I Will Eventually Become a Partner of Justice Chapter 952
Subsequently, Mehmet II sent envoys to Wallachia with 1,000 cavalry in the name of peace talks, intending to take Vlad III hostage to Constantinople for trial. But the latter saw through this strategy, deployed an ambush force on the peninsula in advance, and won the victory.
The following winter, when heavy snow fell, Vlad III seized the opportunity to take the initiative. He led his army across the frozen Danube and attacked the Ottoman-controlled areas from Serbia to the Black Sea coast.
Because of his early experience, Vlad III has a sense of justice and cruelty like a clean freak, and stands firmly on the side of Wallachia.
He does not treat Ottomans and Hungarians as human beings any more than Ottomans and Hungarians treat Wallachians as human beings.
During this operation, he killed more than 23,000 Ottomans, and specially wrote to Mehmed II.
This somewhat excessive atrocity aroused the fear and criticism of the Ottomans, but it aroused the cheers and praises of European countries and Wallachians.
After hearing the news, Mehmet II, who was besieging Corinth in southern Greece, sent 18,000 people to attack Wallachia. But Vlad III defeated this Ottoman partial division in Braila and achieved the result of wiping out 10,000 enemies.
When Mehmet II learned that the Ottoman army was defeated again, he suspended the offensive against Corinth, determined to kill Vlad III himself and destroy Wallachia.
Mehmet II commanded an army of 150,000 and 120 artillery pieces, starting from Constantinople.
After hearing the news, Vlad III immediately asked Matthias I of Hungary for help, but the latter did not send reinforcements. Vlad III had no choice but to recruit the fief nobles and farmers and herdsmen in the territory, and put together an army of 30,000 people to prepare for the battle.
Among these people, there are very few who really have the combat effectiveness of the regular army. Except for the Grand Duke's own guard and the cavalry provided by the local lord, there are only a small number of elite mercenary infantry with some strength.
In order to achieve victory, Vlad III adopted various tactics.
He used scorched earth strategy, guerrilla tactics and germ warfare comprehensively and achieved good results.
He ordered the army to systematically lure the enemy deep, burning villages along the way and poisoning wells. This made it difficult for the Ottomans who went deep into the territory to obtain supplies.
At the same time, he also gave full play to his advantage of being familiar with the terrain, ordering the light cavalry to repeatedly harass the Ottoman army and disrupt the supply lines along the way. What's more frightening is that he also sent infected people suffering from smallpox, plague, tuberculosis and other diseases to serve in the Ottoman camp. As a result, the plague was rampant in the camp, which greatly weakened the combat effectiveness of the Ottoman army.
Seeing that the situation was becoming more and more unfavorable, Mehmet II decided to march directly to Targovista, the capital of Wallachia. The Ottoman army arrived south of Targovista and camped there.
After hearing the news of the enemy's arrival, Vlad III believed that the time had come, and planned to launch a beheading operation to assassinate Mehmed II. That night, he pretended to be an Ottoman soldier and sneaked into the enemy camp, and began to detect the location of the Sultan's camp. As a result, the tents of Grand Vizier Ishak and Mahmud were mistaken for those of the Sultan.
After the investigation, Vlad III commanded 24,000 Wallachians to attack the Ottoman army at night. In this attack that lasted seven hours, Vlad III won a complete victory, killing 15,000 Ottomans at a cost of 5,000, winning the greatest victory of his military career.
Vlad III still remembers the scene of that battle.
It was also a dim red sunset, the color of blood.
The failure of this battle did not destroy Mehmed II's determination to invade. In order to show his determination and strength, Mehmet II invaded from the beginning, killed the Wallachians when he saw them, and regarded their heads as glory.
Mehmet II was determined to sack Wallachia to show the majesty of his great conqueror.
Therefore, no matter how great the defeat was, it could not stop the Ottoman cavalry.
What really stopped Mehmed II from invading Wallachia was the hellish scene.
Vlad III impaled a large number of Turkish prisoners of war and Wallachians who refused to obey his rule on tall wooden stakes and let them die by impalement. Although the entire area is only 3 kilometers long and 1.2 kilometers wide, it is shrouded in the breath of death.
The dim red sunset, a bloody purgatory!
And it was this deadly psychological warfare that finally defeated Muhammad II.
Facing Vlad III's masterpiece, the Sultan, who thought he was used to seeing big scenes, was also shocked. Terrified, he kept muttering that it would be impossible for him to conquer a country governed by such torture. Because this person believes in such an evil way of governing the country and the people. Then the sultan said that those who dared to use such torture were not ordinary people.
So Mehmed II began to withdraw his army from Wallachia. He also ordered the army to dig trenches around the camp to prevent Vlad III from pursuing him.
Vlad III, who successfully repelled the Ottomans, won the praise of European countries. And Vlad III was finally able to free his hands, planning to make Wallachia stand up.
However, he was still one step behind.
The great conqueror who conquered the Byzantine Empire, Mehmet II, was so frightened by Vlad III that he dared not enter the territory of Wallachia while Vlad III was still alive.
However, his invasion did not end there.
Mehmet II supported Vlad III's younger brother Radu III, the "beautiful man" to fight against him. While Vlad III defeated Radu III and his Ottoman allies twice in a row.
However, because of Vlad III's terror, the Wallachians and nobles were also afraid of him, and they all chose to betray Vlad III and fall to Radu III.
Finally, Vlad III was captured by the Hungarians who feared the Ottomans and was imprisoned for thirteen years.
During this period, he recaptured Wallachia after converting from Orthodox to Catholic with Hungarian support, and then finally, in the same year he regained the Grand Duchy, was murdered by the terrified Wallachians, ending the turbulent lifetime.
Only then did he understand.
It turned out that he was no longer needed.
Whether it's scary or ruthless...he wanted Wallachia to stand up, but at some point, he was no longer needed by Wallachia.
Vlad III still remembers the moment before his death.
A dim red sunset, the color of blood.
And it was that piece of sunset that accompanied his turbulent life.
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Thousand Boundary Tree Castle.
Vlad III awoke from his throne.
He dreamed about his past again.
He neither regrets what he has done in the past, nor does he care about the tragic end of being betrayed by the Wallachians. After he became a heroic spirit, the inherent ability [Ghost General who Protects the Country] he acquired already explained everything.
Astolfo is back.
Vlad III summoned him and asked, "Did you see Assassin in Vasha?"
"This... of course." Astolfo nodded.
As Astolfo himself said, although he will strike passively because of the three views, his position is very clear.
"Really." Vlad III nodded and said, "Then go down, Rider."
Astolfo looked at Vlad III strangely.
In fact, he really didn't understand what Vlad III wanted to do.
If it is aimed at Shirou, it is reasonable to send troops to attack Shirou, why let him search? Even if it is to investigate information... why is his face so calm?
Astolfo was really puzzled, but he didn't say anything, he just left with a strange expression on his face.
Vlad III walked to the window between the kings and looked out.
The red sunset outside the window is the setting sun, the color of blood.