Sultan Mehmed IV and Khan Selim I Giray planned a campaign into the Sich with the goal of destroying it, thus ending the frequent Cossack campaigns and raids of Ivan Sirko into their lands.[3] In autumn of 1674, Sultan sent 15,000 Ottoman Janissaries to Crimea.[4][5] In total, 15,000 Janissaries and 40,000 Tatars were to take part in the campaign.[6][3][13] Cossacks came out victorious.[19] 13,500 Turks were killed and 150 were captured.[4][9] Tatars also suffered heavy losses.[8][10] Cossacks suffered 50 killed and 80 wounded.[4][7][8] Cossacks disposed of enemy corpses by throwing them in wholes of frozen river, under the ice.[20][8] As a result of this battle, Ottomans ceased their attempts of destroying Cossacks militarily.[21] Later, Ivan Sirko with Cossacks sent a reply to Khan Selim I Giray. They wrote: We, the Cossack troops of the Sich, would never have conceived the idea of entering upon this war had you not commenced hostilities. You have sent against us (what treachery!) not only your savage Tartars, but also the troops of that old fool, the Sultan. Had it not been for the intervention of our constant friend, the great Lord Jesus — we might all have perished in our sleep! Now, since your disloyal ways have brought upon you disaster — refrain from troubling us. Otherwise, we will treat you after our fashion, and that of our noble Cossack ancestors, by beating down your own gates! We wish your Majesty a long and prosperous reign.[22] Nonetheless, Sirko agreed to the Khan's request to release 150 Janissary captives as part of ransom. Initially, Sirko blamed Petro Doroshenko for the attack in a separate letter, but Doroshenko in his reply assured Sirko he has nothing to do with it.[9] Ivan Sirko wanted revenge for the attack on Sich, this inspired his Crimean Campaign in 1675.[23][10]#nationalistedit #history #fyp #edit #Edit - @v1rsi.bb