On 12 May, Dolgon led hundreds of thousands of Qing troops to besiege the city of Damascus from three sides. 2

In Damascus City, the commander of the Ottoman army, Deniseri, also commanded hundreds of thousands of Ottoman troops, relying on a large number of defenses outside Damascus and Damascus to defend against the Qing army's attack.

In the battle of Raqqa, although the Qing army lost 180,000 soldiers, it was soon supplemented by an Indian flag of 110,000 people, a Persian flag of 30,000 people, and a servant cavalry of 18,000 people, a total of 158,000 people, and most of them were wearing armor, which almost made up for the losses of the Qing army, so that the Qing army surrounded Damascus on three sides still had a huge number of 880,000 people.

On the contrary, the Ottoman army defending the Damascus area was only supplemented with a 75,000-strong army, and most of them were not armoured, so that the number of the Ottoman army was reduced to only about 630,000, which was 250,000 fewer than the number of the Qing army, and the balance of strength was at a complete disadvantage.

When he learned of this, the commander of the Ottoman army, Deniseri, was so angry that he almost vomited blood.

"How can Manren have such strength! My mighty Ottoman Empire is not as good as the Manchus, who have risen less than twenty years ago! Marshal Deniseri said angrily.

This is the manifestation of national strength, the current Manchu Qing Dynasty, relying on the rich resources of the annexed Mughal Empire, with a population of tens of millions. After the gradual resumption of production in the Mughal region in recent years, armor, weapons and soldiers were constantly replenished.

After a few years of consumption, on the contrary, the huge Ottoman Empire, which was at its peak for hundreds of years, began to lose its support first, how could Deniseri not be so angry that he wanted to vomit blood.

Deniseri, who is now 45 years old, was stationed around Ukraine's Crimea to defend against the Russian army.

Although he was not as famous as the Ottoman first general of the year, who was nearly sixty years old, Deniseri was not inferior to the old Marshal Gatjiwicz in terms of real talent.

You must know that Deniseri has repeatedly led a smaller number of Ottoman armies to defeat the invasion of the Tsarist Empire, and it is impossible to do it without a certain talent.

Looking at the confrontation with the Qing army over the years, there were battles every two or three days, facing a strong opponent like Dolgon, who claimed to be a great talent, as long as the slightest mistake could have immediately routed the whole army, if it were not for Deniseri's exhaustive deployment, steady and steady defense, and step by step defense, perhaps the Ottoman army of hundreds of thousands would have been defeated more than a year ago.

Hold on to it! Simply rely on the defense of the city of Damascus!

This was the best Ottoman commander Deniseri could have come up with at the moment.

The Ottoman Empire's 630,000 troops, against the Qing army's 880,000 troops, although there is no advantage, but it is an absolute disadvantage, but the defender's loss is always a lot less than the attacker's, as long as the Ottoman army does not go out, pure defense, let the Qing army take the initiative to attack, perhaps another five or six years of confrontation The Qing army may not be able to achieve the final victory.

And Deniseri is betting that even if the national strength of the Manchu Qing is already stronger than their Ottoman Empire, it will not be able to continue to confront each other like this for five or six years, after all, the loss of the Qing army on the attacking side is much greater than their Ottoman army.

Based on this idea, Deniseri really firmly stuck to his actions and never took the initiative to fight.

The Ottoman army could hold out, but the Qing army could not do nothing like this, so they could only take the initiative to attack.

"Kill!" Ao Bai raised his steel sword and roared, and ordered the Qing army to attack the Ottoman army camp in front.

Tens of thousands of Qing soldiers went forward one after another, with cavalry in front and infantry in the rear.

"Boom! Rumble! Boom ----" hundreds of Qing artillery artillery in the rear also bombarded the Ottoman army's defensive camp.

Shells killed one Ottoman soldier after another.

Arrows rained down, and the Ottoman soldiers hid in the defenses of the camp to shoot arrows, while the Qing soldiers could only shoot arrows while attacking forward, and many Qing soldiers fell on the way to attack.

In general, the casualties paid by the Qing army were much greater than those of the Ottoman army, and for almost every Ottoman soldier fell, the Qing soldiers fell by two, twice the proportion of casualties.

Finally, the Qing army reached the edge of the Ottoman army's defenses and continued to penetrate deeper.

The cavalry of the Qing army instigated the war horse to gallop, but even if the cavalry mobility was very strong, but after entering the defensive position of the Ottoman army, the mobility could not be waved, because there were many ravines in your defense in the overall Ottoman situation, which completely limited the mobility of the Qing cavalry.

It has to be said that the commander of the Ottoman army, Deniseri, was able to lead a smaller number of Ottoman troops to confront and fight with a larger number of Qing troops led by the famous Dolgon for several years, he was very talented, and knew that the Qing army had the advantage of cavalry, and in a purely defensive battle like Damascus, a large number of ravines were dug to limit the mobility of the Qing cavalry.

"Boom! Rumble! At the same time, the Ottoman artillery placed on the head ----of Damascus and on the forts in the city also continued to fire at the attacking Qing army, killing a large number of Qing soldiers.

Compared with the artillery of the Ottoman Empire, the artillery of the Qing army does have a great advantage, but the most important thing is in terms of shooting, in terms of range, the Ottoman Empire forged a new type of cannon, a new type of cannon weighing 5,000 catties, which can fully increase the range to the point of more than 2,000 meters, about 2,300 meters.

This is also because the forging technology of the Ottoman Empire is too poor, and a cannon of this weight, if it is forged in the current European countries, can completely exceed the range of three thousand meters.

However, with such a range, it can already shoot at the imitation Shenwu field cannon of the Qing army with a range of up and down 2,000 meters.

However, in the past 20 years since the Qing army moved westward to the Middle East, their artillery technology still stayed on the Ming imitation Shenwu field artillery technology that they had stolen at the beginning, perhaps because the Qing army had been fighting for many years and had no time to take care of it, or maybe it was something else.

The Qing army imitated the Shenwu field artillery and relied on faster fire, and in the shelling, the number of Ottoman soldiers killed was far more than the number of Qing soldiers killed by the Ottoman artillery.

However, the number of soldiers killed by artillery bombardment was not as good as the soldiers of the two armies fighting head-on.

The Qing cavalry could not break through, and the infantry suffered heavy casualties on the edge of the Ottoman army's defensive positions, and they were unable to achieve great results.

"Attack!" The Qing army dispatched their flint teams.

At this moment, the Qing army sent 12,000 flint to attack the Ottoman army's defense, expecting the flint to successfully tear a hole.

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