Of course, even so, the enemy's continuous heavy bombardment still brought more than 10 casualties and even more than 50 casualties to the well-protected army, although such losses had been encountered in previous expeditions to Donghu and even the Mughals, but it was still a bit surprising to encounter such losses only in the preparation stage of the enemy's fierce artillery fire. The tension that had not been encountered in a long time also permeated the new guard camp.

Obviously, the team's battlefield endurance is much less effective in terms of personnel than in the past. To some extent, this also seems to be the inevitable price of ensuring reliability in a certain sense as a guard of the Son of Heaven.

"It seems that the opponent on the other side of the sea has made such a desperate bet this time... Chen Xin also obviously realized that the counterattack that came to land would not be a small invasion of 10,000 or tens of thousands of people, and that the artillery fire of this scale would inevitably be accompanied by the main force of a relatively large regime. ”

"If so, then there may be more than 100,000 enemy troops engaged in the attack this time. If I were Mudra IV of the Ottomans, such a fighter would have been put into the country's 200,000 or so mobile main force. If you estimate the worst-case scenario, maybe the Safavid dynasty may also wade into troubled waters this time... In fact, as early as the beginning of the expedition, Xiao Xuan seemed to have guessed this to a certain extent.

Today's world is to a large extent no longer the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, when various civilizations and regimes coexisted in the East and the West, and different regimes coexisted in the same civilization plate. It is more like the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, after the fall of the Mughal Dynasty, Safavid Persia, Ottoman Turkey, and Sweden were already the only remaining regimes in the major civilizations. In this case, if there is an opportunity or a certain degree of internal response to cause the consequences of Alexander's empire, Mudra IV and others, who are not mediocre monarchs, will definitely not let go of this opportunity. But even so, after careful calculation, Xiao Xuan still believed that the danger of the team at this time was not too great.

In the process of landing, more than 100,000 Ottoman troops, including 30,000 cavalry, 20,000 artillery and 50,000 infantry, went ashore one after another, and did not suffer from fierce fire in the whole process.

Of course, to the surprise of many Ottoman Turkish officers and soldiers, at this time, the army did not continue to advance too far, but began to stop and build field positions and fortifications when it was about to approach not far from the enemy's position.

About an hour later, when it was not too far away from dawn, the vibration on the ground like a tide gradually sounded, and if it was a very experienced general, he would hear that it was a cavalry of about 100,000 scales, and the sound was not very loud at the beginning, but at the end it suddenly converged from multiple directions.

This kind of mass assembly, including the main force of 130,000 cavalry and 70,000 infantry artillery, was obviously not an ordinary army would have the ability to assemble from both land and sea routes. Because the previous main Ottoman forces often had to cross the sea to carry out combat operations in Ukraine and even the Balkans, they accumulated relatively rich experience in terms of experience and equipment.

From some disgruntled opponents in the east, Mudra IV also learned a lot of information that he could not know through the old means before before the attack, such as: Although the expedition team brought by Xiao Xuan personally this time was only about a few thousand people, but these thousands of people were a force that should not be underestimated, although the proportion of cavalry was not large, but in fact it was more powerful than the Polish hussars back then. Therefore, even if you have a superiority of dozens of times in troops, you cannot launch an attack rashly. It is necessary to continuously wear down the opponent in the defense and always rely on the absolute superiority of forces to maintain the siege posture, so that there is some possibility of winning in the end. It is not safe to deal with these thousands of people, or even about 200,000 ordinary infantry groups, and it is necessary to have a cavalry group as the main force to have the slightest possibility of performing "mobile siege tactics".

Therefore, this time, the Ottomans gathered 200,000 elite main forces to participate in offensive operations, and also contacted the main group of more than 100,000 of the Safavid Dynasty, which was once an important opponent, with a total army of 300,000 people, of which there were more than 200,000 cavalry alone. Such an unprecedented army gave Mudra IV a certain degree of courage after all.

In this way, when the sky gradually brightened, an encirclement of about four to six miles in a radius of more than ten miles gradually formed. The depth of the encirclement is as many as dozens of rows, and the thickness is about a mile or so. The cavalry and infantry were distributed according to the principle that this term seems sparse, and relying on sufficient manpower, the army of more than 200,000 men in a short time built a breastwork about a man high or so high on the front line, and even a trench about a person deep in front of the breastwork, and many vehicles, artillery and even shield bearers were also arranged in front, forming a field defense that seemed to be decent.

Successive ground artillery torches rained down like a black mist of shotguns. There are also a lot of scattered arrows from long-range drifting arrows. This was not a particularly heavy fire, and the preparation lasted for an hour or so, and it did not seem to stop. At the same time, the enemy, who has absolute superiority in numbers, does not seem to have any intention of stopping an attack on even a slightly decent scale. Only a few rangers in this case tried to approach to within 100 paces in extremely loose formation, trying to pose a more effective threat with loaded firearms.

Of course, the teams at the front are also wise in this situation. As long as the enemy cavalry approached within 100 paces, a group of three or two guns and guns used a unique combined device to launch a volley. No matter how good the enemy horseman's evasion skills are, it is often difficult to escape the fate of being hit. After suffering a lot of casualties within 100 paces, the Turks finally gave up their plans to try and harass. It was just a stray bullet attack from time to time at a greater distance, as if intended to lure the other side into firing.