The present region of Romania is not yet called Romania, and is mainly made up of two principalities, Wallachia and Moldova.
Wallachia and Moldova have been vassal states of the Ottoman Empire since the 16th century, and although Catherine II has wrested control of half of Moldova from the Ottoman Empire through years of war, the nearly 200 years of rule are no joke, and the Ottoman Empire's imprint on Moldova will not be removed anytime soon.
Like Islam, although Moldova and Wallachia began as Christian, Islam flourished in the region after becoming vassal states of the Ottoman Empire.
The so-called Imam was first derived from the honorific title given to the Muslim prayer host.
The initial duty was limited to prostration.
When Muslims pray, all participants must follow the leadership of the Imam and complete the prayer rites as required by the Imam.
However, when Islam was at its peak, both the majority (Sunni) and the minority (Shia) of Islam used the term imam to refer to the head of the Islamic country or region, that is, the caliph, or some well-known generals and scholars.
This title was given by the Muslims at that time.
But whatever the reason, anyone who is recognized as an imam must be an outstanding person in Islam, and this title is not directly appointed by the royal family.
Perhaps the only one that delights Selim from the list of titles that Brankoff utters is the title of the Wallachian Imam.
Born in 1761 and only twenty-eight years old, Selim was able to bear the title of Imam, undoubtedly relying more on his own efforts.
You know, although Islam is thriving in Wallachia and Moldova.
However, most of the people in Eastern Europe believe in Christianity, and Islam is relatively weak in the region.
And since 1785, Selim came to Wallachia.
The cause of Islam in the region has developed greatly, dozens of mosques have been erected in the territory of Wallachia, and tens of thousands of people have been converted to Islam, so that he was able to receive the title of Imam of Wallachia.
"Your Excellency, I am very touched by your arrival, and I have fully felt the sincerity of your country in you."
"Of course, General Brankoff.
I have on my shoulders the sacred duty entrusted to me by His Majesty the Caliph of my country, and I must show you our sincerity, so that it will be conducive to our cooperation in the future, right?
” As he spoke, Selim picked up a glass of wine on the table and took a sip.
The heroic face couldn't help but show a look of great enjoyment "After many years, Moldovan wine is still so delicious, it's really nostalgic!"
Hearing this, Brankoff secretly sneered.
The lips are talking about nostalgia for Moldovan wines.
I'm afraid that it is the territory of Moldova that is on my mind!
"Your Excellency Selim, we are ready to hand over the regions of Moldova to your country after the fact, but your country must help us to eliminate Suvorov" "Your Excellency Brankoff, I would like to solemnly state that the region of Moldova has always been an inseparable vassal state of our Ottoman Empire, and your country's occupation of Moldova is completely an act of aggression, and we do not consider your return of Moldova a condition worthy of thanks!"
Looking at Selim with a smile on his face, Brankoff sneered: "Lord Selim.
If you really think so, then you couldn't be more wrong.
If your request is too high for us to accept, then it will definitely not be us who will benefit in the end."
"Well, let's get straight to the point, Your Excellency Brankoff, my country can help you, as long as your country returns Moldova, the Crimean Peninsula and the Bilgorod region, then we are willing to help you eliminate Suvorov, and if you stand on your own, we can take the lead in supporting you."
Selim put forward his own conditions, but this condition is undoubtedly a bit high, but asking for a price to pay back is where the god of negotiation lies, isn't it.
Soon Brankoff came up with the conditions he had in mind "We can hand over the Moldovan region to you, and if you are able to defeat Suvorov, then we are willing to give you the Bilgorod region, but the Crimean Peninsula cannot be helped.
I believe that if the Crimean Peninsula is lost in our hands, then our future plans will be damaged as a result, and you should know what the Crimean Peninsula means to our country."
Brankoff's attitude was sincere, and this sincerity was also appreciated by Selim.
You must know that it is not two equal people who are negotiating now, compared to the Ottomans, the Russian army in the Black Sea region represented by Blankov is undoubtedly in a relatively weak position, if the weaker side does not make concessions, do you still expect the stronger side to make concessions?
Obviously, the Ottomans will not give up their ambitions for Moldova, and now the interests of the Black Sea Russian military group make Blankov unable to go toe-to-toe with the Ottomans in the region, and now the Black Sea Russian military group wants to do most is undoubtedly to bring in the Ottomans and then destroy Suvorov with the hands of the Ottomans.
You must know that the 40,000 Janissaries brought out by Suvorov this time can be said to be the most sharp army in the hands of the imperial family.
In the Potemkin era, in order to better contribute to the Black Sea region, a large number of Jīng soldiers of various imperial units were concentrated in the Black Sea region, and many of the Russian troops in the Black Sea were also transferred from the Janissaries.
These 100,000 troops were undoubtedly the jīng rui of the Russian Empire, and now the signs of the 100,000 army were unstable, in order to allow Suvorov to come to quell the rebellion, Paul I specially selected 40,000 of the 100,000 janissaries deployed in St.
Petersburg and Moscow, and these 40,000 troops can be said to be the last jīng rui army in the hands of the tsar.
Despite the fact that St.
Petersburg and Moscow still had more than 60,000 troops, Brankoff believed that as long as Suvorov was defeated, then the more than 60,000 troops in St.
Petersburg and Moscow would not be a concern.
Because Suvorov has a very high reputation, Akhvsky and others want to prevent the army from defecting once Suvorov appears on the battlefield.
So this was the plan to make Suvorov unable to reach their army first, and then borrow the Ottoman sword to kill Suvorov.
As long as Suvorov has less access to 100,000 Russian troops, then even if he has high prestige and holds the Tsar's holy decree, what can he do!
"Well, I'm glad you are there.
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We agreed to your terms, and we will ask you for Bilgorod after we have defeated Suvorov."
"It's best that way!"
With that, Selim and Blankov looked at each other and smiled.
In Selim's mind, this was the first time he had commanded a war of this magnitude, and it was the most important battle in which he established himself at home.
His uncle, Hamid I, placed the most powerful army in the country under his command of him, and he hoped to take advantage of this opportunity to train him, which Selim saw quite clearly.
Therefore, in this battle, he vowed to let everyone look sideways and let the world remember his name of Selim!
After the two negotiated.
Selim did not stay for a moment, and immediately rushed back to the city of Iasi, located in the principality of Wallachia, with his retinue, and convened a meeting of the entire Ottoman army.
The Ottomans used 200,000 troops this time seemed to be a large force, but nearly half of them were troops recruited by the Ottomans from their vassals.
The composition of these 200,000 people can be described as quite complex.
Among them, the Principality of Wallachia contributed 20,000 troops.
It is commendable that of the 20,000 troops contributed by Wallachia, 10,000 troops were all cavalry, because Wallachia has a very large and fertile pasture, so it is not surprising that so many cavalry can be cultivated.
In addition to the 20,000 troops in Wallachia, the lords of the Moldovan region, to which the Ottoman Empire belonged, contributed 10,000 troops.
The Tatar tribes living in the Black Sea region contributed an army of 20,000 men.
The Kurds from the eastern Anatolian Plateau provided 20,000 troops, 20,000 dependencies from Egypt, Lebanon and other Middle East regions, and 110,000 standing troops directly under the Ottoman Empire.
Of the 200,000 troops, more than 60,000 were cavalry, less than 10,000 artillery, more than 130 artillery, and the remaining 130,000 were infantry.
Among them, the 10,000 cavalry of Wallachia, the 5,000 Mamluks provided by Egypt, and the 40,000 of the imperial standing army.
The standing army of the Ottoman Empire consisted of two parts.
One is called Sipahi and the other is called Janisseri.
The so-called Sipashi was the cavalry of the military feudal landlords of the Ottoman Turkish Empire.
The Ottomans divided their territory into numerous fiefs, which were given to princes, ministers, and meritorious soldiers.
It can also be based on the amount of income from the mining.
It is divided into three different classes.
Those who owned the fiefs had to provide the sultan with heavily armed cavalry in exchange for the fiefs.
As the Ottomans expanded their power, the system was extended to their newly conquered territories, and the Sipahi grew in number and gradually formed the main military force of the Ottomans.
The Yenisiri is a special conscription system formed by the Ottoman Empire in the 15th ~ 17th centuries.
Every five years, underage men were forcibly recruited from the Christian peoples of the conquered Balkans, and they were assigned to live in the families of Ottoman military feudal lords for several years, where they learned the Turkish language, customs, and converted to Islam, and gradually assimilated them culturally, and then sent to specialized schools in Istanbul and Edirne for military training and religious indoctrination in order to cultivate allegiance to the Sultan and the god Jīng, and then to be added to the army.
But the Janisseri were not allowed to marry, in order to maintain a strong legion of the gods, and there was no family outside the barracks.
Only retired recruits are allowed to marry.
However, there is a clear difference between Sipahi and the Yeniseri First, the composition of the Janisseri, the Janissè is a Christian adolescent.
Of course, when these teenagers enter the Yeniseri, they will receive a strict Islamic education and become staunch Muslims.
Second, the Janisseris were paid troops by the Empire, and they wore neat uniforms.
Their salaries depended not only on seniority, but also on their respective exploits, which was very different from the feudal cavalry Sipahi, who relied on estate.
Thirdly, they were the first modern army to consist of soldiers fully armed with muskets in separate formations, although the Janisselli still had archery and cold weapons.
Although the Janisseris were once very glorious, they are inevitably going downhill.
In the 17th century, the Praetorian Guard began to degenerate.
Prohibition is abolished, training is lax.
Some soldiers even started to run commercial handicrafts privately, and they were not allowed to marry.
But by the time of Suliman the Magnificent, there was some relaxation.
By the time of Selim II, it had become almost customized, the position was passed down, and discipline was corrupted.
In the time of Murad III, anyone was allowed to join the army to celebrate the circumcision of the prince.
The source of soldiers has become hereditary.
Complete loss of combat effectiveness.
And now Selim has a full 80,000 such troops under his command, but some of these 80,000 people are still trustworthy to the prince, such as 30,000 of the 80,000 traditional feudal cavalry of Sipashi and 10,000 Yeniseri from Bulgaria.
The current caliph, Hamid I, was eager to reform the Janisseri at the beginning of his reign.
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However, the Yeniseri had penetrated into the heart of the Ottoman Empire, and it was not easy or even difficult to cut off this cancer.
Not only Hamid I, but all the wise monarchs in the history of the Ottoman Empire for nearly a hundred years saw the backwardness of the Janisseri.
They want to be able to reform the army.
But unfortunately, because these Janisheris have completely violated the purpose for which they were originally founded.
As many as five monarchs of the empire reformed the Janisselli, but they were all overthrown by the Janisselli in a mutiny.
In the current Ottomans, because of the defeat of the two Russo-Turkish wars, the Ottomans decided to carry out the Westernization campaign, and the Janisseri became the most diehard opposition.
They resolutely resist all reforms that jeopardize their prerogatives, and they have staged military coups to prevent them.
Finally, during the reign of Mahmud II, the Sultan had bloody measures to put an end to the army that had created and corrupted the Ottoman Turkish Empire in 1826!
However, the Yenisseri remained the most powerful Ottoman military institution, and Hamid I had no choice but to adopt a soft policy towards this army.
Otherwise, his position as sultan would be shaken immediately.
But Hamid I was not blindly compromised, in the hard-line of the Sultan.
The conservative Yeniseri forces also relented, and the Yeniseri, stationed in Bulgaria and Serbia, carried out some reforms.
And the effect of the reform is also obvious, at least compared to the rest of the Ottoman Empire, the Yenisiri combat effectiveness in these two regions is more than two levels higher.
It can be said that Hamid I pinned all his hopes on Selim, an army of 200,000 men, including the results of Hamid I's reforms and the powerful iron cavalry recruited from the subject countries, if this battle was lost, Selim did not dare to imagine such consequences.
"From now on, the whole army must be ready to go in two days.
In this operation, the army will be divided into two parts, and I will personally lead the attached teams of Wallachia, Moldova, Egypt, and the Middle East, as well as 40,000 yenisseri, to advance to the Chisinau line.
The other was led by the Janissary general, Lord Bidogago, with 40,000 Yenisiri and 20,000 Tatar troops from the Izmail region to Bilgorod.
My requirement for this operation is that it must be fast, and after the Russian army gives way to the defensive line, the various armies must penetrate behind the enemy as quickly as possible.
In addition to the Pydogago's department, our target is the head of Marshal Suvorov of the Russian Empire!
” After Selim finished speaking, a figure stood up "Your Highness, I think it is completely unwise to divide the troops now, although we have reached an agreement with the Russians, but who knows if this is the trajectory of the Russians, what if they secretly trick us, so I think we should concentrate the army and march to Moldova!"
It is undeniable that the two Russo-Turkish wars not only allowed the Russians to gain large territories and increase the country's strength, but also had the benefit that the Russians completely frightened a nobleman and minister in the Ottoman Empire.
Some of the top echelons of the empire have actually reached the point of fearing Russia as a tiger, and this important minister of the Ottoman army who participated in the two Russo-Turkish wars also belongs to the part that was frightened.
Hearing Bidogago's shouting, many people in the hall laughed, and among them were not only Ottoman officers, but even some of the vassal states.
"Oh, Your Excellency Pydogago, don't worry, we have reached an agreement with the Russians, your mission is to march into Bilgorod, and I can guarantee you that you will have a very smooth journey along the way.
Even if the Russians have any plans, you have 60,000 troops around you, so it is possible that you have no confidence in the imperial army!
” Selim's words made Pydogago's face blush a little, although it seems that Pydogago can be described as a big waist with a round waist, a tiger's back and a bear's waist, and he walks with a tiger's style, but those who know him well know that this guy is also a trick who looks powerful.
"Lord Madera, your Wallachian cavalry of 10,000 will be at the vanguard of the army of the Northern Route, and I hope you will not disappoint my hopes.
Your Excellency Mubarak, I have admired the name of the Mamluk in Egypt for a long time, and I hope that this time you will let me see the jīng color performance of the Mamluks.
Sir Stron, I think that even after leaving the Middle East, the sabers in the hands of your 20,000 warriors will not rust!
If you can make a good performance this time, I will personally go to His Majesty the Sultan to ask for credit for you!
And, of course, Your Excellency Lormu, your Moldovan warrior is also very much looking forward to me" Not to mention the faces of the named officers, whose faces were full of excitement, after speaking about these subjects, Selim looked at one of the officers at the bottom of his left and shouted: "Nicaderan, this time you must let everyone in the world see that my Ottoman Turkish Emperor is still there, and his military fortune will last forever!"
"No!
Your Highness!
”