Chapter 56 Night Raid in the Forest

"Sultan, they should be running towards Varna."

When Bayezid heard the direction, he yelled to the people around him.

"What are you waiting for? Go and chase them!"

Bayezid's military talent is not bad, but of course his temper is not small, and he will explode at any time. He can't tolerate the other party humiliating him like this, isn't it? Isn't it said that he will cut him into pieces?

So, Muhammad Pasha led the Sipahi to run towards Varna. It will take one day to catch up.

In this way, they chased from noon to dark. There was no shadow of the enemy, and the morale of the Sipahi began to decline. In order to pursue the enemy, they went into battle lightly, and it was dark when they ran. So Muhammad decided to camp on the spot.

But at this time they were in a forest, and as long as they got out of the forest, they could camp on the spot.

All the Sipahi were thinking about resting quickly, and they were completely unaware of the upcoming danger.

"Hey, do you smell anything?"

"I smell it, but I can't tell what it is."

Mohammed also heard the whispers of the Sipahis. He also smelled a bad smell, but he didn't know what it was.

Fortunately, he saw the exit, but a huge tree blocked the road. Mohammed ordered it to be moved away, and found a piece of paper.

"You will die here."

Mohammed knew that something was wrong and quickly ordered the army to be on guard. But it was too late.

Hundreds of rockets were fired from all directions, landing in trees, the ground, and bushes, and the fire spread rapidly. This forest turned into a sea of ​​fire.

Some Sipahis who had not yet entered the forest wanted to retreat, but were pulled down by the light cavalry and infantry who suddenly appeared. At this time, they died before they could fully react.

Soon, the sound of war drums sounded. The Sipahis who were planning to rush out no longer had the energy to identify where the sound came from. They could only rush out from all directions, but as soon as they escaped, they were captured. If they didn't go out, they would be burned to death and choked to death.

Muhammad Pasha could only break out with a few guards. They succeeded, but the price was the loss of two people.

Then, they prepared to flee back to Burgas. But before they went far, the warhorse was tripped by a rope, and Muhammad fell off the horse and was captured alive by the enemy soldiers who rushed around.

In the temporary camp not far away, Peter was looking at the sand table of the Balkans. This one-to-one three-dimensional map that took a lot of time to make is Peter's treasure. See Varna and Vidin above are inserted with the Orthodox Cross, Edirne and others are inserted with the Ottoman star and crescent, and Sofia and Burgas are inserted with red and black flags, which means that the two sides are fighting.

"My lord, if the Grand Duke can take Sofia, then we must take Burgas, so that we can build a new line of defense to prevent other Ottoman invasions."

"Well"

Burgas and Sofia are like two cities that echo each other. If Plovdiv is taken, then a line of defense with the Balkan Mountains as a barrier will be a good resistance to the Ottomans.

Peter wanted to attract the main force of the Ottomans to relieve the pressure on Grand Duke Mircea and to quickly capture Sofia. And he also wanted to find an opportunity to severely damage Bayezid's army.

Listening to the fighting in the distance, Peter asked the generals around him.

"What's the situation outside?"

"Sir, the Ottomans are completely in chaos."

Hearing this news, all the generals were happy, but Peter remained calm. This was within his expectations.

Putting more than a thousand years of Eastern examples here, they are all super gods. Not to mention Europe, which has not yet ended in the Middle Ages.

"By the way, where is Alexei?"

As soon as Peter finished speaking, a missionary ran in. He was holding some papers in his hand.

"Sir, what do you think of these?"

Alexei asked Peter about his newly written manuscripts.

"It seems that the dean was right to transfer you out of the monastery." Peter said.

Alexei entered the monastery since he was a child, and later studied theology, literature, poetry, etc. Later, because of his love of learning, he entered the Constanta Academy to study. Because of his good literary and poetic creation, he received investment from Peter.

Because the promotion of Wallachian writing requires the support of literary works, poetry and novels are the most popular and fastest way to spread, so they can naturally get Peter's support.

Alexei lived up to expectations and created some classic works. For example, "The Little Ewe" and "Craftsman Manole", all of which are written in Wallachian. And these did popularize the Wallachian writing, and the works printed by the printing house began to spread in large quantities.

This time, Alexei followed Peter in person, just to be able to write an epic work against the Ottomans. He was a man who wanted to go down in history, and he didn't care about the risks of being captured or killed.

At this time, two soldiers escorted a dusty man to the tent.

"Your..." (100 words omitted here)

"Who is this?"

"My lord, this is the commander of the cavalry, Muhammad Pasha. We spent a lot of effort to bring him here."

Peter looked at Muhammad carefully, and this sight made him very uncomfortable. Because he felt that he was a slave chosen by others, he struggled hard and wanted to kill him.

"It seems that he is not convinced." Peter looked at him levelly, and he saw the unconvinced look in his eyes.

Normal, after all, no one would admit to being captured by a child. Especially the Osman general, he did not expect that the leader of this army was actually a child.

"I know you are not convinced, after all, you, your Sultan, all of you don't know that it is me who leads the army."

"You trample on the land of the Orthodox Church, kill the people of the Orthodox Church, and shamelessly think that this is to save them. You are even more shameless than those in Rome and Augsburg."

Peter's words actually stunned Muhammad. After years of military service, this was the first and probably the only time he was stunned by someone much younger than himself.

"I admit that your Sultan is very powerful, but he will definitely fail. And you can't see it anymore."

Then he asked the soldiers to take him away, and he didn't know what happened next.

Another day dawned, and Peter's army once again annihilated the Osman vanguard. And this time it was more clean than the first annihilation.

And when Bayezid led the army here angrily, all he saw was the burned forest and the dark land. Crows were calling on the dead trees, and it was scary to hear.

Bayezid couldn't believe it. There must have been a big battle here. And it must be that Muhammad met the enemy.

He continued to move forward, and the scene in front of him made him vomit.

Hundreds of Ottoman sipahs were impaled on sharp wooden pillars, and their deaths were extremely miserable. Some sipahs who were not yet dead were begging for help in a weak voice.

Bayezid became more and more scared as he walked, and he felt fear for the first time. Not long after, he saw Muhammad Pasha, who was in the highest position. To prove his status.

Bayezid couldn't bear it anymore. He asked someone to put Muhammad down, but found a piece of paper underneath with the same handwriting as he had taken before.

"Sultan better consider the next journey, otherwise this will be your end."

"Or do you want me to twist your head off and kick it like a ball?"