Continental Warriors Yoo Ma

After misleading the crusader scouts in this way, Ma Youfu would believe that he had really left, and then turned around to fight Uzun Hassan with confidence.

After the two sides killed each other in the narrow valley between the two mountains near the small town of Karibi and were exhausted, Prince Muhammad could lead the new force into the battlefield and win the final victory.

At that time, he would even consider whether to kill Uzun Hassan as well.

After entering the forest and ordering the large army to hide carefully, and resting on the spot, Prince Muhammad also relaxed the nerves that had been tense since nightfall.

He put a blanket under a big tree, and just fell asleep leaning against the tree trunk.

Then, at dawn the next day, Prince Mohammed, like Philip III, was awakened by the noisy shouts of his subordinates.

A Janissary ran over and said anxiously to Prince Muhammad, who was still sleepy: "Your Highness, it's bad, the Mamluks are gone!"

Hearing this news, Prince Muhammad suddenly became alert and sleepless: "What does this mean? What happened, tell me in detail."

The Mamluks were stationed in the forest one kilometer away, and the camps of the two sides were separated by a raised hill, so they couldn't see each other.Prince Muhammad and Abu Mansur Nizar, commander of the Mamluk army, agreed to brief each other every hour.

Unexpectedly, at dawn, the Ottoman scout team who went to report the situation to the Mamluks arrived at the opponent's camp, but found that there was no one in the forest, but scattered horse manure on the ground, proving that there was indeed an army staying here before.

Finally, after the scouting team dispersed and searched, they found a handwritten letter stuck in a dagger on a tree.

Janissary handed the handwritten letter and the dagger to Prince Mohammed.

Prince Muhammad looked carefully at the gorgeous dagger inlaid with rubies in his hand and gold-plated on the outside, nodded and said: "Yes, this is Abu's dagger. I gave it to him personally after the victory over Emperor Shenluo in Tunisia. spoils of war."

Afterwards, His Royal Highness read the letter carefully from beginning to end, and then heaved a long sigh. Since the battle with Ma Youfu, the energy and energy that he had propped up was completely vented, as if he had aged ten years in an instant. generally.

"Unexpectedly, I still lost to Ma Youfu in the end. Not only on the battlefield, but also in the strategic layout, I also lost once."

Mamluk commander Abu said in the letter that after he arrived in Karibi yesterday, he received a letter from the Mamluk sultan.

Barsbey told him that on December [-]st, Mayouf assembled a huge crusader fleet of more than two hundred ships—including ten Karak galleons with heavy firepower like fortresses at sea, Arrive in Alexandria.

This fleet bombarded the port mercilessly, which not only caused heavy losses to the city, but also cut off the trade that the Mamluk Sultanate relied on for its livelihood.

Located at the junction of the two continents of Asia and Africa, and adjacent to Europe, it controls Alexandria, a crossroad of global trade today. While the Mamluk Sultanate has made a lot of money, it has also become dependent on trade.Even after joining the jihad, Alexandria is still open to European merchants, and there are no measures such as trade embargoes.

Ma Youfu's ruthless move can be said to have strangled the lifeline of the Mamluk Sultanate.

Moreover, Sultan Barsbey is also worried, what if the Europeans not only block the port and bombard the city, but prepare to send a large army to land?

At that time, the king of France, Louis IX, known as Saint Louis, launched two crusades in his life.The eighth time was to attack Egypt, and the ninth time was to attack Tunisia, but both ended in failure.

However, there is this precedent, which shows that the French are absolutely courageous and have the idea to land in Egypt.

Well, Mr. Napoleon, who was not yet born, gave a thumbs up.

Although Ma Youfu is not French.But shouldn't the French army under the leadership of a foreigner be more worrying?

Sultan Barsbey was afraid that the bombardment of the Sphinx by French artillery would happen 400 years in advance, so he fled all the way back to Cairo, and issued twelve orders in a row, asking the governors of Egypt and Syria to immediately gather their troops, Come to defend Alexandria.

In addition, at such a critical time, what kind of jihad is there to fight? Originally, after Mustain was captured, the Mamluk jihadist army was a complete supporting role in the Maghreb, but they were just Ottoman workers.Now that his hometown has been stolen, the jihad army outside—whether it is the army or the navy—must return to defense immediately.

At such a critical time in the war, the second battle of Zama is about to break out, and the final outcome will be decided. At such a critical time, the emperor's order to retreat is received, but any general with a bit of blood and self-consciousness will definitely not be able to do so. accept.

However, Abu Mansour Nizar was obviously not Yue Wumu, and he didn't need twelve gold medals at all. After the Tunisian envoy found him with a letter from the sultan, the commander immediately accepted the order.

Abramovich is a high-ranking Mamluk who was able to take the position because of his nepotism with Barsbey, and finally sat in the position of the ten thousand commander.

Because of the connection behind him and his seniority, after Mustain was captured, he was elected as the commander of the Mamluk army.

His advantage is that he has no assertiveness, no ambition, and is willing to follow orders.

His shortcoming is also that he has no assertiveness, no ambition, and is willing to follow orders.

Therefore, Abu was able to lead the Mamluk Jihad Army, willingly succumbed to Prince Muhammad, and was only satisfied with getting rewarded with spoils after victory.But when the order from Sultan Barsbey was handed over, Abramovich would not think that "the war is about to start, and it will not be too late to return to Egypt after a day or two", but he immediately obeyed the order and left the camp.

He also knew that Prince Muhammad would definitely strongly oppose his behavior of running away, so he chose a time when the Ottomans were resting for tomorrow's battle, and slipped away quietly.

Now, after losing the Mamluk army, Prince Muhammad's troops have been reduced by more than half.

With his current strength, he is no longer worthy of being a force that can control the situation of the battle.

The hope of defeating the Crusaders has been greatly diminished, and even if he wins in the end, does he still have the strength to get the fruits of victory from Uzun Hassan?

"Your Highness, the Mamluks have only been gone for about an hour. If we go after them now, there is still time." A Janissary personal guard suggested.

"No need. Now there is no basis for cooperation between the two sides. Even if we catch up, what if the Mamluks don't want to come back to fight with me? Are they going to force each other with machetes? How is that possible!"

Chapter 510 Before the Final Battle

Because of Ma Youfu's out-of-the-box tricks in Egypt, all the previous plans and calculations of Prince Muhammad failed completely.

It took a long time for Prince Muhammad to accept the reality. He found a messenger and ordered him to send a message to the Crusaders in Karibi Town: "This is my handwritten letter. You give it to the Duke of Bar. Tell him, I Immediately set off from the Jebal Hills, retreat eastward to the port of Sousse, and then return to Anatolia. The agreement between us is still valid. After I return to Edirne, I will start organizing the Seven Holy Church and the Orthodox Church migrants, to the Maghreb."

After saying these words, Prince Muhammad was in a very complicated mood. He was unwilling, but he also felt relieved.

This time, he had failed and won in the Great Holy War.Because the Mamluks fled the battle, the outcome of the second Zama battle has nothing to do with him now.After returning to the court in Edirne, this not-so-remarkable achievement can still be achieved.

With the huge wealth gained from the immigration business, Prince Mohammad believes that he will definitely be able to defeat your half-brothers and aspire to the throne of Sultan.

At that time, after I use the military experience gained from the Maghreb to form a new army and conquer Constantinople, it will not be too late to compete with Ma Youfu.

Anyway, he is still young, only this year, younger than Ma Youfu.

……

Compared with Prince Muhammad who left the battlefield lonely, Philip III fell into ecstasy this morning.

Knowing that the Ottomans had evacuated the town of Karibi, he immediately ran to Mayouf's camp.

At this time, Ma Youfu was eating breakfast slowly - deep-fried dough sticks with honey, and a glass of jujube wine.

In pre-industrial times, when oils and fats were precious, deep-frying was quite a luxury.Seeing that Ma Youfu was using a very heretical method by Chinese standards—cutting pieces with a table knife to deal with the deep-fried dough sticks on the plate, Philip III suddenly complained angrily: "Why do I see you every time I see you at the table? , you have new food on your plate that I haven’t seen before? You are worthy of being a Serisian for being able to bother to study recipes during such an intense battle!”

However, the aroma of "golden fried crispy bread" still made Philip III unable to hold back.Ma Youfu had just cut a piece, and when the crisp sound of "click" echoed around the beam, he stretched out his hand to grab it and put it into his mouth.

"Well, it's delicious. Only rich lords like us can eat fried food." Philip III kept nodding in satisfaction.

Later, he remembered the business and said to Ma Youfu: "My friend, you are really right. The Ottomans and Mamluks have all withdrawn from Karibi Town!"

"I know." Ma Youfu nodded.

He had received reports from scouts before Philip III arrived.But at least three waves of scouts should report back, and he will be relieved if he is sure that the Ottomans have really retreated.

It's a pity that the troops did not bring the hot air balloons because of the need for constant and rapid maneuvering these days.If there were eyes in the sky, Prince Mohammad would have nothing to do with tricks.

"Ma Youfu, now you can tell me why the Ottomans retreated?" Philip III hurried to the door, just to know the ins and outs of the matter.

Of course, Ma Youfu didn't need to be fooled anymore at this time, so he sent a small fleet to Crimea to buy black soil, white slaves, grain and other commodities, and then assembled all these small fleets into a large fleet. Philip III was told about the armed demonstrations in Alexandria.

"With the various information provided by Mustaine, I have a good understanding of the character and actions of the Mamluk Sultan Barsbey and the current commander of the Mamluk Jihad Army, Abu Mansour Nizar. They all know their style of work very well. When Alexandria was attacked, the Mamluk Sultan would definitely go crazy and summon troops to defend himself. And the Chief of the Ten Thousand Abu will faithfully implement the Sultan’s order, and return to Egypt immediately no matter what the battle situation is.” After talking about his arrangement, Ma Youfu concluded.

"The only factor that I can't be sure of is when the letter from the Mamluk Sultan will be delivered to Abu." Ma Youfu continued, "If the battle is over and the Mamluks receive orders from their own Sultan, it will be too late. gone."

Letters from the Mamluk Sultan must first be sent to the city of Tunisia by messenger, and then delivered to the front line by courier.Fortunately, with Valentina here, Mayouf can also grasp the various situations in Tunisia.

In order to wait for the news from Egypt, Ma Youfu led the Crusaders and has been playing the game of silent war with Prince Muhammad.

Later, after spending a few days in Galdima, he finally received a message from New Carthage Castle: The messenger with the order of the Mamluk Sultan had set off from Tunis to find the Mamluk Jihad Army!

At this time, Mayouf's crusaders began to move, and there were several show battles with Prince Muhammad's holy war army.

However, although the battle between the two sides was child's play, they still racked their brains and went through a lot of games when making strategic maneuvers.

The final choice for a decisive battle near the town of Karibi was also an acceptable result for both sides.

It has to be said that there is really a providence in the dark, so that the two sides finally converge at the place where the Zama Battle broke out that year.

Scipio and Hannibal, the shining generals and enemies of the classical era, have long since passed away.

And now, at the end of the Middle Ages, who can start a new era with a great victory?

It now appears that the balance of victory has clearly tilted towards Ma Youfu.

He didn't know when the Mamluks would get the order from the Sudan to withdraw and return to Egypt.But I didn't expect the good news to come so soon.

After only one night, the Mamluks left.

And Prince Mohammed lost a lot of available troops as a result.No matter what is planned in his mind, whether he wants to continue to abide by the agreement with Ma Youfu; or choose to betray Ma Youfu and cooperate with Uzun Hassan; It doesn't matter anymore at this point.

Because for Prince Muhammad, he has no hard power at hand, and when the odds of winning on the battlefield are close to zero, it is the most beneficial choice to admit defeat, leave obediently, and continue to maintain the agreement with Ma Youfu.

While Ma Youfu was chatting with Philip III in the tent, Ottoman's messenger arrived.

Ma Youfu took the letter and read it, then nodded.

Through the information sent back by his own scouts and the information brought by Prince Mohammed himself, Ma Youfu can already confirm that the Ottomans have gone far at this time, and they will not be able to come back within a day.

At this time, Ma Youfu, who was seeing him, suddenly noticed that the hair of the Ottoman messenger was covered with little drops of water.

His heart moved, he walked out of the tent, stretched out his palm to feel the wetness falling from the sky: "It's raining!"

Philip III also rushed over and found that the sky had started to rain lightly. He was shocked and said: "I didn't expect to get good news just now, but now there is bad news. Uzun Hassan is waiting for this the weather!"

"Don't worry. This amount of rain has no effect on us for the time being. And don't forget, it takes a long time to perform a large-scale ritual spell that can change the weather. As long as the enemy is defeated before the spell is completed, won't it be enough? "

The two looked at each other and nodded in unison.

Soon, the majestic ivory horn blew in the barracks.

This is the signal to rally.

The [-] crusaders quickly filed out of the camp and marched west of the town of Karibi, the village of Dabkatayaha where Uzun Hassan was stationed.

Uzun Hassan also soon got the news that the crusaders were coming out in full force.

He only stayed in the small village for one night, and he didn't have time to build a strong camp.Rather than sticking to it and being bombarded by the Crusaders, it is better to take the initiative to attack and take advantage of your own cavalry.

After leaving the casters in the camp to perform ritual spells, Uzun Hassan also led his army out.

He thought that Ma Youfu would leave half of his troops to deal with the Ottomans, but after the two sides met outside Dabkata Yaha, Uzun Hassan discovered that the Crusaders actually came out in full force, with more than 4 people!

Uzun Hassan tried to contact Prince Muhammad several times, but no matter whether he sent a messenger or used the messenger technique, there was no news.

Generally speaking, the communication circles used in marching and fighting are relatively small in scale, and the communication distance is limited.Now that Prince Muhammad cannot be contacted, either it means that the other party is out of the range of the summoning, or that the other party has withdrawn the summoning circle.

In either case, it is not good news for Uzun Hassan.

The reinforcements released their own pigeons, putting Uzun Hassan at a disadvantage in strength.This is undoubtedly bad news for the Mulholran Jihad Army, whose army quality is not as good as that of the Crusaders.

But when things came to an end, Uzun Hassan had no way out.

At this point, if he chooses to avoid the battle, the morale of the army will not be maintained at all, and he will have to collapse without fighting.

Fortunately, the rain was getting heavier and heavier at this time, which was good news for Uzun Hassan.

The battlefield where the two sides fought was a flat valley between two mountains, but a hill was raised in the middle of the valley.Ma Youfu deployed the artillery here, and then the whole army lined up on the flat ground on the right side of the hill.