Conquer the Dawn of Heaven

On a dry Gobi, several knights riding Arabian horses ran fast, waiting for a cloud of smoke and dust on the ground.

The knights were wrapped tightly, and a face covered with a turban showed sharp eyes like a falcon.

These knights have an oval shield hung from the saddle on one side, and a few half-length lances in the leather slot on the other.

They ran across the Gobi quickly, turning their heads to look behind them from time to time, as if they were observing whether someone was following them.

The hills on the horizon cast a shadow on the end of the Gobi. In such a hot weather, the shadow seemed to be a paradise on earth.

They ran toward there quickly, but when they finally approached the foot of the mountain, they looked at a small patch of lush green in the col, and the people cried out with joy.

An oasis in such a place is heaven, and sometimes a small oasis in the depths of the Gobi is like a miracle that rescues people from hell.

These trends have become dry and exhausted. The running along the way makes them exhausted. At this time, they just want to drink enough water, and then lie in the shade and sleep well.

A few centuries ago, this place was not like this. Legend has it that there was a big city on this dry Gobi.

There are several artificially excavated rivers that surround the city, making the city a blessed land leading to the depths inland.

Only with the erosion of wind and sand, the change of climate, and the scourge of man-made wars, the city has now disappeared under the long sandy soil, except that sometimes lucky people can occasionally discover some ruined walls, thus speculating on its original glory. I can't find any more scenes of the past.

However, this does not mean that no one patronizes this land. On the contrary, not long ago, in the depths of the Gobi, a huge and fierce battle broke out.

These knights are the scouts of one of the two sides of the war. Although the battle has passed for a few days, the two sides still scout and ride around, looking for the other's trace flaws, and trying to fight again.

The winner hopes to take this opportunity to wipe out his opponent once and for all, while the loser is not reconciled to a fiasco trying to revive his military power and reverse the defeat.

Both sides set up their battles on this Gobi far away from the southeast of the Ottoman Empire, and are ready to complete their efforts and completely remove the threat from the other side of the border.

Although the scale of this battle was very large, it was the first time that the two sides officially fought against each other. Although the victory was temporarily won, the winner did not take it lightly.

The young Ismail is the victor of this battle, and his enemy is a governor from the southeast border of Ottoman.

The governor was trusted and respected by Selim, who was far away from the Constantinople, because he possessed a huge force in the hands of high authority. The most important thing was that he was competing with his brother Mehmet. In the middle, the governor clearly stood on Selim's side.

This made Selim very moved, and even called him "the highest among the Pashas." This title can not but be said to show Selim's grace to him.

It’s just that the governor is not so easy to be deceived. Although he simply stands on Selim’s side, he never leaves his territory easily, and there are faint signs of autonomy. For this reason, he even His son asked for the title of "Mujirutu".

There are many interpretations of Mujirutu in Ottoman. It can be considered as the deputy of a high-ranking person or as someone's heir.

Such a title undoubtedly revealed the Governor's thoughts, but Selim's fight with Mahmed was in full swing at this time, and he couldn't spare any time to deal with this ignorant authority.

However, when he heard that the Persians on the southeast border were trying to invade the Ottoman border, Selim immediately ordered the governor to crusade against the bold Persian tribes.

At the same time Selim also issued orders to the tribes in some nearby places, asking them to guard their respective territories if they must guard against possible Persian attacks.

Of course those tribes were willing to obey this order. They restrained the people in their territory while carefully guarding the possible Persians, while watching the battle between the Persians and the governor with cold eyes.

The war started in such a situation where the troubles outside the battlefield were often more complicated than on the battlefield, or Selim did not take the kid who is said to be only 15 years old from the beginning. .

Letting the Safavid Persians and the Governor to consume each other was a good thing for Selim, and he did not believe that Safavid would pose a real threat to him.

He surmised that after he had forgotten to deal with Mehamed, he could simply kill the two prey once and for all.

Little kids are sometimes good kids, but most of them are bear kids, and a kid who has money in his hands, people around, and happens to get a large number of the latest firearms and weapons, may be earth-shattering. The big thing is coming.

Ismail is such a kid.

Just six months ago, after he completely defeated the Turkmen of the Aries dynasty of his mother's motherland, after half a year of division and annexation by various means, he has mastered a large part of the Turkmen tribe.

So after feeling full of wings, Ismail first began to seriously consider whether he should challenge the Ottomans.

This is obviously a very risky move. Many people are not optimistic about his challenge to the huge giant. Even though it is said that he has obtained many sharp and advanced weapons from some Europeans, challenging the Ottoman Empire is still regarded as crazy. move.

And Ismail wanted to shake the giant Ottoman also had his own ideas.

He knew that his roots were still shallow, even if he was the territory of the Aries dynasty that had annexed the entire Turkmen, but once he found that he might pose a threat, perhaps the Ottomans would kill him in the bud.

So he decided to act first, and when the Ottomans hadn't put it in their eyes, he bit off a piece of meat on the giant.

In this way, even if the Ottomans may retaliate in the future, he only needs to spit out the swallowed territory and he can bargain with the Ottomans.

Ismaili was a kid who wanted to do it. When he heard that the Ottoman Empire had a battle for power, he thought it was an opportunity and implemented it immediately.

What Ismaili did not expect was that the enemy he faced was not as strong as he thought, or that the Ottomans had not deployed enough forces to make him feel pressured from the beginning.

The victory of a large-scale battle gave Ismail enough confidence. He began to frequently send out scouts to actively search for the enemy. In his opinion, before the Ottomans realized his strength, he would hit this opponent hard. , Obviously is a rare good opportunity.

What surprised Ismaili were the firearms that the woman named O'Connie gave him.

The sharp muskets and powerful artillery made Ismaili’s eyes wide open. He immediately assigned these weapons to his trusted forces, and soon a firearms force composed of red-headed soldiers of his Safavid regiment was here. This land is alive.

Although exhausted, the knights insisted on taking a break after drinking the water and hurriedly mounted their horses and continued on their way.

They only breathed a sigh of relief when they crossed the hilly area and entered the continuous mountainous area.

These people were scouts sent by Ismaili to inquire about the news. They encountered the Ottomans in the depths of the Gobi. After finally getting rid of the chasers, they rushed all night to report what they had heard to Shah.

Ismail is now in this mountainous area. He has an army of less than 7,000 people. Most of this army is followers of his Safavid Order. This ensures the army’s loyalty to him. The remaining less than 2,000 people are from the tribes he conquered.

Ismaili knew that those tribes obviously had their own minds on him, and they might want to bet on him, but they looked at his condition, so this war was very important to him.

After defeating the Ottoman governor, Ismaili was not dazzled by the victory. He rejected the suggestion of his generals to initiate a new offensive immediately. Instead, he brought the army back into the mountains to hide, and then waited to take the opportunity. Opportunity to teach the Ottomans severely.

The arrival of a few scouts made Ismaili think that maybe his opportunity was coming, so he made an exception to let the concubine who was ready to go to bed to retreat, and then immediately summoned the scouts.

But what those people brought to Ismaili was good news that surprised him and didn't know what to do for a while.

The sultan of the Ottoman Empire, the son of the conqueror Mohammed II, and Bayezet II, known as the righteous man, died in Constantinople.

By the time this news was deposited on the southeast border, it was nearly two months since the death of Bayezette II.

In addition to the long distance and inconvenient transportation, most of the time was because Sely had been tightly blocking the news of the death of Bayezette II.

If it weren't for the approaching Eid al-Adha, because the calls for inviting the sultan to participate in the ceremony were getting louder and could not be concealed, Selim's news of Bayezet II's death might continue to be blocked.

As soon as the news spread, there was an uproar within the Ottoman Empire.

While announcing the death of Bayezette II, Selim declared that he was the heir appointed by his father on his deathbed. He ordered the governors and tribal chiefs of all places to gather in Constantinople to prepare for his grand enthronement ceremony. He ordered the pardon of his brother Mehmet and even generously named Mehmet as the Grand Vizier of Egypt.

Of course, Mahmad would not accept this so-called title, let alone recognize Selim's status.

He not only denied Selim's inheritance rights, but also publicly questioned whether the death of their father Bayezette II was related to Selim.

The situation that the two sides had been divided into was finally turned into a real civil war with the news of the death of Bayezette II.

Ismaili did not expect that what he was waiting for would be such a news, and he even suspected that the news might be false information created by the Ottomans to confuse him.

But then he realized that it is impossible for the Ottomans to use this kind of thing to lie to him, so is all this true?

There was a civil war in the Ottoman Empire, which made Ismaili feel that his prayers day and night were finally answered. He then left the scouts who were sending letters and ran outside the tent to face the sky. Fang knelt down in the direction of Fang, and after a complicated prayer ceremony, he ordered all the generals to be summoned overnight.

Ismail thought this was a revelation to him, and he would be punished if he ignored this revelation.

Ismail's determination and decisiveness created a miracle for himself that he had never imagined afterwards.

In June 1502, the army of the Safavid Persian Empire invaded the Ottoman border from the southeast. After the first victory, Shah Ismail I of Safavid decisively led his army to think about the defeated Ottoman People launched an offense.

This is a war that is unfair to the Ottomans, or to the Governor of the Southeast Frontier.

When he independently supported the war with the invading Persian army, the tribal aristocrats from all over the world watched indifferently. Not only did they not send reinforcements, they sometimes even cut off the military supplies and logistics that should be undertaken. This made the governor’s army often It was to fight the enemy under the condition of a hungry meal.

At this time, the bad news of the death of Bayezette II came.

Everyone's hearts moved at this time, countless eyes were staring at Constantinople and Egypt. They knew that the two lions were going to fight a cruel battle, and it seemed that it was still unclear who could win the final victory. And know.

This made most of the tribal nobles of the Ottoman Empire decided to take a look at the situation for a while, and this was a disaster for the governor of the southeast border who was at war with Safavid Persia.

The governor had to choose between fighting the enemy or ensuring strength. He knew that no matter which point he chose, it would be unpredictable for him.

After some consideration, the idea of ​​finally defeating the enemy prevailed.

He would never choose to do this, not because of his loyalty to Selim, but because he regarded the entire southwestern border as his own private property. He could not bear to eat his territory by Safavid, so he was the only one he could do. It is to destroy or drive away the invading enemy.

But the governor still underestimated the little kid.

At the beginning of July 1502, on the Mulesh Plateau in the southeast of the Ottoman Empire, the two sides broke out a battle of vital importance to both sides.

As a result of the Battle of Mulesh, Ismail paid nearly 1,400 casualties and wiped out the army of the Governor of the Southeastern Ottoman border in one fell swoop.

In this battle, Ismail's red-headed militias equipped with new muskets played a huge role.

They used powerful firepower to launch a carnage-like attack on the Ottomans.

The whole battle entered the fiercest moment in the evening, because it was too invested and did not end with the darkness, so when the second day dawned, the soldiers of the Safavid Persian Empire realized that there was nothing but blood in front of them. The large corpses that flowed into a river had no one alive.

The Governor of the Southwest Border was missing in this battle, and no one found his trace even after cleaning the battlefield.

But now Ismaili no longer cares about the whereabouts of that person. While he asked the people around him to write to the woman named O'Connie, telling her that he needed her to send more firearms, he hurried to the surrounding people. Those tribes sent messengers.

Then he couldn't help but cast his gaze towards the vast inland of the Ottoman Empire.

This ambitious little kid is no longer satisfied with just biting a piece of meat on the giant's body. He has taken a fancy to the Ottoman land, and he wants to completely overthrow the formidable giant in the past.

Alexander received the news of Bayezette II’s death until the end of August, that day, he also received a report on the whereabouts of Ferdinand.

Ferdinand finally returned to Zaragoza with his grandson.

But Alexander thought that this could not change anything.

It's been a few days since Uliu quietly left Babiaridod. He took enough manpower away, and at the same time he brought a letter to Tiego.

Pope Alexander VI has stayed in Seville, which makes the churches in Castile and Aragon feel somewhat uncomfortable.

There are enough miracles on the Iberian Peninsula, and they do not want to see Seville become a new holy place.

At the same time, various rumors that vaguely spread from the Vatican have also spread in the churches of the Iberian Peninsula.

Alexander VI also heard these rumors. He was angry, but because of time there was no other way.

Today he has been exiled from the Vatican. Although he still has a title called emperor, everyone knows that he has been exiled, and he probably never has the chance to see the iconic Roman dome of the Sistine Chapel again.

The only thing that maintains his dignity now is that he still has that prominent identity after all. What's more important is that he has a son-in-law who allows everyone to ignore his will.

Many people once wondered how Alexander would arrange his father-in-law, and even the entourage around the pope secretly worried that he might wander around with the unlucky pope.

Until Uliu's arrival.

One day in early September, Alexander VI was standing idly under a kumquat tree, staring at the fruit swayed by the wind in a daze.

Suddenly, an entourage walked quickly and reported to him: "His Royal Highness's former officer is waiting outside for an audience."

At that moment, the old pope moved slightly and was a little hunched. After waving his hand to call Uliu in, he raised his hand somewhat laboriously, and the fruit fell from before his eyes to the branches in front of him. Pulled down a red kumquat very hard.

After strenuously peeling the orange peel and taking out the fruit from the inside and stuffing it into his mouth to chew for a while, Alexander VI smiled to the Moor who had already walked up to the front and waited for him to speak quietly and said, “It’s delicious. It's cooked."