The Sun and the Lion

As night fell, after sending away the messenger sent by Bey to inquire about the battle situation, everyone held a meeting on the day's battle situation in the slightly cramped tower room. Each regiment first reported losses and the status of the troops, and Ustaji Khan summarized this basic information. We will discuss the next battle later.

"Now that the Roma have built a camp, they can deploy their vehicle formations in a timely manner when fighting in the field. Even if our army defeats the enemy's cavalry, it will be difficult to shake the enemy's infantry defenses through impact. The existing wasps and wall guns cannot create a gap. "

Regarding this Achilles heel, the generals and staff first thought of siege: "Your Majesty the Governor, although our army cannot attack the enemy camp from the front, our cavalry is strong and can besiege the enemy. As long as the Roma cannot raise food for two weeks, , the formation resolves itself.”

According to the scouts' investigation, Selim's troops divided their troops to search for food and supplies in the surrounding countryside when they first arrived. In addition, the size of the troops was small, and the Ottoman army did not need to worry about military supplies at least in the short term, unless their enemies had Ways to destroy the reserves in the camp.

But Ustaji Khan could not ask Huda to fight on his behalf. Without the ability to accurately destroy the Ottoman military camp warehouse, he could only wait for these invaders to finish the food and grass, which would take at least ten days, and Selim was not A dead target will not sit still and wait to be killed.

He recalled the battle situation during the day and the intelligence obtained by the scouts, and when he was thinking about whether to transfer field artillery from Diyarbakır, it suddenly occurred to him, and then asked the participants present: "The Roma do not seem to have used it in the battle. Heavy artillery, only light firearms, is that right?”

As soon as this statement came out, the captain claimed that he only had light firearms, but an officer angrily mocked "the Roma people who use firearms are unmanly and cowardly", which caused dissatisfaction among some colleagues and superiors.

Ustaji Khan continued to recall the intelligence he had received previously. Neither the scouts nor the church members who had previously detected the enemy's march mentioned that there were queues of oxen and horses dragging artillery. Was there none or was it hidden? Based on his understanding of the Ottomans, he would definitely bring artillery when there is a need to siege the city, so...

He stopped the argument among his subordinates, and then came to a conclusion: "I guess the Roma artillery is still on the road. There are not many mountain roads that the cart can travel. It is impossible for the artillery and baggage to be separated. Send more scouts. It is necessary Knowing how far away the Roma artillery is from the enemy camp, we must not let these artillery that can destroy the city wall fall into Selim's hands."

Next, he arranged tasks for each regiment, including expelling the Ottoman scouts, reconnecting with Shiite collaborators along the way, and preparing to intercept the enemy's artillery.

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In the following days of confrontation, Selim's sense of crisis continued to increase, and the information that the dispatched scouts could bring back gradually decreased. If it continued like this, he would become a blind man and let others slaughter him.

What worries him has indeed happened. The existence of the artillery team has been known to the enemy. Selim, who is not aware of this, is naturally unable to make effective countermeasures. He is still calculating its approximate daily travel distance. As they entered this broad valley, troops were sent to meet them.

When the weather gradually got hotter, the artillery team from Trabzon finally approached Elbistan step by step, and the scouts monitoring its movements quickly returned to notify them. Since the target of the sneak attack was only a transport team and it needed to be concealed, Ustaji Khan did not send out a large number of troops, but only sent a hundred cavalry to intercept.

This centurion followed the scout's instructions and approached the Ottoman transport team in a detour, preparing to catch them off guard.

"Huda Akbar!"

The centurion took the lead in shooting the first arrow. The guide of the transport team who was walking at the front covered his chest and fell off his horse. After that, more arrows came quickly following the first arrow.

The guards of the transport team reacted quickly and immediately stepped forward to fight the approaching attackers. However, the advantage brought by the sudden attack was difficult to negate, so the red head quickly broke into the transport team.

The two parties immediately fell into a melee, fighting for artillery and ammunition. The Yaya infantry, an auxiliary unit responsible only for transportation, was also involved, causing the red head to waste a lot of energy.

In the midst of the chaos, the commander of the transport team sent out a messenger to ask for help from the Lord who was still in the military camp, and then tried his best to survive until reinforcements arrived. The red head, who was still immersed in riding a horse and killing the enemy in front of him, did not bother the "defeated enemy" who escaped.

However, there is a huge disparity in combat power between the two sides. How can a transport team composed mainly of auxiliary troops defeat an elite raider? In order to ensure that the ordnance is not captured, the gunners have no choice but to use temporarily found nails, wedges or other slender hard objects. Block the fire door of the artillery.

At the same time, some people thought of cutting and killing the livestock that dragged the artillery on the spot. Without the ready-made livestock, they might not be able to take away even a single cannon.

"Put down your swords and go to Shuyuan www.zhaoshuyuan.com to surrender obediently. Huda is merciful. We can give you a way to survive!" Seeing that the enemy army had been basically defeated, the centurion began to persuade them to surrender, intending to capture more prisoners.

Many Yaya infantrymen had surrendered, and the gunners were huddled together waiting to be controlled by the red head. They had not experienced firearms operation training and could not see anything strange about the cannon with the fire door blocked, so they happily prepared to take all the loot. Send back to the city.

But suddenly, the sound of horse hooves coming from far and near made everyone who had relaxed become alert again - this team of people was not included in the plan, who were they?

Reinforcements from the siege camp arrived just at this time. This group of troops originally sent by Selim to assist the artillery was brought here by a messenger who came out to ask for help, and came to the rescue in an extremely critical moment.

The red heads had to hurriedly gather to resist like the prisoners in previous battles. However, the performance of these elites was much better than that of the auxiliary soldiers. Several Ajinji cavalry who rushed into the formation at the lead were killed immediately, and Sipaxi who arrived later With their sophisticated equipment, they fought back and forth with the red heads, and as time went by, the numerical advantage of the reinforcements gradually became apparent.

Seeing the arrival of the savior, the originally disarmed Ottoman soldiers began to resist. How could the red head, who had already tried his best to resist the reinforcements, have any spare power to manage these large numbers of prisoners? Almost unsupervised, they picked up the weapons lying on the ground and aimed them at the red head's back.

Under the attack, the centurion had to return to the city with all the living and some of his comrades who had gone to heaven, and reported the bad news of the failure to the superior. This made Ustaji Khan nervous. The "current situation" that the city wall was no longer safe made him directly reprimand the centurions commanding on the front line.

But the loss of the artillery was irreparable. Selim waited for more than a week but learned that the situation was developing like this. Feeling that the chance of victory was slim, he decided to order the withdrawal.