Chapter 729: Selim III's New Army

Chapter 730 Selim III's New Army

One month later.

Stanislaw II returned to Warsaw from St. Petersburg in accordance with the armistice agreement.

Only Prince Poniatowski and a dozen officials greeted him, and the road seemed deserted.

The king did not return to the Royal Castle, but went to his small villa in the southern suburbs of Warsaw.

The next day, Stanislaw II officially announced that he would marry his mistress Ilzbieta Szydlosławka.

In fact, they have lived together for many years and have two children.

But before, in order not to anger the king's mistress, Catherine II, they had never dared to make their relationship public.

Now, he no longer has to worry about the Russian Tsar being unhappy.

Or rather, she is already extremely unhappy, and a little more is nothing.

At the end of the month, at the request of the king, Prince Poniatowski was approved by the parliament unanimously to serve as the regent of Poland and take charge of government affairs.

After the king's engagement banquet, the Polish nobles and senior officials began to spread the rumor that the king was just pretending to be nice to the tsar and bought Poland precious time to prepare for war. Many people went to the king's villa to sincerely thank or apologize to him.

But the people did not agree with this very much. The absurd jokes about the king and the tsar were their favorite.

Two months later, the 3,900 soldiers who had followed Kosciuszko to fight deep into the heart of Russia and were still alive returned to the country through prisoner exchange and 800,000 rubles of ransom paid by the Polish government.

Among them were 2,800 people captured in the last battle in Crimea, and 1,100 soldiers led by Svyechets and continued to fight in the central and northern parts of Crimea.

Yes, the reason why the tsar finally agreed to spit out most of Minsk that had been eaten was because Svyechets was still stirring up trouble in Crimea.

Warsaw was deserted that day, and all residents gathered on both sides of the street to welcome their hero back.

Everyone remembered that when they left Mozyr, there were 17,000 of them, but now only less than 4,000 of them came back alive, and hundreds of them were left with lifelong disabilities.

It was they who, at the cost of their lives, dealt a heavy blow to the invaders and won a glimmer of hope for Poland.

When the residents of Warsaw did not see their two generals, Kosciuszko and Dombrovski, the whole city was enveloped in grief.

The next day, thousands of people gathered in front of the Royal Castle Square to participate in the construction of the "Polish Victory Monument" on a voluntary basis.

This is a stone monument donated by a dozen Polish nobles and wealthy businessmen to engrave the great deeds of Polish warriors rushing to Crimea. The height will reach an astonishing 50 meters.

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Northeastern Egypt, Sinai Peninsula.

On the north side of the city of Tours, the Ottoman commander Mustafa Pasha saw the dust in the telescope and his face became serious.

That was a sign of large-scale mobilization of cavalry.

He knew the power of the Mamluk cavalry very well.

These cavalrymen who have ruled Egypt for hundreds of years have always maintained good training, and with the support of generous treatment, they are well-equipped and have very high morale.

To be honest, even though he had won several small battles before, he still thought that the Sultan's decision to attack Egypt was too risky.

Yes, after the Polish-Russian war, Selim III immediately took advantage of the opportunity when Russia had no time to look south, and decisively sent troops to Egypt on the grounds that the governor he sent to Egypt was restricted by the Mamluks.

And the reason why he dared to take action against this warlord force that had ruled Egypt for hundreds of years was that he relied on the 2,000 new Topiary troops equipped with a full set of French equipment.

If he could win this battle, he would gain the rich Egyptian region, and the empire's finances would be greatly improved.

His new policies and plans to train new troops could be implemented more calmly.

An officer ran to Mustafa's side and saluted, saying, "General, the enemy's cavalry has launched an attack."

The latter nodded slightly and said to the messenger, "Order General Omar Agha to attack."

Omar Agha was the commander of Topiz's new army.

More than 3,000 Mamluk cavalry rushed straight to the Ottoman army from the west and north.

Although the Ottoman army was large in number, with more than 36,000 people, its overall combat quality was far worse than that of the Mamluks.

Sure enough, the 6,000 Ottoman infantry on the north side, with the assistance of 1,000 cavalry, were tightly entangled by more than 1,000 Mamluk cavalry, and even showed signs of being broken through several times.

On the west side, the main force of 2,000 Mamluk cavalry rushed straight to the Ottoman left wing.

In the previous battle, several gaps had appeared here under the multiple rounds of attacks by the Mamluk infantry.

At this time, if the cavalry broke in, Mustafa's command post would immediately be exposed to the cavalry's vision.

However, when the Mamluk cavalry could vaguely see the outline of the Ottoman army through the dust, a clear rhythm of drum beats suddenly came from the front.

Then, a white wall of people walked out from the sand curtain, holding up their bayonets in unison.

The Mamluk cavalry commander roughly estimated the number of enemy troops, which would not exceed 2,000 at most, so he decisively ordered his subordinates to divide into 5 triangle formations and charge the defense line of this team of infantry.

According to his previous experience in fighting the Ottoman army, at least 5,000 Ottoman infantry would be needed to barely stop his 2,000 cavalry.

But the development of the matter was far beyond his expectations.

There was the sound of cannons behind the Ottomans, three in total.

The direction of the artillery fire was very concentrated, and only four rounds of volleys broke up the cavalry formation in the middle.

In fact, Topiz's artillery skills were not very good, but as long as four or five rounds of the 12-pound heavy artillery passed through the cavalry formation, it could cause very amazing damage.

And the willpower of the Mamluk cavalry was not that strong in front of the cannon.

However, the remaining cavalry successfully rushed to the vicinity of the infantry, and then saw three layers of bayonets with cold light facing them.

And those infantrymen stood there firmly, motionless.

The warhorse instinctively stopped immediately. The rider hurriedly pulled the reins, intending to pass in front of the infantry line, but the Ottoman guns fired.

The real Charleville 1763 flintlock rifle was much more powerful and accurate than the one made by the Ottoman craftsmen themselves.

After several rounds of volleys, the Mamluk cavalry that was crowded in front of the infantry line had been beaten to the ground. Those who wanted to retreat and those who had just rushed forward were squeezed together and fell into chaos in an instant.

Mustafa finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this scene.

What he feared most was the elite cavalry of the Mamluks.

At this time, these cavalry were defeated by Topiz's infantry, so the rest would be much easier.

He immediately ordered the main force of the guards in the middle to launch a general attack.

Without the cover of the cavalry, the Mamluk central army was quickly overwhelmed by tens of thousands of Ottoman guards.