"Your Majesty, how can you move your body of gold?" Although the general manager was a little nervous just now, he is actually a veteran who has experienced hundreds of battles. He knows the art of war quite well.

Now that it's getting dark, it's a good time to launch the main decisive battle.

The east side of Buda City is close to the Danube River, and there is an Ottoman army camp on the north, west, and south sides. Each camp has 20,000 soldiers. Each army has Ottoman soldiers as the core and is equipped with a certain number of troops.

Servant army to ensure that the servant army with poor combat effectiveness will not be isolated.

There are 30,000 soldiers in Buda City as a total reserve force. This force is entirely composed of Ottomans, half of which is 15,000 people. They are the core of the Jeniseli New Army of the Ottoman Empire.

The Ottoman army only had a standing army of 20,000 people in total. This was both a military organization and a missionary method of the Ottoman Empire.

Little boys who are not believers in the Star and Moon are organized together to participate in training since childhood. They will also receive land when they retire. Seizing a large amount of real estate from the Sirik Church will encourage these soldiers to fight bravely. When they retire, they

He became a devout believer in Xingyue.

The Austrians may be lucky. Ladislaus seems to have a lot of experience in night battles. The Ottoman Empire has always tended to rely on majestic formations to win decisively after conquering Constantinople. They just need to perform normally.

If you show your own strength, you will be invincible.

At night, the cavalry curtain would shrink to a relatively small area. Perhaps relying on elite scouts and guides familiar with the geography had a small hope of shortening the reaction time of the Ottoman army to the point where it would be impossible to complete the assembly.

Perhaps it can form a short-term advantage for the main force over the first force.

But no matter which direction the Austrian army came from, they could not make full use of this numerical advantage.

The 20,000 troops of the Ottoman army can definitely hold back the Austrian army relying on the simple fortifications in the camp. Then the main force and the other two armies will rely on the advantage of internal mobilization to quickly arrive and defeat the Austrians.

Even if a costly and powerful feint attack could be launched from both directions to temporarily achieve the purpose of containment, the elites in Buda City alone would be enough to defeat the Austrian army.

But all this is based on the stability of the Ottoman center. If Suleiman makes the wrong response, the entire army may be shaken.

"If the Austrians want a decisive battle, the main force should follow the scouts in the outpost battle. Now that our army has a stable footing, we can back the city and borrow support. They will not come to die."

"Your Majesty, didn't King Louis come here to die? The enemy may be unexpectedly stupid."

It must be said that the response strategy adopted by His Majesty King Louis was the "best response" to the enemy that the Ottoman Empire monarchs and ministers could not even think of. His recklessness and stupidity made Suleiman hesitate. Will he miss the opportunity to be too careful?

What if Ladislaus was so helpful?

At this time, Ibrahim Pasha's adjutant came, and he brought a message from his superior: "Your Majesty, Ibrahim Pasha asks you to stay in the palace and have an overview of the overall situation. He has already led a group of troops out of the east gate to support.

"

Ibrahim Pasha could directly mobilize the eight hundred new Yenisei troops, and his response speed was no less than that of the pro-army troops around the Sultan.

"Well, you are indeed my Ibrahim."

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Outside the east gate of Buda City, when Ibrahim Pasha arrived with his elite troops, he found that he could not help at all.

The troops defending the pier have repelled the limited number of Austrian troops ashore, and have used trebuchets to support their own river fleet.

However, the Austrian river fleet was resisting the attack of these small trebuchets with limited power and violently attacked the Ottoman transport fleet.

"What is the Tyrol doing?! Stay in formation and don't pursue at will." Jevich's shout passed through the deck, but it was obviously impossible to cross the Danube. A large sail-oar boat on the east edge had slowly drifted away.

The ground is a bit out of touch with the group.

"Stop using signal flags, use flares." Flares are high-tech.

High technology means high prices. After a burst of flames, hundreds of thalers disappeared.

The eager captain may not have failed to see the signal flag. He was just eager to do so, but the appearance of the signal flare showed Yevich's unquestionable attitude. He finally gave up the pursuit bitterly and looked at a ship not far away.

The Ottoman warships fled down the river.

Under the influence of insufficient light and confusion, the Ottomans believed that the Austrian warships were all large and medium-sized sailing ships. In fact, unlike the emergency report Suleiman received, Yevich's flagship "Rudolf the Great"

By worldly standards, it is actually a giant ship with sails and oars.

This warship, built to commemorate the first generation of the Holy Roman Emperor of the Habsburg family, has a tonnage of over 150 tons. It may only play a second- or third-rate role on the sea, let alone among the Spanish and Portuguese navies with numerous capital ships.

, even in the Venetian and Ottoman navies, it just barely crossed the line and was barely considered a semi-capital ship.

But it is already the absolute hegemon on the Danube River.

Yevich arranged the fleet in order from strong to weak from west to east. In other words, his flagship was arranged in the western channel closest to the trebuchets on the road.

And eleven warships were lined up to attack across the board.

Although traditionally two or three rows are the common formations of fleets, this allows the commander to command more effectively and it is easier to support each other.

But Yevich was determined to intensify the intensity of the first wave of attacks, so he opened up the front of the attack as much as possible.

This is not a wise formation, but it is full of pride.

This was the first time that Jevich led the Austrian River Fleet to attack, and the opponent was the powerful Ottoman Empire. The courage shown as a commander was very important.

Facts have proved that he made the right choice. Although Austria's new river fleet still has some shortcomings, it is still more than enough to deal with the Ottoman Empire's transport fleet attached to the army.

Although there is no shortage of experienced officers and soldiers with rich experience in naval warfare in the Ottoman fleet, they come from various fleets, and they cannot fully display their strength under this make-shift system.

Most of the officers and soldiers regarded coming to the Danube River to transport grain as a vacation, and they never thought that they would be beaten here.

The more important reason is that they do not have suitable warships. The Danube waterway is too complicated. To drag large or giant sails and oars here by boat will definitely delay the Sudanese expedition.

This kind of thing is mind-numbing, and it is completely unnecessary. No country would invest too many resources in building a fleet on inland waterways.

No one would do something like this that would completely waste their limited resources, no one would, except Ladislaus, the "foreseeer of history".

His dedicated and resourceful efforts finally gave Austria a strategic advantage in this life-or-death contest.

Austria has specially designed and built a fleet for the Danube waterway, fully demonstrating its unique advantages.

"Let the Linz slow down and don't rush forward!" Several captains recruited from the Venetian Navy all obeyed Jevich honestly, who was less experienced than them. They all knew the importance of formations in water battles.

The ones causing trouble are the half-filled bottles of water from Austria.

The few captains who were born into Austrian nobles had limited experience. The formations were very tense last night. Several dangers and chaos occurred on ships commanded by Austrians.

When launching a surprise attack, the captain knew it was a critical moment and everyone acted strictly in accordance with the established tactics.

That round of onslaught really caught the Ottomans by surprise.

When the situation is advantageous, it will be difficult for these people to restrain their urge to take advantage of others.

The rivalry between the Ottomans and the European countries has lasted for more than two hundred years, and I have never heard of any country building a fleet specifically for the Danube River.

Neither the officers and soldiers nor the Ottoman decision-makers expected that the focus of the contest would be here.

Compared with the difficulty of fighting, sailing at night is more dangerous. Although a lot of hydrological information has been accumulated through the trade fleet and several Hungarian hydrological experts have been recruited, the journey is still extremely thrilling.

Two ships veered off course and were damaged.

During the formation, there was also a ship with the wrong flag, which wasted half an hour. During this half hour, the entire fleet was cursing the flagman and his captain, while fearfully worrying whether the Ottomans would discover their side in advance.

In the end, there were no major mistakes. It was a small miracle that all eleven ships were able to reach their scheduled positions.

After a fierce attack at dawn, the Ottoman fleet fell into chaos. Their vigilance and response were far inferior to that of the army.

The Austrian fleet has a natural advantage in navigation, and today the heavens were kind and gave us a strong northwest wind.

This allowed the Austrians to occupy the two most important geographical advantages in water battles, the upper reaches and the upper wind, and the battle went surprisingly smoothly.

The huddled Ottoman ships in the dock area were all running for their lives in panic under the onslaught of Austrian giant crossbows and trebuchets.

A large number of officers spent the night ashore and are now unable to return to combat positions.

Another disadvantage is that the Ottoman fleet does not have a unified command, there is no organizational relationship between the transport fleets sent by each province, and there is no clear leader among the several transport fleets. Without organizational relationships, it is impossible to launch a counterattack.

At the beginning, a few ships bravely launched a counterattack, but they were destroyed by Jevich's concentrated fire.
Chapter completed!