Time flies very quickly, and in a blink of an eye, the first half of 1778 came.

Sofia City in Bulgaria.

After half a year of joint clearance, Truchen and the Austrian coalition finally cleared all the Ottoman resistance forces in Serbia, Romania and Bulgaria, and the two sides successfully met with Sofia.

According to the previous agreement between the two sides, at this time, we should be jointly attacking the resistance forces of Thrace, Greece and Albania.

Hamid I obviously had an arrangement, so he asked Vizier Muhsinbad to return to Greece first and served as the commander-in-chief of the Greek army in Albania, Thrace (later North Macedonia, Kosovo).

The Austrian army, which started from Croatia, attacked from west to east, was severely damaged in Albania. Not only did it lose Bosnia, but it was also in danger.

In order to obtain the land agreed in the tripartite agreement as soon as possible, especially the fertile Austrian new troops of Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria and Vumze have tried their best. When the coalition forces cleared out the above three places, the Austrian army often charged in front and the Truqin army assisted.

Half a year later, due to the garrison of occupied land and the damage to war, there was only one mobile army under Wumze.

The dry season in the Balkans has arrived, the sky is clear and cloudless, and the climate is extremely dry.

The one who stationed in Sofia was a local Bulgarian army that had long converted to Islam. Their resistance was obviously very firm. Look at that attitude, they actually had the intention of swearing to live and die with the city.

Sofia is the capital of the Bulgarian territory. According to the agreement, it should be allocated to the Austrians. The siege for several days was naturally carried out by the Austrian army. The attack on Wumze for several days had little effect.

At this time, Leopold II had long replaced Joseph II as the Holy Roman Emperor. Because the Prussian Kingdom advanced to Bavaria, the Austrian army was trapped in the Ottoman area and was taken first by Frederick to get the title of Grand Duke of Bavaria and Bavarian electoral.

This made the Austrians even more anxious and eager to take the above three places as compensation.

A month later, the army of Wumze almost lost one division, but Sofia City is still as solid as a rock!

Wumze was anxious and immediately brought a few generals to the Sekesena military camp.

Wumze is a senior general in his fifties. He is now the Austrian field marshal and duke. He was promoted by former Austrian general Dawn. Like Dawn, he is a famous general who is good at defense, but he is not good at offense.

He also brought two of his subordinates (he personally served as the commander of one of them) to convince the Truqins to participate in the attack.

Since Kang Xiaozi became the governor of Cebu Island, the Philippines, Qitad thought for a long time before he decided to use Sekesena as the commander of the Guards, Sekesena also served as the commander of the First Division, the commander of the Second Division was the surrendered general of Manchuria Akton, and the commander of the Third Division was the descendant of the Turkut nobleman, Qiucei, who was a nobleman who remained in the place after the return of Obasi in history.

Qitade's father-in-law, former Heshuote tribe Dataijizamuyang, had long passed away. His adopted son, son-in-law, former commander of the Egyptian Legion, and Cossack Baugler also served as the commander of the Guards after returning to the country. He is now the chief of staff of this army.

Compared with Serbia and Wallachia, Bulgaria's sense of resistance is obviously stronger, because the Bulgarians converted to Islamic Buddhism here are the most, but naturally they have always opposed the Ottomans.

Tver is one of them. He is a descendant of the Bulgarian royal family. Now there is obviously no trace of the Bulgarians who were no longer a member of the nomadic tribe. However, his family has always been one of the largest nobles in Bulgaria.

For such people, the Ottomans naturally adopted a strategy of vigorously winning over. In their opinion, a nomadic nobleman, although he was also an Orthodox, was better at controlling than a real European Christian.

However, at the beginning of this war, Tver contacted many local Orthodox nobles to participate in the actions of the Austrians and Truchens, especially the cooperation with the Truchens was very harmonious.

When Wumze brought two teachers into a manor outside the city where Sekese was located, he was surprised to see Tville there.

However, Wumze has no other ideas.

"This person has been designated as the Grand Duke of Plovdiv by our emperor, and the Grand Duke of Bulgaria has an emperor who serves as the same person. He believes in Christ and will never surrender to Truchen."

Se Kese is now forty-five years old this year and has become more calm. When he learned that Wu Muze was coming, he just nodded slightly and continued to look at the documents in his hand.

This annoyed Wumze.

"You and I are both generals or friendly forces, why are we so neglecting us?"

But now he has to ask Truchen for help, so he has to endure it.

After a while, Se Kese put down the documents in his hand, and then forced a smile to Wumze.

"Come?"

Wumze stood up, "General, we urgently need your army's artillery support!"

Se Kese smiled and said, "I saw that you also have cannons for field battles. Since you can't knock down the city wall, then isn't it okay to raise its elevation angle and bombard the enemies on the city wall?"

Wumze sighed, "To be honest, our grenade cannon can be operated like this, but its accuracy is too low, and there is also a problem with the range. The enemy has also arranged cannons on the city wall, so we can't gain an advantage at all."

Se Kese nodded, "That's it. I originally wanted to support your army, but now I don't want to."

Wumze was shocked when he heard this, "Dear General, why is this?"

Se Kese threw the documents in his hand to him, "Look, I never expected that your country would do such a thing!"

Wu Muze picked up the documents and saw them even more shocked.

It turns out that this is a document on how to deal with Truchen that Joseph II and Hamid I had secretly signed!

Obviously, although they signed this agreement, the two sides were also guarding against each other. In the end, Joseph II took the lead and died untimely.

This document was searched by the Truqin army from the Istanbul Palace. After Truqin occupied Istanbul, a concubine of Hamid I hid the document, which made the Truqins think that the secret collusion with the Austrians was just what they imagined.

However, these concubines are still swearing to protect Hamid I to the death, which does not mean that others are. The last eunuch told the Truchens about this secret and finally got the document.

The document was written in German and Turkic. Wumze naturally knew about his country and the Ottomans, but he obviously had never seen this document. After reading it, he realized that it was not good and quickly said: "This must be something that the Ottomans deliberately used to prepare to alienate the relationship between us!"

Se Kesena said, "Is that true? But how do you explain the seal on it? Our country has seized the seal of the Ottoman Sultan. We have carefully checked it and confirmed that we have seen the seal of your emperor, and we cannot be wrong."

Wumze was speechless for a moment and said to himself: "It seems that the Truqins have known about this for a long time, but why did they insist on attacking the European part of the Ottoman with us during this period? By the way, the Truqin thieves are too cunning. They pretend to attack the Ottoman with our country, but in fact they want to use the Ottomans to consume us."

"But our new army was made up of Truchen's loans. Don't they want to get their loans back?"

He also pretended to be indignant, "General, this is a misunderstanding, it is definitely a misunderstanding. I will go back and inquire about this matter now! I will definitely give you an explanation!"

Se Kese smiled and said, "It's too late, do you think I'll let you go back?"

Wumze's heart trembled, "You...what do you want to do?!"

Se Kese waved his hand, and the guards in the room immediately removed their guns and tied them up!

Se Kese, heading towards Wumze, "You can hear the sound of artillery you want immediately. As for the loan, your country will definitely return it."

Not long after, the Truchen army stationed on the periphery of the Austrian army launched a fierce shelling on their camp!

An hour later, the three divisions' guards left only one or two brigades to guard the camp, and the remaining two brigades were all dispatched to attack the Austrian army camp!

These days, the Guards have cleared the arrangement of artillery in the Austrian camp. After an hour of artillery fire preparation, the camp was in chaos. Moreover, they were completely confused by a sudden attack by "friendly troops"!

Two hours later, the remaining Austrian army surrendered under the leadership of the commander.

These brigade commanders obviously did not know about the peace between the Austrians and the Ottomans. Therefore, when the brigade commander who led the surrender asked Se Kesena, he threw out the document again. Now, they were still trying to ask for an explanation.

In addition, when the Truchen army bombarded the Austrian camp, the Ottomans in the city felt that things had turned around and rushed out to attack the Austrian camp. At this time, the Truchen cavalrymen who were patrolling the three brigades on the outermost side suddenly appeared and wiped out them in one fell swoop.

However, Sofia still refuses to surrender.

At this time, a dense fire net composed of Trucheners field howitzers, heavy mortars and light mortars appeared, and a whole section of the city wall was taken in half a day.

In the daytime battle, the Ottomans had already suffered a lot of losses, and when the Truchens siege the city, they had to surrender.

Before dusk, the Truchens took Sofia City!

At this point, the cleanup war against Serbia, Wallachia and Bulgaria has finally ended.

A few days later, Ahesan appeared, and there were several people who appeared with him. They all knew Se Kese.

One is the Serbian noble Nevsky, and the other is the Wallachian noble Petrascu!

Aihesan said: "General, except for the army of Vumze, the army left in Istanbul has been annihilated by our army. The remaining army is scattered in Serbia, Bulgaria, and Wallachia. Each city has only one regiment at most, and some have only one battalion."

"The news of Wumze's army being annihilated should not have reached them yet. The army of the three great dukes will annihilate them"

It turns out that this is Truchen's strategy. To cooperate with the Austrians to annihilate the Ottoman resistance forces in the three places, and make the three countries independent!

It is naturally good to return to the Christ world of Austria, but obviously it is not good to be independent. These three people are the Grand Dukes of the Three Kingdoms recognized by Truchen!
Chapter completed!