While the Ming army captured Verona, the Ming navy also marched towards the city of Venice one after another.

More than 400,000 navy and tens of thousands of warships almost filled the entire Mediterranean Sea, while the water city of Venice was surrounded fiercely by the Ming fleets like wolves.

The news of Verona's loss also came back to the city of Venice, and the Papal Kingdom and the Kingdom of Sicily also realized the arrival of the crisis and sent naval forces to aid Venice in an attempt to restrain the Ming navy with the naval battle in Venice.

This allows them to withdraw from their hometowns to deal with the Ming army.

However, even if other Italian kingdoms began to aid Venice, the defense of the entire Venetian castle could not compete with the Ming navy.

At this time, the city of Venice had already been in chaos. The Ming Dynasty's iron-armored giant ship was like a huge monster in the sea, scaring the residents of Venice. People kept releasing the boat from the water gate in front of their house, loading with people and cargo.

But Venice was originally a water city, with waterways crisscrossing and complex crossing. In a panic, countless ships were crowded inside and outside the city, and even some ships could not drive.

Logistics ammunition could not be transported, and the transmission channels with orders were interrupted. In short, the entire Venice municipality had been paralyzed.

But in fact, the Ming Navy has not fired a single shot yet.

As dusk gradually approached, the entire Venice City was more congested and chaotic than before, and the Ming Navy had basically completed the array configuration. The Ocean Fleet and the North Sea Fleet were in a wedge-shaped offensive to attack the navy around Venice City.

The South China Sea Fleet and the East China Sea Fleet were directly dispersed like a long snake formation, facing the city of Venice on the side, and all the muzzles were opened, and thousands of shells exploded in Venice like blooming fireworks.

Countless ships were blown into debris, and except for the towering lighthouses standing on the coast, every building in the entire city of Venice was bombarded.

The collapsed bricks and stones were lost in the Venetian river, accompanied by the screams of the Venetians. The ships of all sizes and big attempts to escape were even more chaotic at this time, and they collided with each other. Some simply took action and killed the blocking ones.

In the face of survival, all the Venetians have become crazy. None of them, who advocate self-salvation, stand up and call on everyone to form a collective to coordinate the current situation.

Everyone was rushing to escape, and no one was willing to give the opportunity to others. The weak and weak children and women could only hide back into the castle.

The Venetian navy and other countries came to rescue the navy could not stop the attack of the Ming Navy. The clumsy soft sailboat broke into broken wood like an egg hitting a stone under the impact of the steam iron armored ship.

Some soft sailboats even fled here in the chaos.

The Ming Dynasty's fleet continued to approach step by step, and all the Venetian civilian ships blocking the front were directly knocked away by ironclad ships, and the bridges blocking the road were bombarded into gravel by one shot.

By the early morning of the next morning, when the rising sun rose, the entire city of Venice had become a ruin. Except for the lighthouse, other buildings filled the river.

The navies of other Italian kingdoms have evacuated the battlefield, while the navy of the Republic of Venice has been defeated and fled.

The Ming Marine Corps began to land at this time. The huge city of Venice had long lost its former anger. Because of the collapse of a large number of buildings, a landslide lake appeared in the city, and countless corpses floated on the landslide lake, and many people survived by the shelling.

The Marine Corps picked up these people one by one, handcuffed them into iron chains, and gathered them together to prepare to transport them back to the Navy field hospital on the ship for specialized surgery.

The white men who had almost no trace of things were marching like this tremblingly under the guns of the Ming Marine Corps. They might have never thought that one moment would an Eastern Empire would give them such a heavy blow, just as the Chinese in history would have thought that the Western barbarians would have given them such a severe blow.

The powerful Republic of Venice, which is in full swing throughout the Mediterranean, officially declared its demise.

The Ming navy and army marched directly from north to south, and the Ming army marched towards the city of Trento in the Pope, while the navy was divided into four routes to attack its coastal cities, Ravenna, Hemini, Pesaro and Ancona.

At this time, the entire Pope was already in panic, and his Pope Alexander VII was already restless. He really didn't expect that this empire from the East was so terrifying. He hurriedly sent letters of help to Franji, France and other countries, hoping that with his noble religious identity as the Pope, he could gather more troops to resist the fierce Ming army.

However, Florence and France did not respond to the pope's call at this time.

These European powers knew earlier than the Italian kingdoms that the Ming Dynasty might sweep the entire European powers. Therefore, several months ago, these European powers had already begun to gather back their troops and strengthen the construction of defense lines. They had no time to take care of the attacks of Italian countries by the Ming Dynasty.

As a result, the entire Papal State received only the assistance of the various vassal states in Italy, attacking about 100,000 troops.

Although this is the strength of the entire Italian army, it is still vulnerable to the Ming army of more than 800,000. In less than three days, the city of Tranto was declared lost.

However, because of the large number of the Ming army and the long supply line, the speed of traveling was not fast, especially after occupying Vaneguiya, Hungary and Venice, the Ming Dynasty had to free up energy to digest the newly occupied areas.

Therefore, although the Pope and the remaining Italian vassal states did not wait for the assistance of the European powers such as Franchise, they had some buffering time to consolidate defense.

For example, in the city of Milan at this time, countless slave workers were whipping the rulers day and night, digging large moats and setting traps everywhere.

The tragic Papal state never thought that it would face war, nor did it think that one day it would pay attention to city defense.

But the artillery of the Eastern Empire of the Ming Dynasty was very sharp, which forced them to do so. For this reason, Pope Alexander VII himself also spent countless money to support local governments to strengthen defense and immediately recruited troops. The fourteen-year-old doll was summoned into the army.

For several coastal towns that were being attacked by the Ming Navy, the Pope simply gave up and retracted its troops to focus on defending Milan, Florence and Rome.89
Chapter completed!