The military camp of the Ottomans was seven times that of Vienna’s
but the Europeans didn’t yield and remained at the battle stations.
The turkish cannons were bombarding the city unceasingly
to provoke the greater damages to the paved alleys.
But the besieged tore them all up so that
the cannonballs would sink.
The Ottomans were digging tunnels underneath the walls
to explode them but to no avail.
The Europeans protected them thanks to the techniques of Niklas Salm.
They had placed piles of water to detect the attacks
in the cellars near the gate and when they fell
they discovered six tunnels that
the Turks had dug,
then they launched counterattack with swords
since the guns could blow up everything
with all the gunpowder there was.
Covered in blood the besieged let
no barbarian
pass through and activate the bombs.
They found the explosive charges and disarmed them.
And on the next night dressed in black capes and with bombs
they had made, they stormed into the camp
of the Ottomans without anyone realizing it
and threw them onto the tents.
Two thousand Turks died in their sleep.
They promised rich spoils to the Janissaries in order to capture the city.