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Chapter 1353 Departure of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force

The port of Valletta City on the island of Malta is crowded with more than 30000 soldiers, sailors, handymen, and slaves, and more than 200 large and small ships, so that the shoals are crowded with people, even if it costs these members of the expeditionary force to board their ships. A lot of time.

The expeditionary force of more than 30000 people is already much larger than the residents of the island of Malta.This is a grand occasion never seen before in Malta Island, which is only one-third of the area of ​​Hong Kong Island. Almost all forces along the Mediterranean region participated in this expedition.

"Are you really going to fight with us? This expedition to Egypt is not a joke. The knights of our knights are likely to die on the battlefield." Castella watched his sister put on the half-armor, and the last time confirm.

"I am a member of the Knights Hospitaller. I was protected by everyone on the island of Malta to grow up safely. I also want to fight for the survival of the Knights with a musket. After this expedition, I want to go to the world outside the Mediterranean Sea Let's go," Hannah said.

Having experienced the big battles on the Tunis Strait, she knows that wars are cruel, but this is the real world outside the island of Malta. In an era of scarcity, all forces are fighting for their own living space.

From not experiencing the cruelty of war to taking the initiative to participate in the war, Hannah has no childishness when she argued with Li Jinde a few months ago, but a face of determination.

This made it difficult for Castella, as an older brother, to refuse her request to participate in the expedition.

"Then you go out with our knights. You must stay alive on the battlefield, so that you can see the world outside the Mediterranean. Our knights only have a small place on the island of Malta, and you must contact more advanced firearms from the outside world to be able to Let the Knights continue." Castella did not oppose Hannah's participation in the battle this time.

Even a rookie becomes half a veteran after a big battle.

"Castella, are the ships of your hospital knights ready?" Sun Xu came over and asked.

"We're ready to board," Castella said.

The fleet of the Knights Hospitaller captured many ships of the Ottoman Empire and drove their horses to board the galleon.

Although the role of cavalry has decreased with the popularization of firearms, it still plays a very important role. The Knights of the Hospital has always maintained a cavalry composed of knights.

These knights brought the costumes handed down from their ancestors, and it was a sacred expedition for them.

In addition to the Knights of the Hospital, many knights from the Papal State also came. They brought about 300 horses, which could barely form a cavalry team with the Knights of the Hospital.

Sun Chuanting and the others did not have high hopes for this combined cavalry of only 400 people. The most important thing to deal with the Turkish Guards and Mamluk cavalry is the phalanx composed of musketeers and spearmen.

"Li Jinde, it's time for us to go." Sir Greenville also put on his armor.

"Yes!" Although Li Jinde was unwilling to continue to expand the war, he still participated in the expedition when the war really started.

This time everyone brought their own equipment to fight, and they also want to participate in this war.Except for some hospital knights and warships responsible for protecting the logistics base in Malta, everyone else was dispatched.

"Do you think their small number of people can withstand the impact of the Mamluk cavalry regiment? When tens of thousands of cavalry charged, any soldier would be timid. The reason why we formed a solid phalanx is that To make the soldiers have nowhere to escape, they can only block the impact of the cavalry by leaning closely together." The Venetian commander Conor said to the navy commander Capello.

They were on a giant Calaisian battleship, watching a group of friendly soldiers boarding the ship, and their words were a little uneasy.

Just as Sun Chuanting doubted the combat effectiveness of their Venetian army, Konar also doubted whether this group of infantry from the East could carry the banner.

Everyone has a sense of tension about the Mamluk cavalry in Egypt.

If any ally loses the chain, it will be a disaster in front of tens of thousands of heroic Mamluk cavalry regiments.

"Look at their sailboat, its design is very different from ours. It seems that the hull is thicker and more suitable for combat. There is also that monster iron ship. It is said that it rushed back and forth with the fleet in the Ottoman fleet, Even dozens of shells from the Central Ottoman fleet were unscathed. Their navy is so terrible, it is hard to imagine whether their infantry has any hidden weapons. They dared to launch an expedition to Egypt, which shows that they have a chance of victory." Capello Meaningful.

"I don't understand how they made the iron boat float on the water, or did they just wrap a layer of iron around the hull?"

"It doesn't look as simple as wrapping a layer of iron skin. Think about it, if the opponent is wrapping a layer of iron skin on the outside of a wooden boat, then the shape of the boat should be the same as that of an ordinary sailboat. The keel can make the length of the boat reach 60. How many meters is the limit. Like this kind of long and narrow ship with a length of more than 90 meters, there is no keel to withstand the wind and waves on the ocean. They came here from tens of thousands of miles away from the east, which shows that the iron ship can withstand the Indian Ocean and the Indian Ocean. The pounding of the Atlantic Ocean."

As a veteran of the Venetian navy, Capello spent most of his life on sailing ships. He was so familiar with the strength of wooden sailing ships that he couldn't understand the structure of the ironclad Admiral Fubo no matter how he thought about it.

The aspect ratio and hull length of the ironclad ship far exceeded people's imagination of standard ships in the age of sailboats.

"Maybe there is a tall tree in the east that we don't know about. The height of this tree may reach an astonishing 100 meters. With the trunk of such a tree, a ship with a length of more than 90 meters can be built." Kona Hall tried to explain.

"Konal, I think we should stop imagining wildly for the sake of explanation. The other party has already admitted that it is an iron ship. Even the Dutch can't produce such a shipbuilding technology. The Netherlands builds cheap cargo ships, and this They can’t build this kind of iron ship anyway. I think it’s better to ask the budget committee to buy an iron ship from the East for research, and maybe they can find the secrets hidden in the iron ship.” Capello said with interest.

As soon as the ironclad ship appeared, it seemed to become the focus of the Six Nations Allied Forces.

And when it blew up a Spanish galleon on the other side in the decisive battle with the Ottoman fleet, it was enough to explain a lot of things!

"Confirm with each fleet whether they have boarded the ship." Sun Xu saw that there were almost no other people on the beach except the soldiers who stayed behind on the island of Malta and the sailors who were sick and unable to set off, so he raised the flag and asked the ships of various forces.

(End of this chapter)