A large sailing ship from the Mediterranean Sea appeared in Portsmouth, which hangs the octagonal cross flag that is rare in the Atlantic Ocean.

"That's... the ships of the Knights of Malta? Haven't they always been active in the Mediterranean?" The navy soldiers at the Portsmouth Harbor noticed the sailing ship entering the port.

The sailboat was docked, and dozens of knights wearing red coats with white octagonal crosses came down from the deck.

"Grand Commander, we finally found the British Navy's headquarters. Now our hospital Knights may be able to escape the disaster."

"We need their help to find the people who fought side by side with us."

The knights of dozens of hospitals contacted the Royal Navy officers in the harbor at the first time and asked to meet Sun Xu, the commander of the Ottoman fleet in the Mediterranean.

The officers of the Fourth Fleet were somewhat surprised to hear that the Knights in the Mediterranean Island of Malta were looking for their commander.

A few years ago, they did fight side by side with the Royal Fleet and the Knights of the Island of Malta in the Mediterranean and defeat the Imperial Fleet of the Ottoman Turkish Empire. However, in recent years, Chinese merchants have never entered the dangerous Mediterranean market. They are only active along the Atlantic coast and have not seen the Fourth Fleet in the Mediterranean for several years.

"Our commanders are now in London City. If you need to see them, you can go there, which should not take much time." The officer of the Fourth Fleet said to them.

Because of Chu Yun's arrival, almost all the officers of the Fourth Fleet moved to London City.

"City of London? Speaking of which, we have not been to London, so why not go there by carriage." Dozens of knights from the Knights Hospital insisted on going to London to find senior officers of the Fourth Fleet. They did not know that the boss behind these senior officers had arrived here.

"Hannah has been away from our island of Malta for several years, and I don't know if she is still alive," said a middle-aged knight.

The group of knights left a group of people at the port, and the leader led several knights to the most populous city in Europe in two carriages.

There were temporary barracks on the outskirts of London City, and these knights from the Mediterranean saw many black-haired and yellow-skinned soldiers patrolling outside the camp.

"They seem to be soldiers from the East China. Why are there so many soldiers stationed outside London?" The knights on the carriage were puzzled.

They even suspected that they had come to the wrong place. Isn’t this an English city? How could so many soldiers from the East appear?

The doubtful knights came to London City and found the officers of the Fourth Fleet who were now in London City.

"You are the leader of the Knights of the Malta Hospital. We have also cooperated in the Mediterranean." Sun Xu met the visitors, one of whom was Castella, the leader of the Knights of the Hospital.

This man once led shallow water cannon ships to help when the Fourth Fleet attacked Algiers, providing assistance to conquer Algiers, where the Barbary pirates were stationed.

Sun Xu, Ruan Youjin, Ruan Youyi and others were familiar with him. When they saw the people from the Knights of the Hospital again, they couldn't help but feel nostalgic. They invited them to the teahouse to reminisce about the past and talked about the battle with the Barbary Pirates and the Ottoman Empire fleet.

"I didn't expect that in the blink of an eye, a few years passed. I still remember defeating the Ottoman fleet in the Tunisian Strait and looting Algiers, Cairo and other places. But you may not know what happened later." The commander of the great regiment Castella put down the teacup and said with a sigh.

"How did things happen later?" The officers of the Fourth Fleet really didn't know what happened after they washed the Mediterranean.

At that time, they plundered wealth worth millions of taels of silver from pirates and Egypt, and patted their hands and left. Anyway, the Ottoman Empire did not have the strength to leave the Mediterranean area, so the Fourth Fleet ignored the follow-up of the Ottoman Empire.

At this time, when they heard Castella, who was still in the Mediterranean, mention the follow-up of the Mediterranean War, they couldn't help but become interested.

"Great Vizier, who commanded the imperial fleet in the Tunisian Strait, was executed by the imperial emperor to calm the resentment of the Turkish nobles after the defeat. Now Egypt is divided into two parts, Cairo and Alexandria are controlled by Venetian merchants, who used a lot of money to win over a group of Egypt's Mamluk nobles and consolidated their control in Egypt. There are also some Mamluk nobles who are still loyal to the Ottoman Empire and join forces with Egypt's Pasha to try to retake Cairo." Castella said.

"The Venetian merchants really took advantage of the contradictions between the Mamluk nobles to fight the powerful Ottoman Empire."

When the officers of the Fourth Fleet proposed to divide Egypt, they guessed that the other party was using the local Egyptian nobles. Otherwise, Venice had a population of only a few hundred thousand people and could not confront the Ottoman Empire, which had a population of 30 million.

"The Ottoman Emperor was furious, but he was still fighting with the Persian Emperor at that time, sending 100,000 troops to surround Baghdad, the Persian Empire, and had no energy to retaliate. Persia was originally bullied by the Ottoman Empire, but later the captain of the English brought Western firearm technology to help the Persian Emperor Abbas to establish a powerful musket and artillery force that could compete with the Ottoman Empire. Unfortunately, his successor was incompetent after the Abbas Great and was no match for the Ottoman Emperor."

"Now the Ottoman Emperor defeated the Persians, turned his head and focused on dealing with several forces that had attacked Egypt, intending to retaliate against our previous actions. The entire Mediterranean Sea was within the range of the Ottoman army. The Venetian spies heard the orders for the preparations for the Ottoman Emperor to reach various provinces in Constantinople. The Ottoman Emperor intends to advance westward next year to attack the Venetian Crete and our Malta Island. Our number of people and ships is insufficient, and it needs an external force to help us defeat the Ottoman Emperor."

"In the past, Spain and the Pope helped us block the Ottoman offensive, but now Spain has lost the battle with France and is unable to support us. So I have come here thousands of miles away, hoping to get your assistance. We believe that with your ability, we can defeat the Ottoman offensive." Castella explained that their purpose was to come to England to find aid.
Chapter completed!