Clusters of flames suddenly ignited around the Russian camp, causing the camp to be illuminated very brightly in an instant. Vasily and the other night watchmen were all stunned by what they saw.

A Russian veteran turned around and shouted: "Enemy attack...... Enemy attack ......"

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a sudden shout of killing around the camp, and a large number of Tatar cavalry rushed out of the dark night and continued to throw them around the camp.

The clusters of fires around the camp provided the best coordinates for the Mongolian cavalry in the dark night, and countless rockets covered the Russian camp overwhelmingly, and the wagons, tents, and materials piled up in the camp were constantly ignited.

The whole camp was filled with flames, screams, neighings, and the neighing of war horses. A large number of Russian hairs were drowning in their sleep, many were burned alive in tents, and many more were pierced into hedgehogs by the dense rain of arrows.

Vasily and the Russian musketeers on the night vigil took aim at the Tatar cavalry galloping outside the camp, but it was still pitch black outside, and only rockets were constantly thrown at the camp, like stars and lights, filling the night sky.

"Bang...... Bang ......"

The guards of the Russian camp fired arquebuses one after another, but the effect was not good, and the rain of arrows continued to fall, and several places in the camp were already ignited, rising into flames.

"Boom ......"

There was an earth-shattering loud bang, and the whole camp was shaken several times, and it turned out to be a Tatar rocket, which ignited the powder keg of one gun emplacement, which instantly caused a chain reaction, and one explosion after another sounded.

The two wagons were blown to pieces in an instant, and the guns on the gun emplacements were also thrown high, and smashed heavily into a tent, smashing several unlucky eggs inside into pulp.

Ostov rushed out of the tent in rags. Looking at the chaos in the camp, he shouted loudly.

"Give me arms and hold the camp...... Artilleryman, give me shotgun, open fire...... Everyone else is putting out the fire, so hurry up......"

Under his constant command. The Russian camp was finally gradually gaining order. The Russian musketeers and Cossacks picked up arquebuses and fired at the Tatar cavalry in a circle outside.

"Boom...... Boom ......"

A cannon burst out, and a dense stream of shotgun shells spilled out, this time finally bringing the results of the battle, a dozen guns fired a dense burst of shotguns, sweeping away the Tatar cavalry.

Faced with the threat of Russian artillery, the Tatars finally withdrew, disappearing without a trace in an instant, as if they had never existed.

Ostorov stared gloomily at the clusters of skyrocketing flames that seemed to be bonfires burning outside the camp. This is a cowhide bag supported by a wooden frame, although the workmanship is rough, but I don't know what ignited the fire inside, and the burning time is very long. And only the remains of the burnt remains, only cowhide and wooden stands can be identified.

Turning to several officers behind him, he said, "Who set these fires?" ”

"My lord, according to the sentry on duty at night, they don't know either, but the flames seem to have suddenly ignited......

Ostorov waved his hand. interrupted the other party. In his opinion, this must have fallen asleep at the sentry post. Let the Tatars touch it, but now they can't care about this, and it is imperative to put order in order in the camp first.

There were also more than 100 Tatar corpses left outside the camp, dressed in traditional Tatar clothing and primitive weapons, which must have been Tatars from the southern steppe.

After some counting. Last night, the Russian camp suffered more than 1,000 casualties, of which more than 300 were killed, and nearly 500 were seriously wounded and incapacitated. To add insult to injury, a lot of supplies were burned, especially in a place where gunpowder was stored. As a result, the Russian army lost nearly three-thirds of its gunpowder.

The chain reaction caused by the explosion of gunpowder destroyed a lot of supplies, as well as a dozen wagons and two artillery pieces. Nearly a hundred horses were also lost, and even more were missing, nearly three hundred.

Of course, the greater loss was morale, and now the mood of the Russian soldiers and Cossack mercenaries is generally depressed, and last night's night attack by the Tatars dealt them a big blow.

One attack made them lose so many men, horses and supplies, if they came every night, this battle would not have to be fought at all, and the Russian army would have to be dragged down.

After a busy night, the Russian camp was considered to have restored order, and for the next whole day, Mao Zi couldn't be idle. There is a lot of work that needs to be done by them, all kinds of materials need to be sorted out, war horses have to be pacified, and those who have died in battle have to be buried and cremated.

There were still a large number of wounded who needed to be treated, the Tatars did not know what was smeared on the arrows, the hairs that were shot, all the wounds were inflamed, and the wounded also began to have a high fever, and died one after another.

This caused panic in the Russian army camp again, after all, they were deeply impressed by the overwhelming rain of arrows last night. If the arrows of the Tatars are smeared with poison, then if they are shot, does it mean death?

But this was just the beginning, and something that scared them even more happened. From noon, a large number of Tatars rushed to the perimeter of the camp, and instead of attacking blindly as before, as they had done before, they surrounded the camp beyond the range of their artillery.

The two sides are in such a stalemate, the Russian army has been busy for a day and a night, and they have no energy to take the initiative to attack, and they have very few cavalry, in the face of tens of thousands of Tatar cavalry, if they take the initiative to attack, they are likely to fall into the siege of the Tatars.

And these Tatars did not organize a frantic cavalry attack, as before, but only besieged and did not attack. This is also more and more confusing, but all Maozi know that the Tatars are so weird, they must have a conspiracy.

As the sky gradually darkened, the Russian camp strengthened its defenses during the day, built a large number of fortifications, made the camp a strong position with wagons and sandbags, made a large number of shields for throwing arrows, placed planks to cover the arrows where the supplies were stored, and filled all the barrels with water to prevent the Tatars from attacking.

Moreover, the Maozi in the camp took turns to sleep, always ready to deal with the night attacks of the Tatars. With such an arrangement, even if the Tatars launched another night attack, Ostolov was confident that they would not be able to break through the Russian camp.

At midnight, Ostov, who had not closed his eyes for a day and a night, did not feel the slightest sleep, and he was convinced that the Tatars would still attack at night tonight.

But he waited for most of the night, and the Tatars did not attack. Just as Ostoloff's sleepiness hit him, and the upper and lower eyelids began to fight, a cry of surprise woke him from his sleepiness.

(To be continued.) )