After fighting the Portuguese, the Tang Dynasty began to use steam and steel battleships. Naturally, it was even less possible to fight sailing wars with countries such as Portugal or Spain.
Putting aside the Tang Empire, no other country has ever fought such a large-scale professional naval battle.
Since the Tang Empire invaded Europe, the situation in Europe has been under the control of the Tang Empire. The Spanish and Portuguese, the English, and the Dutch have not been able to fight.
As for the Tatars, they were blocked by the Tang Dynasty in the early days. Their maritime power was scattered and weak, and they mainly relied on the army's push.
Moreover, the early navies of various countries failed to establish a large-scale professional sailing battleship fleet.
Before the Tang Empire entered Europe, the navies of various countries actually had very few professional warships, and most of them were armed merchant ships that served as the main force in maritime operations.
Later, talents from Spain, Portugal, England, the Tatars, and the Ottomans successively imitated the early professional sailing warships of the Tang Empire and built their own professional sailing warships.
In the end, they gradually accumulated and perfected their tactics, and finally the naval battle of Prince Island Group broke out.
Both sides have a combined total of more than 30 professional warships, six of which are sailing battleships of more than 1,000 tons, and the other warships are all professional sailing battleships of more than 500 tons.
This kind of maritime strength would have been unimaginable in Europe more than a decade ago.
Even in the current European waters, there are not many people with this kind of maritime power, and the number of times that so many battleships can be gathered in a naval battle is only once.
Therefore, this naval battle of the Prince's Island Group still has a certain value to the history of maritime warfare in this world. Although it has long been outdated, it can be regarded as complementing the development pattern of naval warfare in this world to a certain extent.
This greatly satisfied the Tang naval generals who were watching the battle.
Although the naval battle between the Tatars and the Ottomans seemed like child's play to the officers and soldiers on the Wuding frigate, considering the technical level of their ships and artillery, they were able to fight such a high-standard line
It is not easy to fight in a row, but it also has reference value to a certain extent.
For example, if someone describes the Age of Sail in the future, at least there will be a historical naval battle for them to refer to, so as to describe the romance of naval battles in the Age of Sail.
If film technology develops and matures in the future, if you want to make a movie about sailing and naval battles, you will have reference materials. Otherwise, you will have to rely on the screenwriters to use their own imagination.
The officers and soldiers on the Wuding frigate left with satisfaction after watching an epic naval battle. They had little interest in the subsequent landing of the Tatars or the land war.
The Empire knows a lot about the ground wars in Europe, and these fights are nothing more than the same set of line operations that the Empire played decades ago.
Moreover, this time the Tatars were well prepared, the landing force had sufficient troops, and the supporting firepower was sufficient. Many Tatar ships were directly close to the coastline to provide close fire support for the landing force.
The defending Ottomans could not stop the Tatar attack.
There is no point in reading this anymore.
The Wuding frigate returned, and some other Tang Dynasty ships continued to watch the show while acting as supervisors, lest one of the two sides get knocked out by the battle and try to break into the Tang military restricted area, especially the strait
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But at this time, neither the Tatars nor the Ottomans could care about the Tang people watching the show.
The fighting between the two sides was fierce at the beginning of the landing. The Ottomans resisted desperately and tried to drive the Tatars, whose strength was not sufficient at the beginning of the landing, into the sea. The Tatars tried to stabilize the beachhead position in order to prepare for the second batch.
Provide conditions for the landing of the third batch of subsequent landing troops.
However, after a fierce battle, the Ottomans still could not hold on. The 26th Tatar Infantry Division, led by Qelba, took the lead in breaking through the Ottoman interception and directly penetrated deep into the Ottoman rear.
In less than three days, the 26th Infantry Division led by Kanerba advanced for more than 20 kilometers. In the process, more than 5,000 Ottomans were surrounded and annihilated, which laid the foundation for the Tatar landing operation in one fell swoop.
Good start.
In the following half month, the Tatars and the Ottomans continued to fight. The Ottomans' continued defeats further aggravated their internal conflicts.
At the beginning, the several great pashas entrenched in the peninsula of Asia Minor were still partially loyal to the royal generals and could unite to resist the Tatars.
But when the Tatars fought consecutive battles, their internal conflicts became more intense. After all, it was impossible for the Tatars to defeat every Ottoman army in a balanced manner.
It must be that some pasha's armies were severely damaged by the Tatars, and some pasha's armies were not patronized by the Tatars.
It would be fine if everyone was unlucky together, but only I was unlucky. In this case, the conflicts between these pashas and other generals broke out.
In the end, some Ottoman generals surrendered to the Tatars directly in front of the formation, some ran away with their troops, and of course some foolishly continued to stay where they were.
In just half a month, the Tatars had successfully established themselves in the Asia Minor Peninsula.
And as more and more troops, weapons and ammunition were sent over, the fight became smoother and smoother.
What, you said there was no food in the Tatars' later supplies?
The Tatars also know how to feed their enemies!
The Asia Minor peninsula is so big, it is easy to feed their army of only 100,000 people.
The Tatars and Ottomans are fighting to the death on the Asia Minor Peninsula, but strangely, Istanbul is still calm. Relying on the indirect protection of the Tang Dynasty's military restricted area, the city has not suffered any war so far.
But the people in the city, especially the senior officials of the Ottoman Kingdom, were anxious.
In particular, the royal family tried to find help from the Tang Dynasty people every day, but the Tang Dynasty people naturally ignored them.
The Tang people have always maintained the principle of non-interference in the internal affairs of the indigenous people. This principle will not be broken because of the Ottomans, nor will it be broken because of the Tatars.
After finding no results with the Tang Dynasty, the Ottoman royal family had to start looking for a way out.
Now the Tatar offensive in Asia Minor is very fierce, and they have almost occupied half of the Asia Minor Peninsula. If they continue like this, it will not take long to take over the entire Asia Minor Peninsula, and then invade the Caucasus and other regions.
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This means that the Ottoman Kingdom can actually be declared over!
After Asia Minor and other areas were captured by the Tatars, if they turned around and attacked Istanbul, they would still be unable to stop them.
Even the Tatars don't need to take the initiative to attack the city. They only need to block the sea channel, which is enough to starve to death the hundreds of thousands of people in the city who have exploded due to the war!
With the outlook pessimistic, the Ottoman royal family naturally needed to start looking for a way out.
They quickly found the Tang Dynasty people!
They wanted to take advantage of the fact that the Ottoman Kingdom still existed and the Tatars had not yet reached Istanbul, and used the only things they had left in their hands to exchange for a piece of land in Africa with the Tang Dynasty.
They want to imitate the Kingdom of Denmark and the Twelve Kingdoms of Central Africa and move to Africa!
For this reason, they were prepared to exchange the entire Ottoman Kingdom's territory with the Tang Dynasty!
Although most of the Ottoman Kingdom has actually fallen into the hands of the Tatars, the rest is behind several other pashas and has nothing to do with the Ottoman royal family.
But this does not prevent them from making a deal with the Tang Dynasty with the entire territory of the Ottoman Kingdom!