Chapter 307: Afterglow
John hadn't seen Remy for a few days. However, as to the origin of the Mittal organization, he still asked Hunyati for help in a rather modest letter.
The reply dragged on for half a month. When John was pecked by the gooseberry's beak one morning, Remy stood outside his door with a cower.
"Carujie asked you to stay?"
Remy didn't admit or deny it, but after handing the envelope to John, it disappeared in the blink of an eye.
"Brother?"
"Oh, nothing, it's Hunyadi's reply."
As a mercenary organization, Mittal is undoubtedly quite qualified. They still have the support of a large number of nobles to this day. Although they rarely intervene in power struggles, Mittal's regular mercenaries are quite well-trained. In his reply, Hunyadi did not hesitate to praise this, and bluntly stated that he had also hired an army from the Mittal mercenary regiment during the decisive battle with the Ottomans.
"Hunyadi means that we can exchange enough money for a strong enough army. As long as the recruitment information is released, there will always be people who come to the door, claiming to represent the Mittal mercenary group. These mercenaries rarely disappoint, but the detailed background has not been investigated in depth. Sophia flipped through the letter twice and threw it aside, "It's all information of little value." Even if it was really Mittal and Frederick who jointly carried out the assassination, we probably wouldn't be able to find out who negotiated the deal. ”
"It looks like Frederick must have hired a real Mittal this time. Their professionalism is no different from that of a group of lightly armored farmers. John squinted his eyes and pulled out a piece of paper, "We can talk to Mittal's people." Since there is a response, let's let out some news. Maybe they still have the information that Miss Remy wants. ”
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After such an exaggerated defeat, Farah had no choice but to withdraw the siege. For several days after the fire, the soldiers could not get even half a step close to the walls of Trabzon, and the wooden fences of the frontline positions became an excellent accelerant.
The forces of the three combined legions, attacking a Trabzon defended by only 1,000 men, fought like this, and even when they were held accountable by the Sultan, they needed to apologize with death. Nearly a third of the army's elite was lost in a siege that was almost impossible to lose, and the empire had not received any outside aid. The army of the Liangyang Dynasty was about to move, but in the end, it did not send troops. With half of Anatolian strength, only such a result was achieved.
Not only is the battle damage unacceptable, but after the news spreads, it will have a direct damage to the morale of the army. Just a Trabzon can repel the onslaught of the Ottoman army, as if Constantinople has become a fortress that will never fall in the eyes of the Crescent believers.
Even a few days after the siege, Nikephoros staged a great drama for Farah to come back from the dead.
When dozens of light cavalry, led by Nikephoros himself, held torches high at night and swept past the Ottoman grain camp, Farah knew that the war was completely over at this moment.
It's just one step away. The defenders of Trabzon have also been depleted. In the end, it was the Ottomans who were the first to crumble. First, the peasant and slave soldiers began to flee.
On the first night it was a few or two, and on the second night, dozens of them, a large battalion and a large battalion of soldiers left during the night.
Farah strengthened his vigilance, giving repeated orders to retreat and slash. By the third day, most of the sentry guards had run away.
The way Ossini and Livia defended the city brought them extreme shock, every time they retreated, the corpses they had not had time to clean up would rot under the walls, and the next day's siege, they would stumble on the corpses of their comrades, and finally, become one of them.
"You should be ashamed of your stupid decision! What face do you have to come back to meet our Sultan! ”
Khalil arched his hands and looked at everything beside him coldly, at this time he sat firmly on the Diaoyu Tai, as long as he didn't ignite the fire, no matter how Karacha spoke for Farah openly and secretly, it could be said that it would be easy to remove one of his wings.
Farah knelt before Mehmed II on a shackle and rebuked him in Karacha.
Muhammad was not in the habit of disciplining his commanders with capital crimes. The Ottomans lost a number of excellent generals in the Balkans, and there was a faint tendency to lose talent. Whoever ultimately benefits from the current factional purge in the Anatolian coastal region with unstable rule is likely to plunge the entire Ottoman Empire into the abyss from which it will never recover.
"Your ......, Lord Sultan"
Mehmed II waved his hand and motioned for Karacha to stop the noise. In addition to the relatively satisfactory results of the Athenian invasion, the Ottoman war against Rome from 1443 onwards was unexpectedly difficult to win.
This even led to the lower class of the Ottoman nobility and the folk to be called "incompetent sultan".
"How many troops did Ramani have guarding the Mamluk border?" ‘
"Three thousand five hundred men at the time of the garrison." In the main hall, a middle-aged man in his forties replied, "There are still more than 2,900 people left. Of course, thanks to the Sultan, for the reinforcements and supplies. ”
"It's been three years! Three years! Look at Ramani! Muhammad picked up the enamel on the table and smashed it on Farah's head. Naturally, it was impossible to wear a helmet in the main hall, so blood gushed down the forehead.
"Dozens of shocks of the Bulgi dynasty, big and small! There was even a large-scale all-out offensive! Three thousand five hundred people, who have never retreated, have even launched several effective counterattacks! ”
"How much did you bring this time? That's the brainchild of half an empire! You gave me a fire to be burned by the Romans?! Muhammad's roar spread throughout the court, "Will the Romans be terrified by the slave cavalry of the Burgi dynasty?" Look at their territory! Yes! Karacha won against Varna, Ramani held the entire eastern defense, what are you doing? What are you doing! ”
"Your Majesty...... The actual situation we have encountered is not the same, and we can't generalize......" Khalil sang with a white face quite kindly at this time, "Your Excellency Farah should have done his best, but the Romans are too cunning, and their plan to cheat death, I'm afraid no one can think of it......"
"Then why do the Romans think of our every move? They're human, aren't you Farah human? You! It must be given to the unjust soul of the empire, with a burial! ”