REPORTER: IN THE SPRING OF
1529, AN ARMY OF 75,000 MEN
HEADED FOR THE HEART OF THE HOLY
ROMAN EMPIRE, THE CITY OF SEE
YEN VIENNA.
IF YOU WERE LIKELY TO TAKE
VIENNA OTHERS WOULD FALL.
NOW THE ARMY MARCHED
UNDEFEATED TO THE WEST TO CLAIM
IT IN THE NAME OF ISLAM.
AN AUSTRIAN LEADER DESCRIBED THE
MUSLIMS MARCH OF TERROR THROUGH
EUROPE.
MANY THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE
MURDERED OR DRAGGED INTO
SLAVERY.
CHILDREN CUT OUT OF MOTHER'S
WOMBS AND STUCK ON PIKES.
YOUNG WOMEN ABUSED TO DEATH AND
CORPSES LEFT ON THE HIGHWAY.
ATROCITIES WILL BLOW YOUR
MIND, PUTTING CHILDREN ON PIKES
IS ONE THING.
OFTEN TIME THEY WOULD TAKE
CHRISTIANS THEY LIKE AND FORCED
THEM TO BE MUSLIMS, IF NOT THEY
WOULD BE TORTURED, GOUGING THEIR
EYES AND THROWN INTO FIRE.
ANYTHING YOUR MIND CAN ENVISION.
CHARLES THE 5TH DISMISSED THE
DANGER IN VIENNA AS A COURTESY,
HE SENT A FEW GERMAN AND SPANISH
TROOPS TO PROTECT THE CITY, JUST
1700 SOLDIERS TO FIGHT AN ARMY
OF 75,000.
IN LATE SEPTEMBER THE TURKS
ARRIVED TO SET UP CAMP HERE
OUTSIDE THE CITY.
THEY REALIZED THEIR GREATEST
ENEMY WAS THE WEATHER NOT THE
EUROPEAN ARMY.
THAT AUTUMN WAS UNUSUALLY COLD
AND RAINY.
IT ARE RAINED SO HEAVILY SOME OF
THE HORSES AND CAMELS SWEPT AWAY
BY WATER.
MEN CLIMBED UP TREES AND SPENT
TWO DAYS AND NIGHTS.
RAIN SOAKED THE GUN POWDER
MAKING IT USELESS AND THEY WERE
FORCED TO LEAVE MOST OF THE
HEAVY CANNONS BEHIND.
A DECISION THEY WOULD LETTER
FORGET.
AUTOMAN TROOPS SURROUNDED THE
CITY, THE SALTEN ISSUED AN ALL
THE ULTIMATUM.
IF YOU BECOME MUSLIMS, NOTHING
WILL HAPPEN.
IF YOU OFFER RESISTANCE, THEN BY
A LAW, YOUR CITY WILL BE REDUCED
TO ASHES AND YOUNG AND OLD
SLAUGHTERED.
THAT WAS THE TRADITIONAL
INVITATION PRECEDING THE
WARFARE, JOIN US AND BECOME
MUSLIMS AND RENOUNCE YOU ARE
CHRIST OR WE ARE GOING TO START
ATTACKING YOU.
IN LESS THAN TWO WEEKS HE
WOULD CELEBRATE HIS VICTORY WITH
BREAKFAST INSIDE VIENNA'S
LARGEST CHURCH, ST. STEPHEN'S
CATHEDRAL, AFTER HE TURNED IT
INTO A MOSQUE.
ABANDONED BY THE REST OF EUROPE
THEY REALIZED NO MORE HELP WAS
COMING AND THEY WERE THE ONLY
THING STANDING BETWEEN EUROPE
AND ARMIES OF ISLAM.
INSIDE ST. STEPHENS, EUROPEAN
SOLDIERS GATHERED TO PLAN AND
PRAY.
THEY TOOK AN OATH OF LOYALTY.
NOBLE AND COMMON COMPANIONS
SWORE TO REMAIN IN THE CITY AS
LONG AS THERE WAS STILL LIFE IN
THEIR BODIES AND DIE ALONGSIDE
ONE ANOTHER FOR THE CHRISTIAN
FAITH.
AFTER A FEW DAYS, SUEMAN GAVE
THE ORDER TO ATTACK, TWICE THE
AUTOMANS ADVANCED TO VIENNA AND
TWICE THE AUSTRIANS TURNED THEM
BACK.
WITH NO HEAVY ARTILLERY, THE
TURKS HAD TO FIND A DIFFERENT
WAY INTO THE CITY.
THEY STARTED A WHOLE NEW WAR
UNDER THE GROUND.
HUNDREDS OF TURKS TOURED UNDER
THE CITY.
EUROPEANS CAME UP WITH A
CREATIVE WAY TO FIND THE BOMBS,
THEY PLACED BARRELS OF WATER IN
THE SELLERS AND WATCHED THE
VIBRATIONS IN THE WATER SO TO
SEE WHERE THEY WERE TUNNELLING.
THEY FOUND MOST OF THE MINES
BEFORE THEY EXPLODED.
U NO QUESTION THE EUROPEANS WAS
OUTNUMBERED.
THEY WAGED A PSYCHOLOGICAL WAR
FROM INSIDE THE CATHEDRAL.
MOST POWERFUL WEAPON WAS
DISINFORMATION.
THEY LED THE TURKS TO BELIEVE
THEY HAD REINFORCEMENTS ON THE
WAY.
THROUGHOUT THE DAY AND NIGHT,
THEY SHOUTED AND BLEW TRUMPETS
TO CONFUSE TURKS.
ACCORDING TO THE SALTAN'S DIARY,
THEY BELIEVED HE WAS BEHIND THE
CITY WALLS WITH AN ARMY OF
THOUSANDS.
ST. MICHAELS ARRIVED WITH A
HEAVY RAINSTORM.
THIS IS THE DAY -- IN REALITY,
THE TUSHES WERE NO CLOSER TO
CAPTURING THE CITY.
AS THE RAIN POURED DOWN ON THE
AUTOMAN TENTS, THE AUSTRIANS
SENT A MESSAGE TO THE SALTAN
FROM INSIDE THE CATHEDRAL, "YOUR
BREAKFAST IS GETTING COLD."
THE SOLDIERS WERE TIRED, SICK
AND RUNNING OUT OF FOOD.
THEIR COMMANDERS HAD TO BEAT
THEM WITH STICKS JUST TO KEEP
THEM ON THE BATTLEFIELD.
AUTOMANS DECIDED TO LAUNCH ONE
ATTACK, THIS TIME USING THE
SALTANS ELITE TROOPS, THE
JANASERIES.
THEY WERE NO MATCH FOR THE
FIERCE GERMAN PIKEMAN.
THEY DECIDED HE WAS GOING TO
LEAVE.
JANASERIES DECIDED TO LEAVE.
THIS WAS A NEW BLOW TO THEM.
HEY, WE CAN ACTUALLY BE STOPPED.
IT WAS HUMILIATED.
NEXT MORNING, MAKING THE
TURKISH RETREAT EVEN MORE
DIFFICULT.
IN LESS THAN A MONTH, A SMALL
GROUP OF FARMERS, PEASANT AND
SOLDIERS DEFEATED THE MOST
POWERFUL ARMY IN THE WORLD, THEY
SINGLE HANDEDLY STOPPED THE
MARCH OF ISLAM THROUGH EUROPE.
THE ON SLOT OF ISLAMIC
TUSHISH EMPIRE STOPPED.
IT WAS AN EXAMPLE THEY CAN BE
BEATEN.
NOW THEY KNOW THESE WILD PEOPLE
CAN BE STOPPED AND WE CAN DO IT
AND GOD IS ON OUR SIDE.
THAT BECAME A PIVOTAL PART OF
THE NARRATIVE.
BELLS OF ST. STEPHENS RANG IN
CELEBRATION AND THE CHURCH WHICH
SERVED AS MILITARY HEADQUARTERS
BECAME A HOUSE OF WORSHIP ONCE
MORE AS THE PEOPLE OF VIENNA
GATHERED TO THANK GOD FOR THEIR
VICTORY.
A SPECIAL HYMN WRITTEN FOR THE
OCCASION BASED ON A VERSE FOR
THE PSALMS, UNLESS THE LORD
GUARDS THE CITY, THE WATCHMAN
STAYS AWAY IN VAIN.
