Cepes stared at Sophia not far ahead as he walked.

He didn't expect Sophia would be so stubbornly insisting on coming to the battlefield together. Although her actions spread, it was so exciting that the Bucharest soldiers and people were in a hurry, Ceppes keenly realized that she was not actually for encouraging the morale of the army or for some other purpose, but simply to meet the Earl of Montina as soon as possible.

Cepes was a little surprised what kind of person the count was. Although he was not as impressed as if no one in this world could deserve Sophia's obsession, Cepes was somewhat familiar with Sophia's somewhat bad temper.

Because of this, Cepes couldn't help but feel more worried.

He was worried that the count would have an impact on Sophia that he could not handle, and if that were the case, things would be a little bad for him.

Cepes kept thinking about the changes that might happen next, but he was not worried about what might happen on the battlefield.

Because as far as he knows, the Ottomans crossed the Arge River about 10,000 troops, the Earl of Montina had about 6,000 troops, and his army was nearly 4,000.

In addition to the army he stayed in Bucharest, there were nearly 1,000 coalition forces sent by about a dozen nobles to go out of the city. These people can be regarded as the most staunch supporters of Cepes, and although the rest of them also expressed goodwill, they were more waiting and watching.

Cepes was quite satisfied with this result. Whether it was the supporters or the troops provided by those people, Cepes believed that it was "just right".

He did not expect to defeat the Ottomans in this battle. If he could, he only hoped that the other party would be forced to retreat under the pressure of his army.

After all, after nearly two days of fierce battle, the Ottomans were obviously exhausted. At this time, the joining of a new force of thousands was enough to shake the confidence of the most determined commander, so Cepas believed that he only needed to make a tough offensive posture, which would force the Ottoman commander to retreat.

While gaining great reputation for defeating the Ottomans, he also preserved his strength, this is the best result that Cepes could have imagined.

Now he hopes that the Earl of Montina will not be defeated too badly, at least persist more, so that he can consume more and restrain the Ottomans.

Although the time was discovered was a bit late, Sisugu still had a very accurate judgment on the Bucharest reinforcements.

Fearing that deep into the plains might expose their flanks and retreats to the Ottoman army across the Arger River, Cepés did not pass directly through the wetlands on the Bucharest plain, but instead allowed the army to advance southward first and then turn southwest along the Danube.

Xi Sugu's reaction was extremely fast, but his order was still a little too late.

The Ottoman left-wing commander almost received a warning from him, and received a report of discovering the enemy.

The Ottoman left responded quickly, but the riot caused by the sudden appearance of the Bucharest army was uncontrollable.

When he saw the Ottoman army from afar, Cepas noticed Sophia's excitement. He immediately reminded the people around him to pay attention to Sophia's movements in case she did stupid things because of impulse.

At the same time, Cepes ordered the cavalry to attack the Ottoman flanks.

Just as the Ottomans regarded the Anatolian light cavalry as their pride, Wallachia also had its own pride—the Wallachia mountain cavalry.

This cavalry trained from the local mountain horses of Wallachia has a unique place that belongs only to them. The strange pace of specially trained walking forward with the hooves on one side of the war horse is the most obvious place in the mountain cavalry of Wallachia.

So when the Wallachians roared and launched an attack from the side of the Ottoman left wing, the Ottoman commander immediately realized that this was exactly the crisis that Sisugu had just sent someone to warn them of possible encounters.

But the enemy appeared too suddenly, and the Bucharest army, which almost appeared at the same time as the warning received, caused the unprepared Ottomans to panic in an instant, and a tide of turmoil was instantly rolled up on the entire battlefield due to the emergence of the coalition forces.

When something strange happened to the Ottoman left wing, Alexander felt the unusual and slight change coming from the enemy's position.

The Ottomans' fierce attacks before, as if they suddenly had a malfunctioning machine, had a brief stagnation.

This change is not obvious and cannot be detected without careful observation.

But Alexander noticed these abnormalities.

The enemy's left wing's attack seemed to slow down. As soon as this thought flashed across his mind, Alexander felt as if he had grasped something key. Although this sudden flash of inspiration disappeared, the short moment was enough to tell him too many things.

Alexander had been looking forward to this moment. His eyes quickly turned to the right wing of the front line. Seeing that the Genoese army, which had become panicked, finally slowed down under the supervision of the officers and the hunting guards, Alexander's heart suddenly beat faster!

At this time, he was even more nervous than when he was almost broken through by the Ottoman army.

Alexander stared at the right wing, and even though the shadow of Anatolian light cavalry appeared again on the central front at this time, his eyes were always firmly staring at the East.

Finally, he noticed that the Ottoman positions had changed.

The Ottoman cavalry, who had originally tried to attack the right wing in depth, had almost completely stopped at this time, and their infantry were also moving quickly to the side of their positions.

"They are organizing the defense, yes, the Ottomans are turning into the defense!" Alexander turned excitedly and shouted to the people around him. Seeing that the others seemed to have not understood, Alexander pointed his sword at the distance and repeated loudly, "Didn't you see, the Ottomans are turning into the defensive formation, because someone is attacking them!"

The Montina officers were shocked and disbelieved at first, but when they saw that the troops on the right wing of the front were indeed in a rather strange state of "disengagement", and some Ottoman troops who had already wedged into the Montina position were stopping their attacks under the orders and even starting to shrink their formation, they finally understood the meaning of Alexander's dialect.

"The Bucharestians are the Bucharest troops coming to support us!" Someone quickly guessed the truth, and regardless of whether the guess was correct, in a short time, cheers rang out over the Montina position: "Reinforcements are here! We are saved!"

There were shouting everywhere and cheers everywhere. The retreating army could not help but stop, while the troops that were still fighting desperately, inspiring this exciting news, fought a more cruel battle with the Ottomans.

Some even bolder troops, such as the Balkans, rushed out of the position that had been desperately defending, and unexpectedly launched a counterattack towards the Ottomans.

The situation in the eastern part of the front also underwent tremendous changes as the Bucharest army joined the battle.

As the left wing of the Ottoman army had to distribute troops to resist the enemy from the lower Danube, Xisugu immediately felt the pressure brought by this change.

The Montina army on the front is continuing to shrink its positions, or they have almost completely given up on their left-wing Danube line.

But if it were before, this might have made Xi Sugu happy, but now he tightened his eyebrows.

Xisugu understood that Alexander knew that he could no longer have any extra troops at this time to threaten the two wings of the Montina people at the same time, so he dared to give up the Danube line so boldly.

What's worse is that as the scout kept inquiring, he already knew that the one who attacked his left wing was the Grand Duke of Wallachia, Cepes.

No Ottoman general did not know Vlad III, who had the reputation of being a piercing male tyrant. Even though his head finally hung on the gate of Constantinople, Vlad III was still a nightmare for many Ottomans.

As the son of Vlad III, Cepas naturally attracted the attention of the Ottomans, not to mention that he can be said to be the most staunch Ottoman opponent in the entire Balkans.

Xi Sugu was both proud and helpless in his later judgment, especially when he heard that Cepas' army had about 4 to 5,000 people, Xi Sugu had to face up to the possibility of losing this battle for the first time.

Retreat towards the Arje River?

This idea was rejected by Xi Sugu in just a slight flash.

This is not because he cannot face failure. Xi Sugu is not a person who would rather take risks for his reputation. If he allows him every time he fights, he will try his best to make the situation beneficial to him and launch an attack on the enemy. Once the situation is unfavorable, he can choose to retreat without caring about whether he has a bad reputation.

But this time it was different. Xi Sugu felt that he had no need to retreat, or that he could not.

Although the Arger River is not a famous river in Europe, its scale cannot be underestimated.

It is hard for Xisugu to imagine what consequences would be if he retreated at this time.

Nearly 7,000 Montina generals on the front and about 5,000 Bucharest troops behind the side formed a clamp-shaped offensive, and then the Montina people could take advantage of the more favorable inside battle advantages that their front had formed and quickly concentrate their forces to attack him.

The result is that his army will be attacked by the enemy from both north and south at the same time.

Xi Sugu quickly inferred the various disadvantages that retreat would bring to him, but what would happen if he didn't retreat?

The Ottoman turned his head slightly and looked at the other side of the Arger River.

The nearly 70,000 troops of Sudan are on the other side of the river, which cannot be ignored by anyone.

How much courage and determination did the Bucharests have to fight head-on with the Ottoman army?

Thinking of this, Xisugu ordered the attack to stop, and at the same time he issued an order to turn to defense on the spot.

The Ottoman soldiers retreated like a tide, and many Ottoman small units that had not had time to retreat due to their fierce rushing and fierce attacks, which had not yet been able to retreat, became victims of the ever-changing situation on the battlefield.

They were completely abandoned and isolated behind the enemy's positions. As Montina's army began to counterattack, these completely surrounded Ottoman soldiers had to gather together in groups or more people, relying on the terrain around them to resist to the death, while frantically looking for opportunities to have miracles that would make them take off.

But such opportunities are obviously not so easy to appear. Small Ottoman troops were eliminated by the Montina army that rushed up. For those musketeers who would see the enemy forming a dense formation, they would appear. Then, after a fierce shooting, the Montina army that was slashed by swords and spears, the Ottomans could only issue waves of shrill and terrifying curses before they died.

Alexander had already rode on Pagasus again by this time, and beside him, the hunting guards who had already retreated from the positions were hurriedly dressed under the command of the officers.

"Sir, we can continue to fight." A hunting guard was a little dissatisfied with being removed from his position. In addition to honor, the generous spoils and the rewards he could receive in his hometown due to military merits made all hunting guards have unusual fighting enthusiasm, which even made many other troops feel incredible.

Especially those mercenaries such as Pisa, they felt incredible about the almost crazy pursuit of the hunting guards' actions.

"Of course I know you can still fight, but I need you to rest now," while saying this, Alexander's eyes were always staring at the Ottoman army that was gradually forming a defense line from west to north. What surprised Alexander was that he found that all the heavy troops of the Ottoman army were pressing on the side leading to Bucharest, and the right wing near the Arger River seemed surprisingly weak, which made Alexander secretly shocked, "This man is really a big appetite."

"Sir, the Ottoman front is in our favor," Busako, who has always been outside of Alexander's safety, couldn't help but shout with joy as he looked at the direction of the Ottoman position. "If we send troops now, we can cut off their connection with the Alger River."

"A very interesting suggestion," a strange voice came from behind Alexander and the others. As he heard the sound, Alexander saw a man riding on a horse, accompanied by several knights, riding towards them. "If you do that, you will be killed by the Ottoman army on the other side of the river in the next moment. I believe you must not be Count Montina, otherwise your army will be cut to pieces by Ottoman at this time."

Busacco's face suddenly turned red. Although he knew that he was not a general, he never expected that he would be so ridiculed when he spoke up for the first time.

"I am Count Montina," Alexander looked at the other party, guessing his identity, and then raised his hand slightly to greet "Count Montina, Alexander Juliant Gombre."

"I have long admired your name," the other party immediately raised his hand and signaled, "I am Cepes of the Grand Duke of Wallachia," and said this, Cepes paused and continued, "It is Princess Sophia Alesandra Valleolo's protector."

Hearing Cepas' words, Alexander raised his eyebrows slightly without notice, and then said, "Duke, it seems that you have other opinions on the deployment of the Ottomans?"

"Or it's all of us," he looked at Alexander carefully, and then Cepes's gaze turned to the Ottoman front. "This Ottoman general is very smart. He actually used the means you used before, giving up one side and concentrating his troops on the other side of the front, and we really have no way to deal with him, right? We cannot risk attacking his left wing, because this is equivalent to exposing ourselves completely to the Ottoman main force on the other side of the river."

"So the only thing we can do now is one thing." Alexander nodded slightly.

"With the main force of Sudan is not ready to attack us, we should choose to retreat at this time." Cepes nodded in agreement.

"Yes, you should retreat," Alexander whispered, and he turned to look at the battlefield behind him. Looking at the battlefield full of corpses, Alexander finally relaxed and breathed a sigh of relief. "Thank you very much for coming to the Grand Duke, thank you very much."

At around 2 pm on April 5, 1499, after nearly a whole day of fierce battle, the armies of both sides broke out from the battle.

The gathering of Montina and Bucharest coalition began to retreat east along the Danube.

The Ottoman army retreated to the line of the Arje River.

The Battle of Arger River was with the two sides investing a total of nearly 20,000 troops. At the beginning, the Ottomans had a clear advantage, but the situation changed tremendously after the arrival of Bucharest reinforcements. Finally, after each paid a heavy price, he took the initiative to leave the battle and ended.

During the entire battle, the main Ottoman army, commanded by Sultan Bayeset II, was always on guard along the left bank of the Arge River and no troops were sent.
Chapter completed!