"Who is with me, please step one step forward."
The guards hesitated, of course. The Ottoman army have lost the tradition of going all the way to the front with their general to inspect the enemy lines long time ago. They believe that this is just a thing that are only done by the weaklings who is trying every thing to achieve a desperate victory against a stronger foe, and the Ottomans, at least still in the perceptions of them in Epirus, have been achieving victory forever. However, they seem to have forgotten the irony that things is not different, or maybe it takes them some lesson and time to realise that the tide has changed.