Chapter 978: The Ottoman Empire's Fiasco (1)

Soon, the new guns brought by Isfahan also arrived at the Qing army camp.

With these 15,000 imitation rifles and 100 imitation Shenwei cannons, the strength of the Qing army's musket team has more than doubled.

If the original Qing army could only maintain a 27,000-strong flintlock musket team, then at this moment, the combat effectiveness of the Qing army's musket team of 27,000 people, equipped with 15,000 rifles, was no less than the combat effectiveness of the 60,000-man musket team with full flintlock muskets.

Dolgon's original strategy was to rely on the power of these new guns to take the Ottoman army by surprise, forcibly tear a road under the city of Damascus, and attack the city of Damascus.

But now, thanks to Erconi's arrival and a large number of changes in the Ottoman army's defensive deployment, Dolgon has a new and more perfect strategy.

"Kill, ----" Suddenly, there were bursts of Ottoman soldiers shouting outside, and the voice was extremely loud, at least more than 100,000 Ottoman soldiers were shouting.

"Boom! Rumble! Boom -----" was accompanied by the roar of cannons.

"Huh?" Dolgon's brow furrowed slightly.

At this moment, a soldier of the Qing army with a white flag rushed in.

"Report to ---, Regent, the Ottoman army has taken the initiative to attack our army!" The white flag soldier brought the news, just as Dolgon had already thought for a moment, that the Ottoman army had abandoned its original defensive strategy and began to attack on its own.

"Good! Hahahaha! What a Erconi, it's really another Zhao Kuo! Blessed be me! Dorgon laughed maniacally!

Originally, if the old guy from Deniseri led the troops, even if the Qing army could instantly enter Damascus and defeat the Ottoman army, it would definitely pay very heavy casualties, and it was likely to be a heavy victory.

But now, a person like Zhao Kuo has appeared. The Ottoman army, which was already weak, was able to continue to confront the Qing army by relying on the intricate defenses carefully deployed by Deniseri in Damascus. Defense is equivalent to the most advantageous point of the Ottoman army, but now, under the command of Erconi, the 'Zhao Kuo', the Ottoman army has blatantly abandoned the original defensive strategy, like the Zhao army in the Battle of Changping, and took the initiative to attack the 'Qin army' and bring about its own destruction! How could Dorgon not be ecstatic!

"Order the army, don't rush to repel the Ottoman army, let it attack my camp for a distance, but then repel it in half a day!" Dorgon laughed, but still calmly gave the order, ready to paralyze the Ottoman army.

"Wow!"

Soon, Dolgon's order was conveyed, and the Qing army, in accordance with Dolgon's order, slowed down the offensive of counterattacks, continued to retreat slightly, and allowed hundreds of thousands of Ottoman troops to enter the Qing army camp for a distance, and fought fiercely with the Qing army in the Qing army camp, and the two armies were inextricably separated for a while.

On the castle of Damascus, Erconi, the current commander of the Ottoman army, is observing everything on the battlefield with a telescope.

"This is the Qing army? Hehe, it's so powerful there! Seeing that his own army had easily entered the camp of the Qing army, Erconi immediately smiled disdainfully.

He was really powerful when the Qing army, but he didn't expect it to be so bad, this time he sent 140,000 soldiers to take the initiative to attack the Qing army, it was just a tentative attack by him, just to try how much combat effectiveness the Qing army had, and now it seems that he overestimated it.

Next, he will definitely order the army to launch a more fierce attack on the Qing army.

In Erconi's dictionary, only offense is the best defense, and since he first led his soldiers into battle at the age of fifteen, his victory was not the fiercest of attacks.

140,000 Ottoman soldiers entered the camp of the Qing army and fought fiercely with the Qing army for half a day before being beaten back under the strong counterattack of the Qing army.

However, in Erconi's eyes, this is enough to show the unbearable nature of the Qing army.

After all, there were only 140,000 soldiers in their Ottoman Empire, but there were more than 800,000 Qing troops in the Qing army camp, and their 140,000 soldiers were killed in the Qing army's camp, and it took so long to be beaten out by the Qing army.

"The Qing army is so incompetent, I really don't understand why that old guy in Deniseri keeps losing and retreating, first Baghdad can't be captured, and then after confronting the Qing army in the area of Raqqa for several years, he even lost to the Qing army once, losing the important city of Raqqa! Hehe! The old guy must be old, and after all, he still has to rely on me Erconi to defeat the Qing army! Erconi said disdainfully.

Erconi was so high-spirited that he didn't take the Qing army seriously at all.

On the side of the Qing army's camp, after repelling the Ottoman army, Dolgon always had a smile on his face, and he was constantly deploying troops and adjusting his deployment, preparing a strategy that could defeat the Ottoman army in one fell swoop.

Today's battle was enough to paralyze Erconi, and Dolgon was ready to order the Qing army to take the initiative tomorrow to lead all the Ottoman army out of the Damascus defense belt, lead it to the ambush he had deployed, and crush the Ottoman army in one fell swoop, and win the battle of Damascus.

After overnight deployment, the next day, Dolgon lined up his troops.

"Aobai, you lead an army of 300,000 to attack the Ottoman army in Damascus, once the Ottoman army counterattacks, immediately follow the plan, pretend to be defeated and retreat, and lead the Ottoman army out of the defensive belt!" Dorgon commanded Aobai.

"Wow! Minions take orders! Ao Bai took the order and walked out.

Dorgon looked at the other generals: "The rest of the generals, each of them will be deployed according to the original plan!" ”

"Wow!" The generals of the Qing army also took orders and walked out.

After all the generals left with the order, Dolgon's eyes narrowed slightly, and the cold light flashed: "The decline of the Ottoman Empire is today, and my Qing Dynasty will also become the only overlord within a radius of thousands of miles!" ”

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"Kill, -----" As Ao Bai led 300,000 Qing troops to take the initiative to attack the Ottoman army in Damascus, the largest major war broke out in the confrontation between the Ottoman Empire and the Manchu Qing Dynasty for more than nine years, and the oppressive atmosphere suddenly enveloped the entire Damascus area.

The Qing soldiers crossed the wooden fence set up at the forefront of the Ottoman army's defenses, preparing to continue the attack into the depths of the Ottoman army's defenses.

"Boom, Boom, Boom----" The Ottoman soldiers shot a dense rain of arrows.

Many Qing soldiers who had just climbed over the guardrail were shot to the ground, and the battlefield was stained with blood.

"Shoot!"

The Qing army also shot a rain of arrows in the direction -----of the Ottoman army.

The sky was covered with arrows, and soldiers on both sides were shot and fell to the ground at every moment.

Soon, the soldiers at the forefront of both sides finally came into contact with each other, and began the most tragic close-range fierce battle, one after another soldiers on both sides were cut down, the Qing army continued to penetrate into the defense of the Ottoman army, and also ushered in the defense of the Ottoman army The most fierce counterattack, as the attacker, countless Qing soldiers fell, and as the defender, the fallen Ottoman soldiers were less than half of the Qing soldiers.

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