.

The second round of shooting had just ended, and the Venetian naval strike fleet started the third round, and then the fourth round. Although the naval officers and soldiers of the Ottoman Empire were very brave, the problem was the gap in strength, and it was difficult to use courage make up.

What's more, Venice was originally the giant of the Mediterranean, monopolizing the maritime trade of the entire Mediterranean together with Genoa and other city-states. At that time, there were more Venetian warships than dogs, but now, after a protracted war, Venice no matter its military strength Still, financial resources have shrunk significantly, and the navy's speed of building new ships is far behind the speed of consumption.

The Ottoman navy became stronger and stronger. However, before they had time to gain an overwhelming advantage, the Venetians invented naval guns with longer range and greater power.

Thick smoke was billowing on the sea, densely covered with dark clouds, and there were explosions from time to time, and the thunder-like shaking made even the air tremble slightly, which was very frightening.

The sea water has been slightly reddened by blood, countless corpses and pieces of wood are floating up and down on the surface of the sea, and more people are shouting wildly on the rapidly tilting battleship, or holding everything that floats. Things jumped into the sea and swam desperately to the sea, even though they were so far away, they could still vaguely hear their cries.

Admiral Abaza Mohamed of the Ottoman Empire watched the tragedy on the sea with a binoculars. He said nothing. His not burly body was like an iceberg, but his hands were bruised and his teeth were gritted.

The navy of the Ottoman Empire suffered heavy losses. During the battle of just over an hour, nearly a hundred warships were lost. This is no longer a battle. It was a one-sided massacre.

Unlike the Ning Navy, the Venetian Navy has too much combat experience. They are more flexible, like sharks smelling blood, biting towards the main Mediterranean fleet of the Ottoman Empire from time to time.

"retreat!"

Despite all the reluctance of Abaza Muhammad, he still gave the order. As the Ottoman navy was retreating, the naval battle finally came to an end.

Of course, the Venetian Navy did not pursue it. The main reason was that the fire dragons they loaded this time had been exhausted. The Venetian Navy sank 110 Ottoman Navy warships with 63 fire dragons, including 28 ships. Small warships, 36 warships over [-] tons, and [-] armed merchant ships.

Although the Venetian Navy faced the Ottoman Navy with more victories and fewer losses in naval battles, it would have to pay a heavy price to annihilate more than 100 Ottoman Navy ships, but the zero-kill method achieved such a result, which gave Venice a great deal uplifting.

The Venetian naval commander was almost bored to death by the admirals below.

"Your Excellency, Commander, we should select the warships with the fastest speed, the most skilled sailors, and the strongest hulls to equip these cannons. Each warship is equipped with twelve guns. No, even eight guns can greatly improve The attack power of the warships is huge! I have the most excellent warships under my command, so they should be equipped with priority for us!"

"Any priority for you to equip? My fleet has fewer excellent warships than you?"

"Mine, mine, it's all mine! If anyone dares to snatch it from me, no friend will do it!"

"It sounds like we really like being friends with you..."

The Venetian admirals immediately started a fierce battle, and they were all embarrassed, and they almost didn't fight.

Soldiers are like this. The more lethal weapons they like, the more this disease originates from the violent factor in the human bone marrow. There is no cure. Only [-] volts of high-voltage electric shock can cure it.

Catherine couldn't help sighing when she saw the generals spitting all over the place.She really wanted to tell the generals that these fire dragons, which are very powerful in their eyes, are actually inferior goods. The most powerful and fastest-firing cannon in the world is in the east. Although the caliber of that cannon is not The firepower in their hands is fast, but it is more than twice as far as this kind of fire dragon.

At a distance of 900 meters, Ning Haijun's naval guns can still hit enemy ships with extremely high accuracy. What's even more frightening is that the enemy's warship can be blown to pieces with one shot.

As the overlord of Nanyang, whether it is the Spanish or the Dutch, seeing Zheng Zhilong can only be pleasant and respectful, but the problem is that Zheng Zhilong, who can sweep the Ottoman Empire in Europe, has nothing to fight back in front of the naval guns of the Ning Navy. Power.

The four-inch naval guns and five-inch naval guns in Cheng Shijie's hands are the real killers. Of course, seeing the generals so happy, Catherine didn't go up and pour cold water on them.

Venice's new doge, Francesco Erizzo, the chief engineer of Venice, Nick, said: "We should not rely on buying from the East, we should find ways to imitate..."

"How much time do you need to imitate it?"

Francesco Erizo sighed and said: "Although I don't know much about technology, this kind of artillery has changed the way of firing in the past. It can be said that it is completely different from the artillery we have used for hundreds of years. I want to imitate it. Then we need to start researching from scratch, but the problem is, we don’t have that much time in Venice, and what our Venice lacks most is time!”

Catherine said: "As long as we can buy enough high-quality horses, we can buy Fire Dragon Out of Water from Your Excellency the Duke!"

"Time, or time!"

Francesco Erizo thought for a while and said: "As businessmen, we should know that since the Duke in the East will sell us this new type of naval gun, he will definitely sell it to others in order to maximize his profits. Maybe our opponent, the Ottomans, has already appeared as a representative of the Duke of the East!"

Catherine hesitated and said, "I guess not?"

"Nothing is impossible. It is impossible for us to put the fate of our country in Venice at the whim of the Duke of the East!"

"so……"

"so!"

Francesco Erizzo looked at Catherine and said, "Miss Contarini, you must rush back to Daming as quickly as possible, and buy more naval guns before other countries get wind of it. Can you repel the Ottomans?" The invasion depends on it!"

Catherine sighed, "I'll do my best."

"It's not about doing your best, but about doing it!"

Francesco Elizo said: "As the governor, I will sign a special order to use the reserve gold coins, or you can bring enough gold coins, spices, and the books and talents requested by the governor in a few days Let’s set off, as for horses and other goods, shall we organize another fleet to send them there?”

Catherine frowned: "So urgent?"

"The Ottomans will not give us any respite, not even a day!"

Thinking of the huge threat from the Ottomans, Catherine also felt a sense of powerlessness, gritted her teeth, and said, "Okay, I'll set off in a week!"

……

Liaodong, Jinzhou Beicheng Sports Town.

After fierce competition, more than 100 horses went through the knockout round, and finally decided the top [-], and the top [-] will also be promoted to the top eight.

Before the game started, Cheng Jialong yelled: "Come on, come on, there is still one stick of incense time to close the game. At present, the most popular one is No. 13 Wuyun, one to one, and the most unpopular one is No. 29 Rhubarb, which is against Rhubarb." 1, place a bet, bet to see who can get No.19! Bet on No.[-] Treading Snow pays three, bet on No.

Zhu Weiti looked at Cheng Jialong who was jumping up and down in the crowd, frowned slightly and said: "Sir, you don't care, the prince of Haiguo's mansion set up a private gambling game in public, how decent it is!"

Cheng Shijie smiled lightly and said, "What's the point of not betting on horses?"

Zhu Weiti sighed and said: "He is the future...don't forget...you must always..."

Empress Zhou gave Zhu Weiti a wink, and Zhu Weiti approached Empress Zhou.

"Queen, am I wrong?"

"You're right, I don't know, but..."

Zhu Weiti looked in the direction of Queen Zhou's gesture.

I saw Yang Yunniang and Jin Qiao'er each holding a small box containing golden ingots.

Yang Yunniang smiled and said, "Jialong!"

"Aunt Yang, Aunt Jin!"

"Can we bet?"

"Yes, the more the better!"

"I bet number seven rhubarb!"

Yang Yunniang put the small box directly on the No. [-] rhubarb.

Cheng Jialong was slightly surprised: "Aunt Yang, don't bet on number seven, number seven is useless!"

"This is a mansion located in Nanyuan. You are not young anymore, you should have your own mansion. I will be the mansion given to you by your aunt!"

Hearing what Yang Yunniang said, Cheng Jialong was too embarrassed to refuse.

"I'll bet on No. [-] Rhubarb too!"

Jin Qiaoer pointed to the identical sisters beside her, and said, "Aunt Yang will give you the house, and Aunt Jin will give you two maids. Although they are Koreans, they are Korean nobles. They can speak Chinese. You should have a few of them by your side." Maid!"

Yang Yunniang and Jin Qiaoer watched Cheng Jialong accept the bet and smiled at each other. (end of this chapter)