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Chapter 59 The Ottoman Concession and the Formation of the Crusade
Bayezid arrived at Varna immediately with the army, and he was angry that he did not wait for the siege equipment and artillery to arrive, so he ordered the attack on the city.

Bayezid was also confused, and was beaten up immediately after going up like this.Because it is a siege, the cavalry is useless and can only rely on infantry.But the problem is that you don't have any siege equipment at all, and the previous transportation has been robbed.So how to fight now, just rely on the ladder to go up, and naturally suffer heavy losses.

Seeing that he couldn't fight for the time being, Bayezid ordered someone to persuade him to surrender, but the other party refused and almost killed the special envoy.

Alright, let's wait for the supplies next.

Bayezid probably has never lost such a big temper in his life. In order to avoid sneak attacks at night, he also stepped up cavalry patrols.As a result, there was no sneak attack for several days, which made him feel relieved.

Yes, Peter is not going to attack at night, he is going to attack in broad daylight.Absolutely unforgettable.

At noon that day, all the Ottoman soldiers prayed.They never imagined that the enemy army was nearby.

"Allah..."

The Ottoman soldiers were praying when they suddenly heard the sound of fighting.

These camps were only temporarily reinforced, coupled with the low morale, the outermost Ottoman soldiers became ghosts under the sword before they took up arms.

Attack while the other party is praying, well, yes, very good.

Although it was a surprise attack, many Ottoman soldiers still reacted and took up arms to fight.At the same time, soldiers from other places also arrived quickly, and Bayezid led Yenicheri to help out.

"They have insulted Allah, kill them all!"

Yenicheri's combat effectiveness is not bad, but if he is facing a Cossack like them, he can only fight [-]-[-], after all, the opponent is fighting with real swords and guns.

And just as they gradually moved eastward, west of the camp.There was a louder fighting sound.

The comers were Peter's main force, and their sudden backstabs caught Osman off guard.But relying on the advantage of numbers, it gradually stabilized.

The enemy retreated, but the Ottomans suffered heavy losses.Bayezid had to consider retreating, especially now that his army was alone.

In order to lure the enemy troops out, Bayezid ordered the troops to shout and curse.Said that Peter was a coward and did not dare to come out because he was scared by Osman.

Listening to what they said, Peter showed no expression at all.Just looking at the map to myself.

"It's the dead end who yells."

Peter continued to maintain the policy of clearing the walls, and at the same time sent people to disrupt Ottoman's supply lines.What's more, there was an outbreak of disease in the Ottoman camp due to sanitation problems.Many people are gone.

Bayezid couldn't hold on anymore, and after losing two pashas and a large number of soldiers in a row, he gave an order to retreat.

This is Bayezid's humiliation, he has never been so aggrieved.At the same time, he also cursed Peter several times, thinking that it was because he did not dare to fight that they suffered heavy losses.

And going back was another loss, Osman's gradual loss in Peter's mobile battle.And Bayezid had nothing to do.

In the south, Mircea's army also successfully captured Burgas.Because most of the defenders in the city were taken away by Bayezid, and now there are less than 2000 defenders in the city, Mircea took it without much effort.

The two towns of Sofia and Burgas fell, and it can be said that the Ottoman expansion started from Murad I was completely in vain.At the same time, the Ottoman army could not go back.

----split line----

Well, look elsewhere.News of the defeat of the Ottoman army in Wallachia also spread to other parts of Europe.The Hungarian king believed that a crusade was needed to completely drive Ottomans out of the Balkans, and Venice also worried that the Ottoman Empire would control the Balkans, including Venice's possessions in Morea and Dalmatia, which would weaken Venice's influence on the Adriatic, Ionian and Aegean influence.

Genoa feared that if the Ottomans gained control of the Danube and the Turkish Straits, they would end up monopolizing the trade routes from Europe to the Black Sea.Genoa held Caffa, Sinop and Amasra on the Black Sea.The Genoese also control Galata in the north of the Golden Horn of Constantinople. Bayezid I once launched an attack on Galata.

Even though the schism in the Western Church divided the Pope's position in two, the Pope of Avignon and Rome opposed each other, and the Pope's right to call the Crusades has long since disappeared, the Pope of Rome still called for the Crusades to resist the Turks .

At the same time, there is another key factor in the composition of the Crusaders: the Hundred Years' War between Richard II of England and Charles VI of France and the support of Philip II, Duke of Burgundy. In 1389, the Hundred Years' War entered a periodic truce, for which the topic of the Crusades grew again.

To increase his odds, Sigismund sent four lords and a bishop to his court in Paris to describe "40000" Turks plundering and endangering Christian lands, and to plead for help on behalf of Sigismund of Hungary.Charles VI had reached a peace treaty with England through intermarriage, so he replied that as the "leader of Christian kings", he had the responsibility to protect Christianity and teach Bayezid I.The French nobility responded eagerly.Both Philippe of Artois, Marshal of France, and Jean Lemaigre, Marshal of France, called it the duty of "warriors" to join the crusade.

Philip, Duke of Burgundy originally planned to lead the crusade with John of Gaunt and Louis I of Gaunt, but the plan was ultimately aborted. Philip said that the peace treaty with England stated that Britain must participate in the crusade, but I am afraid that was because no one wanted to leave the throne. , while other contenders for the throne are around the throne.Philip appointed his eldest son, John Nevers, as the titular commander. The Duke may think that his eldest son and his second sons Er and Buseycourt were under 35 years old at the time and lacked the necessary experience, so he appointed the most experienced fighters and statesmen in the land. Enguerrand VII, Duke of Cousibourg, was John's "chief advisor".

Nevers had an army of "advisors" around him, as well as some eminent French lords whom Nevers could "consult as he thought fit", because medieval warriors did not understand the concept of unity of command.

Their main goal was to drive the Ottoman Empire out of the Balkans, break the siege of Constantinople, then invade Asia Minor and the Levant, recover the holy land of Jerusalem from the Mamluk Sultanate, and return by ship.Although the goals of the Crusaders are ambitious, their actions are shameless.The Crusaders lacked a unified command, their military discipline was loose, they burned, killed and looted along the way, and they extremely despised the Ottoman Empire, so they did not carry siege equipment.

(End of this chapter)