If it were in the era when the Tang Dynasty had not yet installed rifled weapons, and only relied on Suifu guns and traditional smoothbore artillery, when fighting, it would more often rely on the eliteness of the Tang soldiers, especially those of the Tang Dynasty.
This is a tactic of carrying the enemy's bullets directly in front of them, firing a volley, and then charging with a bayonet.
Basically, it can beat all enemies to the point of paralysis!
Even many European armies and even Tatars are imitating the Tang Dynasty's tactics of volleys in the face and bayonet charges. Of course, not many can do it.
But now, Datang's army was equipped with rifled weapons. Relying on the high precision and longer range brought by rifled weapons, it had begun to bully the enemy beyond the enemy's range.
For example, the shells from gunboat No. 627 only landed on the pier at first, but soon landed farther into the city. You must know that the distance at this time was already more than two thousand meters.
But the hit accuracy of the artillery shells is still very high.
Moreover, the rate of fire was very fast. Just the bombardment of three naval guns had actually beaten the Baku city defenders to the point of collapse.
After all, Baku at this time is just a small port city. The oil on it has no strategic value. It is not worth the Ottomans investing too much military force here. These defenders are more used to deter the local indigenous people.
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Therefore, the Ottoman garrison only had seven or eight hundred people.
Even the local indigenous people in Baku City and nearby areas only number a few thousand in total.
After such a small number of people were swept away by naval guns, and hundreds of people were killed or injured, how dare they resist, so they just ran back and hid.
After more than a hundred marines from the West Sea Fleet landed and were called one by one with rifles, the Baku garrison composed of Ottomans suffered heavy casualties and finally had to raise the white flag!
This battle lasted less than an hour in total.
It was actually not easy for these Ottomans to hold out for nearly an hour under this kind of firepower. After all, they could not fight back just after being beaten.
The next thing happened naturally when diplomats like Hu Qinyuan showed up and had something to do with the West Sea Fleet.
But when Hu Qinyuan and others started a new round of negotiations with the Ottomans, Colonel Du Qiurong, the deputy commander of the West Sea Fleet in charge of this military operation, looked a little strange.
"This ammunition consumption is too high!" Colonel Du Qiurong looked at the statistical ammunition consumption report and was speechless.
In this battle, their West Sea Fleet killed the enemy unilaterally, so there were zero casualties. The Ottomans simply had no power to fight back, or in other words, they had no ability to fight back. The gunboats and marines of the West Sea Fleet were completely at the mercy of the enemy.
They bullied the Ottomans beyond the range of their guns and did not even enter the city, forcing the Ottomans to surrender directly.
However, there were no casualties, but their ammunition consumption was astonishingly high.
"It's only been half an hour of fighting!" Du Qiurong looked at the ammunition consumption report again, and he couldn't believe whether the numbers he saw were real.
On one side, Major Shi Yuan, the captain of gunboat A627, also looked heartbroken: "In this battle, we fired one hundred rounds of 120mm artillery shells and two hundred and twenty rounds of
The 75mm artillery shells directly consumed half of our reserve artillery shells!"
Captain Li Hengyi of the Marine Corps on the side also said: "Our bullet consumption is also very high. We only have 120 people landing to fight, but the bullet consumption reaches about 1,200 rounds, and the average consumption per person is nearly 100 rounds!"
Li Hengyi continued: "And our landing force, from the landing operation to their surrender, only lasted about half an hour!"
Major Shi Yuan said: "Yes, when we bombarded, we did not continue to bombard at the maximum speed. Except for the maximum speed of fire at the beginning, the rest of the time was suppressive bombardment, but I didn't expect that it still consumed so much.
Cannonballs!"
At this time, Du Qiurong knew why the top brass of the navy issued a document requiring them to be equipped with breech-loaded cannons, especially warships equipped with naval guns with a caliber of less than 120 mm. They had to practice hard on gunnery and win with accuracy!
If you don't rely on precision to win, you can certainly gain results with indiscriminate bombing, but the consumption of artillery shells is too great, and the navy cannot sustain it.
Nowadays, the naval guns of the Navy adopt the rear-loading mode, and the rate of fire is much faster than that of the front-loading artillery. Even the 150mm artillery can reach one round per minute.
As for the smaller-caliber 120mm gun, because it uses metal fixed-loading ammunition and the gun mount also uses a certain reset device, the rate of fire is comparable to that of a pure frame, and the 150mm artillery that uses separate ammunition is still more powerful.
It is much faster. In a serious situation, and if accuracy is not required, you can shoot three to four rounds.
The same goes for 100mm and 75mm.
As a result, the consumption of ammunition will also increase.
The shell consumption is high, and the bullets are bigger.
The artillery still has a reset problem, but this problem does not exist with the rifle. It is normal for a skilled soldier to fire more than ten bullets a minute.
The soldiers carry only a hundred rounds of bullets in total. In extreme cases, they can all be used up in ten minutes!
Today's Datang has just entered the breech-loading era. In fact, the ammunition supply and logistics supply system have not been able to keep up. It is already somewhat unable to support this kind of ammunition consumption. New 81 Chinese website updates the fastest computer version:
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While the officers of the West Sea Fleet were distressed for ammunition, Hu Qinyuan led several of his attachés to negotiate with the surrendered Ottomans. New Bayi Chinese website first published
Hu Qinyuan's diplomatic negotiation method was completely unqualified by the judgment standards of later generations, because he did not give the Ottomans any chance to bargain at all.
As for the diplomats of the Tang Dynasty, they were too lazy to do the tricks of asking for money and paying back the money. They often directly put forward their own demands. If they agreed, they would agree, and if they didn't agree, they would go to war!
But what is interesting is that the diplomats of the Tang Dynasty did this many times overseas, and the Ottomans also experienced it several times. Although the Ottomans here have not had direct contact with the Tang people, they have heard about the Imperial Tang people.
Arrogance and stubbornness.
That's the negotiating rhythm of saying one thing and then fighting if you don't accept it.
So Hu Qinyuan’s negotiation ended quickly!
Instead of resisting, Hu Qinyuan just asked them to fully accept his conditions: cede all Baku and surrounding areas to the Tang Dynasty, and all the Ottomans leave Baku within a three-day time limit. In addition, this small-scale war was caused by the negligence of the Ottomans.
In the armed conflict, the Ottomans were required to compensate one hundred thousand Tang Yuan.
The 100,000 Tang Yuan who spoke now is naturally much less. Before the war, when Hu Qinyuan threatened war, he spoke of 1 million.
The Ottomans did not hesitate for long. Anyway, Baku was not theirs in the first place. They only obtained this land two years ago. It turned out that this land was the territory of the Persians and was later occupied by the Tatars.
Now it is not a problem to give it to the Tang Dynasty.
However, the issue of compensation made them very embarrassed, but Hu Qinyuan did not ask them to take it out immediately. Anyway, as long as they signed, the diplomats of the imperial consulate in the Ottoman Empire could ask for it on their behalf.
It doesn't matter even if we don't get it in the end, it's just the lion's mouth anyway.
As for whether these local Ottoman officials in Baku have the authority to sign this treaty, Hu Qinyuan doesn't care. As long as they sign, Datang will have enough strength to make this treaty a reality.
After the negotiation, Hu Qinyuan returned to the Shengyuan. He was not willing to stay in Baku.
Who knows if there will be any infectious diseases in Baku, which is full of indigenous people!
After the Ottomans signed the agreement, they withdrew, taking the natives of Bakuri with them.
What the Tang Dynasty wanted was Baku, just the land of Baku, not the people in Baku.
Therefore, it was a basic operation for the Ottomans to relocate the local people before leaving. This was what the Tang Dynasty did wherever they went.
Even these Ottomans did not put forward any opinions on this issue.
After three days, the whole of Baku was deserted, there was no one left!
Not only was there no one in the port and the city, there was no one within dozens of kilometers around.
The scope of cession agreed by both parties is the entire Baku Peninsula, specifically the entire Baku Peninsula area east of 49°5 east longitude.
From the fact that this cession dividing line is directly divided by longitude and latitude, it can be seen that Hu Qinyuan was casual about this negotiation. He just drew a line based on the longitude and latitude casually. If it is too much, it will be useless and cannot be developed. If it is too little, it is actually so-called.
, pick it up later.
So he just drew a line randomly.
In fact, Osman on the opposite side also noticed the indifferent attitude of Hu Qinyuan and others, and also thought about bargaining for a better price.
But they don't dare!
Everyone knows that the people of the Tang Dynasty are arrogant and stubborn and do not bargain with outsiders at all during diplomatic negotiations.
They refused. They estimated that these Tang people would dare to fight all the way from Baku to the Caucasus or even to the Mesopotamia.
Now these Ottomans also know that the Tang Dynasty has occupied the Central Asian region east of the Caspian Sea and killed the Tatars.
When they thought about the possibility of hundreds of thousands of troops from the Tang Dynasty coming to the Caucasus, they could not raise any objection at all.
When the strength is so bad that people cannot resist, the so-called negotiation will be like that.
When the Ottomans left, they took the local Persians with them, leaving an empty Baku Peninsula to the Tang Dynasty.
After this, people from the Tang Dynasty began to land, but they did not enter the city, only near the dock.
By the way, before these Ottomans left, they also packed and bought Zuo Chengsheng's goods.
This is not to say that Hu Qinyuan and others relied on diplomatic means to force it, but normal trade.
A war is a war, but business still needs to be done, not to mention that this is just a small-scale armed conflict and it is over.
So this doesn't affect their business at all.
These Ottomans are not stupid, they know that if they transport these Tang Dynasty goods out of Baku, they can make a huge profit by changing hands.
Nowadays, Datang's various products are very popular around the world, so there is basically no need to worry about not being able to sell them.
No, bath soap and toilet soap are an exception. Europeans don't buy it.
People only love the perfume produced by Datang!
Not only Europeans like it, but also the Ottomans and even the Tatars, their powerful class also particularly like the perfume produced in the Tang Dynasty.