Chapter 221 Either you and I live, or we die together! (Please subscribe, please collect)

Ottoman Empire, Constantiniya.

Constantiniya was the official name of Constantinople in the Ottoman Empire, and they also called the city Istanbul. This city, located at the intersection of Eurasia, not only played an important role in the history of European Christian civilization.

It has a strong sense of presence in the world, and it is also the glory of the Ottoman-Turkish Empire. For the Rakshasa Orthodox civilization, the secondary civilization of European Christian civilization, Constantinople is their spiritual totem. It seems that the only way to capture it is to seize it.

In this city, they could prove that they were the successors of the Roman Empire.

Of course, for Rakshasa, Constantinople is still the most ideal outlet to the sea and the location of the imperial capital. Compared with Constantinople, which controls the chokepoint of the Black Sea and the Mediterranean, Rakshasa

The conditions in Petersburg, the current capital of the empire, are simply too harsh. For five months of the year, the port will be frozen due to the cold climate. Who can imagine what kind of shipping center a port that is frozen for five months of the year will become? So in Rakshasa

In the history of the Empire and later the Soviet Union, their most important commercial port in the Baltic Sea has always been the Gulf of Riga, which has been frozen for a relatively short period of time.

But comparing the Gulf of Riga to Constantinople, it sucks! This is not only because the sea surface of the Gulf of Riga is covered with ice floes every winter, and the coastal waters are also frozen. Merchant ships must be led by icebreakers to enter and exit.

What's more, the Baltic Sea coast of Rakshasa itself is a piece of bad land. Not to mention the cold weather, and the products and resources are not rich. The development of large industry there is purely reluctant, not to mention that Mao Xiong is not particularly capable of industry, even if

If the Germans and Anglo-Saxons were to do it, it would be difficult to achieve anything successful.

In contrast, the conditions for the development of industrialization on the Black Sea coast and Transcaucasus that Mao Xiong snatched from the Crimean Khanate, the Turkish Empire, and the Persian Empire were great - coal, oil, iron ore, and black soil.

, warm coastline, and inland waterways with strong navigability, it really has everything!

The only "unsatisfactory" thing is that the best export channel for products produced by taking advantage of all the above favorable conditions is to take the sea route guarded by Constantinople and enter the Mediterranean. And the second-class product export route is

It was transported to Central and Western Europe via the Danube River, which was also controlled by the Ottoman Empire.

In other words, as long as the Sudan is angry, Maoxiong's best industrial, agricultural and mining base will basically say goodbye to the world market.

And the Ottoman-Turkish Empire happens to be the feud of the Bear. Whoever wants to invest in Rakshasa's Black Sea coast and Transcaucasus must consider the relationship between Rakshasa and Turkey, and for this consideration, a good project must

Half yellow!

Therefore, the relationship between the two empires of Rakshasa and Turkey is currently a multiple-choice question between life and death or death together. It is impossible to work together to achieve a win-win situation.

Of course Mahmud II, the famous ruler of the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Empire, was fully aware of this!

The biggest difficulty he has to overcome in the various reforms he is currently implementing in an attempt to pull the backward Ottoman-Turkish Empire into the industrial era is the aggressive furry bear in the north.

Because on the land of the Ottoman-Turkish Empire, some industrial sites can be developed. Now it seems that they are Egypt, Asia Minor, and the Balkans. Among them, Egypt can only engage in some textile industry. There is a relatively large population there, and Egyptian cotton is particularly good.

, Great Britain and Ming Dynasty all like it, and they also own the Suez Canal. But heavy industry cannot be built there, and there are no resources. And the sites that can develop heavy industry, unfortunately, are all planned to be "liberated" by the Maozi family!

Even if the furry bears won't take away all of them, as soon as the "Bear Family" captures Constantiniya, the Balkans will be completely wiped out, and half of the people in Asia Minor will probably have the Romanov surname.

At that time, even if the Ottoman-Turkish Empire survives and goes to Baghdad or Damascus to survive, guarding the sand of the Arabian Peninsula, will it still be able to survive? Can treasures be dug out under the sand?

Looking at the "yellow" land of the Arabian Peninsula, His Majesty the Sultan could only sigh.

"Dear Your Majesty the Sultan, as long as you follow Duke Wellington's plan and set up the 'English Bagua Array' from Adrianople to Constantiniya, we will definitely be able to defend Constantiniya and Rumili.

Alberta.”

"That's right, His Majesty the Sultan, Grand Vizier and I have already inspected the demonstration 'English Bagua Array' outside Constantiniya. It consists of eight trenches, eight barbed wire fences, eight trenches, eight communication trenches, and eight rear areas.

A multi-layered and wide-depth defense system composed of assembly positions, eight artillery positions, eight simple roads and eight core fortresses!"

In the Sultan's office in the parliamentary chamber of Topkapi Palace, reporting to His Majesty the Sultan the situation of the "English Bagua Array" demonstration position were two middle-aged Turkish men wearing Western-style military uniforms, little red hats and big beards.

They are not ordinary Turks, but two executives who are deeply trusted by the Sultan. One of the older ones is Kara Pasha, the Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire, while the younger one is the new Ottoman

The commander of the army, Hussein Pasha.

What they call the "English Bagua Formation" is the "Bagua Machine Gun Formation" improved by Wellington and Hugh Gough. It is a defensive position that combines trenches, barbed wire, and machine guns.

There is nothing high-tech about this thing. For famous players at the level of Wellington and Hugh Gough, it can only be learned by "getting beaten" - you don't know how powerful you are if you don't get beaten. Only after you get beaten can you know the "Bagua array"

It's so powerful. If you know how powerful it is, you will naturally want to "learn from others and learn skills to beat the bear."

But what a treacherous master the Duke of Wellington is? He is the number one general in England who has competed with the emperor for many years. Of course he knows that to hurt a bear, it is not enough to rely on one Bagua array. Multiple Bagua arrays must be arranged, and there are also

The lethality must be gradually increased, so that the bears can charge forward with increasing numbers of casualties - the bears must be allowed to break through several Bagua formations, so that they feel that they can push them all the way through the mountains of corpses and seas of blood.

In addition, the Bagua array must be placed at the gate of Constantiniya. Since the terrain between Constantiniya and Adrianople is relatively narrow, it is not conducive for the furry bear army to make a detour. Well, it is basically impossible to detour.

Secondly, victory is in sight! We have fought all the way from Moldavia to the gate of Constantiniya, so why not try harder?

With some effort, the legacy of Peter the Great and Catherine the Great may be realized, and the rise of the Rakshasa Empire will also be realized. According to the tradition of the Bear, what will Nicholas I do after winning Constantinople?

Everyone will be able to do it with ease!

What about abolishing serfdom, developing industry and commerce, and learning from the West and the Ming Dynasty? In short, the victorious Tsar was right in everything!

Therefore, the tsar who came to Constantinople would probably risk everything to make a huge gamble.

If you win, you can get everything!

However, if Mahmud II of the Ottoman-Turkish Empire won, he would not be able to gain everything, and would even lose Moldavia, Wallachia, Greece and Serbia.

Therefore, Kara Pasha could only promise him to keep Rumelia. In later generations, Bulgaria and the area around Istanbul all belonged to Rumelia Province.

"Only Rumelia?" The ambitious Sultan looked up at his confidant Kara Pasha.

Kara Pasha showed a painful expression and nodded slightly: "The only thing General Hugh Gough can guarantee is Rumelia, but he can also guarantee to support us in our struggle with Ali Pasha. Your Majesty, you must first fight against foreigners.

Anne, as long as we can defend Rumelia, repel the Rakshasas, and eliminate Ali Pasha, the country can still have a bright future!"
Chapter completed!