Chapter 459: Sweeping

Judging from the Ottomans' fairly accurate and reliable general arrangement, Xiao Xuan seems to feel that there are very likely to be unreliable factors from the southern Russian generation to the Tessy generation, so that the use of sea power to attack Istanbul may not be so safe to a large extent. Especially in winter, when the sea conditions in the Mediterranean Sea are not very good. Therefore, after the decisive battle, after the follow-up troops of about 30,000 people arrived one after another, Xiao Xuan ordered to launch a purge operation in the Ottomans. Those who are willing to plan and set an example according to the rules that have been spread before can stay, and if the resistance army carries out the screening operation, it will be thoroughly purged in the same way as the southern Mughal practice.

In this way, when the eighteenth year of Chongzhen was approaching the wax moon, the smoke of gunpowder gradually rose from every village on the peninsula of the Ottoman headquarters. The southward pioneer regiment and field troops, totaling more than 30,000 people, were divided into more than 30 forces, and carried out operations in various places as they had in the Mughal area. Because many of the local people are just people from the occupied areas, the people are much less powerful than in the southern Mughals. But even so, not many people are willing to accept the separation of their own flesh and blood, and the assimilation of their children in this area is significantly more demanding. Thus, even after the previous battles, there was still widespread resistance in the operation against the heart of the Ottoman proper, which correspondingly purged millions of local resistance and others in thousands of locations, and millions of children and teenagers who were still good at writing were transferred to other places for education. At the same time, new immigrants from South Russia and even some other places have also migrated in a steady stream, and they have begun a seemingly naked assimilation and assimilation.

If in the past, the cohesion of the lower strata of the people in the entire Ottoman territory was not very strong, but now when this civilization is facing life and death, it still broke out a lot of resistance. From Ankara to a number of other places, it did not take long for a number of spontaneous forces to emerge. As a result, the army carrying out the purge operation had to form a well-established group of at least 2,000 troops to ensure its own safety during the operation. However, compared with the past, the armed forces and militias that have entered the Ottoman heart are no longer just tens of thousands of standing troops, but huge forces, including more than 100,000 militias. As more and more places were tightly controlled, and after heavy sweeps, the population of uncontrollable places was gradually expelled to a small area near Ankara, and the living space of the resistance forces was also reduced to the limit in a short period of time.

Just when the final encirclement and suppression were about to begin, the Ottoman resistance forces in the Ottoman area, which could no longer retreat and compromise, with a total size of more than 100,000 troops, were no longer willing to perish, and launched a collective counterattack, and in a very short period of time, they surrounded at least three nearby pioneer regiments and launched a fierce attack.

Unlike the core elite led by Xiao Xuan, these besieged pioneer regiments were generally only equipped with Tongtie composite artillery that was not particularly good in performance, and the gunpowder was not at the top level. Individual weapons often only have bows and spears that are not too expensive, and the main combat effectiveness is still supported by limited field artillery.

However, the artillery that seemed to be outdated around 100 catties also played a lot of role in the face of opponents with worse protection. A single shot shot from dozens of guns can kill hundreds to hundreds of opponents, but it still doesn't seem to be able to contain most of the enemy forces at a distance of 100 paces. When the enemy group approached and launched a dense siege with bows and arrows and earthen firearms, the shortcomings of the pioneer regiments, which were not very good equipped with only a few shields and lacked effective protective equipment, also manifested themselves at this time. It was only by relying on the superiority in defense that he barely managed not to be swallowed up by the opponent who had gathered forces and had absolute superiority.

However, except for a few gunners who were more eye-catching, most of the weakly armed pioneer regiments obviously suffered a lot of casualties in dealing with the siege of the enemy army. In just one day, a pioneer regiment that had lost more than 1,000 men seemed to be on the verge of extinction. The other two teams also suffered losses of several hundred or so each. If it weren't for some previous actions that made almost everyone sure that if they fell into the hands of the other party in this situation, there would be absolutely no good results, and the entire team might have collapsed under severe battlefield pressure.

However, when the sky was gradually brightening, when the rabble that seemed to be about to achieve a complete victory after paying a huge price seemed to be about to achieve a rare victory, the smoke and dust rising from the surface one after another, and even the subsequent pound of steel arrows, plunged the rebel forces that were still more than 100,000 in size into chaos in an instant.

The only thing that opened fire was about 1,000 elite cavalrymen carrying about 2,000 reloaded, recoilless cartridges. However, because the enemy's formation was much denser than normal, and the defense was not very sufficient, 30,000 people fell in a pool of blood under the first round of two thousand one-pound steel arrows, and the entire attack array, which seemed to be quite large, became fragmented in an instant. When the arrows and shotguns composed of 200,000 needles and arrows came one after another, causing tens of thousands of casualties and losses again, the entire battle situation was completely changed at this moment.

The resistance in Ankara gradually calmed down after the war, and Tian Xiuying, who was with the army, was actually familiar with many scenes. It's just that Yun Xiaoxuan still said a little unbearably at this time: "In this area, the local hostility didn't seem to be very intense originally, and it was only after we implemented some extremely harsh assimilation policies that the resistance began to become intense. Why can't tolerance be placed here in many places such as Tessie? ”

Xiao Xuan said: "Unlike many civilizations that are almost 1,700 years old, the civilization here is only a thousand years old, and it has become more stubborn after learning many lessons from the previous civilizations in the Taixi area. Only by adopting the most severe policy of assimilation, even more severe than in many places such as the southern Mughal and even in the southwest, can this area really become a place that will not have any hidden dangers in the future, or even a local extension that can be firmly controlled... ”