Both France and Venice are taking action to defeat Spain, but Marin, the initiator, has no time to pay attention to the matter in Italy. Because he has received a very important news...
"Is this the Ottoman Turks' Match-Rank?" Marin looked curiously at the musket brought back by the spy sent to Turkey.
"Yes, Grand Duke, this is the musket that the Ottoman Imperial Guard is currently equipped on a large scale! My subordinates spent a lot of money to get this sample from a general of the Sultan Imperial Guard in the name of "scrapped". It is said that the new Ottoman Sultan attaches great importance to firearms and has already promoted this musket on a large scale in the Ottoman Imperial Guard!" Meir, a secret agent who had been lurking in Constantinople (now called Istanbul) for several years, said respectfully.
Meier was a Jew, and the Ottoman Empire was kind to the Jews. When the Spanish Kings expelled the Jews, the Ottoman Empire specially took a large number of Jews who originally lived in Spain to live in Istanbul. Just so happened that in recent years, Marin wanted to monitor Jews, so he arranged for Meier, a Jewish spy, to lurk in Istanbul, the capital of the Ottoman Empire as a Jewish refugee.
And Marin knew very well that the mesh rope gun he had in front of him might be the famous Lumi gun recorded in the history of the Ming Dynasty!
However, Marin saw the shadow of the Spanish Mushket musket on this Rumi gun produced from the Ottoman Empire. Unlike the Mushket musket, the Rumi gun in the Ottoman Empire seemed to be smaller. Its bullets were not as heavy as the 50 grams of the Mushket musket, and it was about 30.23 grams of the North Sea Army...
"Where did the Ottoman Turks' Matchback Gun Technology come from?" Marin was a little confused. But suddenly, Marin remembered a possibility - the group of Jews that Ottoman Türkiye picked up from Spain...
Jews are very smart and generally engage in business or handicrafts. It is said that the total number of Spanish Jews taken away by Turkey is as high as 200,000. It is very likely that among these 200,000 people, there are craftsmen who know how to make Mushket muskets. After all, Mushket muskets originally came from Spain...
"So that's it. The origin of the Rumi gun was actually Spain. By the way, did the Spanish shoot... no, it was not a shot of themselves in the foot, but a shot of all Europeans..."
It is said that after taking away the 200,000 Jews, Ottoman Turkish Sultan Bayeset II proudly wrote to the Spanish Kings, claiming that "Spanish King Ferdinand II is really a 'great' ruler. He would rather be poor than give wealth to others."... It is obvious that Bayeset II gained great benefits from these Jews. For example, technological progress...
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Of course, Marin didn't care how much benefit the Ottoman Turks had gained. The reason he sent people to monitor Ottoman Türkiye was because he was very concerned about the future military conflict between Türkiye and the Mamluk dynasty in Egypt.
The Dabik Grassland Battle near Aleppo, Syria, which took place more than two years later, caused the fall of the Mamluk dynasty and the complete rise of Ottoman Turkey - it gained a significant increase in the strength of the Ottoman Empire in Syria and Egypt, and it also had the strong strength to crush Europe...
After all, Egypt and Syria have always been the richest agricultural areas in the Middle East. With Egypt, the strength of the Ottoman Empire has been directly improved.
However, after the Ottoman Empire's strength increased sharply, it became the most terrifying threat in Europe. Moreover, their troops pointed directly at the German region. This was obviously something that Marin, a German prince, did not want to see.
Next, Marin wanted to reshuffle within Germany, but he did not want an extremely powerful Ottoman Empire to disrupt the situation. Therefore, Marin must prevent the Ottoman Turkey from destroying the Mamluk Dynasty. Meier was sent to Turkey, mainly to observe Turkey's military trends...
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A year ago, the third prince of Ottoman Türkiye, Selim launched a coup, poisoning his father Bayesette II and killing two older brothers, becoming the ninth Ottoman Türkiye sultan, Selim I.
Selim I paid great attention to the strength of the army, and also vigorously promoted artillery in the army, and began to promote the massacre gun on a large scale.
Marin vaguely remembered that in the Dabik Grassland Battle, it seemed that Selim I dispatched 12,000 European infantry, using a clamp gun and a chariot array (similar to the Yu Dayou chariot array created by Marin, the difference is that there are no spears in front of the chariot, and the vehicles are larger. It seems that it was the ancient Chinese path. After all, the Turks were also descendants of Turkic who fled from China to West Asia), and resisted the attack of the ferocious Mamluk cavalry and bought time for the counterattack of the Turkish cavalry. It can be said that the Mamluk cavalry was defeated under the battle formation composed of the Turkish Lumi guns.
Because, in terms of cavalry strength alone, the Mamluk Dynasty was no less than the Turks at this time. In the Dabik Grassland Battle alone, the Mamluk Dynasty dispatched tens of thousands of cavalry. In terms of total strength, the Mamluk Dynasty had a military force of 80,000, while the Turks had a talent of 60,000. If it weren't for the 12,000 European infantry recruited by Turkey from the Balkans who blocked the charge of the Mamluk cavalry with a convex gun, the Turks would have been unable to win.
Of course, the Mamluk Dynasty was not a fool. Egypt actually promoted firearms in the army. However, their promotion speed was not as fast as Turkey. It was not until the outbreak of the war that Egyptians began to promote artillery in the army, and they had not had time to promote the medley gun.
On the other hand, after Selim I came to power, the Turkish army vigorously promoted the mesh guns and established a large-scale musket force. The musketeers were mainly recruited from Europeans in the Balkans. What they used was this kind of mesh gun, which was historically called the "Lumi Gun". Therefore, the demise of the Mamluk Dynasty, the Rumi Gun made an indelible contribution...
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However, the Dabik Grassland Battle in history will not break out until 1516, and now Marin has enough time to intervene. For example...providing a mezzanine to the Mamluk Dynasty...
Thinking of this, Marin found a craftsman and ordered:
"You should study this Turkish musket carefully, and I want you to start mass-producing this musket. Then..." Marin smiled and must have sold it to the Mamluk Dynasty.
By then, there will be a large number of musketeers in the Mamluk Dynasty, and they are also equipped with Lumi guns, which will be more fun...
In terms of cavalry, the Mamluk Dynasty is not weaker than the Ottoman Turkey. There are also many artillery and other artillery. If the shortcomings of muskets are also filled, I really don’t know what the consequences of the Dabik Grassland Battle…
Chapter completed!