While Gompati was being chased by the Ottomans like a fleeing hare and was exhausted outside the city, in Bucharest there was also a debate about whether he should go out of the city to rescue.

One side insisted that the situation was unclear and could not be rashly risked, while the other side thought that it was a cowardly and despicable move to not save the friendly troops who came to the rescue.

The two sides held their own arguments and stalemate, and at this time, the problems peculiar to the "coalition forces" were exposed.

Since it is a coalition army, it is certainly not a single person in charge, and if one of them has a leader who can compete with the other in terms of status and prestige, then there will often be different orders.

As the Grand Duke of Wallachia, Cepes obviously has a status, but he does not have enough prestige and prestige, while Sophia, as a "Greek princess", has enough prestige but not enough identity and status.

Now that the two men were walking together, an army had opened the gates and headed out to meet them while a large crowd of people in the city were arguing about whether or not they should go out to rescue them.

The first thing this relief force of Cepes, consisting mainly of Wallachians, encountered not the Montina army, but the Ottoman hussars who had rushed to the front and tried to intercept Gompati.

This encounter was not unexpected by the Wallachians, but it somewhat surprised the Ottomans.

The experience of the fortress on the bank of the river convinced the Ottomans that the people of the city would not come out easily, so they dared to pursue so deeply that even this cavalry, which only had more than 100 men, dared to go almost deep under the city of Bucharest to intercept it.

The sudden encounter turned the two sides into a never-ending hand-to-hand battle after the initial panic.

With a steady stream of reinforcements from the city almost immediately after hearing the news from the Wallachians, the Ottoman army of more than 100 men immediately showed the flexibility of the Ottoman light cavalry and did not care about the moment.

Having judged that the situation was clearly not in their favor, the Ottomans quickly retreated, even in the face of being chased from predator to prey, but the light cavalry finally tore through the Wallachians' attempt to annihilate them, and almost staggered past Gompati and fled.

After some ordeal, the Bohemians and Wallachians who finally "met in victory" under the city of Bucharest did not engage in ecstatic celebration, but stared at each other with hostile intentions, which threatened to pinch themselves after driving out the Ottomans.

The Balkans did not like the Bohemians, neither the Kingdom of Bohemia nor the Gypsies with the same name.

Even Ladislas II didn't like it, and as for the Bohemian nobility and commoners, to the Wallachians they were no different from the Ottomans, and sometimes they were even more hostile to the Ottomans because of the contradictions between Wallachia and Hungary over the years.

Gompati was curious, he had heard the legend of the Greek princess, although many of the news about the princess was too legendary, but this did not prevent him from thinking that the girl was a puppet.

But now he was a little strange, because the army of the other party seemed to be loyal to the princess, and these Wallachians were very fierce at first sight, and as for the famous Fras III, he had just passed through the territory of other people, and naturally he had heard of it earlier.

Gompati was led into the city, and the Wallachians were obviously not very happy that it was the Bohemians who had been saved, and at the same time the officers who led the team felt indescribably inexplicable.

So much so that when they entered the city, the officer dealt with it casually and immediately went to Chippes, who was waiting for news, to report to him the strange situation.

"Bohemians, actually Bohemians?" Cepes was also surprised, it was clear that it was somewhat puzzling that these were supposed to belong to Ladislas II's army, and it is certain that even Ladislas II himself did not know where this sudden reinforcement came from.

"I'm going to meet the man, isn't he sent by the Count of Montina?"

"Not a man, the man has already admitted that he is the earl's subordinate," the officer shook his head, "but according to the man, the earl's army seems to be a little complicated, and he has spoken of the army in several places, some of which I have not heard. ”

"Anyway, it's a good thing, by the way, did you ask the officer where his count is now?" Chipes asked casually, although he felt that it was a little stingy for the Count of Montina to send such a group of light cavalry of a few hundred men, but thinking about the horror of the Ottomans, Chipes could also understand the man's caution, "Maybe we should send someone to contact the Count, I hope today's incident does not disappoint us." ”

"My lord, I was about to say this," the officer reported with a somewhat strange look, "Listening to the man, the Count of Montina seems to be preparing to attack the Sultan's royal camp. ”

As soon as these words were uttered, Chipes, who was walking forward, froze there as if he had been struck by lightning, and after a moment he turned his head to look at the officer in disbelief.

"Did you hear that right?"

Seeing the officer shake his head, Chipes only groaned for a moment before turning and walking briskly towards the herd of horses tied to him.

"I'm going to see the king at once, God, there's going to be a big mess!"

The attack on the Sultan's royal camp was Alexander's most daring and self-deceptive act to date.

In fact, he had not made up his mind until he crossed the west bank of the Danube.

Located on the left bank of the Alger River, which forms an irregular parallel to the Danube, the Upper Tatar Desh River crosses the two rivers and crisscrosses each other with abundant water, making the Bucharest Plain one of the richest and most fertile land in the Balkans.

Therefore, for Alexander, since he entered the Bucharest Plain, he did not need to carry all kinds of food supplies with him, and the rich countryside was enough to provide him with enough military rations.

However, he also knew that this convenience also gave the Ottomans no worries, considering that when Mehmed II besieged the city for several months without worrying about food and drink, and then had not had to withdraw his troops because of his wounds and the loss of the army, Alexander knew that it would not seem so easy to find trouble with the Ottomans in terms of supplies.

The only thing that could be counted on now was Helva's harassment of the Ottomans in the rear, and although the army's rations were alleviated after entering the Bucharest Plain, the supplies needed for an expeditionary army were by no means just food, and because of this, Helva's harassment of the Ottomans was very effective.

This is evident from the fact that the Sultan had to suspend his march.

In addition, the Ottomans were invaders after all, and it was not so easy to collect grain in the conquered lands smoothly.

Going upstream along the Alger River, you can go directly to the road to Upper Tatar Desh.

The Sultan's imperial camp was there, and around the imperial camp was the Ottoman army of 77,000 men!

Alexander did not think of going straight to the Sultan's army, although he had an army that was already experienced and quite numerous, but considering the disparity between himself and the Ottomans, and the fact that his entire army was not more than a fraction of the size of the army, he sensibly chose to face the facts.

However, with the intention of provoking a war, Alexander did not think that it would be a simple end to send Gompati to attack a right-wing fortification.

Although the idea of directly attacking the imperial camp is not realistic, it does not mean that there is no opportunity.

Constrained by the poor transportation and communication limitations of the times, the Ottoman army had many groundbreaking innovations that had not been seen before them, but the Ottomans still maintained some of the characteristics that had been developed over a long period of time in the military system of military camping, like most European armies.

For example, with the exception of a right-flank fortification that had to be extended along the Danube because of the topography, the Ottoman army camp chose to camp on a flat plain on the left bank of the Alger in a compact rather than dispersed manner.

Among them, the Sultan's imperial camp was in Upper Tatar Desh, which was on the banks of the river.

This was of course mainly for the sake of mobility, but also for the prevention of possible attacks by reinforcements from the interior of Europe.

The Sultan had received a new secret letter from Ashulk, in which Ashulk reaffirmed the attitude of the European monarchs towards the Sultan's expedition, which caught the Sultan's attention on the fact that the Holy Roman Emperor Maximian seemed to have once again sent one of his ministers named Kotschach to Rome, and that the French envoys from far west were also frequently traveling between Paris and the Vatican, as for Castile, which had just driven the Moors out of the Iberian Peninsula a few years earlier, It is said that a general named Gonzalo, who had made a name for himself in the Reconquista, was sent to the Vatican to hook up with the pope.

All this seemed to remind the Sultan that the Europeans were clearly interested in his expedition, not to mention Ladislas II, who is now in Bucharest.

This series of possibilities made the Sultan decide to be cautious, and he reduced his army as much as he could, and at the same time ordered the construction of semi-permanent fortifications in Upper Tatar Desh.

It was clear that the Sultan had changed his mind about taking Bucharest quickly, and he was ready to fight the people of that city.

But this was clearly not what Alexander needed, for whom time was his Achilles' heel.

It was already March, and looking at the fields full of spring everywhere, and even a few bears running to the plains to have fun because of the spring flowers, Alexander's heart became anxious.

No one knew how soon Louis XII would launch a new war of invasion of Italy, and if this "armed tour" was not quickly ended before then, Alexander could be in a terrible situation on two fronts.

So he didn't have time to wait and see any longer.

Taking the initiative to attack, no matter what direction things go next, is the only way to solve it as soon as possible.

And Alexander didn't think things were really going to get out of hand, because he had heard from bits and pieces of news that Bucharest seemed to be buzzing these days.

Alexander did not intend to cross the Alger River directly, he knew that if he did so, he would seek death, and in the face of the most powerful army of his time, although he had enough confidence in his own army, he was not so presumptuous as to think that the Montina army could fight the Ottomans almost ten times his size head-on.

Alexander chose a seemingly helpless but only option, which was to march upstream along the right bank of the Alger River, and then take up a position across the bank from Upper Tatar Desz.

As for Gompati's conjecture that he might lead his army to raid the Sultan's palace directly, Alexander would only lament that his future artillery general would be too whimsical.

The city of Bucharest, the Danube River, and the Alger River, form the great delta of the Bucharest Plain.

Today Sophia is at the apex of the triangle, the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid II is at the bottom of the triangle, and Alexander is almost in the middle of the triangle.

In front of him, across the Alger River was the Sultan's army of 80,000, and behind him was the beloved girl he had secretly vowed to take away from this crisis, and the owner of the great copper mine that he had been thinking about.

Bayezet was reading war reports on Asia and Africa sent to him by his two sons, respectively.

For his sons, Bayezid II was somewhat emotionally complicated.

Because he was competing with his brother for power, Bayezet was even more concerned about how to determine the future heir, especially as he grew older, he was even more worried about who would succeed the sultan in the future.

He sent his two most capable sons to Anatolia and Egypt, respectively, to try to choose a more satisfactory successor to him in the war against the Persians and the destruction of the Egyptian Mamluks.

But neither Mehmed, as the eldest son, nor Selim, as the second son, seemed to be completely satisfied with him as a father, especially after looking at the battle reports sent to him by the two sons, Bayezid even thought that the two sons were colluding to play tricks with him.

Despite the success of the war against the Mamluks of Egypt, Selim complained that his army was too small, so there were many fewer places to rule directly, and as a result, he could not pay Constantinople the heavy taxes he should have paid in time.

And the letter from another son, Mehmet, also annoyed the Sultan, who seemed to have gone well at the beginning of the war against the Persians, but now it seemed that something had happened, and to the Sultan's disbelief, according to Mehmet, it was a little boy who was not yet 14 years old who caused him trouble!

The leader of the Safavids, who were said to be thriving in Persia, was still young, but he had already shown remarkable abilities, especially in spreading doctrines and forging alliances against the Ottoman Empire through diplomacy, and he had caused much trouble for Mehmet.

Bayezid II was a bit of a headache, and he was now trying to consolidate his rule over the Balkans more deeply through this expedition, but his two sons were being disrupted by rivals in the backyard, much to the Sultan's dismay.

It was at this time that Bayezid II heard reports of "an army appearing on the other side of the Alger River."

The sultan, who was in a bad mood, found that he had finally found an outlet to vent his grievances, and as one order after another was given, the Ottoman generals were given the order: teach the stupid barbarian on the other side a good lesson!

On 4 April 1499, the Battle of the Alger River began when the Ottoman army crossed the Alger River and attacked the Montina army on the other side of the river.

At this time, no one knew what this battle meant for the Sultan's expedition.