Chapter 2164 The Datang battleship watching the play on the stage
The Tatars organized a large fleet to conduct landing operations, but the target of their landing operations was not Istanbul, but the Asia Minor Peninsula.
In fact, the Tatars initially considered landing directly and taking Istanbul, but after careful consideration, especially after observing Istanbul closely, they felt that this city was not easy to conquer.
Istanbul has been a powerful military fortress since ancient times, and it will be very difficult to conquer unless the Tatars, like the Tang people, possess a large number of advanced weapons and equipment, especially heavy artillery.
But it is a pity that the Tatars did not.
The Tatars felt that attacking this city would cause too much damage, so they simply stopped fighting and adopted a blockade mode. As long as the Ottomans inside could not come out, it would not affect their actions in Asia Minor.
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Although the existence of the Tang Dynasty's military restricted area made Istanbul a place that was easy to defend and difficult to attack, the land passage was only a mere west passage more than 100 meters wide and more than 3,000 meters long. If you wanted to launch a landing from the sea,
It will also be very difficult.
But relatively, besieging this city has become easier.
Blocking the passage more than 100 meters wide in the west will completely block their land passage.
If the navy is sent to block their sea lanes, the entire Istanbul will be completely blocked.
As for the vast Tang military restricted area around Istanbul, since the Tatars cannot enter, the Ottomans cannot enter either.
As for whether the sea can be blocked, there is no problem at all with the current maritime strength of the Tang Dynasty and the Jin Kingdom.
Although the navy of the Tang Dynasty and the Kingdom of Jin were very pessimistic about fighting against the navy of the Datang Empire, and even lacked the courage to fight in a battle, they would still be very courageous and confident if you asked them to fight other indigenous navies.
The strength of the Tang Dynasty and the Jin Kingdom was not just blown away.
They now have the strongest maritime strength in the entire Europe besides the Tang Dynasty.
Over the years, except for the lack of naval strength when they first entered Europe, the Tatars' naval strength was actually able to overwhelm other European countries, just like their army.
Of course, in the early stage, the Tang Dynasty people did not interfere!
In the past, the Tang Dynasty directly blocked the Denmark Strait, the Black Sea Strait, and the Strait of Gibraltar, and did not allow Tatar ships to enter or exit. However, they gradually relaxed the blockade and have not controlled Tatar maritime operations for many years.
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The Tatars' maritime strength also continued to grow during this process, and they had large wooden sail fleets in the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, and the Black Sea.
European countries, even with the Spanish Armada, coupled with the power of the Portuguese and the maritime power of the Ottomans, Naples, England, the Kingdom of Sweden and other countries, can actually only barely compete with the huge fleet of the Tatars.
That's all.
Now that the Tatars have concentrated a lot of maritime power in the Black Sea Strait, the Ottomans themselves cannot compete with them at all, unless the Spanish are willing to use their main fleet to help.
But if the Spaniards want to transfer the fleet to help, not to mention it may not be possible. Even if they want to transfer it, it will take time. With this time, it is enough for the Tatars to complete the sea-crossing operation and set off a storm in Asia Minor.
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Even if the Spanish fleet wants to come over, as long as the Tatars rely on the Greek area and mobilize their fleet to block the southern end of the Black Sea Strait, the Spanish fleet will not be able to enter and interfere with the Tatars' sea crossing operations.
This time, the Tatars made great determination in their sea crossing and landing operations. They wanted to completely wipe out the Ottoman Kingdom in one go and exchange the corpse of the Ottoman Kingdom for various benefits to the Tang Empire.
To this end, the Tatars made up their mind and mobilized hundreds of ships and more than 100,000 army troops to launch a sea-crossing operation.
Of course, the Tang Dynasty did not interfere with them, so their so-called sea-crossing operations were actually just sea-crossing operations in the strait, and the distance directly across the sea was only more than ten kilometers.
After the landing operation was launched, countless ships sailed out to sea in many places in the strait, which made many Tatar soldiers excited to see it. Of course, some Tatars who saw it clearly were not happy.
With such a large fleet, they could only bully the natives like the Ottomans. Before they launched the cross-sea operation, the Tatars even needed to communicate with the Tang people repeatedly and carefully to avoid accidentally breaking into the Tang Dynasty's boundaries.
in a military restricted area.
At the same time, during the battle across the sea, he was also cautious, for fear of affecting the activities of several Datang warships nearby!
If the Tatars wanted to engage in such a large-scale cross-sea landing operation, the Tang Dynasty would not miss it. They sent several warships and even a passenger ship carrying army soldiers to watch the battle early in the morning.
Even the war between the Tatars and the Ottomans seemed like a piece of cake to the Tang people and could not be brought to the fore.
But aside from these, just the grand scenes, it is a super ancient war movie!
That's right, these people from the Tang Dynasty watching the game came to watch the movie!
In the eyes of the Tatars on the side, these Tang people who were watching the battle looked like uncles.
A Datang frigate, in order to better observe the battle between the two sides, ran directly nearby and occupied a good position.
This caused the Tatar fleet, which was expected to carry a brigade of landing troops with dozens of ships nearby, to vomit blood, because the position of the Tang Dynasty frigate had already affected their landing operations.
However, the Tatars had already issued strict orders from their superiors to stay away from the Tang people, let alone interfere with their actions.
Therefore, the Tatar squadron on the front line was forced to change its course and prepare to land elsewhere.
But when the Tang Dynasty frigate saw that the Tatar fleet had changed its course, it immediately followed it and shamelessly raised a flag and asked the Tatars why they changed the planned landing place.
It's not like you Tang Dynasty people were so shameless that in order to watch the battle, you directly robbed the offshore waters of our scheduled landing site.
Of course, this kind of thing cannot be said. It can only be a tactful explanation, such as the battle plan has changed.
But that damn Tang Dynasty frigate continued to follow, and relied on its speed to take one step ahead and ran over to seize the viewing position.
This makes the Tatars in this squadron feel like vomiting blood...
Brother, you just watch the show, but can you watch it well from the audience? Isn't it nice that you can eat melon seeds and drink tea while watching our performance in the audience?
But why did you move a small bench and run directly to the stage?