March 1684, Belgrade, Central Europe.
This city is located in the core of the Balkan Peninsula, at the confluence of the Danube and Sava rivers. It is bounded by the plains of the middle reaches of the Danube to the north and the Shumadiya Hills that extend from the Laoshan Mountains to the south. Because it is located at the waterway transportation hub of the Danube and the Balkan Peninsula, The road has always been a hub of road traffic between Europe and the Near East, and is known as the Key to the Balkans.
After the Ottoman Empire's Emperor Suleiman I conquered this key to the Balkans on February 28, 1521, the city has been firmly under the control of the Ottoman Empire for 160 years until now, and has become A large forward stronghold for the Ottoman Empire's offensive into Central Europe.
Before every major offensive launched by the Ottoman Empire in Central Europe, troops and various supplies from all over the empire would gather here.
Since the winter of 1683, the Ottoman Sultan's nine-horse-tail war flag and the Holy Flag of the Tianfang Sect, embroidered with more than 29,000 golden names of the true god, have been flying high above the Sultan's palace in Belgrade.
At the same time, a group of the Sudanese Guards, Sipaxi Knights, Aijens Guards, Mutefirika Cavalry composed of noble children, as well as Kurds, Arabs, and Creans attached to the Ottoman Sultan An army of up to 250,000 people composed of the Tatars, Berbers of the Miya Khanate, and even Europeans in the Balkan Peninsula who believed in God but surrendered to the Sudan, gradually gathered in Belgrade.
By March 28, 1684, the west bank of the Sava River outside Belgrade had turned into a huge military camp. If you look down from a high place, you can see that white tents cover a large plain, and all kinds of battle flags and military flags are fluttering in the wind, flying fiercely.
From the early morning of that day, this huge military camp began to boil with the sound of drums, bugles, and passwords. Streams of soldiers in various colors flowed out of each camp. The soldiers formed a dense marching formation in front of their respective military flags. Then, under the guidance of the military flag, they left the big camp on the bank of the Sava River, and finally formed huge phalanxes one after another on the open plains outside the big camp.
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Although the Sudanese Guards officers and soldiers have long marked the positions of each unit in the wilderness with triangular flags embroidered with the unit numbers, these 250,000 miscellaneous troops must be organized into a unit that can be inspected by His Majesty Sultan Muhammad IV. The big formation still takes a lot of time.
It was not until eight or nine o'clock in the morning that the 250,000-strong army finally completed their formation and launched a spectacular formation on the plain on the west bank of the Sava River!
Everyone is waiting for the arrival of their master, the shadow of Allah in the world, the leader of the Tianfang believers around the world, Sultan Muhammad IV of the Ottoman Empire!
Time passed little by little, and the Sudanese Grand Vizierkara Mustafa had already brought his five-tailed battle flag to a group of imperial ministers, generals of the Guards, and the heads of various vassals. They arrived surrounded by soldiers, and a large group of people stood in front of the 250,000-strong army. They all raised their heads and looked at the sky... and they didn't know what was in the sky?
Huang Zhisheng, the Imperial Envoy and Plenipotentiary of the Ming Dynasty in Istanbul, was also among them. He was standing next to the elderly man with a white beard that reached past his chest. He was looking towards the city of Belgrade with a crystal palace telescope in his hand. Looking around.
Ambassador Huang frowned, as if he was worried about something? The big vizier next to him also looked worried, his old face so gloomy that it was almost dripping with water. .
"I'm coming!"
I don't know who suddenly shouted in Turkish: "In the sky... there is a huge green ball in the sky! What a God!"
Huang Zhisheng also saw the huge ball at this time - it was a green hot air balloon with the words "God bless the Sudan" on it.
This hot air balloon does not fly very high, about twenty or thirty feet. There is a long rope tied to the basket of the balloon. The other end of the rope hangs down to the ground and is dragged by a team of Sudanese Guards. go ahead. And in the basket hanging under the balloon, stood a short, fat man with gorgeous clothes and a big beard. Huang Zhisheng knew that this man was Muhammad IV, the ninth emperor of the Ottoman Empire and the first "Flying Sultan" in history!
The chubby Sultan, who was not very interested in governing the country but was keen on hunting, was the "blessed king".
He became sultan at a very young age, but he did not have to worry about the declining empire...because his grandmother and mother were regents when he was a child, and that period was called the "Ottoman Feminism Era."
When he grew up, an eighty-year-old grandfather named Muhammad Koprulu became the Grand Vizier.
This Albanian, who was born in the Sudanese Guards, spent his life struggling in the corrupt Ottoman bureaucracy. But after he became the Grand Vizier, he used an iron fist to rectify the Ottoman Empire's bureaucracy. It actually brought a corrupt, inefficient and incompetent bureaucracy back to life.
Not only did he significantly improve the empire's financial situation, but he also restored the combat effectiveness of the Sudanese Guards.
Under his iron-fisted leadership, the Ottoman Empire's armies won successive victories in Crete, Transylvania and other places, reviving the empire's prestige.
After the death of Mohammed Koprulu, the bureaucracy he left behind and several capable ministers of Koprulu's family are still playing a role in trying to prevent the empire from declining again.
Although the Ottoman Empire was defeated by the HRE and the Central European Allied Forces in the 1663 war, its vitality was not damaged and it soon regained its place in the war against Poland and Rakshasa, and captured the right bank of Ukraine.
However, Mehmet IV was obviously not willing to just be a "conqueror of right-bank Ukraine". He wanted a greater victory to make him famous in history and become one of the greatest sultans in the empire.
At the same time, he also wanted to rejuvenate the aging empire he ruled... And the only conquest target that could allow the Sultan to achieve his wish was Vienna, the capital of the Holy Roman Empire, the Ottoman Empire's old enemy!
In order to win Vienna, Mohammed IV was willing to go all out and spend the capital of the empire. He had been going all out to prepare for the war since the year before last. According to the original plan, the war to attack Vienna should have been launched last year.
But just when the Sultan was about to raise the nine-horse-tailed battle flag in the garden of his palace, a delegation from the Ming Empire, a mysterious power in the East, was suddenly personally escorted to Istanbul by Crimean Khan Murad Glei.
The reason why the Crimean Khan personally escorted a mission to Istanbul was because this Ming mission was so important to the Sultan's conquest of Vienna!
This Ming Dynasty mission not only sent the Sultan a sharp weapon that could easily destroy the solid city walls of Vienna-military sugar. He also brought a treasure that can bring His Majesty the Sultan closer to the true God - a hot air balloon!
In order to boost the morale of his motley army of more than 200,000 men, Sultan Muhammad IV played the next big thing today!
He took the risk to board a brand-new green-skinned balloon, which was dragged out of the palace by his own soldiers, and floated all the way to the sky above the army where the swearing-in ceremony was being held.
"Look! The Sultan has ascended to heaven!"
Someone in the Sudanese army waiting for the review had already seen the "Sudanese Balloon" in the sky and immediately shouted.
"Long live the Sultan from heaven!"
"Long live... God bless you, the Sultan can fly!"
"Long live……"
When the Sultan's balloon slowly floated in front of the more than 200,000-strong army and began to inspect the army from the air, the Ottoman soldiers below suddenly became excited.
Look, the Sudan can fly! Will the Ottoman Empire still be unable to conquer Vienna? Could that Emperor Leopold fly? Can the Pope in Rome fly?
If they can't fly, it means the true God is not on the same side as them!
Now the Ottoman Empire will definitely win!
