Rise of the 1630s South America

Chapter 2494 Establishing a New Monarch ([-])

The smoke from the Caribbean has not yet reached Europe. On November 1703, 11, in Georgia, a fully loaded army had just returned to camp.

The number of the army is about 6000 people, half of them are cavalry.Judging by their attire, helmets, breastplates, shields, riding spears, and pistols are all available, and their spirits are also very good. They should be a strong team.Compared with them, those infantrymen are much worse. First of all, they are not energetic, have a strong smell, and the military temperament is not pure enough. Such an army will not be able to fight hard and tough battles in the will.

Secondly, their equipment is really not good.The military uniforms are messy in color, old and new, and many people look a little worn out.Furthermore, there are all kinds of weapons, including old-fashioned arquebuses (English, East Coast, and Turkish), flintlock rifles (also from different sources), and even spearmen using cold weapons.This is strange, after decades of development, apart from the cavalry, there are no cold weapon troops in the military establishment in Europe today?Well, there may be some in Russia, but it definitely only exists among the third-rate troops stationed in the place, and the ones that can be pulled out to fight must be full-arms troops.

Therefore, this army is really not good, it is definitely not the regular army of Turkey!

Wu Yifei also stood on the hillside to observe this army.They are currently under the command of Hrabery Ahmed, and they are the surrendered troops he has recruited locally, and they are basically Syrians.They came all the way from Aleppo and have been stationed in many Georgian cities.In the massive uprising against the Turks that started a year ago, they were defeated by the Georgians and fled all the way to the Caucasus Mountains, and then they were packed up by the local mountain people. Word.

After Hrabery was ordered to suppress the rebellion, he left the military fortress Erzurum with 7000 troops and entered the territory of Georgia.This place is currently extremely chaotic, and there is basically no unified political power.Many families call themselves dukes, princes, or even kings. In short, you sing and I come on stage, which is extremely lively.But they also have one thing in common, that is, bowing their knees to the behemoth-like Ottoman Empire in the south, paying tribute to them.

After Helabry's army entered southwestern Georgia, it quickly defeated the Gulia family's army, occupied its land, and confronted Samegrelo's army from the north. The two sides exchanged fire from time to time, but There has never been a large-scale tragic battle.During this period, Hrabery took advantage of his favorable status as the commander-in-chief of the counter-insurgency to gain control of several armies coming from other places. The whole process went very smoothly, except that some people who refused to obey his discipline accidentally "died" Except for the generals-those generals did not know until their death why they were inexplicably ambushed by the Georgians in the valley.

In the process of annexing friendly forces, the profound heritage of the Koprulu family played a huge role.This family has been involved in the political arena and the army for decades, and has produced many grand viziers. The children and disciples of the generals in the army are even more unknown, and they have huge influence.Backed by this big tree, Helabry, the new representative of the Koprulu family, was much more relaxed, and successively controlled an army with a total of 5000 people.

Not only that, Helabry also repeatedly asked the central court in Istanbul for supplies, including but not limited to weapons and ammunition, war horse armor, food money, etc., under the pretext of "difficult warfare" and "extreme consumption".For this reason, he built a huge warehouse near the Georgian border—in the province of Azar, which was originally Georgia, and most of the people were Georgians. This time, he was also involved in the rebellion. used to store these weapons.Helabry once boasted to Wu Yifei's face that these materials are enough to support his army's consumption for two years, which can be said to be a rich reserve.

But with so many supplies and so many benefits, it is natural to have to do something.After all, neither Sultan nor Effendi are generous people. The reason they moved to Helabry before was that they were beaten by the Austrians on the Western Front. Seeing signs of blood collapse, they were extremely unwilling to see what happened inside the country. This is why he has repeatedly agreed to his request.But then the Austrians had been absorbed most of their energy by the breakthrough army of Louis XIV's Central Committee. The king fled Vienna for a while, and the Turkish army who launched the Holy War in Hungary breathed a sigh of relief. The situation was no longer so precarious, so they Adjusted his attitude towards Helabry and asked him to quell the rebellion in the east as soon as possible and stabilize the situation.

At that time, the rebellion originally started by the Georgians had spread to the territory of the Ottoman Empire. Many farmers, herdsmen and even soldiers who had long been dissatisfied with the imperial court rose up and openly rebelled.Later, the Kurds (well, the Ottoman Empire officially called them the Mountain Turks) also participated, and the entire eastern part became a mess—the country is like this bird, its appearance is glamorous, and it is even exporting wars. But a spark inside can give you a whole lot of chicken feathers. The so-called implosion is also known to the local chickens and Maozi in history.

Helabry led an army of [-] to sweep the fallen leaves in the autumn wind, united with the nobles of Abkhazia in northwestern Georgia, first defeated the Georgian army of the Samegrero Principality who had been against him, and then marched southward into the An In eastern Natolia, after months of fighting, the local rebels were suppressed one by one - but some people also reported to the sultan that Helabry only executed the leader of the rebellion, and the others were simply dismissed He even recruited several rebel troops, but the Sultan was obsessed with hunting and was indifferent to it.

After defeating the rebels in Anatolia, Herabery moved north into Eastern Georgia.The king of East Georgia in Tbilisi was originally very afraid and unwilling to fight against the Turkish army.But Helabry humiliated him repeatedly, refused to accept his surrender, and threatened to overthrow his throne and turn East Georgia into a direct territory of the empire.The king naturally couldn't accept this kind of thing, so the originally relaxed situation broke out again, and the Georgians and Turks began to fight.But Helabry controlled the rhythm of the war very "artistically", defeating the Georgians, but did not kill them all, and always maintained a low-intensity war.

During this process, his personal power continued to expand rapidly. Many officials in eastern Anatolia bowed to him, and many nobles in Georgia knelt down to him, and the number of troops under his command was also increasing rapidly. 5 people.He selected various ministries and selected 3000 people as his pro-army, just like the Sultan's Ganishari Army.The remaining tens of thousands of troops were organized into three divisions, and the middle and senior officers were all served by the children he brought out from the family.In addition, he also asked the people on the east coast to "invest" and give them a batch of military supplies.After considering for a long time, Sheng Dehong finally agreed to Herabery's request and decided to transfer a batch of military equipment worth 20 dinars from Haji Port to assist Herabery in the form of loans.

Wu Yifei came to Imereti today, superficially to escort supplies, but the deep-seated purpose was to talk to Helabry, listen to his opinions, and discuss whether his plan was feasible.Now the Ottoman country is in chaos, sporadic uprisings broke out everywhere, and local officials are also very dissatisfied with the government. Scholars, businessmen, small landlords, and military officers hate the people in power headed by Effendi because of the sharp deterioration of living conditions. To the bone, I don’t remember how they were instigated by this man’s religious fanaticism a few years ago, and they supported him with one heart. When the belly is not full, even the most devout believers will be shaken. Allah did not let everyone If you don't have enough to eat, you must have distorted the will of Allah, and you must die!

It can be said that the soil for rebellion still exists.At this time, if you raise your arms and shout, you can create a big scene.But Wu Yifei also learned that the Ottoman family that ruled the entire old empire has not declined, and has not completely lost the hearts of the people and the religious circles, so it is impossible to replace it. It is impossible to abolish the current sultan and establish a new one. Just an obedient puppet.

Hrabery agrees with this.He also admitted frankly that the Koprulu family didn't have such a big appetite, and they didn't think about replacing the Ottoman family. They didn't think about it once. They just thought about how to protect themselves.In fact, if His Majesty the Sultan hadn't been extremely suspicious of their family, and Grand Vizier Effendi continued to weaken their family foundation, they would still be the loyal servants of the Sultan, the cornerstone of the Sultan's stable country, and the sharp sword for overseas campaigns, just like Kopru Lu's ancestors in the past are the same.But helpless, the tree wants to be quiet but the wind keeps on. The Koprulu family is too dazzling, offending the interests of too many people, arousing the jealousy of too many people, and finally being suspected by the Sudan, and the family security has been seriously threatened.Therefore, they had no choice but to stand up and lead a group of soldiers who still had a sense of justice in their hearts to eliminate the traitors around Sudan headed by Effendi and save the country.

Wu Yifei automatically filtered some of the "nonsense" that Hrabery said.He is familiar with the history books of all ages, and he doesn't want to listen to these half-truths and half-fake sympathy stories made up by Helabry. , I have a score in my heart: Governor of Aleppo, Governor of Egypt, Governor of Rumili, Grand Duke of Serbia, Duke of Moldavia, Commander-in-Chief of the Spasi Cavalry, Navy Pasha, most generals in the Greek region, seventeen members of the Ganishari Army Generals and other powerful figures supported him.

That's it, hope is great.Wu Yifei pondered, the investment should not be lost.Next, it seems that conditions can be discussed with Hrabery.

(End of this chapter)