Let's first analyze the military situation on Rhodes Island. Rhodes Island currently has more than 600 knights and more than 6,000 soldiers. The soldiers are divided into spearmen and musketeers. From here we also

It can be seen that if the combat effectiveness of these numbers is compared with the powerful Ottoman Turkish Empire, it is really not at the same level. So we can say that the people on Rhode Island are fighting alone, and there is no backup supply, but

Due to the difficult terrain, the reasonable configuration of artillery and other equipment, sufficient ammunition, and a navy that is very mobile and has very powerful firepower, they have nothing to fear.

In June of 1522, Suleiman of the Ottoman Turkish Empire personally led an army of 100,000 people who were extremely well-equipped, and then landed on Rhodes Island. As we have said, Suleiman's army was extremely well-equipped.

Sophisticated, this army is well-trained and equipped with a large number of artillery and engineers.

At this point, the Ottoman Turkish Empire's army first violently bombarded the bunkers on Rhodes Island, and the defenders on Rhodes Island immediately counterattacked. It was precisely because the defenders on Rhodes Island were hiding in extremely strong bunkers that they suffered heavy casualties.

It was very small, and the defenders had carefully measured every target within the artillery range before the war, so every artillery shell fired could hit the target very accurately. The Ottomans had no cover at all in the wilderness.

The casualties were extremely heavy, with broken limbs and bloody corpses everywhere.

Therefore, in order to reverse this unfavorable situation for them, Sultan Suleiman of the Ottoman Empire ordered his engineers to begin digging tunnels, laying underground mines, and attempting to blow down the city walls. Moreover, the Ottoman Empire's attempt was realized. In August, the Ottoman Empire

The engineers blasted a gap in the city wall, and then the Ottoman army swarmed in. However, they encountered stubborn resistance from the defenders and were defeated. In the following months, the Ottoman army broke through the gap in the city wall.

They attacked the city many times, but were repulsed by the defenders, with extremely heavy casualties. However, the Ottoman army had an absolute advantage in numbers. The Ottoman army numbered more than 100,000, although many of them were already dead.

, but the supplies of the Ottoman army are very sufficient. Every death of a person on Rhodes Island means that one person has really died, and there is no supply at all.

So we can say that for the defenders on Rhode Island, as long as one person dies, their combat effectiveness will be reduced by one point immediately, and they cannot be replenished at all. As of now, the defenders on Rhode Island have died one by one.

, their pressure is increasing. There are no reinforcements outside, and there is no replenishment of personnel and ammunition inside. Therefore, the situation of the defenders on Rhodes Island is becoming increasingly difficult at this time. On the contrary, the Ottomans

The soldiers were constantly delivering supplies and personnel to Rhode Island. Finally, on Christmas Eve, after final negotiations, the Knights of St. John stated that they could conditionally lay down their weapons and leave. At this time

It was also because the casualties of the Ottoman Empire had reached more than 50,000, so Suleiman agreed at this time. As a result, Rhodes Island was included in the territory of the Ottoman Empire.

After that, Suleiman went on thirteen personal expeditions in his life, of course in Europe. In short, the whole scene was very miserable, and even more tragic. However, in later European documents, Suleiman was still called by Europeans.

Suleiman the Magnificent. Later, during the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent, because he was not very violent, he just liked to fight to expand his territory, so he was also very good to the people. This led to the Ottoman Empire's national power reaching its peak.

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Next, let’s talk about a nation that was preparing to engulf our China during this period, Japan! The representative figure of Japan during this period was also called Toyotomi Hideyoshi. We have also talked about some situations in Japan before. In short, the Japanese are more admired by me.

Yes, why? Because they can completely accept the impact of higher civilizations and will not have any compulsive resistance. In short, the Japanese prefer the strong and like to learn from people who are stronger than them.

For example, when the Japanese were studying the centralization of power during the Tang Dynasty in China, there were always students studying in the Tang Dynasty in China and then going back to change their own country, Japan. Therefore, Japan's development was very

Fast, incredibly fast. Then after Japan became stronger, it began to be ambitious. After all, being ambitious is our human nature. All high-level officials in Western countries are like this. So far in this era,

Japan also rose. They thought they were stronger and began to have ambitions towards China, wanting to annex China.

But we have to start from the beginning. The span of historical time is not very big, so let’s take a look at Japan at this time.

In 1467, Japan entered the Warring States Period. At this time, the Japanese archipelago was divided into more than a dozen vassal states. In order to compete for territory and rights, the vassals of various countries launched a protracted melee. From then on

From a simple point of view, the concept of civil war between Japan and Western countries is basically the same, which is the expansion of desires of the top management. We should not think that the top management in Japan will not be extravagant and lustful, or that they are extravagant. In fact, the Japanese nation practices in some places

, In addition to the bushido spirit and humility that the rest of us admire, there are many things that can simply subvert our three perceptions. In short, the Japanese are also willing to do things for money and power that the rest of us would never even think of. Here

I won't describe it. I'm also afraid that this chapter will cause any adverse reactions, so we can just get a vague understanding from this paragraph. As long as we understand that compared with the top leaders of other countries, Japan's top leaders will only be more mature.

It's just too much, we can just understand it this way.

Then we have to understand that Japan's protracted civil war-style melee will definitely burn down many prosperous cities first, and the people will be displaced. People are dying everywhere. The people are simply miserable. In fact, in Japan

During the Warring States Period, a situation occurred among the Japanese people. What was it? Let me tell you that there were some very kind Japanese girls who sold their bodies to the soldiers for their entertainment.

Then the soldiers gave her some money or some food, and then this kind girl used these things to feed many children. Most of these children were killed by family members, or simply said

Completely homeless. But this is just the tip of the iceberg.

So during the Warring States Period in Japan, civilians sold their children, and even said something that everyone didn't like to hear, which was to exchange children. What to do with the children? Roast them! Because there was no food, I didn't find this in the information.

This thing is my own guess, because this situation has happened many times in our human history, including ours in China, but we don’t talk about China, we are talking about Western countries at the moment, and the other one about Japan is just an excessive paragraph.

, so we will stop talking here now, just understand that the Japanese civilians during this period were living in a real hell.

By the mid-16th century, Owari Province in central Honshu, Japan, is now the Nagoya area in Japan. The people in this area gradually became stronger under the rule of Oda Nobunaga. We have also said before

, Buddhism is very popular in Japan, so most Japanese people currently believe in Buddhism, but the Japanese currently reject any external church, but Oda Nobunaga was influenced by missionaries, and he prefers Catholicism. This

In Japan at that time, other princes' armies were using broadswords and spears, but he bought many muskets from missionaries to equip his army.

Among all the vassal states in Japan, the Takeda family's cavalry is said to be invincible. In 1575, Takeda Katsuyori of the Takeda family attacked Oda Nobunaga's ally Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Tokugawa Ieyasu's army could not resist at all.

Then he asked Oda Nobunaga for help. Then Oda Nobunaga led his own musketeers to come for reinforcements. Takeda Katsuyori confidently led his invincible cavalry and began to attack Oda Nobunaga, but

Oda Nobunaga asked the musketeers to hide behind the horse-proof fence and shoot the Takeda cavalry with muskets. Compared with the cavalry, this kind of muskets does not need to be explained, right? This is not the same level at all.

There is a war. For the Takeda family's cavalry, Oda Nobunaga's current musketeers are simply what we modern people call game plug-ins. Therefore, the Takeda family's invincible cavalry are directly defeated by Oda Nobunaga's musketeers.

They were beaten to death, but no one escaped. What a ridiculous war this was.

This also led to the direct decline of the Takeda family, and more generals were killed on the spot. This was so cruel! It was also after this war that no one among the Japanese princes could compete with Oda Nobu.

It took a long time to resist. Oda Nobunaga led his musketeers and spent eleven years basically unifying central Japan through violence. In 1568, Oda Nobunaga entered Japan's

The Japanese Warring States Period, which has been fighting for more than a hundred years in the capital, is finally over. So how many Japanese civilians died during this process? How many died of starvation, and what happened that is incredible to us.

What about the tragic and helpless stories? You can use your imagination. In short, there are only things we can't imagine, and we can never say that they didn't happen.

Then in 1582, Oda Nobunaga's general Akechi Mitsuhide launched a rebellion just because he wanted power. This also led to Oda Nobunaga committing suicide in Honnoji Temple in the Japanese capital. Suddenly, Japan fell into another
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