The Battle of Bolgar City soon ended.

When the reinforcements from Kiev were cleanly defeated by the Lu Qi army, which was much smaller than them, the commander Ingovar was killed in battle, and the rest surrendered to death; When the three thousand Bolgar cavalry and their commander the hryvnia were devoured by the Lu Qi army, which outnumbered them......

Ascord was scared to pee.

The terrible sight outside the city made him tremble, but he couldn't help it, so he wiped his ass by himself, and fought hard.

He was not willing to teach the choice of life to the infidels outside the city, and kneel humbly at their feet, allowing his life and death to be controlled by others.

It's just that the main cavalry of Bolgar City has been finished, so how can the remaining infantry in the city be able to hold it?

Both by self-tradition and under the influence of the Rus', in Bolgar the cavalry was much more important and important than the infantry.

Through the simple combination of Liangshan cannons, the Lu Chuan and Lu Yue brothers threw all the gunpowder weapons that the Bulgar people had never dreamed of, such as arson bombs, incendiary bombs, and powder packets, on the city wall.

The shock and fear that this weapon made like a thunderclap to the people of Bulgaria is simply indescribable!

Is God angry?

The defeat in the first battle outside the city had already caused panic among the people in the city, and the morale of the soldiers and civilians was low, but now that they were ravaged by firearms for the second time, the atmosphere became even more desperate.

People's minds have changed, and Bazaev, the general under Askold, can't bear it in the first place. The hryvnia was never returned from the battle outside the city, and Bazaev had not been able to fight the hryvnia before, but had escaped. I was already afraid in my heart, but now I am even more afraid, and I just want to surrender in my heart.

Bazaev persuaded Askold to surrender, and made a lot of great truths, instigating him to sacrifice the city to Lu Qi's army, so that Lu Qi's army spared their lives.

Askold, of course, knew better than anyone else what Bazaev was thinking, the latter was just a nobleman, and Askold was the chief. When you surrender, there is a leader in front of you, and that's everyone's luck.

But that was also Ascore's great misfortune, and he didn't dare to bet on it. Or that after surrendering, his status will decline so much that he is a little unacceptable.

Rather than that, it's better to go one step earlier. He showed Bazaev tenderness and calmed him for the time being.

Then that night, he led his guards to open the city gate and prepare to break out of the encirclement of the Lu Qi army and find a way to live.

It's a pity that the sheep entered the tiger's mouth and never returned.

Askold's head was placed under the city of Bolgar after dawn the next day, and the latter, who had already been in chaos because of Askold's escape, now there is nothing to say, Bazaev took the lead, opened the city gates, and everyone simply surrendered neatly.

The army of Lu Qi successfully captured the city of Bolgar, and then there was a large-scale liquidation, that is, a large-scale plunder.

But this little thing is not worth mentioning compared to the impact of the entire battle of Bolgar. When the news reached Kyiv that more than 5,000 Kyiv reinforcements and more than 400 knights had been wiped out under the city of Bolgar, Vsevolod II Oligovich was stupid.

This is more than 5,000 cavalry and more than 400 knights, most of whom are armored cavalry, which is a trump card in his hand. And now it's all gone?

Before he had come to his senses, the leader of the reinforcements sent by Grand Duke Kurkos and Duke Pinsk had already found Vsevolod II Oligovich with an anxious face.

They were willing to pay enough ransom to redeem captured cavalry, especially the knights and noble officers within.

But is this what Vsevolod II Oligovich needs to think about? What he has more headache now is Lu Qijun's next move.

Without elite cavalry, relying only on a small number of armored infantry and a large number of unarmored infantry, it is impossible to pose a threat to the Lu Qi army. In other words, the active and passive relationship of the war was completely established - until Vsevolod II Oligovich received a new large number of cavalry support, the initiative in the war would be completely in the hands of the army army.

Moreover, the legend has it that the Lu Qi army, which defeated the reinforcements of Kyiv head-on with less than half of the troops, how powerful the combat effectiveness must be.

Vsevolod II Oligovich, who seized the throne of the Grand Duke of Rus with his sword, was the strongest of the Rus' principalities. And its army was naturally the strongest among the Rus'. But such a strong army was so easily broken and annihilated by the Chinese, and the Grand Duchy of Kiev and the principalities of Pereyaslavar and the principalities of Northern Novgorod in the north of the Bolgar Khanate were all trembling!

If Lu Chuan and Lu Yue can take advantage of the situation to attack the Grand Dukes of Kiev at this time, they will not be able to guarantee that Vsevolod II Oligovich will consider abandoning the Grand Dukes and returning to his own lair in North Ross Chernigov.

But the two did not do this at all, but sent an army to escort the wealth and booty back to the northeastern shore of the Black Sea, so as to give a letter to the large army behind them, right? However, he led the army straight south into the Crimean Peninsula.

The Crimean Peninsula is not a geographically difficult place, its northern and central plains (about 75% of the total area), the southeastern Kerch Peninsula is low-altitude hills, the southern part of the forested mountains is also gentle in the north and steep in the south, and the southern foot of the mountain range is a narrow coastal area.

Trying to conquer the peninsula from south to north is a nightmare – such as the Crimean War, also known as the Ninth Russo-Turkish War. On the peninsula, the woolly bear and the British, French and Turkish forces were slaughtered in a sea of blood. But if you attack from the north to the south, it will not be smooth.

The Byzantines did not expect the Lu Qi army to be killed suddenly, and they did not completely control the entire peninsula. The Byzantines mainly controlled several cities on the south-central coast of the Crimean Peninsula, all of which were port cities. The resurgent Byzantium-Komnenos did not have much energy to pay attention to the area. The pastures of the Bolgars have reached into the central plains of the peninsula.

When Lu Chuan and Lu Yue led the team, penetrated the territory of the Bolgars, and appeared in the south-central part of the peninsula, some of the unsuspecting Byzantines were only panicked.

The mighty army of Lu Qi, in the cold wind, marched all the way south along the vast grassland, until the southernmost point of the peninsula, and saw the Black Sea as far as the eye could see.

Unlike the cold climate north of the Sea of Azov, cold air from the north is changing the whole of Rus at this time. In less than half a month, the white snow will cover everything that can be observed by the naked eye!

In terms of dimensions, the Crimean Peninsula is on the same line as China's Black Province, so you can know the location of the area around the Sea of Azov.

Think about the black province in August and September of the lunar calendar, isn't the snow still coming?

But when they entered the Crimean steppe, they felt that it was still so beautiful, with blue sky and white clouds, and crisp autumn air, which was refreshing.

That's where ocean lakes come in. The Mediterranean climate is just that.

The Bolgars were not obliged to send messages to the Byzantines, and Lu Yue led his troops straight into the southern part of the peninsula, while Lu Chuan led his troops to break through to the western coastal area of the central region. By the time a lightly armed scout cavalry arrived at the city of Ilya [roughly located in the later Yevpatoria], the Byzantines had not yet smelled the smell of war, and their gates were open. The city is still in a peaceful mode.

It is also thanks to the small number of reconnaissance cavalry, otherwise, with one charge, the Lu Qi army can take this port city with a history of 1,500 years.

Yes, fifteen hundred years.

As early as the fifth century B.C., the Greeks had already arrived here.

Now, 1,500 years later, the name of the city has changed again and again, and the owner has changed several times, but it remains the most important port city on the west coast of the peninsula.