Chapter 257: The Great Mongolian Navy! Aims to be number one in the world!
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The more Wang Baobao thought about it, the more he realized that he could not easily entrust security issues to unfamiliar hands.
He decided to see for himself how effective Paul Gale's Roman navy was.
Two days later.
Wang Baobao led his personal guards from Salai City to Wuyun City next to the Black Sea.
Wuyun City is a name given by a Mongolian based on the original meaning in the language of the local Kipchak people.
Because the water of the Black Sea is very dark, just like dark clouds in the sky, floating back and forth on the beach.
Therefore, after the Golden Horde established a port here, they named it Wuyun City.
The Roman navy led by Paul Gale is currently parked in the port of Dark Cloud City.
Wang Baobao spent 500,000 Roman silver coins to buy this fleet.
From top to bottom, this navy was full of curiosity about the Mongols who were about to go to Constantinople to replace John V as emperor.
The Roman navy is now loyal to the Mongols, all for the sake of money.
To be honest, although these Roman soldiers despised Emperor John V, relatively speaking, they disliked these Mongols who came from the far east even more.
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After all, ordinary Roman soldiers considered more about their own safety, and religious matters came after safety issues.
The Mongols massacred more than 100,000 people in Poland not long ago.
Regardless, this is a very scary number.
The Romans were afraid that the Mongols would be unhappy and killed them all.
After all, in the understanding of the Christian world, the Romans were civilized people and the Mongols were barbarians.
Woohoo!
Woohoo!
As a loud horn sound sounded, a well-equipped cavalry appeared outside Wuyun City.
The local Mongolian garrison general immediately sent someone to inform Paul Gale and asked him to meet the Grand Master of the Mongolian Auxiliary Kingdom and the protector of the Russian Orthodox Church, His Highness Wang Baobao John Koko Timur.
Paul Gale didn't dare to neglect.
After all, John Tamerlane was not only his financial backer, but also the one to whom Alexius, the Patriarch of the Orthodox Church, personally requested his allegiance.
Paul Gale led several of his naval generals to the outside of Dark Cloud City to participate in welcoming the arrival of ‘John Timur’.
After seeing John Tamburlaine, Paul Gale couldn't help but be a little surprised.
Because the John Tamerlane in front of him is completely inconsistent with the image in the legend.
In the legend of the Eastern Romans, these Mongols who came from the east had an extremely arrogant leader, John Tamerlane.
They all said that John Tamerlane had a ferocious face and smelled like rotten flesh. When he opened his mouth, he would roar like a lion. He could eat ten pounds of raw meat every day and could tear a leopard apart with his hands!
Anyway, in the legends of the Eastern Roman people, Wang Baobao is more like a monster than a normal person.
But now that Paul Gale has seen Wang Baobao with his own eyes, he feels that this oriental man has a handsome face, is very young, and is full of aristocratic temperament that cannot be underestimated.
That's right, it's the aristocratic temperament of a superior person.
Paul Gale, along with other Mongol generals, paid a grand tribute to John Tamerlane.
After Wang Baobao saw Paul Gale, he was not polite to him, and directly asked to go to the port to inspect the training and operations of the Roman navy.
Paul Gale immediately took Wang Baobao and other Mongolian generals to Wuyun Port.
After entering the port, Wang Baobao finally saw the Roman navy that he had bought with half a million Eastern Roman silver coins.
There are a total of twenty ships, large and small.
Among them, ten are large ships that can carry five to six hundred people, and five are large merchant ships that can carry three to four hundred people. The remaining ones are small fast warships using a triangular sail.
In any case, Wang Baobao felt that this Roman navy was not really powerful.
He once saw the navy of the Yuan Dynasty or the Red Turban Army in the Central Plains.
The size of any naval force should not start with hundreds!
The navy of the Eastern Roman Empire was already one of the largest naval forces in the Mediterranean, but it only had a pitiful fleet of more than 20 warships.
The disappointment on Wang Baobao's face was completely undisguised.
Paul Gale looked at John Timur's expression from the side and felt slightly unconvinced.
He quickly said: "Your Highness, our navy used to have a lot of ships, but due to some reasons they did not participate in this voyage, so the number is smaller than before. Moreover, before the battle with the Renagentans,
At that time, our warships also suffered some losses! The original fleet size was more than fifty warships."
Wang Baobao had no reaction to Paul Gale's explanation.
To be honest, even a fully equipped Roman naval fleet was not considered powerful in Wang Baobao's eyes.
I guessed more than 50 ships when I was fully prepared. This is really laughable.
However, for Wang Baobao now, having such a fleet is better than not having one.
Subsequently, Wang Baobao ordered Paul Gale to lead his Roman navy to practice how to conduct operations at sea.
Paul Gale knew that John Tamerlane was very wealthy, and if he could perform well, he would definitely be able to get extra rewards from him.
At the same time, in order to save some face for himself, Paul Gale immediately went to direct the arrangements in person.
Amidst the sounds of trumpets and drums, the Roman navy's warships lined up in combat formation and began exercises on the sea in the port.
The main combat methods of the Roman navy were nothing more than two.
One is to use the sharp collision angle of the ship's head to hit the enemy's warships, thereby crushing the enemy's warships and making them lose their combat effectiveness.
Another method is to engage in gang-hopping combat. When closely aligned with the enemy warships, Roman naval soldiers would first fire crossbows at the enemy, and then soldiers holding short daggers would jump into the enemy warships to engage in hand-to-hand combat.
In addition to these two main methods of combat, the Roman navy also used Greek fire to burn enemy warships over long distances.
They will also use long-range weapons such as scorpion crossbows and ballistae to destroy the enemy's sails and hulls.
However, these ballistae weapons have limited power and often lack accuracy, making it difficult to achieve effective results.
After watching it for a long time, Wang Baobao's expression of disappointment became even more serious.
He now feels that this Roman navy is really weak!
If the lives of Dayuan soldiers were really entrusted to their hands, once they were intercepted by the Genoese navy, they would probably have no choice but to jump into the sea to feed the fish.
Wang Baobao calculated that according to the carrying capacity of the Roman navy, each voyage could only carry more than 10,000 people, far less than 20,000 people.
If he wanted to go to Constantinople to seize the throne of Rome, it would not be enough to bring only such a few people with him.
So after Wang Baobao watched the Roman navy's exercises, he had already made up his mind.
He decided to do two things first, and then go to Constantinople to compete for the throne of Roman emperor.
The first thing is to completely improve the Roman navy in front of you. Not only must you win their hearts under your control and make them completely obey your command, but you must also change their fighting methods so that their combat effectiveness can be greatly improved.
Improvement, thereby ensuring the navigation safety of the Mongolian warriors.
The second is to rapidly expand the number of "Great Mongolian Navy" to at least have the size of ships that can carry 40,000 people at a time!
Wang Baobao estimated that 40,000 people could completely control the internal and external defense and daily management order of a large city like Constantinople.
Otherwise, once the number of people is less than this number, there will be loopholes in many places in Constantinople.
Wang Baobao is very cautious in his work and does not tolerate any mistakes.
Moreover, in addition to these changes to his own strength, there is also the external environment that Wang Baobao also needs to seize the time to change.
This external environment naturally refers to the city of Kaffa on the Crimean Peninsula.
One of the important reasons why the Genoese can monopolize shipping routes on the Black Sea unscrupulously is because of the existence of the base port of Kaffa on the Crimean Peninsula.
The Genoese could repair ships, store food, and train sailors here.
Let them move forward and retreat freely on the Black Sea, and no one can snatch their sea power.
In order to expel the Genoese, Wang Baobao must conquer the city of Kaffa.
Wang Baobao is determined to win this Genoese naval base on the Black Sea!
Wang Baobao first gave an order to Paul Gale, asking him to gather all the Roman navy soldiers on the shore.
How to completely subdue these Roman naval soldiers, Wang Baobao had his own methods.
Wang Baobao directly ordered people to take out gold and silver treasures worth 300,000 Eastern Roman silver coins and distributed them to these Roman soldiers on the spot.
When the Roman navy soldiers saw how generous the Mongols were, the xenophobic sentiments they had in their hearts immediately disappeared.
They all cheered in unison after getting the gold and silver treasures, cheering for the generosity of the protector of the Orthodox Church in front of them, John Tamerlane, and at the same time praising John Tamerlane for his wise move in appreciating them.
Among these cheering Roman naval officers, Paul Gale cheered the hardest because Paul Gale received the most rewards.
He was the commander of the Roman fleet, and Wang Baobao directly rewarded him with ten pounds of gold in one lump sum!
In addition, there are ten tall Volga war horses.
These ten pounds of gold can be said to be a huge sum of money that Paul Gale has never earned in his life.
Paul Gale and the Roman soldiers were easily and completely captured by Wang Baobao's money offensive.
In this way, Wang Baobao no longer has the need to show his tough tactics.
In fact, even if the Mongols did not show their toughness, the Roman soldiers would not dare to resist at will.
One hundred thousand Polish souls have just gone to see God, all the work of the Mongols.
They don't want to become the corpses of the Mongols.
Wang Baobao was among the Roman navy soldiers receiving rewards, but he saw that the number seemed to be a little small.
Most of the Roman warships were galleys, but Wang Baobao did not see a single oarsman coming to receive the reward.
After asking Paul Gale, Wang Baobao learned that the slaves who rowed in the Roman Navy were not considered members of the Roman Navy at all.
The status of the slave oarsmen on the battleship was roughly equivalent to that of tools such as sails and ropes. They were just a group of talking animals. They were not considered human beings at all, let alone soldiers of the Roman navy.
After Wang Baobao heard this statement, he immediately shook his head.
He ordered Paul Gale to call all the slave oarsmen to the shore.
Paul Gale had no reason to refuse the order of his new master. Anyway, Wang Baobao would have full command of this fleet in the future. How to treat these slave rowers, Paul Gale was unwilling to conflict with Wang Baobao.
After a while, about two thousand slave rowers in ragged clothes and thin bodies were summoned to the port shore.
The life of these slaves on the ship was very miserable. After serving as slave rowers, most of them often only had a life span of three to five years, and then lost their lives in endless pain and torture.
Compared with their daily life, death was not that terrible. They ate bad moldy bread, drank smelly water, and had to do the heaviest paddling work on the battleship.
After arriving at the shore, these slaves all looked frightened.
They didn't know how the fierce Mongolian and Roman naval soldiers around them would treat them.
Many of them were already numb.
Even if they were killed immediately, they seemed to have no intention of resisting. Compared with the slave life on the ship, death was a kind of relief.
However, then the Mongols made a move that surprised them.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Wang Baobao ordered that ten Eastern Roman Empire silver coins be distributed to every slave rower.
Then he asked Roman naval commander Paul Gale to tell these slaves that from today on, they are official members of the Great Mongolian Navy. Everyone is no longer a slave, but a noble Mongolian navy warrior!
After serving for three years, each of them will receive a generous reward and a piece of land next to the Black Sea. From then on, their treatment on the ship is exactly the same as that of ordinary Roman soldiers, and they no longer need to eat moldy black bread and
Smelly dirty water.
As soon as this move was made, all the slaves cried bitterly, knelt on the ground, shouted to the gods in various languages, and praised Wang Baobao, this kind and generous new master!
What Wang Baobao lacks most now is money and land.
Much of the vast land left behind by the Golden Horde remains undeveloped.
What Wang Baobao lacks now is population.
Whether it is farmers and herdsmen farming and grazing, businessmen doing business and paying taxes, or soldiers killing enemies and fighting, Wang Baotongtong will accept everyone who comes.
These thousands of skilled paddling slaves must be allowed to play a greater role in the war!
How could a slave have the courage to fight to the end in a battle?
Only noble warriors will fight bravely for honor and rewards.
Wang Baobao's actions in Wuyun City immediately gave the Roman navy a new luster.
Later, after communicating with Paul Gale, Wang Baobao knew that if he wanted to expand the size of the Mongolian Navy, there were two main ways.
One is to build new battleships.
The other one is to rob the warships of other forces.
If a new warship is built, it will take more than a year at the earliest, otherwise it will never be completed.
According to the scale required by Wang Baobao, such a huge ship construction project will require an additional half a year just for the preliminary preparations. Without two years, the "Great Mongolian Navy" will definitely not meet the scale required by Wang Baobao.
Then the only way left is to rob other forces' warships.
The most suitable target is none other than the Genoese people.
