The Rise of the European Emperor

Regardless, Garigul Sultan survived. However, considering that his left arm was going to be amputated due to lead poisoning, Marin thought about it, and decided to send someone to fly a pigeon to pass the letter, go to Italy for transit, notify Egypt, send alcohol extracted from spirits, and teach the Egyptian court doctor to use boiling water Boil gauze to avoid death from infection after amputation.

You know, medicine is extremely backward in this era, and no attention is paid to disinfection at all. Even if Gary Gurgui is the Sudan, the possibility of infection after amputation is extremely high. Once infected, it is close to death.

Therefore, Marin hurriedly let people release the carrier pigeons to notify the Italian spies, and then the Italians used the carrier pigeons to notify the Egyptian spies, so as to prevent Garigul Sultan from being accidentally infected during the amputation.

But two days later, before the reply from Egypt came back, another bad news came back - Selim I, Sultan of Turkey, deliberately released the captured 20,000 Mamluk lord cavalry...

Originally, after the defeat of more than 50,000 Mamluk cavalry, Garigul could not escape with the remaining 40,000 cavalry in his headquarters. The 20,000 cavalry of the Mamluk feudal lords were deliberately abandoned by Garigul.

After being abandoned, the 20,000 cavalry of the feudal lords were also very unscrupulous, and surrendered to the Turks with little resistance. Originally, Selim I planned to detain these people. However, the minister who is familiar with the internal situation of the Mamluk dynasty suggested that he let go of these cavalry belonging to the Mamluk feudal lords...

Because they only brought back the cavalry from the headquarters when they were unable to escape, even though the national strength was damaged, the rule of Galigul would become more stable in the future. Because no one has the strength to challenge him.

If Sultan Garigul is given enough time, he may be able to clean up the domestic opposition and complete the real unification of the Mamluk dynasty. By then, the strength of the Mamluk dynasty would not necessarily be poor.

However, Selim I shattered Garrigul's wishful thinking...

After the 20,000 Mamluk cavalry belonging to the feudal lords returned, Garigul's strength would not only no longer have the upper hand, but would be at a disadvantage.

Of course, because these cavalry belonged to multiple feudal lords, these feudal lords could not form an advantage over Gary Gul. However, Gary Gul could not suppress those feudal lords...

In other words, from then on, the Mamluk dynasty of Egypt will be in a chaotic period of internal power struggle for a long time, and it will be difficult to pose a threat to Turkey. Then, Turkey can free up its hands to concentrate on dealing with Persia...

"This is really bad news!" Marin rubbed his temples, feeling headache and depressed.

Originally, Marin planned to suppress the rise of Turkey through the cooperation of Persia and Egypt. But now, the Egyptians are broken. Although it was not eliminated, it also lost half of its life.

As for Persia, although the last war was not badly damaged, it lost its vigor...

What is spirit? Vigorousness is morale! Before the war with Turkey, the Persians were proud, just like their Shah Ismail I. Because they had never lost a battle, the morale of the Persian army was very high. In the face of the enemy, the Persian army maintained a strong self-confidence and morale. Even if the strength is not as good as the opponent, you can defeat the opponent!

Just like at the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, because the Tang army established extremely strong self-confidence after eliminating the Turks, Xi Junmai dared to use 20 horses to defeat the enemy's tens of thousands of people...

Did Mr. Xi buy it? Or is one of his 20 cavalrymen one against one hundred? Neither, but because the Tang army was invincible in all kinds of battles in the early Tang Dynasty, which made the Tang army officers and soldiers extremely confident. But their opponents were naturally a little afraid because of Tang Jun's prestige. Therefore, it led to the astonishing deed of Xi Jun buying 20 horses and breaking ten thousand enemies.

Similarly, after the last war between Turkey and Persia, although the strength of Persia was not lost much, the confidence of the Persian army was severely hit. After that battle, the Persian army, including their monarch Ismail I, no longer believed that they were "invincible".

On the contrary, Turkey has established the same strong self-confidence as the early Tang army through two decisive battles with Persia and Egypt. It can be said that when the Turkish army and the Persian army meet in the future, Persia may not even dare to take the initiative to attack. Unless, one's own side has a great advantage. Otherwise, it will only take a defensive position...

This is war! Once a country's army has suffered a disastrous defeat or a big victory, it will have a great impact on the morale of the army!

War is never a comparison of numerical strength! Only those unscrupulous arms dealers will one-sidedly exaggerate the role of weapons and equipment. In fact, weapons and equipment do not determine success or failure! Just like when the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded China in the late Qing Dynasty, they opened the arsenal of the defeated Qing army and found that the weapons of the Qing army were very advanced...

But because of repeated defeats over the past few decades, and the serious problems with the discipline and training of the Qing army, giving them machine guns and Krupp cannons would not be able to defeat the mixed forces of the Eight-Power Allied Forces.

Not to mention war, even football is the same. Because of frequent losses to the South Korean team, the national football team of later generations suffered from inexplicable "Korea-phobia". As soon as he played, facing the South Korean team, he naturally lost his morale and confidence. How could he win?

Therefore, although the national power of Persia is still there and Egypt has not collapsed, these two countries are no longer a big threat to Turkey. Because Turkey has already demonstrated overwhelming self-confidence, and its combat effectiveness can be displayed exceptionally. And Egypt and Persia have long lost confidence. Encountering the Turks again, the fighting spirit is very problematic.

If Egypt hadn't been defeated in this battle, the two countries might have made a comeback if they joined forces. But in this war, Egypt lost too badly. Sultan Garrigul and his allies lost more than half of the more than 30,000 Mamluk cavalry in total, while the opposition of Galigul did not suffer much loss, and was sent back to captives by the Turks . In the future, it will be difficult for Egypt to threaten Turkey anymore...

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However, Marin did not expect Egypt to overthrow Turkey. All Marin asked was for the Turks not to go south to control Jerusalem and Egypt.

Needless to say, Jerusalem is a holy city shared by both Christianity and Greenism. If Turkey wins this city, I am afraid that morale and prestige will explode. On the European side, it will be greatly affected. After all, the Holy City was taken by the Turks, and the morale of the Europeans would also be affected. Under the ebb and flow, the Turks will become more arrogant.

In addition, the place of Egypt is also very important. If Turkey wins here, it will not only deal a heavy blow to Venice, but also make Spain and Portugal even more invincible. And Venice, an important pawn used by Marin to contain Spain, cannot be brought down by Turkey.

In addition, with Egypt, a granary that is more important than Syria, Turkey will want to riot in the future, just like playing. After all, the agricultural areas of the Nile Valley were not covered...

Originally in history, it was only after Turkey annexed Egypt that it possessed a super violent force...

Before annexing Egypt, Turkey sent troops to fight, and it could only dispatch an army of 60,000 to 00,000. But after annexing Turkey, when attacking Europe later, they often dispatched 200,000 to 300,000 troops...

According to intelligence, the current population of Turkey is about 1 million, including millions of Slavs on the Balkan Peninsula.

However, the Slavs in the Balkans could not provide Turkey with a large number of cavalry. They could only provide Turkey with 10,000 to 20,000 infantry, including musketeers and artillery. Although the importance of these European infantry in the war is very high, there are not many of them.

At this time, the Mamluk dynasty, according to the knowledge of the spies lurking in Cairo-the entire Mamluk dynasty has a population of less than 5 million.

Among them, Egypt has 3 million people, which is the largest. The second largest is Syria, with 200,000 people. Then, there are less than 300,000 people in Lebanon, less than 200,000 in the Jordan Mountains, more than a hundred thousand in Palestine, and quite a few in Libya and Hijaz.

But now, the Syrian region has basically fallen into the hands of Turkey. Most of the Lebanon area also fell into the hands of Turkey, and only the southern mountainous area was still under the control of the Mamluk dynasty.

In other words, the Turks suddenly increased their population by 1.45 million. For the 6th century, when population was the productivity, it was definitely a substantial increase in national power.

Moreover, the Arabs are not the same as the Slavic peasants of the Balkans. There are many Arab herdsmen, and many herdsmen mount their horses and pick up machetes as soldiers. Therefore, despite the fact that most of Syria and Lebanon only brought a population of 1.45 million to Turkey, the source of troops they may bring is more powerful than the millions of Slavs in the Balkans...

For example, in the area of ​​Syria, in the previous battle of the Dabik grassland, it provided the Mamluk dynasty with 20,000 servants. Now, these people belong to Turkey...

Under the ebb and flow, Turkey is naturally greatly strengthened. The Mamluk dynasty of Egypt lost nearly one-third of its population, and Syria, a cash cow with developed agriculture and commerce.

In addition, Selim I also insidiously released all the captured cavalry of the Mamluk feudal lords back, and there must be a lot of trouble in Egypt in the future. Not to mention being able to fight against Turkey, being able to hold the current territory is a big problem...

"It seems that I have to make a move!" Marin thought for a long time, and finally made up his mind...