The Crescent of the Sultan

After less than half a day of consideration, Emperor Sai immediately ordered the army to leave half of its own supplies, and then moved towards Basra at full speed.

Winning back the hearts and minds of Muscat is what he must do. After all, if the navy wants to recover, sailors from Oman are indispensable. In this case, he has to suffer for the army first.

As for this group of rebels, they still brought a lot of horses with them on this expedition. In order to maintain the cavalry's combat power, in order to continue to supply, they can only attack with all their strength. Even if this will cause large-scale losses of horses, it does not matter, Osman The empire has no shortage of these war horses. After all, the empire still has a lot of war horses in stock.

However, even regardless of the loss of horses, the Ottoman army still could not move faster. The remaining Bedouin troops would emerge from every place that Emperor Rangsai could not imagine at almost every moment, even though they brought The threat was very small, but it slowed down the army.

By the time Sai the Great returned to Basra with his army, the time he wasted on the road was almost the same as the normal march time.

What is even more worrying is that Basra received a letter from Baghdad a few days ago asking for help. Due to his status as governor, Kuchuk Pasha did not wait for the arrival of Kurdish support and recruited five people in the city in advance. Four-quarters of the troops and private soldiers of local families went out of the city to fight the rebels.

In this battle, Kuchuk Pasha originally had the advantage and had gradually suppressed the rebels. However, the private soldiers of the local wealthy family suddenly defected, causing Kuchuk Pasha's army to be in chaos, and he was immediately killed by the rebels. The troops were not spared, and Kuchuk Pasha himself died in the rebellion.

The only good news is that Kuchuk Pasha's deputy always insisted on guarding the city gate with his own guards, so that the local wealthy family did not find the opportunity to open the city gate.

The two sides fought in the city. Although the Ottoman Empire finally won the victory, the direct descendants of these rebel nobles had already followed Kuchuk Pasha out of the city, and there was no way to use them as hostages.

What made Emperor Sai even more worried was that Anna happened to be in Baghdad, and the defenders only had a thousand people.

Not only that, the food reserves in Basra are not large, and the main supplies are still in Baghdad.

Sudan was extremely angry at this moment, and the apparently good situation suddenly took a turn for the worse. Baghdad was under siege, the border governor died, Sultana was trapped in a tight siege, and she was fooled.

He guessed who was planning it, but he didn't expect that the other party could do it so well.

The Armenians are being pressed harder and harder, the wealthy Baghdad clan is frightened by the reduction of their vassal, Persia is feeling the pressure, the Emirate of Drameyeh has clearly failed, and the damn Shia.

Fortunately, the Greeks were already frightened, otherwise we would have had to add Greeks.

The Sultan could almost foresee the worst case scenario. Once he was unfortunately defeated and died due to lack of supplies, the Ottoman Empire would immediately fall into huge chaos.

Although Haji Pasha was in charge of Constantinople, the Ottoman royal family at this time could hardly find an adult male to succeed the sultanate, and he had not left any heirs.

Between his two younger brothers, someone will inevitably make a choice, and there may be a civil war. Even if the civil war eventually subsides under the leadership of the courtiers he left behind, the nascent Ottoman Empire reform will undoubtedly fail. The empire will once again enter a slow death.

Anger swept through the Sudan, and the Ottoman army began to advance towards Baghdad at full speed. They abandoned all their artillery and took three days of supplies. This is the anger from the Supreme Being of the Islamic world. Allah's belongs to Allah, and the Sudan's belongs to the Sudan. As for the British, you are really embarrassed and you dare to interfere.

When the flag of the Ottoman army arrived in Baghdad from Basra, almost all of the army's horses except those necessary for cavalry operations were destroyed.

Of course, the results of the battle were also obvious. The rebels did not expect that the Ottoman Empire army would come so quickly. The heavy cavalry almost cut through the rebels like a sharp knife, and what followed was a one-sided massacre.

It was the setting sun at that time, and the light of the setting sun spread on the battlefield, shining everything like blood. The north wind blew wantonly on the battlefield, and the mutilated corpses of the rebels were piled up together, forming hills. These were In front of the hill were the heads of the rebels, and Emperor Sai did not waste even one of them.

After killing all these rebels, Emperor Sai's anger did not disappear. Under the order of Emperor Sai, all Shiites who had anything to do with the rebels were imprisoned.

He no longer plans to just use a gentle method like planting trees to deal with these heretics who are related to the rebels. Since the heretics will not get along well with each other, then send them to dig.

The empire was in need of manpower. How could the Sunnis, who were the future foundation of the Ottoman Empire, do such a job with a very low survival rate? Heretics happened to be suitable laborers.

When the Sultan's edict to capture suspected rebels was issued, chaos almost spread to Mesopotamia, but the army quickly suppressed it all, with swords and muskets silencing everyone who dared to resist.

These things were naturally left to professionals. As for the Sultan himself, he stayed in Baghdad to accompany Anna. His baby was so frightened that he couldn't keep him company.

After learning the news, Little Peter, who was far away in London, couldn't help but smile bitterly and murmured.

"We're in big trouble this time."

His original intention was actually to prevent the Sultan from responding to the Russian army in time, so that the Ottoman Empire would waste more funds on the war.

It's just that the governor didn't follow the rules at all and led troops to fight without authorization. What's even more outrageous is that the rebels actually contacted the wealthy people of Baghdad. The two parties collaborated to trap the governor to death and trapped the Sudanese Sultana.

The plot is completely out of control.

Little Pete took a sip of rum casually and regretted his arrangement this time. Although it did consume the national power of the Ottoman Empire to a certain extent, it also offended the other party too much.

This is also one of the characteristics of a monarchy. Sometimes, the first consideration in the policy of a monarchy may not be interests, but the likes and dislikes of the monarch.

"Let's take it step by step. If the Ottoman Empire really wants to reform, it can't make it too unhappy with England. From the other side's point of view, it won't be like a fool like Peter III. That's enough."

Little Pete thought like this, he couldn't help it, he really didn't expect that such a dignified governor would behave like this.