Istanbul, the imperial capital of the Ottoman Empire.

Since June of the 17th year of the Ming Dynasty, when the Ottoman Emperor ordered the Ottoman army to attack the city of Baghdad in the valley of the two rivers, the Ottoman Empire and the Manchu Qing have been at war for more than nine years.

The Ottoman Empire, which had been fighting for a long time with all its might, had been overwhelmed, and the once mighty and vast empire was now empty of treasury and lackluster to support it, especially when it was not yet clear when the war would end.

The Ottoman Emperor's face became more and more gloomy day by day, and he was angry and wanted to smash everything he saw at this moment.

"It's been more than nine years, except for defeat or defeat! God! Is this how my Ottoman Empire is going to be buried? The Ottoman Emperor looked up to the sky and roared: "Damn Deniseri! I want victory! Instead of being so cowardly and not fighting as now, and still failing! ”

The retreat from Baghdad, the loss of the Arabian Peninsula, the loss of the city of Raqqa, and the retreat to Damascus at the moment! The Ottoman emperor saw only retreat and retreat! This is not the performance of his strong Ottoman ** team, the performance of his strong Ottoman ** team should be to overthrow all enemies, victory and victory!

It can be said that the continuous defeat of more than nine years has made the Ottoman emperor very dissatisfied with the current commander of the Ottoman army, Deniseri.

He had to start doubting the correctness of using Deniseri to command the army all along.

Not to mention the Ottoman emperor, many lords, ministers, etc. of the Ottoman Empire are already extremely dissatisfied with Deniseri, believing that it is Deniseri's way of defending more than attacking that has allowed the war to last for so long and has not been able to win the war.

The mentality of the Ottoman monarchs was exactly what Dolgon needed.

It was precisely because of the calculation that the attrition of the long confrontation would trigger the mentality of the Ottoman emperor and ministers that Dolgon planned such a conspiracy.

I don't know when it began, such a rumor began to circulate in Istanbul that Deniseri was negotiating with the Qing army and wanted to defect to the Qing army with hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers of the empire!

This is terrible, could it be that Deniseri has been unable to defeat the Qing army for a long time, and now he can't hold out in Damascus, because he is afraid of the Qing army, so he is ready to defect to the Qing army!

I don't know when it started, but there is another saying that the Qing army was not afraid of Deniseri, in fact, Deniseri was easy to defeat, and the Qing army was afraid of the empire's emerging 'famous general' Erconi.

At first, it was just some rumors, a little talk in the city, but suddenly one day, the emperor's guards intercepted a letter, and the content of the letter made the whole Istanbul fry up and down.

This is a letter from Marshal Deniseri, who was leading the imperial army to fight against the Qing army in Damascus, to his family, asking his family to leave the city of Istanbul immediately and go to the border between the empire and the Qing state, where there are already Qing people waiting to answer them.

At this moment, the rumor immediately turned into fear.

Most of the more than 600,000 imperial ** troops commanded by Deniseri at this moment are the most elite troops under the empire, and they are an army that gathers the national strength of the entire empire to maintain.

"Bang----, Denneseri, damn Denisery!" The Ottoman emperor smashed things in a fit of rage.

Seeing this letter, the heart of the Ottoman emperor was terrified.

The so-called rather believe that it exists, than believe that it does not! This sentence is not only applicable in the Central Plains of the Ming Dynasty, but also in the whole world.

The Ottoman emperor was already dissatisfied with Deniseri, and now he saw such a letter, and it is strange not to be mad.

"Quick! Arrest the Denisseri family now! The Ottoman emperor gave this order without hesitation, and he did not check the authenticity of the letters, but first took Deniseli's family under control.

In fact, even if the Ottoman emperor did not verify the authenticity of the letter, he had already fully believed the words in the letter, and he had long wanted to replace Deniseri, who had not been able to hold out and had been unable to win the war, and use other generals.

Deniseri's family was quickly arrested and put in prison.

At this moment, the Ottoman people in Istanbul became even more discussing, and they were still a little suspicious, but when they saw the emperor's actions, they immediately believed it was true, and they were excited to arrest Deniseri and hang him!

The Empire must not allow betrayers, let alone lose victory in this war for the survival of the Empire, so the coward Deniseri must be replaced.

Not only ordinary Ottoman people, but also many Ottoman officials and lords shouted like this, even the Ottoman emperor himself thought so.

Under this unanimous idea, no one cares whether the contents of the letter that Denisseri wrote to his family are true, they care about who should be sent to take over the position of Denisery's commander and lead the imperial army to defeat the Qing army!

Under such demand, another rumor became more and more hot, and it was not Deniseri that the Qing army was afraid of, but the new 'famous general' Erconi of the empire!

Erconi's father was one of the most famous generals of the last generation of the Ottoman Empire, who led the Ottoman Empire to conquer a large part of North Africa, and was a famous commander of the empire.

And Erconi seems to have inherited his father's commanding talent, at the age of fifteen he led the guards of his own territory to exterminate a group of mountain bandits, and finally seemed to be obsessed with leading troops to 'fight', repeatedly exterminating other mountain bandits, and then during his studies at Istanbul Emperor's Academy, he also performed well, even because of the merits of the previous generation, plus his own creation' fame', and once made him personally summoned by the Ottoman Emperor, many of his theories about war, the Ottoman Emperor was convinced, and praised him many times for being a famous general of the empire.

Not only the Ottoman emperor, but also many Ottoman lords and ministers were also very optimistic about Erconi.

Erconi seems to have lived up to the expectations of the Ottoman emperor and some of his ministers, and at the age of twenty-eight, he finally led an army to crush a rebellion caused by too many tribal casualties, killing the leader of the rebels.

Today, Erconi is just thirty years old, but his fame has already spread throughout the city of Istanbul.

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