Chapter 193: The Emperor's Earth-Shattering Fist (I)

The first round of Lightning and Pozi ended in a draw. Even if there was a phenomenon of defection at the last minute, it was not enough to make Bayezid fail. But this also made the Sultan more and more arrogant. Facing Timur's request for a truce, he burned it without even looking at it. Now he had no way out.

In the battle on the second day, Bayezid rushed directly and all the troops attacked. Timur saw this and had to send troops to deal with it.

"Hahaha, the rulers of the East are just like this. Look, we are about to kill their central army."

Bayezid looked at the situation on the battlefield and laughed directly. He could march towards the Mesopotamian Basin.

But the situation changed suddenly. Most of the soldiers on the right wing of the Ottomans suddenly mutinied and turned to kill the Ottoman army. It turned out that they were Turkic lords who were forced to surrender by Bayezid. Seeing Timur's army coming, they specially performed such a show as a greeting gift.

Seeing that the lords had turned around, the mercenaries also joined the drama. The situation was reversed like this, and there was no sign.

Timur, who was originally solemn, gradually became happy after seeing such a surprise. He couldn't wait to launch a counterattack. At this time, he didn't negotiate with Bayezid, but pushed over to catch him and made him his target.

The Sultan saw his right wing lost and the enemy counterattacked. The joy just now disappeared. He didn't know why it turned around. He should have won.

"Why, why, why, Allah, why don't you bless your people? Are you going to give the task of conquering the pagans to others?"

Bayezid was furious in the tent. He also knew the truth that if you keep the green mountains, you won't be afraid of running out of firewood, so he decided to order a retreat. But it would be better if he didn't say it. Once he said it, he couldn't control it.

Once he said that the Sultan ordered a retreat, it must be his own failure. Some soldiers ran while shouting that our army was defeated. Now the whole battlefield was in chaos. Timur's army harvested the lives of the enemy like cutting melons and vegetables, and didn't stop until sunset. The Battle of Angola ended in such a muddle.

After the war, Timur defeated 74,000 people at the cost of 8,000 people, of which 60,000 were killed and 10,000 were captured. Bayezid gathered less than 20,000 troops and retreated to Bursa. The rebellious Turkic lords pledged allegiance to Timur, who returned the land occupied by the Ottomans to them and pursued them westward. Some emirates regained independence and divided the Ottoman land.

"The Ottomans were defeated so quickly, and the army has not yet gathered."

Mircea, who was supposed to be in Bukuryesti, was waiting for other troops to gather in Adrian. When Bayezid and Timur were entangled, he had a hunch that the day of Wallachia coming to Anatolia was coming. So a mobilization order was issued, all soldiers who had served were recruited, and supplies were transported to Adrian and Burgas by land and sea, ready to attack at any time.

Mircea also ordered Peter to be responsible for the possible landing battles and transportation work. After Peter got the news, he immediately began to assemble all the navy to prepare for battle, and recruited a group of merchant ships for transportation and firepower.

"It's incredible. The Ottoman Empire, which was once so majestic that the world trembled, has now fallen to this."

Mircea sighed. Seven years ago, Bayezid won the Battle of Kosovo, making the Ottoman Empire famous. Seven years later, he couldn't even beat the nomadic tribes. How can this not make people ponder.

The direction of history has changed, and no one knows what will happen next. In the eyes of the nobles of Western European countries, the prosperity of Wallachia is just like Serbia ruled by Dushan - a flash in the pan.

"Grand Duke, now is the age of swords. Pagans can blaspheme Constantinople and Jerusalem at will. Why can't we recover the land that belongs to us. Now that the Ottoman Empire is declining, Hungary has no time to move east. This is our opportunity. If we lose it, I don't know when it will come again."

General Angelos persuaded the Grand Duke on the side. Mircea thought about it and made the final decision in his heart.

The next day, Mircea wore armor and announced his oath to march east. Wallachia raised an army of 60,000, starting from Adrian and Thessaloniki, heading straight for the Gallipoli Peninsula. Genoa and Venice had also been bribed and would not obstruct the Wallachian army from crossing the sea, and would also transport some soldiers.

Wallachia had spent all its resources, in addition to these, there were 8,000 soldiers of the Duke of Argao, 4,000 Cossacks in the Ukrainian region, and Transylvania did not send troops because it was not convenient, but provided financial support. Mircea's small force had grown into a 35,000-man Grand Duke's personal guard, equipped with 130 artillery pieces and a large number of muskets, the army with the highest ratio of firearms in Europe.

Since the main Ottoman army went to the East for funerals, there were not many in Europe. Mircea adopted a siege tactic, surrounded all the fortresses, and led the army to the Gallipoli Peninsula.

When the Ottoman soldiers and officials saw the Wallachian army come back, they simply gave up resistance and only asked them to spare their lives. More than a dozen castles and towns surrendered one after another, and some of the resistance could not hold out for long.

At this time, Bursa was completely in chaos. After Ali Pasha learned of the Sultan's defeat, he first blocked it and gathered soldiers from other places in the capital to prevent the enemy from attacking. The Wallachian army's re-emergence directly caused his heart rate to reach a peak. His 68-year-old body could no longer support the current situation, and he died suddenly.

Ahmed Pasha temporarily took on the job of Grand Vizier, and he could only withdraw the European troops to defend the capital. This allowed Mircea to kill in Europe, and those Turkish immigrants became pawns abandoned by the Ottomans.

Mircea acted quickly, and in a month he cleared most of the enemies in the Ottoman territory. Now, as long as he occupied the two castles in Gallipoli, the entire Balkans would belong to him.

But the Ottomans also knew that if they completely lost Gallipoli, they would never be able to enter Europe, so the two castles were built after years of construction and were extremely solid. A large amount of food was also stored, and ordinary armies could not take it down at all. But the Wallachian army was not an ordinary army. They bombarded the first castle day and night. This put a lot of pressure on the defenders. Not only that, they also adopted explosive blasting tactics, digging tunnels to bury explosives to blast the city gates.

Eight days later, the Wallachian army detonated the explosives under the city gate. A huge gap was blown open in the city wall, and the Wallachian army swarmed in and captured the first castle.