The defenders of Istanbul have basically eliminated the slave soldiers, not that the Ottomans did not want to use slave cannon fodder, but the previous series of wars, the Ottomans especially liked to send out slave soldiers, and as a result, the dead fled and fled, and even the servant army was exhausted of new recruits, and the slave soldiers were naturally left with few slave soldiers......

Not all slaves can be slaves!

Those female slaves and old and child slaves are not even favored as human shields......

Istanbul's servant army and the original Ottoman servant army also have a fundamental difference, the previous forced servant army was almost lost, and later the Ottoman Turkish Empire under the attack of the Taiping army, the country is declining, those who are ruled and oppressed, naturally began to think more, although there are no large-scale uprisings, but small-scale rebellions have been increasing in recent years.

The main military strength of the Ottomans was used to fight against the Taiping army, so naturally they did not dare to continue to carry out the forced conscription of anger and resentment in the rear as before, but recruited the servant army in a similar way of recruitment.

Therefore, the current Ottoman servant army, which is a one-time unit and better equipped than before, will inevitably be disbanded after the war, for the simple reason that this mercenary servant army is too expensive for the Ottoman Turkish Empire to support......

Compared with the servant army, the militia of the citizens improvised in Istanbul is more reliable, for no other reason than because the fighting enthusiasm of these armed citizens is very high!

They were fighting to defend their homeland, not for the Ottoman Sultan who had little contact!

The Taiping army has long been demonized among the people of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, and the Ottoman poor are okay, anyway, they are poor and white, and the Taiping army will not have anything to lose at all except for a rotten life.

But the rich and middle classes think differently, and the citizens who can live in Istanbul, the most prosperous capital of the Ottoman Empire, have more or less some wealth, and under the distorted propaganda of the Crescent religion, most of the citizens of Isttabol believe that the Taiping army will sack the entire city after breaking the city, after all, this is what the Ottoman ancestors did when they captured Constantinople (the city of Istanbul was called in the Byzantine era......

Therefore, for the sake of their own property, for their wives and daughters not to be ruined by the Taiping Army, and for not to be reduced to slaves and lose everything, the local residents of Istanbul bravely responded to the call of the Ottoman Sultan to resist the war and took up arms!

The bigwigs of the Ottoman Turkish Empire opened their arsenals on a rare scale, and a large number of cold weapons and arquebuses were distributed to the people, arming a large number of citizen armed forces!

They may not be able to fight well, but their morale as a soldier is definitely higher than that of the servant army or even the demoralized soldiers of the old army!

After all, most of the soldiers of the old Ottoman army did not live in Istanbul......

The Ottoman Sultan even selected a number of retired veterans from the militia and issued them valuable flintlock muskets!

You know, most of the weapons used by the servants are still cold weapons!

The accumulation of hundreds of years of the Ottoman Turkish Empire is vividly reflected at this moment, and after several years of preparation, Istanbul has not only been built into a hedgehog-like defense system, but also gathered most of the remaining forces of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, and even the border elite of the Persian Sassanid Empire has been transferred eighty percent!

The Sassanid Empire of Persia was more corrupt and backward than the Ottoman Empire, so the military threat to the Ottoman Empire was extremely low.

In the 17th century, the world pattern presented a very interesting scene, the further you went east, the military power of the countries decreased, until they reached the easternmost ancient kingdom of the East, and their combat effectiveness rose sharply, and the surrounding group of small countries were all vassal states of the ancient kingdom of the East.

It's just that in real history, with the passage of time, the gap between the west and the east is gradually widened, and the ancient countries of the East are still strong, but the place between the East and the West has always been in a state of chaos and weakness, if it weren't for the fact that the expedition restrictions at that time were too great, the East was satisfied with the status quo, and the West was busy with civil war, and that part of the Middle East would have been conquered long ago.

However, by the 19th century, the world had become closer, and the central part of Eurasia was rapidly being conquered by powerful Europe.

Every day, Istanbul citizens sign up for the army and participate in intensive training, mainly on the use of weapons, anyway, these Istanbul citizens are mainly used as a garrison of the city, not as a defender of the outer defense line, and there is no need to arrange any formation.

In Istanbul's outer defense line, the old Ottoman army and the Ottoman servant army were stationed, which was no less than the defenders in Istanbul in terms of numbers!

However, when the Taiping army launched an offensive against the outer defense line of Istanbul, the battle situation was a big surprise!

After the 75-mm rapid-fire guns, grenadiers, and Makqin heavy machine guns smashed into the anti-artillery trench positions built by the Ottomans, the Taiping soldiers rushed forward in a dense line of skirmishers, just like trench warfare during World War I, charging and firing at the same time.

If you look closely, you will find that the Taiping army is a company, some people charge and the other part stands for accurate shooting, after rushing out of a certain distance, the people behind jog forward while reloading, and the people in front fill the firepower gap.

The veterans of the Taiping Army carried out the standard charging mode of alternating skirmish lines.

Because the Ottoman soldiers stayed in the anti-artillery trench positions, the lethality of the artillery was very limited, so they had to rely on charging to take the enemy line.

At the beginning, the Taiping army relied on this method to carry out large-scale field offensive and defensive battles with the anti-Han allied army in Western Europe, because the resistance of the anti-Han allied army at that time was very stubborn, even if the Taiping army rushed into the anti-artillery trenches, it still needed to fight hand-to-hand to win, which was also the main reason for the high war losses of the Taiping army.

Fortunately, the enemies of the Taiping army did not have machine guns, let alone the role of barbed wire, so the losses of the Taiping army were far from the time of World War I.

As usual, the Taiping artillery easily overwhelmed the more symbolic Ottoman artillery positions and blew up the Ottoman troops in the anti-artillery trenches.

When the Taiping army brigade rushed to within 200 meters, the Makqin heavy machine gun was also erected at a high place, aimed at the Ottoman trench in front, according to the experience of fighting with the anti-Han alliance, the enemy with backward individual weapons would often carry out a large-scale counterattack after the charging queue approached a distance of 100 meters, and then carried out a large-scale counterattack, at that time, it was the moment when the Makqin heavy machine gun really wielded! ()

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