"There is an ambush! There's an ambush!"

"Enemy Attack—Enemy Attack—"

In the continuous sound of gunfire, the Turkish army that broke through from Suchava fell into the ambush of the Xia army, and there were piercing gunfire in all directions, and projectiles flew densely from all sides, shooting the soldiers in the queue in pieces.

"Damn it, return fire! Fight back! Don't mess around!"

Waelding his saber and shouting loudly, Koprulu Mustafa Pasha ordered the soldiers around him, who had been caught up in a brief confusion due to the ambush, to regroup and return fire.

His voice was quickly drowned out in this noisy battlefield, but it still reached the ears of some of the soldiers, who shouted to get closer to Koprulu, but at this moment, a projectile from the breech of the light infantry slashed across the battlefield, passed through the shaking crowd, and shot Koprulu in the chest without anyone noticing.

Koplulu, who was still riding on horseback and brandishing his saber and shouting orders, only felt a sharp pain in his chest, and there was a small bullet hole in the scale armor on his chest that was oozing blood.

Bang –

Koplulu, who had fallen off his horse heavily, fell to the ground on his back, which suddenly aggravated his injuries, and his head was even more severe, and the wound on his chest made his vitality pass quickly, and the sight in front of him gradually turned a hideous red.

Looking at the ever-turning red sky, Koplulu's memory regressed rapidly, like a marquee in front of his eyes.

A few hours ago.

"Speed up the march, we must get out of here before the enemy catches up!"

After abandoning Suceava's division, the Turks broke through with the corpses of Lithuanian soldiers, and the army of the Principality of Moldavia followed closely behind the Rumelia Regiment as the rear army.

The strength of the Xia army left a great psychological shadow in the hearts of every soldier, so after breaking through, they actually had the joy of the rest of their lives for a while.

However, as the supreme commander of the whole army, Koprulu did not feel happy, after a series of battles, the soldiers who were able to break through with him so far, even if they added the army of the principality of Moldavia, there were only nearly 20,000 soldiers, and in order to be able to break through smoothly, they almost gave up all their heavy weapons, that is, they are now lightly armed.

Although the artillery was abandoned by them, they also knew that the artillery should not be left to the enemy, so when they evacuated, they did not forget to nail the artillery with a wedge, so that the coalition forces could not capture their artillery to attack them.

Koprulu's heart was full of apprehension, and he knew that he had killed so many soldiers in battle, and lost a lot of valuable artillery, and when he returned to Constantinier, even if he was the brother of the Great Vizier, the latter would not be able to save him—the death penalty could be avoided, but the living crime could not be escaped.

So far, he can only make up for his mistakes as much as possible, completely blocking the coalition army on the north bank of the Danube, preventing the coalition army from continuing to move south, which may also alleviate his crimes.

Fortunately, he divided his troops to the Danube River in advance to build a defensive line, and when he led his troops to withdraw there, he could directly consolidate the defensive line that had already been built, instead of shouting and shouting about temporary construction.

Thinking of this, Koplulu only felt a little regretful, it turned out that what he proposed before was very reasonable, if he had followed his proposal to withdraw to the Danube at that time, then he would definitely not have fallen to this point now.

However, there is no regret pill in this world.

Just when Koprulu was remorseful, a messenger rode from the Moldavian army behind, and the Moldavian governor Georgi III spotted the Xia army chasing after them, and hurriedly sent a messenger to report to Koprulu and ask him how to deal with it.

Knowing that the Xia army was actually chasing after him, Koplulu was suddenly a little annoyed, he gave up Suchava, and these damn Orientals were still in hot pursuit.

He wanted to lead the army to stop and turn back and counterattack, but when he thought of the terrifying combat strength of the Xia army and the dilemma that they currently had no artillery to put into battle, Koplulu's mind to fight against them was a little shaken.

"No, you can't waste time fighting the Xia army here, if you stop, won't you just fall into the Xia army's plan?" He thought to himself, and then said to the messenger who had come to report, "Go back and tell your governor, that you should ignore the enemy behind you, and go on."

The messenger nodded in agreement, rode back to the rear army, and Koplulu then ordered the whole army to speed up their march so that they would not be overtaken by the Xia army, and if they were caught up and entangled by the Xia army, their losses would be greater.

This order of Koplulu gave the Xia army in front of them an opportunity to take advantage of it, and their minds were all on retreating, and they did not expect that the Xia army would set up an ambush in front of them, so they did not conduct a more rigorous exploration of the road ahead.

The Turkish army, under the leadership of Koprulu Pasha, stepped into the trap of ambush step by step.

Under the order of Koplulu, the Turkish army accelerated its march, and its front army finally reached the ambush circle of the Xia army, but the Xia army did not immediately launch an attack on the Ottoman front army that entered the ambush circle, and Chen Lihe, who was responsible for commanding the ambush of the Xia army, decided to wait for the commander of the Turkish army to enter the ambush circle before launching an attack, and as far as possible to kill the commander of the Turkish army after the battle, so that the Turkish army fell into a chaotic situation without a leader.

Therefore, the front army of the Turkish army passed through the ambush circle of the Xia army very smoothly, because they were full of retreat, so no one noticed that there were Xia troops on both sides of the road to set up ambushes.

After the advance army passed, the Chinese army under the Koplu Pasha also crashed into the ambush circle, seeing the battle flag of the commander of the Turkish army appear, Chen Lihe waved his big hand, and the soldiers under his command subconsciously raised their rifles and aimed at the enemy on the road.

In order to hide their figures, the Xia soldiers wore white cloaks on their bodies, so that they could blend in with the surrounding snow, and if they did not get closer and take a closer look, the Turkish army would definitely not be able to see that there were a large number of enemy troops in ambush in the woods on both sides of the road.

After more Turkish soldiers entered the ambush circle, Chen Lihe took the lead in pulling the trigger, only to hear a piercing gunfire piercing the sky, and before the Turkish army could react, the Xia soldiers on both sides of the road pulled the trigger one after another, pouring intensive fire on the Turkish army in the road.

The gunshots rang out, and for a while, the Turkish soldiers in the road were caught off guard and shot a large number of people, and the road quickly fell into chaos.

After the gunshot, the Xia artillery erected in the forest also followed suit, and they still retained a small number of easy-to-carry tiger squat guns, those tiger squat cannons were smaller and more difficult to find than the standard artillery of the Xia army, so in this ambush battle, the Xia army did not use standard infantry artillery, but invested the tiger squat artillery to fire the Turkish army.

In the sound of gunfire, the Turkish army fell like ears of rice after autumn, and even though they claimed to be invincible in Europe, they were still in a long confusion because of fear when they were ambushed by such ferocious firepower.

And in the woods, the Xia light infantry also began to exert their power, and they focused their shooting on the Turkish officers who gave orders, and their guns were muffled in the noise of the battlefield, and under their fire, one officer after another was shot and killed, and the Turkish army fell into deeper confusion.

"Damn it, fight back! Fight back! Don't mess around!"

Seeing his men in disarray, Kop Lulu quickly reacted after a brief pause, drew his saber, and shouted at the soldiers around him, asking them to return fire.

Riding on horseback and giving orders, Koplulu soon came into the eyes of several light infantrymen, who invariably aimed their guns at the ignorant Koprulu, and after a few seconds, the gunfire rang out, and then they were drowned out in the sound of gunfire on the battlefield.

Several projectiles sped towards Koprulu, one of which pierced through the armor on Koprulu's chest and burrowed into his body, causing Koprulu to scream and fall from the horse's back on his back.

……

Memories of the past kept coming back to him, and finally he returned to the noisy battlefield, and the guards and officers around him hurriedly surrounded him, and they shouted something in horror, but Koprulu could no longer hear anything.

He could only see their mouths open and close, the sounds coming out of him, and Koprulu could feel the life coming from the wound in his chest

As it flew by, he coughed weakly, and blood foamed from the corners of his mouth.

At the last moment of his life, Koplulu did not feel fear, on the contrary, he was relieved, as long as he died on the battlefield, then he could become a hero of the empire and would not be disgraced by the Koplulu family.

"The Pasha has fallen! Break through with the whole army! Break through with all the troops!"

"Retreat! Get out of here! I want to stay alive and continue to retreat!"

On the battlefield, the soldiers were still struggling, they scattered like headless flies, and only some of the soldiers were able to fight back against the barrage of Xia army, but soon, as the Xia grenadiers threw grenades into the crowd one by one, causing the grenades to explode in the crowd, the Turkish army was finally completely defeated.

Immediately, under Chen Lihe's order, the soldiers of the Xia army took their rifles, raised their bayonets and jumped up from their respective hiding places, shouting and charging at the chaotic Turkish army on the road.

At the same time, the Turkish army's front army, which had already passed through the ambush circle, also heard the sound of gunfire from behind, and the commander of the front army, Ali Izrid Pasha, instantly realized that the Chinese army was under attack, and hurriedly ordered the whole army to turn around and return to help.

The speed of the front army was not slow, but by the time they returned to the battlefield, the Chinese army had been routed under the fierce fire of the Xia army, and soldiers of various ethnic groups from all over the Balkans were scattered and fled under the attack of the Xia army, and the corpses of the Turkish army were scattered all over the ground.

"Attack, we have to save the Legion!"

Ali Izd shouted loudly, and the Turkish infantry immediately attacked the Xia army in the melee.

Seeing that the friendly troops had returned to help, and the defeated Turkish soldiers were also rushing to the friendly side, Ali Pasha ordered his subordinates to attack, and his eyes began to search for the figure of Kop Lulu on the battlefield, eager to ensure the safety of the commander.

But his eyes searched around the battlefield, but he didn't find the figure of Koplulu, which made his heart sink and he had a vague premonition of uneasiness in his heart.

At that moment, one of his officers ran up to him with a frightened face, followed by a bloodstained man, and Ali Izd fixed his eyes to see that although the face was covered in blood, he could still recognize the identity of the other man - it was an adjutant next to Koprulu.

"What's going on?" Before the other party could speak, he asked loudly.

"Dead, Koprulu Pasha dead!" The adjutant said with a look of horror on his face, perhaps because of excessive fear, his words were a little inarticulate, "Koprulu Pasha was hit by a stray bullet and died in front of us."

"What?!" Ali Pasha trembled, and he subconsciously said, "Impossible, this is absolutely impossible, how could Koprulu die? He's the brother of the Great Vizier!"

If the news of Koprulu Mustafa's death had been known to the Grand Vizier, they would have been held accountable.

"He did die in battle." The adjutant recalled the picture of Koprulu's death, and the fear on his face was even worse, but he still remembered the purpose of his coming here, and hurriedly said: "Ali Pasha, quickly gather the rout, evacuate here, we must immediately withdraw to the Danube defense line, the pursuers of the Xia army are still behind, and now it is very likely to exchange fire with the Moldavian army, they will not last long, if they are defeated, we will come next!"

"Where is Koprulu Pasha's body?" Ali Pasha ignored the adjutant's words and asked rhetorically.

"The corpse has been escorted by the guards to break out first." The adjutant said anxiously, "I didn't follow the breakout, I just wanted to collect the rout, Ali Pasha, hurry up, it's too late!"

Seeing that the adjutant was so anxious, Ali Pasha came back to his senses, agreed with the adjutant's words, and ordered to stop the attack, gather the rout and try to evacuate here, but where would the Xia army give them a chance, the two sides were close to each other, and the guns rang out again.

On the other side, as the adjutant said, the Moldavian army was chased by the Xia army, and a fierce battle broke out between the two sides outside the ambush circle, and the fighting will and combat effectiveness of the army of the Principality of Moldavia were not as good as the Turkish army, and the two armies fought fiercely, and the Moldavian army lasted less than an hour before being defeated by the Xia army.

The battle, which broke out in the territory of Bourad south of Suceava, lasted for several hours, and the Turkish army of Rumelia suffered heavy losses, Koprulu Pasha and many Turkish officers were killed, and the Moldavian corpus was almost completely annihilated.

It can be said that the military strength of the Turkish army in the north suffered heavy losses in this battle, and it was difficult to even retreat to the Danube defense line and resist the southward movement of the coalition army.

More importantly, after this battle, the morale of the Turkish army plummeted, the morale of the army was shaken, and the deep fear of the Xia army was imprinted in their hearts and lingered.