October 12, 1700, two o'clock in the morning.
The tempting aroma began to permeate the position of the Ottoman Empire's foodie army - maybe it was the last meal before meeting Allah, so of course it had to be something good. Just after one o'clock in the morning, dots of fire appeared behind the Ottoman army's position. It didn't take long for the pleasant aroma to be blown by the breeze to the open area between the two opposing armies.
As soon as the Austrian chasseurs, who were patrolling and vigilant in the middle area under the cover of night, smelled this smell, they knew that the Jenichery Army was about to launch an attack.
As for the main direction of the Yenicherry Army's attack, it is not difficult to determine - where there are the most cooking fires and the strongest aroma, it must be where foodies gather, so that's where the main attack direction will be.
At 2:30 in the morning, the cooking fire on the Jenichery Legion position gradually extinguished, the aroma of the food completely dissipated, and the smell of death began to fill the sky above the battlefield.
When the soldiers of the Yenicherry Corps finished their sumptuous breakfast and began to pray facing Mecca, the Catholics on the opposite side also began to have breakfast. Of course, it was not as rich as the Janissary Legion, but it was still accompanied by pork sausages, and each person was given three portions of bread, butter and pickles - this was their food for the whole day!
While receiving the food, a portion of the Austrian troops began to move from their bivouacs into forward defensive positions.
The position they needed to defend was a very simple defense system consisting of trenches, parapets, Spanish knights (horse guns), artillery fortifications, etc. Viewed from the front of the defense line, the Austrian army's position seemed to be a straight line of defense. As long as there was a breakthrough, the entire line would collapse.
But in fact, behind what seems to be a straight parapet, there are eight roughly circular defense systems, which are also composed of trenches, parapets, Spanish knights (rejection cavalry), artillery fortifications, etc. The main force of the eight infantry regiments and six artillery companies stationed on the front line are placed in these eight ring fortifications. Before the official battle began, only a small number of security troops were placed behind the parapets on the front line.
Behind these eight ring fortifications, there is an east-west dirt road that connects the eight ring fortifications together.
The combination of the first-line forward positions, ring fortifications and dirt roads is a complete defense system.
There is not only one such defense system on the Lakeside-Danube defense line, but there are two front and back lines.
In addition, the Austrian army also used several farms and a forest between the lakeside and the Danube River to cleverly construct eight support points to support the two main lines of defense.
At three o'clock in the morning, large numbers of Austrian troops began to leave the ring fortifications where they were stationed and entered forward defensive positions. It’s late autumn now, and the days are short and the nights are long here in Austria. At about three o'clock in the morning, the sky was still dark, with only the moon hanging in the sky shining a little light.
The Austrian infantry marched in company units, with only the company commander of each company and the platoon commander of the first platoon walking in front and behind the team holding a torch. Although most of the Austrian officers and soldiers participating in today's battle are newcomers to the battlefield, the morale of everyone is very high - they all know that they are defending the motherland, defending their homeland, and defending God!
They even know that they are fighting for the liberation and freedom of the Austrian motherland!
Knowing so much is of course the result of more than ten or twenty years of conscientiously running compulsory education... In fact, running compulsory education does not require strong economic strength, and it certainly did not start in Austria under the rule of Henry I. As early as 1524, Martin Luther, the man who carried out the Reformation, proposed that municipalities should establish schools for youth, teach young children, and force parents to send their children to school. Under his influence, in 1619, the Principality of Weimar took the lead in promulgating the "Weimar School Charter", which stipulated that children should learn doctrinal reading and writing. Because it was obviously "obligatory" and "compulsory", it was regarded as The beginning of compulsory education.
Followed closely by Duke Ernest of Gotha, in 1642, in his "School Guide", he also began to implement compulsory education, and the measures were quite strict, and parents would be fined if children skipped classes! Under his strict supervision, the educational level of the Principality of Goda has been greatly improved!
Austria, ruled by Henry I, was the third country in Europe and the sixth country in the world to implement compulsory education. Before Austria, the United States and Qing State in the New World, and the Western Chu Kingdom in Central Asia successively issued laws on compulsory education.
Look at the countries that have implemented compulsory education laws. Except for the United States, which is rich, other countries are not particularly rich. When Henry I promulgated the Austrian Educational Law, Vienna's banking industry had just begun to develop. In the era when compulsory education was implemented in Qingguo, it was still a miserable warrior country. As for the Western Chu Republic, it is not wealthy until now, and that particularly wealthy United States was the last of this group of countries to start implementing a compulsory education system.
The reason why there is such a situation shows that compulsory education has little to do with whether there is money, but has a lot to do with the country's governance and execution capabilities.
Therefore, the countries currently implementing compulsory education are all countries with relatively small populations. Moreover, in the United States, Qing State, and Western Chu State, compulsory education is only for nationalities.
As for the Ming Dynasty, which has a population of more than 200 million, although its annual income reached 167 million taels (not all in silver, including food), due to its large population and vast land, the differences between the world and the north are too great. It is impossible to implement compulsory education across the board. Therefore, we can only gradually implement it in one state and one state. Now less than one-tenth of the state capitals have begun to implement compulsory education, but the effect of implementation is far less than that of those small German principalities that can go back and forth in one day—— The Duke of Gotha established compulsory education after running 20 primary schools. The Duke himself can supervise and supervise. The Ming Dynasty must have at least hundreds of thousands of primary schools...
At this moment, at the attack position of the Yenicherry Legion, another group of equally educated warriors were also ready to go. These people are not just foodies, they are cultured foodies! Orhan, who founded the Yenicherry Army, obviously knew the importance of education. He not only let his Yenicherry apprentices learn killing skills, but also asked them to learn cultural knowledge (how can you become an elder if you are illiterate?), That's why they formed an elite army that has terrified European Christians for more than three hundred years.
However, with the continuous relaxation of recruitment standards (everyone wants to be a member) and the rise of hereditary military membership, the combat effectiveness of this high-quality elite soldier has been greatly reduced. The original system of recruiting Scouts from Christian families for rigorous training has From the beginning of Murad III, it became "everyone can join the army". By 1700, the Yenicheri Legion had become the Citizen Legion of Istanbul. Most of the members come from Istanbul's citizen families, and these citizens... are mostly descendants of officers and soldiers who retired from the Yenicherry Regiment in the early years.
In fact, the families of the soldiers of the Yenicherry Regiment already account for the majority of the population of Istanbul!
The Yenicherry Army has long had the power to depose and establish the Sultan, and is the true master of Istanbul and the Ottoman Empire.
So they all know who they are fighting for today!
In a small forest south of the lake, Mustafa Koprulu's former enemy headquarters has been set up. Throughout the second half of the night, he and several close officers stayed here, quietly waiting for the time to start the war.
Today's battle is related to the rise and fall of the Ottoman Empire, and it is also related to the survival of the Koprulu family!
The sound of rapid footsteps came over, and then the voice of Mustafa Kara: "Big Viktor, the time has come! The time has come for the attack to begin!"
"Then start!" Mustafa Koprulu nodded heavily, "Let the artillery fire, we must let the Austrians know how powerful our Jenichery Army is!"
