Nanming: I can build wonders

Chapter 614 Going to the Most Needed Place in the Motherland of Ming Dynasty
In the early morning of February 1691, 2, on the south bank of the Sava River outside Belgrade.

The originally beautiful scenery turned into a sea of ​​people, and a huge military camp rose from the ground.

贝尔格莱德是一座可怜的城市，历史上贝尔格莱德曾三次被奥地利人占领（1688-1690年、1717-1739年和1789-1791年），但每次都被奥斯曼帝国迅速夺回并夷为平地。

Now the city of Belgrade is under the control of the Ottomans.

If you look down from a high place, you can see that the outside of the city is covered with white tents, and all kinds of Ottoman battle flags and military flags are fluttering in the wind, flying fiercely.

From the early morning of this day, this huge barracks began to boil, with the sound of war drums, bugles, and passwords one after another.

Interestingly, in order for the Ottomans to quickly master the proficiency of using weapons in the Ming Dynasty, the prime minister spent a high price of 10 silver dollars to import five weapons consultants from the Ming Dynasty.

Oh, this is not a military consultant, this is just after-sales service, not military personnel!
A stream of Ottoman soldiers of various colors flowed out from each camp, and thousands of soldiers formed a dense marching formation under the organization of their respective military flags.

Under the guidance of the Ming weapons consultant, the Ottoman soldiers were basically able to use it proficiently, whether it was new muskets or artillery.

Discipline has also increased, and it is not as messy as before.

Of course, this was because several officers from the Ming Dynasty Defense Force couldn't stand it any longer, and had an obsessive-compulsive disorder attack, so they gave some guidance.

There is no more, and the weapons advisor does not teach.

The decent Ottoman soldiers, led by the military flag, formed a phalanx on the shore that made the Europeans frightened.

However, due to the large number of people, the 25 troops were not assembled until almost noon.

All await the arrival of their master: Sultan Suleiman II of the Ottoman Empire!

Time passed bit by bit, and Mustafa Pasha, the Prime Minister of the Ottoman Empire, had already arrived at the scene as the second male number in the Battle of Vienna.

Strangely, he led this group of imperial ministers and generals to look up at the sky at an inexplicable 45-degree angle.

As if something important was about to fall from the sky.

However, the weapon advisors of the Ming Defense Force standing beside Prime Minister Mustafa Pasha frowned, as if they were worried that something bad would happen.

The person who led the team this time was Ishiiichi, a Japanese naturalized man.

He realized that if today's operation fails, they will be very embarrassed in Ottoman!
But with a strong motherland as their backing, it should be fine, right?
As a naturalized citizen, his stepfather, a military officer surnamed Cao, taught him that if he wanted to truly gain the approval of Daming, he had to do it: go wherever it is difficult, go to the place where Daming motherland needs it most!

"The true god is here! The true god is here!"

I don't know who suddenly shouted in Turkic: "There are gods in the sky! The true god has come!"

Ishii Kazu, the weapons consultant of Ming Dynasty, also saw the huge ball.

This is the secret weapon that Daming gifted to Osman in friendship.

Even the outer coating was designed according to the requirements of the Ottoman Prime Minister.

The hot air balloon is green as a whole, with a star and moon symbol painted on it, and the words "God bless Sudan" are written on it.

By the way, the official script of the Ottomans is the Oghuz script.

The early Ottomans used Persian and Persian script because they were satirized as Persian-speaking "Romans".

It wasn't until the Oghuz writing system and the Turkish language were valued that Ottomans knew it was time to de-Persianize.

However, de-Persianization is difficult. At least the pre-Ottoman and mid-Ottoman lords are also proficient in Persian, and Persian has always been a compulsory course and the main language of poetry for Ottoman intellectuals.

To the relief of Ishii, the weapons consultant, the green hot air balloon did not fly very high.

Probably about 30 meters in height.

There was also a long rope tied to the balloon's basket, and the other end of the rope hung down to the ground, controlled by a team of Janissaries.

Protection measures are well done.

The soldiers and officers took a closer look: there was a basket under the hot air balloon, and in the basket stood a fat man in a gorgeous Kaftan silk robe.

The pattern on the dress has cypress pine cones woven with gold thread, surrounded by tulips and carnations.

It is precious at first glance.

It turned out that the fat man was Suleiman II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.

He is the unlucky and lucky fat man.

Suleiman II spent the first half of his life under strict surveillance because he would be on death row if he failed to become sultan.

The throne of Sultan was originally held by Suleiman II's brother Mehmed IV.

It is a pity that Muhammad IV did not perform well and was deposed, and Suleiman II became the new sultan from a death row prisoner.

In addition to the luck of the throne, Suleiman II's luck is also reflected in his physical and mental state.

After spending a long period of time in prison, many people either became fools or lunatics, but Suleiman II, who was tortured, had no physical and mental problems, and persisted in the predicament to become the ruler of the country. It is very similar to Emperor Xuanzong of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty who became emperors through hardships.

After Suleiman II became the sultan of the Ottoman Empire, he became a "hands-off shopkeeper" and reused the Koprulu family that was suppressed by his elder brother. Osman was relieved.

Suleiman II, the "treasurer" of the empire, has the "hands-off" trait, which is also reflected in his handling of the international situation.

During the reign of Suleiman II, the situation in Europe and Asia Minor was undergoing earth-shaking changes.

At the same time, King Louis XIV of France fought wars with European countries in order to establish European hegemony.

Suleiman II faced the situation of wars among countries, and adopted an attitude of watching from the sidelines and "hands-off", taking the opportunity to develop his country's strength.

However, Suleiman II was not blindly indifferent to the international situation. After the fierce battle between Austria and France, Suleiman II took advantage of Austria's weakness and ordered the prime minister to use troops against Austria to regain the lost military power in Nis and other places. Fortress, and occupied Belgrade, the core city of the Balkan Peninsula!
This year he felt that his body was getting weaker and weaker, and he wanted to go crazy, so he had today's hot air balloon operation.

Indeed, historically he would have died at the end of 1691.

Based on this situation, he also wanted to revitalize this aging empire at the last moment of his life!

If you want to revitalize the empire, you can only continue to conquer, conquer new territories, and plunder more people and wealth.

And the conquest goal that can make Suleiman II fulfill his wish, looking around the Ottomans, is only Vienna, the capital of the Holy Roman Empire, the old enemy of the Ottoman Empire!

(End of this chapter)