Vol 5 Chapter 91: The Great Siege (4)

The right-wing commander of the Ottomans attacking Bucharest was the old acquaintance of Alexandria Xi Sugu.
Bayesert II did not choose Sisu Valley to besiege Dembwica. This was not because he did not perform well in the Battle of the Alger River, but because the Sudan thought that Sisu Valley was more suitable for the right wing.
Bayesert II may not be an excellent battlefield commander, but he has the qualities most needed as a Sudan, that is, he will look at people.
Xi Sugu is a very assertive and keen-sense general, which gives him the advantage of naturally capturing fighters on the battlefield, and this makes him obviously more suitable for commanding field warfare than siege warfare.
Sultan knows Si Sugu's specialty, just as he knew that if Su Sugu and Elup would make things worse, Bayesert II had an intuition and experience in employing people.
Xi Sugu did not disappoint Sudan. His army quickly moved along the north bank of the Danube after crossing the Alje River. Before the night of April 11, the leading forces of the Ottoman right wing had arrived at the confluence of the Dembrica and the Danube. Near the estuary.
Many locals in the nearby villages apparently did not expect the Ottomans to cross Bucharest into the interior of Wallachia so boldly, which caused the locals who were lucky and did not want to leave their homes to suffer immediately.
Unlike Elup, Xi Sugu cares more about getting honor and loot on the battlefield. He is also a fanatical believer and regards preaching doctrine as the greatest responsibility in his life.
This made him not concerned about what happened to the villages along the way. He only cared about whether his army could advance to their destination as quickly as Sudan expected.
The villages were immediately ransacked, and the robbers were also sentenced to capital punishment, but the reason they were punished was not because of the crimes they committed, but because they did so to delay the march.
Xi Sugu ordered the army to move forward quickly, while ordering people to closely watch the direction of Bucharest. He had a hunch that he might meet the Earl of Montina again.
Xi Sugu guessed this because of what the Sudan said to them when they arranged the mission.
"Those Europeans regard Dembuica as a holy place, and they will spare no effort to defend that small city, so what you have to do is not just to quickly capture Dembuica, but to make it like a huge bait. It attracted more enemies, so much so that even if the coalition knew it was a trap, they had to invest in it, or that they had to rely on only one army to protect Bucharest ’s right wing, which was really important to us. "
From the beginning, Sudan apparently did not intend to cover up his purpose, and even the troops of the north and south wings launched attacks in the direction of Bucharest almost simultaneously.
But as the Sudan said, even if you know the difficulties you may face, the significance of the Holy Land has doomed the coalition to be unable to give up Demwica.
So when everyone regards saving the Holy Land as their responsibility and great ambition, it seems that the only one who can be sent to the right wing to resist the Ottomans is Alexander ’s army.
This judgment is actually not complicated. When Xi Sugu guessed the result, he was a little bit excited.
The battle of the Alger River let Xi Sugu "know" an opponent, and since then he hopes to meet that Montina again on the battlefield.
However, Xi Sugu is not the kind of person who does not hesitate to honor. He is very aware of his responsibility. If he is asked to choose between two contests with Alexander and victory, he will not hesitate to choose. the latter.
Because the scouts have been repeatedly investigated before, Sisu Valley is well aware of the Bucharest ’s defense in the lower reaches of the Dembuwica River. He knows that there are few decent fortresses along the lower reaches of the river, and more importantly, there is a great threat to attack from the river Almost all of the fortresses along the river are placed in the upstream section, which makes Xi Sugu believe that it should not take too much time to control the entire downstream coast.
Xi Sugu also considered whether Alexander would take the initiative to intercept him, but after careful deliberation he rejected this conjecture.
"Either the number of troops or the situation is detrimental to that person. If he is too far from Bucharest city, he will face the danger of being cut off. The smartest way at this time is to prudent defense instead of being a hero. In my opinion The Earl of Montina is indeed brave, but he is never reckless, so he may try to stop our attack, but he will not give up in favor of him, unless he has a reason to take the initiative. "
This is Xi Sugu ’s guess about Alexander, and he is indeed right. Although Ladislas II expressed his strong hope that Alexander could "defend the enemy from the outer suburbs of Bucharest", Alexander did not make any hint to the king. Any response.
After returning to his residence, he called Prato, who was free from his first day, to himself. After asking him again carefully about the Ottoman Elup, he sent Prato out and took it out. The letter that Elup wrote to him.
Speaking of which the letter could be safely delivered to Alexander, Prato did take a lot of risk, and he did get a lot of credit, even though he remembered that he sold his clean teeth and itchy, but Alexander decided to forgive Prato.
As for Moorco, it is said that he decided to follow Cepes in the battle to rescue Dembuica.
According to Morco himself, "If you can't return with honor, then use death to relieve my troubles."
Elup ’s letter is very simple. If it is not a person who knows the inside, he ca n’t even see what it means from the content of the letter. This is what Elup does to prevent the letter from falling into the hands of others.
But for Alexander, although there were only a few words in the letter, it was enough.
"Dear friend, I want to tell you what I know. There are more bronzes in the collection than you think, but we all know who the real rich man is, so if I can make that person willing to be generous to you , Tell me how are you going to return me? "
Such a dim letter would certainly not reveal any secrets, but Alexander had read it several times.
He determined that Elup did n’t write such an inexplicable letter to her on a whim, so he could only explain one thing. The Ottoman who is now the governor of the occupied area already knew his plan, including let Prato Collect copper goods and throw them to the market.
Alexander didn't know how to reveal the secret, so he even temporarily forgave Prato's "sell" to him, but repeatedly asked, hoping to find out from Prato's reason why the other party could spy on his plan.
But apart from knowing that the Ottoman seemed to have a close relationship with Ashurk, he could not get any other answer.
And from what Prato said, Alexander had a feeling that it seemed that the Ottoman knew him more than he thought.
This made Alexander feel uncomfortable, and he vaguely had a hunch that this Ottoman might cause him a lot of trouble in the future.
The coalition forces led by Zeppes had already departed when the Ottomans launched their first attack on Dembwica.
In order to rush to Dembuvica as quickly as possible, Cepes sent his Wallachian cavalry. These cavalry who had the marvelous pace of running like camels quickly approached along the banks of the river from south to north to Dembuvica. The fear mentioned by Yu Sultan may be threatened by the Ottomans on his flank, and Zepes sent a large number of scouts west to guard against possible ambush.
In fact, when Alexander mentioned at the meeting of nobility that this might be an Ottoman trap, Cepes had already thought that what he said was probably a fact.
But even knowing that, no matter what considerations, Cepes had to vigorously advocate sending troops to rescue Dembwica.
Only with the news sent by scouts one after another, Zepes realized that the situation might be more critical than he thought.
The Ottomans built simple camps in the suburbs of Dembuica, and at the same time they sent a large group of cavalry to the south. Obviously, as Alexander guessed, the Ottomans were trying to intercept Bucharest's reinforcements through non-stop harassment.
Cepes secretly rejoiced that the fortresses along the river provided him with important protection, especially those large forts with heavy artillery. Their presence made the Ottomans add more scruples.
But even so, there are almost thirty miles from the closest fortress to Dembuica, and this road is undoubtedly a severe test for Zepes.
Zeppes decided to divide his army into two parts, an army composed entirely of cavalry led by himself, and the other infantry and squadron to a trusted noble Wallachia.
Zeppes knew he had to be ready to fight against a large group of enemy cavalry, and whether his cavalry could break through the interception of the Ottoman cavalry was a matter of whether the entire support army could reach Dembuica.
In the afternoon of April 13th, the Wallachia cavalry who had separated from the large army began to move towards Bukrcany in the outer suburbs of Denbuvica. According to the reconnaissance report before the scout, the Ottomans had a team in front of Bukrcany. Large cavalry unit.
And here is also the nearest fortress along the river from Denbuvica. After Buklcany, Cepes ’s army will completely lose its shelter from the fortress.
In order to take the initiative in encouraging morale during the first head-on confrontation with the Ottomans, Zeppes led the troops in front of the army.
In the cavalry team, a young knight prayed with a cross on his chest while stroking the sword on the saddle with his hands.
He was Moorco, and he volunteered to join Zepez ’s army the night before, and on an earlier day, Moorco had just experienced a weird experience that made him unspeakable.
That experience made him strange to find that Aloxia's shadow in his mind was gradually fading away, while the figure of another girl that he could not describe was getting clearer and clearer.
In fact, from the beginning to the end, Sophia was very impressed, even rude, and unreasonable, but it may be this peculiar attitude that made Moore ’s impression of the Greek princess from the past just amazing A lot deeper.
Perhaps it was because Sophia kept chatting about Alexandria, and Morco was even more disgusted with the Earl of Montina. He felt that the man was the enemy of his natural enemy, but he also knew that in his current status Probably contend with that person.
This made Moore have an unprecedented desire for honor and martial arts, even if he knew that it might be dangerous, but he still decided to join Zepes' reinforcements.
"God, give us a glorious war."
Moore could not help crying in his heart. He felt that in his more than two decades of career, he has never been as eager for war as he is now.
A series of moving black dots appeared on the undulating horizon in the distance. Zepez took a close look at the horse, and after a while he waved to the scouts who were already waiting for orders.
The scout quickly urged the horse to run forward, looking at the scout that was going away, and Zeppes said to those around him: "Those should be Ottomans, I hope our first battle will not be too bad."
"Your Highness, we will bring you a victory," one noble said loudly, but his words did not cause a response. Everyone looked at the horizon in the distance with worried eyes.
"We really need a victory," Zeppes didn't care about people's silence. He slowly led the horse in front of the team and slowly looked towards the cavalry team that was spreading out on both sides with a command. See, Zeppes exhaled gently, and then dropped his shoulders as if to relax a lot. He turned his head to look in the direction of the enemy's appearance just now, and whispered, "This is what you all owe me and my father. "
Zepes's voice just fell, and several black dots appeared again in the distance, and then these black dots became more and more. With the faint vibration from the ground, the Ottoman cavalry appeared on the horizon like a wave that could not see the head. on.
Looking at the surging black spots, Zepes narrowed his eyes slightly, and just after the thought of what seemed to be Sophia's usual movement just flashed in his mind, Zepes had already drawn his long sword from his waist and shouted: "charge!"
When Zepes launched an attack on the Ottomans, another thing was happening on the Black Sea coast, far southeast of Wallachia.
On the morning of April 13th, the sun had just exposed half of its face from the sparkling and wavy surface of the Black Sea. The red morning light smeared the rugged cliffs on the coast with a layer of magnificent brilliance. Appeared on the horizon in the distance, and then the boat shadow gradually approached. With the more and more clear, the logo on the boat also entered the eyes of people who were busy halfway that day.
This is a ship that hangs the emblem of a typical European country instead of the conspicuous crescent flag. Seeing that the hull is so steady on the sea, there should be a lot of cargo on board.
The fishermen who were packing up the fishing nets on the shore raised their hands curiously to cover their eyes and looked at the boat. Speaking of which there are fewer and fewer ships coming and going, as the Prosperus Strait fell into the hands of the Ottomans, they were contained There are few ships from Europe in the Black Sea that has a throat.
This is an unnamed pier. Earlier in the past, because there were still many merchant ships from Europe or Asia, it was still prosperous. However, the fleet from Europe has almost disappeared, and the ships from Asia are more worried about the emergence of the local. Not a merchant ship but a battleship of the Ottoman Navy.
Because it was downwind, the speed of the ship seemed to be slow and fast. When the sun was about to rise to the top of the ship's mast, the two-masted row oar had entered a bay shaped like a half-curved moon.
This bay is a natural port. Although there are no large-scale docks, most of the nearby ships will temporarily stop here, which provides local people with many opportunities. Relying on these ships, the bay has already Although it is small, it has gathered hundreds of families. In some places where the terrain is flat and suitable for large ships to dock, even a few simple docks have been built.
The boat was not shallow, so the anchor was placed far away from the shore, and a small boat was put down and dangled towards the pier on the shore. From a distance, the silhouette of the boat could be seen.
The boat quickly landed on the side of a wooden pier that reached the water. A group of local children who had heard the news immediately swarmed up. They were all children in the nearby villages, and they did something specifically for the ships. Live to supplement the family.
But what disappointed these children was that there was only one person on board, and this person did not bring any luggage. Except for a saber hanging around his waist, this person was alone with nothing extra.
The children were disappointed and dissipated, leaving only two adults looking straight at this lip with two slightly upturned beards, a sloppyly dressed man.
"Pay your tax money," one of the chubby people said to the stranger. "If there is no cash to pay for the goods, we will collect everything." He then added another sentence "Except fish ~ www.mtlnovel. com ~ we have enough fish already. "
The fat man's eyes crossed the man's shoulder with curiosity and looked at the brig on the far sea: "It looks quite heavy, and it's packed a lot."
"Fortunately," the man shrugged. "There are pirates everywhere now, especially those Ottomans. It's good that my ship can get here."
The man ’s accent is a bit special, and he ca n’t hear where he is, but the two of them can still understand him.
After hearing the man's words, the two nodded in sympathy. The days at sea were not easy. In addition to dealing with the bad weather, they also had to deal with wanton pirates. It is indeed a headache to think about.
"But you still have to pay taxes" The fat man suddenly remembered his duties and bluffed his face with a fierce tone and said, "Don't fish."
The man glanced at the fat man and looked at another person next to him. Then he took out a peculiar gold coin from the bag hanging around his waist and squeezed in front of the two with two fingers.
"I'll give you two gold coins, but you have to tell me, who controls this pimple now?"