Chapter 93 Problems Caused by Subjective Initiative

After less than half a day of consideration, Emperor Sai immediately ordered the army to leave half of its own supplies and then march towards Basra at full speed.

He had to win back the hearts of the people in Muscat. After all, if the navy wanted to recover, the sailors from Oman were indispensable. In this case, the army had to suffer first.

As for the rebels, they still brought a lot of horses with them this time. In order to keep the cavalry fighting power, they had to rush at full speed. Even if this would cause large-scale loss of horses, it didn't matter. The Ottoman Empire did not lack these war horses. After all, the empire still had a lot of war horses in stock.

However, even if the loss of horses was ignored, the marching speed of the Ottoman army was still not fast. The remaining Bedouin would almost appear at every moment from every place that Emperor Sai could not imagine. Although the threat they brought was small, it slowed down the speed of the army.

When Emperor Sai returned to Basra with his army, the time he wasted on the road was almost the same as the normal marching time.

What is even more worrying is that Basra received a letter for help from Baghdad a few days ago. Due to his status as governor, Kuchuk Pasha did not wait for the support of the Kurds to arrive, but recruited four-fifths of the troops in the city and the private soldiers of the local families to go out of the city to fight the rebels in the field.

In this battle, Kuchuk Pasha had the upper hand and had gradually suppressed the rebels, but the private soldiers of the local nobles suddenly turned against him, causing Kuchuk Pasha's army to be in chaos, and then they were killed by the rebels without a single piece of armor left. Kuchuk Pasha himself also died in the chaos.

The only good news is that Kuchuk Pasha's deputy always insisted on guarding the city gate with his guards, so that the local nobles did not find a chance to open the city gate.

The two sides started a fight in the city. Although the Ottoman Empire finally won, the direct descendants of these rebellious nobles had already left the city with Kuchuk Pasha, and there was no way to take them as hostages.

What made Sayyid the Great even more worried was that Anna was in Baghdad, and the garrison had only a thousand men.

Not only that, Basra's food reserves were not much, and the main supplies were still in Baghdad.

The Sultan was extremely angry at the moment. The situation was obviously very good, but it suddenly took a sharp turn for the worse. Baghdad was under siege, the border governor died, Sultana was trapped in the siege, and he was fooled.

He guessed who was planning, but he didn't expect the other party to do it so well.

The Armenians were pressed step by step, the Baghdad nobles were frightened by the reduction of their vassalage, the Persians felt the pressure, the Deramayer Emirate, which had obviously failed, and the damn Shiites.

Fortunately, the Greeks were already scared, otherwise they would have to be added.

The Sultan could almost foresee the worst case scenario. Once he was unfortunately defeated and died due to insufficient supplies, the Ottoman Empire would immediately fall into great chaos.

Although Haji Pasha was in Constantinople, the Ottoman royal family could hardly find an adult male to inherit the throne of the Sultan, and he had no offspring.

Someone would have to make a choice between his two younger brothers, and there might be a civil war at that time. Even if the civil war was finally quelled under the leadership of his ministers, the reform of the Ottoman Empire, which had just started, would undoubtedly die, and the Ottoman Empire would once again enter a slow death.

Rage swept through the Sultan's body, and the Ottoman army began to advance at full speed towards Baghdad. They dropped all the artillery and took three days of supplies. This was the anger from the Supreme Being of the Islamic world. What belongs to Allah belongs to Allah, and what belongs to the Sultan belongs to the Sultan. As for the British, they really gave you face, and you dared to interfere.

When the flag of the Ottoman army arrived in Baghdad from Basra, almost all the war horses in the army were written off except for the horses necessary for cavalry combat.

Of course, the results of the battle were also obvious. The rebels had never thought that the Ottoman army would come so quickly. The heavy cavalry almost cut through the rebels like a sharp knife, and a one-sided massacre followed.

It was sunset at that time. The light of the sunset was scattered on the battlefield, making everything look like blood. The north wind blew wantonly on the battlefield. The broken bodies of the rebels piled up together and formed small hills. In front of these hills were the heads of the rebels. Emperor Sai did not waste even one.

After killing all the rebels, Emperor Sai's anger did not disappear. Under Emperor Sai's order, all Shiites who had relations with the rebels were imprisoned.

He no longer planned to treat these heretics who had relations with the rebels in such a gentle way as planting trees. Since heretics would not get along well, they would be sent to mine.

The empire was in need of manpower. How could the Sunnis, who were the future base of the Ottoman Empire, do such a job with a very low survival rate? Heretics happened to be suitable laborers.

When the Sultan issued an edict to capture suspected rebels, chaos almost spread across Mesopotamia, but the army quickly suppressed it all, and sharp blades and muskets silenced everyone who dared to resist.

These things are naturally done by professionals. As for the Sultan himself, he stayed in Baghdad to accompany Anna. His baby was so scared that he had to accompany her well.

When little Peter, who was far away in London, heard the news, he couldn't help but smile bitterly and murmured.

"This time it's a big trouble."

His original intention was to prevent the Sultan from responding to the Russian army in time, so that the Ottoman Empire would waste more money on the war.

However, the governor did not follow the routine at all and led the troops to fight without authorization. What was even more outrageous was that the rebels actually contacted the Baghdad nobles, and the two sides worked together to kill the governor and trapped the Sultan's Sultana.

The plot was completely out of control.

Little Pete took a sip of rum and regretted his arrangement this time. Although to some extent, it did consume the national strength of the Ottoman Empire, it also offended the other party too much.

This is also one of the characteristics of a monarchy. Sometimes, the first consideration of a monarchy's policy may not be interests, but the monarch's likes and dislikes.

"Let's take it one step at a time. If the Ottoman Empire really wants to reform, it can't be too unpleasant with England. From the other side's point of view, it won't be like a fool like Peter III. That's enough."

Little Pete thought so, and he had no choice. He really couldn't think that a governor of a place would do such a thing.