Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 1288 Hengluosi City

In May, in order to wipe out the threat from the east, the tsar decided that the auxiliary minister Morozov would be the Marshal of the Eastern Expedition, leading 6 horses to continue eastward, including 3 Russian Army and [-] Cossack cavalry.

Sixty thousand Russian troops soon rushed to the west bank of the Aral Sea and came to the banks of the Syr Darya.

The Mongols here discovered the enemy's situation and saw the mighty Raksha people. The Mongols, who had been killed for a long time, did not dare to fight, so they pulled out their horses and fled.

In fact, the task of these frontier Mongolian teams is only to stop a small group of Rakshasa people.

Those Cossack cavalry, like the Mongols, were light cavalry, often hundreds or dozens of them went deep into the hinterland of Yuzi, killing and robbing a small group of Yuzi people, which was very difficult to deal with.

The task of these front-line Mongols is to resist their infiltration and encroachment, and they have no strength against the main force of the Russian army.

After the Russians moved eastward, the frontier Mongolian strongholds fled one after another.

One day later, in the camp of Taiji Sengge of the Zhungeer Department, nearly a thousand Mongolian cavalry roared back to the camp from the west, and a commander of a thousand hurriedly dismounted and flew into Sengge's camp.

"Taiji, something is wrong, [-] Raksha people have come here!" The commander entered the tent and hurriedly reported.

Seng Ge saw it as his subordinates who had arranged to monitor the Raksha people on the front line, and he was shocked, and asked quickly, "Where are the Raksha people?"

"The infantry is farther away, and the cavalry is behind the subordinates. They will reach the camp within a day."

Seng Ge stood up suddenly, and walked back and forth in the tent. After a while, he stopped suddenly, turned his head and shouted to the outside of the tent: "Quickly, send the order to retreat to the east immediately."

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Early the next morning, Russian general Ivan Zolotarenko led [-] Cossack forwards and arrived at Sengge's camp, but the Mongols had already left the camp empty.

After the failure of the Golden Horde Khanate, Sengge collapsed into the Yuzi Khanate. Although the Yuzi people took in the Zhungeer tribe, they let Sengge lead [-] Mongolian cavalry and stationed on the outskirts of the Yuzi people. The barrier of the Yuzi Khanate, helping Yuzi resist the Raksha people.

It's just that Sengge's remnant soldiers were defeated, and more than 20 Mongolian cavalry did not stop the Rakshas. How could his 2 people stop?
Hearing that [-] Raksha people were coming, Seng Ge knew that he was no match, so he ran away in a hurry.

At this time, the Russian army checked the camp, and many tents were not dismantled. The Mongols obviously left in a hurry, and they should not have gone far.

Ivan Zolotarenko kicked over a pile of fires that were still warm, and several Russian soldiers rushed out of the camp, and then reported: "Your Excellency, the camp is empty!"

Ivan Zolotarenko immediately got on his horse and shouted loudly: "The Mongols have just left for a while, all get on their horses and chase east!"

After he finished speaking, he led a group of cavalry out of the Mongol camp. The nearly ten thousand Cossack cavalry waiting outside all howled, got on their horses, and galloped eastward with the flag.

The Cossack cavalry, like the Mongols, are light cavalry, they come and go like the wind, and they are basically unwilling to dismount to fight, and their combat power is very powerful.

They are an independent armed force in Eastern Europe and are not subject to any regime alone. Recently, they sided with Russia in order to get rid of Poland.

Because of their strong independence and lack of sense of belonging to other regimes, they are ruthless to both the enemy and the friendly people, and their military discipline is extremely poor, so that the whole of Europe, both enemy and friend, hates them to the bone.

Wherever they went, wherever they robbed, this kind of barbarism, this kind of ferocity, even surpassed the Mongols.

The Cossack cavalry got on their horses one after another, and they were very skilled in their movements. They were all elites who had fought against the Polish winged cavalry for many years. So he sided his horse and chased him eastward.

Hundreds of years ago, the Mongols chased the Caucasians in Eastern Europe like this, making them exclaim the whip of God, but now it is the other way around.

Ivan Zolotarenko ran ahead of the army on horseback. Under his helmet, his deep eye sockets exuded the fierce light of beasts. The cavalry behind him were divided into ten thousands and spread out on the pastures on both sides of the Syr Darya. Look for traces of the Mongols.

The most difficult thing to deal with nomads is not to fight them decisively, but to find no trace of them on the vast grassland and play hide-and-seek with them.

Ivan Zolotarenko led the army to chase for half a day, searching along the way, observing the traces on the ground, to find the direction where the Mongols escaped, but the Mongols are also very experienced in this, and they often forge or destroy Some trails, crossing small patches of sand to escape the pursuit of the Rakshasa.

"Your Excellency, the lawns here have been trampled by horseshoes!" A Russian soldier shouted in the distance.

Ivan Zolotarenko, who was riding on a horse and looking around with a binoculars, heard the sound, put away the binoculars, clamped his horse's belly, and galloped over.

Qi Qile and several Russian officers stopped their horses and saw that the ground was full of traces of horseshoes, but they were very messy, obviously intending to prevent them from judging the correct position.

Immediately, several people got off their horses and squatted down to watch carefully, which couldn't help the Cossacks who were also light cavalry.

"Northeast direction!" Ivan Zolotarenko twitched his mouth twice with a sneer, many deeper hoof prints ran to the northeast, and many shallower ones went to the south.

Another officer also said: "Your Excellency's judgment should be correct. The shallow hoof prints should be empty horses. There is no trace of turning back in this deep print. The Mongols should have fled northeast."

Ivan Zolotarenko immediately stood up, "Skaletev, you lead 1000 people to chase south. Be careful of the Mongols' ambush on the way. When you meet the Mongolian brigade, don't fight. Send someone to inform Marshal Morozov and me. .If it is a small team, then return to join me in Julan City after they are eliminated."

"Yes, General!" The officer named Skaletev took the order and mounted his horse to leave.

Ivan Zolotarenko saw him walking away, and then turned his head to look northeast, "The rest of the people continue to move forward!"

At the moment, the Cossack cavalry stopped for a while, and then continued to move forward. They followed their footprints and soon reached a Gobi.

Ivan Zolotarenko secretly thought that the Mongols were cunning, but when he looked up and saw that it was getting dark, he did not enter the Gobi.

The Cossack cavalry spent the night outside the desert, and entered the desert in the early morning of the second day. The army passed through at noon, and then dispersed to search for the Mongols again.

About half an hour later, a group of cavalry galloped over and reported that they had found new traces.

Ivan Zolotarenko hastily sent messengers to tell the ministries to gather, and then he pulled the reins and galloped past with the messengers.

They reined in their horses, and found that the vast area in front of them was covered with horse manure, and the horse manure was very new, so it shouldn't have been too long.

With so much horse manure, it must be the main force of the Mongols. Ivan Zolotarenko immediately judged that after the Mongols passed through the Gobi, they spent the night here and left this morning or later.

He jumped off the horse, inserted his fingers into a pile of horse manure, felt it, and then looked around, "Look around, they just left!"

The Mongols have met their opponents, and the Cossack cavalry soon became a new discovery.Not long after, soldiers came to report that a pasture to the east had been eaten by horses.

Ivan Zolotarenko was overjoyed immediately, "Quickly, get on your horse and chase eastward."

Ivan Zolotarenko felt that he was about to bite the main force of the Mongols, and ordered more than 9000 cavalry to chase eastward. The cavalry spread out in a fan shape and galloped. , I found a group of backs transported away.

After Ivan Zolotarenko saw it, his eyes lit up and he was overjoyed.

There was a clear gunshot of "bang", followed by the sound of the Russian army's bronze horn.

The scattered Cossacks on the grassland quickly drew together while running.Ivan Zolotarenko lashed the war horse vigorously, sat down and the horse galloped on four hooves, staring at the Mongolian in front of him with stares of hungry wolves shooting out of its sunken eye sockets.

While galloping, the Cossack cavalry usually pulled out muskets, or bows and arrows, checked their equipment, and prepared to pick up the station.

Thousands of horses were galloping behind, and the Mongolian who ran behind heard the movement, sat on the horse and looked back, suddenly pale with shock.

The Mongolian cavalry immediately lashed out at their war horses one after another, and many of them jumped onto the auxiliary horses while galloping, changing horses and galloping.In the entire Mongolian team, the cavalry behind suddenly rushed forward in panic, which caused panic among the Mongolians in front.

The monks had [-] cavalry, twice as many as the pursuers, but the Mongols were really afraid of being beaten. They panicked when they saw the Raksha people, and they didn't even look at how many people were chasing them.

When Sengge learned that the Raksha people were chasing him, he was also shocked. He asked himself that he had used a lot of confusing methods along the way, but he was still discovered by the Raksha people, which made him even more flustered.

The Russian army watched the Mongols change horses, and they also changed horses while galloping. The army clung to the Mongols tightly.

The two armies were chasing, time passed slowly, the sun on the grassland was slowly setting, and the afterglow burned half of the sky red. The Cossack cavalry chased the Mongolian cavalry with the red-hot sky behind their backs.

Seeing that the horses were exhausted physically and it was going to be dark, Seng Ge felt very anxious.At this time, he already knew that there were only ten thousand Russian troops chasing him. He couldn't help feeling ashamed and wanted to turn around and attack, but the Mongolian cavalry had already formed panic, and it was impossible to stop and meet them once they lost their momentum.

Behind him, the setting sun had fallen into the horizon, leaving a red cloud in the west, and at this moment, a dilapidated and abandoned city appeared in the distance. It was the city of Hengluosi, where the Tang army fell.

At this time, the tail of the Mongols had already fought against the Rakshas, ​​and cavalrymen were constantly shot off their horses by the Rakshas, ​​and the galloping Mongols also shot back from time to time, but in general, the Mongols died more Some.

Sengge was shocked when he heard the gunshot behind him. When he saw the outline of the city a mile away, he pointed with a knife, "Quick, go to Hengluosi City..."

　Thank you for the soul of the dragon, the frozen nest core, the fish once came, life in the rain, and the rewards on days without wind, thank you for your support.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)