March 1684, Central Europe, Belgrade.

This city is located in the core of the Balkan Peninsula, at the confluence of the Danube and Sava rivers. It is bordered by the plains of the middle reaches of the Danube to the north and the Shumadiya Hills that extend from the Laoshan Mountains to the south. Because it is located at the waterway transportation hub of the Danube and the Balkan Peninsula,

The road has always been a hub of road traffic between Europe and the Near East, and is known as the Key to the Balkans.

After the Ottoman Empire's Emperor Suleiman I conquered this key to the Balkans on February 28, 1521, the city has been firmly under the control of the Ottoman Empire for one hundred and sixty years, and has become a

A large forward stronghold for the Ottoman Empire to launch attacks on Central Europe.

Before every major offensive launched by the Ottoman Empire in Central Europe, troops and various supplies from all over the empire would gather here.

Since the winter of 1683, the Ottoman Sultan's nine-horse-tail war flag and the Holy Flag of the Tianfang Sect, embroidered with more than 29,000 golden names of the true God, have been flying high above the Sultan's palace in Belgrade.

At the same time, a group of soldiers composed of the Sudanese Guards, Sipaxi Knights, Aijens Guards, Mutefirika Cavalry composed of noble children, as well as Kurds, Arabs, and Kerrys attached to the Ottoman Sultan

An army of up to 250,000 people composed of the Tatars, Berbers of the Miya Khanate, and even Europeans from the Balkan Peninsula who believed in God but were surrendered to the Sudan, gradually gathered in Belgrade.

By March 28, 1684, the west bank of the Sava River outside Belgrade had turned into a huge military camp. If you look down from a high place, you can see that white tents cover a large plain.

All kinds of battle flags and military flags are fluttering in the wind, flying fiercely.

From the early morning of that day, this huge military camp began to boil with the sound of war drums, bugles, and passwords. Streams of soldiers in various uniforms flowed out of each camp. Thousands of soldiers in various uniforms flowed out.

The soldiers formed a dense marching formation in front of their respective military flags. Then, led by the military flags, they left the camp on the bank of the Sava River, and finally formed one huge phalanx after another on the open plain outside the camp.

Although the Sudanese Guards officers and soldiers have long marked the positions of each unit in the wilderness with triangular flags embroidered with the unit numbers, these 250,000 miscellaneous troops must be organized into a unit that can be inspected by His Majesty Sultan Muhammad IV.

The big formation still takes a lot of time.

It was not until eight or nine o'clock in the morning that the 250,000-strong army finally completed its formation and launched a spectacular formation on the plain on the west bank of the Sava River!

Everyone is waiting for the arrival of their master, the shadow of God in the world, the leader of the Tianfang believers around the world, the Sultan Muhammad IV of the Ottoman Empire!

Time passed little by little, and the Sudanese Grand Vizilkala Mustafa had already brought his five-tailed war flag to a group of imperial ministers, generals of the Guards, and the heads of various vassals.

They arrived surrounded by soldiers, and a large group of people stood in front of the 250,000-strong army. They all raised their heads and looked at the sky... and they didn't know what was in the sky?

Huang Zhisheng, the Imperial Envoy and Plenipotentiary of the Ming Dynasty in Istanbul, was also among them. He was standing next to the elderly man with a white beard that reached past his chest. He was looking towards Belgrade with a crystal telescope in his hand.

Looking around.

Ambassador Huang's brows were furrowed, as if he was worried about something. The big vizier beside him also looked worried, with an old face so gloomy that it was almost dripping with water.

"I'm coming!"

I don't know who suddenly shouted in Turkish: "In the sky... there is a huge green ball in the sky! What a God!"

Huang Zhisheng also saw the huge ball at this time - it was a green hot air balloon with the words "God bless the Sudan" on it.

This hot air balloon does not fly very high, about twenty or thirty feet. There is a long rope tied to the basket of the balloon. The other end of the rope hangs down to the ground and is dragged by a team of Sudanese Guards.

Move forward. In the basket hanging under the balloon, stood a short, fat man with gorgeous clothes and a big beard. Huang Zhisheng knew that this man was the Nine-Fifth Emperor of the Ottoman Empire, the first "Flying Sultan" in history.

Muhammad IV!

This chubby Sultan, who was not very interested in governing the country but was keen on hunting, was the "blessed king".

He became sultan at a very young age, but he did not have to worry about the declining empire...because his grandmother and mother were regents when he was a child. That period was called the "Ottoman Feminism Era."

When he grew up, an eighty-year-old grandfather named Muhammad Koprulu became the Grand Vizier.

This Albanian, who was born in the Sudanese Guards, struggled all his life in the corrupt Ottoman bureaucracy. But after he became the Grand Vizier, he used an iron fist to rectify the Ottoman Empire's bureaucracy. He actually turned a corrupt, inefficient,

The incompetent bureaucracy was reorganized and rejuvenated.

Not only did he significantly improve the empire's financial situation, but he also restored the combat effectiveness of the Sudanese Guards.

Under his iron-fisted leadership, the Ottoman Empire's armies won successive victories in Crete, Transylvania and other places, reviving the empire's prestige.

After the death of Muhammad Koprülü, the bureaucracy he left behind and several capable ministers of Koprülü's family are still playing a role in trying to prevent the empire from declining again.

Although the Ottoman Empire was defeated by the Holy Roman Empire and the Central European Allied Forces in the war of 1663, its vitality was not damaged, and it soon regained its ground in the war against Poland and Rakshasa, and captured the right bank of Ukraine.

However, Mehmet IV was obviously not willing to be just a "conqueror of right-bank Ukraine". He wanted a greater victory to make him famous in history and become one of the greatest sultans in the empire.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! At the same time, he also wanted to rejuvenate the aging empire he ruled... And the only conquest goal that could make the Sultan achieve his wish, looking at Europe, was the Ottomans

The city of Vienna, the capital of the Holy Roman Empire, the empire’s old enemy!

In order to win Vienna, Mohammed IV was willing to go all out, spending the capital of the empire, and had been going all out to prepare for the war since the year before last. According to the original plan, the war to attack Vienna should have been launched last year.

But just when the Sultan was about to raise the nine-horse-tailed battle flag in the garden of his palace, a delegation from the Ming Empire, a mysterious power in the East, was suddenly personally escorted to Istanbul by Crimean Khan Murad Glei.

The reason why the Crimean Khan personally escorted a mission to Istanbul was because this Ming mission was so important to the Sultan's conquest of Vienna!

This Ming Dynasty envoy not only sent the Sultan a weapon that could easily destroy the solid city wall of Vienna - military sugar. It also brought a treasure that could bring His Majesty the Sultan closer to the true God - a hot air balloon!

In order to boost the morale of his motley army of more than 200,000 men, Sultan Muhammad IV played the next big thing today!

He took the risk to board a brand new green leather balloon, which was dragged out of the palace by his own soldiers, and floated all the way to the sky above the army where the swearing-in ceremony was being held.

"Look! The Sultan has ascended to heaven!"

Someone in the Sudanese army waiting for the review had already seen the "Sudanese Balloon" in the sky and immediately shouted.

"Long live the Sultan from heaven!"

"Long live... God bless you, the Sultan can fly!"

"Long live……"

When the Sultan's balloon slowly floated in front of the 200,000-strong army formation and began to inspect the army from the air, the Ottoman soldiers below immediately became excited.

Look, the Sultan can fly! Will the Ottoman Empire still be unable to conquer Vienna? Can Emperor Leopold fly? Can the Pope in Rome fly?

If they can't fly, it means that the true God is not the same as them!
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