Chapter 229 The War Breaks Out Again

The Wallachian army was also lucky. The sunny days were very suitable for marching. The transportation of artillery was also convenient. At this time, it was less than two days away from the Azov Fortress. Wallachia had already controlled the territory between Zaporizhia and Crimea, and most of the Sea of ​​Azov was already in its pocket.

The enemy also made several interceptions, the largest of which was near the village of Kumachove. Although the nomads resisted bravely, they were just paper tigers in front of firearms.

Seeing that they could not fight head-on, they began to harass Wallachia's supply lines. This caused some trouble for Wallachia, but just when the two sides were preparing to fight to the death in Azov, God appeared, and the Khan of the Golden Horde was killed by the son of his enemy.

As soon as the Khan died, unrest immediately broke out in the political center. All the nobles were busy fighting for power and profit, and they would not care about the situation thousands of miles away.

The vanguard troops had besieged Azov, and the army led by Mircea was also marching behind. When those tribes faced artillery and well-trained troops, all their tricks were useless. They had to either migrate or accept their rule.

Mircea was considering the next move in the camp, and Peter's letter had been delivered by ship and fast horse. When he saw his daughter-in-law gave birth to a son, he realized that he had a grandson.

Mircea smiled from ear to ear. He had to give some gifts to the people around him for such a big surprise. Regarding Peter's proposal to go south, Mircea thought about it and asked him to gather some troops to be ready and attack at the first sign of trouble. He would come back as soon as possible.

In order to come back as soon as possible, Mircea also spent a lot of money. He directly recruited several nearby Cossack tribes at the cost of a large amount of gold coins and supplies to let them move quickly to the north and the direction of the Azov Fortress. And promised to share a part of the spoils after breaking through the Azov Fortress.

Azov was soon surrounded, with only 2,000 defenders after emergency mobilization. But the city walls were strong, and the defenders thought that relying on the city wall defense would be enough to delay, but my lord, times have changed.

The Black Sea Fleet fired at the city wall of Azov near the sea, and the fierce artillery caused heavy losses to the fortress in just half a day. When the artillery was transported from the land, the two sides fired at the same time, which made the defenders doubt their lives.

As a result, the fortress that was prepared for a month surrendered in less than half a month. After losing the Azov fortress, the towns in other places also surrendered, and only the Tatars still refused to surrender, so they were allowed to fight against the Cossacks.

The expedition basically achieved its goal. Mircea left Radu in charge of Ukraine. He took part of the army back to Constantinople by sea, and he couldn't wait to see his grandson.

For this large piece of newly acquired land, Mircea directly named it New Wallachia. Because of the relatively backward population and economy, it takes a long time to govern before it can improve. However, it is necessary to sign a treaty with the Golden Horde to finally determine the ownership of these lands.

Vytautas has been watching the progress of Wallachia, and when he saw that Wallachia expanded, he hated it. Why did he fail while they succeeded? It was unfair, very unfair.

Those nobles looked at him like an enemy, demanding political rights or compensating for their losses every day. He was about to give them nearly half of the royal land and borrowed a sum of money from Hanseatic merchants. But the prestige blow brought by this expedition was irreparable. Some nobles wanted to let Władysław serve as the Grand Duke of Lithuania, which made Vytautas feel dangerous.

In order to make up for his reputation, Vytautas began to look to the north. The occupation of Samogitia by the Teutonic Knights was a good source of prestige. As long as he took this place, his prestige would come back. But the most urgent task was to solve the problem in the south.

The Cossack Emirate was unstoppable. It occupied a large area of ​​land in just a few months and would soon reach Kiev. The Duke of Kiev took his family to Lviv overnight and hid. If they could not be stopped, Vilnius would be their next target.

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Suleiman led his army to the east. Since the essence of the Ottoman Empire was here, when Suleiman's army arrived, most areas surrendered. Musa had to lead the army and family loyal to him to the territory of his younger brother Muhammad, which made Suleiman more and more arrogant, and even Ahmed Pasha did not listen.

For Ahmed Pasha, maintaining relations with Wallachia is the best. But Suleiman, this fool, has always regarded this as a shame. He began to not hand over the silver coins to Wallachia every year, and was more harsh on Wallachian merchants. All of this was seen by Ahmed. But his persuasion was a cowardly performance in Suleiman's eyes. If it weren't for his background, he would probably have died long ago.

Ahmed was originally opposed to this expedition, but Suleiman did not listen. Coupled with the instigation of his close ministers, Suleiman ordered the removal of Ahmed's position as Grand Vizier and replaced it with Rustem Pasha, whom he trusted. Then he gave a lot of positions to his cronies, letting them take control of the government, and then he went to war.

One of his cronies got the position of governor of Susurluk, a town located on the border with Wallachia. It had been harassed by Cossacks and other soldiers and nomadic peoples before. This time he couldn't stand it anymore, so he directly ordered all citizens to form an army to attack Wallachia. This order really stirred up a hornet's nest.

Walachia had already made preparations, with two legions already stationed at the border, and other troops on their way. When this mob arrived in front of the Wallachian army, the artillery sent them directly to see Allah. Then the army set out and attacked Susulluk without any effort.

As soon as the other armies arrived at the border, they joined the war against the Ottomans. Some villages and towns without garrisons were occupied. The Balkan army crossed the strait directly to Nicomedia and Nicaea. Many adventurers and Western explorers followed this wave to Anatolia, just to witness how the Ottomans were gone.

Peter announced in Constantinople that since the Ottomans did not fulfill the terms of the treaty, Wallachia had no choice but to send troops to remind them that they still had a treaty to fulfill. Rustem Pasha in Bursa was extremely panicked when he heard the news of Wallachia's renewed attack. He only became the Grand Vizier because of flattery to Suleiman, and he had no real skills. He was about to face a disaster, so he took his family directly to Kutasia.

The whole of Western Anatolia was in a state of panic, but fortunately the big cities had strong defenses and Wallachia did not have siege equipment at the moment, so it was temporarily safe. It all depended on whether the Ottoman army could return in time.