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Style: Historical Author: Call the skyWords: 3073Update Time: 24/02/20 19:09:56
"What?" Koprulu Faqir Ahmed straightened his upper body in shock and confirmed again angrily, "The forwards were defeated. What did you do for food?"

Although the Crimean messenger had many answers to this question, on the surface, he did not speak and was just being scolded. This was also the purpose of his coming.

Faqir did not get too angry because he knew that it was useless to get angry at the messenger. The important thing is to know what happened to the striker so that he can respond.

After thinking for a while, he sent the other cavalry in the army except the Guards Cavalry to rush to Baghdad first. Then, he also ordered the entire army to speed up and rush to Baghdad.

On the evening of the next day, Faqir's army rushed to Baghdad and met the Crimean Khan Muhammad Glei IV who came to greet him. Naturally, I didn't give him a good look.

Muhammad Grai IV knew that it was useless to say anything, so he consciously told the story of the entire war. Of course, he couldn't tell the truth.

For example, it is impossible for him to say that he was careless and did not expect that the Ming cavalry dared to go out of the city to attack when the soldiers were pressing on the border, so he was raided by the Ming cavalry in the early morning.

He didn't say that the Ming cavalry was chasing him and killing him, so that he had no time to take command and just ran for his life.

In short, Muhammad Glei IV just emphasized that the Ming cavalry's firepower was very fierce, and his men were all cold weapons, so this defeat occurred.

But no matter what, the Crimean cavalry also caused a lot of casualties to the Ming cavalry. It would be too embarrassing to say otherwise!

After he finished speaking, he held up the three-eyed blunderbuss captured (picked up) from the battlefield with both hands.

Faqir looked at this firearm from the East. To be honest, he was a little surprised. Unexpectedly, the Ming people in the Far East thought of using this method to enhance the power of their firearms!

If the cavalry of the Ming Dynasty all used this type of firearm, one firearm would be equivalent to three firearms. This firepower would indeed be very powerful!

However, he also immediately noticed the shortcomings of this firearm, that is, its short range!

Thinking that the Guards infantry was already equipped with rifled flintlock guns bought from Portugal, he immediately relaxed and didn't care much.

However, Faqir was a little strange. Logically speaking, the Ming army must have rifled firearms. Why didn't they use rifled firearms?

He did not think for a moment that the high-speed movement of the cavalry would give them the opportunity to quickly approach the enemy. Unless it was a Gatling gun or the like, even a breech-loaded musket would not be able to stop the cavalry from advancing at high speed.

This kind of smoothbore multi-eye blunderbuss can actually be stuffed with iron slag or something in one barrel, which can form a barrage within a short distance and give the enemy maximum lethality. And increasing the ferocity of firepower is originally the mission of this gun!

At this time, although Faqir was very unhappy about the defeat of the forward Crimean cavalry in the first battle, he did not have much to do with it, because after all, the Crimean cavalry was only an army of a vassal state, and the person in front of him was the Crimean cavalry. The king of the Khanate.

Once the pressure is too much, people are likely to slap their butt and run away. If you want to punish them further, you can only send troops to attack the Crimean Khanate.

Besides, it was the first time the Crimean cavalry encountered such firearms from the Ming army, so it was understandable that they would be defeated. Anyway, the Ming army is still in Baghdad and has not escaped, so that's okay!

Faqir's concerns are not unreasonable. In the original history, during the Battle of Vienna, which had a great impact on the Ottoman Empire, when the Crimean Tatars saw that the war situation was unfavorable, they refused to continue to serve the Ottoman Empire, thus pushing the Ottoman Empire army to the abyss of defeat. A push in the middle.

At this time, Faqir had made a decision in his mind. Instead, he comforted Mohammed Grai IV and said: "This battle is not a crime of war! You have worked hard, and then withdraw to the outer perimeter to guard!"

After hearing this, Muhammad Grai IV felt relieved, and quickly expressed his gratitude and retreated.

Various Ottoman troops were camping around Baghdad, while Faqir stood on a high place, took out his monocular and observed Baghdad in the distance.

At this sight, he frowned.

Because he saw that the Ming army changed the city wall of Baghdad from a circle to a diamond shape, just like the European fortresses, it suddenly became easier to defend and harder to attack.

Although some city walls have not been completed and there are gaps left, which seem easy to attack, he can see that if he attacks from these gaps, he will be attacked by the Ming army on the top of the city, and there will be casualties. It would be disastrous.

"Cunning, that Ming commander is indeed very cunning!" Faqir made this decision in his mind.

What appear to be gaps are actually deadly places, but it is often easy for siege troops to flock to these gaps involuntarily. This principle is the same as when the army besieged in the city leaves one gate open to them and only attacks the other gates.

Although everyone in the city knows that an unattacked city gate is definitely a dead end, once the battle situation is unfavorable, people will often flock to the unattacked city gate, making it easier for morale to collapse.

After understanding this, his monocular began to move and looked towards the Tigris River. Between the Baghdad Castle on the left and right banks, there are two Ming warships parked on each side.

This means that it is unrealistic to temporarily build some rafts and the like to attack from the water. These ships can even support the defense of Baghdad from the side, which may not be easy to deal with.

It's a pity that the warships of the Ottoman Empire are all in the Mediterranean. Otherwise, the Tigris River cannot be compared with the vast sea, and the steam paddle-wheel warships of the Ming Dynasty cannot take advantage of it. If there are too many ants to kill elephants, this waterway will be very difficult. Easy to take down.

Thinking of this, Faqir couldn't help but turn his head and look at the Persian Emperor Abbas II not far away. The Persian Gulf downstream of Baghdad originally belonged to the Persians. If Persia had not been defeated by the Ming army, their warships would not have been able to enter the Tigris River, and it would have been much easier to attack Baghdad.

"What a waste!" Faqir cursed in his heart, then picked up the monocular and looked at it again.

On the outside of the Baghdad city wall, there are earth walls about the height of a person. He could tell at a glance that this was probably used to cover the Ming Dynasty musketeers, and also to prevent the cavalry from rushing directly to the city wall.

In response, Faqir sneered. What era are we in now? Under heavy artillery bombardment, what use are these earthen walls?

After watching it for a while, he basically had an understanding of Baghdad's defenses, and he immediately sneered: "The Ming Governor is nothing more than that!"

At this time, Faqir was obviously confident that he could defeat Baghdad soon.

I saw that he then began to give orders to allocate 100,000 troops, mainly those Azap cannon fodder, and let them start digging trenches around Baghdad. He did not want to besiege Baghdad, but did not give the Ming army in the city a chance to break out.

Destroying these Ming armies in one battle and letting Osman's military might once again shock the world was his main purpose of gathering the army this time.

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Watching countless Ottoman troops march to Baghdad and set up endless tents in the distance of Baghdad, the relaxed atmosphere on top of Baghdad and the excitement of the victory in the first battle finally slowly faded away. Especially those Persian soldiers were worried again.

Although the Ming army is very strong, there are too many Ottoman troops outside the city!

For several days in a row, when the rear troops of the Ottoman army also arrived in Baghdad, with Baghdad as the center of the circle, everywhere you looked outside the city were Ottoman troops. It was as if there was nothing in the world except the Ottoman army but the Ottoman army.

As the saying goes, if there are tens of thousands of people, there is no limit. Not to mention, there were a total of 250,000 Ottoman troops. The visual effect was indeed very large.

However, when these Persian soldiers saw that the soldiers from the Ming Dynasty looked relaxed and not worried, it affected them invisibly. Let them think of what the Jin Yiwei supervisors said before.

Perhaps seeing that they were affected by the army outside the city, some local Ming soldiers smiled and said to them: "Don't look at the large number of Ottomans outside the city. In our opinion, they are just chickens and dogs! What do you know? Do you call it a chicken or a dog? Come on, let me tell you..."

The emotional drive is very obvious.

The Persian soldiers quickly recovered a lot under the influence of Pao Ze.

At this time, Sun Chuanting began to inspect the city defense, and at the same time, he also passed on the message and stated the purpose of the battle.

"The reason why I want to fight the Ottomans here is actually because I don't want to waste time and let them come to the door by themselves. After all, we need to build the canal and need a lot of manpower!"

In these words, there was no worry about winning or losing this battle at all, but a strong sense of confidence that the Ming Dynasty would win the battle in Baghdad!

Not only will they win, but they will also capture many prisoners, who will be used to build a canal from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean. The real reason for starting this war is this!

Sun Chuanting's words have a better effect than any other words saying that we will definitely win!

After the news spread in Baghdad, Ming army officers and soldiers of all nationalities went to look at the Ottoman army outside the city after hearing this. For some reason, when they looked again, they seemed to see not an army, but labor. !

However, as a "laborer" who consciously came to the door, Faqir did not think so. He was also confident that he could break through Baghdad in one fell swoop. Seeing that the entire army had arrived, he did not wait any longer and began to mobilize his troops to attack Baghdad!