Of course Sun Chuanting would not miss this opportunity and immediately launched a general attack on the Ottoman army.
The cavalry and infantry were dispatched to attack the Ottoman troops still in the camp first. The naval fleet sailed along the Tigris River to intercept the Ottomans who tried to escape across the Tigris River to the north.
"Boom boom boom..."
The field artillery accompanying the army was the first to start bombarding, and the roaring subway bullets smashed through the Ottoman military camp tents one after another.
Under the cover of artillery and the coordination of the cavalry, the infantry soldiers lined up in neat queues and advanced in unison.
Faqir was still in the camp, trying to make a last-ditch struggle against the Ming army's general attack. The Guards, which had not been dispatched, were ordered to go into battle. Among them, there are nearly 10,000 rifled flintlock guns purchased from Portugal.
"Isn't the Ming army just powerful with its firearms?" Faqir shouted hysterically to his ace, "Your firearms are also the most powerful. The empire's last hope lies with you. Kill!"
In fact, he knew in his heart that the Ming army could win not only because of its powerful firearms!
However, he cannot lose in this battle. Even if he has fallen into this situation, if he can turn defeat into victory and win in the end, it will continue his or his family's glory!
However, the facts are still very harsh, especially in a war where all possible means are used, and there is no room for luck.
When the ace Guards on whom he placed his last hope were sent out, it suddenly proved the fact that the Ming army's firearms were still more powerful than the firearms in the hands of the Ottomans!
Actually, it’s not that firearms are powerful, but that gunpowder is powerful.
Previously, the gunpowder used by the Ming army had already shown its power, but it was not obvious without the comparison of rifled flintlock guns.
Now, both sides were also using rifled flintlock guns, and the advantages of gunpowder were immediately highlighted.
"Boom boom boom..."
Under the bombardment of the Ming Dynasty artillery, in order to have the hope of a comeback, and the Ottoman Guards were indeed elite, even if the queue was damaged by the bombardment, they still replenished their numbers and marched to meet the enemy.
This is the last bit of dignity of the Ottoman Empire!
"Bah, bah, bah..."
However, before they reached the firing range of the Ottoman Guards, the Ming army had already fired first.
Amidst the gunfire like fried beans and the sudden appearance of gunpowder smoke, the soldiers of the Ottoman Guards fell in rows, proving that they had entered the effective range of the Ming Dynasty flintlock guns.
The elite of the Ottoman Guards are true. They can endure the bombardment and try to continue the attack. The greatest confidence is not only their courage and the glory of the empire, but also the expectation of the flintlocks in their hands: even if they die, they must drag it out. Together our troops, long live the empire!
However, the fact before them was a unilateral massacre of them by the Ming army. They were already within the range of the Ming army before they were within range. Rows of flintlock guns were firing, and it was not like the cannonballs could only kill a few people.
The soldiers of the Ottoman Guards finally collapsed psychologically as they watched rows of their companions being shot and falling to the ground. Except for a few people who continued to move forward with red eyes, most of the Ottoman Guards soldiers began to flee back.
It is a lie that the flintlock guns of both sides are the same. The flintlock guns of the Ming army are obviously more powerful and have a longer range. How can they fight?
All the glory of the empire is a lie. This is death in vain!
The rest of the Ottoman troops, who had hoped that the Guards soldiers could block the Ming army's offensive, or even turn defeat into victory, saw that even the most elite Ottoman Guards were defeated so miserably, and nothing happened as expected, so they cheered up. The last bit of courage disappeared.
"Boom boom boom..."
"Bah, bah, bah..."
Amidst the roar of guns and artillery, the Ottomans collapsed across the board, and even Faqir was carried away by his cronies.
The war finally reached the final stage of the pursuit.
The soldiers of the Ming army, while chasing the Ottomans, shouted out the newly learned Ottoman language: "Those who kneel down and surrender will avoid death!"
The pursuit lasted all day, and it was only in the evening that the results of the battle were summarized to Sun Chuanting.
In this battle, the Ming Dynasty captured a total of about 110,000 Ottomans alive, and killed about 60,000, of which more than 10,000 died in the pursuit of the Ming army.
The main reason why there were fewer Ottomans in pursuit was different from previous wars. The main reason was that the Ottomans' siege battles cost human lives. After the war lasted for half a month, the morale of the Ottomans had collapsed, and basically no one wanted to resist anymore. After hearing the words of the Ming army shouting "He who kneels down and surrenders will avoid death," basically everyone surrendered.
It is a pity that the commander-in-chief of the Ottoman army, Koprulu Faqir Ahmed, escaped from him. Most of the Ottoman cavalry could not stay. After all, they all had four legs, and they ran away without hesitation. The Ming army failed to catch up.
However, even if there are Ottomans who escape back, it is no longer relevant to the overall situation.
In this battle of Baghdad, the Ottoman army almost used an overwhelming number of troops. This defeat greatly damaged the Ottomans' vitality, and they would never be able to use troops against the Ming Dynasty again.
Looking at the surrendering Ottomans outside the city, I felt that I had witnessed the fall of the powerful Ottomans with my own eyes. Those Persian soldiers of the Ming Army shouted the loudest and were the most excited.
The voice of "The Ming Dynasty will be victorious" resounded in the sky above Baghdad.
Afterwards, Sun Chuanting naturally would not let so many Ottomans live without doing anything. Some of the men were left to work in Baghdad, while others were taken to Suez to dig the canal. Part of it was shipping. If the ship couldn't load, they would go overland. As for how many people would die on the road, to be honest, he didn't care much.
At the same time, the liquidation of the entire Arabian Peninsula began. With the cooperation of the navy, those who rebelled against the Ming Dynasty and those who defected to the Ottoman army to fight Baghdad were all liquidated.
Traces of the Ming Dynasty's cavalry also began to appear in the Mediterranean and on the plateau north of Baghdad. Those tribes that offended the Ming army fled to the Ottoman territory on the other side of the strait, and they did not dare to stay here any longer.
There are even rumors that the Portuguese fleet, an ally of the Ming Empire, will come back soon and will run rampant in the Istanbul Strait, making it impossible to escape.
The Battle of Baghdad and the disastrous defeat of the Ottoman Empire triggered a wave of people from Ottoman Asia to flee to Europe.
As for Istanbul, after hearing the defeat in the Battle of Baghdad, the government and the public were shocked, and the call for punishing Faqir and his family soon reached its peak.
Faqir escaped back, but what awaited him was that he was beheaded by the Ottoman Emperor.
However, the Queen Mother knew that defeat was not Faqir's original intention. Over the years, the Koprulu family had indeed made great efforts to centralize power and revive the empire. For this reason, with the strong protection of the Queen Mother, the Koprulu family was not liquidated.
In exchange, before beheading, Faqir also wrote his summary of the Ming army.
What impressed Faqir most about this battle in Baghdad was that the commander of the Ming army was very difficult to deal with and he was a veteran with rich combat experience. All the siege methods he used were easily defeated by the Ming army commander.
In addition, the Ming army had elite soldiers and more advanced ordnance, which was also one of the key reasons for this defeat.
This memorial is top secret. However, the Ottoman Empire Palace was, after all, a leaky place. Word spread quickly, and with the inquiring of spies from various European countries, the contents of the memorial quickly spread to various European countries.
It can be said that the Battle of Baghdad shocked the entire European world.
In their view, it was unimaginable that such a powerful Ottoman Empire, which had assembled so many troops and was still under the command of the Ottoman Empire's strongman Faqir, was defeated miserably by the Ming Empire from the east.
Starting from Marco Polo's travels, the empire in the Far East gave Europeans the biggest impression of being rich, but now it is no longer the case. What impressed them more deeply was that it was powerful! It was much more powerful than the Ottoman Empire, which they thought was powerful!
This new understanding is also difficult for them to accept.
Not only will we no longer be able to aspire to colonize the Far East in the future, after all, there is a powerful Ming Empire. What's more, to all Europeans, the Ming Empire in the Far East was as heretical as the Ottoman Empire, or even completely different. It was even more of a heresy within a heresy, and they were completely two civilizations.
Suddenly, all European countries became very wary of the Ming Empire in the Far East.
After all, the Ming Empire in the Far East has extended its tentacles to the Mediterranean Sea and to their doorstep.
At this time, news about the Ming Empire in the Far East also spread from the Russian Empire. It means that all the troops have arrived in the Volga River Basin, and from time to time they send troops to attack Tsarist Russia and plunder the population to work as coolies.
If things go by in the past, what happened to Tsarist Russia will only arouse gloating from European countries, especially Poland. However, after the disastrous defeat of the Ottoman Empire, the experiences of European countries towards Tsarist Russia once again stimulated them and they became very worried about the Ming Empire.
The Holy See also began to send people to lobby, asking European countries to put aside their prejudices and unite to fight against the "yellow peril".
However, European countries have been fighting for hundreds of years, so how can it be so easy to let go of their own prejudices. Although the intensity of the war between them has decreased due to the Ming Dynasty, it is too early to say that they will unite against the Ming Dynasty.
But no matter what, every move of the Ming Empire on the dividing line between Asia and Europe also aroused their strong concern. Secret spies from various countries were sent to the territory of the former Ottoman Empire to spy on the Ming Empire. They wanted to know what was happening under the Ming Empire. What’s the next step?
However, the differences in race made it difficult for the spies, but the information was still obtained bit by bit.
