The Eagle of Eastern Europe

Frustrated for the first time, Muhammad decided to dig a tunnel into the city. He ordered a large number of slaves to dig tunnels and prepare to enter the city in this way.

Under the whip of the overseer, the slaves worked very quickly. They soon dug halfway. A slave dug forward with a shovel. Suddenly, a large amount of soil collapsed, followed by yellow liquid and a foul smell.

Poor these slaves, they were buried without even a single cry. And those tunnels can no longer be used, they are too smelly.

Muhammad found out that his plan had failed again, and the turban was furious.

"How is this going?"

Muhammad looked at the generals around him without saying a word, and he was extremely angry.

The next morning he ordered another attack. On the surface, it looked like nothing, but when the soldiers approached the city, the soldiers in the middle of the military formation suddenly sank, and a huge trench appeared in front of everyone.

This was originally a trap Woick had used yesterday to inflict casualties on Ottoman. He first dug a trench, then lined it with spikes, and then poured gold juice on it. No one knows why they did this, but they must have been working for most of the night, and Osman was not alert at all.

As a result, the golden juice destroyed the tunnels, the spikes killed the soldiers, and divided the army. Wojk took the opportunity to order artillery fire, and the Ottoman soldiers suffered heavy losses.

Muhammad did not realize that his soldiers were incapable of attacking the enemy. The blitzkrieg and mobile warfare that they were proud of were of no use in front of a fortified city, and in the past few years, he had not clicked on the technology tree. The artillery technology that had begun to appear in Europe was banned by religious personnel in crooked ways. The enterprising spirit they once had was gone, and they finally returned to the characteristics of the nomadic people: plundering was the last word.

Peter was also on the way, and armies were being raised throughout Anatolia. Weapons such as artillery are also being transported. It takes time to transport so many supplies. Fortunately, this has been done before, which can save a lot of time.

A few days after Peter arrived in Nicaea, his youngest brother Stefan arrived. He also brought a letter from Mircea, saying that he would gain experience on the battlefield. This made it a little difficult for him to handle. Although Stefan was already ten years old, his identity was here, so he could just watch it from a distance.

"Your Highness, three provinces have begun recruiting soldiers. Nearly 60,000 people can join our army in a month."

Peter knew that this was the limit of Anatolia. Although it was a little less than Muhammad, it was still quite a lot. Moreover, his father-in-law, Theodore, the Despot of Morea, also spent all his money to recruit 10,000 troops to join him from Smyrna.

The trustworthiness of his family is indeed supported by facts, and Mircea also acquiesces in this situation. Anyway, this in-law has no heirs to inherit, and when the time comes, this place will not belong to Peter, so he will let him go.

Muhammad continued his attack on Ancyra, this time adopting siege tactics. Surrounding the city, the position stretched for twenty kilometers. He ignored the warnings of the Western Rangers.

For the city wall, he came up with an unprecedented clever strategy. The earth began to be dug outside the city to form a mountain of earth, which was tamped down so that horses could run up it.

But how could the noble tribesmen do this? Those slaves became a labor force at anyone's disposal. They worked day and night, digging out the soil and making mountains of earth. Some people worked too slowly, and even the soil they brought with them became the foundation.

For a while, the construction site was wailing continuously. Under such heavy pressure, many people escaped and rebelled. Under this heavy pressure, it is not so surprising that some slaves escaped to Ancyra City.

Among these slaves were men, women, old people and children. It seems that the opponent is trying to catch everyone. Woike uses the hanging basket to bring them into the city. They sigh that they are saved.

They explained each other's Tushan strategy to Woick, who thanked them for their report and took them to rest.

"Sir, once the earth mountain is completed, the pressure on the city will be very great."

Woick thought for a while and said. "I also know that His Highness's reinforcements are already on the way. We just need to hold on. Since they want to pile up mountains of earth, then we will pay for it."

The laborers commanded by Osman piled up mountains of earth one basket after another, and the defenders also attacked from a distance, but before the Sultan's order, these were nothing.

Trenches were filled and mountains of earth were piled up. There were also a lot of corpses buried among them. The other soldiers either went hunting nearby or temporarily left the formation to plunder in the west.

Woick directed the soldiers to dig tunnels, reach the bottom of the earth mountain, and hollow out the interior. The two sides spent the next few days like this, and Muhammad had to send some people back to the east to rebel.

Because the Turkic aristocratic group headed by Muhammad squeezed them too hard, some people had no choice but to rise up in order to survive. The Anatolians in Sivas were the first to revolt, killing the Turks and distributing grain, gold and silver to everyone. And this is just the beginning.

The Armenians launched an uprising in the Cilicia region, and they reached cooperation with the religious groups in Mount Lebanon. The Patriarch of Antioch also joined in the fight against the Ottomans. Only seven days have passed.

The Druze and Alawite groups in the Lebanon Mountains decided to fight against the Ottomans. Even if Rome could not tolerate them, they would return to the mountains at worst. The Patriarch of Antioch also summoned the Orthodox Christians to rely on the city to prepare to hold on. This also forced the Mamluks, who were preparing to regain their homeland, to make new plans. At present, it seems that it is best to stop at Damascus. The northern part has been given to other countries, and we will take it back when the time comes.

Muhammad on the front line was not worried about this. He believed that these were just mobs, and when the war in Rome was over, he could turn his guns and kill them all. So he ordered the army to continue to complete his siege mission, and of course he also agreed with the tribesmen to plunder the interior of Rome.

By the time the earth mountain was almost completed, the interior had already been hollowed out. When Muhammad attacked, the mountain collapsed and another of Muhammad's attacks failed.

After two strong attacks and tactics failed, Muhammad decided to resort to psychological tactics. He asked people to write a large number of notes in Greek, and then shot them into the city with arrows. The note said: Osman came to recover his homeland according to the will of Allah. If anyone can open the city and surrender, he will be made a nobleman and let He governs the city.

But after a long time, there was no movement at all. After a while, some white stones fell down. When the soldiers saw it, there was paper tied to the stones. It was written in Turkic language: Tie Muhammad to the Roman Emperor and be rewarded with a large amount of land and estates, as well as hereditary rights.