Chapter 352: Cleverness

After the first setback, Muhammad decided to dig a tunnel into the city. He drove a large number of slaves to dig tunnels, preparing to enter the city in this way.

Under the whip of the overseer, the slaves worked very fast. They soon dug halfway, and a slave took a shovel to dig forward, and the soil suddenly collapsed in large quantities, followed by yellow liquid, accompanied by a foul smell.

Poor slaves, they were buried without a cry. And those tunnels can no longer be used, too smelly.

Muhammad found that his plan had failed again, and his turban was about to go to heaven.

"What's going on?"

Muhammad looked at the generals around him without saying a word, and his heart was extremely angry.

The next morning, he ordered another attack. On the surface, nothing happened, but when the soldiers were about to reach the city, the soldiers in the middle of the army suddenly sank, and a huge trench appeared in front of everyone.

This was originally a trap that Woick set yesterday to kill Osman. First, dig a trench, then put spikes in it, and then pour gold juice. No one knows why they did this, but it must be that they worked for most of the night, and Osman was not alert at all.

As a result, the golden juice destroyed the tunnel, the spikes killed and wounded the soldiers, and also divided the army. Wojcick took the opportunity to order the artillery to fire, and the Ottoman soldiers suffered heavy losses.

Muhammad did not realize that his soldiers had no ability to attack. The blitzkrieg and mobile warfare that made them proud were of no use in front of the fortified city, and he did not point the technology tree in recent years. The artillery technology that began to appear in Europe was banned by religious personnel as a crooked way. The former enterprising spirit was gone, and they finally returned to the characteristics of nomadic peoples: plunder is the hard truth.

Peter was also on the road, and the whole Anatolia began to recruit troops. Artillery and other weapons were also being transported. So many supplies took time to transport. Fortunately, this had been implemented before, which could save a lot of time.

A few days after Peter arrived in Nicaea, his youngest brother Stefan also came. He also brought a letter from Mircea, saying that he would learn more on the battlefield. This made him a little difficult. Although Stefan was already ten years old, his identity was here, so he just had to watch from a distance.

"Your Highness, three provinces have begun to recruit soldiers, and nearly 60,000 people can join our army in a month."

Peter knew that this was the limit of Anatolia. Although it was a little less than Muhammad, it was still quite a lot. Moreover, his father-in-law, Theodore, the Despot of Morea, also gave his all and recruited 10,000 troops to join him from Smyrna.

The fact that one's family can be trusted is indeed supported by facts. Mircea also acquiesced to this situation. Anyway, this relative had no heirs to inherit, and this place would not belong to Peter by then, so he would let him go.

Muhammad continued to attack Ancyra, and this time he adopted a siege tactic. The city was surrounded, and the position stretched for 20 kilometers. He didn't take the warnings of the Western Rangers seriously.

For the city wall, he thought of a clever plan for the first time. He began to dig soil outside the city to form a hill of earth, which was compacted, and horses could run up.

But how could the noble tribesmen do this? Those slaves became laborers who could be used at will. They worked day and night, digging out the soil and making the earthen hill. Some people were too slow, and the soil and people became the foundation.

For a while, the construction site was wailing constantly. Under such heavy pressure, there were many people who escaped and rebelled. Under this heavy pressure, it was not surprising that some slaves escaped to the city of Ansera.

Among these slaves, there were men, women, old people and children. It seemed that the other party captured everyone. Woick used a hanging basket to bring them into the city, and they sighed that they were saved.

They explained the other party's earthen hill strategy to Woick, and Woick thanked them for the news and took them to rest.

"My lord, once the earthen hill is completed, the pressure on the city will be very great."

Woick thought for a while and said. "I also know that His Highness's reinforcements are on the way, we just need to hold on. Since they want to build an earthen hill, then we will dig it."

The laborers commanded by Osman piled up the earthen hill one basket after another, and the defenders also attacked from a distance, but before the Sultan's order, these were nothing.

The trenches were filled and the earthen hills were piled up. There were also many bodies buried in them. Other soldiers either went hunting nearby or temporarily left the camp to plunder in the west.

Wojcick commanded the soldiers to dig tunnels and hollowed out the interior of the earthen hill. The two sides spent the next few days like this, and Muhammad had to let some people return to the east and rebel.

Because the Turkish noble group headed by Muhammad was too oppressive, some people had to choose to rise up in order to survive. The Anatolians in Sivas started the uprising first. They killed the Turks and distributed food and gold and silver to everyone. And this was just the beginning.

The Armenians launched an uprising in the Cilicia region. They reached a cooperation with the religious groups in Mount Lebanon, and the Patriarch of Antioch also joined in the fun to jointly oppose the Ottomans. Only seven days had passed at this time.

The Druze and Alawite groups in Mount Lebanon decided to fight with the Ottomans. Even if Rome could not tolerate them, they could just go back to the mountains. The Patriarch of Antioch also called on the Orthodox Christians to rely on the city and prepare to hold on. This also forced the Mamluks who were preparing to recover their homeland to re-plan. At present, it is best to stop at Damascus. Let the north be given to other countries and take it back when the time comes.

Muhammad on the front line was not worried about these. He thought that they were all a mob, and he could turn his guns and wipe them out after the war in Rome. So he ordered the army to continue his siege, and of course agreed to the tribesmen to go to the interior of Rome for looting.

When the earthen hill was almost completed, the interior had been hollowed out. When Muhammad launched the attack, the earthen hill collapsed, and Muhammad's attack failed again.

After two unsuccessful attacks and strategies, Muhammad decided to take a psychological approach. He asked people to write a lot of notes in Greek, and then shoot them into the city with arrows. The notes said: Osman came to recover his homeland according to the will of Allah. If anyone can open the city and surrender, he will be made a noble and let him govern the city.

But after half a day, there was no movement. After a while, some white stones fell. The soldiers saw that there were papers tied to the stones, and it was written in the Turkic language: Tie Muhammad to the Roman emperor, reward a lot of land and manors, and hereditary rights.