According to the news obtained from the previous battle, the reason why the elite main force around Xiao Xuan is so strong does not rely on the strength based on the combat effectiveness of its own cold weapons like the Polish hussars, but on the strength of firepower. If this is the case, then the arming of only a few thousand men is not as threatening as the thousands of ideal professional samurai with the highest combat effectiveness, even for an army that does not have that high level of combat effectiveness.

The reason is actually very simple, most armies are obviously much more affected by casualties in the face of projected fire than in the face of cavalry melee charges, in this case, if you can have an absolute advantage of dozens of times in terms of troops, then the odds of victory seem to be not a problem at all.

In the previous battle, the strength of the new guard battalion and related teams gave the other party a great deterrent, but Xiao Xuan's decision to continue to plan to go south without too much rearal replenishment and recuperation regained the morale of many people.

Today's Ottoman Empire is obviously not the early Ottoman Empire at the time of the Ankara War, and if it faces an attack by a powerful opponent directly from the interior, then the forces that can be assembled are much stronger than back then.

In fact, in addition to the 300,000 troops including 200,000 cavalry that the Ottoman and Persian coalition forces were prepared to invest in the predetermined battlefield, there were about 150,000 reserve forces that could be put into battle at any time.

The cumulative strength of the coalition forces still reached a total of about four or five hundred thousand men after a relatively large loss, and this level of troop investment, combined with the advantage of fighting at home, finally gave Mudra IV confidence once again.

In order to prevent the newly invested troops from being too affected by the previous defeat, after the rout and completion of the assembly, most of the troops whose morale was obviously low let the sea power move to Istanbul to prepare for the defense of the capital, leaving only the remaining troops with decent morale, and the troops participating in the battle were not too many troops recruited and mobilized by the local nobles from all over the country.

Since Xiao Xuan's team conquered many seemingly powerful regimes in Taixi and even the area of the river a few years ago, and even the old rivals with whom they had dealt with at the beginning, the only two remaining regimes in the entire Middle East have been in turmoil, especially after the fall of the Mughals. Therefore, in the past few years, many of the armed forces of the Ottoman and Safavid dynasties that could not be used in peacetime have also largely overdrawn the wealth used for consumption in peacetime to strengthen their war preparedness. The number of Ottoman troops that could be put into battle in a short period of time has also increased from around 400,000 in the past to as many as 600,000. The two major powers in the Middle East can barely afford to fight, and the total number of troops has reached nearly one million.

In fact, Xiao Xuan saw the strength of the Ottoman Empire at this time in a battle on the northern shore of the Black Sea, and even the financial resources behind the troops, and then made up his mind to start a conquest. Because there is no doubt that the ease with which a force of this magnitude can be deployed proves that the Middle East, which has been neglected in the past, still has great economic potential, or exploitative potential. If the expenses for supporting the army are largely converted into economic resources such as cloth, stationery, and shipbuilding, it can still strengthen the power of the sea to a large extent.

Because it was not known what policies the team led by Xiao Xuan would adopt and what places to attack after penetrating deep into the Ottoman hinterland, the fortification system and battlefield construction of the heavy army assembled in Ankara were still temporarily deployed, and the team led by Xiao Xuan was surrounded in the shortest possible time by using the cover of the terrain.

In fact, Xiao Xuan of course noticed this through the high-quality binoculars equipped by the children who scouted for hot air balloons before approaching Ankara, but in order to attract the main force of the enemy army for a decisive battle, he still followed the other party's routine to a certain extent.

What the Ottomans didn't expect at this time was that the thousands of people around Xiao Xuan's core force were so sparse when they entered the battlefield, often the distance between the horizontal formations on one surface was as much as two or three zhang away, and the average density of the straggler lines lined up was about one person or so wide. The formation of a team of about 6,000 people seems to be as big as a strategic group of about 100,000 people. This makes it seem that the coalition forces with absolute superiority in forces want to besiege the opponent as easily as before.

After all, even if the size and proportion of cavalry were far from comparable to those of classical times, effective command of an army of three or four hundred thousand within a radius of more than ten miles was still to a large extent fraught with difficulties and variables.

Of course, in this case, the shortcomings of the team around Xiao Xuan seem to be exposed to a large extent. This time, Mudra IV no longer intended to attack simultaneously from all sides, as he had done before. Instead, the main force of the most elite 100,000 cavalry was ordered to prepare to assemble with the banner, and the cavalry group led by the Safavid Dynasty gradually gathered, and attacked the two wings of what seemed to be a horizontal formation led by Xiao Xuan through lateral movement.

In this way, at a distance of about two or three miles each, a total of 100,000 cavalry groups with hundreds of horizontal formations and a depth of about two miles will concentrate on attacking an opponent with only a few hundred troops, and there is no doubt that under such a huge gap in strength, even if every officer and soldier of the opponent is a marksman, it seems that it is completely able to overwhelm the opponent to a large extent with its strength.

It should be said that even though the officers and men of the New Guards Battalion had once again fully appreciated the strong combat effectiveness of their own troops in the previous battle, many people began to feel fear when they faced the enemy soldiers who were besieging from three sides like a tide with such a thin and weak force. However, many previous battles have given people courage to the maximum, and some principles of combat regulations have not been forgotten in this situation. When the advance of the enemy cavalry group approached a distance of about 500 paces and about a mile and a half, 150 recoilless gun barrel launchers on each side of the two flanks began to use the firepower of the people to deploy fire one after another.

Accompanied by a little bit of white smoke, more than a pound of black powder shelling steel arrows were shot out one after another, in just a minute or so, there were thousands of steel arrows in the direction of the two wings flew into the enemy group more accurately, bringing thousands of casualties and even tens of thousands of horses down,

Of course, perhaps the speed of the horses had already risen, and such casualties did not seem to have been able to stop the torrent.