"Andre Corner, Commander of the Venetian Expeditionary Force."

"Popular General Nicko Ludovich."

The troops of Venice and the Pope arrived on the island of Malta one after another, bringing 7,000 and 3,000 infantry respectively. The Venetian naval fleet also came halfway. It can be said that they were doing their best to not give up the opportunity to seize the Egyptian province as a colony in North Africa.

"You defeated the Ottoman naval fleet?" A gray-haired Venetian general saw the generals of the Fourth Fleet wearing naval uniforms.

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

It was such a group of young people who led a fleet to the faraway Mediterranean and easily defeated the arrogant Ottoman Empire.

You should know that navigation experience is very important. Most people start with crew members or merchant ship captains. With decades of navigation experience, commanding crew members on sailing ships must be as flexible as commanding their own hands and feet in order to become naval commanders.

The person who appeared in front of him looked like a young captain who had just begun, and it was hard to be convinced.

However, he may not know that the Fourth Fleet has professional naval academy such as the Naval Martial Arts Hall. They have a complete theoretical system. When naval officers are instilled in theory, they will be on board to practice and grow up much faster than simply relying on personal understanding and fragmented experience passed down by word of mouth.

At the same time, the Fourth Fleet had sufficient shells and gunpowder for exercises when it was on the ground, but it lacked actual combat.

"What is this?" Sun Xu looked at Commander Corner in Venice in confusion.

"Capelo, a veteran of our Venetian Republic, has been in the Mediterranean for decades, and imagined that the enemy is the Turks." Corner said.

"Good meeting." Sun Xu bowed.

Capelo, Conar and others were a little surprised by Sun Xu's bowing, but they quickly understood that this was the etiquette expressed by Oriental China and learned to bow.

"I didn't expect that Venice actually sent a combination of you two, and there were so many soldiers and ships. What exactly did you Venice want to do?" Ludovich, the general of the Pope, came over. He was shocked when Venice actually sent 17,000 infantry and fleets.

The expeditionary army of such a large scale is absolutely serious. After losing many colonies, Venice, which has a sparsely populated area, only had a core population of more than 100,000 and hundreds of thousands of colonial populations. It is impossible to send an army of 17,000 to Egypt to send heads.

"Our goal is to occupy Cairo," Konal said.

"You 100,000 people in Venice want to eat millions of Egypt?" Ludovich said in surprise.

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

Although occupying Egypt seems like a tempting solution, it is not so easy to completely consolidate its rule in Egypt. Perhaps it will not only fail to maintain Egypt's stability, but will instead require a lot of manpower and material resources to be invested in the local area.

"Nothing is impossible. At present, we only have Cairo, Alexandria, and the entire Egypt. I'm afraid we can't really get it." Corner said helplessly.

The difference between Venice and a strong country may be because of its population. City countries with a core population of more than 100,000 are seriously lacking in confidence when expanding externally.

The most difficult thing for such a small country is the difficulty in starting a game. It is not like an empire with millions and tens of millions of people. Once it expands, it is difficult to stop.

"In this expedition to Egypt, Venice sent the most troops. The trophy we were asking for was land and people, while we wanted money, and there was no conflict between each other's interests. If you want to divide the trophy, you must successfully capture Cairo from the hands of the Ottoman Empire and defeat the Mamluk cavalry. Let's discuss tactics before going to the expedition." Sun Chuanting said.

The generals of Venice and the Papal State and Sicily looked at each other, and they were very doubtful whether the "young" generals from the East were really capable of commanding the expedition to Egypt.

When it comes to distance from Egypt, why is it because they are more familiar with Egypt along the Mediterranean countries, rather than officers from China?

But after all, Sun Xu, Sun Chuanting, Zheng Zhibao and others joined forces to form the Anti-Ottoman Empire Alliance, and they also had the strongest fleet.

The current commander-in-chief of the Anti-Ottoman Empire Alliance is Sun Xu of the Fourth Fleet and the Navy Colonel of the Kyushu Army. The deputy commander of the Navy is Admiral Pennington of the Royal British Navy and Capelo of the Navy in Venice.

Sun Xu's military rank is indeed a little lower, and he has not yet become a naval general. This is because the Jiuzhou Army is afraid that the rank will expand too much, so it has high requirements for military rank, especially the Navy Department. At present, the only commanders of the three earliest fleets of Nelson, Zheng Zhilong and Deng Qianlong were the commanders of the three earliest fleets. Even Sun Xu was originally strolled under Deng Qianlong, and Nelson taught the combat skills of the sail warship era in the Navy Lecture Hall.

Although his military rank seems low, his value is rising. 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 was Sun Chuanting of the Far West Expeditionary Army, the deputy commander of the Army was Corner of Venice, Ludovich of the Pope, Castella, the chief of the Knights of the Hospital, and an infantry major in Spain.

The Knights Hospital also specially formed a cavalry team of 100 people, intending to truly recreate their name in the medieval Knights.

The command of the Six-Nation Alliance on the Island of Malta is still at the Cathedral of St. John in the city of Valletta.

The Knights of the Hospital welcomed the arrival of the Italians. After enjoying a rich banquet, they put together several long tables to study the combat plan of the expedition to Egypt.

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

The deputy spread a map with the main rivers, mountains and cities of Egypt.

People from Venice, the Pope, and Sicily all showed confusion. They didn't know why the officers from the far east had maps of Egypt, and they also marked mountains, rivers, and cities with Chinese characters.

These people seem to be damn. Why does China, which is thousands of miles away, have more detailed Egypt maps than them?

"Our Army Department said that there should be no errors in these mountains and rivers, rivers may change lanes, and cities may also be prosperous and ruinous, but the location of Alexandria in Cairo should not change."
Chapter completed!