However, before the Ottoman army officially began to attack the city, the armies of all ethnic groups on the Arabian Peninsula rushed over after hearing the news.

In fact, after they heard that the Ottoman army was coming to attack the Ming army in Baghdad, they all rebelled and publicly supported the Ottoman army.

Because in their opinion, how could the Ming army from afar defeat the Ottoman army?

If the Ottomans do not take sides at this time and turn around and are misunderstood by the Ottomans, once the Ottomans destroy the Ming army, it will be time for them to suffer!

After all, the Ottoman army is here, who dares to stop its edge?

The Prime Minister of the Ottoman Empire actually didn't care about these troops that he thought were wrong.

However, it was possible to have these Arab tribal troops to surrender before the war, no matter what, it was a matter of boosting morale. Therefore, Faqier did not show impatience, but instead allowed these Arab tribal troops to appear outside Baghdad with great fanfare.

He wanted to let the Ming army in Baghdad meet the Ottoman Empire here, how prestige is? Your Ming army came from afar and wanted to challenge the powerful Ottoman Empire. It was really overestimated!

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On the top of Baghdad, seeing the large number of Ottoman troops outside the city, now there are various Arab tribal troops coming to join the ranks of attacking Baghdad, which makes the Persian soldiers belonging to this area stunned.

In almost all countries and tribal troops in the Middle East, they appeared in the opposite camp. The Ming army was going to be enemies of the whole world!

Since ancient times, no country has been able to protect so many countries and tribes, right?

Thinking of this in their hearts, they observed the local soldiers of the Ming Dynasty around them and found that they were still very calm. While admiring them, they also felt much more at ease.

Sun Chuanting also saw the situation outside the city on the top of the city. He still had a cold face and commented lightly: "The more people come, the faster they consume food, and the faster they will lose!"

As soon as his remarks spread, everyone's confidence suddenly increased.

In other places, there is generally a saying that the city of siege is unpreserved. However, in Baghdad, the situation is obviously different.

The population here is far less than that of the Ming Dynasty, and the materials and supplies that can be collected are not at the same level at all. So many armies gathered in one place far exceed the population that this place can afford.

If the war stalemates, the Ottoman army can only transport food and grass from the rear.

Baghdad is far away from the Mediterranean Sea. The upper reaches of the Tigris River, which is the area west of Baghdad, have a large terrain gap and narrow river channels, which are not suitable for boating.

Therefore, if the Ottoman army wants to transport food and grass from the rear, the land food and grass transport without sea or river transportation will be rebelled. Haha, the Ottomans themselves will rebel!

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Of course, Ottoman did not think of a protracted war at all. In the view of Fachil, the commander of the Imperial Army, Baghdad could fight in one battle.

Now, he felt that the time was about the same, and it must have affected the morale of the defenders in the city, so he no longer cared about whether there were Arab tribal troops coming later, so he ordered the attack on the city.

Otherwise, if he continues to delay, how could he not know the importance of food!

On this day, with the order of Facil, various Ottoman troops began to rush out of their camps and occupied the open space outside the city of Baghdad, boundless and huge.

The border musketeers in Bosnia and the Mamluk cavalry of Egypt, the auxiliary cavalry of Tipahhi and Armenian archers in Rumélia Province, the Wallachian army who participated in the war as Ottoman minions, as well as the miscellaneous troops from all over the Ottoman, the armies of state and tribes on the Arabian Peninsula, etc., were different in costumes, and they were all kinds of, and they were really good-looking, like opera-singing!

Among the most elite troops outside the city, of course, the Ottoman Guards. Whether it is the infantry or the cavalry, they are all uniform in clothing, and the ordnances of all square formations are the same.

These guards seem even more extraordinary in comparison with the various armies!

After the array was completed, the sound of "wow" horn sounded, and suddenly, everyone's eyes turned to the direction of the main entrance of the camp.

I saw a lot of horse-drawn carts coming out there, but it wasn’t horse-drawn carts, but horse-drawn cannons.

Some of them were two or three horses pulling a cannon, and some even as many as five or six horses pulling a cannon. They came out of the camp in batches, which was extremely shocking at first glance!

One cannon, two cannons, three cannons...

Many people's legs were sore, but the team of horse-drawn artillery had not yet seen the end. There were at least 140 or 50 guns in the Ottoman army!

Those Ottoman affiliated troops, especially those on the Arabian Peninsula who came here after hearing the news, were very shocked when they saw this. Just to attack a Baghdad, how much capital did the Ottoman put in?

Not to mention one Baghdad, even two or three Baghdads can be easily captured under such a powerful military force of the Ottomans!

While they were thinking, suddenly, the Ottomans cheered loudly.

When I heard the sound, I saw that at the end of the team that pulled the cannons was a huge cannon led by twenty or thirty horses. I could be shocked by the cannons at first glance. What kind of city walls are like paper in front of such cannons?

If we develop according to the original history, in the Battle of Vienna, the rugged terrain of the Balkan mountains restricted the transportation of Ottoman giant siege guns. In the absence of convenient waterways, the Ottoman super cannons fell far behind the main force.

Otherwise, the history of the Battle of Vienna might have been rewritten.

On this plane, Baghdad is located in the Mesopotamian plains. Relatively speaking, it is more convenient to transport giant siege cannons.

These days, after the Ottoman army arrived in Baghdad, Fachil knew that he consumed a lot of food every day, but he still did not attack immediately. In addition to resting the army and first affecting the morale of the guards, he was waiting for the arrival of this giant siege cannon.

I have to say that when this giant siege cannon appeared, it was indeed quite amazing.

The Ottoman army was filled with joy and morale was immediately raised to the highest level.

Because they knew that no city wall could block the bombardment of this giant siege cannon! Baghdad is definitely going to be finished!

Even on the top of Baghdad, many local Ming soldiers changed their color after seeing it.

This Ottoman is too perverted and actually casts such a huge cannon!

Yan Yingyuan, who was standing next to Sun Chuanting, looked at him for a while, then turned to face Sun Chuanting, holding his fists with his hands and reporting: "Please give an order, the cavalry of the last general will take this giant siege cannon!"

After hearing this, Sun Chuanting did not turn to look at him. He still looked outside and said lightly: "Let's talk about it!"

After hearing this, Yan Yingyuan did not insist anymore and turned around and looked outside the city. He knew that Governor Sun was looking at whether there were any other possibilities. After all, if he went out of the city to take this giant siege cannon, the Ottomans would definitely not sit idly by. Not to mention whether it could be successful, it was certain that there were heavy casualties!

This kind of incident of going out of the city to counterattack the city is not uncommon in China's thousands of years of history, and there are also successful examples. Yan Yingyuan is sure to ask for battle.

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Outside the city, in front of Fachil, a middle-aged Ottoman Guard uniform was reporting to him: "The power of the artillery is related to the range. The closer it is to the city wall, the greater the power. I have observed carefully that the artillery on the top of Baghdad should be their carrier-based artillery, which is what they call the Red Barbarian cannon..."

Fachil didn't speak, but just listened quietly and nodded from time to time.

The person in front of me is an outstanding talent of the Koplulu family. He has expertise in artillery and is also the general in charge of the artillery battalion this time.

He continued to say to Faqil: "...I have carefully studied the range of this kind of artillery and knew what the effective range of the Baghdad city gun is. Therefore, my idea is to place our artillery outside the range of the Baghdad city gun. This distance is the closest distance to the Baghdad city wall, and to give full play to the greatest advantage of our artillery!"

Hearing this, Faqier nodded with satisfaction. With his understanding of his clan member, since he said so, he was sure of using artillery as much as possible, which is also a skill!

"Yes, just do what you want!" Faqier waved his hand and said, "I don't worry if you do it!"

When the artillery general heard this, he saluted confidently, then returned to the cannon camp with his head held high and went to arrange artillery.

Fachil himself sat on the blanket, with his men holding a huge umbrella covering the sun, holding a cup of tea, and slowly tasting it.

It was as if he was not leading troops to fight, but was on an outing. For him, fighting was so easy!

After a long time, most of the Ottoman soldiers who were lined up began to scatter, just focusing on the artillery camp, and they were chatting. They were even betting that how many rounds of artillery walls could withstand the walls of Baghdad withstand?

The cannons of the Ottoman army surrounded the circular walls of Baghdad, and were also lined up in a circular shape, with the muzzles facing the top of the city. The artillery soldiers were busy deploying positions.

However, almost everyone's eyes were focused on the huge siege cannon.

I saw this huge siege cannon deployed a little behind other cannons. Hundreds of people were serving such a cannon, and even the shells were loaded on a cart pulled by a few horses. They also used special bars to hang the shells into the muzzle.

Looking at this scene, the Ottoman soldiers were all looking forward to the fact that such a huge shell could probably collapse a large piece of the city wall.
Chapter completed!