Constantinier, Port of Posefitlion.

One hundred and forty or fifty galleys, led by a galleys of the Ottoman Turkish Navy, sailed into the water gate of the ancient port of Posefilion, near the entrance to the Golden Horn.

The port of Posefilion is a seaport with walls and a water gate, and its walls are part of the ancient walls of Constantineer, divided into east and west, extending from the land to the sea, and forcibly enclosing a body of water, forming a port protected by the wall.

Although the water gate of the port of Posefilion does not have a real gate, the passage in and out is not wide, and ancient cannons are erected on the walls on both sides - Constantinier has not seen a foreign enemy for more than 200 years, so naturally there is no need to replace the ancestral cannon. On the walls of the harbor, soldiers of the Chenyeri Legion, wearing turbans and carrying arquebuses, patrol the walls. These soldiers were no longer slave soldiers from the Christian vassals of the Balkans, but the descendants of the old slave soldiers of the past, the dignified Constantinier, who was on the green flag.

The slave soldiers of the Chenyeriri Regiment may sound like oppressed slaves, but in fact they were an elaborate military elite of the Ottoman Empire, whose members came from pagan families in the Balkans. Before the Cheniese Legion was corrupted, all slave soldiers were purchased from an early age to the Cheniesley Legion's barracks, and then they had to take the barracks as their home and the Sultan as their father, and receive strict military training and education. In the process of growing up, they also have to undergo layers of tests and eliminations, and finally the slave soldiers who can become real Chenyeri warriors are all elite soldiers with explosive combat effectiveness.

In addition, because of their good education and proximity to the Sultan, these elite soldiers were regarded as confidants, and after retiring from the army, they could easily enter the Ottoman bureaucracy and hold important positions - these "old slaves" were obedient and easy to use, and they were not likely to usurp the throne, which was much easier to use than the Ottoman "old green flag".

And these "old slaves" who retired from the army and became imperial bureaucrats had to marry and have children in Constantineier, of course, to settle down - according to the regulations, Chenieri's slave soldiers could not marry while in the service. So they could only get married after leaving the barracks, although they were already thirty or forty years old at that time, but they were elite Cherinier soldiers, and their physical fitness was not to be said! Not to mention thirty or forty years old, it is fifty or sixty years old, and you can still marry four wives and have babies.

Moreover, Constantiniye's place was a big bazaar for the sale of Ukrainian slave girls before the rise of the Rakshasas, and it was impossible for retired veterans of Chenierry, who were old, had money in their pockets, and had a good job not to marry a wife.

Over time, the descendants of Chennier's slaves multiplied in Constantinier, and by the 17th century, the city was full of Chenieri veterans and descendants of Ukrainian slave girls.

At the same time, the old slaves of Chenieri became more and more prominent in the Ottoman bureaucracy. And the power of the empire is completely in the hands of the Chenieri veterans, and the Chenieri slaves can even manipulate the legion to mutiny and depose the Sultan!

In this case, the hereditary nature of Chenieri is inevitable!

And once the Chenyeri warriors are hereditary, they are no longer slave soldiers who can be rigorously trained and eliminated layer by layer - according to the teachings of the Celestial Sect, believers cannot be sold into slavery. The older Chenierri were not Celestial before they became Scouts, but their children were born Celestials.

So Chenierri changed from a slave soldier army to a veteran soldier army.

The hereditary Chenieri later became a high-ranking official of the Empire, and the intricate Chenierry aristocratic bureaucratic family came into being.

Sitting in charge of Constantine's house for Sultan Mehmed IV is the Imperial Chancellor of the Exchequer from the most prominent family in the Ottoman Empire, Koplulu. Fazo. Mustafa Pasha. From 1656 onwards, the Koprulu family held the power of the empire until 1679, when Mustafa's brother, Koprulu. Ahmed Pasha died young, and the Grand Vizier was handed over by the Sultan to the more desirable Kara. Mustafa Pasha. But this Kara. Mustafa Pasha is not an outsider to the Koprulu family, he is Fazo. Mustafa Pasha's brother-in-law.

Regarding the brother-in-law's strategy of blindly catering to the fantasies of Sultan Mehmed IV and forcibly mobilizing an army of 250,000 to besiege Vienna in disregard of the reality of the empire's declining rivers, this Fazo. Mustafa was very worried!

Because he knew very well how weak the seemingly invincible Ottoman Empire was, and out of the so-called 250,000 troops, there were only 138,000 real soldiers - this is already a number that has been pieced together with all his might! Among the soldiers, there were only 50,000 well-equipped elites. The number of artillery pieces available to the whole army was not very large, only 150 guns or less, although the caliber was not small, but it was difficult to destroy the strong walls of Vienna.

And the defenders inside the city of Vienna. According to the latest information, it has reached about 23,000 people. Although this number was far less than the 138,000 soldiers in the Ottoman army, they were not without the strength to fight with the city walls and a large number of artillery to defend the city.

If the siege of the Ottoman army could not be brought to a quick conclusion, over time, the Holy Roman Emperor and the Pope of Rome would sooner or later cobble together a large number of reinforcements to save Vienna If it were not for the heavy losses of the Holy Roman Empire in the previous Spanish Netherlands Wars, Fazo. Mustafa Pasha suspected that the Ottoman army, which had been attacking Vienna for a long time, had been defeated by the Catholic coalition!

However, as a quick siege turned into a distant siege, the Ottoman Empire and her army became increasingly dangerous. As the war entered its second year, the Ottoman Empire's finances were already a bit overwhelmed! The salary and consumption of an army of 250,000 is absolutely astronomical! During the first year of the war, the besieging army of Vienna could also loot around Vienna in order to raise some supplies. By now, there was no rush around Vienna, so supplies had to be transferred from the rear to the front.

However, the supply of the Ottoman Empire itself was also very tight, because a large amount of labor and livestock were used in the war, and the drought in Asia Minor caused the price of Constantinoye's grain to rise again and again, but fortunately, Prince Foquansky of the Rakshasa State opened a Dnieper-Black Sea trading company in the past two years, and trafficked a large amount of high-quality and cheap Ukrainian wheat to Constantinier.

Otherwise, in order to get enough food rations for the Sultan's army, Constantineier would have a famine!

But the collapse of financial and logistical supplies is only a danger, and there is an even greater threat looming - according to credible information from the ambassador to France, Poland has sent reinforcements to the Holy Roman Empire! King Jan of Poland. Sobiesky has already led his army to Vienna!

And Sofia, the regent of the Rakshasa Kingdom, is also actively considering joining the war, as long as the Pope and the Emperor can give her 30 million friels for military expenses, she will immediately march to the Black Sea! At the same time, the grain trade on the Dnieper will be cut off, and Ukrainian wheat will be banned from being transported to Constantinity!

But the threat of the Rakshasas should only be to sit on the ground and raise prices in Fazo. After Mustafa Pasha made a rather attractive offer, a whole 150 ships of Ukrainian wheat arrived at Constantinoye.

Moreover, the prince also told the Ottoman ambassador that if the Sultan was defeated in Vienna, the Rakshasa would declare war on the Ottoman Empire and march into right-bank Ukraine. If the Sultan conquers Vienna, then the Rakshasa will hold the Izyum Line and wait for the situation to change further.

For this statement, Fazo. Mustafa is still more convinced. If Sudan is defeated, right-bank Ukraine will definitely have to give up. It was not a territory firmly controlled by the Ottoman Empire, but only nominally subject to the rule of the Sultan. Therefore, the Rakshasa can declare war in a pretend, and then take the right-bank Ukraine without much effort, and then negotiate peace with the Ottoman Empire afterwards.

If the Sultan wins, thank Allah! Of course, the Rakshasa Kingdom will be sold at a price. Western Europe may offer a higher price to buy them!

So continuing to wait, and then selling grain at a high price, seems to be the best option!

Surrounded by a group of Chenieri soldiers, Fazo stood on the rampart of Porta Eugiferio, near the port of Posefilion. Mustafa Pasha was mentally calculating how the Rakshasa would eventually join the war, which seemed to be increasingly unfavorable to the Ottoman Empire, and at the same time personally supervising the unloading of grain from the Rakshasa into the port - although he did not think that the Rakshasa could join the war before the situation was completely clear, but the "bear heart" was indispensable!

Right here in Fazo. Under the gaze of Mustafa Pasha, the merchant ships of the Rakshasas approached the dock one after another. A few small men dressed in oriental white silk robes with pigtails on the back of their heads disembarked from the boats, and then left the docks in groups and headed for the bustling city of Constantinier, all of whom were retainers of Prince Forquansky, who had also come with them last time, and after disembarking they went to Constantinier's brothels and the "Yanmar Market" for fun. Before leaving, he also bought a few first-class slave girls, which I heard was what Prince Foquansky wanted.

Well, this prince from the East did not behave like a Christian at all

There are also some big Rakshasas with pigtails who have also come off the ship, these people are supposed to be oarsmen and crew members, and they start to carry big bags after they get off the ship - the Rakshasas are poor! Work more, earn more.

They did the same last time, and as a result, they had a fight with the Armenian coolies, and a fight broke out, and more than a hundred Armenians were killed!

So this time Fazo. Mustafa Pasha knew that the "hairy bear" was coming, so he had the Armenians who were carrying bags on the dock driven away

A number of stocky Mongols also dismounted, each carrying a large burden, Fazo. Mustafa Pasha knew that those were all liquor dealers under Guanyin Bao!

Well, it was illegal to make wine and sell wine in Constantineer!

But Fazo. Mustafa Pasha himself also likes to have a few drinks every night. Alcoholic beverages! So you can make a lot of money from this transaction.

In this regard, Fazo. Mustafa Pasha also decided to turn a blind eye, it is rare for people to come back, what about selling some wine?

Eventually, many barefoot, coolly dressed, white-skinned women in shackles and handcuffs disembarked from the Rakshasa boat!

This can put Fazo. Mustafa is stupid!

What's going on? When did the Rakshasas also start selling Ukrainian slave girls? Isn't this the business of robbing the Crimean Khanate? That's not going to work! Come to think of it, Fazo. Mustafa quickly pulled out a telescope and took a closer look.

The quality of those white slave girls is good, plump and strong, they are all the types that the Sultan likes! Fazo. Mustafa Pasha immediately put away his binoculars, and then led a group of Chenieri down the city wall and ran to the dock to see what was going on.

When he walked to the dock, the white slave girls had already formed two horizontal columns on the edge of the dock under the command of a bearded man in white, attracting many guards on the dock to watch—was this going to be auctioned?

The soldiers guarding the dock and the nearby city wall also rushed to watch when they saw this scene.

Someone saw Fazzo. Mustafa Pasha shouted: "Mustafa Pasha, are you also here to buy a slave girl?" ”

Fazo. Mustafa Pasha's face flushed, and he didn't answer, but asked calmly, "What's going on?" How did the Rakshasas start trading slave girls? ”

As soon as his words fell, a rectangular red eagle flag suddenly appeared on a galley on the dock!

This is the banner of the Roman legions!

How did it appear in Constantineer?

Zofa. Before Mustafa Pasha could understand what was going on, he heard a loud noise, and quickly followed the sound, and found that the slave girls had thrown off the shackles on their hands, reached out and lifted their skirts, took out the pistols from the holsters tied to their thighs, and then, with a command, all the pistols were flattened and pointed at the onlookers in front of them!

Pounce! And with such despicable means!

Zofa. As soon as Mustafa Pasha thought of this word, he was knocked to the ground by a Chenieri warrior beside him, and then he heard a "crackling" sound, and the dock was filled with smoke. The soldiers brought by Mustafa and the original guards on the docks were swept down like wheat harvesters! The docks were full of Turks who had been shot and fell to the ground.

The remaining Chenieri soldiers and guards reacted immediately, but they had no time to light the arquebus and reload their ammunition, so they simply drew their waist knives and wanted to pounce on them and cut people.

But the Rakshasa men who were carrying the bags reacted faster than them, and they all drew their scimitars from the bags they were carrying, shouted "Ula" and rushed forward. The two sides soon fought together!

And those "slave girls" also threw off their shackles, took short spears and shields from the sailors on several oars behind them, and then formed a Roman shield array, shouting slogans, and pressed over to the crowd who were fighting!

These "female slaves" have been rigorously trained and are real female soldiers!

And those Rakshasa men who shouted "Ula", when fighting with the Turks, also maintained an arc formation, wrapping the Turks inside. And this arc-shaped formation and the shield formation of the Rakshasa women just formed a front and rear attack on the Turks on the dock

The Rakshasas flanked the Turks in front and rear, and the battle on the docks was quickly decided, including Fazo. All the Ottomans, including Mustafa, died under muskets and spears.

Immediately afterward, more Rakshasa pigtails, carrying muskets, began to disembark from the galleys that came up to the dock, and then one after another rushed into the city of Constantiniye.

At the same time, the sound of gunfire, shouts of killing, and exclamations rang out at the other gates of Constantiniye (end of chapter)