Chapter 986: The Unsustainable Ottoman Empire

After conquering North Africa, the Qing finally temporarily stopped the war against the Ottoman Empire. Heavenly sound.' 2

After annexing such a vast territory of the Ottoman Empire, coupled with ten years of war, although the final victory was achieved, the national strength of the Manchu Qing Dynasty was also consumed, and it was necessary to digest the captured territory, and there was no energy to continue to attack the Ottoman Empire for the time being.

However, although the Qing army did not continue to attack the Ottoman Empire, the Ottoman Empire, which was in great decline, obviously could not be calm.

The twenty-seventh year of the Ming Dynasty, July.

Taking advantage of the loss of the Ottoman Empire's elite army and the weakening of the country, the Georgians on the eastern shore of the Black Sea first raised their banners and rebelled, and in only eight days, the Georgians captured the city of Tbilisi, the center of Georgia, and the Ottoman Georgian lords were forced to flee to Gori, the second largest city in Georgia, with about 14,000 Ottoman troops to resist the Georgian attack.

Georgia was the land of the Georgians, and the Ottoman Empire's power here was very limited, but the Georgians, after capturing the city of Tbilisi, the core of Georgia, soon expanded to the size of 60,000 troops.

Not only Georgians, but also Armenians, Azerbaijanis and Serbs of the European direction raised their flags in rebellion.

There are also some small lords with small territories, it can be said that the Ottoman Empire has become a spark because of the weakening of the national strength, and the trend of rebellion has become a spark, if it is not extinguished in time, it will definitely become a prairie fire, and when the time comes, the Ottoman Empire does not need the Qing army to attack, and it may be subverted by many rebel forces.

The royal family of the Ottoman Empire is the Tupu people, from the northern steppe of the Central Plains, in the Tang Dynasty a thousand years ago during the Tang Dynasty was driven to Asia Minor by the Tang army, after hundreds of years of exhibition, gradually rising, more than 300 years ago after the defeat of the Byzantine Empire, began to move towards the peak, the establishment of the Ottoman Empire.

From the beginning of the establishment of the Ottoman Empire, the Ottoman Empire has been plundered, continuous plundering to enhance the national strength, the tribes ruled by the Ottoman Empire, every year to pay heavy taxes to the Ottoman Empire, once the number is not enough, there will be a part of the tribe will be captured, as slaves to make up, very cruel.

It is precisely because of this cruelty that so many tribes can't wait to jump out and rebel when the Ottoman Empire's national power is declining.

In fact, as early as the ten-year confrontation between the Ottoman Empire and the Qing army, there were 6 tribes who took the opportunity to rebel against the Ottoman Empire, but at that time, the Ottoman Empire still had some strength, and the rebels were all small tribes, and the big tribes were watching, so it was not long before the Ottoman Empire extinguished.

Compared with those small tribes with a population of less than 100,000, Georgians and others are large tribes with a population of hundreds of thousands, or even more than a million, and as soon as they took the lead in rebellion, those small tribes with a large number of them naturally couldn't help it and jumped out one after another.

The Ottoman Emperor was furious when he received news that several large tribes, including the Georgians, and many smaller tribes had rebelled together.

"Damn it! The Qing army had just stopped attacking, and a group of rebellious ministers and thieves couldn't wait to jump out and rebel, all damn it! The Ottoman Emperor roared angrily, his eyes filled with murderous intent.

The Ottoman Emperor ordered all the remaining Ottoman armies in the empire to be dispatched against all the rebellious tribes, especially those in Asia Minor.

Compared to the more powerful and remote tribes of Georgia and other regions, the Asia Minor Peninsula was the root of the Ottoman Empire, and the rebellion here had to be put out first.

In order to intimidate the other tribes, the Ottomans resorted to the bloodiest repression of the rebellious tribes.

The entire tribe, men, women, and children, were all killed, and not a single one was left.

Although the Ottoman Empire was confronted with the Manchus for ten years, after the Battle of Damascus, the elite army was lost and its national strength declined. But it's a big empire that has been glorious for hundreds of years, and the rotten ship still has three pounds of nails, and the national strength of the Ottoman Empire is weakened, but it is still strong for the various ethnic groups that are still under his rule.

In Asia Minor, the Ottoman Empire improvised an Ottoman army of 120,000 men, and was the first to attack a few small rebel tribes here.

The strength of several small tribes in Asia Minor was not strong, and although they had raised an army of 30,000 or 40,000 men together, it was still not enough compared to the Ottoman army of 120,000 men.

The Ottoman army quickly swept into these small tribes, and immediately slaughtered several small tribes to the brink of blood, extinguishing the rebellion in Asia Minor.

Asia Minor is the root of the Ottoman Empire, and the Ottoman Empire has the strongest control over this place, so it is not difficult for them to extinguish the rebellion here, but it is difficult for the Georgians, Armenians, Azerbaijanis and other tribes that are relatively powerful and far away.

In September, the 120,000-strong Ottoman army attacked Georgia, which was completely controlled by the Georgians, and the number of Georgian troops reached a peak of 80,000.

Although they were all self-formed armies, and were no match for the 120,000-strong Ottoman army, the Georgians soon joined forces with the Armenians and Azerbaijanis in the same area to form a coalition of nearly 150,000 men.

The number of coalition forces has been the Ottoman army, and they are all fighting to defend their homeland, and the direction of the Ottoman army, although the weapons are relatively sophisticated, but unfortunately it is not a very elite army, it is also temporarily formed by the Ottoman emperor, and the comprehensive combat effectiveness is half a pound and eight taels, but the Ottoman army of the labor expedition is obviously not the opponent of the coalition forces such as Georgia that surrounded the homeland, and was defeated by the coalition army at the beginning.

In addition to the Serbs in the direction of Georgia and Europe, the Ottoman Empire was also unable to extinguish, and the 70,000 Ottoman army was defeated by the 100,000 Serbian army.

Disasters do not go alone, in addition to internal rebellion, there is no peace on the outside.

Seeing the great decline of the Ottoman Empire's national strength and rebellions, and the Austrian principality bordering the Ottoman Empire, the Tsarist Empire certainly would not let go of this opportunity to cut flesh on the Ottoman Empire.

In September, 100,000 Austrian troops invaded the territory of the Ottoman Empire from the southwest, taking the opportunity to capture Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro and other large areas of territory that had previously belonged to the Ottoman Empire.

In the northern direction, 200,000 Tsarist Russian troops invaded Ukraine and Crimea, Krasnia and other places, and also captured these territories that originally belonged to the Ottoman Empire.

In just a few months, the Ottoman Empire lost more than a million square kilometers of land, and soon, when Austria and the Tsarist Empire stopped attacking, the Ottoman Empire was left with only Asia Minor and Istanbul, as well as Greece and Bulgaria, leaving only one million square kilometers of land.

In just over ten years, the huge Ottoman Empire has almost collapsed, from a huge territory of nearly 8 million square kilometers to only a million square kilometers.

However, with even a million square kilometers of territory remaining, the misery of the Ottoman Empire was not over.

In the first month of the 28th year of the Ming Dynasty, after half a year of relaxation, and seeing the countries around the Ottoman Empire continue to encroach on the territory of the Ottoman Empire, in order to avoid the remaining rich land of the Ottoman Empire being robbed by other countries, Dolgon did not continue to endure it, and on the eighth day of the first month, he personally led 290,000 Qing troops to invade Asia Minor, intending to take the entire Asia Minor Peninsula.

The Ottoman Empire, which was already in great decline, experienced rebellions and invasions from Austria and Tsarist Russia, and once again lost a large number of territories, and its national strength weakened even more.

Now, the Qing army is making a comeback, and today's Ottoman Empire is exhausted and unsustainable, how can it resist the attack of the Qing army! The Ottoman emperor collapsed at once.

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