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Chapter 1351
"Commander of the Expeditionary Force of the Republic of Venice, Andrea Konar."

"General of the Papal States, Nicholas Ludowig."

The armies of Venice and the Papal States arrived on the island of Malta successively, bringing 7000 and 3000 infantry respectively, and half of the Venetian naval fleet also arrived. Chances for Colonial North Africa.

"It was you who defeated the Ottoman navy fleet?" A gray-haired Venetian general saw the generals of the Fourth Fleet wearing navy uniforms.

He was curious about the Eastern Fleet that destroyed the Ottoman Navy Fleet in the Tunis Strait. At this time, seeing that the officers of the Fourth Fleet of the fleet were all young people between the ages of 20 and 40, he was somewhat shocked.

It was such a group of young people who led a fleet to the Mediterranean Sea thousands of miles away and easily defeated the mighty Ottoman Empire.

You must know that sailing experience is very important. Most people start as crew members or captains of merchant ships. With decades of sailing experience, commanding the crew on a galleon must be as flexible as commanding your own hands and feet to become a naval commander.

And the person who appeared in front of him looked exactly like a fledgling young captain, which was hard to be convincing.

However, he may not know that the Fourth Fleet has a professional naval academy such as the Naval Lecture Hall. They have a complete set of theoretical systems. Compared with the piecemeal experience passed down from ear to ear, it is much faster.

At the same time, when the Fourth Fleet was in the mainland, it had enough shells and gunpowder to use for exercises, but it lacked actual combat.

"Who is this?" Sun Xu looked at Commander Conor in Venice in puzzlement.

"Capello, a veteran of our Venetian Republic, has been in the Mediterranean Sea for decades, and his imaginary enemy is the Turks." Konar said.

"It's a pleasure to meet you." Sun Xu cupped his hands.

Capello, Conal and the others were a little surprised by Sun Xu's bowing ceremony, but they quickly understood that this was the etiquette expressed by Dongfang Huaxia, and they also learned how to bow their hands.

"I didn't expect Venice to send a combination of the two of you, and so many soldiers and ships. What do you guys want to do in Venice?" Ludowig, the general of the Papal State, came over. He saw that Venice had sent 17000 people. The infantry and fleet were greatly shocked.

An expeditionary army of this size is absolutely serious. After losing many colonies in sparsely populated Venice, it only has a core population of 10,000+ and a population of hundreds of thousands of colonies. It is impossible to send an army of 17000 people to Egypt to send heads.

"Our goal is to capture Cairo," Konar said.

"You 10,000+ people in Venice also want to eat Egypt with millions of people?" Ludowig asked in surprise.

He received the order from the Papal State only to attack the Ottoman Empire's forces in Egypt, and took the opportunity to plunder and disrupt the local situation, but he never thought of occupying Egypt.

Although occupying Egypt may seem like a tempting plan, it is not so easy to completely stabilize the rule in Egypt.If it is not done well, not only will it not be able to maintain the stability of Egypt, but it will need to continuously invest a lot of manpower and material resources in the local area.

"Nothing is impossible. At present, we only need Cairo and Alexandria in Venice, and the whole of Egypt. I'm afraid we really can't take it down." Conor said helplessly.

The difference between Venice and a powerful country may be the population. A city-state with a core population of 10,000+ has a serious lack of confidence when expanding abroad.

The most difficult thing about such a small country is that it is difficult to start, unlike an empire that already has millions or tens of millions of people, once it expands, it is difficult to stop.

"In this expedition to Egypt, Venice sent the most troops. The spoils they asked for were land and people, and we wanted money. There was not much conflict between our interests. If we want to divide the spoils, we must successfully capture them from the Ottoman Empire. Cairo, defeat the Mamluk cavalry. Let's discuss tactics before going out." Sun Chuanting said.

The generals of Venice, the Papal States, and Sicily all looked at each other. They doubted whether the "young" generals from the East were really capable of directing the expedition to Egypt.

Speaking of the distance from Egypt, why are they more familiar with the situation in Egypt than the officers from China, right?
But after all, it was Sun Xu, Sun Chuanting, Zheng Zhibao and others who united them to form the Anti-Ottoman Alliance, and they had the strongest fleet.

The current naval commander-in-chief of the Anti-Ottoman Alliance is Sun Xu of the Fourth Fleet, the captain of the Navy Department of the Kyushu Army.The Vice Admirals of the Navy were Admiral Pennington of the British Royal Navy and Admiral Capello of Venice.

Sun Xu's military rank is indeed a little lower, and he has not yet become a navy general.This is because the Kyushu Army is afraid that the ranks will inflate too much, so they have high requirements for military ranks, especially the Ministry of the Navy.At present, only Nelson, Zheng Zhilong, and Deng Qianlong are the commanders of the three earliest fleets in the Navy Department. Even Sun Xu was the first to work under Deng Qianlong. In the naval lecture hall, Nelson taught the era of sailing warships. combat skills.

Although the military rank looks low, the gold content has risen, unlike other countries who are always admirals, and Sun Xu, who controls the Fourth Fleet, has real power.

The commander-in-chief of the army is Sun Chuanting of the Far West Expeditionary Army, the deputy commander of the army is Corner of Venice, Ludowig of the Papal State, Castella, Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller, and a Spanish infantry major.

The Knights of the Hospital also specially formed a 100-man cavalry team, intending to truly reproduce their name as the Knights in the Middle Ages.

The headquarters of the Six Nations Allied Forces on the island of Malta is still in St. John's Cathedral in Valletta.

The Knights Hospitaller welcomed the arrival of the Italians. After enjoying a sumptuous banquet, everyone put together several long tables to study the battle plan for the expedition to Egypt.

"Take out our map, the one from Egypt." Sun Chuanting said to his deputy.

The deputy spread out a map with the distribution of major rivers, mountains and cities in Egypt.

People from Venice, the Papal States, and Sicily all showed puzzled expressions.They don't know why officers from the far east have maps of Egypt, and they also use Chinese characters to mark mountains, rivers and cities.

These people seem to have seen hell, why is there a map of Egypt that is more detailed than them in China, which is thousands of miles away?

"Our Ministry of War said that there should be no errors in these mountains and rivers. Rivers may change course, and cities may be destroyed. However, the positions of Cairo and Alexandria should not change."

(End of this chapter)