Continental Warriors Yoo Ma

Valentina couldn't help smiling when she heard Princess Yongfu compare herself to a tiger.Afterwards, she opened the meteorite iron box, looked carefully at the slightly dancing holy flame, and her expression gradually became dignified.

"Your Highness, your guess is not wrong. Although this sacred fire looks as warm and scorching as the sun, and has a sacred aura, its core is full of chaotic energy. Long-term contact with this flame, although one At the beginning, it can indeed improve the ability to manipulate and use flames, but soon it will make people confused and fall into madness, and even the nature of order as an intelligent creature will begin to collapse."

When the Greek gods fell in the chaotic catastrophe, it was only natural that Mithra, who was the avatar of Apollo, was contaminated with chaotic energy.

After hearing Valentina's words, Princess Yongfu stretched out her hand solemnly, and her white fingers lightly touched the outer flame wrapped in a pure white halo.

The holy fire seemed to sense this reckless outsider, and many black spots like pustules suddenly appeared in the flame, and began to spread towards Princess Yongfu's hands.

"Your Highness?!" Valentina opened her mouth in surprise.

"It's okay." Princess Yongfu shook her head.

Suddenly a crisp phoenix cry resounded in the room, and a layer of phoenix feather patterns purely formed by magic power appeared on Princess Yongfu's hands, instantly blocking the penetration of chaotic power in the holy fire.

Afterwards, Princess Yongfu nodded in satisfaction, withdrew her fingers, and said to Valentina who was stunned aside: "The descendants of the Phoenix, how can they be afraid of flames? Although the Aries Sultan has no good intentions, this thing is indeed a bit usefulness."

Chapter 510 A Difficult Choice

"I really don't know if this is a surprise or a fright." Valentina let out a long sigh of relief and decided to ignore the ominous flame for the time being.

In order to get the required reward from Ma Youfu, she needs to complete the task assigned by the other party first.So it's better to focus on the battle situation first.

"Your Highness, do you think Uzun Hassan is telling the truth? He is really capable of defeating Duke Baal's crusaders with a heavy rain?"

"From a historical point of view, such battles are not uncommon. There is the Battle of Chibi at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the recent battle of Poyang Lake in the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty. They are all classics that rely on magic to change the climate and environment to achieve victory. battle..."

Princess Yongfu gave Valentina a brief introduction to Chinese history, and then said: "Although I have never led an army to fight, I still have a lot of knowledge about military affairs when I was with the emperor's grandfather. Uzun Hassan is an excellent His general, the strategy he formulated to defeat the Duke of Barr is also quite remarkable. If his plan can be implemented perfectly, then the Crusaders may really be in big trouble."

Seeing Princess Yongfu make such a judgment, a trace of worry appeared on Valentina's brows.

However, Valentina has no way to interfere with matters on the frontal battlefield. The only thing she can do now is to complete the task assigned to her by Ma Youfu as much as possible: to create conflicts among the various Mulholland forces, so that the other party cannot work together. Against the Crusaders.

She blinked her nimble eyes, and then thought of an idea: "Your Highness, since Uzun Hassan also wants to get that magic prism cannon, why don't we help him? Didn't he want to take the New Carthage Shall all the Ottoman troops in the fort be wiped out? We will do as he wishes. Only, at another time."

Uzun Hassan gave the sacred fire to Princess Yongfu, obviously intending to make the princess demented and crazy because of the chaotic energy in the sacred fire.In this way, the leaderless Deming Fleet can only be slaughtered by him.

The reverse engineering of the three treasure ships can make the shipbuilding technology of the Aries Sultanate advance by leaps and bounds.If the layout of Uzun Hassan is realized in the future and Ismail successfully enters Tunisia, a powerful navy can be quickly established.

In addition, the goods, books, and charts carried by the Ming Fleet, as well as the crew members who possess various professional knowledge, are wealth of great value. Making good use of them can quickly increase the national strength of a country.

Maybe when drinking tea with Princess Yongfu in the afternoon, Uzun Hassan was thinking about how to get this miraculous oriental plant and plant it in his own country.

Now that Uzun Hassan has become greedy and intends to harm him, Princess Yongfu doesn't have to worry about her previous affection.

After listening to Valentina's suggestion, the Ming princess immediately understood what she meant, she raised her lips slightly, and said, "That's right, since Uzun Hassan is so urgent, then we don't have to wait until we win. Two days after the White Sheep Army set off, we will begin to eliminate the Ottomans in the fortress!"

"It's just that the incident happened in a hurry, and a few Ottomans are likely to be missed." Valentina laughed.

"Yes. As for whether those escaped Ottomans will report to Prince Mohammed, we don't care."

As planned by two beautiful ladies.Uzun Hassan led the Aries and the Tunisian coalition forces to leave Tunisia and head south to Kairouan. Two days later, a fire broke out in the New Carthage Fortress in the middle of the night.

Princess Yongfu first called the four Aries officers who knew about it to her mansion under the guise of discussing the plan, and slaughtered them neatly.

Afterwards, she took the gold-encrusted goat horn presented to him by Uzun Hassan as a token, and mobilized the rest of the Aries soldiers, including the Tunisian soldiers, who did not know about it, and launched an attack on the pretext that the Ottomans had murdered the Aries officer. attack.

Five hundred Ottoman troops, of which more than 100 were mercenaries from Albania and Serbia.They believed in the orthodox religion, were not very loyal to the Mulhollan monarch, and usually received various benefits from the Ming people, so they immediately rebelled.

Most of the remaining four hundred Ottomans were killed.A small part was deliberately let go by Princess Yongfu, and even "lucky" snatched the horses, fled the New Carthage fortress in a hurry, and went south to report to Prince Muhammad the urgent military situation of "Uzun Hassan backstabbed and snatched the prism magic cannon" .

As for Ottoman's ally, the Mamluks, who were able to break through with a poke, they closed the camp gates tightly in the early days of the fire, allowing the Ottoman army to call for help, completely ignoring them.

After the fire was over, the Mamluk army elected a centurion and expressed their willingness to live in peace with Princess Yongfu.

Princess Yongfu agreed to the other party and made a condition: as long as the Mamluks do her a favor, she can come forward to help them mediate with the Crusaders and ensure that they can return to Egypt smoothly.

The Mamluks readily agreed.

On the second night after the Ottomans were driven away, Princess Yongfu repeated the same trick, gathering all the troops on hand, plus the temporarily allied Mamluks, and launched an attack on the Aries army.

These Turkmens were a little strange at first, why His Highness the Sultan suddenly turned against the Ottomans at a critical moment when he was fighting the Crusaders ahead.However, they won the victory cleanly last night and successfully captured the prism magic cannon for the Sudan. They made a great contribution. While they were happy, they didn't think so much, and even started to hold a banquet to celebrate this victory.

As a result, she was easily defeated by Princess Yongfu.

This time, Princess Yongfu did not release any water. Except for the 120 Aries soldiers who surrendered, all those who tried to resist or escape were killed.

At this point, she took complete control of the New Carthaginian fortress.

Even, Her Royal Highness Princess had the idea of ​​attacking the city of Tunisia.With the strength at hand and the magic prism cannon charged to one-third, it is not impossible.

It's just that after discussing with Valentina, she still gave up the idea.

The fighting inside the fortress of New Carthage could easily be covered up.But if the city of Tunis is attacked with great fanfare, Uzun Hassan, who is on the front line, will soon know the news.

Ma Youfu managed to lure the Mulhollan Jihad Army out, and had the opportunity to fight in the wild, but he couldn't let his previous efforts go to waste because of his own actions.

Although Princess Yongfu has not met Ma Youfu yet.However, the two sides already have some tacit understanding as comrades-in-arms.

When Princess Yongfu and Valentina were busy integrating various forces that surrendered in the New Carthage Fortress, those Ottomans who were lucky enough to escape their lives rushed all the way and finally arrived at the city of Jandubai where Prince Mohammed is now. .

The city is only [-] kilometers away from Wadi Zarga on the shores of Sidi Salem Lake, where the Ottoman-Mamluk coalition forces completed their assembly.

This is because the task of Prince Muhammad is to closely monitor the movement of the Crusaders, and when necessary, use tactics such as harassment, obstruction, and temptation to attract the attention of the Crusaders and assist Uzun Hassan to achieve the final goal. combat objectives.

After Mayouf's crusaders captured Souk Ahras, they did not continue to go south as expected, but marched eastward, walked out of the Atlas Mountains, and captured the small town of Galdima on the mountain pass.

Prince Mohammed had no choice but to enter the city of Jandubai, thirty kilometers east of Galdima, to confront the crusaders.

Every day, Prince Muhammad had to personally check the large amount of intelligence brought back by the scouts, and analyze useful information from it to judge the Crusaders' next move.

This is an extremely mentally consuming job, which keeps the young Prince Mohammad busy every day.But today, in addition to the crusaders' affairs, he also faced another nerve-wracking problem.

Looking at the four Ottoman cavalrymen in the tent whose faces were covered with dust and blood, and the dust was blown by the wind, Prince Muhammad couldn't help but rubbed his temples with a headache.

These four cavalrymen were all survivors of a successful escape from the New Carthaginian fortress.They finally found the location of the Ottoman army, and as soon as they entered the barracks, they shouted loudly to see His Royal Highness, and there was an urgent military report.

Prince Muhammad recruited the four of them to his living tent, asked his servants to distribute water and food to them, and then began to listen to their reports.

After learning what happened in the New Carthage Fortress, his first reaction was shock and disbelief.

Uzun Hassan was not as generous as he appeared on the surface, willing to give up the Prism Cannon.

Prince Mohammed was not surprised by this.

What really surprised him was that the Aries Sultan was so stupid and reckless, choosing to do this kind of thing at a critical moment when the two sides must cooperate closely to defeat the Crusaders.

But the four survivors who escaped from the New Carthage fortress don't seem to be lying.Prince Muhammad deliberately added truth-telling magic potions to their food, so it was impossible for the other party to lie about the military situation.

Since Uzun Hassan betrayed himself and won the control of the Prism Magic Cannon, it is impossible to change, so there are not many choices before Prince Muhammad.

Should they turn their faces immediately, withdraw their troops and return to Tunisia, then storm the fortress of New Carthage, seize the prism magic cannon, and leave by boat?

Or pretend not to know about it, continue to cooperate with Uzun Hassan, and make defeating the Crusaders the top priority?

Faced with the dilemma before him, Prince Muhammad stayed alone in his tent, thinking about it all afternoon.

In the end, he made a decision that fully revealed the style of the future conqueror of Constantinople.

Prince Muhammad decided to continue to cooperate with Uzun Hassan to defeat Mayouf's crusaders.

At the critical moment of the battle between the two major religious camps, even though he was backstabbed by his allies, he decided to put the overall situation first and suppressed his inner impulse to leave.

Chapter 510 The Battle of Zama

However, Prince Muhammad's choice to stay and fight does not mean that he wants to be taken advantage of by Uzun Hassan.

This time, he will be the fisherman who benefits from the fight between the snipe and the clam.

Uzun Hassan had a good idea to defeat the crusaders by relying on the rainstorm caused by the great ritual spell under the holy mountain.But how can Prince Muhammad let the other party do what he wants?

He wanted to lure Uzun Hassan and Ma Youfu to a decisive battle ahead of time, and when the two sides were exhausted from fighting and suffered heavy losses, he would lead a new force into the arena and secure the victory in one fell swoop.

To achieve this goal, strategically requires a series of very delicate operations.But Prince Mohammed has his advantages.

In the eyes of Uzun Hassan, he is a loyal ally who is determined to get the prism magic cannon, and in the eyes of Ma Youfu, he can disregard the overall situation of the Mulhollan Jihad for his own benefit.

Because of this multiple identities, Prince Muhammad can speak in both camps of the opposing sides.

Moreover, in order to maintain smooth communication, the mages in Prince Muhammad's army, Ma Youfu and Uzun Hassan established a communication circle as a link.

This is extremely costly. In order to maintain the communication circle every day, it needs to consume hundreds of ducats to buy magic materials and pay staff salaries.But it's definitely worth it.

The condition of real-time communication without delay is the basic condition for Prince Muhammad to be able to move left and right between the two parties.

Prince Mohammad thought about it all day, and finally came up with a plan that seemed feasible.He immediately wrote to both parties.Tell Ma Youfu first that Uzun Hassan plans to defeat him by summoning a rainstorm under the holy mountain.

On the side of Ma Youfu, he originally expressed strong doubts about Prince Mohammed's behavior of staying in the Maghreb instead of returning to Anatolia obediently, and said that if Prince Mohammed violated the previous agreement, he would be severely retaliated against .

Prince Muhammad explained that he was just pretending, not really planning to be an enemy of the Crusaders, and the two sides finally maintained a fragile trust.

Because of this, the two armies were stationed in Jandubai and Galdima, which were less than [-] kilometers away, but there was no battle, not even a small-scale scout fight.

Now Prince Mohammed leaked Uzun Hassan's plans to Mayouf just in time.The latter confirmed the news sent back by Valentina one by one, which is considered to have recognized the sincerity of the Ottomans.

Both parties trust +10.

Next, the Ottoman-Mamluk coalition led by Prince Muhammad and Mayouf's Crusaders began to stage a "big battle" where you chased after me.

Ma Youfu's crusade set off again.The army marched south along the valley on the west side of Lake Merag, a small lake in the mountains, with the intention of attacking Erkov at the southern foot of the Atlas Mountains.

Prince Muhammad immediately led his army to set off from Jiandubai and followed him all the way.

His army took another mountain road on the east side of Lake Merag.Unexpectedly, when passing through the basin plain between Lake Merag and Nibel Forest, it was intercepted by the Crusaders who quickly captured Elkoff first and then bumped into it head-on.

Prince Mohammad's army suffered "heavy losses"—at least that's how the letter to Uzun Hassan described the outcome of the battle.

Fortunately, the Ottomans and Mamluks are both peoples on horseback, and because they lost almost all their artillery before, there are no heavy equipment.Therefore, Prince Muhammad's army retreated in time with the advantage of mobility, broke away from the battlefield, and retreated north along the Merag River.

One of the two sides fled and the other chased. After fleeing to the northern foot of the Atlas Mountains, they turned to the east.

After Prince Muhammad arrived at the Tesse River, he turned around and went south along the mountain valley. The Crusaders were chasing after him, and the situation was urgent.

At this time, Uzun Hassan's army arrived at Silyanah, located fifty kilometers southeast of Prince Muhammad.

After Uzun Hassan had assembled all the white sheep and the Tunisian army at Kairouan, he received the news that Prince Muhammad had been defeated by the Crusaders near the Nibel Forest.

Judging from the collected information and the marching route of the Crusaders, he thought that Ma Youfu might have discovered his intentions, so he changed the battle plan and decided to kill the carbine and attack the empty city of Tunisia.

Uzun Hassan's command is an all-cavalry force, marching along the flat terrain along the coast, and can return to Tunisia in a maximum of three days.On the contrary, Mayouf's crusaders were staggering in the mountains at this time, and they were constantly entangled with Prince Muhammad's army. The speed was much slower than their own, and it was too late to return to Tunisia.

Therefore, Uzun Hassan speculated that the Crusaders probably wanted to use local superior forces to annihilate Prince Muhammad's army first, and then deal with themselves.At that time, whether it is a field battle or a siege battle, the Crusaders, who have a great advantage in numbers and combat effectiveness, especially long-range heavy firepower, may be powerless no matter how clever they are.

Therefore, Uzun Hassan must support the Ottomans.

Although the per capita horse ownership rate of the Mulholland army is much higher than that of the Crusaders, the tactical mobility is excellent.But the crusaders also had their own special advantages.

I don't know why, when marching in the complex terrain in the mountains, Ma Youfu can always find out the marching route of Prince Muhammad in advance, and then choose to take a shortcut to intercept it.