Confronted with these defeats Sultan Mahmud II decided to raise yet another army in an attempt to "arrest the progress of an army whose success endangered the stability of his throne." He therefore summoned the Sadrazam Mehmed Raşid Pasha (an ally and protégé of Husrev) and entrusted him with raising a new army from different provinces of the Empire. Towards the end of October 1832 the Sadrazam was able to raise a formidable army composed of 80,000 men divided into four major sections. The first comprised about 20,000 men, mostly Albanians and nizami troops who were stationed in Scutari in Albania and was headed by the Sadrazam himself. The second section was composed of a similar number of men raised from areas around Erzurum and headed by Osman Pasha, vali of Trabzon. The third section numbered around 10,000 men under the command of Süleyman Pasha and was stationed to the north of Ibrahim Pasha’s army in the south of Anatolia. The fourth and last section was composed of 20,000 to 30,000 men who were the remnants of Hüseyin Pasha’s army and these were gathered around Konia under the command of Raouf Pasha. Aware of these preparations on the part of the Ottomans, Ibrahim was pressing his father to give him permission to proceed northward to deal with this troop concentration before they joined forces and formed a formidable front which would be more difficult to deal with. Finally in October he ordered his men to move northward towards the strategic city of Konia at the very center of the Anatolian plateau. Two months later, on 21 December 1832, the two armies met on the plain to the north of the city, and during the seven-hour battle Ibrahim’s army managed to inflict a heavy defeat on the Ottomans who were headed by the Sadrazam, Raşid Pasha.

Builds on: "Ottoman sultan resisted Egypt's Syrian expansion with armed threats."

Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed…, loc. 250