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ottoman ambush Hapsburg army at gate of vienna in july 1683. Habsburg army defending was 33.000 strong.

22.000 of that habsburg army joint later Polish relief force outside vienna. 11.000 of that habsburg force return to vienna and became vienna garrison during ottoman siege of 1683. vienna city had less than 1000 trained soldiers. that if ottoman destroy the 33.000 habsburg army and attack vienna city immediately.
with sacking of vienna and destruction of habsburg army will habsburg sue for peace ?
in OTL the polish king left Karkow and poland defenseless. if kuruc Hungarians ottoman allies attack poland with tartar calvary from south the polish army will stay in poland.

Excerpt form THE ENEMY AT THE GATE. HABSBURG ,OTTOMAN AND THE BATTLE FOR EUROPE

As Lorraine had ridden out to review the position early in the morning,
an officer galloped up from the east to tell him that the Turks had
reached the town of Moson, where the River Leitha, the traditional
boundary between Hungary and Austria, flowed into the Danube. As
the duke looked to the east, he could see a huge reddish cloud of dust
rising into the air in the distance. Then, as they spoke, he noticed that
there were numerous columns of smoke behind him, between the
army and Vienna, indicating that the Turks’ advance guard was already
between him and the capital.

Now Lorraine saw the enemy could outflank and overwhelm him. A
soldier all his adult life, he knew he now had three tasks. Firstly, to
regroup his troops, strung out in positions on both sides of the Danube.
He had to keep the army intact. Secondly, to slow the Ottoman advance
to allow the capital a few days to ready its defences. And, thirdly, to
recognise that with the weak forces at his disposal he could do nothing
to prevent the siege and possible capture of Vienna.

At that point there were only about a thousand
trained soldiers available to man the walls, and his chosen commander,
Rüdiger von Starhemberg, a tough and battle-hardened soldier, was
still with the army on the far side of the Danube, and not in the city.



On the southern bank, Lorraine, now fearful of being outflanked
and attacked on several sides by the faster moving Ottoman horsemen,
had fallen back before the sipahis, leaving the infantry on the northern
bank to make the best speed they could. The swiftness of the Turks’
advance was evident from the dust clouds that swirled ever closer to
Lorraine’s outnumbered cuirassiers and dragoons. Riding hard, they
managed to put some distance between themselves and the Ottoman
host, largely because the Turks had slowed their pace. Finally, riding
at a brisk trot through the eastern outskirts, they arrived before Vienna.
Hailed as the city’s saviours, Lorraine’s horsemen rode around the
city walls, entering on the southern side, and paraded through the
streets to the sound of trumpets and the steady beat of their drums,
as if celebrating a victory. Their confident arrival began to halt the
growing sense of imminent disaster after the more prominent fam ilies
had fled the city in the wake of the Emperor and the imperial
family.2 Rumour now ran riot, with most of the refugees pouring in
through the city gates never having seen a Turk, but telling hysterical
stories that spread and magnified with each repetition. But now the
city was under military command and a harsh discipline was imposed
on civilians and soldiers alike.
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