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Chapter 1384 Night Attack
The Cossacks have a formation similar to that of the Ming army, to be precise, closer to that of the Mongols.

The Mongol Empire hatched Tsarist Russia. Before the Golden Horde, there was no Tsarist Russia, the Principality of Moscow, or even Moscow. There were only various tribes of Russia that conquered each other, and Moscow was also a small market town with a population of [-] households.

The Golden Horde contributed to the unification of the tribes of Ross. In order to collect taxes, household registration was established for the people; for management, Basiha was established, which is the county magistrate;

The farming system, taxation system, and management system are all things that the Ross ministries have never heard of or seen.

Just like before the advent of the railway, the post stations spread across the Russian land were the blood vessels of the huge territory.

The so-called "open a Russian, you will find that there is actually a Tatar living inside" is exactly how it came about. Even in the [-]th and [-]th centuries, the style of painting in this country is still different from that of its European neighbors.

The Cossacks, composed of escaped serfs from the north, had the same military system as the Ming Banner Army.

To be precise, the night attack troops sent by Isker City were either two centurions or the so-called squadrons or other messy translation organizations, or two hundred households.

The two Hundred Household Departments consisted of two hundred soldiers, twenty small banner officers without flags, four general banner officers without flags, and two hundred households.

220 six people, one not too many, one not too many.

The two hundred households are Yermak's confidant Mavit and Shao Mesheliyak.

Spoon recruited 40 troops for Corizzo, but because of his surly temper, Corizzo was afraid that he would go to the tribe of the leader of Karacha to kill him again, so he escaped with his life.

They had already discovered that new guests had arrived in the abandoned Chuvash Fort across the Irtysh River in the south of the city, but the hundreds of households left behind in the city did not know how to deal with this situation.

The enemy has more troops than them, and it is impossible to attack; and it seems that they are gathering, and they will not attack in a short time, and naturally they will not be able to defend.

They could only send people to row north to look for Yermak and tell him the news. In the end, the leader in the northern basin of the Irtysh River guided them to attack at night remotely.

In Yermak's words: Just like dealing with these Tatars in the past, night raids, they can't see clearly at night, and only two hundred households are enough. Don't be left behind, sir, go straight to the biggest tent.

They rushed into the biggest yurt, hacked everyone inside to death, and they dispersed by themselves.

If Kuchu Khan is lying in this felt tent... I still feel a little excited when I think about it.

With such lofty ideals, the sloop boat was pushed into the Irtysh River by the Cossacks shouting.

Although these people who were serfs, trackers, boatmen, cooks, and servants in the early days were all well-armed by Ivan IV of the Raksha Kingdom, they did not forget their old profession, and they worked especially hard in rowing.

Not long after, they took advantage of the moonlight to wade through the knee-high cold water and the frozen ice edges along the coast. Under the orders of Baihu and the general banner, they regrouped, defying the bone-piercing pain in their legs from the cold wind, and carrying the moon blade on their shoulders. With an ax and a heavy gun in his hand, he unloaded the chariot from the small boat and headed for Shibaozi.

Anyway, the black lights are blind. They think that the Tatars of the Siberian Khanate are night blind, and they just need to drive to Shibaozi, which is still far away.

But they didn't expect that they had been targeted a long time ago, and there were scouts from the Ming army watching from a distance not far from them, and some even went back and forth between the shore and Shibaozi to pass on military information.

Along the deep forest along the river bank, two hundred Cossack households spread out in skirmish lines, pushing the chariot with difficulty in the swamp in the dense forest.

The cold wind whistling and snowflakes flying, the moonlight shining on the snow reflected a gray and chilling scene, and the world was silent for a moment.

The two hundred households are a carefully selected battalion of warriors. Facing an enemy that may be ten times their own, they are bold but not arrogant, and slowly push the vehicle forward.

Their chariot is a long, narrow, low-slung, small four-wheeled wooden cart with wheels no bigger than a fist. The chassis is very low and has the shape of a sled, and there are tall wooden boards standing on it. The base and the board are nailed by triangular wooden boards combined support.

There are two shooting holes on the wooden board at the same height as the Moonblade.

This kind of scooter can be pulled by manpower on snowy fields and grasslands, and can also be carried by animal power. Only 30 carts are needed to form a [-]-meter-square simple walled city in the wild.

Tsarist Russia used such tactics to face the Crimean Khanate in the Battle of Moloji in the sixth year of Longqing, and also dug a trench full of barbs outside the car camp.

First use your own nomadic cavalry to face the Crimean cavalry, and if you lose the enemy, you will retreat to the car camp, and the shooting army and archers hiding behind the car camp will shoot at the chasing Khanate cavalry.

Twenty-five thousand Russian troops faced the Crimean Khanate army under the cover of a large car battalion. They held on for a full ten days. The two sides fought against each other several times. Tsarist Russia's new force joined the battlefield and reversed the situation.

In the end, only [-] of the Crimean Army fled back to the Khanate, severely injured.

The wagon battalion used by Ivan IV in the Battle of Moloj was much finer than the wagon panels of the Cossacks. They were rushing to do it, but it was enough to face the "Khanate Army" in Shibaozi at this time. .

Even if they were defeated, they could hide in the car camp and hold on for a few days. In fact, if they were in danger in a few days, all the Cossacks in the city would come out to rescue them tomorrow.

At least up to this point, the script is still going down according to the ideas of the Cossacks. Even the signature light cavalry of the Khanate wandering outside the stone fortress did not dare to step forward when they found them, so they could only walk around and shoot at them. Several soft, feathered arrows are exactly as imagined.

The Cossacks were not panicked after being discovered. They were only three miles away from Shibaozi, so they left a door for the car camp on the spot and left a guard tank of the headquarters of the headquarters. In a dense formation, carrying muskets and moon blade axes, they chased away on the snowy field with one foot deep and one foot shallow.

They patiently did not fire their guns, but shot back at the black shadows running on the snowy field with bows and arrows. Occasionally, if an arrow hits some unlucky guy, it may not be able to penetrate the mail armor, but only leave a wound that can barely be pierced. Just a small wound in the flesh.

However, what happened next left the two hundred Cossack households at a loss.

Under the Shibaozi plateau, on the outer edge of the felt tent tribe, there are several long black lines, which look like trenches.

They saw groups of infantry on Shibaozi in the moonlight, wearing torches, wearing red cotton armor and carrying muskets, stepping into the trench one by one.

Under the moonlight, their two wings were indistinct, as if they had been slowly sealed off by the surrounding cavalry.

The spoon pulled off the cone-topped mail helmet wrapped in a fur cap on his head, raised his hand to rub his bald head, shook his head, and said, "Something's wrong, how can one of these old guys dig a trench?"

(End of this chapter)