"Do you think it is necessary to help the Knights of the Hospital and the Venetians defeat the Ottoman offensive?"

Facing the Hospital Knights' Hospital Order's case against him as the leader of the Anti-Ottoman Alliance, Chu Yun summoned the Fourth Fleet, the Imperial Guard Brigade, and the Far West Send Officers to discuss the matter.

This group of officers who are temporarily in the West can be said to be the generals of Xingyun, Sun Chuanting, Cao Bianjiao, Zheng Zhibao, Sun Xu, Ruan Youjin, Ruan Youyi, etc. Chu Yun has a large number of officers to use.

"The Knights of the Hospital are the military port of Malta that our Admiralty wants. If we can take advantage of this opportunity to deal with the Ottoman Empire and give our fleet a chance to stay on Malta for a long time, we can regard Malta as our stronghold in the Mediterranean."

The officers of the Fourth Fleet were supported. The Island of Malta was one of the three important ports where the Admiralty intends to establish a military base in the West. Controlling this place was equivalent to threatening all kingdoms along the Mediterranean coast.

"If we help Venetian merchants who control Egypt, we can gain the privilege of opening canals in Egypt, shorten our journey from East to West, and then use Malta as a transit station to reach Western Europe, and build an unprecedented route." Sun Xu said.

Chu Yun nodded slightly.

This is indeed a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. The Venetians could help run Egypt, and they were a group of smart guys who, with their help, could shorten the voyage of thousands of kilometers.

The Knights of the Malta Island Knights Army's Admiralty Department has been coveting it for a long time and wishing to annex it as soon as possible.

The Ottoman Empire's hatred and threats for them gave Chu Yun and others a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

If you can lead the Knights of the Hospital and the Venetians to victory, you can get what they want from the Knights of the Hospital and the Venetian merchants - opening up the Suez Canal, the port of the Island of Malta.

"This is still an opportunity to help our merchants enter the Mediterranean, or even open the doors of the whole European kingdom." Sun Chuanting proposed another motivation, "The military leader wants to trade with ten kingdoms at one time, and the whole Europe is waiting and watching. One of the ten kingdoms is the Republic of Venice. If we help the Venetians defeat the offensive of the Ottoman Empire, we can not only gain the power to open canals in Egypt, but also establish diplomatic relations and trade with them to open up the situation. We have the Venetian merchants owe such a big favor, they can't be without any expression, right?"

"We can also shock the other nine kingdoms through this battle, so that they have to reconsider establishing diplomatic relations and commerce with us after this battle." Zheng Zhibao said.

Whether this group of officers wanted to gain military merits for strategy or individuals, they encouraged Chu Yun to participate in the Anti-Ottoman Alliance and serve as the savior of the Mediterranean world.

Chu Yun was also quite moved by this opportunity from the Mediterranean. He believed that it was not difficult to help the Knights and the Venetians win the hospital with his army.

What he needs to consider is no longer the outcome, but the pros and cons and gains and losses. There is a big difference between the long war of attrition and the quick battle and the quick decision.

Chu Yun could not stay in the West for too long, nor did he have the energy to fight the Ottoman Empire for several years. He had to ensure that the war could end as soon as possible.

"If we set up an anti-Ottoman alliance and want to intimidate European countries in turn, it is not enough to just help the Venetians and the Knights of the Hospital defend Crete and Malta. It is best to do something big to make them feel fear - such as capturing the Ottoman imperial capital Constantinople. There are a lot of wealth collected by the Ottoman emperors from all over the place, plundering such cities, and even making up for our military expenditures." Chu Yun put forward an unprecedented idea.

"Maybe we can cross the Strait of Dardanelles and the Arrivals of Constantinople."

After the officers came to the West, they would usually think about the situation in the West. They also knew that Constantinople was a fortress located between the East and the West, which was easy to defend but difficult to attack, and was also the capital of the Ottoman Empire.

Europeans regarded Constantinople occupied by the Turks as a terrible existence, but in the eyes of the officers of the Kyushu Army, that is, the turrets in the Strait of Dardanelles were protected, and the Fourth Fleet lacked land forces, so they did not dare to loot Constantinople in the First Mediterranean War.

Now Chu Yun brought the Imperial Guards Brigade, the Zhili Fleet, and even mobilized the Royal Navy and Army of England. It seems that it is not impossible to rob Constantinople.

"According to the Knights, it took half a year to a year to complete the assembly of troops, not including the time for the bulky army to sail on the sea. It will be the next June to arrive at Crete, controlled by the Venetians. We only need to arrive at Malta before April and May." Chu Yun obviously had already agreed to form the second anti-Ottoman alliance.

"We can ask for reinforcements from England, and then go to Malta Island. With a shout, there are still many kingdoms in the Mediterranean that have conflicts with the Ottoman Empire willing to join us, such as the Pope and the Kingdom of Sicily. When we were expeditioning to Egypt, the Pope and the Kingdom of Sicily sent people to help us." Sun Chuanting suggested.

The Knights of the Hospital, Venice, the Pope, the Kingdom of Sicily, England, and China, this is the Allied Forces of the Six Nations. Chu Yun was a little unlucky when he thought about the Ottoman Empire.

"Be well prepared this winter, I will borrow a few infantry regiments and some warships from England to enter the Mediterranean, and it is best to capture Constantinople and make the Ottoman Empire surrender to us, and we can also shock the European countries at the same time and open up the markets of Europe and West Asia in one fell swoop."

Chu Yun directly thought that England was a servant country and did not think it would be difficult to borrow troops here.

The Royal Navy received a lot of trophy in the First Mediterranean War, and they should be very eager to loot the Mediterranean again.

"Borrowing troops? No problem, but the main naval officers of our Royal Fleet all attacked the Spanish colonies in the West Indies. They are either still in the Caribbean Sea or are already back." Sophia replied after Chu Yun came to find her to borrow troops.

"...At this time, are you planning to go to war with the Spaniards?" Chu Yun didn't know that Sophia ordered a fleet of the English Navy to go to the Caribbean to fight quietly.

"Don't worry, the Spanish are fighting against France, and even if they know that the West Indies' colonies are lost, they will be helpless." Sophia looked afraid that the world would be in chaos.
Chapter completed!