Unlike what people imagined, such a huge battle was extremely boring at the beginning.

The coalition has decided to defend itself by the city, and the Ottomans cannot bypass Kamniko. You should remember the high ground on the side of Kamniko. If the Ottoman army dares to ignore the coalition's army entering Austria from the Loypur Pass and then goes north to threaten Vienna, then the coalition can cut off their army like a big snake and block their supply line. Perhaps without fighting, they will collapse in Austria.

Therefore, Slovenia is the battlefield decided by the coalition forces and the Ottomans.

Louis XIV and Vauban, or any European general who had fought with the Ottomans, knew that the Ottomans had almost no progress in tactical practice for hundreds of years. Their slaves who were Sultans except Sudan, and their extremely abnormal political system made it impossible for them to establish a formal modern army. Although their army was like a giant beast, it was just a bloated and stupid giant beast. In contrast, they were still constantly improving in their arms.

After the Ottomans arrived outside the city of Camnico, they began to build fortifications in an orderly manner, dig trenches, and make siege vehicles. The Ottoman siege vehicles used the latest metal connections. Under the threat and temptation of the Greater Vizier Ahmed, they quickly stood outside the city. Each was as high as a city wall. The base at the bottom was as big as a house. The top could accommodate more than ten soldiers. The top was a small bridge raised. Once the siege vehicles could approach the city wall, it would be put down. The soldiers hiding in the siege vehicles would run quickly to the top floor and attack the city wall along the siege vehicles.

Thirty siege cars had already been erected, but Ahmed didn't think it was enough. His general manager was urging like crazy. Fortunately, before the war started, there were too many people here and too fine work they could not do, but it was okay to prepare materials for siege cars and other equipment. About thousands of people carried axes into the nearby forest. After the war, there were few wild animals and people here for several years, because the trees were almost cut down by the Ottomans.

After the metal connections were consumed, only cowhide ropes were used to fix the wood. Hundreds of tents were removed, and their cowhides were covered on siege vehicles. After watering, they could be protected from squatting oil and arrows. In addition, the cowhides used to fix rafts and lay pontoon bridges, nearly 10,000 people lost their tents.

But such behavior made some smart people feel sad. Ahmed undoubtedly told them that only by capturing Kamniko could they have a place to live, otherwise they would have to breathe and rest in the wasteland like wild animals. However, time did not allow them to continue thinking, because early in the morning of the third day after arriving at Kamniko, Great Vizier's ponytail flag was erected, and they surrounded Great Vizier's tent, like the flying robe of the god of death.

Then there was the military band, the well-known Mehtel army team, who were all devout true gods, and the leader was wearing an open-clad robe with white tights inside and loose velvet trousers underneath. He placed a scimitar on his shoulders, and a white hat with a handle-carrying teapot. The command he issued was the baton. The other musicians were all wearing white shirts, open vests, embroidered pants, boots, and the three people in the front carried huge flags.

It was strange that they walked around. Everyone had to take their right foot first, stop at the third step, turn right and then turn left, salute to the people on the left and right. They marched solemnly in the tent, playing the first of the sharp reed flute, then the horn, then the banging bronze drum, small cymbal, and the skin drum that almost hit people's hearts. Behind them was a row of priests. While they walked, they blessed the soldiers who were about to go to the battlefield.

Before the military band and the priests returned to the tent of Great Vizier, the first soldiers had already begun to siege the city.

It depends on the records. Such siege battles are extremely boring. There are no clever tactics or deceitful conspiracies. The Ottomans gradually march towards the walls of Camnico based on trenches and fortifications. The siege built by Vaubon hit them from both sides and in front. The Great Vizier Ahmed had to continue when he built thirty siege cars. People still criticized them. Now they all shut up because the artillery added to the walls and fortifications only requires two to three shells to kill a siege car.

The Ottoman artillery was also roaring, but not only in quantity, they were incomparable with the coalition, but also in quality. The Vaubon's bastion used the cement bricks that the Ottomans had seen before, mixed with iron slag, which was expensive but worth the money. Moreover, their bases were compact soil. The Ottomans also used the previous measures to dig trenches to the bottom of the city wall. In this way, the weight of the artillery, recoil, and the weight of the city wall themselves would cause the ground to collapse.

But Vaubon used this method in Flander. The cannon had a firing angle, but the grenade thrower did not. For this battle, considering the number of enemies to be faced, Louis XIV did not even let the factory make more metal grenades - this kind of thing has great lethality and has a considerable range of impact, but the manufacturing speed is too slow to meet the needs of the battle and the king. So in the later stage, people stuffed gunpowder and stones into small wine barrels and stuffed them with fuses. The small wine barrel was used by the Bordeaux to hold wine, with a capacity of only one liter, which was lighter than the original clay pot. The problem was that it was not a problem.

Grenadiers threw these powder barrels into the trench covered by cowhides. Sometimes they were not so accurate, only landing on one side of the trench, or failed to break the cowhides and the wooden boards below, but the people inside would be shaken to the mouth, nose, ears and blood, and their hearts ruptured and died. These people were quickly dragged out and replaced with another group of engineers.

The siege tower was falling like a tower, and the people inside could not help but fall from it, or were crushed by the heavy tower body, and those Azap who were moving forward like ants were like endless, even if they accumulated corpses like hills under the city walls, they didn't care.

Such battles lasted until dusk, and both the Ottomans and the coalition forces changed several batches, but the former's rotation probably could not go back to the tent, the latter could return to the camp to eat, drink and rest, and the injured could also receive proper care. Several times, the wounded soldiers knew that the places where the flags hung with white, blue and red, but were embroidered with golden lilies were the hospital.

Before the concept of hospitals was popularized, there were no one else who built the hospital here except Louis XIV. When the Spanish general Juan Pattinho was newly painted with chalk and covered with herbs, his eyebrows were not unbuttoned. There were more than the wounded French people here. Because according to the agreement, after the French defended Ljubljan for a week, the army of three electorate would be faced with the Ottomans. The Grand Duke of Brandenburg-Prussia had long been with Louis XIV. Although Saxony and Bavaria stood on the Habsburg side, their position was not so firm. After their soldiers were sent here, they all thanked God and thanked the king of France. Such emotions were very unfavorable to their future plans.

But can he stop it? Not to mention these soldiers from the Holy Roman princes, even the Spanish soldiers, asked them to leave the clean and tidy houses, simple but warm beds, effective herbs and devout monks, let them return to the camp to get hot, go to shenyin, and yell to die, Juan Pattinho will be torn to pieces by the mutiny soldiers and thrown into the burning bonfire.

He stood outside the window of a room and looked inside. A thick candle was burning. Every soldier was shouting in excitement, because the monk was carefully opening a canned glass. This canned food was not even beef, pork or potato. Judging from the transparent juice shaking in the candlelight, it should be some kind of canned fruit. Ah, he saw that the monk poured all the things in the canned food into a large white porcelain bowl. It was citrus. Citrus was not a very strange thing, but Juan knew that the French canned food added a lot of sugar to it in order to ensure that it did not rot easily.

The only way to deal with this is to plant beets in Flanders and sugarcane in Martinique and other places is to grow. Of course, his cans are sold at a very high price. In any case, their shape and color are beautiful, and they taste sweeter than honey. Even Leopold I, who hated Louis XIV, had to add such a snack at breakfast and dinner and banquets, let alone others.

As a new Spanish nobleman, Juan Pattinho not only bought it for his wife and daughter, but also for the Queen Mother of Spain and King Carlos II of the King. He knew the price and also knew that the French king brought a lot of cans that could be almost used for rewards. King Ludwig I of Poland had three carriages here, and other generals of the coalition forces also received this favor. There was a box of them in Juan's room, but the canned fruits were indeed the least.

Even people like Juan couldn't help but secrete saliva when they saw the full golden flesh falling into the porcelain bowl with the sticky juice, let alone those soldiers who had almost never tasted good things - they raised their noses and greedily smelled the sweet fragrance in the air, their mouths opened involuntarily, and their tongues stretched out, hoping to open their eyes wide. The monk was like a mother treating many of his children, holding the porcelain bowl, each of them distributed it one spoonful, ensuring that each spoon had a petal of flesh and a large spoonful of soup. When the soldiers ate it, they had to swallow the spoon into their throats, and the people who ate it were swollen with their cheeks. Except for the first time, everyone would rashly take it down. They lay there, and the pain and fear seemed to have disappeared, showing a innocent smile like a child.

Juan took a deep breath and turned around and walked away.

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Not only Austrians, Spanish, British, and even some French people felt that their Sun King had too many soldiers, but for this king these people were far from enough - the king's army would never be single. When people divided the mounts, dogs and clothing into several levels and uses, the classification of the king's soldiers and officers would only be more complicated. He needed a pure new army, a loyal guard, a traditional dragoon, and a state-of-the-art artillery and musketeers. He also needed a navy that could gallop on the sea, and even a force that mortals should not have touched in the world.

He and Leopold I of the Holy Roman Empire were destined to be enemies, so he would seize every opportunity to weaken the enemy. As a Catholic country, as an era where religious beliefs can trigger wars, he could not refuse Vienna's request for help. So is it possible that he could take the opportunity to gain the most benefits from this battle? Let his army experience such a war on one hand, and to explore the details of the enemy on the other hand, and Schaumberg also gave him some inspiration. Since Schaumberg could become a general in France, could other Austrians or other people from the Holy Roman Empire not be able to?

Since they are all mercenaries.

Hiring a mercenary means anyone can hire them, and Louis XIV is in need of more soldiers to complete one of the grand plans in the future.

Some people could think of Juan, but this was completely Louis XIV's plot. They had no right to ask the soldiers to refuse the treatment and care of the French. Some soldiers had even begun to clean up nearby mansions and nuns (of course, we all know that they were some witches) and expand hospitals. They could get paid, but it would be fine if they were not paid. After all, no one knew which one would be carried off the battlefield next.

It is necessary to expand the hospital, because the next day, the Ottoman offensive gradually became fierce, and the advantages gained in armaments and fortifications were leveled by Vizier Ahmed with the number of people. The Azaps stepped on their companions' bodies and climbed up. The Ottoman artillery was repeatedly pushed forward, and even if they entered the range of the defenders' artillery, they didn't care. The gunmen were not comparing experience and calculation ability, but simply comparing speed. Sometimes the artillery on the bastion was overturned, and sometimes the artillery of the attacking party exploded. The artillery on both sides was quite considerable in number, but the artillery of the defenders always had one or two more cherishing their lives.
Chapter completed!