Chapter 1290 Henglus City

In May, in order to eliminate the threat from the east, the Tsar decided to appoint the auxiliary minister Morozov as the marshal of the Eastern Expedition, and led 60,000 horses to continue the eastward march, including 30,000 Russian troops and 30,000 Cossack cavalry.

60,000 Russian troops soon broke through to the western shore of the Aral Sea and came to the banks of the Syr Darya River.

The Mongols here discovered the enemy's situation, and when they saw the vastness of the Rakshasas, the Mongols, who had long been killed in fear, did not dare to engage in battle, so they pulled their horses and fled.

In fact, the mission of these front-line Mongolian squads is only to stop a small group of Rakshasas.

The Cossack cavalry, like the Mongols, were light cavalry, often in the hundreds, dozens of men who penetrated deep into the hinterland of Yuz, killing and robbing small groups of Yuz, which was very difficult.

The task of these Mongols on the front line, which was to resist their penetration and encroachment, did not have the strength to oppose the main forces of the Russian army.

After the Russians advanced eastward, the Mongol strongholds at the front fled one after another.

A day later, in the camp of the Taiji monk of the Dzungar department, nearly a thousand Mongolian cavalry roared back to the camp from the west, and a commander of a thousand men hurriedly turned over and dismounted, and flew into the camp tent of the monk.

"Taiji, something is wrong, 60,000 Rakshasa people have been killed!" The commander entered the tent and hurried to report.

The monk regarded it as his subordinates who had arranged to monitor the Rakshasas on the front line, and he was shocked and hurriedly asked, "Where are the Rakshasas?" ”

"The infantry is farther away, and the cavalry is behind the subordinates, and they will be killed in the big camp within a day."

The monk stood up suddenly, and walked back and forth in the tent, and after a moment, he suddenly stopped, turned his head and shouted outside the tent: "Quick, give the order, and retreat to the east at once." ”

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Early the next morning, the Russian general Ivan Zolotarenko arrived at the camp of the monks with a forward of 10,000 Cossacks, but the Mongols had already emptied the camp.

After the defeat of the Golden Horde, the Sangha collapsed into the Yuz Khanate, and although the Yuz people took in the Dzungar tribe, they let the Sangha lead 20,000 Mongol cavalry and stationed them on the periphery of the Yuz people, hoping that he could become a barrier for the Yuz Khanate and help the Yuz resist the Rakshasas.

It's just that the remnants of the monks were defeated, and the more than 200,000 Mongolian cavalry did not stop the Rakshasas, how could he stop the 20,000 people?

Hearing that 60,000 Rakshasas were coming, the monk knew that he was no opponent, so he immediately fled in a hurry.

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

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

Ivan Zolotarenko then turned on his horse and shouted: "Not long after the Mongols left, all of them got on their horses and chased them east!" ”

After saying this, he led a group of cavalry out of the Mongol camp, and the nearly 10,000 Cossack cavalry who were waiting outside immediately howled, turned on their horses, and galloped away with the banner to the east.

The Cossack cavalry, like the Mongols, was a light cavalry, coming and going like the wind, basically unwilling to dismount and fight, and the combat power was very strong.

They were an independent armed force in Eastern Europe, not subordinate to any regime alone, and had recently sided with Russia in order to get rid of Poland.

Because of their strong independence and lack of a sense of belonging to other regimes, they were ruthless to their enemies and friends, and their military discipline was so poor that they were hated throughout Europe, both friend and foe.

They also went wherever they went, where they robbed, this barbarism, this ferocity, even better than the Mongols.

The Cossack cavalry mounted their horses one after another, and their movements were very skillful, they were all elites who had fought with the Polish winged cavalry for many years, all of them were experienced in a hundred battles, and their legs were clamped between the belly of the horses, and nearly 10,000 fierce cavalrymen full of wild nature chased them eastward on their side horses.

Hundreds of years ago, the Mongols chased the Caucasian people of Eastern Europe in this way, exclaiming the whip of God, but now they are doing the opposite.

Ivan Zolotarenko rode ahead of the army, under his helmet, with the fierce light of a beast in his deep eyes, and the cavalry behind him, divided into ten thousand men, scattered across the pastures on both sides of the Syr Darya River, looking for traces of the Mongols.

The most difficult thing to deal with the nomads is not to fight a decisive battle with them, but to find no trace of them in the vast steppes and play hide and seek with them.

Ivan Zolotarenko led the army in pursuit for most of the day, searching along the way, observing the traces on the ground, looking for the direction of the Mongols' escape, but the Mongols were also very experienced in this, and often forged or destroyed some traces, and crossed small sandy areas to escape the pursuit of the Rakshasas.

"Your Excellency General, some of the lawns here have been trampled by horses' hooves!" A Russian soldier, shouted loudly in the distance.

Ivan Zolotarenko, who was riding on a horse and using a claircase to look around, heard the sound, put the clairvoyant mirror away, and then grabbed the horse's belly and galloped over.

He and several Russian officers stopped at the horse, and saw that the ground was full of marks of horses' hooves, but it was very disorganized, and it was evident that he intended to prevent them from rebelling to the correct position.

Immediately, several people turned over and dismounted, crouched and watched carefully, which could not help the Cossacks, who were also hussars.

"Northeast!" Ivan Zolotarenko sneered, and the corners of his mouth twitched twice, and many of the darker hoof prints ran to the northeast, and many shallower ones to the south.

Another officer also said: "Your Excellency the General should be right in his judgment, the shallow hoof prints should be an empty horse." There is no trace of this deep imprint, and the Mongols should have fled to the northeast. ”

Ivan Zolotarenko immediately stood up, "Skaredev, you chase south with a thousand men, be careful of the ambush of the Mongols on the way, meet the Mongol brigade, don't fight, send someone to inform me and Marshal Morozov." If it's a squad, then destroy it and then return to join me up in Kulan City. ”

"Yes, General!" The officer, named Skaretev, received the order and mounted his horse and left.

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

At that moment, after a slight pause in the Cossack cavalry, they continued to move forward, and they followed the footsteps, and soon arrived at a Gobi, where the wind and sand blew, and there was no trace of it.

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

The Cossack cavalry spent the night outside the desert, and the next morning, entering the desert, the army passed through at noon, and then dispersed to search for the Mongols from the new.

About half an hour later, a troop of cavalry galloped over, and reported that a new trace had been found.

Ivan Zolotarenko hurriedly sent a herald to inform the troops to concentrate, and then, with a pull of the reins of his horse, followed the soldiers who reported the news, and galloped over.

They reined in their horses, and found that a vast area in front of them was full of horse manure, and it was very new, and it should not have been too long to pull.

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

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

The Mongols met their opponents, and the Cossack cavalry soon became a new discovery. A short time later, soldiers came to report that a pasture to the east showed signs of being eaten by horses.

Ivan Zolotarenko was immediately overjoyed, "Quick, get on your horse and chase to the east." ”

Ivan Zolotarenko sensed that he was about to bite the main force of the Mongols, and ordered more than 9,000 cavalry to chase fiercely to the east.

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

A crisp gunshot sounded "bang", followed by the brass trumpet of the Russian army.

The Cossacks scattered across the steppe quickly approached each other in a gallop. Ivan Zolotarenko whipped his horse hard, sat down and galloped on all fours, his sunken eyes shot the essence of a hungry wolf, and stared at the Mongols in front of him.

The Cossack cavalrymen galloped, usually with muskets or bows and arrows, checking their equipment and preparing to pick up the station.

Ten thousand horses galloped behind him, and the Mongols who were running behind heard the movement, sat on their horses and looked back, and were immediately shocked.

The Mongol cavalry immediately drew their horses, and many of them jumped on their auxiliary horses at a gallop and changed horses and galloped. In the entire Mongol ranks, the cavalry behind suddenly rushed forward in panic, which caused panic among the Mongols in front.

There were 20,000 cavalry in the monks, which was twice as many as the pursuers, but the Mongols were really scared, and they were a little panicked when they saw the Rakshasas, and they didn't see how many people were chasing at all.

The monk was also shocked when he learned that the Rakshasa people were chasing him, and he asked himself that he had used a lot of confusing means along the way, but he was still discovered by the Rakshasa people, which made him even more panicked.

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

The two armies were chasing, time passed slowly, the sun on the steppe slowly sank in the west, and the afterglow burned half of the sky red, and the Cossack cavalry pursued the Mongol cavalry with the red sky on their backs.

Seeing that the physical exertion of the war horse was terrible, the monk was in a hurry when he saw that it was about to get dark. At this time, he already knew that the pursuing Russian army was only 10,000 people, and he couldn't help but feel ashamed on his face, and wanted to turn back and strike, but the Mongolian cavalry had already formed a panic, and their momentum was dissipated, and it was impossible to stop to meet them.

Behind him, the setting sun had already set into the horizon, leaving a red cloud in the west, and at this moment, a dilapidated and abandoned city appeared in the distance, which was the city of Henglus, where the Tang army was defeated.

At this time, the tail of the Mongols had already fought with the Rakshasas, and the cavalry was constantly shot down by the Rakshasas, and the galloping Mongols also fired back in the gallop from time to time, but in general, the Mongols died more.

The monk heard the gunfire behind him, and his heart was shocked, he saw the outline of the city a mile away, and immediately waved his knife, "Quick, go to Henglus City······

Thank you for the soul of the dragon, the core of the frozen nest, the fish has come, the rainy life, the reward of the windless days, thank you for your support.

(End of chapter)