"Dongdong~Dongdong!"

Fierce shelling sounded from outside the city of Instanbul, and shells whizzed past in the sky.

At this moment, the entire capital city of the Ottoman Empire was besieged.

At sea, nearly a hundred warships of the Ming Empire were firing at the Ottoman Empire capital from three sides. On the only land connection, 200,000 Ming troops successfully joined forces. Thousands of heavy artillery were also pouring down on the Ottoman Empire capital city.

of anger.

This was an unprecedented artillery attack. Thousands of artillery pieces were involved in the attack, and the pouring shells formed a rain of shells and fell into the capital of the Ottoman Empire.

Hundreds of thousands of artillery shells fell into this historic city, the deafening sound resounded through the sky, and billowing smoke enveloped the entire city.

The formerly prosperous, lively and noisy city of Instanbul is now in ruins. Countless ancient buildings have been turned into ruins by artillery fire, including churches and ceremonies inherited from the ancient Roman Empire, temples, palaces, etc. that were painstakingly built by successive kings of the Ottoman Empire.

Almost everything has been reduced to ruins, and it is difficult to find an intact building. There are ruins and broken walls everywhere, in great disarray, with helpless cries, frightened screams, and figures constantly searching among the ruins.

Everyone in this city deeply remembers today and this moment.

It is estimated that this is the most horrific bombardment in human history!

The artillery fire attack lasted for several hours, and then gradually stopped. It seemed that the Ming people themselves were tired, and the anger in their hearts had also dissipated, so they stopped.

However, for the people in the city of Instanbul, when they climbed out of the ruins tremblingly, looked at the devastated city, and kept calling the names of their relatives, but could not hear the answer for a long time, the whole city was filled with confusion.

Immersed in grief and crying.

In the palace of the Ottoman Empire, King Selim I and many princes, ministers, royal family members and nobles walked out of the underground fortifications.

The once prosperous palace was completely reduced to ruins.

The royal palace here was inherited from the Eastern Roman Empire, and the Byzantine architectural style was integrated with the efforts of skilled craftsmen of the Ottoman Empire throughout the ages, forming the unique architectural style and art of the city of Instanbul.

But now, everything is in ruins.

No longer can we see a trace of the luxury of the palace in the past. A strong wind blew up, kicking up the billowing dust, leaving Selim I and others in a state of disgrace and utter embarrassment.

"Daming people!"

Selim I clenched his fist tightly.

The people of Ming Dynasty are really cruel.

The strength of the Ottoman Empire was severely damaged by the killing of several large armies. It was obviously preparing to negotiate peace with itself, but it insisted on bombarding its capital city, turning everything here into ruins.

Look at the palace in front of you, and then overlook the city outside the palace. There are ruins and broken walls everywhere. Many magnificent buildings built with a lot of hard work and wealth have been destroyed. The Ming people simply intend to leave this city behind.

The meaning and intention of a sound building.

There was endless anger burning in his heart, and he wished he could lead an army of one million people all the way east, directly to the capital of the Ming Dynasty, and completely destroy the capital city of the Ming Dynasty.

However, anger is just anger after all.

When you are inferior to others, anger is meaningless and will only make you lose your mind and make more mistakes.

"Great Sultan, thank you that we dispatched 200,000 troops in advance. Otherwise, if we had stayed in the city, we don't know how many casualties there would have been."

Ali Pasha's old eyes were filled with tears.

He was very old. When he was young, he personally followed Muhammad II to conquer all directions and conquered this ancient city as the capital of the Ottoman Empire.

That was more than half a century ago.

At that time, the Ottoman Empire's army fought bloody battles here for several months, building giant Urban cannons to bombard the solid city walls. In the end, the opponent was short of manpower and would lose if they defended for a long time, so they conquered this great city.

The ancient city laid the foundation of the Ottoman Empire.

After more than half a century, he has experienced several sultans, and each sultan has continued to build this huge and magnificent city.

The Ottoman Empire has always been proud of this city.

However, now, it has been attacked twice by the Ming Dynasty people.

More than ten years ago, the Ming Dynasty's navy bombarded Istanbul, but the damage to the city was not serious. At that time, the power of artillery fire was limited, and the Ming Dynasty only bombarded it to force the Ottoman Empire to sign an alliance under the city.

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But this time, the Ming Dynasty made it clear that they wanted to destroy Instanbul. Thousands of cannons poured hundreds of thousands of shells on the city, razing everything to the ground and causing extremely heavy casualties.

But thankfully, Selim I followed his own advice and dispatched all the 200,000 troops guarding the city to avoid this disaster, otherwise the Ottoman Empire would have lost its last vitality.

This capital that inherited the Eastern Roman Empire will most likely be recovered by the Europeans and Greeks, and the Byzantine Empire will most likely resurrect.

But look at the extremely prosperous city at sunset. It is the largest and most prosperous city in Europe.

Paris, Venice, Vienna, Le Soto, Florence, Genoa, etc., these European cities are much smaller than Instanbul, and they cannot even be compared with each other.

But now, this prosperous city has turned into ruins. The city that has been inherited for thousands of years has been completely destroyed in one fell swoop.

The proud jewel of the Ottoman Empire was destroyed.

This feeling and mood made him, a veteran of the Ottoman Empire, want to cry without tears.

At this moment, I don’t know whether I should be thankful that I have preserved the last vitality of the Ottoman Empire, or whether I should have a good cry for this great and ancient city.

Just like countless cries in the city, too much has been lost, too much.

Although the Ming Dynasty had no intention of attacking, they did not seem to have any interest in occupying the capital of the Ottoman Empire.

They simply came here to pour out their anger in order to demonstrate the majesty and hegemony of the Ming Empire.

Simply came to destroy, simply came to give the Ottoman Empire a profound lesson and impression, a shame that the Ottoman Empire will never forget.

At the same time, it also completely buried the ambitions of the Ottoman Empire in ruins.

From now on, the Ottoman Empire will lose its ambition and strength to dominate the world.

Whether he can survive this hurdle is still unknown.

Even though the Ming Dynasty retreated and negotiated peace.

However, the Persians, Egyptians, Europeans, Greeks, Spanish, Tatars, etc. will not miss the great opportunity to carve up the Ottoman Empire.

Can we defeat the heroes from all directions with just the remaining 200,000 troops?

This is still a question mark, an unknown quantity.

The powerful tribal leaders and nobles inside are also ambitious. Just like the Ottoman Empire was established by the Ottoman Empire, he quickly rose from a tribal leader to become the master of this land and established a huge empire.

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There will be many, many problems in the future, and no one knows whether the Ottoman Empire can survive them.

Everyone has this question in their mind, but at the moment, how to reach an armistice agreement with the Ming people is the most important thing.

This reminded Ali Pasha of more than ten years ago. At that time, under the city of Erzinjan, the Ming Dynasty forcefully handed over an armistice agreement, the cession of a large amount of land, huge war compensation, and unequal compensation.

Trade treaties, etc.

This was a shame in the history of the Ottoman Empire, but it had to be signed in the end.

Now, we don’t know what kind of harsh treaty the Ming people will propose.

"If you can, please go again. You can go outside the city to reach an armistice agreement with the Ming people. No matter what conditions they propose, we will agree to them. As long as they cease the war as soon as possible."

Selim I slowly loosened his clenched fists.

He is a talented and strategic monarch, knowing that the anger at this moment still has no meaning. He is also an extremely calm and cruel monarch.

After the anger, he became extremely calm and thought clearly about the situation at hand. He knew that the most important thing at the moment was to reach an armistice agreement with the Ming people. The most important thing was for the Ming people to withdraw their troops.

If the Ming people don't retreat, enemies from all directions will keep coming, and the tribal leaders inside will be ready to make moves, and they won't be able to devote themselves to solving these problems and things.

"Yes~"

Ali Pasha quickly replied respectfully, and then he took a dozen ministers with him and walked out of the city to talk to the Ming Dynasty again.

outside the city.

"Tsk, tsk, this artillery attack is so powerful!"

"Thousands of artillery pieces and hundreds of thousands of artillery shells directly razed this Instanbul to the ground."

Huo Ying and Liao Yuan stood on a hillside, watching the spectacular bombardment with telescopes, and smiled with satisfaction when they saw the ruins of the city of Instanbul.

The two of them can be regarded as people who have seen the world, and they have seen many kinds of artillery attacks.

But this was their first time seeing a big scene like today.

The power of thousands of artillery pieces is simply too powerful.

"This should be the most powerful artillery attack in history."

Liao Yuan nodded and said: "I don't know if the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire was killed in the bombing. If he was killed, it would be a bit troublesome. They will have to wait for them to elect a new Sultan before they can negotiate with us."

"Don't worry, you won't be killed that easily. Maybe you'll come to us for peace talks soon."

Huo Ying seemed very confident. How could the emperor of a huge empire be killed so easily? He probably hid underground in advance.

"Report~"

"The Ottoman envoy came to ask for an audience."

The two chatted and chatted, and soon someone came to report.
To be continued...