Valley Emperor

If it was in the era when the Tang Dynasty had not changed to rifled weapons, relying only on guns and traditional smoothbore artillery, when fighting, more often they still rely on the elite level of the Tang Dynasty soldiers, especially the one in the Tang Dynasty. The tactic of carrying the enemy's bullets and shooting salvos directly in front of others, and then charging with the bayonet.

Basically be able to beat all the enemies hemiplegia!

Even many European troops and even Tatars are imitating the Tang's tactics of face-to-face salvo and bayonet charge, of course, there is not much that can be done.

But now, Datang's army is already equipped with rifled weapons. Relying on the high precision and longer range brought by rifled weapons, they have begun to bully the enemy outside the enemy's range.

For example, the shells of the No. 627 gunboat only landed on the pier at first, but soon they landed in the farther city, knowing that the distance at this time was more than 2,000 meters.

But the hit accuracy of the shells is still very high.

And the rate of fire is fast, just the shelling of the three naval guns has actually hit the defenders of Baku City to the point of collapse.

After all, Baku at this time is just a small port city. The oil on it has no strategic value. It is not worth the Ottomans to invest too much military power here. These defenders are more used to deter the local indigenous people. of.

Therefore, the Ottoman defenders were only seven or eight hundred people.

Even the local indigenous people in the city of Baku and the surrounding areas add up to only a few thousand people.

Such a small number of people were swept away by naval guns, and after hundreds of people were killed or injured, they still dared to resist, so they ran back and hid.

After more than 100 marines from the West Sea Fleet landed and called out one by one with rifles, the Baku defenders composed of the Ottomans suffered heavy casualties and finally had to raise the white flag!

The battle lasted less than an hour in total.

These Ottomans can last for nearly an hour under this kind of firepower, which is actually not easy, after all, they can't fight back just by being beaten.

The next thing, of course, is that Hu Qinyuan and the other diplomats appeared, and it was already something to do with the West Sea Fleet.

But when Hu Qinyuan and the others started a new round of negotiations with the Ottomans, Colonel Du Qiurong, the deputy commander of the West Sea Fleet in charge of this military operation, had a strange expression.

"This ammo consumption is too much!" Colonel Du Qiurong looked at the ammunition consumption report, and was speechless.

In this battle, their West Sea Fleet killed the enemy unilaterally, so the casualties were zero. The Ottomans had no power to fight back, or they had no ability to fight back. The gunboats and marines of the West Sea Fleet were completely at the mercy of the enemy. Bullying the Ottomans outside the range of the city, without even entering the city, is forcing the Ottomans to surrender directly.

But there were no casualties, and their ammunition consumption was staggering.

"It's only been half an hour!" Du Qiurong looked at the ammunition consumption report again, and couldn't believe whether the numbers he saw were real.

The captain of the gunboat Jia627, Major Shi Yuan, also looked heartbroken: "In this battle, we fired 100 rounds of 120mm shells, and fired 220 rounds. The 75mm shells directly consumed half of our reserve shells!"

Captain Li Hengyi of the Marine Corps also said: "Our bullet consumption is also very large. We only have 120 people to land and fight, but the bullet consumption is about 1,200 rounds, and the per capita consumption is nearly 100 rounds!"

Li Hengyi continued: "And our landing troops, from the landing operation to their surrender, lasted only about half an hour!"

Major Shi Yuan said: "Yeah, when we were shelling, we didn't continue to shell at the maximum speed. Except for the maximum speed of fire at the beginning, the rest of the time was suppressed shelling, but I didn't expect it to consume so much. cannonballs!"

At this time, Du Qiurong knew why the high-level navy issued a document requesting to be equipped with rear-mounted guns, especially warships equipped with naval guns with a caliber of less than 120 mm, to practice artillery skills and win with precision!

If you don't rely on precision to win, you can get results with direct bombing, but the consumption of artillery shells is too great for the navy to support.

Today's naval guns in the navy have adopted the rear-loading mode, and the rate of fire is much faster than that of the front-loading artillery. Even a 150mm artillery can achieve one round per minute.

The smaller caliber 120mm gun uses metal fixed ammunition, and the gun mount also adopts a certain reset device. It is much faster. In the case of bursting liver, if you are not very accurate, you can hit the level of three to four rounds.

The same is true for 100mm and 75mm.

As a result, the ammunition consumption is also large.

The larger the shell consumption, the bigger the bullet.

The artillery still has a reset problem, but the rifle does not have this problem. It is normal for a skilled soldier to shoot more than ten bullets a minute.

And the total number of bullets carried by soldiers is only 100 rounds. In extreme cases, they can all be fired in ten minutes!

Today's Datang has just entered the era of rear-loading rifles. In fact, the ammunition supply and logistics supply system have not been able to keep up, and it is already somewhat unable to support this kind of ammunition consumption.

While the officers of the West Sea Fleet were heartbroken with ammunition, Hu Qinyuan brought some of his entourages to negotiate with the surrendering Ottomans.

Hu Qinyuan's diplomatic negotiation method, if it is judged by the standards of later generations, is completely unqualified, because he did not give the Ottomans any chance to bargain at all.

And the diplomats of the Tang Dynasty were too lazy to do tricks of asking prices to pay back the money, and they often put forward their own demands directly.

But what is interesting is that the diplomats of the Datang have done this many times overseas, and the Ottomans have also experienced it several times. Although the Ottomans here have not had direct contact with the Datang people, they have heard of the Imperial Datang people. arrogance and stubbornness.

That is the negotiation rhythm of saying no two, and fighting if you don't agree.

So Hu Qinyuan and their negotiation ended soon!

Instead, Hu Qinyuan just asked them to fully accept their conditions: to cede all Baku and surrounding areas to Datang, the Ottomans to leave Baku within three days, and the negligence of the Ottomans led to this small-scale battle. The armed conflict demanded that the Ottomans compensated 100,000 Tang Yuan.

The one hundred thousand Tang Yuan who spoke now is naturally a lot less. When Hu Qinyuan made a war threat before the war, he spoke one million.

The Ottomans did not hesitate for a long time. Anyway, this Baku was not theirs at all. They only acquired this land two years ago. It turned out that this place was the territory of the Persians, and was later occupied by the Tatars.

It is not a problem to give it to the Tang people now.

However, the issue of indemnity made them very embarrassed, but Hu Qinyuan did not ask them to take it out immediately. Anyway, as long as they signed, they could ask the diplomatic staff of the imperial consulate in the Ottoman consulate to claim it on their behalf.

It doesn't matter if you don't get it in the end, it's just a lion's mouth anyway.

As for whether these local Ottoman officials in Baku have the authority to sign this treaty, Hu Qinyuan doesn't care, as long as they sign it, Datang has enough strength to make this treaty a reality.

After the negotiation, Hu Qinyuan returned to the Shengyuan, but he was unwilling to stay in Baku.

Who knows if there will be any infectious diseases in Baku, which is full of indigenous people!

After the Ottomans signed the agreement, they withdrew, and before leaving, they also took away the natives of Baku.

What the Tang people want is Baku, just the land of Baku, not the people in Baku.

So letting the Ottomans relocate the local people before leaving is also a basic operation, and Datang did this when they went there.

Even these Ottomans did not have any opinion on this issue.

After three days, the whole of Baku is empty, there is no one left!

Not only is there no one in the port and urban area, but there is no one in the surrounding tens of kilometers.

The scope of ceding agreed by the two parties is the entire Baku Peninsula, specifically the entire Baku Peninsula area east of 49°5 east longitude.

From this ceded boundary line directly divided by latitude and longitude, it can be seen that Hu Qinyuan is casual about this negotiation. He just drew a line according to the latitude and longitude. Too much is useless, and it cannot be developed. , and take it later.

So he just drew a line at random.

In fact, Osman on the opposite side also saw Hu Qinyuan's indifferent attitude, and he wondered if he should bargain for it.

But they dare not!

Everyone knows that Datang people are arrogant and stubborn~www.wuxiaspot.com~ They don't bargain with outsiders at all during diplomatic negotiations.

Refused, they estimated that these Datang people would dare to fight along the Baku all the way to the Caucasus or even kill the two rivers.

Now these Ottomans also know that the Datang people have already occupied the Central Asian region in the eastern part of the Caspian Sea, killing the Tartars.

When they thought that the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Tang Dynasty might be killed in the Caucasus, they could not raise any objection at all.

When the strength is so weak that people cannot resist, the so-called negotiation is just like that.

The Ottomans left, along with the local Persians, leaving an empty Baku Peninsula for the Tang Dynasty.

This follow-up Datang talent began to land, but did not enter the city, just near the wharf.

By the way, before these Ottomans left, they also packed up and bought their goods from Zuo Chengsheng.

This is not to say that Hu Qinyuan and the others relied on diplomatic means to coerce, but normal trade.

A war is a war, but business is still to be done, not to mention that it was just a small-scale armed conflict, and it was over.

So it doesn't affect their business at all.

These Ottomans are not stupid, but they know that if these Tang goods are shipped from Baku, it will be a huge profit if they change hands.

Nowadays, the various products of Datang are very popular all over the world, and there is basically no need to worry about not being able to sell them.

No, soap and soap for bathing are an exception, and Europeans don't buy it.

People only love the perfume produced by Datang!

Not only Europeans like it, but the Ottomans and even the Tatars, their elites also like the perfumes produced by the Tang Dynasty.

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