TEXT 5eace and Despair (1325 - 1330)
With a revolution in Ak Koyunlu and basically no army,the wolves in Rum sensed weakness and attacked.As it was expected,no one came to help the Azeri tribes in their war against the Turks.
When he marched Erzurum,he found the revolutionary army there sieging the province.Adil II fought against the rebels and won,although with many casualities in comparison to his enemies.After the rebel's defeat,he continued the siege of the province.In 11 August of 1325 he assaulted the castle through a breach in the walls and moved on to the province of Van,where the rebel armies were also retreating.A battle was expected.
In the battle of Van,the rebel armies were annihilated and the Sultan began sieging the province.In 5 June of 1326 the province was occupied and it was found out that there were 2,000 Azeri regiments sieging a nearby province from the Black Sheep tribe.
As such,the Azeri Sultan had to accept defeat.He would have to relinguish any of his claims in the territory of Rum,he would cede Erzurum and he would also become a vassal of the Sultan,just like the Emir of Candar.With his vassalisation,the Sultanate of Rum immediatly entered to war with the Azeri nomad tribes to the east of Ak Koyunlu.The Qara Koyunlu tribes,being already in a state of disarray and fearing the Rumish army,they conceded defeat to the Sultan.
During this time,because of the many wars and the losses that occured to them,there was a recruiting crisis in the army.It seemed that because of the many losses in the wars the young men were afraid of joining the army and as a result,the manpower of the Sultanate was quickly diminished and the army suffered.However,the problem sort out by itself.
All was not good however,as in the western front heretic rebels that were supported by the sultan to take Bursa from another turkish state to his south,didn't stick to their orders and marched to Bithynia.There they were defeated and retreated back to Bursa.When they came back again,they fought with the Sultan against patriot rebels that had risen there and later on they were backstabbed by the Sultan and again forced to retreat
A map of the Known World in 1330.Candar and Ak Koyunlu are vassals of Rum.
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Notice the revolts in Jayalarids and the excellent progress of the Timurids,My next heir is Bayazid.Should I be afraid
?Somewhere inbetween 1326 and 1329 my Ruler died and I got a Regency council that will go on for about 3-4 years and I forgot to take a picture of that.