Continental Warriors Yoo Ma

A complex expression flashed across Prince Mohammed's face, and he said with a smile: "It seems that the defenses we have arranged around Tunisia are so perfect that even the Serisian finds it difficult, so he gave up the nearby Tunisia and turned to And go to attack the holy mountain in the distance."

"Prince, you look so relaxed, it seems that you have found a way to defeat the enemy?" Uzun Hassan also laughed.

"Aren't you too?" Prince Mohammed responded.

Then the two laughed in unison.

Ma Youfu set out from Annaba and went south to attack the holy mountain. In the eyes of these two commanders, it was an unwise strategic choice.

From Annaba to the desert oasis city of Gafsa near the holy mountain, the entire journey is more than [-] kilometers, and on the way they have to cross the Atlas Mountains and cross the vast semi-arid hilly area.Even the Berbers who are accustomed to fighting in desert areas can't stand the harsh environment along the way, let alone the Europeans who have lived in cool areas for a long time?

"I know that Mayouf chose to attack the Holy Mountain because he felt that it was going to be winter, and the rain in the Maghreb region increased and the climate became humid. Coupled with the additional water resources brought by the Holy Mountain, even the Europeans , can also go deep into the Maghreb hinterland to fight in this season." Uzun Hassan looked like "I had expected Ma Youfu's idea".

Seeing the other party's confident appearance, Prince Muhammad asked: "Dear Sultan, how do you plan to deal with the Crusaders' attack?"

"Of course, take the initiative to attack. While the mountains and deserts are exhausting the Crusaders, defeat them in the field battle! Use a real victory as a gift to the all-knowing and all-powerful God Ankabal!"

Uzun Hassan's confidence is not only related to his brilliant victory over Emperor Sigismund, but also the strength of the Mulholran Crusaders, which gave him confidence.

After a series of battles, excluding the casualties caused by the battle and attrition, Uzun Hassan still had twelve thousand white sheep jihadists in his hands.Prince Mehmed controlled the Ottoman army and the Mamluk army, with nearly 5000 people.

In addition, after the defeat of the Eastern Crusade, many Berber nomadic tribes who had been holding a wait-and-see attitude have now responded to the call and sent troops to serve Tunisian Sultan Aziz II.Today, the number of Tunisian troops has increased to 5000, including tens of thousands of cavalry.

If calculated in this way, the troops that the Mulholland coalition forces can use are actually no less than the West Road Crusaders, and they are all about 5 people.

Although Ma Youfu believes that his army has great advantages in firearms and armor rate, and can easily defeat the same number of Mulholland's army.However, Uzun Hassan also believed that the advantages of the Crusaders in terms of equipment would be greatly reduced by the harsh environmental factors.As an army fighting locally, one's own side can take advantage of familiar geography to defeat the enemy.

Even in the era of breech-loading rifles, Uncle Zulu Hei was able to defeat the invincible lobster soldiers with correct tactics and high morale, and achieved a record that made the Qing Dynasty envious and crying, not to mention the [-]th century In the early and mid-term, what about this era when there is no obvious difference in weapons between the two sides?

As an excellent military commander, Uzun Hassan is not only a weaponist.He believes that as long as he adopts the correct strategy and tactics and gives full play to his strengths, he will definitely be able to defeat Ma Youfu, a formidable enemy.

Uzun Hassan's fighting will is very firm, and he is determined to fight Mayouf's crusaders in a decisive battle.But Prince Muhammad's idea is a bit subtle.

On the one hand, Prince Muhammad got out of the haze of previous failure through his great victory over Emperor Sigismund of Shinra, and felt that he was doing well again.The previous loss to Ma Youfu was an accidental situation under the influence of various factors.If he confronts that Siris again on the battlefield, he won't necessarily lose.

The pride in his bones made Prince Mohammed unwilling to leave Tunisia just like that.He still wanted to return to Edirne with a glorious, flawless victory, to please his father and make his brothers mad with envy.

However, Prince Muhammad has signed an immigration cooperation agreement with Ma Youfu. As long as he maintains a friendly relationship with the other party, he will be able to receive a steady stream of benefits in the future.Compared with the momentary pleasure, perhaps the benefits of this steady stream of water are more important.

In addition, when he signed the agreement with Ma Youfu, he swore in the name of the true god Ankabal, and if he violated the agreement, he would probably be punished by God.

Uzun Hassan also saw Prince Muhammad's hesitation.

He made a condition that the other party could not refuse: "Prince, if you are willing to fight side by side with me to defeat the pagan invaders, then I can promise you that after the victory, I will hand over the magic prism cannon to Osman. "

"What?" Prince Muhammad stared wide-eyed, looking at Uzun Hassan in disbelief.

The other party did not use such unnutritious phrases as "in the name of the true god Ankabal" or "for the brothers and sisters of Mulholland" to convince himself, but immediately proposed a condition that people could not refuse.

You must know that in this great jihad against the European invaders, that powerful alien magic weapon was the chief culprit that caused several Mulholland countries to be suspicious and wary of each other, and they could not unite against the enemy for quite a long time. .Ma Youfu's original plan to kill three men with two peaches was quite successful.

No way, who said that this weapon is too powerful?

But now, in order to defeat the Crusaders, Uzun Hassan is actually willing to give up the prism magic cannon?

The two commanders looked directly at each other without giving in.After a while, the two laughed again at the same time.

Prince Muhammad praised: "As expected of the 'tall one' Uzun Hassan, your bearing and courage are admirable. Well, I promise you!"

After finishing speaking, Prince Muhammad said curiously again: "His Royal Highness, you are willing to give up such great benefits and defeat Ma Youfu, I am afraid it is not just for those empty slogans. A partner who divides life and death in the desert, I want to hear your truth."

Uzun Hassan raised his eyelids slightly, and said slowly: "During the last time the Crusaders besieged Tunisia, those cruel heretics used trebuchets to throw rotten human and animal corpses into Tunisia. A small plague broke out. Even Aziz II's favorite grandson was infected with the plague and died in the end."

Prince Mohammed was stunned for a moment.

He hadn't been to Tunis recently, so he didn't even know such important news.

Or, someone deliberately blocked this important news.

Prince Muhammad gave Uzun Hassan a meaningful look.

If he had studied Seres, he would definitely think of the saying "no benefit, no early life".

It turned out that Uzun Hassan worked so hard to defend the Tunisian Sultanate, and his real purpose was here.

The current Tunisian Sultan Aziz II died in 1434 in history.Based on this calculation, he has less than a year to live well.

And because he favored the alchemist Maher, he often took all kinds of aphrodisiac and aphrodisiac drugs that overdraw his vitality, so the time of his death may be earlier than in history.

During the siege of Tunis by the Eastern Crusaders, the overnight artillery fire and intensive stone bomb attacks from catapults made Aziz II fearful all day and night, and his health deteriorated extremely.

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Aziz II may go to heaven at any time to enjoy 72 virgins. The Tunisian Sultan he left behind should have been succeeded by his son Abu Abdullah Mohammed Mansour.

This al-Mansur married a concubine from Valencia who believed in the Seven Saints, and gave birth to two boys, Abu Abdullah Muhammad Muntahir and Abu Arum Othman (Osman is also a very common name in the Mulholland world, and has nothing to do with Green Rome).

Because of the influence of his concubine, Mansur has a better understanding of the Seven Sages and can live in peace with Europeans.This is an important advantage for the Tunisian Sultanate, which is very dependent on European trade.That's why Mansur was appointed by Aziz II as the heir to the Sultan.

However, Mansur went to meet the true god Ankabal earlier than his father.

So Aziz II had no choice but to designate Mansur's eldest son, Montahir, as the successor of the Sultan.

This point is very similar to the question of the successor of Ming Dynasty who was suitable for the Hongwu period.

Moreover, unlike the situation in Ming Dynasty, according to the Tunisian tradition, after the death of Mansour, the succession to the throne of Sultan should be taken over by Aziz II's other sons, rather than transferred to Mansour's son.

So Montahil's uncles have a lot of ideas.Moreover, their claim to the position of Sultan is much stronger than that of Zhu Lao Si back then.

Originally, the succession rights of the Sultan of Tunisia were disputed, but now because of a plague, Montahir also suffered a serious illness, and then followed his father.

This is also due to the excessive energy required by the prism magic cannon, so Uzun Hassan and Aziz II sent a large number of Ulema to the New Carthage Fortress before the Eastern Crusade started. Recite scriptures and worship every day to recharge the prism magic cannon.As a result, there was a shortage of divine magic users in Tunisia. During the siege, Montahil could not be treated with extraordinary power, causing his symptoms to deteriorate rapidly and his death.

Seeing the death of his beloved grandson, sad and desperate, Aziz II, who once again sent a white-haired man to a black-haired man, also had a prejudice against the prism magic cannon, thinking that it was an ominous thing that brought disaster to Tunisia. He gave up the idea of ​​getting the prism magic cannon, and only hoped that this thing would leave his country as soon as possible.

In this way, Uzun Hassan and Prince Muhammad only need to discuss how to deal with the magic prism cannon.

Having said that, after Aziz II and his grandson Montahir also died, the ownership of the Tunisian Sultan became a big problem.

Whether Muntahir's brother, another grandson of Aziz II, Osman, will succeed to the throne, or one of Aziz II's other sons will be selected as the sultan. Now the nobles in Tunisia are arguing over this issue. It's too late.When the Crusaders invaded the country before, this contradiction was still hidden under the water.But now that the strategic situation has improved, this contradiction has begun to intensify rapidly.

Uzun Hassan saw all this.

Historically, after the death of Aziz II, Tunisia experienced more than a year of turmoil, and the throne of Sultan was finally won by Ottoman.The Sultan reigned for 53 years. During his rule, the Tunisian Sultanate achieved many military and diplomatic victories, and achieved domestic stability and prosperity. It was called "the last drop of glory of the Hafs Dynasty".

But now, after the historical course of the Tunisian Sultanate was changed by the Crusades, the Ottoman may not be able to become a Sultan again.

Because Uzun Hassan took a fancy to this position.

Although he and Aziz II have inherited a deep friendship during the experience of fighting against the Crusaders.But people die like lights out, and Uzun Hassan has no friendship with the sons and grandchildren of Aziz II.Personal friendship and morality must give way to the interests of the country and the family.

Through the recent series of victories, Uzun Hassan has established a wide prestige among the Tunisian nobles and won many supporters.Coupled with the more than 1 Aries elite soldiers at hand, he is fully capable of seizing the throne of Tunisian Sultan after the death of Aziz II.

But Uzun Hassan did not want to be the Sultan of Tunisia himself.

He was going to give the throne to his grandson Ismail.

Ismail is known as the reincarnation of the Prophet Mulhollan, with outstanding abilities, and has a capable Safavid sect following him. What is missing now is a stage to display his abilities.

After handing over Tunisia to the rule of Ismail, Uzun Hassan believed that he would be able to gain a firm foothold quickly, and maybe he would be able to recover the land occupied by the Crusaders westward and eventually unify the entire Maghreb.

Although the Sultanate of Aries is a landlocked country, because Uzun Hassan married Princess Komnenos of Trebizond, the two sides are close allies against the Ottomans, so it is equivalent to the Sultanate of Aries having a presence in the Black Sea Haikou.

With the help of sea routes, Uzun Hassan's Aries Sultanate can form an alliance with Ismail's Tunisia, posing a threat to the Ottomans from east and west, and by sea.

This is Uzun Hassan's grand strategy.

Generously giving the powerful weapon of the prism magic cannon to Prince Mohammed in exchange for the other party's support to defeat Mayouf's crusaders was just a foreshadowing for him to seize the Tunisian regime and then form the Ottoman encirclement network.

Prince Muhammad might not have imagined that this Aries Sultan, who was generous in front of him and willing to give everything for the jihad, actually planned to deal with his own country in the end.

It wasn't just that Uzun Hassan had a deeper mind and a longer view than the young Muhammad.It is also because Ottoman's strategic focus has been placed on Europe at this time, and the conquest of the weak Byzantine Empire is regarded as the top priority.On the eastern frontier, the Ottomans were on the defensive and had no idea of ​​the land of the Aries Sultanate.

But Uzun Hassan knew that given the geopolitical situation of the Aries Sultanate, the Timurid Empire, the former overlord of Central Asia in the east, had already lost its ability to expand due to splitting and civil strife. His real enemy was located in In the west, the Ottomans have risen rapidly in the past 100 years and have become the overlord of Anatolia.

All Uzun Hassan's foreign military and diplomatic actions are based on the basic principle of containing the Ottomans.This is true even in jihad.

For example, in the previous naval battle of Pellaj, which completely reversed the strategic situation, the Mulholland Navy under the command of Ismail deliberately let go of the ships belonging to Venice in the Crusader Navy.

Because in the alliance against the Ottomans, Venice is also an indispensable part.

In addition to strategic considerations, supporting Ismail as the Sultan of Tunisia also has the consideration of maintaining domestic stability.

Although Uzun Hassan likes his grandson Ismail who is far more intelligent than his peers, he is also wary of him.

Because this Sheikh of the Safavid religion believes in the Yellow Moon Sect of the Muhran religion, and is a proper heresy in the Aries Sultanate whose official belief is the Green Moon Sect.

Back then, in order to fight against the influence of the Arabs, although the Persians converted to the Mulholran religion, they formed a Yellow Moon faction to fight against the Green Moon faction.This was also an important cause of various conflicts within the Mulholman religion in the Middle East.

The Sultanate of Aries spans Anatolia, the Caucasus, Iraq, Iran and other regions. It has a vast territory and many ethnic beliefs, making governance extremely difficult.

And Uzun Hassan's most worrying thing is that the Persians who believe in the heresy of the Yellow Moon Sect are gradually growing in power.

When he married his daughter to Ismail's father, his biggest purpose was to win over the Huangyue faction so that they would not cause trouble.

However, this is a stopgap measure after all.

Ismail is only 13 years old now, and he is showing unprecedented abilities.After a hundred years from Uzun Hassan, when the position of Aries Sultan is passed on to his grandchildren, will he still be able to hold down Ismail?

With the talented leader Ismail, the Safavid Church as the backbone, and the support of many Iranian people... At that time, what Uzun Hassan is most worried about may happen: Ismail begins to occupy Magpie's Nest, based on the Aries Sultanate, established a country that believed in the Yellow Moon Sect and was ruled by the Persians.

In order to solve this hidden danger, Uzun Hassan decided to take a drastic measure and let Ismail and his Safavid Church settle down directly in distant Tunisia.

At that time, he will have no control over how Ismail wants to spread the belief of the Huangyue Sect in the Maghreb, nor does he want to.There is no fundamental conflict of interest between the two parties, and by virtue of blood relationship, they are the most reliable allies.

Prince Muhammad did not think as much as Uzun Hassan.He just couldn't refuse the temptation of the prism magic cannon, so he decided to tear up the agreement with Ma Youfu.

However, he did not immediately agree to Uzun Hassan, but said that he would give an answer tomorrow.

"The military situation is like flames, changing rapidly. I hope you can make a decision as soon as possible, Prince. I will meet with you again tomorrow." Uzun Hassan saluted Muhammad before leaving the curtain.

After Prince Muhammad returned to the military camp, he immediately found a highly respected imam accompanying the army and asked him to answer his questions.

"Dear Imam, I have signed an agreement with the heretics in the name of the true god Ankabal. If I tear up that agreement now, will I be punished by the true god?"

"Your Highness, you need to ask yourself deep in your heart, what is the ultimate purpose of tearing up that agreement?"

After pondering for a long time, Prince Muhammad replied: "My ultimate goal is to use all means to capture Constantinople, occupy the city that the world longs for, and transform that magnificent Hagia Sophia into a temple dedicated to the crescent moon." Holy Temple! For this purpose, the Prism Cannon is indispensable."

The old Imam nodded slowly, and did not directly answer Prince Muhammad's question, but said: "The "True God Golden Sutra" says that if Muhran believers are forced by the situation to eat prohibited food such as pork, There is no sin. Because the true God Ankabal is Forgiving and Merciful."

Prince Muhammad's eyes lit up, and he respectfully said to the Imam: "I understand."

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The next day, when Prince Muhammad and Sultan Aries met again, they finally reached an agreement and decided to unite and do everything possible to defeat Ma Youfu's crusaders.

As the commander in chief of this battle, Uzun Hassan immediately issued a series of orders and dispatched a large number of scouts to closely monitor the movements of the Crusaders.After confirming that the Crusaders were still approaching the south and continued to cross the Atlas Mountains, he began to gather troops and prepare for a decisive battle.