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During this short sea voyage, Liang En popularized stories about the Trojan War to Joan of Arc. At first, only Joan of Arc listened, but eventually almost everyone who was not on duty came to teach him.
This was mainly because he found that other people started to listen to what he was explaining, so he adjusted the content of his explanation and began to connect the stories about Troy in an easy-to-understand way.
Because everyone’s goal this time is to discover Troy, and Troy is considered a well-known IP throughout Europe. In addition, Liang En himself is good at giving speeches in this area, so everyone listened with interest.
"Well done." After a speech, Nelson patted Liang En on the shoulder and said, "A perfect science popularization, and it also inspired everyone's motivation."
"I just want to wish everyone a clear next goal." Liang En said with a smile, "But anyway, the current situation is very good, isn't it?"
After two days of sailing, the ship arrived at the Dardanelles Strait. The sky was beautiful, the sky was blue and white clouds, and many seagulls were flying up and down on the coast, dancing and screaming happily. The deep blue water was like gems, without any A little fishy smell.
The Dardanelles Strait, also known as the Hellespont in ancient times, was the key point connecting the Aegean Sea and the Sea of Marmara in northwest Turkey. It was also the dividing line between the two continents of Asia and Europe, and was the only waterway connecting the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea.
The strait is long and narrow, about 61 kilometers long, and the narrowest point is only 1.2 kilometers. To the east is the Asian continent and to the west is the Gallipoli Peninsula.
Because the strait enters Istanbul and the Black Sea through the Mediterranean Sea, it has been Turkey's strategic location second only to the Bosporus since ancient times. Together with the Sea of Marmara and the Bosporus, it is also known as the Turkish Strait, and it still has important economic and international political significance.
During World War I, in order to support the Eastern Front and defeat the Ottoman Turks, the Allies launched the Gallipoli Campaign aimed at seizing this strait.
This was a lose-lose war. Almost half a million Allied soldiers were transported to Gallipoli. The number of casualties was more than 50%. Among them, Australia killed and injured 0.6% of the country's population at one time.
There were at least 500,000 Turkish soldiers participating in the war. According to official records, 251,000 people suffered casualties, but in reality there were only more. More importantly, they lost their most elite troops and completely lost the initiative.
The reason why the two sides fought a bloody battle was because the geographical location of this place was so important, no matter what era it was. It was precisely because of this that there were a large number of ancient ruins on both sides of the strait.
Liang En and the others' target was near the southern entrance of the strait. After the ship sailed into the strait, it quickly 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 contact work before, everyone drove directly to their destination, and soon the vehicle headed east to the ruins.
Yes, this place is a ruins, an ancient Roman city that archaeologists believe was settled here around 400 AD.
It's just that because this area belongs to the core of the ancient Eastern Roman Empire, the Turks do not attach great importance to small-scale ancient Roman city ruins like this.
So even though this was indeed an ancient ruins, after the Golden Dawn took action, they quickly obtained permission to continue exploration.
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 is the best place for us to start digging?" Just when the excavation was about to begin, Nelson, who was in charge of the specific work, walked up to Liang En and asked.
"Let's start from this hill." Liang En said while looking at the small mound with remains of ancient Roman architecture. "I feel like if there was a city in this place, they would put their most important buildings on the hill."
The advantages of being at a high altitude have been the same from ancient times to today, and highlands do have various advantages, so for a long time everyone has chosen the most important buildings on the top of the mountain.
After confirming the excavation site, everyone began to dig the exploratory excavations. However, because Liang En reminded them in advance, although these excavation excavations were small in area and widely spaced, each one was dug as deep as possible.
Because of this reason, the efficiency of the entire excavation work was not very fast. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Liang En and Jeanne went to the highest point of the mountain and observed the surrounding situation.
This observation was initially based on safety concerns. After all, the Thule Association was further west and further north. No one knew what strategy Liang En and the others would adopt when they excavated here.
However, because the main work in this area was done by the White Knight security people, after encouraging everyone, Liang En and the others quickly observed the surrounding situation from the perspective of the Trojan era.
I have to say that the location of Troy is indeed very good. There are several beaches on the Aegean coast between Cape Sigi and Troy Port, which is more than ten kilometers north of today's Beske Bay, but they are all located on cliffs. Down.
This terrain is equivalent to the terrain of Omaha Beach during the Normandy landings, where defenders can easily fend off possible invaders.
Of course, the Troy Port here was only formed in Liang En's mind after observing the terrain, because the sediment accumulated by the two surrounding rivers has completely blocked the bay where the port is located, but it can only be seen from a high place. The location of the ancient coastline. navy.
"I'm curious about something." As the top commander in the cold weapon era, Joan of Arc quickly discovered something strange after comparing Homer's epic poem with the terrain in front of her. "Why didn't those Trojans attack at sea?"
"Of course I know that their navy is definitely not as good as that of the Greek coalition, but considering the fact that there are a series of their allies on the surrounding coastline, they can definitely send their navy out to carry out large-scale harassment activities."
"Well - you are right tactically, but the problem is that the Trojans do not have any naval presence." After hearing Joan of Arc's question, Liang En immediately answered this answer.
"How is it possible without a navy? This is obviously a seaside city, and its economy relies on maritime trade." I really can't believe it, because this answer is completely unreasonable.
"Because they have absolutely no motivation to build a navy." Liang En shrugged, "At least judging from the available information, the Trojans' greatest wealth comes from selling 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 and even the Mesopotamia. So as a general exporter, they can wait for customers to come to their door. There is no need to build a navy."
In fact, the Trojans were not the only country in history that was located on the seaside but did not have a strong navy. For example, Japan, as an island nation, had never established a navy before the late 19th century.
The same was true for the historical Hanseatic League. They controlled the entire Baltic trade and had huge wealth, but they never had a standing army and navy, so they were beaten by Sweden and Poland after the 15th century.
"That's why the Greeks were able to land so easily." Joan of Arc looked at the coastline with a telescope and said, "In the era without gunpowder weapons, such a defensive beach could still be taken if the attacker was brave enough, but the loss would be It’s going to be big.”
"You are right, but it means another thing, that is, Troy has lost the initiative on the battlefield, and this has paved the way for future failures. After all, if you defend it for a long time, you will lose." Liang En concluded in the end arrive.