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Chapter 981 Start
Chapter 981 Start
Through this short sea voyage, Liang En popularized the stories about the Trojan War to Joan of Arc. At the beginning, only Joan of Arc was listening, but later on, almost all the off-duty people came to give lectures to him.
This is mainly because he found that other people began to listen to the things he explained and adjusted the content of the explanations, and began to connect the stories about Troy in an easy-to-understand way.
Because everyone's goal this time is to dig out Troy, and Troy can be regarded as a well-known IP in the whole of Europe, and Liang En himself is quite good at giving speeches in this area, so everyone listened with great interest.
"Good job." After a speech, Nelson patted Liang En on the shoulder and said, "A perfect science popularization, but also inspired everyone's motivation."
"I just want to wish everyone a clear goal for the next step." Liang En smiled and said, "But anyway, the current situation is very good, isn't it?"
After two days of sailing, the ship arrived at the Dardanelles. The weather is beautiful, the sky is blue and white clouds, many seagulls are flying up and down on the coast, dancing and singing happily. The deep blue water is like gemstones. A little fishy.
The Dardanelles, also known as the Hellespont in ancient times, is the gateway connecting the Aegean Sea and the Sea of Marmara in the northwest of Turkey, the dividing line between the two continents of Asia and Europe, and the only channel connecting the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea.
The shape of the strait is long and narrow, about 61 kilometers long, and the narrowest point is only 1.2 kilometers.The east side is the Asian continent, and the west side is the Gallipoli Peninsula.
Because the strait enters the gateway to Istanbul and the Black Sea through the Mediterranean Sea, it has been a strategic location in Turkey since ancient times, second only to the Bosporus Strait. important economic and international political significance.
During the First World War, in order to support the Eastern Front and defeat the Ottoman Turkey, the Allies launched the Gallipoli campaign aimed at capturing the strait.
This was a losing-lose war. Almost 50 Allied soldiers were transported to Gallipoli, with more than 50.00% casualties, among which 0.6% of Australia’s population was killed or injured at one time.
At least 50 Turkish troops participated in the war. According to official records, 25 people suffered casualties, but in reality there will only be more. More importantly, they lost the most elite troops and completely lost the initiative.
The reason for the bloody battle between the two sides is because the geographical location of this place is really important, no matter what era it is, and it is precisely because of this that there are a large number of ancient ruins on both sides of the strait.
Liang En's goal was near the southern entrance of the strait. After entering the strait, the ship soon stopped at a pier in the Asian part of the east coast of the strait, and then unloaded various equipment.
Because everyone had completed the liaison work before, everyone drove directly to their destination, and soon the vehicles came all the way east to this ruins.
Yes, this place is a relic, a small Roman city that archaeologists believe was disposed of here around AD 400.
It's just because this area belongs to the core of the ancient Eastern Roman Empire, so the Turks didn't pay much attention to the remains of such a small ancient Roman city.
So even though this was indeed an ancient ruin, after Golden Dawn made a move, they quickly obtained permission to continue exploring.
So after arriving at this place and completing the handover with the local Turkish archaeologists, everyone quickly set up camp and started the excavation work directly.
"Where should we start digging?" Just as the digging was about to start, Nelson, who was in charge of the specific work, walked up to Liang En and asked.
"Let's start with this hill." Liang En said, looking at the small mound with the remains of ancient Roman buildings on it. "I think if there is a city in this place, then they will put the most important buildings on the hill."
The condescending advantage has been the same from ancient times to today, and highlands do have various advantages, so for a long time, everyone will choose the most important buildings on the top of the mountain.
After confirming the excavation site, everyone began to dig the excavation squares, but because Liang En reminded them in advance, although the area of these excavation squares was small and separated, each of them was dug as deep as possible.
It is also because of this reason that the efficiency of the entire excavation work is not fast. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Liang En and Joan of Arc came to the highest point of the mountain, and then observed the surrounding situation.
This kind of observation was originally out of safety considerations. After all, the Thule Association is further west and northerly. No one knows what strategy Liang En and the others will adopt when digging here.
However, because the main work in this area was done by the security guards of the White Knights, after encouraging everyone, Liang En and the others quickly observed the surrounding situation from the perspective of the Troy era.
I have to say that the location of Troy is indeed very good. There are several beaches on the Aegean Sea between Cape West Jim and Troy Port, which is more than ten kilometers north of Basker Bay today, but they are all located on cliffs. Down.
This terrain is equivalent to the Normandy landing is the terrain of Omaha Beach, where the defenders can easily fend off possible invaders.
Of course, the Port of Troy here was only formed in Liang En's mind after observing the terrain, because the silt deposited by the two surrounding rivers has completely blocked the bay where the port is located, but it is only possible to see it from a high place. The location of the ancient coastline.navy.
"I'm curious about one thing." Joan of Arc, as the top commander in the cold weapon era, quickly discovered something strange after comparing Homer's epic with the terrain in front of her. "Why didn't the group of Trojans launch an attack at sea?"
"Of course I know that their navy is definitely not comparable to the Greek coalition forces, but considering the fact that there are a series of their allies on the surrounding coastline, they can definitely send the navy out to carry out large-scale harassment activities."
"Well - you are correct tactically, but the problem is that the Trojans don't have any navy." After hearing Joan's question, Liang En immediately answered this answer.
"Without a navy, how could it be possible? This city is obviously a seaside city, and its economy relies on maritime trade." I really couldn't believe it, because this answer was completely unreasonable.
"Because they have absolutely no motivation to build a navy." Liang En shrugged. "At least from the existing information, the greatest wealth of the Trojans comes from the sale of horses."
"It's just that only a small part of these horses are raised by them, and most of them come from the Near East or even Mesopotamia. Therefore, as a general exporter, they can wait for customers to come to their door, and there is no need to build a super navy."
In fact, the Trojans are not the only country in history that is located by the sea but does not have a strong navy. For example, Japan, as an island country, never established a navy before the late 19th century.
The same is true of the Hanseatic League in history. They mastered the trade of the entire Baltic Sea and possessed huge wealth, but they never had a standing army and navy, so that they were beaten by Sweden and Poland after the 15th century.
"That's why the Greeks can land so easily." Joan of Arc looked at the coastline with a telescope and said, "In the era when there were no gunpowder weapons, this kind of defensive beach could still be taken when the attacker was brave enough, but the loss It's going to be big."
"You're right, but it means another thing, that is, Troy has lost the initiative on the battlefield, and these have laid the groundwork for future failures. After all, if you stick to it for a long time, you will lose." Liang En concluded in the end. arrive.
(End of this chapter)
Through this short sea voyage, Liang En popularized the stories about the Trojan War to Joan of Arc. At the beginning, only Joan of Arc was listening, but later on, almost all the off-duty people came to give lectures to him.
This is mainly because he found that other people began to listen to the things he explained and adjusted the content of the explanations, and began to connect the stories about Troy in an easy-to-understand way.
Because everyone's goal this time is to dig out Troy, and Troy can be regarded as a well-known IP in the whole of Europe, and Liang En himself is quite good at giving speeches in this area, so everyone listened with great interest.
"Good job." After a speech, Nelson patted Liang En on the shoulder and said, "A perfect science popularization, but also inspired everyone's motivation."
"I just want to wish everyone a clear goal for the next step." Liang En smiled and said, "But anyway, the current situation is very good, isn't it?"
After two days of sailing, the ship arrived at the Dardanelles. The weather is beautiful, the sky is blue and white clouds, many seagulls are flying up and down on the coast, dancing and singing happily. The deep blue water is like gemstones. A little fishy.
The Dardanelles, also known as the Hellespont in ancient times, is the gateway connecting the Aegean Sea and the Sea of Marmara in the northwest of Turkey, the dividing line between the two continents of Asia and Europe, and the only channel connecting the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea.
The shape of the strait is long and narrow, about 61 kilometers long, and the narrowest point is only 1.2 kilometers.The east side is the Asian continent, and the west side is the Gallipoli Peninsula.
Because the strait enters the gateway to Istanbul and the Black Sea through the Mediterranean Sea, it has been a strategic location in Turkey since ancient times, second only to the Bosporus Strait. important economic and international political significance.
During the First World War, in order to support the Eastern Front and defeat the Ottoman Turkey, the Allies launched the Gallipoli campaign aimed at capturing the strait.
This was a losing-lose war. Almost 50 Allied soldiers were transported to Gallipoli, with more than 50.00% casualties, among which 0.6% of Australia’s population was killed or injured at one time.
At least 50 Turkish troops participated in the war. According to official records, 25 people suffered casualties, but in reality there will only be more. More importantly, they lost the most elite troops and completely lost the initiative.
The reason for the bloody battle between the two sides is because the geographical location of this place is really important, no matter what era it is, and it is precisely because of this that there are a large number of ancient ruins on both sides of the strait.
Liang En's goal was near the southern entrance of the strait. After entering the strait, the ship soon stopped at a pier in the Asian part of the east coast of the strait, and then unloaded various equipment.
Because everyone had completed the liaison work before, everyone drove directly to their destination, and soon the vehicles came all the way east to this ruins.
Yes, this place is a relic, a small Roman city that archaeologists believe was disposed of here around AD 400.
It's just because this area belongs to the core of the ancient Eastern Roman Empire, so the Turks didn't pay much attention to the remains of such a small ancient Roman city.
So even though this was indeed an ancient ruin, after Golden Dawn made a move, they quickly obtained permission to continue exploring.
So after arriving at this place and completing the handover with the local Turkish archaeologists, everyone quickly set up camp and started the excavation work directly.
"Where should we start digging?" Just as the digging was about to start, Nelson, who was in charge of the specific work, walked up to Liang En and asked.
"Let's start with this hill." Liang En said, looking at the small mound with the remains of ancient Roman buildings on it. "I think if there is a city in this place, then they will put the most important buildings on the hill."
The condescending advantage has been the same from ancient times to today, and highlands do have various advantages, so for a long time, everyone will choose the most important buildings on the top of the mountain.
After confirming the excavation site, everyone began to dig the excavation squares, but because Liang En reminded them in advance, although the area of these excavation squares was small and separated, each of them was dug as deep as possible.
It is also because of this reason that the efficiency of the entire excavation work is not fast. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Liang En and Joan of Arc came to the highest point of the mountain, and then observed the surrounding situation.
This kind of observation was originally out of safety considerations. After all, the Thule Association is further west and northerly. No one knows what strategy Liang En and the others will adopt when digging here.
However, because the main work in this area was done by the security guards of the White Knights, after encouraging everyone, Liang En and the others quickly observed the surrounding situation from the perspective of the Troy era.
I have to say that the location of Troy is indeed very good. There are several beaches on the Aegean Sea between Cape West Jim and Troy Port, which is more than ten kilometers north of Basker Bay today, but they are all located on cliffs. Down.
This terrain is equivalent to the Normandy landing is the terrain of Omaha Beach, where the defenders can easily fend off possible invaders.
Of course, the Port of Troy here was only formed in Liang En's mind after observing the terrain, because the silt deposited by the two surrounding rivers has completely blocked the bay where the port is located, but it is only possible to see it from a high place. The location of the ancient coastline.navy.
"I'm curious about one thing." Joan of Arc, as the top commander in the cold weapon era, quickly discovered something strange after comparing Homer's epic with the terrain in front of her. "Why didn't the group of Trojans launch an attack at sea?"
"Of course I know that their navy is definitely not comparable to the Greek coalition forces, but considering the fact that there are a series of their allies on the surrounding coastline, they can definitely send the navy out to carry out large-scale harassment activities."
"Well - you are correct tactically, but the problem is that the Trojans don't have any navy." After hearing Joan's question, Liang En immediately answered this answer.
"Without a navy, how could it be possible? This city is obviously a seaside city, and its economy relies on maritime trade." I really couldn't believe it, because this answer was completely unreasonable.
"Because they have absolutely no motivation to build a navy." Liang En shrugged. "At least from the existing information, the greatest wealth of the Trojans comes from the sale of horses."
"It's just that only a small part of these horses are raised by them, and most of them come from the Near East or even Mesopotamia. Therefore, as a general exporter, they can wait for customers to come to their door, and there is no need to build a super navy."
In fact, the Trojans are not the only country in history that is located by the sea but does not have a strong navy. For example, Japan, as an island country, never established a navy before the late 19th century.
The same is true of the Hanseatic League in history. They mastered the trade of the entire Baltic Sea and possessed huge wealth, but they never had a standing army and navy, so that they were beaten by Sweden and Poland after the 15th century.
"That's why the Greeks can land so easily." Joan of Arc looked at the coastline with a telescope and said, "In the era when there were no gunpowder weapons, this kind of defensive beach could still be taken when the attacker was brave enough, but the loss It's going to be big."
"You're right, but it means another thing, that is, Troy has lost the initiative on the battlefield, and these have laid the groundwork for future failures. After all, if you stick to it for a long time, you will lose." Liang En concluded in the end. arrive.
(End of this chapter)
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