In the following days, Ihasan Pasha went down to the grassroots level to inspect the various armies, observe their situation, and boost the morale of the troops.

The morale of the troops is generally high!

The Chinese can't envy this, Yan Changwu gives the troops a good salary, so the troops work hard, but if he runs out of money, the combat effectiveness of the troops will be a question mark!

The Ottoman troops came from different sources and were uneven, but even those cavalrymen who were ragged and had only a scimitar on their bodies, and who were really horse thieves, were looking up to the sky and roaring: "Fight for the gods, destroy the infidels, holy war!" ”

The appeal of the holy war is full, and the morale of the troops is available!

Ihasan Pasha decided to march on the march, and he selected an army of 180,000 men, plus more than 60,000 men who were carrying heavy loads, claimed to be 300,000, and ordered an advance towards the city of Damascus.

The deputy marshal Humamu Pasha said worriedly: "Our army must not attack the fortified city again!" ”

Ihasan Pasha did not say death: "It depends!" ”

"Hmm!" Humamu Pasha knew that this should indeed be the case, and if he did not fight the fortified city, how would he recover the rivers and mountains? However, he said worriedly: "Wouldn't it be more certain to let the enemy attack and our side defend the city?" ”

There are many advantages to defending the city, and Humamu Pasha does not want to take risks, even if Ihasan Pasha keeps him in Apoll to train the army and be responsible for the army's heavy supplies, which is relatively safe, but Humamu Pasha's fate is with Ihasan Pasha, and he can't help but think about it.

"Your esteemed colleagues, you know that the Holy City is in their hands!" Ihasan Pasha said.

Holy City of Jerusalem!

The Chinese had already taken over the city, and although they showed reverence for religion and did not commit any crimes, Ihasan Pasha and Humamu Pasha were godly people who sat idly by, and were easily attacked by their political opponents, even if they made great contributions, they would be denied!

There is an open field outside the city of Apoll, and today the troops swore to go to the battle, carrying flags all over the field, swords and guns like a forest.

"Bring it on!" Ihasan Pasha said with a wave of his hand.

In front of everyone, a group of sergeants dragged up a group of people, including old and young, men and women, about 50 people, many of whom were very beautiful and obviously from large families.

The military judge loudly announced that the charges against those men were actually the family of Masod Pasha!

Sanjak Bey, the prefect of the city of Fao Harbor in the Persian Gulf, surrendered to the Chinese, and was named "Pasha" by the Chinese, he gladly accepted the false position, this pirated Pasha became a leading party, showing his face everywhere, originally a high-ranking official of the Ottoman Empire, slandering the Ottoman Empire, promoting the southeastern country, and having a very bad impact!

There is a well-known truth--- no one understands you better than yourself, in fact, this truth is the same at the national level, no one knows the key points within the country better than the senior officials of a country, and the defeat of a country is not as easy as the inside out, and it is completely complete.

It is a good way to stir up the situation by propping up the opposition and working against the existing regime in the country.

Mesod Pasha knew about the shady affairs of the Ottoman Empire, and it was too harmful for him to expose it publicly.

Everywhere he went, the people heard about the Ottoman Empire, and many people followed him and left, and even joined his newly formed puppet army, which became the new emperor's allied army.

It can be said that eating a bowl of noodles is against the bottom of a bowl, and the Ottoman court cannot take him to justice for the time being, so it can only put his relatives in Istanbul in prison.

His family has some forces in Istanbul, such as his wife's maiden head who is also a Pasha in the army, and these people still want to save their own family, if Metsod Pasha doesn't squeak, then everything is easy to say.

Forced by the Chinese, Max Ode Pasha continued to mistreat and refused to repent, which completely angered the Istanbul side, and the Grand Vizier Koplulu Pasha ordered the Mesod Pasha clan to be beheaded as an example!

Sending more than fifty members of his family from Istanbul to Apoll and announcing their guilt, Ihasan Pasha personally ordered: "Behead! ”

The executioners and their assistants vigorously knocked down the crying and struggling people, and the butcher knives in their hands were waved and fell, and they worked together, and the light of the knife flashed, and the heads were in different places, and blood was everywhere!

Before the army set out on the march, the head was used as a sacrificial flag, so the three armies were awe-inspiring.

The troops set out one after another, and the southeast cavalry sentry quickly retreated, and the Ottoman army drove straight to the city of Damascus.

Looking at Xiongcheng in the distance from the binoculars, Ihasan Pasha was silent.

Double-walled, impregnable!

Not all cities are double-walled, but as long as they do, they are very troublesome to attack.

Ihasan Pasha ordered the siege of the city!

The long siege was built and the siege equipment was built, and there was no moat outside Damascus due to the lack of water, but the Chinese dug a deep and wide ditch around the city---- which was a piece of cake for them, but caused great trouble for the besiegers.

Now there were no hostile forces to fill the ravines, only the army, unlike in the past, when Farhad Pasha opened the Luo with extravagant and indiscriminate bombardment, Ihasan Pasha ran a small business, he used cannons, trebuchets, bows and arrows and muskets to suppress the Chinese in front of him, and then the sergeants stepped forward to fill the trenches.

The city of Damascus was significantly better defended, the defenders were able to fire their guns from behind the battlements, and the explosive cannons fired by the trebuchets in the city exploded accurately among the Ottoman troops who filled the ditches.

Regardless of the casualties, it took the army three days to fill in the trenches outside the city.

"Our losses were more than 800 killed on the spot and more than 3,000 wounded, and the problem is ...... those wounded," Ihasan Pasha's lieutenant Imad frowned.

"How?" Ihasan Pasha asked busily.

"Many of the injured people are suffering from fever, and their injuries are not getting better!" Imad took out a small projectile and said, "This is a Chinese bullet, our people call it a poisonous bullet, and they think it has the power of the devil!" ”

A small amount of soft metal was rubbed out of the projectile, and although Ihasan Pasha did not understand the principle of the dummy bullet, he took certain measures.

First of all, he strengthened personal protection for the officers and soldiers who went into battle, and he was ruthless, and everyone was issued armor!

Even leather armor still has considerable protection against buckshot, and it will be pierced at close range, but it can resist at a slightly distance.

The leather armor is still good to deal with the projectile iron nails sputtered by the explosion of the black powder bomb, and it cannot be blown through the leather armor unless it is unlucky enough to be next to the explosion point.

There are also helmets, the Ottomans wrapped their heads, but in order to save their lives, they also wore helmets.

The Ottoman army could not issue protective equipment to each person, but the siege officers and soldiers were still able to guarantee it.

Some of the armor was stripped from the dead and wounded and then issued to the later siege soldiers, who often did not feel the blood stains and used it correctly.

There are also shields, bulletproof cars, etc., which come in handy, and again, Ihasan Pasha has recruited doctors from all over the country to serve in front of the army, and he is very real, reciting sutras here to bless the wounded, and there are doctors to diagnose and treat, without publicity, and the mortality rate of the wounded has been much lower than before.

This was not in vain, the Ottoman army was so demoralized that the city of Damascus was covered in smoke, fire, gunfire, and arrows. Artillery shells and bombs flying through the air with long smoke, and rockets flying, like swarms of fireflies.

There are attacking men and horses everywhere, attacking the city on a large scale and on all fronts, and thousands or even thousands of people will not die in a day.

If it is consumed like this every day, the army will bottom out in a month, and it will be wiped out!

However, Ihasan Pasha's real killing was not the siege.